And against what is obviously my better judgement, I’ve broken down and finally installed Skype. I have no clue why, other than the fact certain individuals, who shall remain nameless (I’m talking about you, miss L), have been insisting upon my downloading it. I can’t guarantee it’ll actually get used, but now at least I can claim I have it. Hm… now I don’t have an excuse not to talk to people. Damn me and my making everyone happy.
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So I relented…
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Are you a slacker?
You Are 20% Slacker
You are anything but a slacker. You’re truly a go getter.
You never let laziness get in the way of living your life – and you can’t stand to see it in others.
Well, that’s one quiz with a bit of a problem. I likes me my lazyness, damn you. I just know better than to be sloblike about it. 😛
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I would just like to point out…
I have now been awake for 3.5 hours. I should not be awake for another 4 hours, minimum. Somebody hates me.
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One more weekly MP3
Faith Hill – Sunshine and Summertime (please download and save before playing)–What can I say? It’s my family’s theme song, almost. Right down to the showing what they got if a few of them get drunk enough. At which point, I become very thankful I can’t see. Anyone who’s followed my blog for, well, at least the summer knows we like a semi-decent occasion to throw a party, or at least a bbq. Hell, we’ve done it just because we could, so I guess that counts as a decent occasion. And, to no one’s surprise, we tend to get just a little tiny bit… redneck when we party. Hey, we live in what used to be a hicktown–cut us some slack, will ya? Besides, everyone knows rednecks throw the best parties. Jeff Foxworthy says so! 😀
I think… this’ll be the last attempt at making this a regular, weekly occurance, as I’m rediscovering my inability to keep a schedule. So instead, it shall become the occasional MP3 from now on. Or something. Or I’ll just forget I sometimes do this. Whichever works. -
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow…
Good mornin’ mama! How’d ya like a 14 pound baby keepin’ ya company? All I have to say is… OH. MY. GOD.! That’s just screaming C-Section. And my guess be so was she. All I think when I read this story is ow, ow, ow, ow, ow…
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And while I was fighting with my internet…
A guy I really… don’t know what to say about went and got himself re-signed for 2 years. Could be worse, all I’m saying on that one. I mean, I don’t know much about Stajan except the few times he was in the right place at the right time. But at least they managed to get that out of the way before they didn’t have that option… I guess. Uh. Kinda. Hm… I had more to say on the matter when I actually found this article. But that was during my internet troubles and well, trying to blog while 95% of your bandwidth is going to file sharing utilities is just plane not fun.
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Technically inept parents… not fun.
I just got done explaining, or trying to explain, the concept of bandwidth to my mother. That was… well, to put it nicely, not a very feel-good endeavor. She doesn’t quite the idea that just because your connection to the internet *can* be faster on DSL than it is on dial-up, it isn’t gonna feel faster when you’ve got a network of 3 computers, 1 of which has decided to upload half its hard drive to whoever asks. Well, okay, scratch that. It’ll feel faster if you’re on that 1 computer. The other 2, though… let’s just say my 56k modem goes faster.
And it just so happens that I could use our network as an example. Until about 15 minutes ago, it was crawling at about 1/4 of a turtle’s pace on the computers we have up here. So, to prove my point, I had mom go down and turn off my brother’s laptop, as I know damn well he’s been downloading and/or uploading crap all day in spite of not being home. And, of course, as soon as she’d shut it down, our DSL connection that’s supposed to be 1MB/s actually *was* 1MB/s. I love it when demonstrations are so easy to pull off. I just hope she actually caught on… or I’ll be explaining the concept to her again the next time he does it. In other words, tomorrow morning when she wants to pay her bills. -
Don’t spike her coffee again. Now go pick up some trash or something.
The nurse with the afore mentioned medication problem pretty much gets off with a slap on the wrist, after pleeding guilty to drugging her co-workers. Now, she gets community service. I honestly have no idea what the hell the prosecuter was thinking letting that go. But, then, all we really know about the guilty one other than her name is she’s bipolar. If that was important enough to only warrant the lightest form of punishment possible, I’d really love to have a conversation with the idiot judge that let that slide. I mean, not to trivialize the disorder or anything, but in my honestly not worth much opinion, that’s like practically letting someone off the hook for decking someone because they’d been depressed and just finally lost it. You still haulled off and decked the person. I fully expect at least one of the people she sedated to sue her, or something of that sort. I mean, these people still at the very least were unable to go to work because of her, even if it was only short-term. If it were me, damn right I’d be seeing her in a civil court.
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Well now, if that’s not motivation to move to Ottawa…
A guy I haven’t actually talked to in, well, ages, since my time at Algonquin College, just IMed me with a very… tempting offer. One that might almost be worth the hour and a half trip from here to Ottawa once a week. Apparently, he’s managed to hook up with several people I used to go to highschool with, though what the hell they’re doing in Ottawa is anyone’s guess, and they’re getting together some type of recreational goalball league. Which, of course, if I wasn’t an hour and a half away I’d be all over, if only because some of the named players are, at the worst case possible, an excuse to test your reflexes–I’ve played with, and against, most of these people. They hurt. But it’s awesome fun. People who’ve never heard of the sport will probably give me all kinds of strange looks. But that’s what Wikipedia’s for. I even did the work for you. Now someone find me a job so I can move to Ottawa and play.
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Because I know someone from Microsoft reads this.
New definition of ‘legal battle’, and like everything that’s trying to be redefined lately, Microsoft’s right in the middle of it. Everyone’s already heard about the suing spree Microsoft’s going on so far as piracy charges and such goes. Good luck with that, by the way, Billy. And, speaking of Billy Gates and legal battles, Microsoft is getting sued right back. Antitrust issues really suck, don’t they just? I hope you win your own cases, folks. You’re probably gonna need to to make up for losing this one. And you know you will.