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Grey Skies

I’m beginning to think that I might want to move to London or something. I get a really pleasant feeling when the skies turn grey, and it looks like it may pour rain from those heavy looking clouds. The air is mostly still, and you can smell the coming downpour; love it. What I don’t love though is London. I have no desire to live in London, even if their climate agrees with me more (precipitation wise) than the weather in my current location.

Managed a win today, U-verse is available in my area. After arguing with AT&T about the availability of the service in my area, and finally getting someone that knew what they were doing, I have service that will start on the 12th. Apparently, they won’t just hook up the outside fiber. They want to come into the house and perform a test that the “modem” is working. I explained to them that I work in IT and don’t require their assistance; however, I was stonewalled. They are going to have to come in. That makes prata sad.

On the upshot, I’m more than quadrupling my speed. I’ll chalk it up as a success. In other news, I had a debate with someone about the human condition. I’ve written about the human condition before, and I was appalled at some of the things coming out of this person’s mouth (actually it was their fingers, but that’s besides the point). At some point the statement was made that humans are codependent creatures and that you should stay with someone that you don’t have a healthy relationship with simply to keep children or a child happy.

Obviously, I found this completely incorrect, and I stated as such. I followed up with what the definition of codependency is and that generally speaking a poor state of mind to be in. I followed this up with several facts and pieces of information. This person actually turned into an ostrich and put their head in the proverbial sand. I was disgusted, and sad for them. Well, whatever they want to do with their life, it’s not my problem and they aren’t my friend, so whatever.

You know what time it is:

Fanna - China

I don't think I could turn down a look like that

Never Trust a Woman

This probably goes without saying for every sane man in the universe, but I just happened upon the reality of dealing with women. I must say, in hind sight it was not at all surprising; however, I just didn’t actually see it coming. Although this even wasn’t recent, somehow I still feel like a fucking idiot for even entertaining this stupidity. Probably shouldn’t be writing about it either, because well people are going to read it and say, “Wow, you need to get over it.” I am over it, I’m indifferent to the situation at this point, I have a good life, but I think that some of the things that have happened to me in the past have contributed to why I don’t feel anything. You know, that hollow thing I have going on inside. Some of that is my childhood, some of that is my dealing with people as a teen up until the last few years. I know there’s something wrong – I’m just trying to identify it.

What it boils down to, is during a portion of the relationship she was seeing someone else, sleeping with this person, and lying to me about it. I mean, I asked. I pointedly asked about this person and she just lied. This guy knew who I was, knew that this girl and I were together, and kept right on at it. Now, can I blame him for that? Not really, because he’s just doing what a guy does; however, the girl? She’s a whore, and a liar. Women always have the final say in what’s going to happen between themselves and a man, and apparently “I’m with someone, and fucking you seems like a bad idea.” wasn’t one of them.

Do you know the bitch had the nerve to cry, when I started asking and got upset about the situation? I mean really? Are you fucking serious? How is it, you get to cry and be upset, for doing the stupid? Why is it I can’t be upset because you are a total fuck up? I don’t understand that. What’s humorous to me though, is that this whore actually told me that she meant to tell me, but didn’t want to hurt me. You. Are. A. Liar. No one wants to get caught that’s why they lie in the first place, and crying and sobbing after you get caught doesn’t impress anyone. It does let them know you’re upset you got caught though.

I try very hard not to take other people’s actions and apply them to every other person’s actions when dealing with me. I see that I am failing slightly, because I’m having a very difficult time retaining trust when dealing with certain aspects of my life. That’s not good. I’m going to rectify this.

On the upside, Project India is in full swing. I need to get my passport renewed in the next month or so. Also, started running this morning since I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept in four days. That can’t be healthy.

Ryu Ji Hye (Korea)

Although I admire the way you cross your legs - it's fantastic, could you undo that a sec?

In a Haze

So, I’ve been productive and shit today. I don’t like it one bit. I’ve been dong some design work, and I _hate_ design work. I did discover that manipulating WordPress is pretty easy. I’m not sure how people make so much money doing design work in the framework. Of course, I am just a n00b and I really do not enjoy making changes to any framework. I’m not artistic.

I’ve deployed wordpress to a staging environment to help my friend Sabina move her current web stuff to a new hosting solution. So far she’s not be terribly demanding, but I disagree with her design philosophy. It’s neither here nor there, it’s her stuff not mine. It’s turning out as one would expect, after hacking the shit out of a theme to get it to display the way I want. Go me?

I’ve got Mass Effect 2 on the brain. I haven’t played in two days because I’ve been too damn tired. I need to buy groceries. I actually don’t have anything to eat int he house. Like seriously, there is zero food. But that requires treading out into society, and I gotta tell you, I don’t actually want to do that. That can’t be healthy.

Most of it is really from my job though. I’m stressed the fuck out, and the changes are slow coming to help ease my stress level. Probably not going to get my base pay increased either, and that sucks, because I think we (all of us really) are being under paid for the technical work that we do on a regular basis.

But, since whining about it isn’t going to help. I resigned myself to this!

Choi Byul I (Korea)

I can see why she doesn't actually work in an office. There would be _no_ work done. None.

What Happens….

if I do this? Oh, that’s right, it kills the mysql process and fails to restart due to selinux having an incorrect configuration. That’s what happens. It doesn’t tell you that the process failed. No, it doesn’t do that, that would make sense. I have to keep seeing these weird messages about the webserver erroring off on user’s attempts to molest my blog. For those of you that came, saw, and didn’t send me a frickin’ e-mail…well that’s not your fault, the mail server bit it too for a while. I noticed it way sooner though, because I am constantly checking my mail.

Anyhow, there was an electrical fault which happened at the most inopportune moment (of course!) causing my server to reboot a total of 15 times. Yay, for stress testing and fault tolerance? I gotta tell you, when I repaired the machine I was rather surprised it wasn’t more difficult to get going in the first place. I still wasn’t feeling real great when it died, although the worst of the illness was over, I just didn’t patiently go through each service as thoroughly as I should have. I blame television (and Resident Evil 5).

Accept this as my apology (there is music in this, that probably should have had a peak meter looked at. Turn down your volume.):

No, I don’t know her, and yes I stole it from someone. I am not profiting from it and it was in a public place without need for authentication.

The New Year

The New Year for me started out awesome. Olive, a street which a huge Chinese business population, was littered with fireworks and all kinds of people strolling about. It was just great. I went to a temple and found a corner to meditate in while listening to the chants and prayers of other Buddhists. It was a pleasant time to be had by all.

I meant to post right after that incident, but I became ill (karma probably) and have spent the last four days not quite right. Yesterday I had the joy (and that is just dripping with sarcasm, like a bloody rag after severing someone’s femoral artery) of puking all day long. Go me!

Now that I’m somewhat better. We will return to my boring drivel. What I have lined up should be at least semi-interesting and argumentative as I tend to be. ^_^