Pointless and happy about it.

I got a raise...I think [Work]
Posted on: 2008-07-15 23:16:37

Well, Punkboy is moving, so I get to take his job at work...a full time (as in pay and responsibility) position. Mostly, I think the only real change is going to be my shifts. Instead of working six short shifts and have a day off, I am getting two days off and working much longer shifts. For example, I clocked in today at 8:30am and left at 8:00pm. Now I am tired man. Sleep is probably in my future.
[ 6 comments ]

Nothing going on. [WoW] [Work]
Posted on: 2008-07-01 11:30:02

Sometimes with all the sites I check, I think I forget about my own site. I have some minor things I thought about posting, but nothing really worth a full post (because I use that justification when I don't feel like posting). I have been living the Work-WoW-Sleep routine for awhile now.

[ More - 1 comment ]

I made. [Misc]
Posted on: 2008-06-14 16:17:05

I ran into a problem recently, or, well, two: the xbox, which is currently residing in my desk area needs sound and my laptop is really quiet when playing movies. The simple solution (which I eventually went to): speakers! So I brought up some speakers from the basement, hooked them up with a splitter (bad idea), and got tons of dropoff in sound. I looked around for a simple solution, but couldn't find anything. The solutions I did find were either too expensive to justify not taking the five seconds to actually switch cables, or was just too convoluted to really bother with. I decided instead to do homebrew solution. It is bound to be cheaper, right? Well no, but at least now I have some tools for the next potential project. Anyways, the project:

[ More - 5 comments ]

The Underlining Church [Misc]
Posted on: 2008-06-03 15:42:17

There is this church. I don't know a lot about this church, except that it likes to underline most of the words in a sentance, promises money for payment (and not in the normal faith = fortune in the afterlife), and they have a Jesus rug. Now it is the Jesus rug I want to talk about today. But before I do that, I we will do disclaimer time. There is a point in the letter where they wax religious about not reading any farther blah blah blah. So yeah, click more if you don't care.

[ More - 4 comments ]

No more new toys. [Computer] [Misc] [Games]
Posted on: 2008-05-26 01:04:17

So, right as I was coming off of the high of getting a new monitor, which was going to be my big purchase of the year, an opportunity for an Xbox comes my way. A friend had purchased GTA4, only to find his xbox showing the three red rings of death when he got home to play it. Being an instant gratification kinda person, he bought himself a newer, better xbox and shelfed the broken one. I told him that I would give him enough gold in World of Warcraft to buy his epic flyer if he sent the broken xbox in for repair, got it fixed, and gave it to me. The xbox was passed to my possession about 12 hours ago. Of course, I bought a game (GTA4), a remote (because I really wanted it as a media center), and because of some power cable issues a cooler unit for the xbox.

[ More - 3 comments ]

Have you ever had a computer spit at you? [Computer]
Posted on: 2008-05-20 21:32:24

One of these things is not like the other.
One of these things is not the same.

[ More - 6 comments ]

Scan Cat [Images] [Misc]
Posted on: 2008-05-13 15:42:41

I have been developing all the rolls of film I have had laying around, and slowly scanning them into my computer. And since this post will knock off all the posts with pictures on the main page, I figured I would include one of the images I scanned (or at least a cropped version of it). This roll was taken around Erin's graduation in 2003.

Since my last post: I have voted, spent Saturday with both sets of parents, enjoyed my wife's chili (or my chili made by my wife...), played too much WoW, and really been getting my NetFlix on. I really don't have much to say other than that.
[ 1 comment ]

I would give it maybe a B+, but definetly not an A-. [Misc]
Posted on: 2008-05-08 01:35:59

Sunday was BBQ day. My boss at work has been going on about how he found an easy recipe for pulled pork BBQ. Sunday was my day to try it, and I will share my experience with you. This is a crock pot thing, which probably says all by itself that it is easy.

[ More - 3 comments ]

Two week review. [Computer]
Posted on: 2008-05-05 13:52:22

It has been a little over two weeks since I got my new monitor (Sceptre X20), and I have good and bad things to say about it. I got it about an hour after my last post, hooked it up, scanned for dead pixels, and started running videos and pictures to see the difference in contrast. I had no dead pixels, which was a relief, but I really was not impressed with the quality of the picture itself. That is to say, it was still good, but I had kind of been expecting to need a tissue (for the tears of course). A quick run to RadioShack to pick up a $100 Monster DVI cable that had been marked down to less that $10 (you know, how much it is probably worth) and I tried again. The difference was amazing. I had some trouble believing how much the picture improved...so I switched back to vga again, and then quickly back. I was convinced that vga was dead to me.

[ More - 5 comments ]

OUT FOR DELIVERY [Computer]
Posted on: 2008-04-15 10:33:51

Once upon a time, I was using a 17" KDS crt monitor, and aside from being only 17", it was a nice little monitor. I had picked it up at WalMart as a quick fix once my old one had died. It was going to be a rental while I ordered a new one, but I really liked the KDS monitor. So, I kept it, and I got years of use out of it. Sadly, a few months ago, it died.

[ More - 4 comments ]

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...29 > [Before the Move]