November 2005 Archives

Liars really piss me off. The more I dwell on it the angrier I am getting I just can't stand it anymore. If I can come out and say what is on my mind then by god you can too. I have a good idea of what is going on I just don't want proof I want you to come out and say it. I deserve that much!

It has finally happened and I have retired Blackbox. It was a good server but dual PIII 450 is just not fast enough any longer and the raid array just wasn't big enough for our needs. I snapped this screenshot just before I downed it. The new server Filebox has a rough job ahead of it if it is going to live up to its predecessor.

In WoW news I just achieved Honored status with the Cenarion hold and here is a screenshot to show that. Still have a good ways to go to reach exhalted and not entirely sure what that will do for me anyhow. But it is something to do and I will get there eventually. The second picture there is me running with a buddy on my mage. He thought he would be funny and tame a boar and name it Evilpig. Also I finally got Wilpig up to level 60.

I haven't been doing a very good job of getting posts up lately maybe that will change soon. Been pretty busy lately and spending a good bit of time in WoW to take my mind off of a few things. My heat is working again and I got the first estimate on getting it replaced. Not sure where I am gonna get the $2826 they quoted me, I am hoping to get a second or third estimate later this week. In an ideal world this will be the end of my bad luck with just another month left hopefully the end to my year of bad luck.

I'm supposed to say something nice about having thanksgiving dinner with my family last night but I don't really know what to say other than we had dinner last night.

Ron and Fez aren't the my idea of the greatest radio but I do love the Samuel Jackson quote they use from Pulp Fiction in their show opening. Something about it just really gets me going when I am half asleep driving down the road.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Onto the good stuff. Sunday night I went back down to Nashville to pick Crystal up from the airport. I used the opportunity to go hang out with lissa for a bit and have dinner with Scott and Troy. I even got my crimpers back that I loaned to Ethan at Phreaknic. Not much really to say about the trip, I heard what all has been going on down there in my absence. Pamela is due any day now and Scott is really excited and informed me that I have been forbidden to purchase any toys for their child.

The Goblet of Fire was okay nothing to really rave about but it was a decent flick. I would probably go see it again if the circumstances were right.

I am still alive I haven't posted in a little bit but I do have a little to say. I did see the new Harry Potter movie on Saturday morning and I will talk about that, maybe tonight. Not much else to report on, still have no heat, had a trip to Nashville on Sunday. Life is a hectic mess right now.

I am truely lucky sometimes. I just about pulled out of this UBRS run that I wasn't going to get any loot on for ZG run with the guild. Glad I didn't because I just got this new sword. The first picture is me holding my new sword and the bottom one is showing one of the five different procs this thing has. Very neat indeed!

Long distance lines were restored last night about 11pm and then my cell phone started going off with missed messages about 3:30am, internet is still down. Not sure what is going on exactly as usual the local "news" was of no help just said the phones were down. :-P All my servers and such are still up and I can connect to anyone else inside the murray electric network just not out. I am really curious at what a tornado could hit that could take out all the phone / internet / cell service for this part of the state. During the downtime, I picked back up on X-Men II on the gamecube. That is all, return to your droll.

Here is my latest creation in the World of Warcraft, Tinypig.

In other news the past two nights I have slept through the night. I don't know what to say about that. I haven't done it in so long that I forgot just how nice it was to sleep. Ooo and I have to send out a thanks to my buddy Mike for sending me an MP3 of William Shater - Common People.

I have also been meaning to post about finally getting to see The Aristocrats but I haven't gotten around to it. Short version of the post is, go see this flick. I saw it with Chris the Sunday night that I got back from Phreaknic and they two of us were howling along with about 15 - 20 other people in the theater. It is definitely not a movie for anyone under 18 or with a normal sense of humor. Lucky for me I am about as twisted as they come and it was right up my alley. I will be getting it on DVD. I have been very lax on the posts here lately but I am fully intending on getting my house in order and getting back to it.

Not sure what is really bothering me right now. I am just really uneasy about getting to the airport in the morning. Something just doesn't feel right and I don't know what it is. The feeling will go away I assume. Gonna meet up with Podkayne and Nox for breakfast in the morning after I leave the airport then plan to visit with Nathe and Lissa for a few if time permits. Gotta get some sleep now need to be up and showered in 4 hours.

I really don't need to be taking long drives by myself for a few reasons. The first one is, it can be somewhat boring but the big reason comes down to I have too much time to think. I thought about this and that, there is alot going on in my screwed up mind. After about 4 hours or so Saturday I started sending out text messages and talked to a few people one of whom was Podkayne. Podkayne kept me entertained for a bit and then she said she would have gone to a boring wedding with me had I asked. Well darn of course it was too late now. I know she was just saying that to humor me but I appreciated the gesture. Umm the wedding was like a wedding, but now I despise Lutherans as much as Catholics. The whole call and response thing just really gets under my skin especially how people from outside that faith feel compelled to mimic the responses until some awkward silence comes up and that outsider throws in an extra whatever when the rest of them knew to keep their traps shut. If you are of one of these faiths and you have people from outside your religious circle in attendance you should offer them some type of call and response sheet. Like when you hear "blank" respond with the crowd with "please shut up and get on with it" or your religious touting here kind of thing. Other than that I was in a very crowded room with around 20 - 30 people I didn't know and I was feeling very confined and just wanted out of there. After the ceremony we all ate and the food was pretty good. Ate my fill and me and my dad left to go sleep for a bit before the reception. Ahhh the reception... these things stink! Okay now I know for all of this money is an option and stuff so that aside lets put a few things out there. If you are an organization that rents out space for people to have parties and such and you offer a "full bar" this "bar" should contain MORE than 12 bottles types of alcohol. My liquor cabinet here at the house is a more impressive setup than their "bar". I guess I am just really miffed because I wanted a maker's and coke and that lady looked at me like I was insane for making such a request of a bartender. I settled for a rum and coke, yes coke and NOT RC. Once again she looked at me like I was nuts for that too. Okay so an embarassing slide show of old pictures was shown to all the guests of the couple. The two of them were constantly hounded to be doing something or other to put on a show for those in attendance. The DJ, hrmmm... poor bastard doesn't know just how hokey he is. Okay so he had a few decent ideas with the projector and such, but come on man buy better equipment and learn to mix the levels right! For the love of god please destroy whatever you had that video of YMCA on as well. In fact destroy every copy of that song that you have in your collection and do the world a favor. Oh, well i'm rambling now and I should be getting to work instead of typing this. Anyway it was like any other wedding I was happy to get out when I did. One last thing though I picked this up on the way back from the wedding.

Added a new item to my wishlist today. Not sure how good it is but it looks pretty neat. I really would like to see a list of games that are supported by the LCD before I went out and bought one though. Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

Okay so I am back from the land of pig crap and corn. On the way back I noticed that my milage was down, down enough to the point I almost ran out of gas once. With just one trip like this done with the ethanol in the tank I can only surmise that the stuff stinks. But you can check the numbers I got here. If my milage is back up to normal this week then I will have to say that ethanol definitely lowers MPG.

I really should have been warned that the first smell I would have go across my nose would be that of pig crap. Oh well I made it to Cedar Rapids in 7 hours and 15 min. That was just a little over 550 miles and two fill ups on my truck. I was not impressed with the milage I got from the ethanol that was mixed in up here. The math says I did almost 76mph the whole trip. :)

Ugh. 553 miles is gonna be a very long drive. Tried to get someone to ride with me but no takers, such is my luck. Should be back Sunday at some point. My brother better appreciate this.

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