nostradamus predicted you'd be an ass
hehe i love that line...there's a t-shirt available here.

when i bought groceries this morning, i noticed the front cover of this weeks national enquirer boasted claims of 'fatima secrets revealed'...lolz and lolz and lolz.

things have been fairly hectic lately, though as hard as i try, i can't seem to figure out what has made it seem that way. work takes up most of my 'awake' time, and i spend the few remaining hours wishing i could sleep...or more like wishing i wanted to sleep. oh well, i'm surviving. shane lent me enough cash to survive until friday, so i'm much better off than i have been of late.

test #2 is complete, will hopefully get results tomorrow. i'm fairly confident that i did well, but who knows...

i'm still watching "lost" like clockwork, and have found 'medical investigation' a series on nbc. it is highly reminescent of the new series on tmn 're-genesis'...bunch of 'doctors/microbiologists/pathologists/science dudes investigating different 'situations' such as people who turn blue and die and ebola/camel pox...fun stuff in my books. also noted, the star of 're-genesis' is peter outerbridge who coincidently appears on episode 5 of medical investigation....they're almost the same show, but somehow different enough to have me equally interested in both. dang, just found out the new episode of regenesis aired earlier tonight...replay at 5 am...duh

speaking of lost, noticed tonight that 'colonel locke' from lost is in fact the crazy assed 'michaud' from the x-files movie...groovy dude he is.

went out with shane doing calls today, caught some cool pictures of the t dot skyline, but my cellphone (recoved safe and sound) suddenly has a max size restrict on outgoing emails now. i must call rogers and figure out why...when fixed, will upload photos for all to see...




- posted by tart @ 10:57 p.m. (0) comments

whats up with blogger?
silly thing hasn't been working for days...both computers, with firefox and ie...so dumb. anyway, quick update. got 95.5% on last weeks exam, hoping for the same this week.
stress level is out of control, but little bits of good news keep peeking in to the pile of bad news. lost my cellphone tonight somewhere between bell and home. went to a payphone and had them disable my sim card, and reinstate my old nokia...so much for pretty camera phone. it was fun while it lasted. 3 months and i will hopefully be able to get a new one through the employee account thing at work.
I was most shocked to hear that rogers doesn't have a negative file, so anyone can pick up the phone and put in any old sim and rogers is more than happy to put service on it. so dumb. gsm has some really crappy 'features'. truth be told though, it would be damn hard for me to walk away from rogers wireless if i did have my free bell phone. not sure why, but i still have a soft spot in my heart for uncle ted and his evil ways. so dumb how after years and years of torture in the hands of that company, i would even feel a hint of loyalty.
i'm off to watch lost, cuz i'm an addict.
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getting a pair...
the weekend is over...after fridays gruelling exam at work, i'm just about ready to head back for more. the whole situation with that left me feeling a bit vacant. so many people absolutely sure they failed the thing, and i have no idea how i did. multiple chicks in tears during and after the exam...so bizarre. i consider myself to be pretty adaptive and able to absorb concepts quickly, but by the time I finished that exam, I still didn't feel I was in a position to be quizzed on anything regarding the software. i hate to say it, but i think the training schedule needs some modification...if in fact that was the reason for crammming a single days work onto one exam. oh well, i should be finding out tomorrow...and i doubt 5 or 6 people are going to be sent home. they'll be losing some great people if they do...

i spent the early morning writing an insanely long letter to danny to try and explain why i jumped ship...he worked so hard to get me ahead of the game, and i bailed just as it was coming together. he'll understand if he can stay awake to read all 3 pages of the thing. i'm glad omar mentioned that there was a bit of resentment there...I thought they just didn't care...i've got the opportunity to at least make it somewhat right.

trent updated! can you believe it? me either. even the webcam has updated shots. reznad looks skinny like his cat. silly meathead went all hiatusy days before the update...sweet timing
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sleep would be good i guess....
loving bell...wow. rogers can suck teds left nut cracker.

have first exam for training in about 8 hours...need to sleep...so much to do.

will blog more on weekend, out of juice for tonight. but...figured out who lance vance is....GTA: Vice City, the little guy who is your 'buddy' but rats you out to the cuban mafia is Lance Vance....not sure why i have pictures of spandex and cape clad superheros floating in my head....
- posted by tart @ 5:38 a.m. (0) comments

online tests are soooo bad....
since i'm on a roll, figure i might as well post my stats...
67% internet addict
50% geek (see below)
65% evil genius (huh?)

somehow that seems like a dangerous combination. perhaps i should just sleep...

i'm feeling nine inch nails deprived right now...listening to pretty hate machine...so sweet it is...i bet trent is as groovy as he seems. or not. think i would feel pretty nasty if i found out he was a big dumb loser. even when everyone i know appears to be a dumb ass, i just keep thinking if trent is alive somewhere, there's always hope...how lame is that...oh well. gonna move some mp3s over to listen to on the way to/from work tomorrow. sleepy time. out.
- posted by tart @ 5:08 a.m. (0) comments

all i wanna know is, WHERE IS MY MAD DOUGH!!!!

I AM 50% GEEK! Nerd, Freak, Geek, Dweeb. Sound familiar? That's okay, cause I will be the richest person at my 15th year high school reunion. If a "con" isn't happening that weekend. Take the GEEK test at Fuali.com

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i've become impossible
blah. i need a life. soooo bored with things. wanna go out and do stuff. be around neat people. i miss serge and the windmill days...i'm going to self combust soon.

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i give bell the thumbs up!
so its been a couple of days since i blogged...been stupid busy. installed win 98 on the hate machine, completely ignoring the fact that win xp may never boot again...c'est la vie. i'm not too worried about it...like really, what does it matter? since installing win 98, i've installed and finished gabriel knight 2...cheated of course. i'll be damned if i spend 3 days trying to figure out how to corner some wolf guy. the game was good, but was lack lustre compared to the first, mainly due to the lack of tim curry...his 'nawlins' accent is right sexy and well, i like him fine. the switch from animation to real video was also a downer for me, but overall, the game is chock full of chewy goodness. i was entertained. attempted to grab gk3 off of the boys network, but alas have no connectivity for some reason. keith is offline, so it will have to wait until tomorrow.i have just installed grim fandango and have just finished watching the opening cinematic...might play a few minutes before bed.
on the real life front, things are looking up. i started at bell today. my orientation package said i started at 3:30 am, so this morning at 1 am, i hopped on the subway and made the pilgrimage to bells happy campus at dixie/eglinton. while hopping on the subway went well, but on arriving at kipling, the bus i was to catch was m.i.a....so through a reroute that beat all reroutes, i arrived at the big destination at 3:24 am, following a 50 minute jaunt from renforth. 2.2 miles....on arrival, it became apparent that there was in fact a typo on my orientation package, and was told to leave and investigate in the later morning hours...so i walked the 2 miles back to renforth and came back home, phoned HR lady and went to bed. HR lady phoned back confirming the only mistake was the a for the p in pm. so i woke up at noon, and headed back up....the training class is neat, especially computer phobic judy and trainer vance....everytime i hear his name i expect him to spin around and change into is crime fightin' costume...not sure why it instills images of superheros, but hey....the most bizarre thing of the day was discovered when completing the bell organization module....after so many years of reading articles about rogers, a fair amount of info about bell has sunk into my cranium. i knew weird things and vance laughed and said i was a bell geek at heart. by about 9 pm tonight, i was a bit of a mess and started chiming in with my sarcastic comments...no permanent damage was done though. vance laughed and the other trainer just looked at me with a blank stare. overall, was a great day. got to laugh for the first time in a long time, starting to get really lonely. everyone seems very friendly and i can feel a very welcome sense in the air. i feel the weight slowly lifting off my shoulders. day 2 starts in less than 12 hours, so i must motor. cheerio until we speak again...

- posted by tart @ 3:28 a.m. (0) comments

i live on the edge...
tired of staring at my the dvd keith made for me of all 6 gabriel knight 2 disks, i started playing around with win98 dual boot options. i started with virtual pc for windows xp, which went well until i tried to install 98. having only ntfs partitions, it failed miserably.
i then turned to partition magic, which assured me all will be well if i follow their helpful instructions...so, i created a 10 gb primary partition at the front of my master (60 gb) drive, and proceeded to install win98 on it. i now have installed all drivers, done all 8 billion windows updates and am now just trying to find a copy of alcohol so i can read the iso's...the fun really begins when i try to boot back into xp....so much excitement.
- posted by tart @ 4:51 a.m. (0) comments

the meathead perspective
k, it's 8:07 am and i'm still awake. i went by the meathead perspective to check on meat, cuz he's dreamy and well...he's meat. and he's posted and it's total sadness material. he's all unmotivated because trent is trent and doing thing at his very own speed. but meat is so awesome and his flash movies are so L337. just in case you missed the link in the sidebar, linkage is here...be sure to try his sandwiches...

- posted by tart @ 8:15 a.m. (0) comments

i wish i had never agreed to be your holy one
so it's saturday morning...7:27 to be exact. just spent the last 5 hours killing the same bloody monster in diablo, all for about 20 million experience points. quite the waste of time, but the primal urge to reach lvl 95 has consumed me and i will probably continue to waste time for the next 48 hours. or not.
the timing for starting work is just about perfect...i'm getting extremely stir crazy and am dying to get out and do things. with no cash its just not possible though. i am feeling a definite lack of allies in this big old world. my stress level is increasing by the moment, so work is a really really good thing on so many levels. 2 more days...
on the computer front, i have been struck down in the war against the microsoft max connection war, yet again...the patches do nothing. I'm still getting errors in event manager and torrents won't download when i'm uploading. as long as abc is running, i can't even browse the web. even applications are grinding to a standstill...i don't get it. i'll work on it more after i sleep.
sleep is another challenge. i want to get on track for monday morning, which means regulating my sleep between noon - 10 pm...but at i sit at 7:41, i am dead tired and have no desire to stay awake. once i finish up this entry, i will put on a movie and try to stay awake a while, but i highly doubt i'll last till noon. if i can sleep till 8 tonight, i should be able to stay up until noon tomorrow though, which will leave me with enough sleep to survive at work until noon monday. hopefully.
just thinking about all of this is stressing me out...i'm a mess. i miss sergio. i'm going to watch a movie...



- posted by tart @ 7:26 a.m. (0) comments

bush has a bulge!
check out this photo/article from the washington dispatch. I can't help but think its not too far off the mark...
- posted by tart @ 4:37 a.m. (0) comments

this is the end of life as i know it...
good news: got my orientation package via email from Bell. bad news: shift isn't 3:30 pm - 11:30 pm as i originally thought...it's 3:30 am - 11:30 am. Now i've had a few hours to think about the consequences of this, and i'm not quite as worried as i was. I'm not completely locked out of normal life as i would have been before. i'll probably end up sleeping from 2 - 10 every evening, so i can at least watch primetime tv, should i be overcome with the sudden desire to do so. if i'm feeling very motivated, I could even get up a couple of hours earlier and mabye go out and play for the evening...not likely, but the option is there. i'm sure i will adapt, especially since this schedule is only for the first six weeks. with the news of the change in schedule, i now have less than 36 hours before i leave the apartment for my first night/day at work. should be interesting.

as far as the godforsaken computer adventures for today, i've done very little. spent 4 hours playing the matrix map in starcraft with lancer, so i've filled my gaming quota for the day. i have now learned enough about html to know my blog breaks about 12 thousand different laws of online publishing, and that i have much apathy regarding it.

the best news of the day was delivered to me by 4, count em, 4 lovely cockroaches in the kitchen. they are all dead now. i am so not impressed by this revelation. the more i clean, the more bugs there are. it so sucks. once i get caught up with rent, i'll get al to fix the area under the sink and my lack of water in the shower. that should make a difference with the buggies me thinks, as i believe humidity is the big bug happy zone.

its a good thing i'm headed back to work because i'm starting to feel fairly alien sitting at home alone. even with polishman dropping by and going out for dinner with ubes last night, i still feel like i haven't seen or socialized enough to feel human. i'd give my left arm for a good night out...that last time at the goose with polishman and ray was awesome, well over a year ago now...a night of drinking and trashy 80's tunes would do me a world of good. hard to believe i haven't been to a single bar since the smoking bylaw kicked in on june 1st. kinda sad really. i miss sergio.

so now, it's 1:38 am and i'm feeling like i should have a nap. but since i start work in 3 days (is it 3?) i'm thinking i should stay up until noon. i don't think i'll last that long though. i can't think of a single game i could play that would keep me going that long...doom is too scary to play that long, not nearly as addictive as i need for this cause. not even mucking around with blog seems right at this point...what to do....maybe generals..yeah, i'll try generals...here i go...


- posted by tart @ 1:20 a.m. (0) comments

link of the year! hurray!
This is the coolest thing ever...Television Without Pity gives full recaps of all television network spewage...
- posted by tart @ 10:32 a.m. (0) comments

guys...this isn't just a bear
ITS A POLAR BEAR!

- posted by tart @ 8:09 a.m. (0) comments

4 days and counting
well its now 4 days till i start the new job, and i have no shortage of things to get accomplished. the more important being getting my sleep fixed. i'm waking up at strange hours after few hours of sleep and still feel next to dead. i wanted to chat with lancer earlier, but i completely missed him. so sad.
shane clued me into a new series on abc called 'lost'...i'm now in the process of watching the four available episodes, the 4th of which aired just tonight. it's shot beautifully and has an eerie 'x-files' feel to it and it doesn't hurt that i'm a sucker for a good plane crash...i highly recommend checking it out.
the last few days have left a lot to be desired as far as performance with rogers internet service, specifically with torrents. most of the time, download grinds to a standstill leaving web browsing slower than 28.8k dialup. i checked the event log and noticed a fair number of entries for exceeding the max number of connections....and then noticed my processor usage was up to 100% steady with only abc running. so, i updated to the new test version of abc, 2.7.0 and changed max connections to 60, down from 100. i ran the patch and haven't had a problem since...no more evil waiting. though i haven't had any evil resulting from the patch, i shall not be held responsible if you do...
off i go, 2 more episodes of 'lost' before i sleep....




- posted by tart @ 7:23 a.m. (0) comments

more bush fun
"The air has been much cleaner ever since I was the president"
--George W. Bush
- posted by tart @ 5:26 a.m. (0) comments

quote to die for....
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets."

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
- posted by tart @ 7:40 p.m. (0) comments

yowsa...


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would ya look at this...
wow, so i'm surfing my face off for a way to get MBM to post pretty hate machines temperatures to the blog...thanks to keith for the idea...and just as i'm giving up hope, i find a guy that has all of it! but then i look, and he did it, no crazy tools...he just did it. amazing. anyway, his stat thingy is on his blog which is here.

- posted by tart @ 5:04 a.m. (0) comments

liptap service...
spent the night watching 911 videos from cbc...chatting with the people and drinking too much coffee...good thing i'm not dooming tonight, or i'd be a mess. Once again, oldversion.com has saved the day by providing high quality versions of old software...hot damn i say. found keith his crazy chat tooled icq 2000b...
managed to add a comment tool to this here blog...tried to get text america code to work, but it puked in my face like the medialibrary thing did. not sure what i'm doing wrong...probably best, or i'd end up with more tools than content, and thats just defeating the purpose of blogging...though my link list is already becoming very handy and i can very much see myself using my own blog as a portal...hmmm portal...i'm so smart. I bet noone anywhere has ever thought of that...duh
friday nights router firmware update turned out to be kinda funky in that it deleted absolutely every port forwarded, changed the ip for the router and the rest of the network and just plain old forgot it was ever my router...crazy thing. no wonder i couldn't upload torrents.
i talked to Dom about the whole american voting experience...he just saw farhenheit 911 last night...such a shame he's smart and hated bush before...i would love to talk to an american that loved bush before seeing it...and asking them how they could even think about voting for the guy again....i can't believe the american laws don't protect their own people from conflict of interest....Corporations have conflict of interest policies...I couldn't work for rogers paging and telus communications at the same time, in totally unrelated fields...they made sure of it...how on earth can a man who's financial interests are based in the middle east be involved in foreign policy or hell, presidency of the united states? maybe the u.s. government needs to talk to a major corporation or two and bring its HR policies into this century...silly kids. michael moore is groovy, one day gonna tell him the story of Rogers Cable and its contracters...he's made movies about people treated better than rogers install minions. but alas, that is a story for another day...

- posted by tart @ 3:49 a.m. (0) comments

i did it...
after 2ish days of hell on msn 6.2, i decided to make the leap to beta 7 a whole 5 days before public launch...boy oh boy is it pretty. i really like that you can choose the status you log in as...a lot of the features are completely useless until other contacts are running 7 as well, but I'm more than happy to keep running 7 , its so pretty...very clean fonts and the design just seems to work better with my brain. The wink vulnerablity is still there, so i disabled them completely for the time being. Also 2 important patches required...CVR patcher for confusing MS and the enable/disable tabs patch....along with the executatble for 7, both patches are available at mess with msn messenger
- posted by tart @ 4:56 p.m. (0) comments

well as long as i'm up mourning superman....
There are no words for this miracle

- posted by tart @ 3:28 a.m. (0) comments

supermans dead...now the world can end
was going to go sleep, but stumbled apon news of christopher reeves death...when he first became paralyzed, it really bugged me. not sure if that same reaction will kick in this time, or if i've been hardened by years of people dying or not. it is sad though...either way. he should have got more kryptonite.
- posted by tart @ 2:53 a.m. (0) comments

blog huh?
not sure why i feel the need to do the blog thing now...it is sooooo 2002, but alas, its my whim and i'm fairly confident it shall not affect the innocent.

at the moment, just procrastinating...moved into the new place about a month ago, and i'm still climbing over boxes to get around. haven't much found the motivation to do the work. besides, playing with the godforsaken computer seems far more important. if i keep moving at this pace, every object will have a home sometime around christmas...pretty good on my personal scale, i'd say...

i officially have 7 days of doing nothing before starting the new job at bell mobility...plans in that time include:

• studying up on bells products and corporate structure, so i don't walk in there feeling like a complete noob.
• playing 'Typing of the Dead" to bring my typing speed back up for the new gig...TOTD appears to be a typing tutor/game where zombies die when mistakes aren't made. Mario teaches typing got me up to 80 wpm way back when, so hopefully this will do the trick in the absence of Mario.
• finish moving boxes out of main living space, into the loft and in storage above the doorway.
• reinstalling winblows on both machines...might as well do it while i have the time. i really must have the tv wonder working on the slave once i'm working, or i'll never ever get to watch tv...working hours will prevent me from watching prime time, even with timeshifting...must be able to cap survivor and the like.

today i installed an rss ticker for my torrent bits updates...so far seems okay, but it only allows one custom feed, so i must dig some more to find a more appropriate app...i want a few of them to tick away...this one is enewsbar 2.01 and is available here


- posted by tart @ 10:31 p.m. (0) comments