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March 25, 2008

Easter wrap-up.

Filed under: Bemani,Life,School,The Internet,Work — sherl0k @ 8:42 pm

The weekend was pretty fun. Friday night I headed over to the apartment early so I could get some homework done, and broadcasted some radio while doing so. It works out pretty well because I’m not distracted when I’m alone there, I can focus on my work. I was able to get it all done shortly before Liz came home. Nice timing, I’d say.

Liz and I spent Saturday traveling around town. Had lunch at a local sit-down restaurant which was pretty delicious. Went to both Carousel and Great Northern malls along with some other places. I always have a good time when I’m out with her, since we’re so laid-back about everything and we just go with whatever flow happens to come our way. We hit both malls because we were both struck by the DDR bug and headed to Carousel to play. But then the coin register broke. So no SuperNOVA for us. The trip wasn’t all bad though, we looked at cell phones since I’m getting one next month under Liz’s plan. I figured it’s about time I join in on this whole 20th century revolution. We also saw Dre, which makes any trip to Carousel worth it.

GNM was nice, not many people there and it was nice seeing Adamn again. I also prefer Extreme since my scores are much better, I can’t stand SN’s timing. But this is all old news.

Sunday we went to her parents’ for Easter. I love her family, they’re awesome. Good food, good times. Liz’s brother Rob is friggin awesome too. Wish they were closer, he’s definitely the kind of kid I’d hang around with more. Aside from the whole playing WoW thing, of course.

Speaking of, a ton of people at my job play WoW. I’m not going to get hooked in though, I like my spare time. I’m probably going to pick up RO again though, but not hardcore. I still have school to worry about. I’m slowly moving away from a lot of my website administration duties only because I just don’t have it in me anymore to keep current on everything and do menial tasks. Especially the tracker. I’m behind on a lot of things there and I’m just going to pass off the responsibility to someone else, and call it quits soon after. Sorry everyone, but I’ve done a pretty damn good job of expanding the place (from an IRC channel that rarely got over 100 users to a tracker with over 2000) and after almost 3 years I’m ready to pass the torch. Here’s to hoping the place doesn’t go down in flames.

Installed the latest beta of Ubuntu 8.04. Don’t really notice much different about it, if anything X eats more processor usage and RAM. But the latest Firefox beta is lean, so that makes up for it. Packages are getting updated daily to the date of release so I’m assuming things will only get better. I’m getting rid of my desktops soon anyway, replacing them with laptops I get at a deep discount from work.

March 12, 2008

Typical life update.

Filed under: Bemani,Life,Work — sherl0k @ 4:44 pm

Past weekend was a lot of fun, the tournament was filled with awesome people and I overall had a good time. Rock Band is definitely best enjoyed via HD projector. I was obviously knocked out of the DDR tournament in the first round but I play for fun, not for competition. AG deserves my money, they run an awesome shop. It was also great seeing old faces too, Like Rodney and Lauren. Damn they’re still hilarious as ever. Kait and Brandon were there too and it’s always great hanging with them. I’m glad Liz got along with my friends there, she seemed to really enjoy herself there too.

After the tournament we headed back home, stopping at Wegmans to get some cake mix. Liz was debating on the way home whether or not she wanted to make one, and she finally gave in :) And yes, it was indeed a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.

Sunday Liz had to head to the gym so I kinda bummed around until she got back. We grabbed a somewhat early dinner at the local Indian restaurant (which was effin’ delicious, by the way). Afterwards her friend from college Sarah came over and we hung out for a while, her and Liz caught up since they haven’t seen each other in a while. Then we went to see The Bank Job, which was a pretty sweet movie. I recommend it.

Work is the usual, though Friday and Monday I was busy with a side project which was a nice step away from the norm. Also shows that the higher-ups trust me and I’ve proven to be a hard worker. Past couple days have just been a blur, really. Today dragged a bit though, probably because I didn’t have any cash to raid the vending machine for caffeine or sugar-inducing snacks. Stopped at the bank on the way home, so that won’t be happening again!

I also have to work Saturday, mandatory overtime. I don’t mind it, I get paid extra $$$ which always comes in handy. And Liz is busy for some time in the afternoon too so I suppose it works out. Supposedly my job is going to start doing 4-10 hour days, with some people working Mon-Thurs and others working Tues-Fri. I’ll definitely take that, and if I need to work overtime it can be on another weekday, instead of Saturday. I kinda like my weekends free. But for the time being, mandatory Saturday this week and maybe for another couple weeks until things get caught up. I guess there’s a lot of deficiencies that need to be worked out still. All I know is that I’m doing my part, that’s for sure.

March 4, 2008

Losing a bit of faith in Ebay.

Filed under: Life,Work — sherl0k @ 6:12 pm

I’ve been Ebaying stuff lately, with decent results. But there’s still a couple orders that have ticked me off a tad.

I bought DK Racing on the 18th, and have yet to receive it. Now, I ordered a TON of other N64 stuff the same day, and it’s all come in. In fact, the last thing to come in was my Goldeneye cart, which arrived almost a week ago. I don’t think it takes this long to ship a cart from CA, does it?

I also bought Liz’s laptop (a Dell Inspiron 600m) a gig of RAM, because it only has 512 in it. I found an Ebayer selling RAM for the model, has a 99.whatever% feedback. Page listed the specs for the RAM. I checked the current RAM in the laptop before buying, and the numbers matched – PC2700, CL2.5. Upon receiving the RAM, what’s it say on the stickers? PC3200, CL3. Sorry folks, but you can’t put 3v RAM into a 2.5v slot. It just doesn’t work. I’m asking for an exchange on that.

Aside from that, work’s been going pretty good. Chris + I had to train some new people today. Although every time they have us do other things our numbers drop, they fully appreciate our skill and ability to teach others. The company owner is coming in tomorrow to inspect the place so the bosses are stressing a tad. I don’t mind it, I’m confident in what I do and the bosses have confidence in me.

We also get free movies at work. You’d be surprised what people leave in their DVD drives when they return their computers. Today alone I came across the third Pirates movie, the third LOTR movie, and The Illusionist. We’ve gotten some other weird stuff too, and yes people have returned their laptops with a porno in the DVD drive. That was a funny one. I was driving home one day after work and my coworker Aaron passes me on the right flashing that DVD in the window, I couldn’t help but to laugh. The next day he barely made it in to work on time, to which I responded “Oh that movie kept you up all night, eh?”

We got our hands on a set of speakers so we can stream internet radio from our station. We can never decide what to listen to, because internet radio has such broad selection. 90s dance plays a lot of unknown club hits, The 80s station plays a lot of sappy love songs, and 90s rock plays too much grunge. Though I did get to Rickroll everyone while the 80s station was playing. That was epic.

I’m really looking forward to the weekend, I can’t wait to hang out with everyone at AG again.

March 1, 2008

Oh how amusing.

Filed under: Life — sherl0k @ 1:56 pm

I was simulatenously getting drunk and cleaning the apartment last night, waiting for Liz to get home.

The result:

Also, Liz and I are going to the AG tournament next Saturday, on the 8th. So if you’re in PA and lacking plans, you now have some.

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