Helloooo December :)

Geeze, it's December! I can't believe it. Considering everything that's happened this year I have to say that it has gone by rather quickly. But also considering how much has happened, I'm really curious/slightly afraid to see what this month brings. I have my thoughts and hopes, and then I have the possbility of reality, so we'll see which wins this time. I hope the year ends better than the predicted track record for it so far is showing, but we'll see. What'd I do today? Got up, showered, ate Frosted Cheerios, went out to Barnes & Noble, came home, put up Christmas Decorations (some), chatted with people, played FFXI, ate some dinner, chatted more, watched TV, attempted to do hw which didnt get done.. and now I'm typing this. Fun huh? :) That's about it; work at 7, yay! I might actually get a decent night's sleep tonight though, woohoo. I need to suck up extra hours during the week to get out early Saturday too :) Oh by the way, I shaved today, lol. That makes AN ENTIRE MONTH! And yes, I do have to shave above my lip every week or so, when I talk about this I'm referring to the rest of my face ;) I'm sure you all needed to know this. HAPPY DECEMBER! "Noooooo!!!!!!" - Sam, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hello I am Microsoft Sam

Did you know? The same location used to build the set of Minas Tirith for Return of the King was the location used to build Helm's Deep Haha, you guys HAVE to read this interview with gollum. Here's an excerpt:

How else should The Lord of the Rings end, I ask, with some trepidation. "Gollum and Arwen, of course. She falls in love with us, yes, they buy farm in Gondor, raise little elf Gollums, yes, yes, she bears us many little Gollums, runs across the plains of Gondor in flowing elf dress, yes, yes, yesss.'

Great stuff. Speaking of Lord of the Rings, everyone needs to Look at this picture. Warning: it contains a HUGE SPOILER for the movie. Why should you look at it then? Because I guarantee you that unless you know what you're looking for YOU WILL NOT NOTICE IT. People who have read the book, you know :) For everyone else, bookmark or save that pic, and look at it in 3 weeks. You'll know right away :) Oh and please, no one post any spoilers in the talkbacks. A lot of people have made it 3 years without knowning the ending, keep it that way, please? So what'd I do today? Got up at 11 like I figured, and ate some food, chatted a bit, and then went off to work. Work was alright.. someone called out in my department so after 5 I was by myself and only got to take a quick lunch of Vito's, and a cashier called out so someone else was made to stay. The night was alright; I had to take down the old ad, put the new one up, and then also help customers. It was a normal hectic night for me. The fun began after we closed. I was thinking of how to make the closing announcement funny, so I thought that I could use Microsoft Sam to do it. Microsoft Sam is in a Speech program in the Control Panel on Windows XP. Basically you can type in text and have it say it; it's supposed to test out for Accessibility for impaired people. If you don't have it installed go get your Windows XP cd and check your installed accessibility stuff. Anyway, I typed in the closing announcement and made it talk. My boss heard it, and goes "oh my god. can you make it say anything?" and im like yes, so he goes and grabs the portable phone and types in something and puts it on the loudspeaker, and well.. for the next half hour these guys came up with the must vulgar, hilarious stuff and played it over the intercom for kicks, and even called someone and played one for them. oh man, great times, with people I enjoy working with :) Only 3 employees left and one manager there, it was good. Sorry, had to take a break to eat my Rama noodles. Anyway, after work I went over to AMC really quick to grab another movie ticket for Screen 13 for RotK, just incase I need it for certain reasons :) And you know it's gonna sell out and there's gonna be like 8 screens playing it at midnight. Aah, good times. We should dress up at something :) Well, that's all I have for tonight. Oh, on the list of games I have installed, chalk up Diablo 2/Lord of Destruction. I need to go play the Frozen Throne I think.. "You.. Shall Not.. Pass!!!" - Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Gonna make this quick

I'm gonna make this quick (well, as quick as possible for me, who likes to drag things out that I type). It's like 3am and I still haven't gotten to bed; no wonder I can't wake myself up till 11, lol. For the past 5 hours I've been chatting with people, surfing the web reading news, and posting/reading game forums. It was a good night though actually, so that tells you more about me, heh. I wonder how many people actually find the stuff I like to do as good and interesting, and not idiotic and childish and a huge turnoff. Not very many, I bet :( Well, thats pretty much it. All I did today was wake up, shower, eat, clean my desk, and then go to work.. then the chatting as I mentioned above. Black Friday (the aftermath) wasn't too bad, although people can't understand the idea of "early bird specials" and "we are out, sir". And I get to go back tomorrow, yay. 1-10 again :/ I hope someone comes and visits. Luckily I'm off Sunday, not that I have any clue what I'm gonna do. Maybe play FFXI, or WC3, or somethin :) That's all, goodnight! "I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel thin... sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread." Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Zelda compilation disc!

Woohoo! This is what I like to see:

Congratulations! By registering your system and your games via Nintendo's online product registration, you have qualified to receive the following: LEGEND OF ZELDA: COLLECTORS GAME DISC It will be shipped to you via First Class Mail. Please allow up to 2 weeks for processing and shipping.

For those of you who have no idea what that is; all Gamecube's are now coming with a Zelda collector's disc. It contains Zelda I and Zelda II from NES, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Zelda: Majora's Mask. When you buy a Gamecube it's in the package free. BUT, for those of us who already have Gamecubes, you just have to register your Gamecube and two of Nintendo's holiday games (Mario & Luigi for GBA, Mario Kart, 1080 Avalanche, Mario Party for GC) on their website, and they mail it to you for free. Cool huh? :) Oh, and check this out: Paper Nintendo Dolls. Haha, I'm going to have to print those out at work and make them. Speaking of work, off I go, what fun!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you know? Men were created to be mortal Elves. Dwarves were created out of the earth. Orcs were once Elves who became twisted and mutated by Sauron. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you guys had a more eventful day than I did. what did I do today? Slept, got up, showered, played Mario Kart, ate food/conversed with the little amount of relatives that came over, chatted on the pc, watched xmen2, fell asleep, chatted with people again, and here I am. What a day. And I get to work tomorrow 1-10 and Saturday 1-10 too. Be nice if someone comes to visit, especially since all of you people are back from college for the weekend :) Btw, XMen2 is still a friggin great movie. For those of you going Black Friday shopping, I wish you the best of luck. The only thing that interests me (besides the HDTV's that I have no money for), is a 256MB SD card for $49.99. Egads I wish I had money! But I spent it all yesterday, doh :( I see a nice DVD rack at Office Max too that might have to end up being a Christmas gift, have to see. I can't wait to deal with people at work tomorrow though, especially those wanting a price match. I should bring my ads from home just in case. For those of you thinking about getting a Gamecube - get it. There are some good games on it (I'll run down a list for anyone interested), and even games like Mario Kart can be played online now, yay :) It's actually meant to do only LAN play, but if you download a homebrewed program called Warp Pipe it'll let you play online. Cool huh? I want to beat someone in it :) Btw, I have Half-Life, TFC, and Counterstrike installed again, and I'm using Steam.. my email Steam is under is dday64@optonline.net if you want to add me to your friends list. I should download DoD while I'm at it, eh? Hah, I was just shown two pretty funny flash files. One is a Chip N' Dale MMORPG, another is Pong: Not Just a Game. Check them out ;) Hey, check this out - I found this info on CNN.com where they were talkin about some guy from NJ who died of Meningitis - Symptoms of meningitis usually appear within four days and can include fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, a stiff neck, rash, confusion, sleepiness and discomfort while looking into bright light. Gee, that sure sounds like what I had when I was sick. Fever: yes. Headache: yes. Nausea: a little. Vomiting: no, but I made sure I didnt a few times. Stiff neck: absolutely. Rash: no. Confusion: always. Sleepiness: yes. Discomfort looking into light: absolutely, I had a few migraines from the light, and I couldn't look at my PC. Frankly I'm amazed my spinal tap came back negative after that, I wonder what I had then. Ya know, someone mentioned to me again today (I hear this very rarely, but I think it often) that it looks like I could be a writer. I really think I need to make some time and just sit and think and try to figure out something I could write about. I think if I had an idea I'd be doing pretty well... maybe during my winter break in 3 weeks I'll have time. I still feel stressed from school for some reason even though I have basically everything done, and my room is messy again, arg :( Plus I'm tryin to work on my website and maybe get it the way I want, we'll see. Well I should be getting to bed. I just realized I forgot a quote last night. Guess that definitely shows I wasn't in a good mood huh? "Smeeaagool.. why does it cry Smeagol?" - Gollum to, well, Gollum, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Duct-taping my mouth shut

Did you know? Gollum was once a hobbit; one of the 'river-folk'; hobbits who are not afraid of the water. So I've decided that I'm going to keep my mouth shut about certain issues. No, not about Randy and Brittany, about other things. I say some things as mean cruel jokes against myself and it happens? What is that about? And what do I mean? Well, all will come to light eventually maybe.. and if not, well then there's no need to talk up a storm now. And I like to keep my livejournal as neutral as possible to everyone reading, if you haven't noticed :) So today I had work.. I got to count all the ink in the friggin store again, go me. Cycle counts are awful. I'm basically in control of checking for a certain set of products each day and making sure the count is right with the inventory, and if not trying to find the stuff and adjust it. It's a pain in the ass, and it makes me afraid of my boss when I have to show her bad things that neither I - nor anyone else - can find. That took up the majority of the day; then I filled ink, and brought out TURBOTAX! and then went home. I chatted with some people, ate dinner, went to class and took a linux test (2 more classes, woohoo!), then came home and proceeded to have an.. interesting evening.. Oh, and I think my poor vtech phone is dying :( It's 3 1/2 years old, the battery doesnt seem to want to hold a charge more than 2 hours now.. time to get a new one. Well that's really it; tomorrow shall prove to be an eventful day I'm sure. Hopefully I'll discover the cause of my.. issues.. Oh and if you guys are having problems accessing my website it's because its moving servers. It'll be good again in a day or two, and I'm happy about this switch :) Oh, word flew through the grapevine this evening that a sophomore at Steinert hung himself today. That is not a good thing, for him, his family, and definitely for the Steinert community. This is two deaths that have rocked the school since September; not a good way to start off the year. "I know a Baggins, Frodo Baggins!" - Pippin, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Become who you were born to be!

I've decided to add a Lord of the Rings factoid at the top of each post until the movie starts, also. These facts won't divulge any info in Return of the King (although I read the books so I know what happens). They will only be things that are general knowledge for anyone to know, and include things up to the end of the Two Towers. If you haven't seen both of the LOTR movies that are out yet, well, thats not my fault: Did you know? Galadriel is Arwen's grandmother, and Elrond's mother-in-law? AAAAAH RETURN OF THE KING ARRR! ME WANT TO SEE NOW!!!!! Sorry, I'm just hyped like no other. Had to get that out of my system :) While that is the movie I'm looking forward to the most, there are others I want to see soon. (And I'm putting all of these onto my usb memory to bring into work to show. You know how many people look at the $700 LCD monitors and comment on how nice they look when it's running a Return of the King preview? Oooh yea ;)). Anyway, those movies are: Bad Santa (starring Billy Bob Thorton), Big Fish (Starring Ewan McGregor), The Day After Tomorrow, Envy (Starring Jack Black & Ben Stiller), Peter Pan, Shrek 2, Something's Gotta Give (Starring Jack Nicholson), The Incredibles, and Timeline. So I think I'm going to post in pieces today, and just update it till I go to bed. So far I've gotten up, talked to some people online (figures I'm not hangin out with the person I wanted to today, arg), read a book, downloaded movie previews, and stuff. Now I'm doing this, going to play some games soon. First off - I've downloaded TorrentStorm, which is excellent for downloading multiple torrents. I had to switch my cable modem with a newer one in the house though, as apparently mine kept crashing when it was faced with a lot of bandwidth. It's almost 5 years old, so I guess it's allowed to. One thing though - I have to download on my laptop. If I try downloading torrents on my desktop it starts to lock up until I cancel out the program. Why? I have no idea, I hope someone can help me. Oh, and Flash/USB/Keychain/Portable/whatever the heck you want to call it memory is AMAZING. I own two now (a Sandisk 128MB USB 2.0 one and a Lexar 512MB USB 1.1 one), and they are just the best things ever invented. What are they? They are little tiny devices (that can fit on a keychain) that plug into a USB port on a PC and act as another drive basically. You can drag files to it, and then unplug and go plug into another USB drive on another PC. It works best with Windows XP, as it's all Plug-and-Play. On older machines you might need drivers, but it still works. Cool huh? :) This is fast replacing floppy disks, and with good reason. They range from $25 on sale to over $100, but its well worth it, trust me. They've been around 6-8 months, and the industry is just exploding. Time to go be productive. Update later. The later update: So I went to play FFXI, played for an hour or so, and then fell asleep for an hour and a half, ouch. Then I had dinner, and I had my Progresso Balsamic Vinegar for the first time my mom was around, and she tastes it and shes like "you know, this is just like wine right?" hah. All I know is that its extremely potent stuff. Anyway, so after that I started to watch the Simpsons, both of which were good tonight.. Malcom was good as always, and then off went the TV. And I played more FFXI, and I'm talkin to people, what a day. I should work on my website, or just relax and read and play games.. its nice to be caught up on things. Just have to worry about my finances, lol. I want to buy the ROTK soundtrack, XMen2, Bruce Almighty, and Mario Kart this week, yay. So I got this email from Cingular, since the Wireless Number Portability thing started today: Puerto Rico

Saturday night at the Red Death.. ooh oo o oo oooooo

sorry,I just get all song and dance when I think about how I spend my Saturday nights at WORK! Ah well, it wasn't too bad, busier than normal on a Saturday night, of course its comin to holiday season. I hope my bosses realize that and schedule MORE THAN ONE PERSON PER DEPARTMENT UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS! Well, work is really all I did today besides clean up my room a bit when I woke up. I took some decongestant pills last night that knocked me on my ass till noon today, and I had work at 1. Blah. So that's really it. Tomorrow I get to actually lounge and relax. I do hope I get to hang out with someone though, and I have a certain person in mind.. we'll see. Btw, I learned that 3 or 4 other people at work have to go to Gastroentiologists also, so I'm not alone. We think it might be a Staples thing ;) class action lawsuit time! Oh, I have a poll for those of you who play games.. What will come out first? Team Fortress 2, Duke Nukem Forever, or World of Warcraft? Or will King George II be crowned Hegemon before any of those happen? Come come, vote :) Oh by the way, I tried that mixing the vinegar thing.. not too bad, kinda potent though. For anyone who's interested, I like Cracker Barrel vinegar (which is Malt Vinegar), Ruby Tuesday Vinegar (which is Heinz "Gourmet Salad Dressing"), and Progresso Balsmaic Vinegar (the most potent crap I've ever tasted; it burns my tongue its so strong) the best ;) And starting today, up until I'm too busy at my midnight RotK showing in 3 weeks to post, I'm going to put a quote up each day, enjoy :) "May death find you quickly if you bring them to harm." - Faramir to Gollum, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition

Some have ups, some have downs

So today has been a day of good things and bad things. For instance, it was a normal good day at work; nothin went horribly wrong, it was a little crazy like usual, but overall it went smoothly. Then I came home and relaxed, played some Mario & Luigi (good game!), went out to Ruby Tuesday with the family for dinner, came home, relaxed and chatted and played games.. thats how things should be when I'm off :) I just need to straighten my room, grr. And I'm gettin rid of the ROTK tickets as well as I had hoped, yay. It's gonna be fun. Now on the reverse side, I learned that one of my friends from high school, who used to compete with me for GPAs and whatnot, failed out of his college, and failed out of a community college after. I don't know what's happened to him, but that's definitely unlike him, and not good. Also, someone else I know from high school, and work with now, had his father pass away this morning from cancer. For any locals that read this, I'm talking about Mike Faiola, so anyone that knows him might want to express their sympathy; that kind of thing really sucks. As for my own father issues.. haven't heard from him in almost a year; he's still alive, I know that, but, blah. Is it even worth sending him something for Christmas? I guess so, to show that at least I still care to have a line of communication.. Welp, that's all for tonight. Go play with www.terraserver.com. I work 1-10 tomorrow, what fun! Off to bed. Grrr.. you know, I really did post a LJ last night.. apparently the server was acting up and it never made it. I don't even remember what I was talking about now.. except that RETURN OF THE KING TICKETS ARE ON SALE, and that I got Mario & Luigi, and I'm doin better and all caught up on school stuff, and the kitties page is updated: www.jglonek.net/kittens/kittens.htm

What is this?!

K, here's the picture of what was Burger King on Rt 33.. what the heck is it turning into? Any ideas? What kind of restaurant (I'd assume that's what it still is) looks like this?

What a day

I start wondering why my Semagic program to type of LJ things isn't in my lower right by the clock, and then I remember that my POWER WENT OUT THREE TIMES EARLY THIS MORNING, WAKING ME UP EACH TIME! ARG! So I woke up this morning at 8:10, managed to get out of the door after showering by 8:30 with my mom, and I drove her to St. Francis for her cortozone shot in her back. Despite taking 4 hours instead of the one it was supposed to, everything seemed to go well. No telling how much the shot is going to do, but hopefully it's something, as my mom has been having really bad back and neck pains the past few months. And during the time I spent in the waiting room playing GBA/reading/using my Zodiac I got to watch this funny old nun talk to people; she was nice, just a bit.. off :) And of all places to run into someone I know, Kelly Cary was there in the waiting room. She did a triple take when she saw me, which was amusing, but she didn't seem to be in the mood to really talk besides saying hi. Her and the people she was with were in another sectioned off part of the waiting room, well, waiting. From what I gathered from chit chat going around between the Nun and them and others I think it might've had to do with some major surgery with Greg, but I'm not sure.. anyone who really talks to her should ask and see what was going on to make sure everything's okay; I don't have her screenname. So after that at 1 my mom and I got out of St. Francis and went to Pizza Hut for their lunch buffet. $5.95 for all you can eat salad, pizza, and breadsticks sure is a good deal. Mmm.. Then at 2 we went and took the kittens to the vet to get their second dystemper shot, and they did well. Have to bring them back on or around December 17th (yay!!!) for their third shot, then in February or March they need to get neutered/declawed/rabies shot. Fun fun. After bringing the cats back I got to relax for an hour, and then we went off to Robert Wood Johnson to get my ctscans done. That went fairly fast; and it only took 10 minutes tops once I got in to have two scans done, one of my head and one of my sinuses. I should have the results in two days or so; I hope nothing is wrong. After that I managed to relax a bit, get some of my homework caught up and clean my room, then went to my linux class which is just awful. We're doing command line in linux, and not really anything important either. Copying? Making directories? Editing? Good lord, that's not linux! Luckily there's only 3 more classes left.. of course he does this really annoying thing where he TAKES OVER THE MONITORS with a switchbox, so I can't do crap. Luckily I had my Zodiac. After that I got some milk at Acme since we were out of it, and then came home, where I've been lounging and cleaning ever since. So I was digging today and found my 128MB Secure Digital card that I swore I had sold with my Tungsten T! I'm so happy I found it, that's $70 or so I can save. Of course, the card seems to be busted, but Lexar is issuing me a replacement - aren't they sweet? Speaking of that whole Tungsten T Fiasco, PayPal still wants the money for it back, and I'm going to have to pay them I think. A quick summary - I sold my Tungsten T to someone overseas, which isn't covered in PayPal's seller protection policy, and the person used someone's account and credit card to pay for it, and PayPal has decided I owe the money back, making me out of my Palm AND the money I got for it. Isn't that sweet? I've been trying to deal with it for months, but I got a collection notice in the mail today so I better pay it. They're cutting it down to $380, but still. Just one more bill to put on top of the others.. So I was bored on my way to class tonight right, so I decided to give Cingular a call to see why my cell phone service went from crappy to spectacular to craptacular. What do I mean? When I first switched to GSM in July I had no service at my house or at Mercer, and 2-3 bars everywhere else in the area (but full service in Oxford Valley Mall in PA and Palisades Center in NY, go figure). Last month all of a sudden service became great - 3 bars at my house almost all the time, full service around Staples and towards Rt 1, 4-5 bars at Mercer. It was amazing. And then all of a sudden last week I'm back to crap again. Cingular's response? "We had a tower down in your area so we struck up a temporary roaming agreement with one of our competitor's and your cell phone picked up on that tower as it was closer". Gee, thanks. I hope they get a tower up soon to fix this, because I have a feeling I know who that 'competitor' was - TMobile. And I will switch to them in a heartbeat. Why? They get the newest phones, they understand customers and what they want - $24.99 for unlimited data transfer! At Cingular its $24.99 for 10MB! wtf is that!? Also their customer support can help do stuff like SET UP PDA'S TO WORK WITH THE PHONE, instead of insisting that your phone does not have bluetooth and they can't help you even though it most definitely does, like Cingular did with me. Blah. Thank god for number portability which is going into effect in a week. Speaking of that, did you know you can transfer your landline phone # to a cell phone, and vice versa? Cute. So I came up with this great idea. Those of you who actually know me know me know that I'm a huge vinegar nut with my salads. Vinegar (no oil!!), lettuce, bacon, cheese, croutons, mm.. And I like all different kinds, and can tell you what restaurants have which and where is good. Red Wine, Gourmet Salad Dressing, Malt Vinegar, Apple Cidar, Balsamic Vinegar, etc. My thoughts were, what if I mixed up all of them and saw what came out? I definitely am going to try this :) My only concern is that I might up the acidity level to something intolerable, but it should be interesting nonetheless :) Well I probably should get to bed, tomorrow being Tuesday and a work day and all. I have class afterwards too, what fun. I need to continue to work on my hw, get my room & finances straight and stuff. Remind me to watch Double Jeopardy so I can send it back to Netflix, and remind me to post Kitten pictures of Leto attacking my printer, and remind me to look at my Palm for the other 10 things I need to do. I'm going to get a picture of that stinking Burger King tomorrow to show you guys and help me figure out what it is. And I need to buy Mario & Luigi and Two Towers Extended Edition. Best Buy on my lunch hour here I come! Ya know.. I look at my writings, and what I can do for school and stuff, and I start thinking that I really should attempt to write something again.. I just need an idea, but I bet I could right a story.. hmm..

Catching up, Yay!

Well, today has been a slightly better day than yesterday. I am feeling better, haven't touched a tylenol all day, no headaches, my monitor isn't messing me up, nothing. This is very good, and maybe it means I'm finally healthy, but we'll see. Tomorrow I get to go with my mom to the hospital while she gets a cortozone injection into her back, and then I get to take my cats to the vet, and then I get to go for a ctscan of my head to make sure nothing is wrong. yay! Today I worked 10-5 (yea, me work on a Sunday? I had to 'cause I'm off tomorrow), and then I went to Uno's with my mom, brother, and grandfather for dinner (sometimes it amazes me of the amount of restaurants within a 10-15 minute drive of me). Then I came home, watched some TV (the Simpsons tonight sucked, btw), and then got my International Business project done. If anyone's interested, I did it on the gaming industry, and I have it up at http://www.jglonek.net/files/bus230/index.htm. I'm glad I got that done. Speaking of restaurants.. what restaurant has white walls and a green roof? I'm really trying to figure out what the heck Burger King on Rt 33 is becoming, and for the life of me I have no idea. It's definitely a restaurant, though. Rumor has it that Haldeman Ford bought the land and tried to get an Arby's franchiseship thingy but it was too much, so who knows what they picked. Another rumor is Pizza Hut (they want to move), but a green roof puts that out. Pizza Hut still might move in with Staples though, in that grassy lot.. So I just looked at my clock, and realized that one month from this time will be my birthday, and I will also be 1 and 1/2 hours into Return of the King! WOOHOO! Well, now as long as I can continue to catch up on my homework (which isn't too much left), and clean my room and get my finances in order, which I hope I can accomplish most of tomorrow, then I should be settled and able to relax and watch movies and play games and just have some fun instead of stressing like I've been. Good good. So who can't wait for black friday? Mee! I know some of the stuff Staples is having, but I'd die if I said anything. The best rumor I've heard for other stores is that places like Target might sell Gamecube for $80, and PS2 (and possibly XBox) for $100! I am SOOO getting an XBox if it's $100. And speaking of spending money.. Two Towers Extended Edition is $24.99 at Best Buy on Tuesday! WOO! I have to get that and Mario & Luigi for GBA.. Mario kart at some point too.. and on the 25th the Return of the King soundtrack comes out, as well as Bruce Almighty and XMen 2, and on December 2nd, Pirates of the Caribbean is out on DVD. Woohoo! Btw, did everyone else hear that Matrix Revolutions is a flop, and got beaten by both Elf AND Master & Commander this weekend? That's right, Matrix is in third place. It's grand total so far is $116 million. I bet it won't even make $200. Haha. Thats what you get for making a lame ass pos movie. Well, now it's time for bed, as I have an exciting day tomorrow, heh. I hope everything turns out okay.

Wow.. it's been 5 days

It's been 5 days since I posted anything? Geeze.. That was a fast week. Unfortunately, I've still been sick. I felt better on Sunday, then got into migraines and headaches and nausea and all that fun stuff most of the week. I'm finally on antibiotics and tylenol, so I'm starting to feel better. I'm worried that my monitor might be causing me headaches though, not a good thing. As for what's wrong with me.. who knows. It started out as a viral infection, it looks like it turned into a sinus infection. I'm going for a ctscan on Monday, so we'll see if anything interesting turns up. I hope not. Am I better for good? Who knows. I would say I am at the moment, but then again I said that 5 days ago, and look what happened. All I know is that even if I'm over this, I still have another issue which is causing me to go to a gastroentiologist (sp?) on the 25th.. And assuming I am better.. the first thing I need to do is clean my room, which is definitely messy after my two weeks of not really caring. Then I need to make sure I'm caught up on school work, and then hopefully I can begin enjoying myself again, and maybe play some FFXI before my free month is up (what bad timing on that..) and write those reviews and stuff :) I have to work both days this weekend though, because I requested Monday off, so we'll see.. And as for Monday, on top of my ctscan my mom is getting a steroid shot in her back to try and improve the pain she's having.. I hope that goes well, I'm kinda worried about it :( I have to drive her home because she's not supposed to drive too soon afterwards.. Well, I just thought I'd update for those of you who might actually look at my journal. I'm off to deal with the kittens running around my room onw, and continue reading before I go to sleep. (Ruled Britannia, by Harry Turtledove, is a good book for anyone who likes alternate history *cough* Garrett *cough*). I do plan on being active tomorrow before and after work; hopefully getting some things done, but we'll see what happens. My life is not something I'm in control of at the moment. Well, before I end this I have to say that I'd like to welcome Karyn into the ranks of those of us who have broken our scaphoid bone in our wrists. At least Karyn did it in a better way than me :) But I do hope that she fares better than I did - I would not wish the 12 weeks of the casts, plus rehab afterwards, plus my messed up elbow still a year and a half later, on anyone.. especially not someone like her.

AAAH RWJ SUCKS! & SO DOES BEING SICK!

So you guys are probably wondering, gee, where's that Zodiac and Matrix Revolutions review eh? Welp, I've been sick since Tuesday; I'm still sick, in fact.. but today I can move my neck, woohoo! What's been wrong with me? Well, Monday night I had a headache so I took some motrin and went to sleep.. woke up Tuesday, felt crappy, like a sinus infection as usual when the weather acts up, so I took some Day-Quil, went to work, felt odd all day.. just generally got sicker... come Tuesday night I couldn't move my neck really, it got pretty stiff. I take some more motrin and put a heating pad on my neck and fall asleep.. Wednesday morning I feel kinda out of it, lil stiff neck.. nothin bad.. saw Matrix.. had lunch.. come 4 when I'm supposed to go to work I feel like im dying, so I stop at 7-11 to take some Day-Quil tablets, and then I head to work... I start to feel better, but after work again I felt awful - headache, couldn't move my neck at all, etc. This time I take a muscle relaxer that I have lyin around since my jaw issue in July, and fall asleep till 2pm on Thursday.. I get up on Thursday.. feel like crap, fall back asleep.. wake up around 5 sweating, so I figure a fever broke.. and I feel great, better than I had the past few days. I go to class, come home.. all of a sudden, back comes the stiff neck, it was awful. So I take more of my assortment of medication and go to sleep.. and get up, I feel alright so I gi to work Friday.. by 5 Friday I felt awful again, headache comin back, stiff neck comin back, and now some weird ear infection, so I decide ok, it's time to go to the doctor. So my mom and I go to my doctor around 7.. they were worried I might have something serious, such as, oh, menengitis, and I had my fever back, so they tell me to go to the emergency room. So we go to Robert Wood Johnson at 8, sit in the emergency room for THREE HOURS! I started feeling worse and worse, and finally at 11 I get to actually go into a room. The doctor there also wanted to check and see if I had menengitis or not, so they took 5 vials of blood from each of my arms, and they gave me a spinal tap which IVing me up.. then I had to sit there with the IV still in me for an hour and a half while I waited for test results. Turns out that no, luckily, I don't have menengitis, just some nasty viral infection - go home and rest and let it work its way out. Gee, thanks. So I get home Friday night/Saturday morning at 2am, feel awful, fall asleep. This morning (Saturday) I still felt crappy, but I decided to go to work. I was half out of it most of the itme, and my lower back was aching a lot from the needle I guess. But I made it through the day, and here I am early Sunday morning typing this.. I have a nice headache on the top of my head, and feel like I'm gonna throw up.. so off to bed I go. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow so I can clean my room, do some homework, watch a movie or two, play FFXI.. type up those reviews.. heh. We'll see. Here's hoping I get better, ugh.

Wohooo!

I feel better, woohoo! The past three days I've felt like complete crap, and today I ended up sleeping most of the day. But I guess my mix of motrin & muscle relaxers & dayquil helped me kick whatever I had, because I woke up sweating all over this afternoon, so I guess I had a fever and it broke, hehe, and my neck suddenly isn't stiff anymore. Man that was awful. So anyway, I need to take a BUS230 online test now, and then I think I'm gonna get to posting my Zodiac & Matrix Revolutions reviews.

Going to see Matrix Revolutions now!

woot! 9AM showing! I'll be back later with my feelings on it.. I just hope its good. By the way, here are some quotes from CNN's review: Neo continues to be a custom-made role for Reeves' limited talents. The fact that his one-dimensional character is dazed and confused through out most of the film fits Reeves' performance style to a T. But the emotional impact of this movie is zilch. When Moss and Reeves lock lips, it looks like two wire coat hangers trying to get it on. Oh boy, I can't wait!

So I tried calling Cingular...

... to get help connecting my Zodiac to my phone. Wow that was a HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE! First the woman didn't understand what I was saying, kept asking me questions "What kind of phone is it?" "Siemens S56" and putting me on hold. Finally she comes back to me and goes "I'm sorry sir but my tech support guy is telling me that that phone does not support bluetooth." Me: "Uh, Yes it does." Her: "Ok sir hang on" Her: "Maybe that phone was connecting with Infrared, because our records say that that phone does not have bluetooth." Me: "Uhh, yes it does. They're talking via bluetooth now, I'm looking at the bluetooth now." Her: "I don't know what to tell you, our tech support says that that phone is not capable of bluetooth" Me: "Can I talk to tech support?" Her: "No you cannot. You're going to need to Contact Siemens about this issue, because this phone does not support bluetooth" Me: "uhh, listen, it does, trust me. Go look at your website, it even says it on there." Her: "You need to talk to Siemens". Me: "Can I talk to your supervisor?" Her: "Sure hang on" *CLICK* Dead line. So now I'm calling back.. the rep I'm talking to currently says that the info on my account says that the other rep talked to tech support and they said it doesn't support bluetooth. So now she's talking to a tech guy.. Her: "Our tech person says that yes that is a bluetooth phone, but we don't have any information on how to set up outside devices. You're going to have to contact Siemens" Me: "uh, thanks"

Sony's ideas for the PSP

Apparently this is a real image that Sony showed off during a conference today of what their current concept of the Playstation Portable is, slated to be released late next year: Cute eh? Must be a battery hog to hell.. I wonder how big it is..

Tomacco!

Got this from www.simpsonschannel.com, thought you guys would appreciate it :)

Rob Baur, a huge Simpsons fan, grafted a tomato plant to a tobacco plant, grew it, and tonight he has proof from the lab that it worked. "What we found was nicotine in the leaves". said scientist Ray Grimsbo. The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons. The lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does. "Generally in the fruit there is more material concentrated because that's what everything's going through to produce the fruit for the next generation. I would expect there would be more." And that would make the real life tomacco plant very poisonous. Rob Baur says he grew the tomacco plant just for fun, just to see if it would really work. But what's next for him? "I'll have to review my DVD's to see if there is more Simpsons science available."

I got my Zodiac! :D

I got my Zodiac today via Fedex just before I had to run back to work from lunch break, woohoo! Keep watchin this spot; this post will change into a review soon :) Ok I lied; I feel like complete crap so I didn't get a review up tonight. In the meantime, make yourself content with pictures (and a movie).










And for a movie of Stuntcar Racing Extreme...

So about my website..

K guys.. seriously, what should I do with my website? I really want to do what I was attempting to do - make a place where people can go and post news about games and stuff, kinda like www.shortnews.com. I was just having serious scripting issues, and I had other things arise that caused me to stop working on it. So then I got lazy and turned it into what you see now.. which I could still keep, it'd just have to be moved to another part of the site. Do you think people would sign up to post news they found? I think so, because a lot of people already do that on message boards, but who knows.

Saturday night at Staples..

Aah, Saturday night.. a nice date night, movie night.. and where do I end up? Closing at Staples. I can't say it was that bad; it's fun - and crazy - when you work with the right people, like tonight, but still. And I didn't get much done like I needed to.. did high risk, helped customers, changed the window signs.. fun stuff. Got myself nice and backed up for next week now. Since I was at work since 1 that's really all I did today, although I did manage to get some of my history done - yay. I still need to really work on that, and business, and health, tomorrow. Not sure what else I'm doing - my two aunts are coming over to oogle over the cats, and I mentioned going to Six Flags again before they close for the season, but who knows. I just need to catch up on schoolwork so I don't feel behind, so I can actually relax and play games and stuff. Oh, and my room is still messy, arg. All the time. So I bought 6 tickets for Matrix Revolutions, knowing that 5 people could definitely go - figured I could give the other one to someone else - and everyone I thought turned it down. So now I have an extra ticket; I know what I did with the two I had left over last time for Matrix Reloaded, but I don't think I'm going to have any friends back from college or new girlfriends to give them to this time :( So if anyone is interested in seeing Matrix Revolutions at 9AM on Wednesday let me know. Yes, for you people still in school it means you'd have to skip it; but especially for Hamilton that can't be bad - come on, if you take Wednesday off, that means you have Tues-Sunday off ;) Let me know. Ya know.. i think I might shave soon.. startin to feel a lil fuzzy.. it's only been what, 3, 4 weeks since I shaved? lol. And you can't really tell, at all. People are envious and afraid of me all at the same time. I guess I'm just not a hairy person, heh. K, enough of this subject.. Hmm.. do you ever feel like you get a figurative slap in the face, and beaten up, and smacked around? When some things you hope are true end up not being anything close to reality, and the little path you were beginning to spot before your feet crumbles away into dust? It sux. I wish I knew why I felt so.. blah. It's not exactly depressed - I've been depressed, and this isn't it - but it's just.. I don't know. And whatever this is seems to be building too, getting consecutively worse each day, which probably even shows in these posts. Not a good thing. I don't like being like this, and I don't know why I am. I updated it since I first posted, so.. I've only been up for 12 hours and I'm exhausted, lovely.