this sucks

well, i don't have my car. in fact, as it's lunchtime as i type this and i know that pizza was ordered, they have 3 hours to tear my car apart and then reassemble it.

ain't gonna happen. the only good news is they gave me a car, a 2006 white piece of shit, so i have the feeling that i get to keep it until they actually fix my car on monday. i have the feeling that whoever moved it put a note on the work order indicating that it was going to take more time than they wanted to put out today as they hadn't even looked at it by the time i got there. i called around 1030 (last time i knew by 10) to see if there was any news and there wasn't at that point, so i walked down there knowing that if they were going to give me a car from enterprise (i have issues with them - they think i owe them money for some reason, working on getting that resolved) it would have to happen before noon when they closed.

but i got a dealer white piece of shit, so for the moment i can transport myself around.

yay.

stoopit white piece of shit.

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mother fucker...

I

FUCKING

HATE

MY

FUCKING

WHITE

PIECE

OF

FUCKING

SHIT

i'm getting ready to leave work, put my car in gear, back out of my parking space and go to turn and something doesn't feel right. i pull off to the side and take a look to see if i have a flat tire or something.

nope.

i turn the steering wheel and i feel the wheels strain. i get out to see if something is visually broken, nope. i do a few slow circles and i can feel something binding. i put it in park and there is a very audible *thunk*.

so i figure out if i don't turn the wheels too far, i can drive in a straight line and wide curves w/o a problem (i hope). it feels like it does when i try and try in 4wd and go around a sharp corner, and if felt like i was in 4wd, but i have no way of turning it off. unfortunately, i know that i need to have the 4x4 control motor replaced ($420 for parts/labor) so i'm not worried that there's more wrong with it.

i drive over to the dealer and when i get there, the wheels continue to feel all fucked up, and if i try to do a sharp turn, it feels like it's binding even more. i talk to reggie, but he isn't able to help much. i call M, swearing a blue streak about this mess and decide that it's not safe so i head back and ask reggie if i can leave it.

the service department is open at 7am, but reggie informs me that i had better get there early if i want them to look at it, otherwise monday morning. fortunately, i can leave it so i limp it into the service dept, take stuff out (laptop, pull car key off of house keyring, etc) and it's now sitting there.

fortunatley, they were able to give me a ride home so here i am sitting with the fan blowing on me. it's fucking hot outside. but i managed a trip to the local wine shop to aquire some fermented fizzy juice.

so here i'm sitting w/o a fucking car.

AGAIN.

fucking white piece of fucking shit.

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shine on syd, shine on.

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hee hee hee

thank you U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch for having a brain and actually using it.

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wow

i don't think i've ever seen it played at close to proper speed.

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that was stupid

i thought the whole concept behind USB is that when you plugged a device in, Windows would recognize it, ask for a driver if needed and then it would be all happy.

well, apparently there is a bit of a loophole as i just discovered. some time ago, i bought an iRiver IFP-795 (512mb) for going to the gym. this morning, i am going to be good and actually GO to the gym, something i have been fairly lax about the last month or so.

so i grab my trusty little OGG player (because i prefer OGG to MP3, which this little device supports) and plug it into my laptop. only, i didn't use the USB port on the side, but the one in the back. XP in its infinite stupidity decided that this was a new device.

excuse me?

i've been using this for quite some time, however, i do seem to recall that i only ever used the side USB port, so while waiting for the iRiver support page to load, i swap ports. turns out that's all i needed to do, but it was mildly irritating to find that a device my laptop (and Windows) are more than happy to support, wouldn't.

i don't get it, esp as i've plugged in many devices into either port and never had a problem, including mice, my Rio Karma (FLAC support!), USB hubs, and even a USB xmas tree and i've NEVER had problems. this is the first time i've seen this so i'm finding it rather odd...

time to mix up some gatorade and get going...

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Soothing Sounds From Nature

(found on Best Week Ever)

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CRandall's three way fucktards

i saw this a while ago, but it's worth sharing. watch out for the moonshots...

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oh happy day

today was much like any other day at work UNTIL...CL came over and dropped a WONDERFUL piece of news.

NO MORE SKEEVIE!

*HAPPY DANCE HAPPY DANCE HAPPY DANCE*

and the best part, SHE'S MOVING OUT OF THE STATE!

WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

no more annoying voice.

no more having to deal with someone who is a thorn in the side of MANY people

no more stupid questions

no more having to fix her mistakes on the phone system!

oh happy happy...

i wonder if it would be appropriate for me to be there as she leaves on her last day.

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unfuckingbelievable...

fuck you cisco!

i've been "asked" to help install a vpn client on the CIO's Treo 700w, so i was given a link to anthaVPN. i managed to dload it only to discover that there is no way to dload it on the Treo itself, so i gave it back with instructions for him to dload it and use ActiveSync (which took him a multitude of attempts before succeeding) to get it installed on his Treo. he handed it back to me and i started following the instructions from anthaVPN only to have it not work as expected. i sent them an email and afterwards, wondered if cisco (fuck you!) had a native client we could use instead. (we use it on our VPN)

well, i start to navigate thru the maze that is cisco's (fuck you!) site only to discover that a) they don't have a client and b) to verify this i have to register for their site. ok, that's fine so i go thru the process and after a while (last night) i get the 'click here to confirm your registration' email. i complete my registration and in sets my frustration.

1. they decide i'm a guess, so i'm not worthy of getting even the most basic (in my mind) info
   
2. i have to continually log in, and each time, the log in doesn't take me to the page i'm wanting to goto, but some idiot page that say i'm logged in. if i press back and try again, it tells me i have to log in again. i find the page again, and i have to log in again.
   
3. i tried this using both firefox and IE, and both browsers exhibit the SAME BEHAVIOR.
   
4. i used to think that cisco (FUCK YOU!) was a good company, but if this is the business model they are using, this fucking sucks.
   
5. i never had a problem accessing basic things like the ability to dload the latest vpn client until now.
   

so needless to say, i'm pissed at them right now, and i'm hoping that DH has some sort of information i can use to up my 'dog poo on the cisco (FUCK YOU!) shoe' status to something more functional. but at the very least, as our company is a CUSTOMER USING THEIR PRODUCTS IN ALL OF OUR OFFICES, you'd think we'd be treated with a little more respect.

so i end this with my homage to cisco (FUCK YOU!)

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!!!!!!

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT FUCK THE EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE MOSQUITOS IS!!!!!!

jesusfuckingchrist...it's bad enuff we have to deal with them on our own, but if this isn't a good enuff reason for the city of athens to BAN CARS within city limits, then i have no fucking clue what is.

so thank you very fucking much athens, you greek skeeter breeders.

here's hoping the big one comes before LA breeds their own...

LEARN YOU SWIM YOU LA FUCKERS!

LEARN TO SWIM!!!!!

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not so good

picked this up at the supermarket and it's not so good. not crazy about the cereal and the fro-yo was rather bland and uninspired.

i like the wildberry stuff normally, but this just didn't work.

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ok, i'm starting to get it now, but it's still hard as hell to know how to react to various situations, but fortunately, those tend to be few and far between.

all is better now.

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i don't get it

i thought that i, like everyone else in this world (at least those who live under the umbrella of human rights), had the right to be bored.

i also thought i had the right to be restless.

and finally, i thought i had the right to become frustrated.

i guess not.

now that is genuinely frustrating. so if you are going to get mad at me because i am frustrated, please let me know.

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blog blog blog...

it's been a few days, not overly eventful for me, but enuff that i spose i should catch things up.

monday night around 740, we lost power. in town. and neighboring town. i was washing a cover for my new ikea comforter when the lights in my bathroom went out (yes, by hand) and damned if 10 mins later (after alerting K&L) the pager went off. turns out, the timing of the problem was conincidental, but i called facilities just to make sure. (all was well, and it was an unrelated issue i was able to resolve later) power was restored 70 mins later, and there was no mention of it in the weekly paper that arrived today. chatted w/K for a few mins and we were glad that it was at least cool (yet muggy) when we lost power so it wasn't going to be a killer if we didn't get power back.

yesterday i felt like shit when i got home, and i think i managed to get something at the salad bar yesterday that didn't agree with me as i was fine in the morning, but as the afternoon wore on, i started feeling less well and by the time i got home, i was pretty much non-functional. i called M to postpone dinner, but she came over anyways. by the time she got here, i had managed to mix up a banana drink (banana + milk + ice + blender) that seemed to help settle things, so i was feeling better.

DH & i went up to visit our network helper/consultant to go over some impending upgrades to the network. reasonably productive meeting and a few interesting ideas came out as to how to handle the plethora (how's that for a word?) of wireless laptops we have that are fucking up our IP range. we'll see what happens, and we'll be talking on wednesday to go over some of the plans.

otherwise, work has been fairly quiet the last few days which can be viewed as good or bad. DH is off until after the 4th, so i get to hold the server fort down. rebuilt a server that was being uncooperative (it's nice to be able to say fuck you server and then nuke it. good thing it wasn't in production yet.)

work is work. i could bitch about the weather which has sucked of late, or how much it cost me to fix my morceau blanc de merde (way too fucking much). i thought about it, but fuck it. i need to think about going to bed.

night all.

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