Shtuff and stuff, you know?

Three days until my test. Then hopefully I’ll be Dustin, MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional). Am I ready? I Don’t Know. And I hate it. The book contains eveyrthing you can find on the installation, troubleshooting and upgrading of Windows XP Pro. It’s like taking SATs all over again. Take you pick of books to study out of… you’ll be tested on… math. Period. That’s right the whole subject of math. Oh yeah, and literature too. Good luck!

Anyway, tomorrow is my day off. I’m locking myself in my room with my book where I’ll take their practice questions to figure out where I need to brush up. First time out I figure my best shot is walking in knowing as much about every aspect of the operating system as possible. At least in failing I’ll know what I REALLY need to learn. blah blah blah

Saw Dukes of Hazard last night with Jesse, Ben and Jon. It had some hilarious parts in it… it’s such a guy movie. Mmm…. Dodge Charger with a really big engine jumping, crashing and being chased by cops. Luke and Bo Duke doing some crazy shtuff that would piss people off and get them into a position where they were getting chased over jumps and reving the big engine. Oh. And there’s explosions too. The reckless and stupid kind that don’t have a point except that it’s loud, it’s big, and it… well… explodes. The first one that comes to mind involves a plastic gas can(full of gas), a bow, and an arrow with a flaming tip. Target practice. BOOM! ROFL! W00T!

Happenings n more

Busy weekend. Sat. I get of work hoping to goto a BBQ with old friend Rachel. She went to the beach and descided not to check her phone till she got back. Feeling looserish and set asside I watched Con Air on my computer while talking to Lindsay and AmyS online.

While talking to AmyS we found out that we we’re both loosers who don’t get out much. After talking we descided that Sunday night we would try to do something and that I would call good pal Jesse.

I call good pal Jesse the next day too see what he was up too. “Swimming with AmyII but I’ll see what Ben is doing so we can hang out later.”

AmyII is different from AmyS. AmyS is a girl Jesse and I met at Fry’s and Jesse persuaded to go out with him for a while. AmyII is a friend of Jesse’s and they just recently became infatuated with eachother… well… actually I think that Jesse is more infatuated in her than her him. But different grls express their feeling in different ways I guess… doesn’t matter really… me just being anilitical again… back to the happenings.

Later that day Jesse gives me a call and tells me the plan is all hunky dorry. I’m stuck as a talkative buffer between Ben and the occasion that Jesse and AmyII forget others are around. Leaves me in a perdicament with AmyS tho. That’s not really a situation where I think she’d have much fun. But I said I’d hang out that night. After some weighing and figuring I called AmyS and left a message saying to give me a call when she got off work and we could figure something out. This would give me a couple hours to hang with Jesse, and I wouldn’t ditch AmyS.

So I went to hang out with Jeese and company. Had a grand time of swimming in the Wilamette. Getting uckey slimey mud flung at me… playing with Tess, Jesse’s dog.

OH, the greatest point of the night. We were on AmyII’s dock eating while we rested. There was cheese, salomy and bread. Tess was begging like a dog, go figure. I took a peice of meat and her puppy eyes looked at me. Well, I go to tease the poor dog but slowly putting it in my mouth… then I just start sucking on it so she can still see it. AmyII says, “What are you doing, looking for a kiss?” That’s funny, I laughed. Then I threw the peice of salomy I had in my other hand at AmyII. Without really thinking about it, she deflected it right at Tess. Like a freaking Jedi the dog doesn’t even seem to take her eyes off me… she just tilts her head to the side and “CHOMP” caught the meat in her mouth. It was amazing!

We packed up down at the dock. We played frizzbee for a while… way fun with the poor dog running inbetween everyone… she was just walking after the f-bee in the end. She was exausted. Things went down hill and we started doing fighter poses and rolling around while throwing/catching the f-bee. After that we went up to Jesse’s house, had cheese cake and watched 4 episodes of Firefly.

AmyS didn’t call me back… she didn’t get the message until later. So I worked monday. Then we both had today off, so we went to OMSI and saw the spiffy magic show/displays. Had fun with that, OMSI is always a good place to kill time and have some laughs. Then we went to Charlie and the Chololete Factory. Interesing and strange movie. I liked it because of Depps char… very quotible and off the wall. It gets an ‘alright’ in my book.

AmyS and I parted ways and now I’m here… tired and ready to sleep. Good night.

Spyware is of the Devil!

I turn on my computer this morning to the sight of my browser poping up some random webpage and an unknown icon running in my system tray. Damn spyware and their nosey annoying pointless useing my system. What does it hope to accomplish by being on my computer besides being as annoying as possible? I’ma kill the bastard when I get home. Blow it outta the water! RAWR!!

LAN party at Jesse’s this Sat night! w00t! I haven’t played those games in months… I’ma gunna die.

AND I watched a show last night called “Fire Me PLEASE!” It’s a reality TV show where two ppl at a time get hired on to seperate jobs at the same time. The object of the show for the ppl to try and get fired as close to 3pm as they can on their first day of the job. ROFL! It was hilarious. The ppl at the job thought they were insain/stupid as they do these completely off the wall things. Pretty much they TRY as HARD as they can to get in the suporvisers nerves enough for them to tell them “GET OUT! NOW!” Which usually results in the ex-employee giveing the suporviser a big hug as they just won $25,000. It was great. Me likey. So funny. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… my nose is running, so if you don’t mind…

LJ Update, PDX Edition!!!

Yeah, last weekend was teh PDX LAN!! It started on Friday, and I went over there after work. And after I installed some new fans and cables in my computer. Anyway, it was crazy kewl. I already knew what to expect because I’ve been there before… same location and everything. Yeah, there were about 430 computer gamers there doin’ their thing. Almost all had case mods. Lots of glowing lights. Jesse, John and I sat near the back of the room, opposit side from the stage. It was dark and cold there because they have the AC cranked… 500 computer put out a lot of heat.

Anyway,

I played a couple new games like Coll of Duty(CoD), and the infamous Counter Strike(CS). I mostly just played Unreal Tournament 2004(UT2k4). I was in the UT2k4 tournament too. I played Legolas in the first round… oddly enough the person used a female skin… and when I met him after the match he was a well rounded fellow. Nice guy. It was a pretty close match. He definately didn’t make it easy for me. He kept picking up the Flak Canon, my weapon of choice. So I had to settle for the lighning gun and shock rifle… long range precision weapons. Unfortunatly for him my aim was on. I beat him 24 to 21.

Next round I played Chaos from the PDX clan. I got totaly pwned. I think the score was 40 to 3 or something when the server died. I had fun though. He was one of the best there, so I knew he was going to destroy me. I was happy to get him a couple times… and I stayed alive pretty long when he spotted me. I just couldn’t cuz through his armor… witch he always had a lot of.

Anyway, fun stuff. Jesse, Jon and I went to the hotels pool and hot tub to wind down. We ended the night with some UT2k4 CTF InstaGib. That was crazy and fun too. I know that all of my non-gamer friends will have a hard time even carring about what happened at the LAN. I skipped alot. I plan to do it all again in august though… 1000 people! That’ll be great!

Work time… peace!

Ground Hogs Day…

Yup, apparently it’s ground hogs day. It’s sunny out so the silly ferrit will most likely see it’s shadow and there-fore winter will go on for another while. Or however that shin-dig goes. I’m watching Ground Hogs Day tonight, non-the-less because it’s funny. And I haven’t seen it for a while. And it’s still ground hogs day at 7:30 tonight.

Anyway, not much to tell. I cleaned my room. I found a new way to download Anime… there’s a fantastic fact you may not have known. I’m nerdular enough to enjoy cartoons from a foregn land. Since I have cable now, I suddenly have 4 gigs and counting. I’m looking at new hard drives too, lol. mushi mushi?

Anywhoot, I’m heading down to Corvallis as of Saturday. I’ll drop by Monmouth on the way down to eat a dinner made by a certain friend who shall remain Erin. Then it’s off to play a lot of games untill I get sick of Jesse kicking my butt… which will probably be until Sunday night. Practicing for PDX LAN, get my skillz back if I can. I haven’t touched UT2k4 in over a month, I’m a little rusty. Ok, a little is an over statement. I’m a down right n00b.

I’m off to work again… it keeps all sneeking up on my and shtuff. Laterz

bock, bock, bock… Beh-KOCK! Peck peck… My text impression of a chicken.

Yeah, the rest of the day yesterday went well(sunday). After beeing utterly bored out of my mind I got a call from Jesse to find he was bored too. Since two boreds make a usually less bored life, oddly enough. I brought over some of my entertainment… we watched the new Pure Pwnage, Killer Bean and something else worth while. Eventually we got hungry and went for some mack and cheese… washing it down with Lonely Housewives(still think it’s a horrible show).

We went back up stairs and watched Shawn of the Dead. A very british zombie spoof movie. One of those movies that was entertaining in a way only british movies can be. I wouldn’t see it again… but it was one worth the watch. Snatch is still far better though.

Today was crap…

I’m going back to my book. Night.

Its a Trend!!

Looks like my sister has joined the LJ world. I guess her friend Erin has been here for a while, I just didn’t know about it.

Anyway… today is Sunday… I have today off. I like having days off, even though I rarely do anything with them. I’m tinkering with my webpage. Again. I swear… I’ll be able to post something one of these days.

Well, Friday night I went to a little shin-dig at Jessica and Linsdays appartment. Lindsay and Erin cooked a thanks giving dinner martha stewart style(more or less, the gravey that never happened is now a story of legend) and we had a feast on the floor of their living room. Fun times were happened by all, we drank(sparkling cider) and we were merry(an understatement for some). Batta-w00t!

Sunday night I went over to Jesse’s house… we started setting up his computer, never got to it because I found a guitar. We jammed until Amy S., not tickle fight Amy from Thanksgiving update, showed up. We went to see Blade Trinity… it was a good movie. I liked it better than any of the other Blade flix. Anyway, we went back to his house and ate, exchanged enuendos around the dinner table… three bananas were broken, squeezed to death and finally eaten. A yam was talked about in a ways I’m sure that yams are not accustomed. Then I went home and slept… I think I dreamed about work… how depressing.

Anyway, I’m bored with typing… I’m outta’ here

WABAM! UPDATE!!!!!… ?

Where do I begin. It’s been a while and a half since I even looked at this. Life’s been a little busy. I think what happened after the last update was my car, the POS Peugeot, it’s transmission locked up while I was driving. It just froze, right there in the middle of the road. Since it was locked up I couldn’t push it off of the road. It took two other guys stopping to help rock it out of its jam and then it ran perfectly fine. WTF?!

Two or three days later I tried to get a new car. I researched. I oogled at cars I couldn’t afford and eventually found a nice ’95 Nissan Altima in Salem for $3000. Applied for three loans, all three declined. Boom. Dead in the water. So much for that, eh?

Thanksgiving was fun. Got up to have breakfast with my father. He lives at his parents house(how wierd would that be?). So my sister and I stuck around until people started showing up for the feast. We ate some. Laughed alot… then head over home where mom made us more food. Three meals… I was stuffed to the brim.

Friday night went to Jesse’s to hang out with his peeps. They did lots of fun things. Watch Equilibrium. OMG! Awsome movie that I never heard of! I liked it enough to go out and buy it the next day.

Here’s the primis if you care: There’s a third world war, someone got it in their heads that emotion is the cause for these wars because it causes hate, greed, anger, so on. So in an effort to supress emotion they must also shun things that are good. Love, art, music, they wear gloves on their hands so as not to actually touch anything, they have white paper over their windows so they can’t see the sun rise or the city, they take this injected drug that supresses emotional extremetys. There are those the resist this movement; art lovers, feeling people of the world, hide away and are hunted down by the government like people with a deadly disease. The main character(s) of the movie are Clerics, a tranch coat toteing elite fighter for the government that can efficiantly, calmly without emotion, clear a room of resistance with martial art style gun slinging(at least as good as Matrix 1). Speaking of Matrix; Christian Bale’s performance made me realise how poorly Kianu Reeves expresses emotion. lol.

After the movie we sported some DDR action(I mainly watched), I had tickle fights with Amy, someone I’ve only talked to three times. Eventually people started to leave, those who stayed got our tetris on. I forget what else happened… but I was up until 5… I woke up at 8 the next day. Yeah… Monster energy drink is your friend.

Later THAT evening we went to see Alexander. Don’t do as we did. Horrible movie. I wont go into my reasons, don’t want to put too much of a negative vibe on someone looking forward to the flick. But yeah… I’m usually a very easy person to please when it comes to movies. I nearly walked out of this one. Three hours of almost complete nothing. The only saving grace is that Angelina Jolie(with a russian accent! wtf? lol) and Val Kilmer play pretty good roles. I liked their scenes the best out of the entire movie.

We went to Sheries and ate and talked and so on. Then people went their own way.

Sunday night we watched some Star Trek. Then Desprate House Wives came on… Jesse likes that show for some reason. I’d never seen it, so I thought I’d give it a chance. Sigh… I don’t understand what is appealing about the show, asside from some attractive middle aged women. Oh well, no harm done. Then we watched Star Gate… and finally did the tetris thing again. Very addictive, tetris. Who would think that such a simple game could keep us entertained for a whole 4 hours?

That’s all I’m saying for now… until next time.

w00t!

Yeah, home depot is a no go. They don’t have room for me, so I’m now officially not a De Pot member any longer. Umm… not much really happened today. Just work and stuff… things are going pretty damn good there. I think that the assosiates are getting used to me. The know-it-all of the group isn’t looking at me like a moron as much any more.

Oh yeah, I played Unreal Tournament 2004 tonight and I BEAT JESSE TWICE at it. This may sound like no a big thing… maybe even egotistical gloating. BUT you have no idea. Were’ talking hundreds, nearing thousands of games here. Think of the game you know best. Now think of the best person you know personaly at that game. Now imagine, if you can, that some switch got tripped in you, and suddenly you’re as good as that person… maybe even a little better. That’s how I’m feeling right now. Normaly I am playing at my BEST by getting half Jesse’s score. Playing that well I’m feeling that I gave him a little compatition. Tonight, not only did I beat him… in the second game he was THIRD place. I’m savoring this moment while I can because Jesse HATES losing. BTW, this fact adds to this days sweetness since he’s a cocky little punk when he’s winning. Alas, I expect to be severely pounded back into my place tomorrow night.

Anyw00t… I got payed… wonder how I’ll spend it…