Saturday, September 24, 2005

Busier than a monkey with a handfull of feicies

Target was fun today. Joyful. Busy. We had three people working in camera for about an hour, and all three of us were helping guests. Guests... hehe... do you care if you are called a customer? I've had someone comment on me calling them a guest. They were like "So we're guests now, huh?" and I'm like "yeah." I've also had an old man tell me creepy stories... more like sick stories, but yeah. That's not from today. I was too busy to listen to old men talk about sick stories... yuck. I sold a bunch of stuff today. Yesterday someone bought 2 LCD tvs. Crazy. Anyways, work has been busy for the past two days, and I could not have gotten through it without my brother. He helped me zoned (pretty much zoned for me actually) yesterday, and he was scheduled to work in camera with me today. Big help there. No sarcasm.

To comment back on Molly's comment about poe, I thought he married his 13 year old cousin? Either way, it was young. It was a happy marriage though. Poe was actually happy during the time she was alive. Then he got depressed again and died in front of a bar with someone elses clothes on. Intriguing (I love that word), isn't it?

When was the last time I updated? I forget these things because of what goes on in my head and what I actually blog. There's a fine line. A very fine line, indeed. Monday? Yeah that's right. Poe, and Gump. Right. It came back to me. I'm hungry. Mmm... chicken. Who doesn't love chicken? No one! Even vegitarians eat it. Ok, so I lied, but if they would eat one meat, it would definitely be chicken. You should check out my website. I updated it with some pictures and stuff. I'll upload more pictures and stuff. Since my dad got a new digital camera, which he got our best camera at Target for 60% off (long story about how he got at 60% off), I can make my flash thing I was gonna do. Yep.

These last two years have been great, for CDs. You got the Grits, TobyMac, Relient K, Blindside, John Reuben, Thousand Foot Krutch, Switchfoot, Juliana Theory. There's more. I just can't think of more at the moment. But I do have to eat, so I'll talk to you later alligator. I'll probably blog later tonight, knowing me.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Partially Politically Correct

What's goin' on? You doin' well? I hope so. Basically I read a little of the Edger Allan Poe. That was good. He has a massive vocabulary. I read the "House of Usher." I read it for school, but then I got out my "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" book, and the next story to read was "The Fall of the House of Usher" so I read it again. It is probably a good thing to read his stories twice through. I just writes so well, that you have to. Good story. The next story is "The Pit and the Pendulum" (i am still a horrible speller and I am to lazy to look it up). I've read that one last year, but my goal is to read all the short storied by him in this book, this year. So far I've read three... I have about a dozen or so to go. I am dissappointed that "Hop Frog" isn't in there. We read that one for school, and I wish it was in my works of poe book. But then again, it's available on the Internet for you to read in your free time... in fact I think this is where my teachers printed it off from: if you go to google and type in "hop frog" it's the first link. the address is really long.

Hmm... what else is there. Well I also watched Forest Gump today. That's a good movie. I remembered little about the movie when I watched it when I was 4 and I had an urge to watch it now. All I remembered from when I was four, was the box of chocolates line, and him running as a kid which the braces on... that's basically all I remembered. Great movie though, now that I watch it now.

That's basically all that is new. I've pretty much been working and going to school. That really sucks. I now realize how you can get stressed out. But it's days like these that I appreciate where i can just rest. YAY! I don't have to work until 4:45 tomorrow, which means I don't have to hurry and get to work from school! :). Joyful. Have a great day, night or afternoon, depending on when you read this.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Emotion is Dead

I have listened to the Juliana Theory "The Deadbeat Sweetheart", and have come up with a review. Could this possibly be the follow up CD to "Emotion is Dead" for TJT fans? I mean "Love" was an alright CD. The songs flowed together nicely (except Into the Dark, which was kinda just thrown in there), and the songs were pretty good, but it just seemed... average. The EP, "Music from Another Room" was good, but that was just songs that didn't make the cut for Emotion is Dead. I think most TJT fans will agree with me that "Emotion is Dead" and the EP were some of Juliana's best albums, and we were kinda dissappointed by "Love." But what about "Deadbeat Sweetheart?" Is this the album we were waiting for? The answer is Yes. 48 minutes and 46 seconds of great music. The songs flow together nicely, the music is awsome, and the lyrics are great, along with Brett's voice. Charles wondered about "French Kiss Off" being the last songs, but I think they made a good choice. Basically, there's a bonus track after "French Kiss Off" but you have to fast forward to after French Kiss Off, and I wish bands would just add the freaking song to the album, and have it have its own track. It gets kinda annoying to fast forward after a song, to hear a song.
So the question has to be answered: Is their best album? I don't know. Honestly, I have to give it more time. But if I were you, I would pick this one up. So go now.
As for Switchfoot, I haven't even listened to it all the way through, and I wasn't really paying much attention to listening to it, when I listened to it. I was busy doing homework. But Stars is an awsome song. I'm gonna go before I blabber too much, which i probably already did.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Hold Shift

Ok, ok. I figured this out, without using tape. Please see previous post to figure out what I am talking about. Anyways, to get by that protection crap, just hold shift, and insert the CD, and it shouldn't read anything. See, when you insert the CD, the computer reads everything, and that's when it'll read the error. But if you hold shift, it doesn't read anything. So once you do that, wait a couple of seconds, let go of shift, and open your program you want to rip the music from, or copy. I would rip and then just burn the music to a CD, because if you copied, you would also copy the error file. So, yeah I got it. Now I burned both CDs (I got Simple Plan way back when it came out, so it's about time I burned it to a CD so I can rip it to my computer, or just play it without fear of ruining one of the sides). I'm joyful now.

Dear Norton,
I appreciate you trying to protect my computer, and you have done a great job doing so. The problem is that you do it too well, and I must tell you that you should let me control what programs to allow, but instead you block things, that aren't a threat, and I have no way of making it work. I tunes for example. You ask me if I should allow the program, when i start it, and I say yes, and then nothing happens. Nothing. Notta. I try again, and nothing. And then I try to shut down, and it takes forever (like 15 minutes, or not at all) for my computer to shut down. To use Itunes, I must disable you. You have done it with other programs too. I just wanted to let you know about this.
Sincerely,
Roy

And I wish that Norton would read this, but it won't. It would just block it. Why do i post it? I don't know. Bye bye my good audience.
CD Protection

In this day and age, people have to be able to rip music from audio cds. It's a must. Why? Because people own these inventions called "MP3 Players." Yeah. I know. Amazing technology. Enough of me being sarcastic. But seriously, it's a must. I have me Ipod, and I need to take CDs that I purchase and rip them onto my harddrive, and then import them onto my IPod. I would also like to get the best quality. So, the first Copy protected cd i encountered was Simple Plan's CD. Basically, the put an error in the table of contents, and if there is an error, most CD drives won't try to read the CD. Most CD players don't look at the table of contents, so it works in CD players and not in your Computer. I don't have Simple plan on my IPod, yet, but since the other side of the CD is a DVD, and i just downloaded a DVD audio ripper, I shall have the audio. Now, i've done this before, and the SImple Plan CD has the .IFO files (the ones your DvD player can read) in seperate tracks, so it makes for easy identification for songs. Well, Switchfoot's new CD, has Copy protection, and has a DVD side. The problem is that the DVD side has seperated the tracks into 3 songs per IFO file... so I can't really do much, if I want to pick what song I want to listen to, and I do.

Basically, Sony (which is one of the record companies that do this) is screwing themselves over. The idea is to stop pirating, when I see on the internet, people won't even buy the CD, they'll just download it via P2P program, for free. Basically, it ticks me off because I paid 13 bucks (it's originally 16 bucks, but it's on sale) for a music CD, that I want to put onto my IPod, and enjoy it that way. But no. I can't. Ticks me off. There is a way to rip them though. Apparently, you can wrap eletrical tape around the outside, to just before the visible line (you should be able to see it if you look closely) and fold the tape over the other side, and it should play. I don't know. This is a double sided CD/DVD. I hope I don't ruin the DVD side when I fold the extra tape over. I don't know if I'm gonna do that method. But the point is, in this day of age, people need to be able to rip music, or at least have make the CD compatable with ITunes, or something so you can import it to your IPod or MP3 player.

But what are you gonna do? You pay the money, and figure out that if this CD get's ruined, you have to buy a new one. You can't just burn another copy. Now if you excuse me, I have some taping to do.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Tonight

I should go to bed, because I have to get up for first period tomorrow, because I have to write a report, which has to be 4 pages long... yeah. Well the teachers assigned it on Monday to be due on Wed, but they were gonna give us time in class to do them. I didn't know what the heck was going on and I wanted to just relax, so i didn't do it on monday night. They gave us an hour (it's a 2 hour class) to work on it, and I got 2 pages done. See, they shared examples which was greatly appreciated by me, and I knew what the heck was goin on then. The sad news is that I had to work tonight, so I haven't gotten any more then the 2 pages done. Now it's due tomorrow... a rough draft, but basically that's your complete essay. It's a creative essay, which I like. But like i said, I had 1 hour to do it, and now I have to go to school earlier just so I can finish it. I guess I don't have to go to school an hour early, I could just do it at home... but I can get a good parking spot if I went when school actually started. Plus i do homework better at school. Dunno why; just do.

Speaking of tonight, we recieved the new Juliana Theory CD today, and I haven't gotten to listen to it yet. I am excited though. I already ripped it to my harddrive, and have it uploaded to my Ipod. I plan on picking up Switchfoot's new CD tomorrow. I am very excited about that one. Switchfoot is just awsome, and the song "Stars" is awsome. Go to their website and watch the video, now! Also I can check my checking account online now. You have to go through a process to do that. I finally got the confirmation email. So now I also confirmed my paypal account, and now I am a sponsor of Red Vs blue, whcih means I get their videos 3 days early, and they are in HI Res. Exciting. I also plan on buying the Secret of Mana DVD, which the person has a weird process for ordering stuff. YOu have to donate a certain amount of money through paypal, and then send an email to him/her (I don't know. I think it's a her) tell the person what you want. I'm like, Get a store! Gosh. I have to wait for paypal though to transfer funds. Bah. Paypal sucks, but now I can buy stuff... which is a bad thing because now i have to work to get money back, which interferes with essays. Also I have a test in the class tomorrow, also. That sucks. A report due and a test. They really expect a lot from a high school kid. Stressful. As a plus, day off tomorrow, and a Bolivia meeting... or maybe Orlean meeting... depends what we vote on.

I need to sleep for purposes I just told you about. Night monks.

Monday, September 12, 2005

The Scoop

I guess I haven't mentioned Hurricane Katrina at all. It isn't because I haven't heard about, but I just hate the news. I want to know more about the effects of Katrina, but I don't want to hear it from the news. I finally found somewhere that I can get some information, first hand. My brother showed the Journal to me. It's at this site: http://mgno.com. They have a live webcam, and photos, and this guy updates his journal often. Their building lasted throughout the storm, and they've kept journaling.

I don't have much else to say really, except that today was a horrible day to drive. I got stuck near horrible drivers. Yuck. Well I'm gonna go.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Codeword: Dirtbag

Hmm... What is there to blog about? Well I could tell you I've been sick for the past couple days, and I am still sick. I had a runny nose on Friday. I thought you would appreciate knowing that. I mean like it was running out of my nose. Yum. I also went to the PowWow on Friday. I would have enjoyed it more if I weren't sick. But I was. So I didn't enjoy it as much. I had to work that night, but it wasn't so bad. I also was sick yesterday and I had to work. But i was not feeling so good for the first half of my shift. Then I got a little better. Today I feel better, although I cough every now and then and my voice still sounds a little funny. Today is Sept. 11, if you didn't realize that. um... that's basically all there is to blog about. I picked up a shift today when i have to go to in about 30 minutes. Bash. I'm gonna go.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

I-Tripped over the radio station.

Get it. I-Trip, as in the FM Transmitter for the IPod, and I tripped. Get it. It's not funny. I know. Soo... I bought one of these doohickies, and it's been pretty good to me. I also bought a car adapter for the IPod, but nothing special about that. If you don't know, the Itrip is a little thingy that allows you to have your IPod broadcasted to a FM radio station, so you can listen to your IPod through speakers, if your speakers have FM Radio. I bought the more expensive one, the one made by Griffin Technology, thinking that I would get the best quality. It seems a little fuzzy once in awhile. Plus you have to turn your radio up fairly loud. I play CDs in my car at 15, and that's loud pretty loud sounding, but to produce that loudness, I gotta turn it up to 30, with the IPod. So it's not perfect, but it's pretty good. It's worth the money. 25 bucks. I also don't like that your radio station become part of your music files... meaning that if i have my IPod on shuffle, it could land on one of the radio frequencies. I also think that it sucks more battery out of it... but whatever. I just landed on the first radio station, on shuffle. It makes a beeping sound through the speakers. To activate the frequency, you play the frequency (like 89.9 or whatever is empty) and the the LED light blinks rapidly and you need to pause it then (the "tracks" are 5 second tracks so you have to pause it before the time is up) you can start playing songs. It's magic. I don't understand the technology of it, even. And i consider myself fairly techonology savvy... savvy... hehe. Sweet! This car adapter comes with a firewire cable! Sure it's for the little thing that plugs into your cigarette lighter place, but oh well... then again i don't have a fire wire port... so basically I don't know why I said sweet. So if the Itrip does suck battery, I can now charge it in my motorized vehicle.

I had some problems with ITunes last night. I was gonna upload the radio stations, but when I opened ITunes, it need to be updated. So I did, and basically I downloaded the file and reinstalled ITunes, but with a more updated version. Well, I do this and get it all installed, and I double click on the Icon and nothing happens. I mean squat happens. So after uninstalling it and installing it about 5 times, with no luck, I look around and I finally catch something today. Well, it seems that Norton likes to block ITunes. So I restarted and disabled Norton, and it worked. Yeah. So if you run into a problem like that, now you know that it is Norton's fault.

You know what sucks? Getting paid 33 bucks, for working at your job. My last paycheck at Miracle Mart: $33 bucks and some cents. I worked one day and for only 5.75 hours. Yeah, I know. Wow.

I gotta go mow the lawn. Bye. Later.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

I need sleep

So I should be sleeping right now, but my tummy isn't feeling well, and lying down only makes it worse and I can't sleep, so i decided to blog. Apparently if I mention something little in a post, people comment about it. Wierd. Paragraphs... hehe. I don't even use paragraphs correctly. I just make them whenever i deem it necissary. Oh well. I'm rambling without even knowing what I am saying, because i am very tired and my tummy no feel well. I had to work at Target apparently. I wasn't sure. I went to Target on my lunch break, and I checked the schedule, and it said i had to work today. I was greatly grieved. As a plus, I got to work in electronics... I heart electronics. Although i almost forgot to turn in the keys... that would have been a bumber.

I have these off periods of being sick all of a sudden. Like i was sick the last time I posted... or was that the time before. I don't keep track anymore. I was working today, and my stomach started hurting, and then it went away, and now it feels worse. Sad times. I don't know if I am psycho... then again I don't no if annomynous is creepy. Creepy... hehe. Creepy. I think i use the word creepy, because it's night and i really should get some sleep, and somehow that reminds me of the word creepy.

I think I'll go back to not using paragraphs. People comment on them. Oddly, people i don't know. I really don't feel good. I think i might vomit, or something. Blogging isn't helping this stomach problem. When you were young, did you guys go "My dad can beat up your dad"? If so, I feel left out. No one challenged me to that. I never got a chance to say that. Oh well. I tell you what though, if my dad was the Hulk, I would be the king of that.

I'm gonna get some sleep... I hope. I don't remember what I typed for the past fifteen minutes.

Monday, September 05, 2005

I ran out of good titles

I ran out of titles to pick, when I have nothing to talk about. I guess I could put people reading my blog, that I don't know. That's kinda weird. I thought I was the only one to go around the internet to random places. Apparently I'm not the only one. I a different key, (get it, people go 'on a different note', and i said 'key.' See it's referring to musical terms.) The Juliana Theory is coming out with a CD in a week and one day. My bro and I preordered it so it gets autographed, and we get a DVD. I'm kinda excited about it. I heart Juliana Theory. Charles isn't as excited as I am, but I haven't listened to a whole lot of their new songs. I like My Heart is a Soldier. So far, that's the best one in my opinion. Then again, I've only heard 3 of their new songs.

I'm really getting into making new paragraphs, as you can tell. Paragraphs make your blog nice and neat. I like neat. My car isn't neat. Can someone clean it for me? And when you do, wash the inside of my windsheild. It's really dirty, and I almost hit things when the sun is shining through it, like in the morning when I leave for school. Well, i have some things to do with the website. These things include various things that need to be done on the website. If you want to find out what these things include, check out the website. Yes I'm gonna advertise to you, yet again. Now you shouldn't have any excuses.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Arg... ahg... blah...

Man. I don't feel so good. My throat feels scratchy. It doesnt hurt, it just feels scratchy. My nose has been running for awhile, and I can't catch it (i think i used that pun a while ago... can't remember. Might have been last winter.). My head hurt during work for a while. It doesn't hurt now. My tummy is not feeling well. I don't know. I'm tired, but that's because of getting up early for the last week or so. Anyways, I suppose you don't want to hear about me not feeling great.

I was looking into buying an FM Modulator for my IPod. I have options. I think I'll go with the ITrip. It's about 8 bucks more then the other one, but I think it'll be better. Plus I'll buy a car charger for this babe. Babe... I'm spacing out... I think I'll...

So tomorrow is labor day and I have to work. Why is it called Labor Day? It should be called, Not Laboring Day... or something like that. I have to labor, but I get paid wage and a half, which computes to nine bucks an hour. I forget when I work... is it 5:30 or 5? I dunno. All I know is I get to sleep in tomorrow... mmm, sleep. Me like that idea.

So website has been updated a little more. You should check it out. I didn't get to finish the current news post, because I got confused, about what time I had to go to work. I knew that I had to be at work at 1:45 (puzzles me too) but I was thinking that I had to leave at that time, because I usually have to be at work on the hour... coherent? I don't know. I'm not feeling well and Im tired. You are not gonna get coherency (I've used that non-word before too). But yeah, visit website. I'll post a link somewhere in this paragraph. You'll know. It'll be the only link in this paragraph. Also there is a link in my Links called "My Site!" I think.

Umm... I don't know. I'm chilling listening to my Iped and stuff. I'm also updating my blog. my iped is on shuffle. yeah. slushie. My ending statement is slushie. Slushie.

Slushie.

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Squirdle

Do I have anything to say? No. Why am I posting? Dunno. We shall see though. We shall see.

Well... orange juice is good. Ipods are good. Video games are good. Bubbles are good. Family Guy is good. I'll tell you what's not good: Cars. Cars are evil. If you can avoid it, don't get a car. I made the mistake of getting one, and now I have to put up with people that don't use blinkers, and are horrible drivers in general. Don't get me started on gas prices. Wow... 3.19 a gallon. That's horrible. I've decided I'm gonna invest into a motorcycle license. I'll probably not go through with it, just because I don't have a motorcycle, or the money for one. My cousin in law has a motorcycle, and she gets 90 miles to the gallon... or was it 50? Probably the latter. Anyways, it's a lot more then 25 miles to the gallon. I haven't had to fill up my tank yet, with this over 3 bucks a gallon thing, but i might have to. I'm at a half a tank. I'm gonna have the first hydrogen station. Yeah, then the car companies can start selling their hydrogen cars, because they can't say there isn't any stations. That's what the president should do: force car companies to mass produce hyrogen cars, and build hyrogen stations. Maybe that's not a good idea, because maybe the cars will cost lots of money. I don't know. I've done no research on these cars, further than what I see on TV, and other good stuff like that. I only catch snippets of it. I'm gonna leave now before I choke myself with my own words. Bye.

EDIT: And this is why I am right:
"The engines, which are almost silent when the engine is running, can manage 62 miles per gallon of hydrogen and have a range of 190 miles."
They are talking about 2010. Hopefully. And guess what? There are 16 stations and 15 more are planned. I think this is in California. Arnold is doing this business. And that is all I have to say, because I'll probably not see a hydrogen car until 2010. Bye, again

Friday, September 02, 2005

One Week!? What!?

So the first full week of school is over... what? It seems like a freaking month... it's only been a week. I'm greatly grieved by this. I mean, only one week went by. Man. This week went really really slow. Oh well. Hopefully the rest of the school year will go faster. I can only hope. Tomorrow is my last day at Miracle mart, so I can be happy about that. I go the day off today, so I'm happy. I updated my website with some stuff. If you missed last times post, I put a link to it in my handy link bar, over thar. I didn't get a whole lot done with the site. I did fix a little problem that I've been having trouble with, and I got some files uploaded. currently I am taking up 32 mb, out of my 2 gb, space. or 2000 mb, if you want to keep it in the same units. So yeah.
Well I'm gonna chillza like mozilla. Peace out peeps.