I'm not sure. Uptime is currently > 17 days, which has happened MAYBE twice since my PSU blew. It turns out that quite some time after my last post, two old friends offered suggestions to help out. Funny thing: the instability that has kept me from logging in here (let's face it, I don't know 77% of my passwords and don't have a lot of patience) ( Read more... )

In case anyone actually noticed...

I've been off-line for the most part the last 48 hours. My lovely little 600W power supply couldn't handle the strain of my 8800GTS anymore and died. Worst part is that it happened just after I flashed my BIOS to correct issues that are 99.9% likely to be PSU-induced, so I'm not getting the absolute best RAM ( Read more... )

After way too long spent hammering out issues, I finished my newest chapter. It's called "Forsaken Home", and should provide some nice insights into some aspects I never covered before ( Read more... )

Ok, So Obama wins. It doesn't matter to me because of the choice I had:

One candidate who I can trust to do what he says and one I refuse to trust to do what he says. My dad's the only one who understood what I meant by this. My mom still can't figure it out :)

Give me a moment to be very serious here, and open, and possibly offensive.

The primary ( Read more... )

Europe, thy name is Miranda

About three days ago, I found the critical missing item. I'd managed to leave it sitting on my dad's toolbox, where apparently neither of us noticed it.

Now, all of my jeans are shot (my now-broken name badge for work ripped out the left pockets), and the weather just turned cold, so shorts are out for the near future (and all I can say is "asdf"). ( Read more... )

First, I'm totally stressed about a bunch of crap that's gone missing. No idea when or if I'll find some of it, which is bad. real bad.

Second, I've broken a lot of stuff in strange ways and will need a week or so to get it fixed, and a month to replace the worst of it. Yay unplanned for expenses.

Third, Graham Rahal managed to win the second IRL ( Read more... )

So CHamp Car is dead. Could there be anything better for the unified IRL than to have:
- Paul Tracy get into it with someone at Homestead, including a little fisticuffs? Kanaan or Dixon would be "best", publicity-wise...
- Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti in a serious dogfight all race long
- Danica and Helio shooting it out for the win.
- a Michigan ( Read more... )

That's not even the full story. As you can see, the prologue and first section of my story are rather involved. Heck, to get the writing up another two notches, you can probably add 15% to that word count and be a tad low.

I'm actually looking for a sort of headliner quote for this section, which deals with my substantially broken protagonist and ( Read more... )

Imagine this situation: It's the middle of winter, and your winter jacket suddenly and without warning fails to zip properly.

Just go to the store and buy a new one, right?

SUCKER!

The dolts in retail already have their craptastic winter coats on clearance, which means "you can't find one in your size". There's like two styles, usually the "I want to ( Read more... )