Random thoughts and questions

Judge you? Are you kidding? I applaud you for not taking up smoking! (I'm an ex-smoker, and thank goodness I knit. Otherwise I'd probably take up cigarettes again. Well, okay,probably not, but I'd at least think about it more often.)

My father's family was dirt poor in rural Kentucky. They never could understand why my father ditched his accent, went to college, and rarely ever spoke to them. When we did go visit they'd make fun of me for reading books. Horrible, horrible people.

Yep, but it's a shared calendar that doesn't play well with the web interface. I also had a couple of calibrations to run, so logging into VPN was necessary.

No. That'd be retarded.

I ran into the same thing trying to slipstream a Windows XP install. Totally not worth the hassle, gave up and just installed the OS from disc and then all of the other stuff off the USB, onto about 8 machines.

Ely, I found that too, but by then I had already burned a disc. :)

YOU LIE!

Seriously though, I wasted about as much time trying to make the USB drive bootable as it took to do all the installs the old fashioned way, and if it had worked it probably only would've saved me an hour.

The utility I was using kept crashing halfway through. Burning the install DVD took like three clicks and worked the first time.

Of course, that doesn't mean I was able to solve my problem, but at least I have progressed to new errors!

UNetbootin is supposedly the go-to standard for doing it from Linux, and finding a different utility would have taken more time than burning the disc.

Like I said, the important part is that I've gotten to new and more interesting errors, errors like this one. And now I get to wait for chkdisk to finish running, how fun.

Why? The flash drive method works awesome. I just used it for a laptop that has a non-functional DVD drive and can't boot of a USB DVD.

You have summoned WAFFLE HOUSE WAITRESS!

So I tried Lays' new Chicken & Waffles flavored chips, and upon first impression...they're absolutely grotesque. It honestly doesn't taste like chicken or waffles, but instead like burnt chicken fat and fake maple syrup. They're nearly stomach-churning. I will never eat another one. I also tried the new Sriracha flavor and they're far, far better, but I'm not a huge fan of spicy foods. I guess there's one more new flavor called Cheesy Garlic Bread, but it wasn't in stock, which sucks because that actually sounds good.

I still think my Smoked Pork or Shish Kabob flavor should've been chosen for the contest.

My thought process not half an hour ago in my car:

"Man I'm thirsty.
Oh! There's some liquid left in this Wendy's cup. I'll just take a sip.
Man, when was the last time I had Wendy's? Must have been a week or two ago *siiip*
AGH AGH AGH WHY? WHY? WHY? GOD IN HEAVEN FUCK AGH AGH AGH!!"

Am I on California time again? WHY CAN'T I SLEEP?

I was reading a bit of Ruins of Light's Glory and good god my character was deliriously demented.

Anyhow! I'm running on off time too but I think I'll turn in soon to countermand that.
Also finished six heads six severed heads of drawings so there's progress!

I wish I could sleep like a nice, normal person.
Yesterday
"Oh, I think I'll just take a quick nap."
/sleeps for 10 hours

Today
"Man, I'm really tired. I'm sure to sleep through the night!"
/sleeps for 5 hours

and of course today is the day i go with mom to help out at work
of course it is

Talking to Speak With Bread about what I'm doing at work right now:

Me: Doing more training for our volunteer. She's beginning to grasp the full extent of our system's malevolence.
SWB: the way you describe your job sort of makes me fear for your remaining sanity
Me: Eh. Think Portal, not Amnesia.
SWB: ...so you're glados instead of the baron?
Me: Nah. I'm the Ratman, trying to train up an apprentice Chell.

I don't think she's feeling very reassured.

To clarify, I never made it far enough into Portal to pick up on any of the story, so Pache describing himself as "the Ratman" is never going to reassure me. :)

If you're looking for reassurance on my account, getting further into the story is not going to help.

This might help: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/

On the one hand, thank you for the delightful read. On the other hand, I think I need to go rescue Pache's intern now.

Been feeling like death today. So I've started laying down some ideas for a forum game. It could be quite good, it could be terrible. I will have to evaluate when less feverish.

"Wow, I had no idea I had that many posts in that thread."

This is what I think every time Soli-chan runs through an older thread.

I just ordered a Nu Gundam Ver. Ka south of $80 shipped.

This thing has been either sold out or $100 at every other place I checked, so fuck yeah.

I go "Oh fuck, what did I say wrong now?" shortly followed by "nah, just Soli-chan catching up".

My thought was: "I wish I'd posted in that thread more."

...I really like likes.

Well after 2.5 weeks the sweeling and everything was gone but the shit was bent like an old stick. This was annoying me so I went and got an x-ray. It looks something like this:

Splint must be worn for three. fucking. months.

In other news, today I acquired one fuck. I give it to this, my first broken bone evar. Dammit.

GROSS.

Dude, Shift. You're probably gonna have one hell of a cyst form around that bone chip. Well done, man!

OH NOOOOOOO~

Obviously this means you need gentle love and care for the next three months now where did i put that nurse uniform

i am so so so so so so so sorry.

I fucking hate twee bullshit and people with thin skin. Does this make me an old person on the internet? Probably.

I am inclined to disagree.

I am YOUNG and VITAL and WELL-ADJUSTED and in possession of a great many scabbed-over grudges.

And when the skies open up and the gods descend to unmake the world, I shall take the Great List and seek out all whose names are on it. With a great blade forged in heavenly flame, I shall take their lives and use them to extend myself beyond the world's end.

I will gaze upon that vast expanse of nothingness, and I will create a new world in my own image.

You can never be too old or too young to hate things!

I'm taking her home with me
all dressed in white.
She's got everything I need,
pharmacy keys.
She's fallen hard for me,
I can see it in her eyes.
She acts just like a nurse,
with all the other guys.

I think if it weren't for tea I'd be a wraith. But hey, having trouble rustling up something to eat.

Haha, I had PRECISELY THAT THOUGHT recently. <3

I keep having nightmares about dying. Either from suffocation (something in my mouth will swell and close up my throat) or being shot.
Every single time I know that I'm going to die in my dream, I will try (unsuccessfully) to either wake up or call out in real life so someone else will wake me up. It's really scary and freaks me out.

When I woke up from this last one, my head was tingling and it took about 30 minutes for it to stop.

It's roll up the rim time again!

I have no idea what the Harlem Shake is.