Well...  what a crappy week, in fact, with the accident earlier in month and some gutter issues last week, it has been a crappy month.  In any case...

Today I get a call at work that the garage door will not close.  At first looked like a roller bit the dust, so go and get some parts...

While I was correct on the roller, I did not notice until after getting the parts that the cable on that side of the garage also disconnected or snapped and lost all tension, thus that was the ultimate cause.

While I am willing to replace most garage door hardware such as rollers and hinges, the spings and cables I'm not really willing to mess with as one mistake can be quite dangerous, so got the number of a place that fixes doors from my neighbor, whom ironically got their entire door replaced last week fro the same issues.

Cannot get it taken care of tomorrow though, as we already have someone coming out to look at our driveway to get an estimate for a replacement.

I also had two new directtv recievers arrive today, as I am supposed to be replacing my current ones with the new ones.  Could not get to them though due to the Garage door issues.

I also had a light switch stop working, that will be an easy replacement, once I can find the time to get to it.

Grrr....  and I've been trying to clear my schedule...  so much for that.

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Well...  what a crappy week, in fact, with the accident earlier in month and some gutter issues last week, it has been a crappy month.  In any case...

Today I get a call at work that the garage door will not close.  At first looked like a roller bit the dust, so go and get some parts...

While I was correct on the roller, I did not notice until after getting the parts that the cable on that side of the garage also disconnected or snapped and lost all tension, thus that was the ultimate cause.

While I am willing to replace most garage door hardware such as rollers and hinges, the spings and cables I'm not really willing to mess with as one mistake can be quite dangerous, so got the number of a place that fixes doors from my neighbor, whom ironically got their entire door replaced last week fro the same issues.

Cannot get it taken care of tomorrow though, as we already have someone coming out to look at our driveway to get an estimate for a replacement.

I also had two new directtv recievers arrive today, as I am supposed to be replacing my current ones with the new ones.  Could not get to them though due to the Garage door issues.

I also had a light switch stop working, that will be an easy replacement, once I can find the time to get to it.

Grrr....  and I've been trying to clear my schedule...  so much for that.

Wow, that sucks.

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Been getting some signal outages of increasing frequency on my internets lately. Very annoying. Sunspots, maybe?

Well, I just bought a ps3 last week, and after playing ff XIII until my eyes dried up I tried getting into the psn online store. Guess what? Because I now live in Chile, I can't access it. Talk about discrimination.

Nevermind, I entered my old Cincinnatti address and voila! I get access to the store! Yay for me ... right?

Not so much. I can't buy squat from it since I don't have a US credit card. But... you can buy psn cards, right? Not so much, getting a US psn card in here costs ... double. Yeah, like I'm going to pay USD 20 for a USD card.

I'd very much like to go to whoever runs the sony psn store and shove him a chilean flag up his a#$.

Now I need to:

a) Find a trusted friend in the US.
b) Send him money.
c) Get him to send me the psn card codes so that I can buy from the store.

For some reason I feel like the online version of a black dude back in the 50's...

Just watched Najica Blitz Tactics now.

Lousssy ending there.



Man that really sucked there.

A really bad ending also.

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There's some kind of bug going around and I think I just caught it. I hate feeling sick! Makes me want to kill myself just to get it over with. >_<

Another 8-hour session of Minecraft to remind me of why I stopped playing it two months ago.

Rotten encounter with a phone outlet.   Something athat *should* have been simple...  was not.  

Had a old style 4 prong phone connector seemingly stop working, was working until about 3 days ago.   It was connected to the DirectTV box.  First noticed the issue when it stopped having valid names in the menus for names of movies yet viewing movies and changing channels was fine.  The other unit is working fine.

1. Assumed it was merely the phone cord, no go
2. Pulling the old connector out revealed one of the prongs somehow snapped off.
3. Went to Radio shack, picked up a modern four cable surface mount wall connector.
4. Discovered for some insane reason, I have 3 wires, not 2 or 4 as is the norm, but colors matched, and connected everything.
5.  No dial tone, the ends on the old cable looked a bit worn, so cut them off, trimed back the wire, and reconnected, no signal
6. Went into the basement...   discovered somehow it got disconnected on the end in the basement, so had to redo that end up (I've *no* clue how that one happened).  Now get a dial tone.
7. Go to mount the thing to the wall...  the holes do not line up....  so had to make new ones.
8.  Finally get everyhing back together.
9. Diagnostics on the DirectTV box shows it recognizes the connection correctly.

But...  it has not updated the menu's yet with new content.

For now, assuming it only does so either when resetting the box, or on specific times.  I can live another day or so with invalid names...  longer than that and I'll call and see if they can force a reset on the box.

I'm too drunk right now to read a fanfic I want to read.

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The Anime Addventure has been spammed with swearing, porn, and malicious code that infects your computer if you go there, now I need to reformat my stuff and it really sucks.

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The Anime Addventure has been spammed with swearing, porn, and malicious code that infects your computer if you go there, now I need to reformat my stuff and it really sucks.

You probably just need a decent anti-virus.

Furthermore, you need to turn off the save-settings function when you rid your computer of viruses, restart, then turn the save-settings function back on. Otherwise, the viruses don't go away (they're saved in the settings which just get re-loaded right back onto the computer, re-infecting it.

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... Been a while...

The warehouse I worked out for 5 years closed. in that time, I had managed to climb from the midnight shift to site manager. And now... I'm unemployed. Not exactly the reward I can look back on and enjoy. Especially when I realized that I've never spent that much time anywhere else. Never stayed at a school for 5 years, never the same house... I had some warning, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel, a potential job in another state, but then that was denied at the last minute.

Anyway. Sucks. First unemployment check arrives Tuesday, but I'm not sure what I'll be doing in the near future.

Bummer...  back in August 2007, my former workplace closed the site I worked at...  11 years.  I ended up out of work around 18 months.   In the end, my former boos had a opening at her current job, remembered me and asked if I was interested, and recommended me for the position.

I'm doing almost the same type of work, and working with a few of the same people, alng with a lot of new people.

Hope things work out for you.

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Bummer...  back in August 2007, my former workplace closed the site I worked at...  11 years.  I ended up out of work around 18 months.   In the end, my former boos had a opening at her current job, remembered me and asked if I was interested, and recommended me for the position.

I'm doing almost the same type of work, and working with a few of the same people, alng with a lot of new people.

Hope things work out for you.

Eerie. The place I worked at for 11 years packed up and moved to Reno in August 2007 (and almost nobody took up the relocation offer 'cuz the company prez was a douche), and my friend and co-worker ended up working for our old lady-boss doing the same kind of work we had been doing before.

Hmmm...  

My immediate programming supervisor was not in today.  leaving me the only programmer on site.

Mid year reviews are supposedly this week, but I've not been interviewed yet...  should I be concerned they are waiting until the last day?

And I just learned the moon is shrinking.  It is now estimated to be some 600ft (a while 6 hundred feet) smaller in diameter now than it was 1 billion years ago, and it is considered blockbuster news by the community.  They think the Earth might be shrinking as well, only that the environment is erasing the evidence.

And I just got a new NAS device yesterday and connected up a new Raid 0 array to it for housewide network storage, to upgrade and replace my old setup..   turned out the device *by design* when you copy files to it are restamped with the current file time and date stamp...   I'll have to look at my options and figure out what to do about it, because that is a serious design flaw.  A pity, as it works great otherwise, and is much faster than the old unit.