Woke Up (7am) Took Shower Got to Work – Hooked up new XM Radio in Bill’s Office Signed up online – Very Cool Winrep still not updating on the Cytrix Server. Figured out is was updating to C: when it need to update to D: Message on phone: Accounting Backup still failing. At 4:45 updated Norton AV and DLT drive drivers – Reboot Tested system twice – All OK Left work at 5 – Off to Altivo Timepeices (Firewall Problems) Listened to XM – Laugh XL (good R-rated stuff) Arivved at Altivo at 6:00 fix took 5 mins (he paid me for an hour- drive and all) Left for casenotes, jimmy wasnt available till 8:30 so i sat and listened to XM for an hour and a half. Jimmy picked me up and we went to the Presidents house (company ..not U.S.) to work on his ailing computer. 20 bad blocks on the drive..suggested new drive. He said OK. On a side note: the prez’s girlfriend was walking around the house in pajamas unbuttoned to the navel. She kept asking questions while bending over picking up around the house…nothing was restrained with a few good full views….whoa..got sidetracked there. Ok..back to work..headed off to Staples for a new drive and Optical Mouse (9pm) Arrived at casenotes, tore computer down, inserted new drive, started WIn98 install… Off to HOOTERS for Dinner (10pm) Back to Casenotes (11:20pm) install done…now Office 97 and try to get some documents from the old drive. Then ran scandisk..and headed home (12:15am) Deb was snoozing when i got home…laid my head down at 12:45am…Goodnight.
Let’s see….the good news: Visited dad this weekend, Deb and I and Dad and Lynne saw Oceans 11 (4 of 5) Stricly a fun time for actors…and it works. A joy to watch all those beautful people that can act. Story not as good as THE STING but still a fun ride. I have always been a visually guy when rating movies so Steven Soderberg has dropped to the middle of the pack since giving up on his signature visual style and moved into the “i just wanna keep working mode” It has garnered 2 academy awards nomminations, but i still like style AND substance. not 40′s style and 00′s substance.
Ok..don’t read the rest. This is a Venting-Rant to keep me sane -WARNING- skip the next section.
In advance I apologise to deb and dad. I offend people, thats what i do, originaly (pre 1988) it was to get peoples goat, make life more fun for me. Since that day in Nebraska i turned deliberatly pissing people off to just telling the truth. I spout the truth like there is no tomorrow. And the women in my life have suffered horribly from it. Early in my relationship with deb, I found out the truth needs to be stiffled if i want to hold a relationship with her. So stiffled, is what i have done. Sometimes my silence has done more damage than good. So while i can maintain my armour though all these bombardments of the last couple months, this weekend a few chinks in the armour are starting to show though. My dad gave me a letter to read while I drove home, in it he stated how he was diagnosed with lukemia in 1985 and the treatments have worked well from that time on. But that those treatments have caused Thrombocytopenia, and that requires a spleenectomy. I’m not to worried, but i would think by now he knows that he could come to us with this sort of things. So there is a little stress there. Deb still maintain her feelings about how unconfortable she is around my family members. Something I’m not sure how to handle . My family is judgmental to everyone ,but all members seem to be right down the middle in all other ways: loyalty,income, love and lifestyle. I feel uncomfortable around her family, but it’s because they are different. I dont hate them, but i do make jokes about there lifestyles. Deb asks all the time if she is a bad person, I try to tell her she is not, and all this is in her head. But for some reason it doesn’t sink in. Perhaps it’s the fact that none of my friends come over anymore. And that my family members seem to want to talk to me instead of her. But the fact that I’m still around and our relationship with two of our other friends is stronger than ever doesnt seem to count. Now i’m forcing her to spend the next 2 weeks with my family coupled with arrival of aunt flo. My stress will be high even if nothing happens. So throw that in with everything else (including a 4 thousand dollar server that just wont back up regularly) and the my ‘nothing bothers me’ persona is starting to get cracks. maybe i need to drink more, smoke more weed, run naked into the night screaming..i dont know. I’m sure i will be fine, and my relationship with deb will be too, but right now the xmas season is looking more like a bummer than a joy. See …i told you all not to read this. Happy Holidays – Go Rams
Got the new Ferret Condo installed in the office. The girls and eddie have taken to it well. Might try to get a ferretCAM setup in the near future so you call all watch them sleep…ohhh big fun. Xmas lists are up in the WANT LIST If you want to add your xmas list to the mix..send it to me. Added new Rams Pics Added New Deb Pics Added New Pics of Me
Another One Bites the Dust!! Had a fun weekend, went to Vegas for my friends Bachelor Party. Not so much a Party as an excuse for them to gamble. The trip was planned for 10 people but at the last minute was dropped to 3. I being the third. The first night they did their “We do this evertime” casio crawl to find the best lines on Pro Football games. (I stopped betting Pro Football in 1999 went trent green went down in the second preseason game. And since we won the superbowl that year..I saw it as an omen. I will do side bets, htis year i bet a Hooters meal and apparel that the Chargers would Split the Raiders, but i never bet with money.) This took 5 hours and i thought this was what it was all gonna be about. Went to the hotel and slept till 10AM. A new day..We ran over to RIO for breakfast (Nice place..subpar buffet).we headed downtown..why..unknown..But since both of them were asian…i had an idea: “The Californian” The place were asians gamble. Played a few hands of blackjack Start=$40 – End=$60. Then hit some slots: Start=$1 – End=$35… So all in all a good trip downtown. Jimmy needed a nap..so we went back to the hotel. After a few hours of Cartoon Network and Dennis explaining to me the reason that Wonder woman can fly without a jet and the fact that green lantern is now black, it was time for some stripping. But first food and NASCAR. Went to the Sahara to ride SPEED and do the virtual Nascar Race. I Came in second, dennis was forth and jimmy got stuck in the pits and was last. Ate at the NASCAR cafe..really bad. Then off to the Strip clubs, First up: Crazy Horse 2..Alcohol servered..time to leave..quickly went to Deja Vu Showgirls…three hours later..back to the hotel for sleep. Jimmy and dennis went back out to gamble while i was sleeping. Next morning had breakfast in New York, New York and headed home. Was a little late for the Rams game but Deb TIVO’d it for me….all was good…
Howdy Finally getting around to up dating the site, New Top tens and updates to my wish list. Next up…updating my DVD and Laser collection, New Rams stuff, removing XFL stuff..In other words..a whole lot to do. Forgot to tell you guys about the new ferret in the house..The Big M has become a ‘shelter’ lately. His name is EDDIE, he is 3 and is a all-white-black-eye. He is very lazy (i kinda like that about him) and has assimilated very well into the ferret habitat. They all play and sleep together very well. Hope to have some pics up by the end of this week. On other fronts..looks like the Norhtern Alliance Attack on Kabul will be anyday now. The bombing runs have been constant on the front lines, and today they announced the use of the ‘Daisy Cutter’ BLU-82. This little beauty is the size of a VW Bug and 60 times more powerful than a scud. It works alot like the opening and closing sequences in ‘OUTBREAK’. Ground zero extends out a couple hundred yards and even boulders turn into grains of sand. It’s an old weapon (Nam,Gulf War,..etc) but a very good one. Hopefully CNN will have some video. -Laaaaaatter
Howdy kids…lets see…went to San Diego for the weekend to catch the Charger Game and celebrate some family birthdays. Saturday night watched the AZ Diamondbacks slaughter the Yanks to take it to game seven, then went with Deb,Dia,Mike,Jay,Maghan and cammie to see Monsters Inc. Very cute and well done..a lil’ darker than the other Pixar stuff. (4.5 of 5). Then off to the game on sunday..did a lil tailgating (Deb and I sporting Rams gear..jus tto get a rise out of people) and into the game. The first half looked like KC was finally coming out of their slump. But it was more the level of SUCK the SD has dropped down to. They should pull out of it by the raider game in 2 weeks..at least i hope. Got to om’s in time to see the 6th inning on..in Game 7…good lord what a game. Congrats AZ. Then we drove home about 8. Nothing new on the Moor front..we sent in more advisers..bombed the front lines..and heard from the united arab counsel that Osama doesnt speak for them..well duh. If they stated the other way they would have a real shit storm coming their way. All for now..big game tonight (DENVER v OAKLAND…go Denver!!!)
Well…it looks like we made it through halloween without another terrorist offing himself in the name of Allah on U.S. Soil. One new Anthrax case…..we seem to be doing good…Land Battle is about to start, but other Muslim countries are about to start falling apart. We may be seeing the begining of world war three. But that is OK..they have one Nuke between them and russia isnt going to help them. And China is Buddist..they hate muslims too. I read today that even in U.S supported Islamic countires the Islamic leaders and teachers , teach children to hate the USA. What the hell is that. I’ts gonna take decades to unteach those generations. I’m ready to kick some ass now..I know, I know..it’s like beating up the retarted kid in school. But every now and then he just gets a little uppidy and needs his ass kicked back to the stone age. At this point I am down to 2 options: Make Islam Illegal in the US (much the same as Isreal) and close the borders completely to them Or Destroy Islam – Middle Ages Style (Cut funding, let them starve to death, then destroy their places of worship) Hopefully new options will reveal themselves soon. Saw K-Pax on Halloween (3.5 of 5) I like Iain (HACKERS) Softley as a director, but the movie didn’t have enought magic to make it wonderful..but it was worth the money.
Welcome to the new age…Anthrax…that’s right…the animal bacteria is back… all stored away in letters to political figures and news reporters, the new terrorism seems to come from Allah lovers, but no one is sure yet…and no one is claiming anything. I try to analyze all the info to come up with solutions…but it’s hard. It is a generational thing. The “enlightened and educated Islamics” know who we are, and know we offer no Ill will. But that equals about 30 percent of Islam. The rest is raised on “Hate USA”. We have done nothing but help these poor uneducated towel-heads for the last one hundred years. And this is how they repay us!! The easy fix…is to weed them out (US Hating Islamic or people who are Americans SECOND instead of first) and deport or kill them. Then stop all student visas and immigrants for the time being. Then force trade sanctions until All Islamic counties learn how to police themselves. With stiff penalties for non-compliance. If that doesn’t work…create US sovereign zones in each country for education and control purposes. That’s right Burger King, Wal-Mart and so forth. Completely protected with America’s finest. If that means taking over the country…then so be it. Maybe I’m just bitter that the RAMS lost their first game, but at the moment i say let Afghanistan be the front lines…if Islamics want to fight with their brethren…we pay their airfare…lets go ahead and show them at Allah is not more powerful than the God of Tomahawk. Next up get some intel on the mountain caves (i can list all kinds of non-Muslim ways to get that info) and plug them up with a few tactical nukes (that way no one has those weapons or places to hide) If all else fails (Become ISRAEL… with a budget) remove all funding from all countries…and let them fend for themselves…close all borders until a new Immigration system is put in place to control and track immigrants…no more grace periods…if anyone gets uppity…blast them into the stone age. Any country wants to be friendly…bring them into the fold…but only if they can match our standards for immigration. And if that fails……death to all Moors…. we need the parking space. All this from a country only 200 years old…Shows you what free thinking can do. AND I haven’t gone to the movies in 2 weeks (the one I saw Last Castle…very good 4 of 5)
Leaving for powell on thursday. Will be unreachable till sept 13th. An on opening weekend tooo….aaaahhhhhhh. Seeya when i get back..P.S. BB2 is getting goooood!
Friday - Dinner and Movie with Dave and Timmerie, Dinner: Outback Movie: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. This one had the quality and style of Mallrats and i liked it just as much.(3.8 out of 5) Bob does his best work of all his movies. Jay was Jay and had a little problem holding the movie. But not everyone can be Stiffler! (4:20)
Saturday – Woke up, packed up the PT and and headed to san diego for the Charger/Rams game. First stop La Mesa for Tarin’s (Deb’s Niece) Birthday. Then at 3:00, off to Jack Murphy Stadium. My Brother (ROV and Dog Catcher) already pulled his trailer into the stadium at 12:30. Deb,Tony,Kim and I showed up about 4:30. 4 Snapple Peach Iced Teas, 2 steaks and 20 ram high fives later…we were in the stadium. I had 8 tix total. 6 on the plaza, 2 on the field level. Deb and i went tot he Field Level first. 10 rows from the bottom, north side, at the 20 yard line. Good seats but a little low. Owned by Debs former boss. First string rams had there engines on idle for the first half. But DB rookie Archeletta looked great. (Todd Light, Toby Wright and JR Seau mixed together) cant wait for the season to start. The second half was a different story. Refs decieded to “forget the fair game” and lean the results toward san diego..all we could do is watch in horror. thank god no one was hurt. No calls on chop blocks (that sort of thing). One good thing about the second half was the return of Marshall Faulk’s backup-Trung Candidate, he looked real good too. The only fear left is keeping Warner healthy all year. Well anyway..we lost with a kick in overtime, We didnt get any razzing on the walk out, probably cause they realized that they truly lucked out on this one. Sat in the parking lot for 2 hours, talkin and eating Krispy Kremes. Then when to my mom’s house and snoozed.
Sunday - Woke up, met Mike and Dia for Breakfast, Fixed a couple family computers, and went to dave and Busters for dinner before we headed home. (Love that place)
Monday - DVD Planet was closing out all of their remaining laserdiscs so last week i ordered : Kuffs, The Nude Bomb, Death Becomes Her and Waynes World 2.(all for 1.99 a piece) They came in today. When i got home to try them out..the LD player was broken…ahhhhhhhh. After work went to Jacoby’s in Santa Monica to install a new E-machine (not a single glitch…i love when that happens) got home round 10pm
Tuesday - Brought the LD player in today..turns out it was just the Eject motor was jammed..cleaned it..and all was fine….whoo hooo. Jimmy and Betty came over for Dinner and a movie..Betty choose Muriels Wedding, and dinner was Rib-Eyes and Homemade Onion rings.
Gave up on the old one…and bought a used mate for our industrial dryer. Got it for $240 at the local used appliance place. Picked it up and installed it at lunch. First load went perfect. At 5pm I ran down to Casenotes in Santa Monica to install a new Hard Drive. Went to HOOTERS first..got my usually ‘buffalo strips hot’..feel better already. They bought a Matrox (Quantum) 40G for 100 bucks. I installed the new drive as the Second IDE Master, And the BIOS wouldnt find the drive..it would just freeze on the screen. Pulled out the drive and put it in the “ALWAYS PERFECT” E-machine in the other room…worked fine. Went the the motherboard manufacturer and downloaded BIOS updates for the first machine…installed…and all worked well. Used MaxBlast to ghost the old 4 GIG to the 40 GIG. Rebooted with the 40…all is good. Got home about 9..watched South Park and BB2 on replay. Hit the Hay. Site of the day: Ricks Movie Posters
Last Weekend Saw Captian Corelli’s Mandolin..AAAHHHHH.. Even the horriblly shot war scenes couldn’t keep this from being a bad chick flick. We had to get food halfway through just to stay awake. It was by john madden..who did Shakespeare in Love, which i liked (not as best picture). It may have been just me, but i saw no chemistry between cruz and cage. there was boobs..but all could have been cut out. Bale and Hurt did well…but not enough to save this move. At least English Patient had some great photography and great quirks..this was just bland (1 of 5)
Monday - Drove down at lunch to get a new belt for the washing machine (which broke last week). Got a call from deb that 7up wanted to take us to the Angels game. So i picked up deb, tina and Muffy after work and headed to the ballpark. They have a dugout suite behind home plate (next to disney’s) so you can see me on some of the highlights. Angeles were ripped in the first inning and never recovered..but the food was good.
Tuesday - got a call from Casenotes and Docume Entertainment..so I need to see them on Wed and Thursday night. Went to lunch with Deb and Denise (old boss) at chili’s. Had the worst buffalo wings in my life. and the waitress dropped them on me while taking the remainders away. Not a good lunch. I will have to goto Hooters 5 times just to cleanse my soul. Finnaly got home to work on the washer. After an hour of knocking my head i found another broken piece that i would have to tear down the entire machine to fix. Gave up…buying a new one tomorrow. Watched Daily Show and BB2 (damn that Bunky is a fag..and weak too…and Hardy is in full game mode..taking no prisioners.(4:20) Site of the day: http://www.asontv.com/ (ordered an Easy Stitch)
Friday – Still stuffy but got through work with no problems. Jeff called, wanted to see American Pie 2 up in PV. So did DEB, so off we went. Laughed so hard that i started coughin’. Very much like the original with 6 or 7 scenes of pure hilarity. Came home..watched DML on Replay and hit the hay.
Saturday - Deb had a morning meeting with Sandy so i slept in. Had some wild fornication in the guest room when she got back…dont remember much after that. (4:20)
Sunday - Had to run to LA to work on Kathy Whooleys machine. Mostly just her palm pilot syncing was bad. reinstalled and got it fixed. Deb went to hang out with Timmerie by the pool. I went to Best Buy and bought Muriel’s Wedding and El Mariachi/Desparado DVD’s . Got home in time to watch the RAMS v. Bills. I’m not worried about the rams at all this season (but still no betting..except on other teams) DEB got home round 8, watched Muriel’s Wedding (Love that flick) went to bed.
Monday - Head starting to clear up. Ed Vincent fried his Sony laptop’s hard drive. bought a new one and dropped the unit off at my office to repair. FX series is great for changing hard drives…3 screws. Got home hit the treadmill for a mile and watched DESPARADO. Deb is starting to feel sick, cooked her up some therflu and went to bed (4:20)
WEDNESDAY – Cold still ragin’ went to work, finishing up the goldmine lit request procedures. Got a nasty call from Eric Jacoby (Client) about how all his machines were fine till i started working on them. Way to under the weather to deal with that right now. Haven’t called him back yet. Jeff, Laurie and the kids are dropping by (they were at Magic Mountain). let the ferrets run wild downstairs while they were there.Took some TheraFlu, watched Southpark and went to bed. (4:20)
Saturday - The BBQ at the park worked out well..25 people showed up.(deb,me,jeff,sandy,phil,jen,belly,kevin m,andy m,j9,rob,cam,travis,andy b,jennifer,tony,mike,chris,…etc).we played volleyball and Over The Line. Legs were sore till monday. Saturday Night - Went back over to Docume Entertainment to solve the AMD motherboard situation. As it turns out..there was a virus on the D: drive that infected the windows install, and made it impossible to use the Office2000 installer Program. Ran Virus Scan, All was fixed. machine running like a champ. (4:20) Sunday - Sleep…zzzzzzzzzz (4:20) Monday - Felt a little itchy at work..sneezing alot. By that evening..Full Blown Cold!!! Tuesday - Called in sick at 3AM ..TheraFLU apple-cinnimon made me survive the night. watched a few movies…dont remember what they were now. When deb came home watched Big Brother 2 on Replay..it was goooood..dukes were almost thrown. Deb had a Megarita (Her Own Design) both zonked out round 12pm.
Yesterday the usual CODE RED Scare warranted about 10 phone calls. Two of the people just had the SIRCAM virus. So i had them update Norton 2001 and sent them the fixer file. The Girls in the office have been hearing a clicking noise on the phone system. When the repair came out he thought the DSL modems and SONIWALL (sitting next to the switch) was causing the problem sooooooo.. i built a new shelf and but them there. I.T. ROCKS!!! Finished one more of the Casenotes.com conversions and posted it (6 more to go) Went to Docume Enterntainment to fix Dan’s ailing computer..AGAIN his PIII-600 was never the same after a lighting stike over a year ago. Well last week it gave up all together. But with only a 200 bucks a new machine was not to be had. ENTER ME!!!!! Fry’s had a special SHUTTLE SLot A Motherboard and AMD Athlon 1G for 149.00….just a warning: DONT BUY THIS!!!!! I havent been screwed by AMD or Fry’s in the past (never buy the stuff with the white return stickers on them) so i bought it blindly. To start with the board has a Fornt Side bus of 100mhz which means the Athlon can only run at 750Mhz..it’s even in the manual. (so why did frys put these 2 together?) We put in PC133 memory but with a FSB of 100..those didnt work. luckly i had some spare PC100′s so i put those in. After 5 hours i got it running..but now for the weirdest thing yet: I get a MSIEXEC.EXE error whenever i try to install a Microsoft Autorun Product (Office/Publisher..etc). Since i got most of his programs working. I left about 10pm to go home. I got an email this morning..that nothing else will install. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Today is a many splendored day. He he, Don Don and his bright ideas wants us to keep an online journal. Who the heck is gonna want to read it?
Anyway, I had an appointment with my shrink today. He doesn’t want to see me anymore because I’m too mellow, got no real issues, you know I’m boring. Man you have a couple of good weeks and your shrink dumps you! DO I HAVE TO BE STRESSED ALL THE TIME????!!??
Then I come to work, the phone’s ringing off the hook, everyone wants to talk to me, got zillions of emails, and one of them is the CODE RED VIRUS! Yep, Virus. Trying to warn my office, and our Corporate office, Don’s yahooing me on what to do to delete it, on the phone with a Rep, Muffi’s keeps running in telling me Charles needs some report or picture or God knows what for his meeting, yahoo keeps ringing cause Don’s curing my Virus …….. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH …………..
Oh yea, I’m totally cool, no anger management issues … I’m not exploding, oh no not me …….
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