So, I decided to change the look of the site again … Went a bit darker this time … I also saved the old format so if I ever want to go back to it, I can … I changed the fonts around too … If you feel like it, you could let me know what you think of it … Is it too small? Is it too dark? Is it just right? … How the heck would I know … I decided to give up on trying to make MSIE happy … It just does weird things that come so easy to Firefox … If you’re not using Firefox, you’re not seeing the WWW …
Day: March 17, 2006
Moping Around
So I was moping around about the doctor visit, and I was thinking about this coming Friday (today) … I’m traveling down to Columbia, MD for St. Patrick’s Day … Not the best thing I could think of doing for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not my decision … Octane is working at Nottingham’s … They wanted us to load in at 11:00am this morning, but that wasn’t going to happen … Two thirds of the crew have day jobs that prohibits this … The thought of sitting around and doing nothing after we load in besides the fact that it’s over a 2 hour drive just to get down there … Blah! Anyway, so I’m figuring that we won’t use what we normally use there …
I usually bring in my FOH board and run through their system … They’re not normally too happy about me taking up floor space, but there’s a nice cubby hole where I go that works well … I’m thinking that for St. Patrick’s Day and amatuer hour that I won’t be brining in a board that costs $7500 and a rack full of about $10Gs in gear not to mention sitting my $2000 laptop on top … So, instead of trying to fit a place for my laptop in a house system situation, I finally broke down and bought the iPod … I thought it might cheer me up having this thing to mess around with … It didn’t entirely … Money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness … Maybe I was concerned that I shouldn’t have spent that money on the iPod … They aren’t cheap you know … $399 plus tax … Then I got the case for it ($35) and a docking station ($99) … Makes it an expensive toy … The case is justified as I think you need to protect something that costs $399 and is that small … I’m sure it will earn its worth in the future …
So here I sit, just hours away before I have to get into it all … Not looking forward to it, but I am usually optimistic about these things … The situation usually warrants that it turns out to be a good one … Octane is a good band to work for in that they play music that I can get into … If I’m lucky, the music usually takes me away from the situation …
Lost
If anyone sees the traffic that my hosting gets, they will have noticed high usage on my T1 … I was lent LOST season 1 on DVD to watch … I had never seen LOST except for flipping around when something else I watched wasn’t on … So, nothing to watch one night, we pop in LOST and begin … I watched those 24 episodes in 2 days … So I’m hooked … There have been 15 episodes aired for the 2nd season already … What to do?
I was talking with someone who mentioned downloading TV shows that they’ve missed … I have no idea whether it is illegal or not, but I had no problems finding the 2nd season of LOST available for download in DivX format … This was my first experience with a BitTorrent client and using that form of transfer … I got something called Azureus and fired that up … Seemed quite easy, but I had to share my T1 for the period of time that it took to download … I then was able to catch up on the 2nd season and I’m ready for a new episode, but they have been reruns … I also downloaded Fedora Core 4 and Debian Sarge, but did that the old fashioned way, FTP …
Note to Feds: If it is illegal to download television shows, I’m sorry, but I was addicted to the show and had to see what happened next … I am not sharing the files I downloaded, only watched them to see what happened next and catch up so I don’t have to avoid the television on Wednesday nights …
Here we go again
While I was sitting at my desk watching these DivX files, I felt a lump in my chest … My wife was worried, so off I go to the doctor … I went Tuesday … I told her I saved up all of my ailments for her (heir doktor) … A cold that never seemed to go away, the things I feel in my body that you go to feel on the other side to see if it’s normal (like having it on the other side too makes it okay) … my lower back pain … chest pain … and the back of my neck revisited …I left there with 6 pieces of scribbled paper … and they took three tubes of my life blood …
Pre1.) a prescription for a pain killer for what she thinks is arthritis in my lower back; Pre2.) a request to X-ray my lower back; Pre3.) a mammogram (which I will be refering to as a man-o-gram); Pre4.) an ultrasound of my right abdomen area, there’s some weird things floating around in there; Pre5.) prescription for Nexium to see if that relieves the tightness and pain in my chest; Pre6.) a CT scan with contrast (like I had before) to check up those little nodules in the back of my neck and see how they’re doing …
I worry, but I take this in stride … My wife worries, but she doesn’t say much … She goes to the pharmacy to fill the pills, and the pain medicine is around $30 but the Nexium is $175 or something … No generic, but Prilosec (which I was presecribed years ago) is now over the counter … She called the doctor to see if this was okay, and they told her to stop by the office, that they had samples we could get … In the meantime my blood results came back, and I’m back on some cholesterol medication … I go this coming Wednesday for a day of poking and prodding fun …