Seriously

So my house in Iloilo got burgled and the whole thing made it to the news but Harryl and I were oblivious to the whole thing. If not for a friend of his in high school, who is currently living in Manila, sending him a message in Yahoo! Messenger the both of us would still be in the dark. My mom recounting the incident was funny but Harryl and I relaying second hand information to each other was even better.

I am a difficult person to understand. It is not my responsibility that you comprehend. You need to put forth the effort, you lazy ass.

Antsy Feeling

This whole upgrading my old turdy PC thing has gotten my panties in a bunch. After some more thinking, I am going to upgrade my laptop instead. Well, I already did. I bought a 1GB stick of memory and a 120GB hard drive. Yay for indecisiveness!

Apples to Oranges

So I am wanting to upgrade my reliable old desktop. It's about 5 or 6 years old but is my beat-up-on machine. Out of curiosity, I compared a Dell to an Apple laptop. I've been eying the Mac Book Pro 17" at $2800. To my surprise, I was expecting that the Dell would me a lot cheaper, the Dell ended up at $3100 when I matched all the components.

Fin de semana

This has definitely been one of my tiring weekends. Saturday was spent setting up our server room at work. I felt like I didn't contribute much to the process. But the whole ordeal lasted for about 11 hours for me. Today, I spent 5 hours with Chris helping him set up a Asterisk only phone system. Again, I felt like a contributed very little to the whole process but was exhausting all the same.

I am itching to upgrade my old trusty 1.4Ghz Athlon old school PC. I want to get a new mobo, a AMD Athlon 64 X2, 1GB RAM so I can play with Vista.

GTD Evangelist

Today, I found myself pimping out GTD to a vendor rep. She muttered something about forgetting and I immediately, almost by reflex, said that she should read "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. It's funny how something that you use often just comes out in conversation without hesitation. I didn't mean to pimp it out nor do I want to sound like a nut offering organizational advise to strangers.

A Handle on Things

Ever since I got organized I've noticed that I am calmer at work. I feel reassured that things aren't falling through the cracks when they do not have my current attention. I was dealing with 4 or 5 things concurrently today without the slight bit of panic.

Neflix Instant Watching

I upgraded my Netflix account back to normal. I was playing around with the instant watching feature that they've recently rolled out. It only works on IE. I have IE7 and I noticed that all images in IE7 were pixelated. I found this fix.

Change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UseHR from 1 to o

Forgot

I must have been having fun because this week flew without even giving me pause to write a post.

Nohemi and I went to the hayaus the other day and was shock to be greeted with knee deep of snow on the driveway. The accumulated ice/snow/slush thing that the snow plow left on the edge of the driveway was even higher. I am glad that I didn't act stupid and plowed the car through the driveway or I would have definitely gotten a mouthful of airbag.

The playroom is complete. It actually looks like a usable room. It was in the past a usable room but now it's dressed up. I'll post picks of it this weekend.

This weekend project is to revamp the fish tank. The 12 year old fish tank. I have really gotten my money's worth out of that tank. First there was the two tiger oscars, then the salt water setup, then a variety of fish that lived in it through the years. Now it holds the feeder fish that survived the albino oscar from Harryl's tank. This weekend, it'll get a hood and a paint job. It'll match the decor of the playroom when all is said and done.

Naruto Shippuuden started. No more fillers! I know I am excited and so are Harryl and Darwin. Are you?

Weekend Project

I should have taken a before picture. I can't really take an after picture quite yet but it looks a million times better then before. It has a fifties feel to it now. Can't wait until it's done.

Organized

I wonder if I can successfully get myself organized this weekend.

I am feeling a little lightheaded from my new glasses. My left eye feels like it's dizzy but my right eye feels fine.

Update:
2/11 4:00 PM
I am actually cleaning my playroom. I am thinking of putting some floor stuff. It's currently concrete and nothing else. It gets a bit nippy when the heater isn't running. Otherwise the company of open flame that warms the entire house makes it cozy.

2/11 9:25 PM
Nohemi and I went to Menards and Meijers this evening. I got something for the floor in the playroom. I am laying it out now and can't wait to take a picture of it when it's finished.

Phew

I spent 5 hours on the phone at work today. I am so glad that Chris bought headsets for our department. My neck would probably be hurting like a mofo if I didn't have a headset. Tomorrow, I probably will have to spend a considerable amount of time on the phone again.

I can't wait for my Linksys Sipura SPA-3102 to arrive. I ordered it from VOIPSupply the other day.

My implementation of GTD got hindered by work today. I am thinking about devoting my weekend in setting up my organizational system. It's true that having a collection bucket helps alleviate the anxiety of forgetting things. Now, I know that I have things to do but I don't have the time to address them. I know that I have to reschedule my commitments but a time slot is actually assigned for the item on my list. I don't have this whole thing figured out yet but I am excited that once I do, it'll help me considerably with handling things in general.

Kalamazoo Institute of Art

Tom and I went to KIA today for the customer appreciation deal with TDS Metrocom. They had classic cars on display. Lots of chrome and flaring tails.

A Jaguar. It's so ugly it looks good.

I am glad Tom came along because I didn't recognize anybody from TDS. I found Denny from QUIC but he was a guest also.

While taking pictures of the car with my BlackBerry Pearl, I stepped over the fence thing and was yelled at by a guard. I didn't really care because it's just a car. It's not like a Monet.

Brrrr

I am sad that the Bears lost. I am glad that my new glasses are finished. I was jealous that Nohemi got new glasses and it was the catalyst that made me move to get new glasses. I had procrastinated for an entire year about getting new glasses.

Off to the mall alone for lunch. Everybody else went to Empire.

Go Bears!

I am waiting for Super Bowl to start. Nohemi will be listening to the coverage from Cadena Ser while watching it on TV. I am hoping for a good game.

I upgraded to Slayers EvoX Autoinstaller 2.7. XBMC 2.0.x is very nice and the additional scripts are awesome. I no longer miss the Apple movie trailers from my broken FrontRow (for PowerPC). There's a script on XBMC that allows you to load all the trailers from Apple movie trailers.

I went for a haircut this afternoon. Even though the weather was terrible, people walked into the hair salon non stop. Then groceries then a bit more of hibernation.

I played around with a Sipura SPA-3000 from work yesterday. It function very well and I talked to Mark, Harryl and George on it. I am a little anxious about switching the house over to a primarily VOIP long distance set up.

Sometimes, I feel paranoid. Being disappointed at myself for feeling paranoid, I sat and evaluated the situation.

If I were to be paranoid then I am always on the losing end. The whole time, I am thinking of the worst so whomever is already at an advantage. This whole situation is a self-fulfilling prophecy of the negative-outcome type. If the thing that I am paranoid about were to be true then let whomever get the bad karma from it, instead of drowning my aura with the negativity that comes with paranoia.

The Switch II

Before with Charter Communications cable modem


After with AT&T DSL


An added bonus to this whole thing, I am paying $20 less for DSL. I am not complaining about the service from Charter but I always have been dissatisfied with their pricing. Now I am happy.

Oh And

I only drink half a cup of coffee a day, during weekdays. And approximately 3-4 cans of Coke a day. In a month, I should be able to bring it down to a can a day. I'll settle for a can a day.

Cleaned

We had an early run at spring cleaning, this year, at work. It's amazing how much junk have been accumulated by our department. That's including the fact that we purge our junk every so often. I had a brief feeling of vertigo when I walked in server room and was able to see the floor.

The past couple of weeks, I have been slowly incorporating the GTD method by David Allen. I have yet to finish the book but, so far, I have noticed an improvement. He encourages purging, not in the bulimic sort of way, by writing things down. It has helped tremendously with my attention deficit issue. Note to self: avoid doing it publicly, it makes others feel awkward.

I took home some old things from work. One of the last remaining Linksys switches and an old rack. I am mounting all my home networking stuff on it right now. One thing I noticed, the screw holes for the rack (which is wall mountable) are 16 inches apart. The studs on the walls in a house... 16 inches apart. It surely made it a whole lot easier to wall mount that sucker.

Now I need to...

• return cable modem to Charter
• buy a Sipura SPA3000 box to use with VOIP Buster
• drop a line for my cordless phone base station to the MDF
• set up DD-WRT router with QoS

My head hurts, I'm going to bed.

声明

Happy, disappointed, anxious, hopeful, sad, jealous, guarded, impulsive, talkative, shy, low self esteem, scared, trapped, comfortable... a dreamer, Peter Pan syndrome. My wings have been clipped but fearful that they'll grow so I constantly gnaw on my stubble. Brainwashed to be responsible, now I am buried in responsibilities. Always optimistic with a pinch of pessimism. I demand my independence... if you approve. I am afraid and intrigued of the future. I am satisfied and longing. Never taken seriously. I am an angst-ridden teenager in a thirty-something's body. I need therapy but...

I am normal!