Super Cooties

04.24.2003

Even though I tried to avoid it by staying at home the first part of last week, it seems Jer has caught my bug and progressed to the fever stage. I tried to keep it to myself. I stayed at homeand hacked and coughed and layed there while the bed spun - my sure sign of a fever. But Jer just has to catch my cooties. This is the same man who had perfect attendence at school up until our senior year. He used to never get sick! I guess now I can't cough around him without giving him the flu. I feel so ashamed.

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Camtoon Tuesday

04.22.2003

Week #3 of a new camtoon finds us on the verge of some major chair wacking. I promise. It's coming.

It also seems that Jer has caught my cooties. I'll bet he's really mad at me. He's not talking to me, and he's only a foot away. I wonder if there's a way for me to make it up to him?

Afternoon Update - Jer has placed some sort ofcurse on me that has opened up my sinuses something fierce. Damn him and his sinus cursory ways!

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To Read, Perchance to Dream

04.21.2003

There was a time when all I read was science fiction. I'm not sure why, but it was the only genre that could hold my interest. I saw where this years Nebula Awards were announced, andI managed to have not only read none of the books, but only recognized 1 author (Neil Gaiman), and him I only know because he's authored a few comic books.

Somewhere along the way of the past few years, I've just lost an interest in reading cience fiction. My old age has turned me toward biographies (mostly wrestlers, god help me) and more "popular fiction". I really like the books of Po Bronson. No other authors have quite caught myeye with consistent work yet.

I haven't given up on science fiction completely, I've just turned more picky. The last one I was engrossed in was Neil Stephensons Cryptonomicon, not assci-fi as I'm used to, but a great read that intertwines the past and near future. Cryptonomicon is supposed to be the first of a trilogy, and I've been anxiously awaiting the next book since finishing the first book (which I think was over 900 pages).

As it is, I've been stuck in the land of graphic novels to fill my reading time.

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Other-Russell

04.18.2003

I was playing another round of googling my name, but with an added twist this time. Thanks to an errant phone number look up on Yahoo, I saw that a Russell Spears existed in Pensacola. Hoping to (maybe) one day move to Pensacola, I thought I would see if I could find out anything else about Other-Russell. The only thing I could find was that he plays volleyball. The club he plays with is slightly ironic - the Blue Thunder Volleyball Club - because Blue Thunder was the nickname Jer and I gave the old Camaro back in the old high school days.

Maybe Other-Russell is really me from the future, and I've come back in time to warn myself to not do something. Like catch this cold I've got, that would have been a good thing to warn me of.

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The Pain of OS Upgrades

04.17.2003

After putting it off for a week or two, I finally gave in to get the Windows upgraded from Home edition to Professional on the laptop. Why? So I could run Microsoft's stupid web server, which doesn't run on the home version (and pisses me off because of it). I found numerous ways to hack the IIS package, which usually boiled down to 2 ways, which might not work. I tried them. If you know my history of installing things,it never goes well, and this stayed true to form by not working for me either.

So I went to CompUSA, handed them the laptop, and bid them to install the upgrade for me. And charge me extra and be quick about it! 20 hours later I had the laptop back, which was 16 hours more than I expected. They suck. On top of that, whenever I opened a window, Microsoft Money 2002 to install, and it wanted disk 2 to do it! Never mind that I don't even know what MS Money is, but there was no way I could get it to stop trying to install (especially since I didn't have the disk it kept wanting). After removing directories by hand, removing what files were present for Money, MS Works, and .NET, it finally quit trying to install.

I got them to install more memory too, but I was stupid and thought I had 256MB to begin with and was expanding to 512MB. I had 2 64MB sticks, 1 of which got replaced by the new 256MB chip.

That's what I get for trying to be a big shot and get somebody else to do my dirty work.

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