is kicking himself because he thinks he got facebook fished. :( And so He’s spending some quality time changing passwords…

We’ll see if I can conjure up a real post…

is happy he got to see the Mertz’s and the Westers last night and this morning on their way to Durham. :)

and the Jets — I dunno why it’s in my head.

And I forgot to post more pictures until tonight, so there was a little hiatus, but we’re back on track for a while.

I’ve wanted one for quite some time, and now apparently I own one. On a whim, I decided to bid on one on eBay, fully expecting to be outbid. I put in the max that I was willing to pay (+ shipping). It was at $9.99 at the time, and I put in $15, figuring I wouldn’t get it. The fact that I won I consider to be mostly an accident. I’ll have to procure a non-standard power supply for it and only then will I see if it actually works, as it’s an as-is auction, and untested. It will take some work to get it working, but $25 isn’t too bad, I don’t guess…

The last three weeks at work have been extremely stressful. I’m constantly busy, and very rarely recall what I did 5 minutes ago. This non-stop multitasking gets to me after a while. Though it does make the weeks fly by. For example, this past Friday, to me, it really felt like the day before was Monday, not Thursday. So last weekend I decided to escape a little, and got back into a movie swing. I really haven’t watched too many movies over the past several months, so I’m back logged a bit. :) Last weekend I re-watched “Definitely, Maybe”, hoping for some good director commentary (it was lackluster), re-watched “Roman Holiday”, saw “Be Kind Rewind” (which was only ok), and went out to see “Dark Knight” (which was exceptional, despite my original reservations). Looking at my Netflix queue, I also watched some time ago “How to Steal a Million”, which wasn’t too bad. I watched the new Harold and Kumar, which was really decent for a sequel. I am definitely looking forward to watching the alternate ending for “I Am Legend”, even though someone’s already ruined it for me. It’s supposed to be much better than the theatrical release and follow the book (which I didn’t even know there was a book). I also have “Mama’s Boy” at home. We’ll see if I ever get around to watching it.

in my head this morning: Dave Matthews Band – Christmas Song.

I meant to note that we open sourced Protobufs, but somehow I forgot. They are crazy awesome and you should check them out.

I am. I made it back in one piece. While I was sweating a good deal of the way from College Station to DFW, I eventually cooled off. Though when I got there I thought it a good idea to walk from the end of B to midway through C terminal. Yay for exercise but down with sweat! I really enjoyed having a weekend off, even if it was all too short. I got to see a bunch of people, but didn’t feel like I got to really talk with very many of them. I think my portion of the reception went well, even if I was a bit rusty. Luckily we didn’t have to move the sound system in the Great Hall in the Family Life Center. For my own future reference, I got a haircut on Friday. It wasn’t as short as I would have liked, but on short notice, and short on time, it worked.

At the risk of sounding cliché, I really enjoyed seeing everyone. Even if I only saw you in passing it really was nice to see the faces and hug the friends I love.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been posting at least daily for some time in the photoblog, so you should definitely keep an eye on it as it should keep updating for quite some time.

It’s been a bad hardware weekend for me. The filer was giving me fits, so I finally looked for any possible hardware problems. Checking smart, a brand new drive gives “HARDWARE IMPENDING FAILURE GENERAL HARD DRIVE FAILURE [asc=5d, ascq=10]“. Doing a quick search reveals that I myself have had this error before… zfs was happy with the drive, but now is showing errors at the file system level. Even after I removed it, I was having issues, so I ran memtest on it. Good thing it has ecc memory in it, because it’s also showing single bit memory errors. And, to top it off, I’ve had 2 out of my 4 new dimms go bad in my new computer build. It’ll be fun rma’ing them, because it was a dimm in each of the kits I bought, so if I were to rma them simultaneously the new computer wouldn’t be able to boot. In other news I finally put a second coat of stain onto my coffee table this afternoon. A quick search reveals it’s only taken me a year and a half to get it into a usable state (so much for being a person who doesn’t have home projects last years). So, to recap my recent spending spree, I have a new computer, new hard drives, and just since last Thursday a new tv. A frickin’ huge, ginormous tv. Everyone will have to come over to see it and all its 1080p glory. ;) It was definitely nice to have a three day weekend, even if it only really felt like two somehow. I finished the first season of Weeds, which did get better towards the end for me. I think I’m still uneasy about rooting for the good guy who is bad, though — which makes me wonder if Sopranos was the same if I’d enjoy it. I’m also looking forward to flying back to CS and getting to see people. With all of the stuff I’ve bought of late, I’m wary of another big purchase in the form of the L glass. Someone please prod me in the direction that this is a good long term investment. :)

So I watched the first half of season one of Weeds over the past day or two. I must say I’m pretty disappointed. I just don’t really “get” the show. I think it’s because I don’t identify with Nancy. I think I love more than my fair share of deeply flawed characters (West Wing and Sports Night to mention two shows chocked full of them). But this one’s too far off the deep end for me. She lost her husband, but we seen no real emoted grief from her. I almost think she didn’t really love him nor misses him that much. Maybe you could argue that her life is so upside down at the moment that she doesn’t have time. But shouldn’t that exacerbate and expose those things she’s not dealing with? She constantly bemoans her life and how it’s so messed up, yet she does nothing to change it. Her friends are really bad ones. We haven’t seen or heard anything of her own family. I don’t understand why she thinks she has to continue down this path. She never even questions seriously what she’s doing. Why doesn’t she just get a real job? We don’t even get any rationalization why she continues to sell. Does she not have any marketable skills? Most of the other deeply flawed characters I’ve enjoyed over the years are flawed due to their undying dedication, altruism, and unwavering commitment that the job or change they are trying to achieve is for the greater good. What is she trying to do? Keep her head above water? Does she even like the town she’s in? She can’t do her own laundry? I mean it’s not like she’s the only person with problems in their life. That is life. Deal with it, but not by selling drugs, absolutely ignoring what you should be doing, and passing off morals as “not selling to kids”.