RAVE: I finally got around to installing Firefox adblock. Wasn't expecting much, but HOLY SHIT, DID IT EVER SPEED UP MY COMPUTER. Some of the automotive boards that I go on (I'm talking about you, thirdgen.org) could take up to 30 seconds for a page to load because of all the damn ads. No more!
Rant: It really gets on my nerves when people insist I take shitty food off their hands because I'm skinny. Today a fellow student came by and said her mom sent her a box of some sort of Oreo snack cakes. I can't stand food like this. She asks me to eat it with her so she doesn't feel bad about herself. I say I don't really like eating stuff like that but she insists and tells me "oh it's ok you need the calories, I don't." Fine. I eat it with her, no big deal. As she's leaving she gives me 2 more even as I insist I don't really like these kinds of snacks. She leaves them giving me more of the "oh you're so skinny, you need these, if I have the I'll get fat." Whatever, she leaves and I give them to other people. She finds out and gets pissed at me for giving them to other people. What the fuck? I didn't fucking want them. I'm not trying to insult you, I just don't want to eat fucking snack cakes. Why can't I just not want to eat snack cakes. FUCK.
Rave: Oh god, nerd rave. STAR TREK ON BLU-RAY. I am not normally a graphics whore, but god dam. Rather than repackaging that material, CBS has gone back to the original film stock and started from scratch, so it just looks sexy.
Rant: Wife was sick for two days, and she woke up two nights ago throwing up. Luckily she had the forethought to put a garbage can next to her bed, so she didn't puke on the floor. Rave: She is getting better... Rant: Just in time for me to start feeling like shit. Rave: New job subbing for the local school district. I was in immediately, as I knew the woman doing the hiring from when I went to school there. Rant: I haven't been called yet (I just submitted all my info Friday, so it is a matter of when), and knowing my luck, they'll call tomorrow when I am sick, and the first time I get called, I'll have to say no, which sucks.
Rant: I had to cancel a web demo this morning and had another in the afternoon that was a clusterfuck to start because of a double booking on Webex. Even worse, it was the first demo I had set up with a software company I called and the CEOs, etc. of both companies were in on the demo. After the first demo was scratched, I was in a shit mood and that stressful situation trying to set a new meeting with a different account and re-start everything. It just wasn't good and I had a hard time focusing on calls today. Rave: I got the first demo rescheduled, and the afternoon meeting eventually got started and it's a great opportunity. It's exactly what we're looking for. Then in the afternoon, the secretary transferred a call to me that was from a massive company in the market requesting a demo. Uh, okay! No objections, just looking for a time. Couldn't be easier. Rave: I was already a lucky motherfucker this morning when I picked up a rare board at the lumber yard that is ideal for an experimental project I've been commissioned to do, and even better I got it at a wholesale price so it really wasn't too spendy (more profit fuck yeah!). I also got a couple jobs agreed on with another guy and will move a piece I've had collecting dust and the other is something I've thought would be cool for a long time and now I have an excuse to do it.. On top of that, on Saturday I chatted with my co-worker's dad who wants me to re-stock his L.C. Smith 12 and 16 ga. shotguns and do a matching pair. It doesn't get better than that. These are the exact projects I want to be doing right now. Rave: I think today warrants a pat on the back. The past month has been tough on the job(s) and the effort has paid off some today. I work a lot and I'm glad it's not wasted. Rant/Rave: My girlfriend's future employer up here pushed her start date back a month. October. It'll be on me to keep it her unemployed month up here interesting, but that's no problemo. She really wants to go on a vacation in September and specifically requested a camping trip near a lake, which I will never turn down. Yes, she is amazing.
Starcraft II ranting and raving spoilered, because let's be honest 99% of you don't care or don't know what I'm nerding out about. Spoiler Rave: IPL Team Arena between Prime and Startale. Hell yes. Holy hell Bomber. Manner mules dropped after an amazing comeback where you lose your natural to a mech push by MKP and yet win behind a bio ball of 90% marauders? That is bananas. Rant: So of course you follow stellar play by acting like a Bronze leaguer against Creator. Because going hellion/marauder push against a protoss works all the time right? This isn't the beta. I don't understand how you can be so good and so bad in back to back games.
Rant: wheel sale fell through. Rave: the buyer had to help out his family but is still interested, so i guess the sale is just on hold for now. Rant: the squadron might be flying me only one flight per day instead of the normal two. That coupled with having only three fly days a week means I'll finish in 7 weeks if nothing gets cancelled. I was expecting to complete by the end of March. We'll see what next week brings, hopefully I fly more.
Rave: Books! Rant: I can't afford my reading habit. Rant: I actually need to read more. I read an interview where Ryan Holiday said he went through 200-300 books a year. Motherfuck. I don't want to believe him, because doing so would make me feel dumber than I already do.
Rave: My baby has slept in her crib every night since last Thursday! With the exception of the first night, she's been asleep within 5 minutes and I haven't even had to go in her room once until morning. Rave: Tonight she rolled over to her side as soon as I laid her down and was asleep before I was out of the room! I know this doesn't mean it will continue to be easy, but holy shit I'm so happy that we have some alone time! Rave: I'm also getting acquainted with my good friend Wine. Rant: Sleeping through the night means she isn't nursing through the night which means I'm about to explode by morning. The first few days I woke up at 5am and had to pump just to relieve the pressure. Rave: I've been able to make it to ~7 when she's been waking up without having to pump the last few days. Rave: I've been covering the evening shift at work since January. I fucking love it! I get to go in at 4:30 and I'm usually off by 9. I'm not a morning person so it is 100 times better than going in at 4:45am. Rave: My manager hinted tonight that I might end up with the evening shift for good. He didn't say it was happening for sure but it was more than just insinuated. If I worked this shift all the time I wouldn't hate my job. Hopefully he wasn't just talking in hypothetics and it's something that may happen in the not too distant future.
RANT: I have a fucking rat in my apartment. Not a mouse. A fucking DC rat. I am so pissed. When I moved into the dorm, I put weatherstripping around my door to try and keep out insects and pests. I also taped off my vents. I have no clue how this motherfucker got in, but it has to die. For comparison it's like the rat that shows up at 1:43 in this video scurrying across the streets of Baltimore: I had to drive to Crystal City to buy rat traps because there isn't anything of what you need in DC AND FUCKING HELL ONE JUST WENT OFF AND IT DIDN'T CATCH THE BASTARD! FUCK THIS BUILDING.
Rant: I might have to leave Indonesia to go back to the US and work before starting grad school. Rave: I might have to leave Indonesia to go back to the US and work (yay real money!) before starting grad school (yay adults with motivation!)
Rave: Finally some fresh snow! Taking the next couple days off to go enjoy it up north. The best part... school vacation was last week so there won't be anyone there. Rave: My Wrangler is finally back in my garage after being sidelined by my mechanic so he could finish an 8.5 sec Camaro built for another customer. Can't wait to enjoy it in the snow. Rave: Wegman's grocery stores. They built down the road from where I work. I heard the hype and didn't want to believe it but I went there the other day and I was blown away. As a foodie it's like heaven. I could spend half a day browsing their dry aged and imported deli sections.
Rant/Rave: Hello. Rave: Got an awesome job doing awesome things and getting paid to do it. Got more than enough to satisfy my monetary needs. Rant: Contract job. One-year contract has now expired. Fuck. Double Rant: Job hunting sucks BALLS and should die in a fire. Rant?: Applying to all sorts of shit out of urgency. Came here yesterday to find "writing samples" for a writer position. Seems that yesterday half the stuff on here was down for some reason, namely these permanent threads. Perfect timing. Oh well, bet none of it was usable anyway. Time to generate original content. Rant: Didn't sleep last night. Shit. Rave: Made awesome shepherd's pie last night from scratch. Rant: My lack of sleep was due mostly to the retarded method by which I made it that caused me to take a lot of extra time. Fuck potatoes. Fuck them right in the eyes.
RANT: Leap Day Why does leap day have to be February 29th? Why can't we get an extra day of summer instead?
Rave: I don't need a new transmission!!!!! Super Rave: I'm number 2 in my region for auto insurance sales for my company. I've only been with this company for 2 years. Wooooo!!!! This demands a celebration.
RANT: I saw my ex today for the first time in a couple of months. He grew a beard. I'm now contemplating letting my roommate hide my phone so I don't call him begging for sex. I fucking love beards. Bastard.
Rave: SOUNDWAVE BITCHES!!! Fly down to Melbourne today and festival tomorrow. Going to be fucking awesome.