Trials of the Mad Overlord

Cybernations

2008-11-23T19:08:25Z

Join Cybernations!

Cyber Nations, a nation simulation game

Cyberairlines

2008-11-15T14:24:51Z

http://www.cyberairlines.net/index.php

Trukz

2008-02-03T04:37:20Z

Just started playing; so therefore

YKDR!

2006-02-10T23:26:44Z

You know you're a Geek when you wander over to your girlfriend's pc, and she pauses it.

And you correctly identify the phenomenon freezeframed in the Episode of Star Trek:TNG she's watching. Without guessing.
And no, it wasnt a common one.

1st Day

2006-02-09T00:47:03Z

Well, today was my first day at the new job.

Liking it already.

People are friendly and laid back - as long as stuff is getting done on time - which i dont anticipate being an issue.

Oh, gagets. Wireless required - and provided. Tablet PC. 2 Boxen (diff OS).

Wanna know why i'm cranky?

DAMN CAT AND HIS VOMITORY BEHAVIOUR. CEASE AND DESIST BARFING; AND THEN BURYING IT. VOMIT != POO.

FINALLY

2006-01-31T00:06:03Z

Got a call this afternoon.

A job offer. The one i REALLY wanted.

Of course, I accept.

blah

2006-01-28T04:15:46Z

1. Something purple within 5 feet of you:
Cap to a jar

2. Now something green:
Plushie Cthulu

3. Your nails were last painted:
NEVAR!

4. The weirdest thing you've ever heated in the microwave?
AOL CDs

5. How much Japanese do you know?
More than most; but less than i'd like

6. Do you look good in yellow?
No

7. Do you sing?
Does growling count?

8. Ever danced in front of a crowd?
Moshing on stage, yes.

9. Do you ever spit?
Yes

10. Is your hair long enough to chew on?
yes

11. Least favourite colour?
Pink

12. Ever had Dippin' Dots?
No

13. Ever played an instrument?
Baritone, Piano, Xylaphone, Flute. Alto Sax, Guitar. Was only good at the Baritone

14. Ever had a H2O massage?
a demo

15. Do you believe in bigfoot?
Snow covered- Yeti!

16. Ever been to a palm reader?
no

17. Last Pez dispenser you purchased?
Not purchased, but a Yoda

18. What song is playing right now?
nothing

19. Did you have a good weekend?
No

20. What are you thinking about right now?
Sleep

21. Have you ever had a black eye?
Yes

22. How is today going for you?
Sucked

23. Any plans for tonight?
Sleep

24. Ever taken a picture of someone who was naked?
no

25 Do you find Smurfette sexy?
no

26. Current disappointment:
No job lined up for Feb

27. Do you have an air freshener in your car?
Yes, it's called opening the fscking windows

28. Do you have plants in your room?
I dont, but there are plants

29. If you could drink anything right this second what would it be?
a Gallon of hard lemonaid

30. Last piece of mail opened?
bills

31. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
feet, ankles, wrists, fingers, thumbs

32. What city was your last taxi cab ride in?
St. Paul; over 12 years ago.

Stuff Ive read

2006-01-22T18:15:41Z

Too lazy to bold from the list - so here's what i been done readin!

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Knowles, John - A Seperate Peace
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William - Othello
Steinbeck, John - of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Wright, Richard - Native Son

Amazing...

2005-12-29T03:23:13Z

Lets see.... 2 days before i am 'done'

Something comes up.

Extension offered. Since i have nothing lined up - though ive been interviewing; and have one tomorrow... i must accept.

Yay employment for another month... Wish they'd either make it permanent... getting really sick of wondering - 'Am I Hosed for next moth/week/day etc'

In other news.................

Present season over. Didnt do all that well; nor did i expect to. Gas card nice - especially considering Domo-Kun has major thirst issues.
Everything else pretty much giftcards. Useful. Used WurstBuy one for Azumanga DVD box set. Swapped my Broders one for full share of the Wurst.

.............

Bills mounting for Elf. Even with my employment for the next month settled - we're still gonna be hitup hard for medical stuff. The $400 i'm out already due to the asswipe thief that broke into a bunch of cars in my bldg's undergound parkinglot was needed for other things. Luckily, 'rents will assist on the glasses replacement (already bought) - need 'em for daytime driving yearround.

At least we dont need to cut services for the next month, other than Strinp 'Ision which should go regardless. /ramble

Car broken into

2005-12-20T13:36:04Z

Parked in my nice snug underground garage last night. Got down there a bit before 6am to go to work - find the car had been broken into, rummaged thru; and had my prescription sunglasses stolen, though nothing else was missing.

I'm pissed.

The garage is 'secured' supposedly... needless to say, Apartment management is going to get a stern talking to at 9am when they open.

For no better reason, than I CAN!

2005-12-06T01:23:59Z

I'm really sick of not knowing where i'm gonna be working come Jan 1st.

Though unlikely, i could be still where i'm at.

It does seem likely that i'll be doing (bleh) Contract work yet again. Problem is - i've ~$370 more in monthly expences now with Domo-Kun; and extra $$$ for insurance.

I despise HRDroids that dont consider those with 5+ years experience (yet without the mythical CompSci degree) unworthy of consideration for a simple Helpdesk/Desktop support position. Seriously. A Csci degree WILL NOT HELP YOU to diagnose peoples PC issues. Unless the position requires extensive network support - Desktop Support should NOT require A+ or MCSE. It's overkill.

That reminds me. As soon as i get enough $ and time to whip thru those certs; i should do so

A new Vehicle

2005-12-04T03:32:23Z

Old mazda dead and gone.

In it's Place....

DOMO-KUN
(aka 2003 Kia Sorento)

RIP Car

2005-11-22T00:21:55Z

Car is all but dead. Struts are shot, drive axle needs replacement. Tires need to be changed. It's leaking oil from multiple spots.

$2k to repair a 150,000 mi vehicle. It's just not worth it.

Is Close Out a hard term?

2005-10-29T12:15:31Z

Seriously - if i ask you to close out of applications - does that mean SHUT THE NUTTING PC DOWN?!?!?!?!

I cant remote into a pc that's off.

BAKA!

Bah Tagged MeMe

2005-10-21T23:15:55Z

10 years ago (1995)

Attending highschool, and generally being a pain in the ass to most people around me. Was in a very dark mood for most of the year, partly adolescent angst; part just plain METAL.

5 Years ago (2000)

Attending UofM Mpls. Got my first sysadmin/tech support job. Changed majors. Went to lots of concerts.

1 Year Ago

Stuck working contract work for (unnamed company) at a local Legacy carrier. Nothing much else of interest this year.

Tomorrow

WEEKEND. Sleep. Um, maybe errand?

5 Snacks i enjoy

Triscuit
M&M's
Crisp Apples (if its soggy or soft its GARBAGE)
DQ Blizzards
Home Made French Silk Pie (I make it)

5 Bands/Artists I know most of the lyrics to most of the songs

Metallica (Old Sk00l)
Emperor
Bathory
Beatles
Iron Maiden

5 things I would do with a $100,000,000

Pay off school loans
Get a nice house about 50miles from ANYONE ELSE
Load the house with tech toys
Get a decent car
Buy more real estate

5 Locations to run away to

Ireland
Scotland
Japan
Iceland
Antarctica

5 bad habits I have

Prone to Anger
Eating out
Looking on the dark side of things
Pr0n
Mild Road Rage

5 things I like doing

MUD
Video Games
Read
Sleep
Magic: The Gathering

5 things I will never wear

Anything PINK
Sandals
Wifebeaters
'Urban clothing'
Scarves

5 things i watch on TV

NFL Football
Animal Planet (random shows)
Local News
Anime

5 people I'd like to meet

I dont like people.
(DEAD people i'd like to HAVE met)

Socrates
Adm. Nelson (HAPPY TRAFALGAR DAY!)
Stalin
Buddha
Karl Doenitz

5 biggest joys at the moment

Maia
Potentially getting a FT Job
Enjoying current job
Free time
Sleeping in

5 favorite toys

Computer
Fidget things (pop caps, pens etc)
GBA:SP
Gamecube
PS2

No tagging peeps to do this. YKDRIHFF!

Scanning

2005-09-29T01:39:29Z

I hate doing inventory.

Especially a 2nd/3rd time.

Apparently - the database ATE all our old information conviniently - since it wasnt 'perfect'.

So we have to rescan everything.

Dumping the results into a .csv seems to me a hell of a lot simpler than going to a SQLDB for no real reason... but hey, thats why they dont pay me the big bucks to make additional work for people.

KISS should ALWAYS be used.

Relief

2005-09-10T04:28:52Z

Ok, so we're 'donating' some old equipment to refugees coming to MN.

Except most of them dont want to come this far north. Y'know, its COLD.

Ideally we'd give more equipment than what we are - but i'm not in control of it, and i'm sure there is work politics behind not giving more out.

Moving monitors from floor to tubs is annoying.

All moved etc

2005-09-09T02:51:11Z

All moved in.

took a 15min excersize bikeride this evening. felt good.

cleaned vaccuum. icky crap in it.

going to be offline this weekend

2005-08-19T20:49:34Z

Moving crap everywhere.

Cable gets hooked up newplace tomorrow.

Moving the cats tomorrow prolly

2005-08-17T02:15:34Z

We're probably going to start living at the new place tomorrow night. This means the cats must be moved.

Food too i suppose.

My wrist hurt like heck today. Had the brace on, didnt really help. Gonna use heating pad shortly tonight as i go slee.

No internet/cable at new place till next week. We'll have to do the bounce-between-apartment-at-least-once-a-day to check email etc. Bleh

We now have our new apartment!

2005-08-12T23:54:55Z

WOOTAGE!

Strange news

2005-08-12T10:47:14Z

Ok, Fox9 is playing some wierd kiddy cellphone ring as a 'We're BACK from commercial break'.

My brain isnt awake enough for strange tv 'music'... especially when my feet already hurt

SATA Drives

2005-08-10T23:33:14Z

Had a HD die at work. Bad boot record/sectors.

SATA drive.

We dont have any PC's capable of using more than one SATA drive, so we couldnt do the quick 'pop the dying drive in another pc and recover data'.

Sigh.

I need food.

Bad alarm

2005-08-10T10:53:37Z

I hate it when the alarm decides that it wasnt set.

We coulda wound up sleeping till past 8, but i luckily got woken up at 530 by a cat meow. Only 30mins late

Painful feet

2005-08-10T01:25:31Z

Ok, so i prolly have plantar fascitis. Most days my feet hurt constantly, just a dull ache usually. When i get up from sitting for a while, it acts up. Occasionally, my knees will hurt as well.

Today i backjammed my knee trying to bend over to scan a monitor for inventory, which shot pain all down my left leg.

Ouch.

Oh, and and update

Elf and I take possession of new apartment on friday. And i changed layout type things. For no apparent reason