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Today, I bought something for myself. I rarely buy myself things anymore, the “pleasure” kind that actually has some long-standing value to it that I can use over and over again. Went to the local gaming store and picked up a Street Fighter PS2 fighter controller. You know, the one where the L and R buttons are on the front of the pad, rather the top. Laid out pretty much like a Saturn controller. Only cost me $20, too. Last time I went looking around for one, it was $30 at least because they come in the nice box and have a comic in it. So I now have a decent pad to play fighters on, because we all know how bad it is playing on a normal PS2 pad. Currently updating my MAME set too, I haven’t updated since .112 and I now it’s at .116. No idea how much has changed, but at least now I’m up to date.

My sister has come home from her job in Cali, which means she’s lugging her laptop around the house. Now, my DI-624 router either a) really sucks at wireless, or b) is located in a really bad position in the house. She can’t hold a steady connection. Normally this wouldn’t bother me so much, but the problem is that when her connection dies, the connection dies to everyone else in the house, even though every other connection is wired. Now, the router is under the computer desk up against the wall, upstairs. She’s using it downstairs. But even in her room (which is directly across the hall, not even 15 feet from the router) the laptop doesn’t get a full connection. So I don’t know if it’s the router sucking or what. I’m going to get an antenna cable so I can at least get the antenna out in the open instead of it being under the desk, that may solve the problem. I remember going over to Jess’ house and her computer having the same problem because the router was stashed away inside the desk instead of out in the open, I’m going to assume it’s the same issue here.

I’ve had a splitting headache since I came home today. And as much as I don’t want to blame it on the school’s HVAC system even though they fixed it, I think I will. Because now the entire building is FREEZING. It physically exhausts me and just makes me feel uncomfortable. I’m going to start bringing my sweaters with me again, I don’t care if it’s June. This is just getting ridiculous.

Work’s died down, thankfully. I can focus more on my last quarter of classes and the other side projects I have going on. Have a meeting Saturday out in Oswego for some web design job, my net admin hooked me up with this one. The outlook looks pretty good from what he’s told me, I’ll know for sure when the time comes.

Just when I thought that my work at school was actually going to come to an end, it never did. The computers that were supposed to come in STILL haven’t come in. We thought Friday, but no. Then they said Saturday, but no. Now they’re saying Monday morning. So we keep getting these guarantees from Dell and DHL, but they keep falling through on us.

So yeah I had to be there yesterday, which was supposed to be a day off. I took Thursday off instead, which actually wasn’t too bad because I was able to break up the long work week for working 9 hour days. Today being Sunday, nobody’s going to be there. And the school’s quarter starts tomorrow, so I’ll be there at 9am (hopefully) with computers in the doorway for us to work on. But I’m not holding my breath, we could be hanging around all day and not have them come in until 5pm. Then that would REALLY suck because since I have class on Tuesday I won’t be able to help as much.

I was so exhausted after yesterday’s shift that after I came home and got something to eat, I passed out. For about 16 hours. Yeah I needed that. I feel so refreshed now, I’ve made up nearly all the sleep I’ve been missing over the course of the week. I really have trouble sleeping some nights, no idea why. Buuut I’m all better now!

This is also the reason why I haven’t been around much for the past 2 weeks… Working these long shifts that are physically draining doesn’t give me much energy when I get home to lounge around and talk to people. I usually lay in bed and watch a movie or some show on TV until I pass out, then I start the entire process over again the next day. I’ve kept contact with a few people, but that’s pretty much it. Hopefully after this is all over with I can get back to a more normal schedule.

Today I have some more “personal” work to take care of, meaning me sitting in front of a computer typing and mouse-clicking away. My sister comes home from Cali today too, so that will be an interesting scenario. She hasn’t been home since Christmas. Bringing all her stuff with her, looks like she’s not going back. But that’s a whole ‘nother story.

May as well grab some food and start the day off right. One of these days I’ll actually have a “day off”… who knows when that will be.