4/30/2002 at 7:07pm
tuesday
i finished reading glamorama on sunday. that book was pretty intense. if you are a fan of brett easton ellis or in your face sex and death you can relate to what i am feeling about the book [actually that is an abysmal way to categorize it but hey this is the web]. i am a little confused regarding the ending. i think it would have been okay to leave the last 15 pages out of the book. i became lost. maybe it had a point, but i missed it. great read though.
now i am left to decided on another book. 6 so far this year is amazing. i used to never read but here i am completing my 6th book. a great accomplishment for me having barely read a book for sheer pleasure in years. i am thinking i might pick this one up. seems interesting.
being a man i feel silly when i listen to a girl band and sing the words...my vocals can't go that high.
i missed the homeowner's meeting tonight that was scheduled at 6. i was too busy trying to get a computer to connect via tcp/ip to an hp directjet print server. the docs would have helped but i managed. everyone loves me now.
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4/28/2002 at 1:49pm
sunday
rock star weekend. paying for it by being absolutely drained this morning. up late, very little sleep. went out friday returned at 5:30 in the am, woke at 8:00am to help a friend move and upon my arrival my help was no longer needed. so i was up for the rest of the morning. at 10:30am i had an appointment to setup a new network for a company that is moving into a new building. but they did not have access to the new building over this weekend. so no go on the network install.
last night was almost a repeat. colin, tyler and i headed down to mccarthy's and hung out til closing. colin and i returned to the house and practiced a little music until i crashed at 4:30am when my body just wouldn't function any longer.
i think i will relax for the rest of what is left of this day. busy week scheduled and i need to stay on schedule.
however, as with every sunday, there is some yard work in store. but, can i motivate myself to do it.
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4/25/2002 at 4:01pm
thursday
thursday already? where did the week go? find it! i need it back!
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4/24/2002 at 5:21pm
wednesday
i don't necessarily hate viruses. i mean everything has a purpose, right? i just hate removing viruses. it takes so much time. that is what i did for 2.8 hours today. a virus that is still going strong. it actually wasn't the users fault. outlook express (shouldn't this be assumed) has a nice 'feature' that actually executes an attachment when you view an email via the preview pane. how clever. so the virus was executed before the user knew what was going on. i hate just sitting there while the software scans and cleans all the files. bor-ring...
needless to say it was successfully removed. now back to programming.
tonight is open mic night at a certain coffee house. going to hang out there for a bit just watching and listening, no way i am getting in front of a mic. there are always local artist's work hung on the walls. i have always wanted to gather up some of my best photos and display them throughout the cafe. may happen...
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4/23/2002 at 11:35am
tuesday
sometimes change brings a certain sadness. i will be moving out of my office next month. my office has been located in the old railroad square building in san luis since may of 98. a long time. business has slowed to a few new clients and no walk in clients. i haven't really had any meetings with clients at the office since the middle of last year. since july i have been working out of my home. traveling to the office to pick up faxes, check some things out, make some face time. that's it. i have held on to it as long as i can.
last week i transferred the fax line and the fax machine to the house. yesterday i brought in a chair (quite comfy), a brushed steel wall clock, and a laser printer. slowly the office is looking emptier day by day. and my room here is looking more cluttered. computer equipment can take up so much space.
i am a little bummed out about it. i really wish i could keep it. always
though tit was good to get out of the house and go to an office, seperate
the home life from work life. but that actually has never been the case.
the office just gave me a way to get out. talk with others in the
building and once avoid my shitty roomates that i had over the years. this is for the best, it will save me $300 per month that i will place in a savings account and use it to pay my property taxes.
so things happen for a reason right?
wondering if i should sell all the office stuff or save it in case a new opportunity arises? two desks, file cabinets, mini-fridge, coffee machine, microwave, chairs, table, shelves, books, lamps, dry erase boards, 3 computers, scanner, boxes and boxes of crap. where am i going to hoard all this? argh...
currently waiting for the fedex truck listening to dirt. poor bastard. but, this was bound to happen. which reminds me that i bought my first alice in chains cd in 1991. this got me turned on to that "seattle sound" whatever that was. i have always wanted to see this band live. came close once, but the plans fell through. just add it to the 'wish i saw them when they were alive' band list.
am i the only one that finds this funny?
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4/18/2002 at 6:30pm
thursday
faxed a proposal to a potential client a few minutes ago. now for the follow up phone call in the morning. is it friday yet?
going downtown tonight for some meat. that's right. tri-tip sandwiches. every thursday is what slo calls the farmer's market. to me it's more of people selling food, the college crowd surfing for the "it" boy/girl of the night, and crazy teenagers running around. there are local growers peddling their produce and organic honey blends, but with all the other stuff going on you just want to get out of the sea of people. it used to be my precursor to the bars. go to farmer's for food then hit up the usual bars for the drink and some social time. it could still be that, although i have calmed down quite a bit this past year, which was very needed. though i wouldn't say out of control, but...wow....heaviness.
took a break from typing and phone calls and collapsed on the bed for about 15 minutes.
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4/17/2002 at 11:26pm
wednesday
what a week so far. i have been busy doing all kinds of things. phone calls, errands, taxes, bank runs, websites, programming, eating, some sleeping.
my parents are coming over for a visit on saturday. they will be married for 35 years on sunday. how cool is that? way to go mom and pop! and i will say that for many years to come.
current thoughts:
i am busy
why is no one paying?
nice haircut
thinking of ripping my Reverend Horton Heat album to mp3 format.
despising the irs
rented spy game tonight
needing more time in the day
looking forward to saturday
more, but this is not the place
in the meantime:
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4/16/2002 at 9:48pm
tuesday
busy, busy...
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4/12/2002 at 12:33pm
friday
running out of time to do taxes...oh wait, i have till monday...no worries...
still staying ahead of schedule.
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4/10/2002 at 10:32pm
wednesday
i was handed a new project yesterday with a deadline for this monday. uhh...okay...yeah right! but i worked on it last night and programmed a lot this morning through some tech calls and various emails. now it is almost completed. i also have a deadline on monday with another client, and again it is near completion. both projects are ahead of schedule. nice, now only if payment could come as quickly.
building more computers and trying to scrap up some parts for various linux boxes. trying to make a router from one that will just boot from the floppy. the whole thing just runs off the floppy...wild....hello? you still reading this?
i finally took a photo of one of my all time favorite computer errors! i can't believe this one. it has amazed me for years.
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4/06/2002 at 5:11pm
saturday
very sunny here is slo today. got up early with jen and we headed down to the saturday farmer's market. this is not like the usual thursday night farmer's market. people come to this one strictly for the local grown produce, plants, honey, and fresh baked breads. i wore a jacket but by the time we were there the sun had come out in full force.
we also caught a few yard sales. i saw some things i would liked to have
bought but decided agianst it. the only thing i got was a
1954 lord of the flies book. picked it up for only 25 cents. perfect condition except for the natural fading and yellowing of the
pages. cool! jen made out like a bandit though! bought many things
for pennies on the dollar [lame, that sounded like a commerical for a clothing sale].
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4/04/2002 at 7:32pm
thursday
rearden steel
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4/03/2002 at 6:52pm
wednesday
no more deadlines. i love it.
i woke up this morning knowing that i was going to be running category 5 cable up a 20 foot wall, across 40 foot ceiling, then down the opposing 20 foot wall. i hate heights. a network switch i installed in an office was not connecting to the other office network so i figured the cable in the wall was bad. i took apart the jacks and noticed that they were wired incorrectly. so i rewired them and that was that. no hanging from the rafters...
no sun in california.
a link for you - can you believe the television is 75 years old?
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4/02/2002 at 10:52am
tuesday
the amount of sleep i receive on a daily basis is nominal. the lack of sleep doesn't bother me physically. i am the same on no sleep as i am on 5 hours of sleep. however, when i do get a lot of sleep, i am a useless. i am sluggish and feel groggy. this also happens if i try to sleep but cannot. meaning that i toss and turn or something keeps me up. last night the computer in my room started making a noise. one of the case fans is going out. so a grinding sound would come from it. very low but still there. being the middle of the night the slightest sound is very apparent. it would sound for about 5 seconds then pause for 15 seconds and then sound for 5 seconds. it was an annoying tempo. this cadence kept me awake all night. one would think that counting this would cause me to sleep for the night. i would sleep, then be awaken by it. then fall back asleep, then awake, sleep, awake. i thought about getting up and ripping apart the case and yanking out the troublesome fan. but i never did. i think i just didn't want to get up.
i fixed it this morning. now my eyes are puffy from all the dust that blows around when I take the case panel off. i have 7 fans in the case all blowing dust toward my face.
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4/01/2002 at 11:18pm
monday
there is a cat in this neighborhood that is using my front flowerbed as a shitbox. from the front walkway i could see the heaps of dirt scattered about. covering the lavender, uprooting the nandina, no respect.
my first try at riding the cat from relieving itself in my garden was to spray ant poison around the perimeter of the flowerbed. no luck, the next morning the piles returned. my next trick was moth balls. my dad told me moth balls would work. the smell, they can’t handle the smell. okay. went to the dollar store and bought some moth balls. wow, did they smell. that is for sure. still have the smell in my truck. i threw them out into the flowerbed in a random fashion. then wondered if it would work. the smell was very prominent. overpowering really. the next morning i saw no piles, no holes, everything was left the way i had it. the only thing that changed is now there is this overwhelming smell of moth balls near the front entry. this sucks i thought. no more shitbox, but now the house smells like moth balls.
needless to say the moth balls soon evaporated form the exposed air and
water. no sooner had the cat returned to its dirty work.
this was killing my plants, the daisies were turning yellow, completely smashed and absent of flowers. the piss was killing my plants...
only two things can be done to turn my flowerbed from a shitbox back into a garden.
1. stay up until the early hours outfitted in full camo-fatigues armed with a BB gun waiting for the vile, furry, toxic waste, vessel to appear and begin its activities. i would then take aim and *pop*...no more kitty! this although drastic would work , however i don't have the time nor the fatigues.
2. buy more plants to cover the ground so there is no more room to dig. easy enough!
so that is what i did. bought more plants and covered the dirt so it would make it harder for the cat to find a place to squat let alone dig.
well, so far that has worked. but as you could imagine. a new problem has presented itself as of this morning. the cat, now having its perfect shitbox revamped into a lush plant filled locale with no more soft dirt to crap in, has found a new shitbox. where? the flower box located in my backyard. where i am about to plant basil, red tomatoes and oregano.
the process resumes. where did i put those BBs...
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