Blrg

It seems I've forgotten an important rule:
You can remind her of an ex (even a horrible one she always refers to as an asshole), but god forbid if she reminds you of any other female, ex or not.
It doesn't even matter that it's probably mostly fictional.

It's only been three months, and I've already got the key to her place... and the key to her heart. Is this normal?

Apparently I should feel ashamed because I left a light on.
Note, though, that it's one: I remembered to turn off the others, and I did lock the door on my way out.

I don't know what to think these days. I'm always tired, short tempered, and short on time. Taking off a work day didn't help a single bit either, though I didn't have it to myself (Normal, considering what yesterday was.). I'm starting to think I'd rather only the company of men.

So stressed these days.
At least I can take some comfort in knowing that my copy of 9Tail Fox has arrived...

Shibby shibby.
(What does that mean, anyway?)

Last night, a friend of mine and I were playing Unreal Tournament 2004 again. It had been a while since we had... and boy did I miss it. Just being in the game, waiting for him to connect, and looking at the intricate detail and amazing rendering... I miss it all. He remarked, later on when he had to go, that we had to do this more often.
Yes, we do.
Come play Invasion with us sometime, will you not?

That's the "highest" point on this post, though...
I was modding my DreamCast a day or so ago: I had ordered a transparent blue case for my DreamCast (looks pretty much like the original, but transparent blue) a week or so ago; When I got it, I disassembled the DC, and reassembled it within it's new case. At the same time, I took the opportuniy to do another mod for it: I unsoldered the power L.E.D. (orange) and replaced it with another one - a dual-color one (well, I soldered it in place to green, though it could've been red, but I don't like red).
I shouldn't have.
Seems I've fried the controller board - specifically whatever handles the controllers. Everything else in the DreamCast works just fine. The L.E.D. lights, the fan goes on. CD spins up, and the DC asks me for the date and time.
But I can't give it, because the controller has no power, no communication... I can't tell if this is due to permanent damage (honestly, I did a really bad job), or just from a "link" (short circuit) that shouldn't be there. Hopefully the latter, as I don't want to have to buy another DC just to fix this one... or something.

And Firefox is beginning to bother me. While I'm glad I can finally use the BlackJapan theme (BlackJapan theme for Thunderbird), it really irks me that it once again has decided to forget my address bar URLs. God damnit, STOP DOING THAT FIREFOX!
Another thing I've noticed is that it's got a severe memory leak, probably due to one of the extensions I have. As I write this, firefox.exe takes a whopping 129,104K of memory on it's own. My computer can handle it, but it doesn't stop me from being annoyed.

As much as I am willing to try relationships, I don't think I can handle them. Not with the way I currently am, anyhow.
She wants me to call every day. I can't even manage that... aren't I just pathetic?
I don't like subtleties either. I don't think we'll get along well, though she seems to think differently. Her language mannerisms (assuming that's the correct term for it) are annoying me, too. I've only once before thought that repeating things like that could bother me (Arkos, I'm looking at you.). I mean, I've read thing and spoken to people who would repeat certain expressions, and it has never bothered me so much before. Why, oh why, does it bother me to hear "I don't worry", now?! I wonder if it's because of the lying way she uses it.
*sigh*

My todo list isn't shrinking.

I'll mention first that the reason I wasn't replying to comments and wasn't checking my server e-mails was because I was forgetting to change my password (which is forced after it expires), and Thunderbird stops checking a certain e-mail account after a few failures. ...which means I forgot to do this for about a month. ;>_>

As for why I haven't been around, other than my job, there was the family reunion which occurred from approximately the 25th to the 30th. There's not much to say about it, because... well, it just proves how asocial I am. Any of those who were in doubt, you have your proof. I. Did. Nothing. And despite that, I forgot to take pictures of it anyway.

Speaking of my job, a few things I forgot to mention: It's casual dress, so I don't have to worry about getting dressed all fancy when going off somewhere in the middle of the night to type away at a keyboard. That, and the added bonus of being able to listen to music makes it that much more bearable... or humane.
It's just unfortunate that half my music is no good there, since soft music would put me to sleep amazingly well.
Quite unfortunate, since the Tilopa CD I bought (Kyotaku Live) is wonderful. No, I haven't received it yet - I only ordered it yesterday or before-yesterday - but you can download free copies of it (slighlty lower quality, naturally, but you still can). Also, since I bought a copy of the CD, I can give three copies of the full-quality music to others.
I unfortunately considered today as a statutory holiday. It isn't for me: It only applies if you don't work on Sunday, and it doesn't seem to apply with colleges.

As for college, I've been stuck with two courses again. I'm fairly certain I'm supposed to get more than that.
*sigh*

I've got everything, and I'm still not happy.

Xial, I need to talk to you.

So the ailment that affected my computer didn't last long. I'm still not entirely certain what caused it, but it seems that temporarily turning on the driver verifier did the trick - possibly because it slowed down the computer to a horrible crawl while it was on. Thankfully, things seem to be back to normal now. Thanks again to Flames Delvar for the suggestion of going to The Elder Geek's website.

Yesterday, I got bored and decided to play around with my sound editor. I popped in a song, cut it off at about 30 seconds (approximately right before the singing starts ;P), then started experimenting with it. I ended up cutting it down to 17 seconds, but it loops cleanly. The odd loop was then popped into a Flash file, to see what others had to say about it.

I've been a little too addicted to UT 2004 lately. It wouldn't be so bad if I could find more people I knew who want to play it, but just about every time I ask someone to play, they're busy, not in the mood, or otherwise won't play. Ah well.

I've been reading more Piers Anthony books lately. I thought I'd mentioned it, but apparently my last post was at the beginning of this month... guess I kept wanting to say something and never did. I finally borrowed the last book of the Adept series - Yes, it made it out - and read it. Pretty good, but at the end of the story, I could tell why it wouldn't be continued. He really screwed with that planet... I decided I wanted to read more of his books, though, especially since I had finished The Dastard, so I borrowed Currant Events, and Virtual Mode. One is of the Xanth series, and the other, the Mode series, which is supposed to be similar to the Adept series. I'll see how it is, soon.

I've been furiously trying to work on the shoutbox lately. I say furiously, because I can't concentrate on it. I was told I should probably have other projects to work on, but I'm not sure. I don't work much on this one as it is. I tried, instead, to work on the (X)HTML part of it, but that didn't help much; I found out that the Dojo Toolkit causes loading lag (Though I seemed to experience the most of it) no matter which way you use it; thus, I'm going to wait for it to mature before trying to use it... So much for fancy effects. At the same time, I still need to design the administration section anyway. I can't decide if I want to use cookies (*sigh*) or some form of dialog-based authentication (e.g. WWW-Authenticate or one of it's better "ancestors"). Meh... maybe I should roll it up into a beta version as soon as I can, and that way I'll get feedback. Or something.

I just used "lately" three times in a row on the opening sentences. My vocabulary is obviously not up to snuff.

Serendipity 0.9 was finally released. Naturally, I'm going to upgrade this blog to it, but I'm also going to try making a multi-blog host with it - should be an interesting experience. No ETAs on that, though. Also, I may swap phpBB for punBB, especially if it makes integration easier. I still want to integrate the users and groups of phpBB/punBB, gallery, and S9Y. Nobody seems to have done this, so far...
Oh. And I still need to redo the S9Y template so that it's XHTML valid (Assuming 0.9 doesn't fix that.).

I have no cash... I need job, me bum.