In The Wee Hours...

Well it's Thursday, my first all nighter of the week. See, I work overnights Friday through Sunday, so I stay up all night Thursday to prepare myself. What do I usually do? Play games of course, and do a little cleaning up if the house needs it. It's hard finding a cool group of people to game with so late at night, most are Australian... no joke. The only person online on my Friends List is playing Call of Duty 4... and I don't have that game, which qualifies him as a dick, or me as a loser, tomato; tomahto.

Anyways, work has been going pretty good, I think most of the people like me, it pays well, and that's what matters.

I started a new term in school, we're covering Windows Server 2003... Me no likey Server. It's fun though, there's this cockbite in my class, I've discussed him before, long ago, he just bought a brand new notebook with Vista Ultimate. He's bragging because he can use DreamScene, and thought that you could only use Virtual PC on Ultimate.

Well, I got Virtual PC 2007 and have NO problems at all running Server 2003 on it, hell I can run XP, 98, or any other OS on it. I ran gOS on it just for fun. As for DreamScene, I just had to modify a few DLL's to get that up and running, and yes, it is the real DreamScene, not some third party application.

I got DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT-54G V5 awhile back, and now I've decided to overclock the router. It started at 200Mhz, then I upped it to 250Mhz and put a couple of heatsinks on it. Now I need to find my soldering iron so that I can get my cooling fan running internally and up it to 300Mhz. Since I've overclocked it I've noticed a huge difference in speed. I only use it as a wireless adapter for my 360, and it absolutely screams. Never any lag issues or slowdowns. Hell, when I connected by wire through my laptop it screamed.

I'm dying to get a new surround sound system. Mine is constantly getting worse. I've got one picked out, the perfect one... but I have to wait until bills are caught up, which shouldn't take long. I'll easily be able to afford it when I get my tax refund back.

We also have to get Ashley a new car, start saving for a house, and also start saving for a new TV.

Speaking of TV, I don't think it's right that the government can decide that analog signals will end and it's all going digital, but can't open up the mobile phone market. Why does AT&T only have the iPhone? Why does T-Mobile only have the Dash? Why does Sprint... aw, to hell with Sprint. Anyways, if I'm receiving a digital signal, I want to enjoy it, I don't want some shitty signal converter sucking up more electricity an downgrading the signal I'm getting.

That's enough updates, rants, raves, and contemplation for right now. Time to play Halo 3 with some Aussies, crikey!

Goings on.

Wow, it's hotter than hell outside. I don't know about where you live, but here in southwest Missouri it's burning up. I can't wait to go swimming at the falls, I haven't been in well over a year. I also haven't been fishing in over a year.

I got a friend coming to stay with me for awhile. He's going through a pretty crappy ordeal at the moment, and I'm more than happy to help him out.

It will give me someone to hang out with, give him somewhere to stay to get on his feet, and generally result in a good time... perhaps drunken, while gaming. I sense some intoxicated nights of Gears of War coming on!

School's going awesome. There are a few guys in my class who hate my teacher for no damned reason.

See, they've been here awhile, and their old teacher left midterm, so they were basically just sitting here doing what they wanted. Then the new teacher comes along and expects them to start learning. He's not a hardass or anything, he's easy to get along with. They're just pissed because they can't sit around and play games all day long. They're here to learn, they paid to learn, that's what they should be doing. Now they're trying to get this guy fired. He's doing the best he can, and he's doing great. But they're being huge distractions.

I'm ready to box the guy who sits next to me. He's always watching videos during class, which wouldn't be so bad if he'd use earbuds, but no. He has the speakers up loud as shit. So my teacher actually bought him some earbuds, and the guy starts mouthing off to him about it, that really pissed me off. I'm so fed up with him I'm ready to beat his fat ass until he bleeds chocolate milk. There's just a few more weeks until he moves on and I don't have to deal with him anymore.

Whew, I think that's it for now, just needed to vent.