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Sims screwed up my computer so I might as well play it

For those of you not following my twitter I made a Sims house with 8 of the B-Podders, Dan, Hiro, Sidney, Naoya, Lauren, Me, Yusuke, and Elisabeth. They don’t let you do more than 8, or I probably woulda killed myself making everyone. Anyway, much of my time these days is spent with at least part of my attention focused on this silly game. If you would like to know details I suggest you ask, as I intend to try and not bore everyone with the details, although I might fail.

IRL I called PNNL and asked them what was up. They told me they were waiting on Central. So I called Central and asked them what was up and they told me that degrees aren’t processed until July 2nd, so they can’t tell PNNL I graduated until after that. So my vacation gets another extension. I will likely go to Cheney with Pat again this week, since I now know I can, as it will be more convenient for attending Sindey’s 4th of July celebrations. Plus I can hang out with Pat more before we are both relegated to work drone-itude.

Lastly, in the course of addressing my computer woes I have found in convenient to use mother’s computer from time to time.  As such I have also used IE, a thing I’ve not done often in years.  Using IE has exposed me to adds like the one below.  Now, I dunno what this is an ad for, although I’m sure it’ s utter crap, but apparently one need follow only “these one simple rule”.  /rolls eyes   I tend to scorn sheeple, but people are such gibbering morons that if they didn’t have that instinctual herd mentality we never would have made it this far.

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I am not excited that Lauren’s coming. I am a calm, reserved, adult. Shut up.

Pat’s leaving today (or has left already with my shoes) back to Cheney for another week of working.  So that’s somewhat lame.  Lauren’s coming to visit for a few days tomorrow, though, so that’s ridiculously awesome.  Don’t feel as though the differences in levels of emotion about the two happenings reflect directly an evaluation of worth of the two parties, however.  Largely the difference is due to my natural positive bent, and the unexpectedness of Lauren being able to visit as juxtaposed against the well known fact that Pat would be leaving.

So, not much has been happening around here.  Mom’s gone, so dad and I just lay around in our respective rooms listening to our respective audio programming.  For dad this Father’s Day I got him the gift of not wasting his money, time, or space on things he doesn’t want or need, which I think is what he really was hoping for.

My computer is still blowed up from the malware I got on it.  I’m currently moving towards the plan of wiping it clean.  I’m more in favor of this plan than previously because I realized that I could put the Windows 7 RC on it and play around with it.  So the infection gives way to an opportunity, kinda, I guess.  I still have to have the computer working long enough to pull the data I want to save onto an external hard drive, and burn the Windows install disk and stuff like that, which is not working out so well currently.  QQ

And now for something completely different.

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Since I’m leaving Cheney in a few hours I figured I’d do an update post explaining a bit of what I did during my week here.

On Monday, Pat’s first day of work, Pat and I did a easy little bike ride, on roads and paths.  We went 18 miles out to the lake.  It was a good date path.  Girlfriends would definitely like it.  So, now Pat knows.  We saw a couple turtles on the trip.  It was cool.  Along a long stretch of the path is a little stream on both sides, and they were coming out of there to sun themselves or something.  One was covered in green slime stuff.  So… that was kinda the highlight of that day.  We also fried chicken, and did it successfully, eventually.

Tuesday Pat didn’t have to go into work until 8.  Yeah, I know.  Awesome, huh.  One of these days we watched Crank 2.  And we played a bunch of Resistance over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.  We also watched quite a few Project Lore episodes.  We went to Subway on Tuesday cause we were missing cooking supplies and we felt lazy.

Wednesday, after Pat got back, we went shopping for a pot big enough to cook our corn, and got some grocery things we were missing.  First we ate a Tony’s pizza, though, to tide us over.  After successful shopping, except the pot being kinda broken, we successfully made corn.  The rest of the day was all Resistance.  While the corn cooked Pat and I did this ab work out competition thing I learned from Dan.  It was round two.   Round 1 on Monday was a sweep for Pat, but I one the face down half of the competition this day.  Uh… whoo?!?

Thursday I Skyped w/ Yusuke and Lauren a bit.  They were together since Yusuke was going up to Vancouver and stopped for lunch w/ Lauren.  Sidney came and got me afterwards and took me to Newport and her house.  We hung out with Emily Anne Geddes and their friend Shelby( or Shelly or something), and Pat came up after work.  He made it without directions or anything.  Instinct.  We trampolined, and Guitar Heroed mostly, but most importantly we ate tons of their food.  So that was good.

Today is the last day of work for Pat… … … this week.  I guess the plan is to jet out of here as soon as he gets home and go back to the Tri-Cities.  I bet he hopes to get home in time for dinner.

All the time when I’ve been alone has been spent watching podcasts and playing the Sims and chatting with people… mostly Lauren.

We go now.

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Here I sit

So, I’m in Cheney.  Pat’s sleeping, hopefully.  He has to get up for work in like 4.5 hours.  We’re at Holly’s place.  She went home soon after we arrived.  Her roommate, roommate’s bf, and some unknown other male just arrived and are talking over there to the left in their own section of the apartment.  I didn’t know they were gonna be around.  /shrug  I hope they dun wake Pat.

My computer has contracted a rather nasty virus or malware or something, so I’m typing this on Pat’s laptop.  I’m working on fixing it, but I haven’t made much progress.  It’s very annoying.  I might end up just wiping the drive.  I was stupid to contract the thing.  I never learn.  Well, that’s not true.  I learned, and knew there was a great likelihood I was gonna contract something, I just figured it would be easier to fix than this.

I wonder if the roommate is being raped… kinda sounds like it.  Maybe not.  Probably not.

Sidney is apparently jobless now, which is bad cause she needs money, but good in that I am more likely to get to see her while I hang out over here this week.  Yeah?  Maybe?  Please?  I’m fun, kinda… sometimes.

I just pondered the nature of reality.  I note that my reality is dependant on what I know, and people control what I know to a large degree.  What I mean is those around me can influence my reality by omitting data, or telling fabrications.  I don’t particularly enjoy that others have such control over me.  However, it cannot be helped.  Also, I’m aware of this control, so my reality does take it into account as best possible with uncertainties, but it is unpleasant nonetheless.

Hmm… I’m not making very good sense.  I guess I’ll try to sleep.

Update: I didn’t go to sleep and my computer, at least so far, seems to be fixed.

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Back home

CakecomplishmentLauren and Yusuke brought me back to Kennewick yesterday.  They went home today.  Goodbye new girlfriend.  *tear*  I will miss you.  Oh, and seeya later Yusuke.

Kim and Pat hung out with me most of today.  We chatted (I was interrogated) and had free food and then we had this brilliant idea to buy an ice cream cake to celebrate Kim’s 1 year of working at Value Village, as no one had yet celebrated it.  This is the cake.  We are quite pleased with ourselves.  I feel it is a great thing.  Perhaps you do not understand the subtle humor of the situation, but perhaps you do, so there it is.

There was video game playing later.  Coop FPS in the form of Resistance, which was fun.  I don’t FPS much but I did enjoy several moments and I don’t seem to suck too terribly.

Tomorrow (actually today) is the day all the Central people leave, except Yusuke.  So I hope you guys have good goodbyes, and, ya know, imagine I was there, too.  I hope you got the random facts, Sidney.  Also, I’m putting in a recommendation for Pat becoming random dude that comes to your house and eats food and stuff.

Hiro, have fun in Alaska.  Dan, have fun in on with Sidney.  I’ll see ya both on the interwebs.  Yusuke, try to be nice for a little bit.  It’s not the time for humor, the girls aren’t going to be in the mood.  And Lauren, good luck with your family.  Sorry for the hassle that I am.  Please let me help them understand how we need to visit each other all the time if I can.

Tomorrow (really tomorrow) is the day Pat leaves for Spokane for his new job, so to him I say, take me with you!

Yeah, I think that’s all the goodbyes for now.  Kinda abnormal for me to do direct messages in my blog like that, but variety is the spice of life, they say.  Seems like they should change up that cliche a bit.  The real important thing is, Happy 1 year at Value Villiage Kim.

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You don’t need me, you have my links.

I’ve been busy.  Busy for me is somewhat different than for normal people.  See, for me, when I have work that needs doing, then I necessarily have time in between that needs to be filled with procrastination.  When there is nothing that needs doing, I don’t need to procrastinate, and so the blog suffers.  Basically, I’ve been busy with play, no time to blog.

It’s been too long since the last update so I can’t actually give you much of  a blow by blow, and frankly you wouldn’t want it.  Suffice it to say that I’ve been hanging out with Pat a lot, Aaron occasionally, and on most weekends with Lauren, Sidney, Dan, Hiro, and Yusuke, the Central peeps.

What have we been doing?  Well, we saw Wolverine.  And the Asians went camping out by my house.  And we all visited Sidney’s home on the range.  When the Central people are around we do a lot of PS3 and basketball playing.  Now that I’ve been kidnapped up to Central we swim occasionally.  Pat and I mountain bike and play WoW.  We made it to 80 so now we kinda grind a lot of rep and work on getting geared.  That’s all kinda on hiatus for me now that I’m stolen.

I get a lot of people asking me what I’m doing and I have taken to responding, “living the dream.”  Basically, I’m on summer break.  I did apply for an internship at PNNL, and I think I got it, I just don’t officially have it yet.  News today is that I won’t have it until June.  At least that’s what I’m given to understand.  I haven’t officially graduated thanks to the wonderful staff here at Central, so I can’t have my internship, I guess.  I’m still working on getting a piece of paper signed so I’ll be all set to graduate after this quarter.  I need the new chair of the Math department to sign something, but apparently he only comes into work on days that start with “Q”.  Either that or the secretary doesn’t want to take responsibility for her forgetting about my piece of paper.  Anyway, I think once that’s done all I have to do is wait patiently for something that should already be mine so I can start making money.  *shrug* I want the break anyway.  I really don’t enjoy the paperwork hassle, though.

Tomorrow supposedly the paper will be signed and I can get this stuff and then we, the Central people, are going to Seattle and Lauren’s house.  The Asians are gonna go see the Mariners play.  Donny is coming, and there’s a chance we can meet up with Pat.  Lauren’s house will have lots of fatty foods, so I can store up for the next winter I come across.

Tonight the plan is to play basketball from 9-11.  We’ve been ordered to not disturb Megan in her watching of the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy.  She’s been irrationally vehement about it.  I have no leg to stand on given I’m technically breaking rules just by being in Anderson as long as I have, so I can’t complain.  The other people are unwilling to face her wrath so instead of risking an accidentally audible sound we’re just going to hide out in the gym.  Also, some of us are gonna go watch a crippled guy break dance.  *shrug* I’m not doing anything else, right?

Anyway, that’s the gist.  Hopefully I’ll be a bit better in the future… although the immediate future is filled with lack of computer, so don’t hold your breath.  I’ll try and post something more insightful next time.

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Can’t blog, must consume internet media

The Central gang is coming back to visit in like 39 hours.  Yay!  We’ve set up Skype and webcams and stuff so I’m pretty sure I talk to them more now than before.  They’re being very nice to me.

Pat’s gonna DM a few of us TC locals.  We decided we’re rolling stats straight down.  I got good rolls.  The restrictive nature of the chosen character creation process has me leaning towards Bard.  I need to wait and see what Gar and Kim do, though, before I make any firm decisions.

Also, I had the idea that one could probably sell some sort of self help doctrine around the idea of harnessing one’s need to go to the bathroom as a source of motivation for success in the rest of one’s life.  Kinda like one of those self empowerment strategies and stuff wackos are always spending money on.  I know it sounds crazy, I just want to say I thought of it before it comes out for real so people will believe me when I say I thought of it first.

Tomorrow I am going to play some board games with Mom and Ms. Craig, my kindergarten – 2nd grade teacher.  And then Kim is gonna come over and work on her character, supposedly.  That’s the plan.

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Jugs and orbs and darts and gourds, Elmer Fudd’s and bouncing Buddahs, sweater stretchers, lung protectors…

I have a test in about 7 hours in Operating Systems.  I’m not feeling very prepared, but it’s a Boris test so that’s standard.

I’ve been having trouble meeting my push-up quota the last few days.  I don’t really know what I’m gonna do about it.

I got an A+ on my ethics case studies.  I’d like to take a moment to thank all of those who wrote in and contributed to my success.

*clears throat*

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Thank you all very much.

You guys are watching all the TED talks, yeah?  Well, I specifically recommend this one.  Pretty concisely says lots of stuff I agree with.

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I r on duty

I haven’t updated in a while for a couple reasons.  Probably the most important is that I’ve been busy.  We had a giant paper due for that capstone class I have, and I also had some programming assignments due in my other classes.  I was very productive during the beginning of this week so I’m a bit ahead now, although I still have much on the horizon.  The other reason is that my internet is so atrociously slow back in the dorm that I can’t seem to load all the WordPress stuff I need to make a new post.  Sad, ain’t it.

So what’s been happening?  I wrote a genetic algorithm.  It’s really simple, just supposed to optimize a two variable algebraic inequality, but it’s still cool, imho.  I had a bug that flummoxed me for several hours until I got Keston to look at it.  He fixed it in like 5 minutes.  So, kudos to him.  I tried to make it general, and some of that kinda went by the wayside when I hit the bugs and the deadline, but I’m hoping it’s close and can be easily adapted for alternative projects.

Lauren, keeper of the Netflix queue, has realized that I’m leaving soon, never to complain about their movie selections again, so she’s bumped up all the movies I’ve been suggesting over the year.  So we watched Equilibrium, The Professional, and soon Airplane.  Elisabeth and Sidney opted out of The Professional, which was stupid of them.  I’m very disappointed.  I was a little nervous I wouldn’t like it as much as I remembered, but I still stand by my 10 star rating on IMDB.

Funny coincidence, The Totally Rad Show that was released two days after we watched it had The Professional as their recommended Netflix rental, and Dan said he thought it was a flawless movie.  I don’t really agree with Dan’s movie taste in a lot of ways, but we’re together on that one.  Anyway, the point is, Sidney and Elisabeth are dumb for missing it, and I don’t forgive them.  And anyone who doesn’t like that movie… well, I’ve never heard of such a thing, so please explain yourself.

Pat didn’t come visit me, cause he a sucka foo, or something.  I didn’t get him anything for his bday, though, so we’ll call it even.

Helen Marie Havnaer is my friend on facebook now.  You guys remember her?  From camp that one year when I was like 12?  /shurg  Well, I do.

Tomorrow Tyler‘s band is going to play on campus.  Mom’s coming to see him, and I’ll go.  Hopefully I can get others to go.

There’s more, but I guess they’re the subject of different posts.

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My site was down for a day or two a day or two ago.  I trust you all survived.

Work is slowly encroaching in on me from all sides.  I can feel it coming.  It will crush me and drive any will to get a job from me before I graduate.  Send your condolences and cash to my parents.

The gang only plays D&D for like 2 or 3 hours at a time.  I dunno if they get into grooves that way.  It doesn’t seem to groove right, exactly.  I need that groove to improve my DMing.  /sigh  Still, at least they play, which is more than can be said for the game I’m in.

Perhaps on a related note, Pat’s grandpa died.  Pat’s making the trek back up from Vegas, consequently.  That is all I know on the subject, but I imagine Pat’s sad to some degree.  So… sux0r.

Finished the first book of Dune.  Not the actual book, the book within a book.  You know how they divide books into books sometimes.  I’m at the part where Paul attains a higher consciousness or whatever.  Prekky sweet.

It was snowing outside.  ForcastFox says it will some more.  Right now we’ve got a slight covering, is all.

Today I swim, and shave, and shower, and various other words that start with S.  Step, shimmy, shake, swallow, scramble, shamble, stagger, scamper, salivate, sashay, skip, start, succumb, stop, stroak, shed, scratch, slurp, snap, sniff, sneer, smile, slouch, slur, slump, shoot, splash, stride, strafe, sing, and possibly sneeze.  But, first, sleep… snooze, snore, slumber.