Weeeee! let the games begin!!

It begins..

After romping around the Natchez.com i've managed to toss $490 into reloading accessories!! Bullets, Case Trimmers, Tumblers, Dies, everything but the reloader, which i will purchase at a later date. Ahh yea.. another hobbie begins.. now i'm playing with explosives!!

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 24min

I don't feel like doing anything lately..

i've been busy left n right but yet i'm starting to get into the 'blah' mode of life. Kinda odd, but it must be a biorhythm thing. I got the day off 'cuz Roxannes Parents came over to visit. We went to the Filoli (Fi-Low-Lee) finally. It's the northern california version of the huntington library. Big mansion built by wealthy peoples back in the good old days. This puppy is 654 acres, a little more than a square mile, but in the shape of a rectangle. Vast gardens and classic architecture. It's a nice little shack. I've got pics, a whole lotta, i'll put them up on the site one day. It's a very good place to play hide-n-seek, paintball, airsoft, stuff like that. Neakneak!

Also on the list was Roxannes Parents brought our christmas presents.. Kinda early you wonder? well it's more like kinda late. '02 xmas presents. I got some pimp slippers! I'll take some pics, they own! And Roxanne got a lava lamp! The sad part was we didn't know how long it takes for the lamp to make them lovely globules. Well it took about an hour for the colored stuff (waxy looking) to liquify, then it took another 2 for the big wax ball to turn into a ball. And after that, well, i went home, i had to go sleep for work. heh..

Technology.. ahh yea, i remember my parents saying. why buy it now, just wait, it'll be cheaper and better. Ya, you can only wait so long before you go nutz.. hopefully it hasn't happened yet. So my search for the laptops i've seen the 'deals' come n go and i happened to scribble down what you get for what money you pay. I was looking at the Dell 8600.. 3 weeks ago i was stuck with these two configs:
$1467 Dell8600 1.3 sxga 64mb video 60gb hd dvd/cdrw OR
$1496 Dell8600 1.4 sxga+ 64mb video 40gb hd dvd/cdrw

Now the latest deal, which is ending soon is:
$1463 Dell8600 1.3 sxga+ 32mb video 40gb hd 4x dvd burner

So it's worth it but not worth it, a balance and i guess to dell's whim they seem to have one certain part on sale.
The 64mb video is about a 130$ deal. the dvd burner is a 230$ deal. and the + in the sxga + is i think 100$ deal. Either way nothing has *peaked* my interest in getting one yet. I would like an IBM, they are the beefiest. and i Do tend to test items to it's limits.. I just do what i would normally do with such things, it just sucks when it fails on me.
What happened to all the quality stuff anymore? Everything is machinemade, mass produced. At the Filoli everything was handmade. I'd like some of that handmade goodness back.

Work is started to change... Too many Chiefs.. not enough indians...

We got this new captain and on the first day he was here i remembered his words.. 'oh i'm only gonna be here and there, i'm not one of those guys who wants to change everything..' the next day, memos left n right! petty little things, things that annoy the busybees of the hive. Happy bees are working bees.. AND to top that we got another mid-line supervisor, great.. more people but less working people if you can understand that one. Now being a supervisor shouldn't be one who deligates, but it has become so. A supervisor should deligate on situations, but they should work whenever possible and not wang off just because he's a 'supervisor'. A supervisor should be one who has the knowledge and ability to answer or react to situations that don't normally occur. The supervisor should do what their supervisors consensus should be. Supervisors who go back n forth or aren't consistant makes people wonder.
At my line of work i don't really see much difference between the ranks, there should be more delineation. But then some supervisors work as much or MORE than other supervisors and even higher ranked ones. It's twisted, it's not one supervisor supervises say two or three mid-line supervisors. Thats how it's *supposed* to work. But there are times where the mid-line supervisor is the supervisor for the whole shift.. does that make sense? Things aren't passed down like how it's supposed to be, it's scattered. Worker A,B, and C know of something, but Worker D was never told.

The worst thing about this supervisor is he's in the realm of the theoretical. Now action A is supposed to occur by doing this this and this.. well in real life, action A won't go as planned and will always have a different result. Theoretical v. Real life. This guy wants us to be hawks or psychic, the all mighty powerful gods that control everything.. it ain't gonna happen, especially when the slugs work with you. How are you gonna handle the situations when your coworkers are on the phone or reading the newspaper? Or if they are assigned to one spot or to do something but are never at thier place?

Duty isn't what it used to be. Some people just always want change to stir stuff up. If it's been ran the way it's been ran for the past 40 years, is that change gonna make the difference? most of the time no, and it gets abandoned, usually unofficially, or due to time (time heals all wounds, and makes you forgetful too).

This new guy's gonna be a nit-picker. i can see it already.
Got Indians?

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: None! Went Home woohoo!

Blah!

So i tempted fate and decided to go to the range for qualifications. With my semi-sore arms.. 'cuz of my outing to the gym and sprained wrist i managed to get a 96% *Weak!* i tried again and i got the same 96%, i knew my shots were way different due to my wrist. And thats bad.. very bad.. Anyways if you make 96%+ you get this neat pin, so i'm 2 for 2.. last time i got 100% Next year i better get back up there! There was only 17 people there, theres 15 points, so 2 went to do the shotty while the rest did the qualifications. I was one of the 2.. i'm glad 'cuz they had practice, and that woulda knocked me out some more, theres only so many times i will pull this 8 pound trigger.. i was 2nd highest scoreer, bleh! No working out for me ever!!! heh

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: None! Was forced to go to the gym!

Oh ya i forgot to mention.. Back with my wrist action i drove the other 3 days to work.. and that was the oddest experience ever. I don't think i can commute to work.. heh, it's probably parking Delilah around that area that makes me nervous, but i dunno if i can do it! Gimmie back my two wheelers! So i ride to work again. I need to true my wheels, it got outta whack during the event. Time to bust out the Park TS-2 truing stand..

My wrist is better but hurts at one point.. I still can't flex it much, but i guess it still needs rest.. How come i can't just instantly heal?? heh.
Still hunting down the lady.. the hunt is on..

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 7 out of 10 (working with slugs sucks!)
NapTime During Lunch: 29min

Ahhh i forgot about the weekend.. my buddies from fresno came over, Andrew and Marlia.. It's kinda funny 'cuz a few days before they were telling me they were coming over, i was wondering if they were gonna visit the bay area.. I tell you my psychic powers are growing.. I can sense / implant (Causality, which came first? did i tell mentally? or did i read it off the mind?) ideas from a certain blond one sorta. it's kinda scary..

Anyways Andrew tells me that he's coming over on the 28th.. and i was ok with that. Well come this sunday the 21st and i get a call from them, I thought they were calling to say hello or something.. Nope, they were coming.. Andrew's on the hunt for the ultimate beer. He was never a beer drinker, but i guess a quest is a quest.. Another one of his quests was to go try some guns. He's not a shooter but he's been playing some First person shooter video games and wants to see the difference between the video game and the real thing. Well he got to see..
So their whole stay was one whole day. And off they went back to the mystic land called... Fresno.. Where the men are men... the women are men.. and the sheep run real fast.. heh

Woohooo!!

I've followed my dreams and now i'm living it..

Overclocking is the bomb! I bought that Radeon 9500 in that dream of mine for a total of 165$.. it was the one i wanted the "L" shaped configuration where the ram is configured two on top of the chip and two others on the right side (making an L shape).. This denotes that it's a 256-bus ex-Radeon 9700.. (retails for at least 200$ online). The difference between the 9500 and the 9700 is that the 9700 has 8pipelines for texture, the 9500 only has 4.. But the 9500 used to be a 9700 due to what the engineers determined that the 4 other pipelines don't work effieciently or whatever. Anyways theres now software that turns on the other 4 pipelines in the 9500.. thus making it a 9700..
Radeon 9500 + Software = radeon 9700
But! Theres one more step..
You can overclock the chip (making it run faster) by software manners that can make it a 9700 PRO (online for 270$).. the difference between the non-pro and the pro video cards is speed.. the non-pro's run at 275mhz Core speed / 270 Memory Speed(540with DDR). The Pro runs at 325 Core Speed / 310 Memory Speed(620mhz DDR). Again more software is found to push my 9500 to 317Core / 305 memory..

So what does it all mean? how do you know? everything looks the same.. it does, but doesn't

I ran a benchmark test of my old card, the geforce 2 Pro (ahh yea back in the day, probably 1.5 years old now) which is a 4x agp 64mb card. The test scored :5025.. not bad..
The 9500 alone scored : 10964 Whoa!
9500 + Software (8pipelined) : 13520
and 9500 + Software + Overclock : 14176!!
Thats almost 3times the amount of processing from my old card, which i bought for $140 1.5 years ago.. for this one.. So for 100$ less and some software, you get the power of the latest n greatest.. Who in their right mind is gonna pay 265$ for a computer component which in 2 years would be about 140$ ($140 is my theme for parts..)It's time for some video games!

Will it survive? i'll tell yall if something happens.. hopefully not catastrophic

Hmmz..

i wonder if someone could answer this..

Question: When wax is in it's aqueous form in a solution.. is it homogeous in nature?

The wrist is alot better, but still hurts here n there.. i wonder though if anythings gonna pop up in the future.
Naproxen count:4 it works (i guess) heh..

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 33min

Heal!! dangit!! heal!!!

Today my wrist is much better! obiously because i'm typing todays and yesterdays (time manipulation skills) Blogs! I don't know if i should give the modified duty papers to my supervisors. i feel dandy, except it's not totally fixed, but it's healed a bunch, i'd say from the 20% that it was working yesterday to about 75% today.. i still can't flex it back much but i can do everything else! I still don't have a splint but my naproxen count is now. uh.. 2.. My hand is still puffy sorta, but not fluffie pillow puffy.. then that'd be nasty!.. I had the same easy going post as yesterday and it works for me but i think i can move on to better things. The only thing i was worried about is qualifications on the 26th... a week from now.. but after seeing it all better today, i should be all good by then.. if not i can always postpone it..

ugh.. more laptop deals.. hmmz this one i've been looking at looks mighty good.. but 1300$ man.. it's got almost everything i've been looking for.. maybe this is the one.. it's supposed to be 1700$ but coupons and all that goodness.. I like online dealsites.. But it's all about patience find the right deal and it'll be all yours.. Ack i just configured the laptop to the way *I* wanted it and it comes to 1450.. no way.. i'm just too cheap like that.. hehe
This is odd.. i was in the mood for the laptop, and now i dunno, it seemed to have vanished... I used to have these moments where i've gotta buy something.. it's like some stupid burning to go get something.. well now it's gone.. it's been a while and i haven't had any urge to get anything..
Speaking of which.. i just realized that i haven't eaten at a fast food place in about 2.5 months.. and it was taco bell because i went to the range and the only place nearby is that taco bell.. hmmz.. i might have a repeat this monday.. going to the range again... Taco bell?? or can i stop the chain!

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 5 out of 10 (with a bandaged wrist!)
NapTime During Lunch: ~30min

Going to sleep was interesting, i rubbed some of that icy-hot crap on my hand and tied a towell around my wrist and somehow got to sleep with it elevated. The next day it felt about the same in the morning. I was figuring on how to get to work! I thought i could twist-the-wrist (motorcycle) but it doesn't seem like thats gonna help me.. especially when the throttle AND brake are on the right hand.. And i don't think i can ride my bicycle, so i actally D r o v e to work.. Ooo scary.. actually when i told my coworkers that i drove, they knew it was serious and not no joke. My coworker was there to tell everybody our great adventure and he likes to emphasize the 'and i didn't get hurt but Eric over here.. man.. he broke my fall.' ya thanks.. At least they got me hanging out as the gate guy, it was easy going, i mastered the left hand, and for a day or so i was doing everything left handed.

I happen to get a doctors appointment and venture there after work. I think i healed some more because my wrist wasn't hurting so much as the morning drive. The doctor wanted me to be out of work for a week and wanted wrist x-rays and gave me 30 days worth of Naproxen and a wrist splint.. Whoa medication! i've never gone past the realm of Tylenol for pain meds.. It's supposed to be for the swelling, i guess. After taking the naproxen i didn't really feel pain relief.. i was naturally in a state of no-pain, unless i flexed my hand. so if you don't flex your hand, you won't get the pain.. Oooo bolean logic for u.. So i got the meds. I can't find a place thats open when i'm looking for the splint, and a place for x-rays aren't open on the weekend which is what i wanted to do. This is weak..

Today is not a good day... Got Doored? Anyone?

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 37min

I'm typing this out with my left hand only. For i've been doored, it's been a while but then it's only happened one other time and wasn't bad at all. Work was fine n dandy. Afterwork thats another story. I'm riding home and I catch up to one of my co-workers whos also riding the same direction (mistake #1). I shoulda biked at my pace (alot faster than him) and i woulda been Fine.. But no i decide to slow down and chit chat while riding. No problem with that.. Except that this lady decides to bust open her car door real fast and yep. Me and the door are one.. I fall, and my buddy falls on me.. lovely... What does the lady do? Run... So is that a hit and run? By a parked car? Better yet as i was trying to get over the pain this minivan with two latin females drive up. The passenger starts belting out some senorita crap, and the driver shouts "it's all your fault.. it's all your fault.." Well i tell them to pull over and explain to me why, but they just drive off. Afterwards my coworker (who speaks spanish) was telling me that they were shouting racial stuff at how chinese people can't drive (or ride?) So i take mental note of them and their green van and i note the car with no lady. And i ride. I notice a little pain from my right shin and my right wrist hurting.. Well now i think the wrist is sprained but my legs ok.. I wonder if i can work properly now.. It's not swollen but we'll see tommorrow.

See like i said, when something goes wrong lowly minded people could only think of one thing and thats the racial one.. They weren't even in the accident, i coulda said (or done)somethings and i wish i did. But then i'll be at their level, and sometimes i should get down to their level.

As for my dream of the video card. I order it and the caveat is that the card might not be the super hacker card. It's a 50/50 chance.. Well i ordered it yesterday at about 11am and i get it today! ok so i try to go for the video card to not think of the pain. But instead of it even working for me, any 3d game i try, the computer hangs. Well i guess that you can only make it hang so much until the system crashes.. Well the system crashed... Fooey! So my wrist hurts and my computer is dead. it's starting to sound like a country song..

Time to see how the other Hard Drive is formatting. Fricking Maxtor hard Drives Suck!

Ahh yea, flashback time..

I brought Roxanne off to Mountain Mikes, a pizza buffet and to the Hillsdale mall yesterday and she had this huge flashback of things that used to be type things. I guess stores existed for a bit down at Bakersfield and then left, well they are still up n running here.

Practical Thermodynamics Anyone?
Also Roxanne and I are the perfect example of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. In which the universe is a growing mess (entropy), and that energy must be used to contain this mess. Well Roxanne has a habit of not refilling her ice trays well now it's become to the fact that she has her own ice bucket. I come over to her place once a week and usually at that time the ice bucket is empty and the ice trays need filling. So Roxanne is the Entropy and I'm the energy that needs to contain it (her).. heh.. it's neverending man!!! She really needs one of them automatic ice makers.

Strange occurrances..

I forgot to mention.. It was an odd day.. i noticed 2 matching Mellow-Yellow VW GTi's. (supposedly only ~8000 of this colored car sold) but they all seem to be in s.f. The other was that i noticed 6 people sitting in their cars, 2 of them with the door slightly opened. Everywhere i rode my bike. They were just sitting in there.. Some in the front seat, some in the back. What does it all mean?

At least i did one good deed of the day.. i gave Spaceman my inner tube that i carry in my bag.. Spaceman is this homeless guy who wears all this stuff. He rides a bicycle (filled with junk) and waves at everybody on 2 wheels.. Also he helps out in opening doors and what not. He asked if i had an inner tube and at that moment i didn't know if i should give him the one i got or go away. Well i gave him mine and he offered 20$.. wow gracious homeless person or what? these things are like 3-4$ each. I just rode away, told him that i'll see him around.

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 7 out of 10 (could have been a 4 out of 10)
NapTime During Lunch: 26min

Freedoms or not? I decide..

Today i just got sick of this client of mine at work. It's one of those things where you know he's not gonna do anything, but he bothers and harasses and does what he can do irritate.. Theres a certain phrase when people use it becomes a 'red flag' and certain protocals occur. It was sorta like black n white, the line was well defined in events like this. Well i got tired of this guy doing the same event over and over and over, day over day over day. When such things occur you start going sideways. I started to grey the black n white. Normally your supposed to take immediate action, to prevent whatevers possible from occuring. Well i delayed this event for 5 hours, nothing happened because i knew nothing was going to happen. But it makes you wonder what else can i do? I have an array of multitudes of choices, tools, possibilities. I know this individual because of the history of days and days, over and over. It's like the movie Ground Hog Day. I've never seen the movie as a whole but i've seen bits of it. I can: Ignore the person, Take Action, Talk to him, Get physical, whatever. I decide to talk to him, to try to find out the reason. Theres always a reason to an action, but this individual doesn't want to go along, he wants his way and i wouldn't give it to him. It irritates him, but it doesn't set him off. I wouldn't say this guy is totally harmless, but his demeanor (he laughs at my jokes when he's threatening to kill me) isn't gonna put me in the hospital (anythings possible with these peoples). So i talk to this guy and it goes back and forth, and i have success the first time in calming down the fire. About 30minutes later, he starts up again. This time he suddenly calms down again. 30minutes after that, he does it again. This time i'm tired, it's after lunch, i don't wanna try anymore. But my coworkers take their turns at him and convince him again. So it was up and down and there was nothing to do anyways on that day and all of a sudden he starts up again. So this time we just followed what our operating procedures state and off he goes.

It confuses me on why he would threaten me and staff and other people, but he doesn't really want to. He did state such things about the peoples of the feminine persuasion. So he's the typical guy who can't get any.. He just wants some love. How sad. So whats the point in which your freedom to voice becomes a threat in which action must be taken? And how do you know if one threat is more than another one. And of course if you choose one path, people are going to complain. And if you go the other way, well other people will complain. I guess thats the magic of politics to be able to calm and persuade the whole or at least win the majority.

I'm done with work. Can i retire now?

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 36min

Wheres da deals?

I had a pretty smooth day at work, i rush to the gun show and started at it for the Reloading Equipment.. All i can find is one guy selling stuff that charges Tax too! what is that about? Well he sells a Franklin Arsenal 3.5Gal tumbler, Sifter, Media Separator with bucket and bucket adaptor, Walnut Media, and Brass lube. all for 85$ after tax. i dunno, it sounded ok but i was looking for dealie deals.. What i did get was a canister of compressed 'Green' gas and 250rounds of SS109 62 Grain .223's, 250 for 55$.. I need some for the next four matches. By that time i should have my reloader.. mwahahhaa..
I go back home and check out my mail order catalog and now i've gotta figure out the different brands and what quality is what and prices.. I think it's gonna be about 350$ for all the accessories before getting the reloader.. man.. hobbies are so much $ for it's initial price. Man..

I've been LA'd

Why even make plans in the first place?

P.s. My condolences to you Miss Kim..

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 9 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 24min

How quaint...

Ahh yea i remember telling all the relatives of my clients, 'if you could only work one week in my shoes...'
Here we are in the 21st century, where equality, respect, and walking a balanced line to appease the world, is the standard. Yet all of my clients toss that straight out the door. I equate it to this presidency and it's war on Iraq. Ok so we didn't find the smoking gun or whatever and it could be the finishing of a job started a while ago. But thats not what i'm yakking at, what i'm trying to say is that we follow the rules, but the other team doesn't and probably never will. That to me is just unfair.
It's like my clients can sue me.. how come i can't sue my clients? i do rule #1, #2, #3 to a T.. yet they just blow by.. yeayea the excuse is, well don't go down to their level. Well you know what, sometimes you gotta go to their level for them to even hear you.
I love it, where i work my coworkers and staff, it's all about not being discriminatory, 14th admendment, you know equal rights. But my clients on the other hand don't go for that. It's truly a zoo where i work. My clients don't care about equal rights, nor discrimination, heck they go the opposite where all they want is their kind. The best part i like the most is the outsiders who scream and shout for non-discrimination and equal rights..
If they could only work one week in my shoes..

Today was a madhouse, litterally, and it all began with my coworker.. 'i hope it's gonna be a nice quiet day.' it was very far from that my friend.. very far..

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 5 out of 10 (3hr OT!)
NapTime During Lunch:31min

Follow Your Dreams...

Heh thats what everybody says right? Follow your dreams.. Well i just did that.. two days in a row.. 2 Nights ago, i had a dream about buying the ATi Radeon 9500 Video Card and was overclocking it.. I woke up and tried to go around to my old TechHaunts but didn't find any. =(
The second dream (wed. night) i dreamt something but all i remembered was that i forgot my gear to go to work.. Well today i was riding my bike to work and guess what.. i forgot my gear.. Hows that for following your dreams?!
Last night was also horrible, i went to sleep around 10:40pm, and at 11 i hear a rustle of something on these plastic bags in my room. So i'm wondering if it's a rat or something. Well the noise went away but at about 1:35am i woke up to alot more plastic bag rustling noises.. So i figure, ok i'm gonna go after this sucker. Well i make sudden noises, like to spook the rat, but it didn't seem to phase it. So i turn on the light and it's this big moth fluttering around them plastic bags.. So it took me like 10 minutes killing the thing. At least i felt accomplished or something.. heh

Causality?

I'm about to go to bed but instead i go to Jedimaster.net for some Star wars kid vids and i find that there were 20-something.. now theres 50-something. But if you've never heard of the star wars kid then your not a true nethead. It's a strange story of a kid taping himself being a kid. He was simulating being Darth Maul, everybody does it, he just got it to the wrong hands. He tapes himself and puts it in his basement. Somehow his 'friends' see this tape and find it funny, therefore if it's funny, it should be 1) sold on ebay (Ghosts in the Jars, Something about a Bra stuck on a Ceiling for years, etc..), or 2) shared with everybody else on the net. So off it goes, and it becomes an instant hit, ok it was funny to see a boy with a metal pole making slight noises of light sabers clashing n what not, but what made it the best was when someone digitized actual lightsaber edges to the pole. At first the kid is embarrassed that he's now a great hit. Some people felt sorry for him and started a 'fund' of sorts kinda like a 'thanks for the laughs, here take this gift from us' type of deal. Well i guess the stresses of teenage life has messed with him and he goes on the Legal Warpath, suing left n right. So now the people who've donated money for the kid is wondering if they could take their donation back. Also it was only 2 or 3 versions of this video that was out. Now theres 50.. makes me wonder about... which came first? (time to bust the bolean logic)

Chicken or the Egg? So you wonder if he didn't go suing, would there be more videos of him? Granted they aren't as good as the original 1 or 2 editions but still. There were rumors of George Lucas making this kid into the 3rd Star Wars movie, why not he's known as the 'star wars kid' just search it online and *bam* he's everywhere. But will he be in it now due to the lawsuits n what not? If he joked it off and let everybody had their laugh, he'd probably had his new toys and be a Movie star to boot, but now you wonder. Say if you are contracted to do the movie since you got the fame from your oafishness and now you change and go mental and sue, would the contract be honored? The Kid is suing the two 'friends' (who knows if they are friends anymore after this), but if he does sue his friends and wins money due to 'emotional stress' then he's double dipping in sorts. He gets the toys from the donations, gets the movie, and gets emotional stress money? But if your in Star wars the movie, would there be any emotional stress? That should be the payback that you needed. You were in front of a camera video taping yourself spinning around n around, you should be in front of a camera with Mr. Lucas then. Now if he does make the movie, would he be ashamed of it 'cuz he's the 'star wars kid?' or would he be pround in that fact. He can make commercials now, gee! it's the star wars kid! whats that product your holding?
Have i babbled enough? i think i just confused myself to sleep, i wonder if i should even post this. Maybe this is how i got a B in Philosophy of Religion Class... Hmmz..

a day of nothingness

I still wonder if i should get a motorcycle jack to do work on it, but that's 90$, which isn't a problem but where to store the jack is. But after filling it up with 10-40w Half Dino/Half Synth Oil, I thought the bike was riding like S i l K now it rides U l t r a S i l k y S m o o t h.. Throttle response is linear, suspension is not too hard not too soft. Pipes a Hummin.. Mmmm yum.. From what i read off the manual it's oil change every 4k, and filter change every 12k.. I wonder if i should change the filter every 8k.. Sure why not, it's only gonna take me forever to get the milage. I wanted to get the Gourmet Synthetic Oil for 6-7$ a quart, the moto only needs like 2.5qts.. But the oil filter, good lord for high performance vehicles is 15$ a pop! I thought my Volkswagon's 11$ a pop was bad.
The only problems was that the oil pan we used for cars is too tall for the moto (unless i buy the jack). Also i hate it when it drips all over the pipes and what not, sorta annoying. The metal gasket is what i truly hate. To get it off the nut it's fricking doing surgery.

At least this time i didn't have extra parts left over.. heh..

So my backs all cracked and i think it is making me taller. I guess (attempting to) getting rid of that Bicycle / motorcycle Hunchback is a good thing eh?

Oh ya i added some links to the sidebar over there.. Everybody just wants to BangBangBang!

I must learn how to decypher the matrix..

I tried to add all these goodies onto the blog but it created a big mess, script bugs and what not and i'm not Neo of the Matrix i can only see code a bit at a time, but i got inventive and hopefully fixed all the script errors.. I wonder if i should go play with it some more.. You know the Engineers motto! If it's fixed, tweak it until it breaks! Hmmz what to do today, i've got the dentist at 2:30pm.. i think i'll do the oil change on my motorcycle. Still haven't found that laptop deal, but all the current ones are going, hopefully better ones come. i was very close into spending 1300$ on the Dell 8600.. But if i wanted it to my specs it'll be 1400.. MoneyMoneyMoney..

Whelp, Good Morning Everybody!

High Power Rifle Match Diary!
No Work Today!

i just realized that i can use this blog as a reference for my high power matches! sweetness! Some of the things that i'll be putting in might or might not make sense. I scored the best as of yet, well i've only shot like 5 matches but i've surpassed the marksman stage (420points) for once. I got a 435-4x, i moved my sights 4 clicks (2 MOA) to the right for the sitting and prone stages. I woke up at 6:45am got out of bed at 7am. Ate my capt'n crunch and left at 7:15. The drive up was different, when i was on the eastshore highway from Emeryville to El Cerrito i could see across the bay all the way to Sausalito and i think saw San Quentin. It was crystal clear, blue sky, a warm temp for it being 7:30 or so. When reaching the Range at 7:45 i was introduced to the famous 1st sunday of the month breakfast.. 4$ got me a heaping serving of meats, eggs, and carbohydrates, and all the oj, and coffee (like i drink coffee*sarcastic*)you want. I've found my secret to shooting, It's all about being distracted, but in a different way. Not the 'stop annoying me or why are they talking while we're shooting kinda distraction, but todays topic in my mind was 'female gladiators'. The shooters i shoot with have this wierd sense of humor, they love telling stories and usually ends with some joke. But These shooters were talking about the Roman gladiators and that there were about 100k gladiator fights in the colosseum. And right before the match starts another shooter stated, 'you know there were female gladiators' ah uh.. interesting..... heh.. I remember last month i 'saved the X' i didn't get one X, whatsoever, this time it was hurt a little more.
22 shot offhand: was pretty good i didn't drop much, well none that i did intentionally or unintentionally.
10 shot standing to sitting: on the 2 spotters i was high and to the left, like a 10o'clock 8 ring.. so i was aiming a little low and the right of the circle. i got a 91 i think.
10 shot standing to prone: the 2 spotters were right on, but when i went to dump the 10 rounds, they landed up and left.. 10 o'clock 8's n 9's.. 4 clicks to the right
12 shot slow prone: i did all good except for one shot which was a 5 or 6.. outta nowhere type shots.. those piss me off the most, the ones where you can't explain how it went.

Shooting is all about being boring, unexcited, repeatable, consistant, in other words: to be a robot
If you can do what you did over and over, then the score should be the same n same. Easy huh? at first it's 'ok, let's hit the middle', now it's 'let's be a robot.' FunFunFun!

Spawn!! Like Mad!!

It sucks, it's inevitible, the world is coming to an end. I was just reading the newspaper at work where there are few and not enough military Buglers (the ones who play 'taps' on the trumpet). It said that there are about 500 Buglers a day but the need is around 1800 a day, for various functions, funerals, parades, to tuck you in at night, whatever. So the military has invented a 500$ mp3 player that is stuck in a trumpet, the Psudo-bugler presses a button, waits 5 seconds, and in that time he raises the trumpet up to his mouth and pretends to blow, which the mp3 player should have turned on and played it's tune.

The trumpet is an example of my techonology theory. Techonology v. Skill. The need for skilled Buglers is todays lesson: Spawning Skilled people v. Spawning Stupid people

It can't be helped. Too bad for things like the Hippocratic oath, welfare, and Section 8 assistance these things support the unsupportable. Statistics show that in the Bay Area, to sustain yourself, you need to make 36k a year, just by yourself. That invovles rent, food, insurances, toys, drinking money, whatever. Well if you have One Child, the cost to sustain jumps to about 45k a year, Two Children is 64K a year and so on. So whatabout the people who are on welfare and have 3,4,5, 8 kids? Well thats what welfare is about isn't it? What it amounts to is... Dumb people are spawning with other dumb people, which is creating MORE dumb people in which the rest of the working class has to pay for. ALSO the people of *higher* intellegence have few or no children themselves. Therefore the number of dumber people have already surpassed smart people eons ago. Dumb people are like an exponential equation.. it starts with 2 then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64... With smarter people spawning less they become overshadowed by the lesser beings, 1 to 2, then 4, 6, 10. As you can see by the 5th generation there are 32children v. 10 smart kids. Some of the smartest of peoples who don't have children and have amassed assets, or property usually donate it to the needy, disadvantaged, or those of the poor social-economic status. Even though they don't have kids, they should pass it down to the next generation that might have the same ideals, or specializations. Do you ever wonder how come a couple, freshly married and newly hired full time middle-class workers can hardly make money to buy a house where all they see around them is households of 10-15 people pooling their low incomes to get in. This causes ripples of effect on everything they touch. Usually a house with 10-15 people are untidy, they are all squished in and thus creates filth. This filth may be overflowed out into the street, which causes the neighborhood to look bad. This causes the housing market to go down and the area becomes undesireable. Eventually Undesireables come to live in these areas because it's become that cheap, and guess what, undesireables start spawning.. Sweet deal isn't it?
End of the world.. it's going as we speak..

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 4 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 28min

I thought i saw some good deals for some laptops, but when the systems config to what i want, man, 1400$-1600$.. can you say money? Speaking of which i just realized that i'm getting my 'uniform' allowance, which i might use for a laptop or reloading equipment.. neakneakneak.

I swear earpieces suck! one year warranty? sure i surpass it by months! Earpieces usually last me like 5-7 months then they get all whacky, and i don't even do anything to them but use them.. i guess i really use them. I should go buy stock in earpieces.. heh

Another thing that i can't understand is my mp3 player which has a battery gauge shows battery lifespan 1/3 increments, well before i took off on my motorcycle the mp3 player showed it at 2/3's well about 15 minutes later it dies, battery drained.. At least i'm using NiMh Rechargables, just pop it in the charger and *ding* full charge, but it just seems like they die so fast!

Speaking of my motorcycle it just reached 7000 miles! Weeeee! i'm gonna give it an oil change, since i think it's low on oil, i don't have a center stand nor do i have a motorcycle jack. 90$ for them puppies.. I should get it but i don't have space in my house for it. Got spare house? My Moto Rides like S i l k . . it rides sooo silky that i can feel the road imperfections at the 101 #1 and #2 lanes each direction near the Cow Palace exit in S.F. and near the Grand Ave. Exit in South S.F.

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 6 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch:31min
Madness! i'm on a rebate spree, i don't remember how many rebates i sent out the past 2 weeks but it's about 8 of them totalling 150$+ Rebates!!! the ultimate scam, the 'follow the directions to a 'T' or you won't get your money' scam. Also if you forget or send it in too late, oh well. But it's some twisted way of getting the product sold at a discounted rate but at full price, so that the retailer gets it's full amount (MSRP) and the state get's their tax.. and then you've gotta do the effort to get your money.. yep.. ya gotta WORK for your money. Why can't they have it where you buy the item at full price, pay the sales tax, and then have it deducted right at the register. It'll be too easy, it wouldn't help out the company whos handing the rebate check. I mean are you gonna use a 37cent stamp on a 1$ rebate? how goofy is that!

Anyways i thought i saw some deals on laptops, on a Dell 8600, a Compaq x1000, or a Dell 600m, but alas, it's still too 'expensive' for my tastes.. I think i've figured it out, those three items that i wanted is exactly what it is.. Want.. Want v. Need. Thats probably why i'm not dying to go buy the sucker, it's something i want and not really need, it'll be nice to have but theres always that thing in the back of my head where i'm gonna destroy this thing, and i can see it happening too.

Work was ok, i'm still wondering what kinda .45 handgun i want, it can't be a 1911-style. And i would perfer it to be one of the 'new-age' guns, where it's metal/polymer, for weight savings. Still thinking of that USP Compact. but 760$!!! ugh

Level of Difficulty at Work: 5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 31Min.
I saw the Phantom Of The Opera with Roxanne at the Orpheum Theatre, it was nice, but whenever the soprano sang, my ears would hurt! i thought i was deaf due to all that Shooting Rangework but i guess not! So the story is about a man who has plenty skill but yet has low self-esteem or is wrongly swayed into thinking he's in love and is obsessed about his putrid looks? I was expecting the Phantom to get shot or something horrible happen to him at the end, but alas just as all low self-esteemed people do, they just let go and regress into whatever they were.

Weee! I've figured it out.. Me n my crew are a bunch of lemmings.. One does something everybody else does it.. Only except that i am the only one who isn't 'mobile'.. yep i have no laptop, yet.. 'cuz at Roxannes Place there happens to be a few wireless connections that i can hop on! *Woohoo* I call my crew now the laptop whorez. Bert has one, Sherwin got his, Vicks got hers, Brian has the mother of them all, AND they bought them within 2 weeks of each other. jeez!

The ultimate, i can see it now, is where everybody's hanging out at someones place (i think it's manitory for a wireless router) and everybody is on their laptops and hanging out at There.com chatting with each other, while we're all sitting in the same room.. When that happens i think all the stars have aligned and total geek-dom is gonna rule the world.
Hey i just realized matty doesn't have a laptop too! cool! we are the last survivors of the mobile industry.

Oh ya so there i went tangenting again.. What i was going to say was that in the spirit of being a lemming, Bert n Vicks have made their own blogs! weeee! Online Obsession begins!

Randomness...

i've found that changing from the swing shift (3pm-11pm) to the day shift (7am-3pm) has it's ups n downs..

Swings (3pm-11pm)

+'s
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-You can sleep whenever 'cuz..
-You can wake up whenever, and do whatever before you get to work..
-Doing whatever is usually stuff that's for yourself.. like shopping with no lines, no traffic.
-Eating out, if you do is usually lunch which is 5$-10$ unless you go all out..
-8.5% increase in pay for 70 of the 80 hours a paycheck.

-'s
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-You've gotta wait for work.
-Sometimes you wake up whenever but that doesn't give you much time to do anything, those days i wake up at 11am, and only have about 3 hrs to do something till 2pm doesn't give you much.. AND you gotta eat lunch.
-You can't do 'group' people things.. dinners, hanging out, movies (like i watch movies..).

Days (7am-3pm)

+'s
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-The day goes by fast.. real fast.. and thats good, get outta the vortex of evil as fast as you can!
-You can do group things, go out, n what not.
-From the time that your outta work (3pm) till when you go to sleep (10pm) you got 6-7hrs of things to do.

-'s
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-You've gotta wake up at the crack of dawn.. and now i've learned that on my weekends i wake up at an early time which sucks. i used to get 8+hrs whichever way i slept..
-I can't shoot my rifle matches, i gotta scam ways to get the day off to go at it.
-No 8.5% shift differential pay
-More work, but it makes the time go by faster.
-I can't do the 'personal' things, gotta wait in lines at stores, in traffic (but thats usually nothing when your on a motorcycle, heh)

i'm still debating on staying on the 8hr/5days a week plan or go to the 12hr/3 or 4 day plan.. thats another negative/positive disscussion in itsown!

More Randomness..

i seem to be stuck in the mode of not buying anything anymore.. which is good, for me, bad for the credit cards. It seems that i've hit my limit of toys n what not. And some things that i do want, are of the $500+ range and that discourages me to get it, but i should but i haven't gotten to. I'm quite twisted ain't i? But! i don't mind buying things for other people who will pay me back. Like that whole tech support thing, i was all over the place buying motherboards, ram, HD's.. whatever.
i'm still looking for a laptop, but just not in the mood to go for the 1200-1400$ purchase. oh well, i guess i'll just gather interest or something on my money. I used to have this ebb n flow of buying n what not, one day i'd go for it, others i wouldn't pay for nothing. Now it seems like i ain't gonna pay for nothing.. Oh well.
I know i am going to buy:
-a Reloader and all it's accessories (big initial $$)
-a match upper reciever for the AR (but do i wanna? i should but eck..)
-a laptop.. i wanna ultra cheap but have ultra everything in it.. doesn't everybody want something like that? I'll wait until fusion power comes on tap so that production costs go way down.. heh..

one day.. one day..

Sadness..

They killed my pimp daddy website! ZippoTricks.com what am i gonna do? i've saved some of the videos but don't have the descriptions to learn how to do them! *RunsAroundLikeAHeadlessChicken* Well, try as i must, i WiLL learn them tricks! What kinda communists would bust out stuff like this? They are banning zippotricks like they ban guns. Are people doing zippotricks a bunch of pyros? or a bunch of young kids that don't know what they're doing??? No! Heck 60% of zippotricksters don't even smoke! Zippos Don't kill People! People kill People!! Gimmie back my ZippoTricks back!!