So...We went to 12 hour shifts the other day at work and Im finding myself with more time off than I know what to do with.  So I started to go through the list of geekstuff that I needed to accomplish.  It was a tossup between writing an gtk app that mimic's Microsoft's 'Active Desktop' (I have it mostly finished in script form, just need to do the ( Read more... )

So wow...it seems that my last LJ update was July of 2005.  Nearly 2 years later I finally update.  I'll make it as quick and painless as I can since it seems ALOT has happened in 2 years time.   *deep breath ( Read more... )

Well..why isn't anyone online at 5am in the morning? I mean sheesh! I am! O'well. So I gotta get up at 4am in the morning to dictate my notes from the class onto the computer and print them out. I leave the house at 6am to get to tupelo before 7:30am..class at 8am until 5pm, drive an hour and a half home, get worn out and sleep..repeat ( Read more... )

So tonight at work I had an order of cheesy bread..and ya'all know how they can get stuck in your teeth. So due to lack of toothbrush I grabbed a piece of gum from a co-worker...started chewin'..and lost my fuckin cap on my tooth! I had a root canal done on it afew years ago and they capped it..well the damn thing came off. So I went into the ( Read more... )

It's 7:30am, I just got home from work. It's 84F right now at 88% humidity. Under a 'heat advisory' with a heat index today at 110F. Highs without the heat index is supposed to reach 99F. Whew ( Read more... )

So it's 5am in the morning. I couldn't sleep..bleh. On my list of things to do was to setup samba (file sharing between *nix machines and windows) on my mp3 server (houses gigs and gigs of all my songs, plays through my surroundsound system on the TV). In the past I have been using SCP (secure copy protocol) to transfer all of my files from the ( Read more... )

So. I had ALL weekend to do this assignment for my IT 101 class for college. I put it off until an hour before it was due. Whipped it up (find an article on the online library, cite it properly with proper APA citations for a periodical, and give a 3 sentence summary) in half an hour. AFTER I submitted it, I realized the irony of the situation ( Read more... )

So I have mice in my house. Not just your average, run of the mill, cute little furry brown mice. Nooooo, these are SUPER MICE! It's as if mighty mouse bred with splinter from the ninja turtles and they had mutant super mice babies. I have laid out mouse traps with peanut butter and they trip the trap and eat the PB. So I figured they must be ( Read more... )

I had to work a halfshift on my day off last night, came home this morning to some meowin'...didn't set in that my cat had kittens until I crawled into bed, and the damn noise wouldn't stop (hey long night, I was tired). Looked under the bed and there was this ugly little fucker crawling out from under the bed. Lo and behold the cat had kittens ( Read more... )

So today, I got up early to pick up my paycheck and take care of all my bills before my trip to indiana monday. Stopped at the bookstore to pick up some magazines and saw someone there (no one I knew..more on that later), stopped at the cingular store to pick up minutes and saw someone else. Then hit up walmart....where I bumped into BOTH of them ( Read more... )