It's a freaking gamecube, I'm sure places like gamestop are practically giving the things away.

I have about a year's worth of vacation time saved up.

NOOOOO!!!: Why? Why on earth would anyone put a water heater or any other water drainage pipes in the attic? Say hello to holes in the ceiling.
Actually not so much right now, but the AC drain pipes were leaking and soaking my bedroom ceiling. And dripping conveniently right by my bed. So very annoying.

It's almost stopped now, but it's never fun to deal with. It leaves my ceiling with brownish spots and some weird patterns. And now my ceiling sags. (Actually that's a result of the last incident, but I think it's worse now.)

UC: Now I really want to start more of my chemistry project, but I can't for another month. Boo.

PS: Nothing is better than relaxing and playing some COD

um. i can think of one.

Yep^

I can think of another.

WHAT TWO THINGS BETTER THAN COD THAT IS RIDICULOUS

ok it is not that ridiculous.

I am forever doomed to read COD as cod


UC: Having lost one's voice makes entertaining children slightly difficult

Let it be shown in the minutes that we agree there are several things better than COD.

Resolved: The glee cast should never be allowed near a sporting event. GTFO my all-star game...

Suggested for addition: Fox Sports should never be allowed near a sporting event.

PS: We had a great dinner with my public policy professor at the house this evening. I had a stressful day for various reasons, but once we sat down to dinner we all had a great time chatting with him (and his kids). Really interesting and awesome guy. He's the author of Naked Economics, if any of you have read that.

HR: Been congested for two days TWO DAYS and I already have a horribly painful, horribly familiar earache

smurfing earaches...I've had at least one every year of my life

It is 6:57am, there is no possibility of going back to sleep

Must wait for the doctor's office to open at 8 to make an appointment

I guess I'll go watch some horribly crappy television and try to forget that the right side of my face feels like it is being drilled and lit on fire

NNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG

VPS

I lost so hard

Epic.

HR: Also, the congestion that lead to the ear infection is making me sound like a raspy cartoon character

UC: Then lunch took forever, and the food was nasty

HR: Then I drove my car during torrential rain, right into a ditch - had to wait for a tow truck to get me out of the mud

Today has been the longest day

And it's only 5:12 pm! You know what thaaat meaaaans!

Aww that sucks. Feel better. Your car too.

HR: Also just found out that my financial aid for next year decreased because my brother isn't in college anymore


Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

PS I now have 27 channels!! This includes the "black guy in a baseball cap channel", the "crazy ol' gospel choir" channel, and the "spanish news anchor who is about 200x more busty than she should be" channel.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT HAS USA DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

IT MEANS I CAN WATCH BURN NOTICE GUYS

af: oh yeah back in durham and all that

While the premise seems pretty interesting, I have been incredibly underwhelmed by Burn Notice. In part because the acting sucks. In part because I know more about how to survive as a burned spy than the writers do, apparently. Or at least a hell of a lot more than they expect their audience to know.

Ok, I really wanted to hate that, but it was pretty funny. Kinda fell apart at the end though


I'm sorry everything is going FUBAR for you.


I love telemundo/univision

VPS: Just added 1.5 gigs of ram to my laptop. Switching between tabs no longer takes three minutes!

I really would like to up the RAM in my desktop sometime soon. 4 GB is enough, but my board can handle as much as 16! How awesome would that be?

Do you *need* 16 gigs?

I'm just surprised that a $45 ram module was enough to get my late 2007/early 2008 macbook back up to speed. Being able to run my 19" tv as an extra monitor is gonna be nice...

Yeah you really don't need more than 8 Gigs even if you're doing stuff like video editing and the like. But if you just *have* to have Crysis running alongside 20 different Firefox windows and a different instance of Winamp for each genre, then yeah man you should upgrade.

I don't know about the basic editing crap, but pro editing software eats sooo much RAM it's not funny.

EA (enjoyable activity): Night running...

Nah, not now. if I were upgrading I'd probably just bring it up to 8 gigs. I have four slots that'll support 4 gig DDR3, but each stick is like... $120 easily, whereas I am just running 2x2GB sticks I bought together for $45 (although looking up those same sticks, they're now $95. Certainly won't be buying anything until it goes on sale...).

The utility of a motherboard with that much capacity is that I can keep this computer completely modern for 6, 8, maybe 10 years pretty easily. It's a year old, and it still clocks better than any Core2 Quad. any i5, and most i7s, the socket architecture is still in continued use by AMD, and I still put it together for less than an equivalent computer sells for now.

Suck on that, Intel

PS: Woke up at 8:45 somehow

UC: ... should shower probably huh yeah

best friend's birthday yesterday, sister's birthday today, wedding on saturday. this week's gonna be brutally awesome.

Another solution for anyone thinking their computer is a little slow is to stop using Firefox. Seriously, guys, that browser eats system resources like none other.

As soon as Chrome lets me have a Daft Punk theme I will stop waffling.

Make one as an extension.

Like these?

PPS: After 5 minutes of clicking X's, Facebook has run out of page suggestions for me

...for now...

pretty much ready for the college football season to start...

PS: Will be helping my former teammate to pick out her first ever guitar when I get back to LA
AF: After sending her a hugely hugely long fb message about the guitars she showed me online she thought she liked and a bit of education about guitars, realizing I may be obsessed with guitars/enjoying the idea of having a guitar padawan far too much.

my AP stats teacher was a 5'1" wrestling coach..... I hate you.

the AP stats teacher at our high school got shot by her husband nine times and lived

also she kind of looked exactly like elton john.

THE MORE YOU KNOW

I'm not sure what to make of a high school teacher like that.


So it's guitars you're obsessed with, is it? I trust you'd be doing the exact same thing if your "guitar padawan" was male?

it's your duty to send that private msg

With anything else, your suspicion would be correct...but with this, it's the guitar aspect, definitely. You have no idea...plus, the fact that I haven't played guitar for two weeks, my longest drought since January during the run-up to LAUSD finals of my Deca year.
Is helping someone pick out a guitar and teaching them how to play something I would do for someone I was interested in that way? Certainly. But it's also something I'm doing for someone I'm not. Just cause I want to.
Besides, I'm giving guitar lessons to one of my exes. That's how much I love it. Because 1 she's an ex, 2 she's absolute crap at it.

one of my two favorite high school teachers. We knew she was awesome, but we didn't find out she was THAT awesome until after we graduated.

I should hope not.

My AP Stats teacher was a right-wing extremist who proposed that we nuke Iran in class on a regular basis.

Oh wait, so were most of my high school teachers.

^My Civil War class teacher would continually say "Just glass the place, turn it into a mirror. Then build a waterpark over it." He was still a cool dude though...

I don't understand why someone extremely right-wing would choose to be a high school teacher. Aren't they supposed to hate public schools and teachers' unions?