fucking fuck!

A little over four hundred dollars later, and my computer is finally back up and running. Fuck me sideways, it sucked to not have it. Early last week I hit Future Shop and got Schaap to hook me up with a sound card for my computer, to finally get my surround sound speakers to work. Got it real cheap, went home, put that beeyotch in, and then suddenly everything was fried. Turns out the power supply or something overheated with the new hardware, and pretty much trashed the motherboard, video card, power supply, and so on.

Anyways, I thought since the computer stil turned on, but the monitor kept flashing "no signal," I thought that was the trouble, so I went and got a new one, with the same result. Then I figured maybe the video card, so I got one of them for a hundred dollars or something ridiculous. That bitch didn't help, so I finally gave up and brought it to Mike's Computers. All the shit that was fried had to be replaced, so I got a bunch of new shit, and it's the equivalent of a new computer. A bit cheaper than gettting all the parts or getting a new one built, but still, four hundred dollars was the price tag to get it all installed properly.

Luckily I had most of my important shit backed up to my second hard drive, so I dind't lose anything important (pictures, videos, stories, received files...). Still, it was a fucking hassle. Reinstalled Windows on the new hardware, and now it runs almost perfectly. Only trouble is the DVD burner doesn't seem to read store-bought DVD's yet, so hopefully a tech-minded friend can help give me any suggestions. I'm looking at you, Bryce or possibly Bran.

Speaking of which, Bran is back on his little adventure. I saw that bitch once in the three or four weeks he was here, the first night he got back, and then he never got around to coming out for any drunken times! Damn all. Now he's gone for five months or something... get a real job, Bran! And give me your cat!



The hassle of having no computer was that I couldn't play music around here, and most people know that I can't stand it when I'm awake and have no music playing. It's the only thing to keep me from freaking out! Ahhh! When I freak out, I end up looking like this all the time:



My hair turns orange and I keep that face on, until the music starts again. Anyway, the point is things work better and smoother than before, and I am a happy kritter once more. Still haven't tested out the capturing properties of this new bitch, but when I do, I"ll finally be able to post the New Year's videos! And the following week's gathering videos! Including when Ben made a hilariously drunken offensive statement to one of Manj's friends. Silly Ben.

Okay, that's it for now, I'm gonna go play Splinter Cell and be pissed off at magicians. Sneaky bastards... and here's the shitty photoshop of the week.

aboot time

Before anything else, we pay respect to the fallen soldiers of last night's gathering:



I'm finally of a sober mind, not in a rush to go anywhere, my cold is mostly gone, and all the pictures are available. Yes, because of a one day weekend last week, I haven't had time to write in here. I've always been tired, or with a cold, or drunk, or whatever other affliction you can think of. And fuck, has it been good.

New Year's 2006-2007, some awesome times. We gathered a crew and headed to Eric's apartment... that bitch doesn't have any noise complaints yet, so that's why we did it there instead of at my place like last year. Fuckin' noise complaints. Anyways, crew was myself, Ben, Trevor, Cassie, Eric, Andrea, Jackie, Skyler, and another Mike. I never met those last three, but they were welcome additions. Two camera chicks and Mike, also a good guy.

We pretty much destroyed shit so good. I brought over Tic-Tac-Shooters, which came with nine nice shot glasses, so we used those as a tool for extreme intoxication. No one had to hold back, so we did up a ton of beer, vodka, rum, jaegermeister, malibu, and more beer. THere were also some coolers there I think, for the lesser drunks. I don't recall a fair bit of the night, but it was all caught on video, over an hour of footage, so I'm very curious to see what was on there. No doubt a few video clips will make it to the Youtube account.

I didn't get shot or stabbed, as some feared. The worst thing to happen was the duct tape sleeve applied to my left arm, and methodically ripped off. I'm now almost completely hairless for my entire forearm, and somehow my legs got it a bit. How attractive, I'd say. I'll have more information as the video is reviewed.

I'm still happy from christmas, especially with my Beefest post and DVD, both of which can be see here:



I rather treasure it. I had made two copies on New Year's, one for Manj for driving some of us to Erics, and one for Eric, for putting us up for the night. Unfortunately Manj and his brother made off with both copies, so hopefully one of them finds its way to Eric one day.

Also, after Christmas, I received a little picture frame from Matt and Haylee's kid Julian, one that had two little pictures, one of him and one of him with me. Here it is, in front of Rob Zombie. Note the devil horns:



It's really charming, and it's going to be placed somewhere on my dresser.

As for last night, I had a bit of crew over, and this is what we started out with:



The soldiers, all lined up and ready to be consumed. It was good stuff, really. Classic times at my place, and luckily I convinced everyone that they had to be relatively quiet, or I would fuck their faces. A skullfucking threat generally keeps people's loudness toned down, so it worked good. We got into half a bottle of rum that had been left over from New Year's as well, that needed to be finished. It made for some good times.

Everyone seemed to like the Wii, especially Trevor, who kept trying to whore it. Even while trying to abuse Ben in the kitchen, you can see he's still clutching his controller:



I think he touches little boys, too, but that's beside the point. And so those two, me, Cassie, and Manj got into the booze all night,although Manj didn't drink :( And Cassie is a girl, so it was pretty much all between me Ben and Trevor. The real men! Yeah, that's right , I said it brown boy! How ya gonna act? What? Nothin', that's right.

There's my reporting on the various dealings of the last week. My work schedule seems to again be Monday-Thursday, which means this Sunday night has been relaxing. First one I've had officially off since I started work there. The time off from the accident doesn't count! I dont think. I'll be back in my next entry with a new crappy photoshop picture, so yaaaa!

One more thing. Little boy Bran finally made an entry in his weblog, mostly pictures, but check it out still. It's mildly amusing. Manj also has some stuff up, so do it up bitches!

[untitled]

On January 2nd Joy said...

Going to assume you survived New Years this year and are just too lazy/tired/hungover to report.

4:53 AM



A comment from Joy. Perfectly accurate, as always. I'll be back soon.