am i the only person who likes to spell out numbers?? I am going to spend the next hour going over what has happened in the past week. Who knows i may be able to do this every week!
The week at work went well. It started with my boss asking me how much progress I had been making on my current project. I was a bit frustrated at the time and told him that while i was making progress it wasnt being reviewed by anyone who needed to look at it, no matter how many times i had asked for feedback. so I guess he made a few phone calls and got the right people in touch with me. I got the feed back I wanted and am going to push the changes live tomorrow morning, It should be fun!
We had a bit of a busy weekend last weekend and this weekend. Last weekend was the 4th of july and had a good number of people over for drinking and fireworks. it was fun. we played a bit of drunk rockband, which is hilariously fun, and there was some cards i think. lostmisery got sick on my sweet walter red, the most sweet red wine i've ever had, and got a few other people sick on it as well. when wine tastes like grape juice its easy to over do it.
because lostmisery was sick i went to my sisters barbeque alone. it was fun, we played volley ball a bit, bryon kept diving for the ball, he looked like a kid who'd been rolling around in the grass. because i needed to go home for sleep and work i couldnt play asshole with everyone. well i played a few hands drinking soda but that definitely was not fun, i felt like i was getting bloated by drinking so much. yes male can feel bloated.
this weekend was lostmisery's family reunion, which was okay. i met a lot of people i had never seen before. we were given name tags. i messed up my name so i had lostmisery rewrite it, and i jokingly said that i should cross out her last name and put mine. it was a bit funny to me, though i think maybe other people took it a bit seriously ?? i don't know, well it was funny.
my mother's birthday was the same day, so we left what we thought would be early but seemed to be only an hour earlier than it was going to end and picked up my sister and drove to rochester to see our mother! we bought her the whole of the twilight series, my mother is a voracious reader and gets pretty pouty if she finds out that shes missing a book in a series. three of my aunts and one of my uncles was there, along with my grandmother. it was fun to hang out with all of them. my uncle was a bit tipsy when we got there, which was quite hilarious.
as an aside i've noticed that older people seem to have thoughts that are pretty set in stone. and a good number of them are what us younger folk would consider old fashioned, quaint, prejudiced, even racist. and i have noticed that i myself have a few ideas that i think should be a bit old fashioned or quaint, i'm not sure if i hold many thoughts that are on the socially questionable end of it. like i recall when i was younger i thought that school uniforms were mmmm for the lack of a better word stupid, i guess old fashioned and not necessary in today's society. today i'm not so sure, i can see a good deal of benefits of having school uniforms. there are a few other things too but i'm not too sure how to quantify them now. i guess this is apart of getting older.
the drive out to rochester was a bit treacherous with a pretty heavy rainstorm on the way through syracuse. and it was the same way after syracuse on the way back, like the storm only moved 60miles in the whole time we were out in rochester. there were a few points where i thought i might loose control of the car. we made it somehow i guess.
my 9800gx2(video card) was overheating pretty badly last week. like idling at 80C and when it was working it would get up to 120C (water boils at 100C) before it would just shut down. I tore apart my desk, drilled air holes in the the side of the desk, put it back together, a fair bit sturdier than it was before as well i might add, and put a fan into my desk with my computer to help keep the temp down. this worked a bit but not completely, it got the idle temp down but the working temp would still shoot up.
i ended up tearing apart my video card and cleaning it completely, renewed the thermal grease and reassembled it before it would get back to decent temp ranges. it still runs a bit hot but its a lot more stable and doesn't get above 80C under heavy load now.
I then finished the standard campaign in Fallout 3. and i bought the broken steel addon so i could get up to level 30. I still need to finish infamous and deadspace and get wow reinstalled so i can experiance some of the new content. i'm still kinda meh about wow atm though. i'm getting even better at drums in rockband, getting faster, getting more accurate. it makes me wanna get a real drum set, just a simple 5 piece. it also makes me wanna practice guitar again as well.
at dunken doughnuts i was served by a girl who's name was larissa. you've been comming up in conversation a lot recently. my father recently met up with an old flame of his. he apparently realized that after so much time has passed that sometimes people change too much. for him its been 40 years. for us but 7 years have passed. each year you're farther away. i have this image in my head of you and it is frozen in time. i can only imagine where your thoughts have gone, and the things you have gone through. i find it funny, and sad too i guess, that somehow i have held onto these feelings. how is it that you still chase me, even if its only in my own head. how is it that you still haunt me so? how is it i cant move on.
my time is almost up, i am sorry this is so long and rambling. maybe it'll make some sort of sense to someone.
~Z