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JeffMagnus node of the day: Everything Rumors

ya-fuckin-hoo!

yay! I got the apartment! happy happy!


And I might get another kitty. The building manager suggested it because she met Toby when they were in repairing my heating and he was all "give me love! meow meow meow!" and I thought wow, what a good idea! I'll actually have enough room for two cats in my new place, and Toby won't be so lonesome while I'm away at work. He meows at the door when I'm away whenever someone passes, even if I've only been gone for five minutes to go change my laundry. My apartment will be twice as allergic! Beware!

Why does Deborah909 get so many wonderful softlinks? I think she has a secret admirer.

update:

THE EVERYTHING I-CHING IS EERILY ACCURATE TODAY

WOW

I haven't noded for a while...

I wonder why...

Prehaps It's because I don't have anything interesting to say.. Nah, It's beacuse I've been too busy. That's right folks, I've been workin! Spliting my time between school and work is really exhausting.

I'm going to be an uncle again. My Sister-in-law announced that she was pregnant with number 2 last week... I don't know if that's a good thing or not. The funny thing about this is that I knew that she was pregnant before she did... I could tell somehow. Freaky.

MAGNOLIA!

All I've done today is watch this movie over and over. Typed up my sister's report while watching it, ate my ramen while watching it, and noded while watching it.
Earlier today I took my English 1301 exam. Second one to finish. Hopefully I did good.*crosses fingers* I have my H&R Block final exam tomorrow. I have to have know 24 forms by tomorrow. Perhaps I should study. 8 ball study for exam? reply: Unlikely.

Got into an arguement with "friends". Nobody will admit to vandalizing my car during our Car Wars. Whoever ripped off my rain guard was out of line. Hopefully I will find out soon who it was...
A year ago today, my ex boyfriend dumped me. We did make up and get back together, though at this time last year he made me feel like shit. Best not to think about it...

"Some people shouldn't be allowed to drive"

-Girlface

     On the way home from the Biomedical Library, I passed one of those lifted, chrome-enhanced, testosterone-fueled trucks. The driver was some hispanic guy in his mid-twenties. I contined driving through my shortcut and noticed that this guy was following me - closely - with his brights on. Well, there are two things that piss me off in this world, tailgating and blinding; this guy was doing both. As soon as we came to a two-lane road Mr. Man passed me honking and screaming. I caught up, his girlfriend looked at me and all I could do is smile and wink at her. She laughed, he fell behind and my day was saved.
     Back at home I learn that one of my nodes (Noder's Tourette's) had been nuked anonymously, I let it slide but soon was borged for getting into an argument about gun control in the main channel. Hmm. Suck. Restoring my hope in humanity I made a pizza and watched the telly until falling asleep.
     Carrie is quite intruiging. She's had a boyfriend for three years but seems unsatisfied with him. He's posessive, fairly ignorant and just doesn't suit her socially. I respect her more than to do something hectic, although we have made it clear that we find each other irresistable; she asked me to talk to her under the stars again, God is she beautiful - and insightful, and caring. Hmm. More girls should be like her.

11:01

Yay! The Wakeup Project is going well... I actually got up at 10:30!

Okay, what's the sad story this time? I had a bad night. I... well, was unable to sleep (too much coffee and such), complained at #gimp and didn't really wish they'd hear...

...at four or so I picked up something to eat. Noticed I had been too absent-minded yesterday that I didn't had even remembered to eat anything!

Well, time to face the challenges of the day. (Should that phrase be trademarked? =)

(Wow, I appear in the Snapshot... Strange... =)

16:38

So, hmm... tomorrow is the day I'll suck, I guess. Or not. OO Programming exam? Just theory and stuff, right? The excercises seemed fairly "possible", so I hope I'll pass.

(This half year has been BAD...)

OK, need to inhale some information.

17:58

Spent some painful moments with Java and stuff. I wish Java would have as easy text handling stuff as Perl... Hmm, maybe I'll make prototype of this recursive menu parsing stuff (programming assignment, to be returned before spring =) in Perl.

19:42

Hmmmm... I have something wrong.

I used to be somewhat good at some things, but now I seem pretty... demented. I don't know what's going on, but it seems I've turned into an idiot.

Evidence? I wrote that GIMP tutorial last night. Even a tame monkey could figure out what that stuff was about. I wrote a small Perl scriptlet that displays a dialog OR runs an app depending on conditions, total 10 minutes of work with Perl + Glade... Am I stupid or something??? I'm nowhere near the (feeble) level I used to be. In short, I'd like to say I'm beaten...

(And I put this comment at wrong time first. Damn I'm stupid.)

21:29

I would really need to get yiffed or something... No time for that though. =(

Judging from the Node Heaven, I participated in grand total of 3 GTKYNs. Waaah! I'm a loooo-oo-ooser! My street credibility among level 1 noders is nearing zero! =)

Oh, damn, they nuked "Teach yourself 'Hello, world!' in 24 languages", too, even when it wasn't really a GTKYN and was actually useful... It had +24 rep. Oh well, XP won't pay the rent, so I think I'll just re-node that someday under a much better title. (6502 would look more appropriate place...)

00:29

(Is wa7 becoming "The Node Linked To All Daylogs" or something? =)

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Other day logs o' mine...

Noded today by y.t.: exception embedded system tailhole 6502 6502 indirect JMP bug JMP

Updated: BatMUD

Nukerequested: Some crap, one GTKYN submission. (I think that'll be all... =)

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So, working for Sony has some perks after all; I can borrow a new funky looking digital satellite box to use at home. I have to send bug reports in, but I suppose I don't mind that at all. Apparently the box is a little better than my panasonic box, but I don't know in what way. The main benefit I can see is that it will match my new silver VCR.

I woke up to my fiancee's voice this morning; the new cordless phone is rather useful for that, but I shall have to remember to put it right by my bed, rather than across the room. I don't want to have to get up at all, just reach across and say "Hi" with a sleepy smile. As always, our telephone conversations are dreamy; talking about all sorts of really nice things, reaffirming our bond together.

Excuse me while I sigh contentedly

I can't understand people who hate, or in some way question, long distance relationships. Sure, you can miss someone deeply and the pain can be awful. But the joy of talking to your beloved, the utter happiness when they say the things you are thinking of, can make the distance fall away. Saying that you are not having a proper relationship unless you are together, unless you are going out to coffee together is just wrong. The things that you share with someone, the depth, the power at which your souls resonate overshadows the fact that you are not together. You're not touching physically, but your hearts are tied together in a way that, I think, a "normal" relationship couple wouldn't understand. That's not to say that a long distance relationship is better, just different.

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More later, my little fondant fancies...

Today, I did it again. I managed to get out of bed within 15 minutes of the alarm going off!!. A rare occurence.
The problem came with cycling to work. It was wet, it was fucking windy. I am still not happy. My trousers are still wet!

Well, now I'm in work, the client once again has failed to provide us with:

1. devices to test


2. resources to test those devices if we had them


3. the passwords to use those resources even if we had those

Don't get me wrong, this is a good thing. It means that I can node without feeling guilty that I should be doing something constructive. It also means that if we don't finish testing on time, we can just blame them. Again.
Apart from the whole wet and windy thing, not a bad start to the day. I'm still looking forward to going to the Pub for lunch (I always manage to bring it around to Pubs - do you think there's something in that).

Updates as they happen. Unless somebody gives me some real work.

14:49 - Update - Client has sent a device by post, doesn't work. More noding!

I like snow, because if it's going to be ass-cold outside, we'd better get something pretty out of it.

It's early in the workday EST. There's not much accumulation outside, but it's still the first real snow of the season. They're pretty big for flurries, though. Tiny clumps. They're light, and they remain discrete after they've landed - when the wind blows, they chase each other around the parking lot. They look like pretzel salt, or like the individual bits of styrofoam that you'd get if you took some stereo packaging and hit it with something.


Whenever people say "it's snowing" or "it's raining," I always think that the only plausible antecedent in those phrases is "the sky." To me it feels more like "the world is snowing."

Cave man 1: It's snowing again.
Cave man 2: That thing is so fucking weird.

This is my first node from my new laptop HP 5170. I got one hell of a good deal on it too. I bought it at the CompUSA taht I used to work at, and not only did I not get charged full price, but I was not charged tax, or full price for the Extended Warranty.

It's nice, fast powerful, and sexxy (to a geek anyway).

It's FRIDAY WOO-HOO!!! I'm so ready for it too. I might be goin to college station, that would be fun, maybe goin to Dallas, that would be fun, or may have to go to Houston, that would suck. See if I go to College Station I can see Allison, if I go to Dallas I can see Saria, but, I may have promised Jimmy I would accompany him to Houston. I hate Houston, but at least I could go to the best Gun Shop in Texas, that would be ok...

Our IS department is losing a battle against the corporate offices to control a secure terminal in their building, that apparently is messedup pretty bad, but none of our techs have security clearance to work on this machine. WHAT did I join the military somewhere while working here? SECURITY CLEARANCE, fine, fix the machine your self then...
Oh, what's that? You don't know how to fix it?
Well sorry we don't have clearance.
Without this machine working no one except for the hourly people get paid. They better do something fast. Or else their are going to be alot of angry people. I hate politics in the work environment, they just don't mix.

It's a friend of mine's birthday and I have yet to get her present. I went to WalMart and found a cd she likes. I shudder at the name, Creed. Grrr. I waited in line while a lady in front of me paid for her items with a new 20 dollar bill. The cashier took her money and gave the lady back her change. I gave the cashier the cd and she opened for me, blah blah blah, I gave her my new 20 dollar bill. The lady puts it on the counter and swipes it with those black pens that check to see if they're counterfeit. "That bitch!" I thought. She gets my change and had the audacity (thank you clearpebbles for the word, hehehe) to smile at me and say, "Thank you."

I drove to HEB because my car was already on the red of the E, meaning empty. I decided to just fill her up. She took $15 worth and I leave.

I wanted to go to the new Jack In The Box that they built in town, maybe 2 weeks old. There is a super long line of people. "Ehh, just let the fad die down," I thought. (note: what is with the name Jack In The Box? If you single out the Jack and then say In The Box, it sounds like they want you to jack off in the box) I decided to go to McDonalds, same dilemma. Wendys is right next to it and there's no line and I have 20 minutes to work so it looks very good. I drive-through and get my food. I park outside CiCi's Pizza and eat with the music on full blast. I finished and started driving to work. I noticed that I was a bit early so I decided to drive around and I spotted a cemetary.

I drove into the cemetary and parked. I got off my car and walked around for about 10 minutes because I had work. At the cemetary I feel at peace and I have the thought of coming everyday or at least every work day and leave a flower a day on one burial spot until they all have one. I realize that this may just be me coping with my death and how I would want the same done to me, or maybe I'm just a nice guy.

"Work sucks, I know" Same old boring stuff.

After work I drove to my friends house and we went out with friends, her mother driving. We went to Kumoris, a sushi place, they had something called a California Roll, which has crab and seaweed and all this yucky stuff. Her mom has a squid salad and a spider roll. I had my fried rice with chicken, beef, and shrimp, all cooked thank God. We went to the mall, walked around, talked about society and their judgements, then we all went home. Her mother ran 3 red lights, one of which was right in front of a cop, I enjoyed it immensly.

I wasn't going to write anything, but now I am.

I've decided to force myself to output something even though I probably don't have anything interesting to say. I suppose E2 is good in the sense of at least allowing some sort of outlet for the brain. I usually use E2 to start my days, giving my brain a chance to jumpstart my neurons.

I had a nice little argument last night with my Love. This happens whenever our beliefs seem to collide with one-another - hers with mine. I'm thinking that we should probably find a better way to deal with situations like that.

I wake up today with heavy eyes. I also ignore my clock radio, even though it is giving me some half-hilarious dialogue from the Humble and Fred show. I rarely remember anything that makes me laugh. It's as if those moments slips me out of consciousness and simultaneously shoots me through another time continuum.

There is no traffic on the 407! I'm wondering where all the people went! I suppose most of them took today off, being Friday and close to the holiday season. This is the second time I've reached the office in near-record-time!

Ugh, my dent is still on my car. And then I find another dent, one slightly less obvious. It is above my other one on the same side. I can't believe it. I may be a victim of vandilism, not just an accident. Now I find myself checking out the window a few times making sure no one is hanging around my car. Thanks a lot, dumbass driver! Now I'm getting paranoid!

fight! fight! fight!

Had a huge argument with Ben last night (funny, does this sound familiar?) This kind of routine screamed on the phone in the loudest of voices:

him: "If you think I am like your brother, I might as well go and fuck other girls! Are you listening to me? Put the phone back on your ear!"

me: "Would you fucking listen for one second! I have listened to your bullshit crap for an hour, now let me say one sentence. Are you ready?"

My sister thinks this will inflict damage on our future children. Two hours later, we were all "I love you" and "Bye sexy." This fight was tame compared to how it used to be, once he spat in my face and once, well, we don't talk about that now. It doesn't hurt me anymore because I am indestructible after all. I just have to learn how to diffuse these situations before they start. People always blame the guy for this type of thing but I know the 'finger' (whatever finger that may be) can be pointed at both of us. Everyone is responsible for their own choices.

Told the girl at Starbucks this morning about the ihatestarbucks.com website. She thought it was pretty funny but went on to say this was the best job she has ever had because of benefits etc. I was wondering if she really meant it or if she was simply towing the company line. In Starbucks, I almost finished Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. It was great at first, but now he is using the book as a mouthpiece for his religious beliefs. Yawwwwn.

It's my birthday today.

So I got up on time to finish off the cream-and-pineapple pie and packed up the other two (see Arretjescake) heading off to work. Thing is, it's a Dutch custom to bring in pies for your colleagues, to be eaten during the coffee break between 10 and 10.30 am. We skipped that, and ate the whole day long because I baked way too much.
The other years I got marriage proposals because of my baking results (??), but this time they were amazed that even a geek woman can bake and because of that they were thinking+saying "that I know it all" (this definitly is untrue), as if the fact that I can bake makes me "a complete person"!! not. or do men think so??

Anyway, I had emails and Hallmark stuff from friends (not from my family yet, hm!), so the day wasn't really productive at all (as if the other days are), and just half an hour to go before the weekend starts :-)

Still unpacking after last weekend's move.

One of the women who used to live in this house is an old friend of my husband. They have this platonic thing happening which I cannot relate to, but so what. The main idea is that she is a horse's ass, but I cannot say anything bad about her. Anyway, she couldn't move her stuff out before we moved in, even though she was already sleeping in the new place.

I figured it would all be in her room, but no - it took up half the living room, and little doodads were here and there in her bedroom. I didn't say anything, because it would piss off the SO, but I pushed all the stuff in her room into one corner.

Well, then she said there was no storage space in her new house, and could she leave some things in our attic? The attic is very big, she said. And my SO said, oh yes, it's very big, go ahead and leave your things. And she said, it's just a few things. And I was very nice about it, too...

Until last night when I wanted to put some our our stuff in the damn attic and saw that she'd filled up the whole thing!

Had a dinner party last night. My wonderful girlfriend cooked a tagine. My friends came over and we drank wine and talked and smoked butts and made plans to all go to Iceland together. My magical friend The Captain Chase Manhattan has already somehow gotten in touch with the department of state there. What a man.

Ahh what a wonderful night, slept in today (cause I told my boss I would be late, in anticipation of the festivities) woke up, it was snowing. Snow in Brooklyn is like tall cool rum drinks in paradise. At least this one was.

Rock on brothers and sisters, rock right the fuck on.

On Wednesday at the end of my Spanish class the professor announced that one of the girls in the class had committed suicide the previous night.

I only knew her through that class, and not well from there. We never spoke more than "What did she say the assignment was?" but I liked her. We all took lots of shit from the prof. in that class and while some of us would cower and whine when faced with the criticism she just sat there and took it without apology. I thought it was strange Wednesday that she wasn't there because she was supposed to do her oral presentation. The fact that she wasn't mentioned by one person in class yesterday makes me think we are just a bit dysfunctional. I know there are other people in the class who knew her better than I did.

The university hasn't officially confirmed that it was suicide; the email they sent out and the student newspaper said only that she fell down the stairwell. I suppose that from what I know it's possible it wasn't suicide but I tend to believe the rumors which say there was an eyewitness and that it was in fact suicide. If someone decided it needed to be kept under cover I wonder if it was the university or her parents. I had plenty of my own irrational thoughts as to the causes but they're not worthy of being shared here. Things like this always happen at the end of semesters.

I have a good friend who has attempted suicide several times. More than ever I hope for selfish reasons he never succeeds; death, and especially suicide, is too rude an awakening even to people who hardly know the person.

I just finished taking my college algebra final exam. I just realized that I fucked up. I have always fucked up in everything that I have done. Maybe I am just not cut out for this university shit. But what the hell should I