Just an Update

Kat’s still pregnant which is a good thing.  We heard the baby’s heartbeat yesterday which was very rapid but then again it’s supposed to be.  We’ve been stressing about it and to make matters worse we have a court date today and the attorney’s office has phones that are not working.  I don’t know if they packed up and closed down or what’s going on but it bothers me terribly.  The only thing we can do is hope everything’s alright.  Wish us luck.

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My How Things Have Changed

Well things are certainly different.  My writing is coming along excellently and we’re expanding the family.  Yes that’s right: Kat’s pregnant.  So that’s always a good things.  On a more downward note Microsoft has reinforced my undying disgust and general disappointment for them.  I have a copy of Vista Ultimate 64 and have all the right hardware to make it a killer system.  There’s just one problem: Vista doesn’t support my SATA controller so I can’t upgrade to Vista and use my nice fat SATA Terrabyte harddrive.  Not to mention I noticed something else in installing it on another computer: Windows Vista is not compatable with Windows Software namely the Zune program.  Which is stupid.  If a company makes two products wouldn’t it make sense that those two should work together?  Oh well.  Hopefully Windows 7 will be better.  They started work on it rather early I guess because Vista was such a letdown.  I’ll try to get my hands on a copy.  Wish me luck.

I Wonder

You know with all this talk I hear on the news about socializing heathcare and socializing the banks I decided to do a little research on it.  It seems the original ideas were to prevent anyone from being better than anyone else.  Not that bad of an idea if you ask me.  From what I read on Wikipedia it says that with capitalism wealth and power are shared by an elite few.  Definately true in America.  The country is still run by rich white people (for the most part) and the well educated (except for W who granted has an education but just doesn’t know how to use it) which leads me to wonder: They’ve already socialized the school systems (public schools) and what would happen if they socialized the colleges and university system.  Perhaps things would be more equal if everyone could go to college.  [On a side note I'm going to write the FCC about equalizing volumes on commercials.  We just had one for UFC and my ears are ringing now.  Anyone else wanna start a petition?]  I may be able to finally realize my dream of being a brain surgeon (Which according to my Psych teacher was the most satisfying job to the id, ego, and super ego which would put me in emotional bliss because not only would I feel good for helping people but I’d be satisfied in my sick twisted mind as being able to completely butcher someone as well as holding their life in my hands which is pretty cool.) which may or may not be the best job for me but if they did socialize the university system I would certainly go in to learn how to do something cool.  Okay I’d probably study anatomy and become a coroner or more likely take as many anatomy courses as possible and get good enough at it to teach an anatomy class myself.  Just wishful thinking.  I need to keep reminding myself that that will never happen.  The US’s stand on socialism is that it’s a bad thing so I guess no matter how much I think it’ll help.  Maybe I’ll write a letter to the president to suggest such a thing since he’s talking about socializing healthcare then maybe he’d be open to socializing the the education system completely.

Eight Days of Chaos

Things have been crazy the past eight days.  Last Monday (Februrary 23rd) I was in the girls closet trying to repair the leaks in the shower junction.  In order to heat the brass hot enough to solder it back together it broke the solder on one of the supply lines.  Yea.  Tuesday Chuck (my stepdad) came down and we bought the parts for to replace it.  Wednesday was a busy day.  We replaced the shower junction but before that I had a bad day.  At eleven in the morning my dad called saying he and Tracy (my stepmother.) were in town; good news right?  Wrong.  An hour and a half earlier my grandfather Jerry (my stepgrandfather or rather Tracy’s dad) had died.  I’ll admit that I was quite upset at the time but now that I think about it I’m just a little bit ticked that no one bothered to call me to tell me he was sick so I could be there too.  But anyway.  Thursday my dad spent a better portion of the day with me and we had lunch with Kat.  Not so bad.  Friday though was a pretty tough one.  We had the viewing Friday night.  Needless to say I was very depressed.  Saturday rolled around for the Funeral.  That was pretty bad.  Saturday night we put up three panels of our new fence which was good.  Yesterday (Sunday) we got snow which was a nice change except for the freezing cold part.  Then comes today when we get a whole new living room suite with our tax return money.  Don’t worry we still have pleanty of savings.  But that about sums it up.  Pretty chaotic week all the way around.  Hopefully now though I’ll be able to get some rest in a few days.  Oh also our DSL has been up and (mostly) down since Friday.  The tech guy arrived early this morning to fix it and it hasn’t gone down since (that I know of).

Black History Misinformation (or lies rather)

Nickelodeon has really pissed me off.  I’ve seen three black history segments that have sparked my ire.  The first one started off saying that a black man invented the peanut.  Sorry but the peanut is a naturally occurring plant the has been around for thousands of years before there were black or white people.  The second was that a black man invented water.  Sorry but water was around before there were living creatures on this planet.  It started when we were a burning rock hurtling though space at billion miles an hour and something cooled it down quickly.  Steam resulted from the temperature change and generated clouds which gave up rain which we now know is water.  Sorry but black people hadn’t been invented yet.  The other one was that a black man invented the light bulb.  At last check the light bulb was invented by Thomas A. Edison who was white to the point of pasty.  I swear that if I hear a black man invented the theory of relativity I’m going to kill someone.  I have nothing wrong with eather black people or black history but I do have a problem when they lie about their information.  The theory of relativity by the way was invented by Albert Einstein who was white. Incidentally one of my English teachers told me that I comes before E except after C and when I said Einstein wasn’t spelled that way she proceeded to tell me he was spelling it wrong.  Just some food for thought.

Burn Microsoft Burn

You know I despise Microsoft.  Unfortunately being a gamer guy I have to have it because there are some games that just don’t come out for consoles (Diablo, SimCity, the Myst games just to name a few) yeah SimCity was ported to the playstation many years ago but that was just one game.  Riven was too but once again it was a very long time ago.  Anyway, I digress.  What I was wanting to say was that Microsoft gave me another reason to hate them.  I’ve been trying for the past few weeks to download the new Windows 7 Beta and just have gotten it working a few hours ago.  Alright that’s great right?  My feedback may actually influence the company and cause them to create a good product.  Well not so fast.  The download was terminated at about 12:30 today.  That was pretty bad.  To make it worse I tried to redownload it and now you can get a product key and read the instructions and so forth and so on but the download has been removed from the server.  So that just tells me that Microsoft really doesn’t want the feedback it needs to produce a leading operating system.  98 was the best of the early bunch and they did about half as well with XP but they still have never gotten to that level of ease of use and convenience.  Not to mention 98 was small and stable (second edition anyway).  XP takes quite a bit of tinkering to get stable but does get there eventually.  Vista is large, clunky and I can’t seem to get it to do what I want it to do.  And I’ve only had the experience of installing software and setting up the network.  When you have to confirm three of four times that you do in fact want to install software then there is too much redundency built in and it becomes a problem.  Not to mention that all the processes used to run the enlarged kernel drags the best of processors to it’s knees but add to the fact that the visual graphics will make a 256 graphics card hardly function then you don’t have a winning combination.  Add in the extra times for reading the hard disk and optical drives (dvd’s for those who don’t know what an optical drive is.  It’s called an optical drive becauses it uses light to read and process data) and put those in a videogame that can’t load the graphics properly because the system can never install the video drivers properly because they haven’t been approved (because testing and certifying takes lots of time and money and then haveing to pay programmers to actually write the kernel well enough to actually use the drivers) then you severely limit the number of devices you can actually use on your system and add in the fact that the drivers become corrupted because the system keeps reading then rewriting them so they have to be reinstalled then you have a recipe for a total failure.  What Microsoft needs to do is redo the kernel to be smaller and more basic then add in some pretty but simple graphical effects and create a driver program that allows the kernel to be distributed to hardware creaters so they can develop the driver to the OS then you may have a pretty decent operating system.  But unless they cut costs then XP will remain the new 98 until something stable comes along that can actually be used and maintained by the amature computer user.  In the mean time I think I’ve figured out how to use VirtualBox to run XP well enough to play F.E.A.R. and Doom 3 on Linux.  Now I swear by Linux but it’s not without it’s problems too.  The newest driver for my graphics card is not entirely compatable for the kernel that Ubuntu 4.10 runs so I can’t even get my card to work long enough to get to the options to change it to failsafe mode but when it does work it’s stable enough to run for months on end with the only updating when it comes up with them.  It’s ideal for a server.  I’m still considering putting mine and Kat’s blogs on a home server so we could have our domain names back.  Just don’t go with who I had.  They sold it to a spam ad company before my service was up and even though I paid for it to be renewed they never did.  I’ll find out who it was and post them later on.  In the mean time I have to go.  I’ve ranted enough for one day.

I Hate People

Why is it that people will never mind their  own business?  We’ve had to get rid of our ducks and chickens because some bonehead decided to call county on us and appearently you have to have three acres to keep a chicken even though we are zoned as residential/agricultural but it’s ok to have a goat and a pig.  Explain that one.  Clayton county was atleast straight forward and said no animals besides dogs and cats where as Henry county says you can have them but only under special circumstances like having three acres during a hail storm on Feburary Twenty Ninth.  I’d love to get a goat just to aggrivate the neighbors.  If I knew how to make bacon from a pig I’d get a pig.  The chickens were a food source so the county has essentially told me that I can’t grow and raise my own food which is the greatest insult you could ever fling towards a chef.  I’ve been very close to pressing the matter in court which I may still do to find out who’s doing it.  I’ll keep you posted.  In the mean time I have to go stoke the fire which incidentally our fire wood is also considered yard rubbish so if they press the matter I will take it to court saying they the county is denying us the right to keep our children in a warm house so they won’t die of frostbite because our house has no insulation at all so it stays very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer.  Wish me luck.  Oh also the fact that it could be my wife’s ex-husband has crossed my mind but forcing us to get rid of the pets that his daughter loves so much and which incidentally broke her heart would officaially constitute a bad father.  But I digress.  Au Revior.

Bad Week

Well let’s see.  Monday was ok I guess.  Tuesday wasn’t that great.  Well Monday was spent with me putting the new serpentine belt back on my engine because it slipped off again.  Tuesday it died though.  Not sure what happend but it started sounding and smoking like a tractor trailer and died completely about three hundred yards from the house.  A nice man named Franklin Cochran stopped and towed me to the house.  Wednesday we went car shopping and Kat got one in her name for ten grand.  That was with 1000 down so our savings account is depleated to just over 60 dollars.  Thursday we found out the insurance is going to be about 200 dollars a month.  Friday we took 2.0 to the hospital with bloody poopie.  The doctors said it was a food dye which we figured was spaghetti-o’s once the second diaper came out orange.  The first one being blood red still doesn’t convince me even after they checked for hemoglobin.  Today we went to the zoo and that’s the first time anything’s worked out this week.  So it must be getting better.  I’ll keep you posted so if things get better or worse you’ll know.

Netflix Snafu

Pay close attention to the screenshot.  I looked up “My Bloody Valentine” on Netflix and came up with an intersting recommendation in the left hand pane.  Look under “Related Genres and Collections.”