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There are people on the net that have nothing better to do with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Memorial Weekend Recap
It was a nice, long weekend. Saturday we went to see X3: The Last Stand. (spoiler free) I was entertained. I'm not sure why so many people hated it with such passion. I didn't think it was the best film ever made, but it certainly wasn't the worst and I was entertained through the whole thing, so to me, it was a success. If a movie keeps my attention, well, what else do you want really? *shrugs* I guess a lot of people were unhappy with the resolution of several characters but I don't really find it nearly so bothersome. I know that nothing is ever forever in the X-Men universe and that things which appear to be concluded rarely are. It could have been longer, sure. And it could have had more plot to it but eh. I enjoyed the time spent in the theater. Afterwards, we hit a cool import store and a pagan bookstore and I got a few items for my June Full Moon Swap. Always fun. Especially when I found just what I wanted and it wasn't a lot of money! I had been looking for things on ebay and online but it was all too expensive. So I was thrilled to spend a significantly smaller amount and still put together what I wanted! Yeah for bargin shopping. I get such a glee for a good deal, or good sale. Sunday Love and I and our friend Rand went up to my mom's for a BBQ. My sister and Nanny and all were there and it turned out to be a nice day. We had chicken and burgers, corn, fruit and such. Spent the afternoon there and just sat around, chatting. Afterwards, we came back to the apartment and watched "Last Holiday" on dvd which was entertaining though mindless. All-in-all, a nice day. Monday we hit the fancy mall in the area because it has an apple store. Love decided for me that I was going to exchange my iPod through the battery replacement program. I didn't want to do it because it's expensive ($70 total including tax!!) and because we are really broke right now. He took the money out of the cash we're saving for a downpayment on a car. We need as much as possible since we can't get a loan at all, and we're going to have to end up doing a buy-here/pay-here type place. The more down you can put, the less you have to finance. He felt bad it broke and knew it'd be a long time before we'd have the cash to do it, so he just said screw it let's fix your iPod. I still feel guilty about it but I love that he wasn't going to take no for an answer. He's such a dear.  I decided to name this one. The last one I never named. *chuckles* What happens is that you get an entirely different unit. It's factory refurbed so it's empty and you need to re-install all your music and such onto it. Well, I get it home and I plug it in and nothing happens. Windows recognizes that I plugged something in but iTunes wouldn't see it. At all. We tried it on Love's and same thing. Nada. So I called the store. (Note for anyone dealing with something similar: do NOT press "1" for support. That transfers you to the support desk at apple corp, NOT the in-store "genius bar" repair department. I had to call back and this time, I opted for "5" which was "for all other questions" and I was able to reach a real person in the physical store.) Talked to one girl who was mostly clueless for about ten minutes before some guy answered. I was on the phone for another half hour or so working through the problem. Turns out that the iPod, though it had the software on it, wasn't formatted. It wasn't Mac or Windows formatted. So iTunes couldn't find it because the software wasn't correctly completed. We downloaded the installer, installed it, rebooted, plugged in the ipod, did a factory restore and then, finally, iTunes found it and I started my lengthy process of getting all my music on the new unit. I have about 7 gigs on mine. And only a USB 1.0 connection. No firewire, no USB 2.0 connection. So, I plugged it in and let it go to town. Took basically all evening yesterday. I think it was done around 11pm or so.  The good news is that it's working now and it's basically a new unit.I read online about the do-it-yourself battery replacement and watched the videos and such, but...for like $40ish bucks to do it yourself, it looked damned tricky. The battery is GLUED in the unit and it's apparently quite easy to break your logic board if you're not careful. I really didn't feel comfortable enough doing it myself especially since if I would have broken it, I would have voided my warrenty and been unable to participate in the battery exchange program. Also on Sunday, while I was at the mall waiting for my appointment to talk to the "genius bar" (apple support techs), I used my Build-a-Bear gift card. (The gift card was a birthday present from my friend Rand.) Took me forever to figure out what I wanted. There's different types of bears and animals and a ton of different cloths and such. I couldn't figure out what I wanted. I had my eye on the giraffe right from the start but I didn't think I could find any good clothes for him since he's 4-footed instead of only two. Everything kind of looked awkward. But I liked him best and in the end, I found a cute outfit for him and ended up taking a giraffe home.  Isn't he cute? It ended up being perfect because I spent over an hour working on him - a fun process I might add! - and got back about ten minutes late for my "approximate" scheduled apple appointment. But when I walked in the store, they called my name just at that moment. Bingo! So, had BBQ with my family, got a replacement ipod, used my gift card to get my cute giraffe and even caught a movie this weekend. That's a hell of an exciting time for me. (No really. I'm not being sarcastic. It's a lot of activity!) Now, who wants to buy some jewelry or horns so I can replace the cash for the iPod back into the car savings?  No, really. *laughs* Go look and buy!Alright well this apartment is a dive. And it won't clean itself. So I better get on it. Ta for now. (And now I can listen to my ipod while I clean. Weee!) Edit: Oh yeah. It was also psychotically hot yesterday. Like record-breaking hot:  Yes, that's right. 96F yesterday. (35.5C)  Aren't you glad you don't live in Florida?
~ sweet smelling daffodils :: miss m ::
at 5/30/2006 01:54:00 PM ~
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