I was heading eastbound on I-80, 4.5 miles past the Daville interchange, I see a set of westbound headlights crossing the median, spinning counterclockwise, followed by a horizontal roll, then sparks as it lands upright in the eastbound left lane, followed by another counterclockwise spin, and about 2 seconds of airtime as it flies off the road, ( Read more... )

20 years old today.... Yaaay... I'm no longer associated with "teenagers" :P

Well, here's how it's gonna work, I'm gonna get 2x120GB drives now, RAID 1 them, move the stuff off of F, format it, run it through maxtor's "power-max" stuff, that checks for failures, then I'm going to ghost C to F, and then I will also ghost C to the replacement 40 GB drive I got from the first that failed (that I still haven't had time to ( Read more... )

Well, another HDD failed, this time the D:\ drive, taking lots and lots and lots of MP3s (about 18GB) with it, plus a buttload of other stuff that I might find re-acquiring to be difficult ( Read more... )

Yup, I start monday at Rex here in Bloom... Took em damn long enough to get the background check done (3 weeks!)... Blehh...

http://www.spongetech.net/gallery/Tektronix-551 I fixed it, now to fix all the accessories to it...

Sadly It's only the exact same model that burnt up back on June 17th... Ironically I paid $187 for the first one in 2001, and this one cost me $39, shipped... LOL... Anyway, I'm gorging myself on games like Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike, and Dungeon Siege, etc ( Read more... )

I am, currently, at a complete loss for what to do... If I had beer, I assume I'd attempt to get shitfaced to mourn my loss, but alas I am without beer. I am without beer, without job, and George W Bush is still making an ass out of my country... What's an aspiring young white man to do? Do I enlist, or do I defect to Canada or some other English ( Read more... )

As per the president of the company, some examples had to be made, and unfortunately I was one of them. At least I can file for unemployment this time around...

I just want to curl up in a ball for a month now...

So I go into work today, and my market manager and some random associate I've never seen before are in the kiosk. It's 9:40 so I'm not late so I'm thinking "No biggie, just training a new guy..." Turns out I'm one of 5 or 6 people the company has suspended *with* pay for 3-4 days for possible "excessive internet use"... WTF?! The owner/CEO of ( Read more... )