Boyd's Blog

2003-06-04T02:40:00.000-05:00

Back to school! Back to school to prove I'm no fool!

That's right, I'm starting out this summer semester taking C++ Algorithms, to start up where I left off eons ago, on my path to enlightenment. I may never get there, but at least I can spend alot of money and tell stories about how I sat around the house eating Cheetos and skipping class.

Wish me luck.

2003-05-29T13:01:00.000-05:00

Well today has been interesting so far. We spent all this morning replacing the beams to a rotting out porch deck patio thing. It was only 10 years old at the most. Someone forgot to spray on the Rustoleum or whatever.

It was easier than I thought. Building things ain't all that hard. Bob Vila sucks.

2003-05-21T05:22:00.000-05:00

I can't stop spending money.

I now have a webcam.

I now have a wireless keyboard and mouse.

And now, I have a new 5.1 speaker set with a subwoofer so loud it blows the clothes off of women (hey to Seth Green).

I'm turning into a woman at a shoe store.

Is there any hope for me?

2003-05-18T05:04:00.000-05:00

On the first day the computer parts were ordered from discount dealers on the Internet. And Chris looked upon the order confirmation printouts and it was good.

On the second day the orders were processed and sent to Fedex and UPS. And Chris looked upon the confirmation emails and it was good.

On the third day Chris noticed the PartsPC.com order for the ASUS motherboard had the wrong address listed. Chris called up the customer service number on his lunch break and fixed the problem, and then it was good.

On the fourth day the Fedex and UPS tracking numbers were in the inbox of Chris and he checked their status for the first time, and noticed that the delivery dates were good.

On the fifth day the ATI Radeon arrived, as well as the Antec case and the Sony DVD drive. Chris opened the packages and stored them neatly in the closet, all good.

On the sixth day the rest of the parts arrive except the motherboard and the CPU. It was so good it was almost perfect.

On the seventh day the motherboard and CPU arrived, and it was a day of rest and celebration. The Silicon Sabbath, Sunday Building Sunday had arrived. Chris molded his computer out of dust, breathed life into it and was glad, and gave it the computer desk to live its days in and be prosperous and fruitful. And AMD was content.

But AMD was lonely, and needed a companion. So while AMD was asleep, Chris took a small digital rib and loaded XP to keep AMD company. And AMD called it "Windows" as it would be the beginning of all computing to come in the Desktop Of Eden.

2003-05-07T14:15:00.000-05:00

RAM, hard drive, DVD all arrived within the last 18 hours.

Only thing left is the motherboard and CPU, which is scheduled for tomorrow.

As Al Bundy would say, let's rock.

Or was that Ted Bundy, let's eat?

Oh I forget.

2003-05-05T17:44:00.000-05:00

Ok, just so you RSFCKers know...

My news server is having major poopy problems right now, because Everest KC the low budget cable company here in KC is low budget and they rent out Usenet service from whatever newsgroup service that is that pastes those gawd-awful ad signatures on my RSFC posts... I lost this sentence somewhere, but the point is I can't get in except for Google which um, I can't stand when I have Xnews sitting here with nothing to do but whine about "411 no such news group"

So anyway, the KC tornadoes did not get me at all, if you want to pass on the message that I did not perish in an exploding mobile home Deke Arndt skateboarding shit storm, I'd appreciate it.

PS some FedEx guy just delivered me the ATI Radeon card, the rest of the parts come in tomorrow and Wednesday. Double w00ts.

2003-05-04T02:22:00.000-05:00

Well Saturday is the last day of the week for my new 'job. It's easy. Easy money. I'll be living happy for a while now.

I got a Playstation 2 last weekend, used my training check for that. I haven't owned a game system since the original Nintendo back in 1988 or so. I'm amazed at how good I am at some of these games. I haven't played them at all and the complicated controller the Playstation 2 has now seems very natural to me. It's unsettling. Maybe it's my relatively young age, part of the generation of technically minded kids, perhaps it's just good luck showing up in the most useless avenue of life: computer games you play by yourself late at night.

Anyway, I already have NCAA Football 2003 and I'm enjoying using KSU to smack the everloving Baby Jesus out of the unnameable 1-AA teams on it. Yeah, the game has 1-AA teams, with made up colors and mascots, just to accomodate KSU customers such as myself. EMAW, baby... EMAW.

This past week I also finally ordered the parts for my new AMD box. I can finally ditch this dinosaur in the ocean where it belongs. Toshiba laptop gonna sleep with the fishes. Well, not really. It's gonna sleep on the family computer desk. I will have the system that rules, they will have the system that dr...(HD trashing noise)... oo.... (more HD trashing noise, more grinding this time) .... lll .... (real slow screen redraw as the HD trashes) ... s. (screen finally shows the letters I typed in on the keyboard five minutes ago).

Flame away.

2003-04-25T02:13:00.000-05:00

Ok, what was real important that I had to say was... nothing. It was just drunk shit I just typed.

But anyway, I'll be back next week with more stuff to talk about. This weekend and the first part of next week I'm putting together my new computer and will be busy and offline and away and all that other stuff.

See you soon.

2003-04-09T01:57:00.000-05:00

Well it's very late and I'm about to hit the sack (the bed that is), I had something I wanted to post here to the blog but I am too tired to type it all. So, I'll type it tomorrow. I think.

nite nite

2003-04-08T00:15:00.000-05:00

I'm not going to gloat over KU losing tonight

But man, work is gonna be alot more fun tomorrow.

I wonder if Roy will give a shiat about UNC when he wakes up.

2003-04-03T22:55:00.000-06:00

We learned the billing system today!

Yes, today we learned in class how to use the billing system. It's a Telnet session into some server that I caught what it was but can't remember. Yeah, it's slow and you have to hit TAB alot. Feh.

But anyway, there was one part of class where everyone, and I mean everyone, jumped ahead of the teacher and did something we weren't supposed to and re-sent 28 bill statements to a certain famous celebrity customer of ours that we were using to learn the system. The trainer had to leave the class and talk with whoever it is that cancelled the 28 re-sends. I imagine the said celebrity wouldn't have been happy to hear from his people that 28 more bills came in the mail at his house. In these times we live, I bet the celebrities have some sort of Anthrax-detection sniffing dogs or something... or probably some court-jester who reads the mail.

But anyway, tomorrow is casual Friday and I plan on wearing some farking jeans.

2003-04-01T12:22:00.000-06:00

Holy crap, gotta go to work on April fools

I sure hope nobody hacks my blog site or fake-fires me. I don't know these people enough to laugh with them. Or do I...

Crap! Gotta leave in 10 minutes. This work schedule thing is already cramping my style. And you know I have tons of style. Buckets of tons.

2003-03-29T11:18:00.000-06:00

The Last Weekend

Well this is the last weekend before my new job starts Monday. It's a call center here in Overland Park. I'm going to have four weeks of training, which means I'm going to get mad crazy stupid dollars for sitting on my butt while somebody writes on a dry erase board. April going to be berry berry good to me. I hope.

Anyway, I hope none of my coworkers turn out to be retards or dipshits. And I hope there's chicks.

Yeah right.

2003-03-28T14:01:00.000-06:00

Ok, so it's Day 2 on my very own blog. I wonder if I'm not making enough progress on it or not, perhaps I should ask General Myers if this is where I wanted to be right now. I think so.

Barley's was crap lastnight. There was nobody there except a bunch of KU fans. Yes, I was hoping Duke wouldn't suck. Yes, I can't believe I pulled for Duke. When does football start, I feel so frickin' dirty.

BTW, if you haven't yet, click on the link on the left and go to Hastyman's blog. He really has it going on. But seriously, Hasty is a much better writer than I am and does more interesting stuff with his life than I do.

See you next time, freaks.

2003-03-27T18:39:00.000-06:00

Ok, I've thought about it and I've decided: I am going to type normally. I thought using capital letters would look stupid but the trouble is, the schoolteachers were right... it looks worse without them.

I'm having trouble deciding what theme to use with this page. It really shouldn't matter since I'll most likely be the only person who sees it, but I'm only going to bitch about it if I don't. Fuck me. Give me some ideas if you care. Some Gay ($1) comments would be awesome.

I've got some good ideas myself but I'll probably wait until tomorrow to work on them. For now, it's off to Barleys for some Guinnessesesss.

2003-03-27T15:06:00.000-06:00

i guess i better post this to RSFC

FSCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2003-03-27T14:36:00.000-06:00

according to the iraqi information minister standing outside looking at the burning baghdad skyline, saying they've shot down 196 of the "idiot's" cruise missiles. congratulations dude, sounds like you guys are pretty awesome. how about you interview your buddy saddam while you're standing there outside? oh that's right, you don't have a wheelchair with bulletproof glass...

2003-03-27T12:22:00.000-06:00

ok, so this is my blog. i've avoided doing one of these for years because most of the blogs i read are pretty much whiny. so why am i writing one called focused bitching? well, you won't catch me writing poems about how sad i am or some crap about how much i hate my dad. because i don't and i'm not sad. i see this as the equivalent of me sitting on the couch making fun of stupid TV commercials. which is pretty much how i spend most of my free time, making fun of shit. yeah, i guess if i took the "what friend are you" quiz i'd be chandler. and i guess that sucks.