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Its here...I built it...pictures coming soon...

Too late...

...I did it...

End of the week...

Boy, I reallly can't wait! There's only 2 more school days left (because of this longer holdiay weekend :D) and it looks like the job might end today, since they didn't give me my freaking paycheck yesterday. They apparently want people to go today, so we'll see if they make some announcement. Anyway, I just check the status on my shipments, everything but the case has arrived at some Ft. Lauderdale FedEx ramp which is cool, but I know they won't ship it to me until the case comes...from TN. They did that last time when my scanner and router came from different places, one of em was here for a day, and I had to wait another so that tehy could give me both. BAH!

Purchase 1: Complete

Processor, Case, CD drive, and RAM have been ordered, and according to Newegg, at status 3, which means they were just charged on the card, all's left is to package and send me my stuff. As for the Geforce, I'll be getting my check today, it will be very small though, as last week was when I got sick, and I missed 2.25 days. Which is...$75ish. MEANING 1/2 my weekly check, so right now I'm left with $227, I'll need atleast $73 so I can get the card, and maybe I can convince my dad to pay the extra $30 that I'm suppose to get back from a rebate. I thought Newegg had taken the deal off, but apparently I was looking at the wrong card or sumthin because it came back o_O. ORRRR if Justin can pull through and use his super-circuit-city-employee powers...^_^ Either way, I'm gonna have to start backing up all my data soon, that'll be a pain. And I gotta make a slipstream disc of WinXP + SP2 for the new comp, seeing as how the comp its replacing will become a Linux box, so hopefully Dell's Windows key wasn't activated yet >_<

Time to eat food!

Snack time!

Yea...anyway, lil update on my job. It will be ending May 30th apparently. We will have 1 month's break until July when the next project comes. So I'll be having 1 month of full summer vacation this June. WOOHOO! I'll be making half of my comp purchase today, since I'm already seeing some of the sales I wanted missing, and I'm not patient. Either way, this is the type of stuff that usually won't go on sale, or is cheap enough as it is. Sooo...only things left would be RAM (which prob will go on sale, so I'll wait for that) and my graphics card.

Hello!?

OMG! What happened to my blog!? Is it...what...happening... 

Blablabla...

School ends in less than 2 weeks, and so does my job apparently. You see, my job as a data entry guy depends on the different things the company is made to do. They get requests from other businesses to do certain stuff, and that's our work. This project we've had, called "Tiaa" is almost complete, and apparently we have to finish indexing and scanning verything by the 30th. After that I'm not sure what happens, I heard they already got the next project ready, or maybe we'll get a lay-off for a couple weeks/months until they do. Either way, Summer looks VERY free, except for the part that I'm gonna have to get some volunteer hours for 12th grade, as I don't have any yet! >_<

Yummy!

I'm pretty much over my cold now, got my body strength back, sore throat gone and stuff, now I just need a couple days to lose all this excess mucus my body produced. MAN, its thick and like...yellowish-white and sticky, I could be blowing it out of my nose for half-an-hour cuz there's just so much. I also better bring some cough drops to work today, still have that...

Anyway, I'm planning on buying my biggest purchase of electronics ever. I think by the 26th, I'll have just enough money to buy:
Rosewill Value R103A Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case w/350W Power Supply
Rosewill RR-521 Black Black IDE CD Burner - Retail
Intel Celeron D 315 Prescott 533MHz FSB Socket 478 Processor Model BX80546RE2267C - Retail
eVGA 256-A8-N344-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory Retail

Total: $538.95 i.e. EVERYTHING I'LL HAVE BY THURSDAY...

For what you ask? Well, that Geforce 6800GT (yea, not an X800XL Justin, this comes out cheaper (with rebate) and some forum friends convinced me to get it! :D) and the 1GB memory kit is my upgrade for Battlefield 2 (which is made by EA, which optimizes for Nvidia cards anyway ;D) and the Case, CD-drive, and CPU are for the first computer I plan to build. Hopefulyl everything goes right. I have so much stuff lying around here (motherboard ($50+ spent and *wasted*, thats another story) then, memory, harddrive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse!) that I might as well build this thing. Yea...that's a lot of parentheses...

Samsung YH-820

Ok, so here it is...


Ok, the thing cost about $210 ($198.62 + tax), its about 3.5" tall, 2" wide, and 0.5" thick. There are 3 little buttons in the front, back, play/pause, next, and then the lower section is a clickable button, 4 sides for menu, select, up, and down. Down side is there is no freaking stop button. I can only pause, and when I turn it off and on again, it'll start playing from that last paused position. Did I mention the pause/play button is also the power button? >_< It has a nice little color screen, which I've already modified the ennding shutdown animation it uses to my nice bowl of rice logo rolling away. It displays JPEGs, though not that great. Can play MP3 and WMA, when it supposedly could play OGG. If it can, I don't know how to do it because the only software this thing supports is Windows Media Player, which can't open Oggs, and Napster, which I don't feel like installing. Battery life is supposedly 8 hours, but I got my first death yesterday at around 5.5 hours. Not that I care, all I need is 4 hours to last me through work ;) Overall nice MP3 player, but I hope Samsung releases an updated firmware...

In other news, I still don't feel well, can't breathe well through one nostril, throat isn't sore anymore, but that mucus-dryness feeling is what I got now, which sucks. Drinking liquids doesn't help either. MAN though, if you ever have a sore throat, you people need to get some colloidal silver. That stuff is like...a gift from God. Its pretty much water, with ionized silver particles or somethin', but that thing instantly, and I mean that, instantly took the major soreness in my throat away. I coudln't believe it, it was like 2 teasponns or whatever, in a little medicine cup, held it in the back of my throat for 10 seconds, swallowed, and wow, what a difference. I could actualyl swallow without the pain through the night. Do some research on it, that stuff is like the ultimate medicine.  

Ughhh

Sore throat'd...I'll post opinions on my MP3 player tomorrow...

Down with teh Ipod mini!

Today I'm going to Sam's Club. What am I gonna buy? I don't know, how bout this awesome 5GB, colored screen, OGG playing MP3-player for only $198? :D

So much stuff to say...

Wow, yesterday was awesome. Andrew Phillip was doing worship, he has such a heart for God. And something he said struck me, he said that if you were a friend of Jesus, you would tell someone about Him. Wow. Its's so true, and yet...we don't do it. So I'll do it now. I thought hard about what I would say about Him, without being excessively boring, pushy, or lame. So I couldn't think about it. ;) And thank God he already wrote something for me! :D

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Guys, that all you would need to know. God loves us, and he sent his only Son to die for our sins. Humankind is sinful, and we'll never be good enough for Heaven. But Jesus was, he was perfect, and as the perfect sacrifice, he cleaned ALL of our sins. All you need to do is believe that to get to Heaven. How I wish you all could believe that, though I know some won't. And soon, all of those who believe in God, will be gone. One day, and you guys PLEASE remember this, millions of people around the world will disappear, all of them Christian. You'll probably hear weird stuff like aliens, or just strange things like that, but guys, it was the rapture, and God just took everyone of his people into heaven. The thing was, we know this is gonna happen, the Bible said it hundreds of years ago (read Revelations if you want). If you guys ever have ANY questions, feel free to ask. I know I sound, and all this may sound crazy, but I love God guys, and I love all of you too, I just want all of you to know. I'm not gonna "preach" at you, as that's not how it works. God gave us a free will, and YOU have decide to believe it. All I can do is tell you about Him, as I just did above. So I just hope that my life helps show an example of a child of God, and I thank God for doing everything for me. God thank you! You're so frickin' awesome! :D

Also, just wanna give my props out to my 502IB (that's what 10AD is now known as for campaign 10) teammates, we won/tied 3 outta 4 of the Best of the Best Competition sections, you guys are the bestest!

One of you better give me a shirt...(*stares at Smitty)

Early release!

YESSS...to give some background info, I'm homeschooled (that's right! stick it to the man! :D), and in my school I have 7 subjects:

Bible
Math
Language
Science
and HIstory are my primary subjects. I usually have to do a lesson/quiz/test of each a day. Then I have to do Spanish and Life Management (its like double the math >_<) as my electives or whatever. However, sometimes I get a lucky day, like today, when I don't have all 5 primary subjects assigning a job today. So for example, today I had a math & language lesson, plus the 2 secondary subjects. Which is awesome cause I finished school already X). However this most likely means I'll have a bunch of quizzes or tests on Monday :P And this will also happen more now as the amount of work left is spreading thin for the last few weeks of school, WOOHOO!

Just Deserts' first comic!

Its up people so click the tacky ad-looking button to my right to get to the comic site ;) I also added/changed some buttons for my lower links.

Victory!

Well, last Saturday was Paula's BBQ, and it was the last battle of my campaign. As you could probably guess, I didn't make it to the battle that day, which kinda sucks because it was the last one and all, but its cool because the BBQ was fun too! Either way, my team did great and we won the battle, and the campaign! :D Now, if I haven't already mentioned, I will not actively participate in the next campaign (#10) which will most likely be our last campaign before Battlefield 2 comes out. Mainly what this'll mean is I won't play at night as much as I used to, I'll mainly use it to work on my upcoming comic based on 21CW, talking to my AIM buds, and having a go at other games I've been wanting to play (Spring anyone? :D) so yea...I'll still be finishing school early to try and knife Casbar in TNT and stuff, so you Euro guys have nothing to worry your little heads about ;) . Anyway...yea, supposedly there's a Best of the Best contest going on this Saturday, which is a contest to find...yea, self-explainatory :P I won the last one we had, atleast the Infantry part of the contest (it was split up into Infantry, Armor, Airforce, etc.) and I ALMOST won Sniping, only 2 ppl, me and Insignus got 10/10 shots on that one, but he did it like...8 seconds faster...>_<

Anyway, the prize was a t-shirt I never got...but this time its different because we have a new IC (Airborne) whose got everything set up, pre-ordered shirts, and everythin'...I'll be trying on Spec-ops/Paradrop & Infantry/Light Mech this time 'round. I better get that shirt! ^_^

Ok so yea, from now on, don't believe any goals set in this blog. Reading through some of my old psots, I realized this was suppose to be a blog about Linux :D So here is another uselss post, with a screenshot attached, coming from a Need for Speed Underground 2 demo I have. 

Mondays...

You gotta love em...>_<

The current time is:

Yea ok...I can't fix this. The times on all posts before the last one are broken, and I'm too lazy to fix em, and I rather have the Blogger automatically have the right time then have to change it all the time. So just...don't worry about em ;)

This is just a test

BOOOOOOOP

Yea, quick blogs ey? Just noticed Blogger had my time at -8 GMT, Los Angeles Time o_O Set it to EST but having probs with it changing all my blog posts' time...

YAY! I fixed the freaking network!

Turns out I had Kerio blocking traffic on the network or something. It blocked pings and the Microsoft File and Printer sharing thing. Now I got everything working (not flawlessly yet, sometimes I need to disable real quick to view the comps on WORKGROUP and then I can reenable and browse) so with a little more tweaking, I got my stuff good! :D

You was optical illusion'd!

Ok guys, this is a cool optical illusion I had saved on my drive. First click on the iamge to get the full sized image. I guess you could do it without full size, but w/e. Anyway, look at both real quick and you see they look pretty much the same, but the right side is more blurred and light. Ok, now stare at the one at the left, at the lil red dot in the middle, for 30 seconds. Then look at the middle of the on on the right. The right side completely fades away! :D 

*Western theme music* Draw partner!

Hey, check out this cool site Fatty (Fatgirl, my sister Giselle...'member?) found. Lets you draw and record stuff, and then send to someone. I'll probably do one everyday, that way I'll have something to post even if I have nothing to post ;)

Today's Toucantastic Test, I drew this from a little toucan statue sovenir I got from Costa Rica some years (2? o_O) ago.

Anyway, yesterday was amazing and awesome. I knifed Casbar 4 times. Casbar ppl, that was so not his day. So that was cool, and the lightning storm we had in the evening was awesome too. The lights were all screwy at work and the battery back ups on all the comps were beeping constantly since the lights were going in and out. They had a generator and all this junk for power backup, so we always had a little power (for the comps atleast) and we never got sent home. Darn. :D

Comic blog...

Oh, its nothing big...just a little teaser image for...my comic. This does take quite a long process (well, it could be finished within...~6 hours or so), but when you only have...2-4 hours total in the day free, and you use all of it playing on TNT...! :D So this thing will definitely start rolling after school is done. I gotta change some things though, like learn how to display one post at a time, and add those next and previous buttons. I can't even figure out how to chnage the background color from white to tan! I blame it on society...


^_^

Random image of me in a FarCry demo o_O 

Womp

Did some timing s and such, laptop boots (everything) in about 45 seconds, while the desktop takes atleast 1.5 minutes, just so I can click the start menu (still needs to load a couple mroe programs). So yea...I will reformat, sometime after June 2nd when I'm done with school (1 MORE MONTH TILL VICTORY DARN IT!) and then that way, I won't have to reinstall my homeschool program, which installs some other crap like this SQL server which runs and slows down start time. I don't expect laptop times on this machine, but anything under a minute is good enough.

Anyway...a lot of my American tourney friends discovered TNT last night (TNT is the server me and the euro guys always play on) and they apprently had a blast. I was so mad though cuz I didn't capture one flag last night. The pubbies camp more, mines double in amount around flag, and there were 5 more of my teammates playing on the other side (I always join the opposite of their side, to even things out ^_^) so you know...I almost knifed Saptiva again, but I really messed that up. >_< Oh well, we'll see what happens tonight! :D

Yea...the silence...

I haven't posted for a couple days now. I'm not sure why, maybe I haven't had much to post about? You must've all been devastated the past days, without any reading material to...read...online. ;) Anyway, I plan on reformatting my comp soon, getting to slow for my liking. Needs some cleaning up anyway (Laptop is still a ~1 booter upper, its so sweet! :D). Lets hope that I dont bloat Windows up again. >_<