June 2004
6/16/04
Sleep. Sleep now.
I'm kinda tired. You know, actually having to get up in the morning
and all plus not actually going to bed any earlier. Kind of messes with
ones system. But, here are the
Contempt pics. Enjoy.
6/9/04
Dead or alive, you're coming with me!
Well, certain
people have informed me that
they are impatient for
pictures to be posted on
the website. These
people seem to think that all I do is think about the website. Well,
I guess I'll post some
pictures for them.
Hmm...don't know why I'm updating the index first. usually I do the
other pages first so that I can save them and then do the index. Now, if
you look at this after I save it but before I finish other pages, you will not
get the full experience. Oh well, to late now.
So, things have been busy lately. Friday was Ed's bachelor party (Here
is a link to where you can read up to date Ed info.) The first people
arrived around 1ish and included Josh (Who traveled 6 hours not including me
driving him from the train station), John and Chris O. Well, the had
enough foresight to bring some games and we entertained ourselves with Fluxx
(which I have subsequently ordered), Lord of the Fries (the Patriarch and
Meaty Munch will live forever in my memory) and Dingus (nothing to say in
parenthesis about that). Around 5 everyone else started to arrive.
Then, all 14 of us (Me, Tom, Ed, Gusta, Scott H, Josh, Chris O, John, Bob,
Dan, Coker, Scott C, Jack and ROSS) headed out for food at Fridays.
Before dinner, for some reason Tom thought we didn't have enough alcohol at my
apartment and wanted to stop for more. He and John disappeared into the
store for quite some time and then came out with a shopping cart full of
booty. Including the fabled monkey wine. Then we hit Fridays where
fun was had and the ribs in the sampler shared by ROSS, Bob and me were quite
yummy. We then decided to hit Smiles for some bachelor party fun.
And BOY was it fun! (All I'll say is at one point a girl with test tube
drinks offered me one and when she asked why I didn't want one, I told her I
was driving. Then she opened her shirt for me to put money in and I told
her I was also poor. Hey, it amused me.) Then closing time was
announced and we all headed back to my place to drink more of the oodles of
libations at my apartment. We hung out for a bit. There was a
hearty toast to Kevan. People started filtering out. Halo was
played. The night ended with Josh running people over in a Jeep.
Then at around 6:30 we all said goodbyes and I collapsed into an unconscious
heap.
Saturday was my relaxation day. Did pretty much nothing all day with the
exception that I got to hang with Rachel (Dora the Explorer) for a bit which
was cool since I hadn't seen her in ages. Also I took some beer from the
fridge so that I could fit some bread that I had bought.
Sunday was the wedding, the wedding of Kat and Ed that is. There are
pictures that I took which can be seen here. (If that is not blue and
underlined, I haven't gotten to the pics yet. Come back later.)
The ceremony was very nice, and Ed was entertained by my face-making.
Then we hit the cocktail hour which was good for the discussing things with
friends and the choice buffet setup they had. Then came the reception,
where we were first introduced to Mister and Mister Testa. The food was
really yummy. Our centerpiece caught on fire. There was dancing
and stuff. Eh, just look at the pictures.
Tuesday was another busy day. I finally decided to work on my hard drive
situation again.
The next section is going to be filled with a lot of computer geek talk,
so you can skip it if you'd like.
So, last week, I ghosted my 120GB drive to my new 200GB one.
While still booting from my 120GB drive, I was able to access the data on my
200GB one without any issues. So, my theory as to the boot failure is
this. Anything below Windows XP has trouble seeing drives larger than
140GB. I had noticed this when trying to format the new drive from
Windows install (I had to boot into WinXP and format it using disk management
in order to see the full 200GB) and also when ghosting the drive (If I ghosted
disk to disk, it only saw 140GB, but If I ghosted partition to partition it
used the full 200GB). So, I ran the WinXP setup and formatted and
installed to my 120GB drive. This went smoothly, but I was quite nervous
until after installing Norton and running Windows Updates. Everything is
running smoothly and once I'm sure it's working fine, I'll clean the
unnecessary files and folders from my 200GB drive. (I'm keeping them in
case I need to re-ghost). Now it's a matter of reinstalling everything
and getting all my tweaks back up.
OK, Geek talk is done, you can continue reading from here.
Tuesday night was a nice farewell dinner/hangout for Kat & Ed at the
AB&G. I joined ROSS, Jack, Tom, Patty and Daisy to wish the two
newlyweds good luck and safe trip back to Hong Kong.
Damn, this is a big update. Apparently I have a lot to say.
So, the remainder of my week will consist of, buying my train ticket for next
week. I am planning on getting the Denville to Penn Station ticket
because I do not know If I'll get out on time to make a Hopatcong bound train
at a convenient time. Friday is
Contempt, which means more pictures. Saturday, Zack is having a D&D
game. And at some point on Sunday, I plan on seeing The Chronicles of
Riddick. Then on Monday, I start my Cisco class. The following
Monday is my Security+ class. And then on July 6th, I start what could
be a 2 month temp job at my Dad's company, which will give me plenty of time
and motivation to complete my tests and internship at the school. After
that comes my contract job which will hopefully become a permanent one.
OK. So, in other news, Rachel guessed the quote from 5/26." Wolfman
has narts" is from " the monster squad" !!!
Well, that's all I can think of. Isn't that enough?
And now, for your moment of Zen, I mean pic
and wav.
6/1/04
I miss you cupcake
Well, I'm just letting you all know that I'm a busy little beaver of late.
This past weekend went from having nothing planned to being quite busy.
Saturday my dad got me Buffy Season 6 cause he's swell. I went out and
picked a nice cheap 200GB hard drive for my computer. Then spent the
evening hanging out with Po, Tom, Gusta, and Mike. We played some video
games, and I must admit, I did enjoy Virus mode on Timesplitters.
Sunday, early Sunday...my CD player decided to make this horrid click
click noise. I ended up having to replace it, but considering I've had
the thing for 6 or 7 years it's been a good run. After that, I met with
Li, ROSS and Jack for Indian buffet (poor Giner overslept). ROSS, jack
and I hung out a bit afterwards and watched some Zimmy doom. Then ion
the evening, Scott, Tim and I went down to D-mo's for a lil party. There
were a few people there. Tim brought his Xbox to link to Dave's for some
mega Halo action. I ended up in the basement with Dave's room mate
Stefan trying to fix his computer. Monday was the big rainy Memorial
day. Scott, Tim, D-mo and I went out to Sean's for a gathering. we
were joined by Giner and Craig and Sean's parental units. Fun was had.
Tim had brought his little gambling kit, and we played some roulette and
blackjack.
Today was...interesting. I hooked up my new hard drive, as the main hard
drive, installed windows fine. Installed Norton and Office. But
after installing some windows updates, I rebooted and the drive would not
boot. Not that windows wouldn't boot, the drive wouldn't boot. so,
I gave up for the day and replugged in my old one as the primary and that's
where I stand now. Ran a virus scan on the drive earlier and will run a
thorough scandisk on it. After that, I'll try again tomorrow and if that
doesn't work, it'll become my data drive.
Yeah, so had a busy weekend. Will have another one this weekend.
No files today. No archiving. Don't feel like it.
I guess that's all. If you feel like saying anything...do it in my
forums!!!
