...is awesome...
I got badges and STUFF! Uhm...I'm still playing...no life updates except I made it to Lance Corporal today and...you can check my rank on bf.slawed.net
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Soo....yea...
I'm lying in bed with my laptop in my lap, waiting for Mom to tuck me in and sing me a lullaby and decided to blog. NO my mom won't sing for me...oh well...
I got BF2 btw...:D
I'm building the comp for my uncle tomorrow, as that's when everything arrives...
K...good night...
I got BF2 btw...:D
I'm building the comp for my uncle tomorrow, as that's when everything arrives...
K...good night...
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Update 2
Yea...so...
We've mainly been doing a whole mess load of crap yard work around the house. We're getting a circular driveway installed and we got to keep the dirt path dry for some reason and its a huge pain laying down the 4 large sheets of plastic and place the heavy stepping stones to keep em from blowing. Our weather has been so evil lately, raining almost EVERY afternoon, beating sun, and its been like that for some weeks now with no ending signs. Sheesh! Lows of high 70s and highs of low 90s. Well, really hhigh 80s, but with this humidity it could easily feel like 100+. Anyway, we went bowling again for Father's Day. I felt so much more experienced and stronger this time ^_^ I acutally got a strike on a play throw with my left hand (I'm right handed :P) and that was cool. Tomorrow I'll be spending all day drawing stuff for people. First the daily "Just Deserts" comic, which has reached 21 strips so far (w00t!), then finish up Holysoldier's LAN strip, then Xb385's sig, then add sumthin' to Bubba's, make Taps', Oz's, Jones', and anyone else I can remember! :D
Also I will be building my second comp. Its for my Uncle Joe, and it will be running Linux! He's tired of Microsoft, Windows, and all the OEM PC's pre-installed crap, and I have the pleasure of spending some $1200 on his machine. Hopefully everything will go just as smooth during the building as it did with my first :)
And...Casbar bought a Jeep on eBay. YAY! :D
We've mainly been doing a whole mess load of crap yard work around the house. We're getting a circular driveway installed and we got to keep the dirt path dry for some reason and its a huge pain laying down the 4 large sheets of plastic and place the heavy stepping stones to keep em from blowing. Our weather has been so evil lately, raining almost EVERY afternoon, beating sun, and its been like that for some weeks now with no ending signs. Sheesh! Lows of high 70s and highs of low 90s. Well, really hhigh 80s, but with this humidity it could easily feel like 100+. Anyway, we went bowling again for Father's Day. I felt so much more experienced and stronger this time ^_^ I acutally got a strike on a play throw with my left hand (I'm right handed :P) and that was cool. Tomorrow I'll be spending all day drawing stuff for people. First the daily "Just Deserts" comic, which has reached 21 strips so far (w00t!), then finish up Holysoldier's LAN strip, then Xb385's sig, then add sumthin' to Bubba's, make Taps', Oz's, Jones', and anyone else I can remember! :D
Also I will be building my second comp. Its for my Uncle Joe, and it will be running Linux! He's tired of Microsoft, Windows, and all the OEM PC's pre-installed crap, and I have the pleasure of spending some $1200 on his machine. Hopefully everything will go just as smooth during the building as it did with my first :)
And...Casbar bought a Jeep on eBay. YAY! :D
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Life update:
Ok, a couple of days have gone by, and you must be wondering what has happened since Saturday. Well...
Saturday: I can't remember what I did. :D All I know is that in the evening we went to our Grandma's house. :P
Sunday: Dad's birthday, so we take him bowling. Me and my mom split the cost, and we rent "Ocean's Twelve" for the night. I've seen it before, but my parents hadn't, and I rather have watched that again then rent "Are we there yet?". >_< THere's nothing good in Blockbuster anymore...
And so...today I've finished setting up all my stuff on my new;y reformatted comp. I can't believe I had to call Microsoft to give me an activation ID. I hate Windows. When I first installed it, the comp booted in 15 seconds. But with Windows' highly inefficient piece of crap registry system and who-knows-what built-in mechanisms, after installing most of my programs, boot times shot up to some 35+ seconds. Its not bad, definitely better than the 2 minutes from before, but still.. Linux boots the same speed all the time, regardless of how much you installed (unless of course they are services that you install, but there aren't that many and they take like...0.25 seconds to launch? :P)
Ahh...oh well...
Saturday: I can't remember what I did. :D All I know is that in the evening we went to our Grandma's house. :P
Sunday: Dad's birthday, so we take him bowling. Me and my mom split the cost, and we rent "Ocean's Twelve" for the night. I've seen it before, but my parents hadn't, and I rather have watched that again then rent "Are we there yet?". >_< THere's nothing good in Blockbuster anymore...
And so...today I've finished setting up all my stuff on my new;y reformatted comp. I can't believe I had to call Microsoft to give me an activation ID. I hate Windows. When I first installed it, the comp booted in 15 seconds. But with Windows' highly inefficient piece of crap registry system and who-knows-what built-in mechanisms, after installing most of my programs, boot times shot up to some 35+ seconds. Its not bad, definitely better than the 2 minutes from before, but still.. Linux boots the same speed all the time, regardless of how much you installed (unless of course they are services that you install, but there aren't that many and they take like...0.25 seconds to launch? :P)
Ahh...oh well...
Saturday, June 11, 2005
BF2 DEMO Screenies!
BATTLEFIELD 2 DEMO! WOOOO! 
Yummy lighting...
Fly away!
Crap...
I dead...
Carrier
I dead again!
WEeeeeeee
Yummy lighting...
Fly away!
Crap...
I dead...
Carrier
I dead again!
WEeeeeeee
Friday, June 10, 2005
Ho hum...
Let's see what I got to talk about...
Its funny, how during school when I should've been doing work, I posted up my blogs, and I posted them way more frequently than I do now that its summer vacation and I got all the time in the world. ^_^
SO yea, let's see...it looks like my dad's all hyped up on getting me my permit. He's found out info about the insurance and I got info from Mike on what to do. That's cool, I'll be taking that DATA course soon. I don't get why NOW though, cuz I could've had a license or sumthin by now, seeing as how my "I-wanna-drive" phase was during my year of 15 years. >_>
I'm currently reading a Tom Clancy book, Op-center: Acts of War. I have read all the Op-center's before that too, this one looks like its about some Kurdish terrorists breaking a dam in Turkey (or was it Syria...) and releasing the waters of the Euphrates (yea, thats the river in the Bible incase it sounded familiar ~_^) to replensih the dryness of Iran and...Syria? Syria has something to do with something! :D
Yesterday was a blast playing with Moe and Smitty, versus me and Casbar. Moe is this German dude who uhm...is in Ninja company (i.e. the monkeys) and...he has a little girl, and...he doesn't like Soldat for some odd reason! :D Anyway, it was great. The map we've been practicing on is the map for this week's battle. I just hang around to help the other guys practice, as I'm not playing this campaign. Anyway, the map is Sniper heaven. So many tricky places, pretty much the whole game we were sitting somewhere, or quietly moving from place to place to sit there for another 5 minutes. ^_^ I knifed everyone atleast once I believe...hehehe
And today, today there will be a small, but special "Just Deserts", and I'm gonna start reinstalling some stuff on the new hard drive. I decided to just take everything off of it, move all of Fatty's files and reinstall whatever is needed on to her main drive, so that I can take my 120GB one. Then once everything is done, I'll format the 80GB in this Dell, and move it to the new PC. That one will have Windows 2000 and Ubuntu on dual-boot. Also, I'm trying to this all before 12 noon because the Battlefield 2 demo may be out today!!1! :D
Its funny, how during school when I should've been doing work, I posted up my blogs, and I posted them way more frequently than I do now that its summer vacation and I got all the time in the world. ^_^
SO yea, let's see...it looks like my dad's all hyped up on getting me my permit. He's found out info about the insurance and I got info from Mike on what to do. That's cool, I'll be taking that DATA course soon. I don't get why NOW though, cuz I could've had a license or sumthin by now, seeing as how my "I-wanna-drive" phase was during my year of 15 years. >_>
I'm currently reading a Tom Clancy book, Op-center: Acts of War. I have read all the Op-center's before that too, this one looks like its about some Kurdish terrorists breaking a dam in Turkey (or was it Syria...) and releasing the waters of the Euphrates (yea, thats the river in the Bible incase it sounded familiar ~_^) to replensih the dryness of Iran and...Syria? Syria has something to do with something! :D
Yesterday was a blast playing with Moe and Smitty, versus me and Casbar. Moe is this German dude who uhm...is in Ninja company (i.e. the monkeys) and...he has a little girl, and...he doesn't like Soldat for some odd reason! :D Anyway, it was great. The map we've been practicing on is the map for this week's battle. I just hang around to help the other guys practice, as I'm not playing this campaign. Anyway, the map is Sniper heaven. So many tricky places, pretty much the whole game we were sitting somewhere, or quietly moving from place to place to sit there for another 5 minutes. ^_^ I knifed everyone atleast once I believe...hehehe
And today, today there will be a small, but special "Just Deserts", and I'm gonna start reinstalling some stuff on the new hard drive. I decided to just take everything off of it, move all of Fatty's files and reinstall whatever is needed on to her main drive, so that I can take my 120GB one. Then once everything is done, I'll format the 80GB in this Dell, and move it to the new PC. That one will have Windows 2000 and Ubuntu on dual-boot. Also, I'm trying to this all before 12 noon because the Battlefield 2 demo may be out today!!1! :D
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Freeedommm...
Yes, now it is official, there is no more work. We finished yesterday night, and its finally over. So there is goes my first job. In total over the last months as of my first paycheck on January 13th, I've made $3,095.82, not counting the next paycheck I'm suppose to get for this and last week. Overall, I've spent about 80% on electronics (big surprise woooo) with $2,512 going into that! Uhm...let's see, I gotta give about $100 for tithe, $15 for the cellphone bill, and...that leaves me with about $51, plus last week's check should be about $200 and then the last 2 days are $64...so I got $264 to live off of for the next weeks. Oh gee...^_^
Anyway, no updates on what could be my next job. I'm not sure what the deciding facotr is, so I'm just waiting for my dad to tell me more about it when he can. They're coming down from New York (I think I said California before) and they'll be quite East of us, near the beach I was told, so its quite a bit away. I'll either have to take the bus or get my permit! :D
Anyway, no updates on what could be my next job. I'm not sure what the deciding facotr is, so I'm just waiting for my dad to tell me more about it when he can. They're coming down from New York (I think I said California before) and they'll be quite East of us, near the beach I was told, so its quite a bit away. I'll either have to take the bus or get my permit! :D
Monday, June 06, 2005
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Comp pics!
Case, looks bright cuz camera flash...
Insides, that Geforce2 is now a 9800 Pro...
Radeon right, new card left :D
Insides, that Geforce2 is now a 9800 Pro...
Radeon right, new card left :D
Ding! ding! ding!
And the final test scores are:
Bible: 97% A
History: 90% A
Math: 90% A
Language: 88% B
Science: 86% B
Yay! Now I gotta finish this project, grade some stuff, get my graphics card installed, finish my last day of work today (YESS!!) do an IOWA test tomorrow.
Also, for a little more info, looks like God is planning a nice big ol' blessing for me. One of my Dad's bosses ask him about me and if I was working. Because they have one of the sections of their business moving to Florida from California and they're gonna be hiring people. And me, having my dad as a connnection, was offered a job there. If my dad lets me, and he's really thinking about it, I'll be working there. This is so awesome for me and I thank God for everything. Its so cool because 1. my first job wasn't a small minimum wage paid job, but a nice $8.50 an hour job, 2. Its only been 1/2 a year and now my job ended, and I get offered with a new one that is 3. professional! This is not like my current job which gets projects and we work, but there's really no room for growing in that business. In the new one, I can grow in rank like my Dad, get paid more, do more, like a real business should be. Its pretty much a jump to work just like my what my Dad is doing now. And all this is happening, and I'm only 16! I mean, how many people are looking for a job whoe are 20+? This is why God deserves all the credit because I've obviously done nothing to get myself into this position, its all by God's grace. WOOHOO! :D
Bible: 97% A
History: 90% A
Math: 90% A
Language: 88% B
Science: 86% B
Yay! Now I gotta finish this project, grade some stuff, get my graphics card installed, finish my last day of work today (YESS!!) do an IOWA test tomorrow.
Also, for a little more info, looks like God is planning a nice big ol' blessing for me. One of my Dad's bosses ask him about me and if I was working. Because they have one of the sections of their business moving to Florida from California and they're gonna be hiring people. And me, having my dad as a connnection, was offered a job there. If my dad lets me, and he's really thinking about it, I'll be working there. This is so awesome for me and I thank God for everything. Its so cool because 1. my first job wasn't a small minimum wage paid job, but a nice $8.50 an hour job, 2. Its only been 1/2 a year and now my job ended, and I get offered with a new one that is 3. professional! This is not like my current job which gets projects and we work, but there's really no room for growing in that business. In the new one, I can grow in rank like my Dad, get paid more, do more, like a real business should be. Its pretty much a jump to work just like my what my Dad is doing now. And all this is happening, and I'm only 16! I mean, how many people are looking for a job whoe are 20+? This is why God deserves all the credit because I've obviously done nothing to get myself into this position, its all by God's grace. WOOHOO! :D
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Monday, May 30, 2005
Friday, May 27, 2005
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!
Thursday, May 26, 2005
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 >_<
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Monday, May 23, 2005
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! >_<
Friday, May 20, 2005
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...
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...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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