Monkeys selling pizza; a new level of geekdom; an empty fish tank; and a girl named Melinda.

‘sbout it, really.

pizza.

The monkeys you see, sell pizza. Yes, thats right. Monkeys that sell pizza. Good pizza at that. You wouldn’t think that monkeys would be all that great at making pizza but… well… you heard it here. Even Mollie liked the monkey pizza. No one else has actually seen these monkeys but me, but they’re there. They stand on the corner down the street with signs advertising their pizza. They’re purple, red, and green. And they wear little vests. They’re pretty ugly monkeys, to be honest. But still good pizza. Yeah, still good.

geek.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS/CM d- s:- a-- C++>$ UL++ P+ L++(+++) 
!E W++ N w-- M>++ PS+(++) PE-(--) Y+ PGP 
t 5- X R+(++) !tv b++ DI+ D- G e>++ h-- r(-) y--
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Check it out. It’s pretty amusing. I think I might write a Geek Code interpreter in C++.

Tres and Tris also have Geek Codes, but you’ll have to check their AIM info’s for theirs.

I’m glad to say I’m running Slackware 9.0rc1 exclusively. I can’t wait til 9.0 final comes out, it must be really incredible if its as rock solid as this pre-release is. I might even donate to Slackware.

fish.

my saltwater tank finally has water in it! its actually running, with a filter on it and everything! Soon, I’ll put some liverock in it, then I’ll add some more livesand… then the molly’s go in. Then a pair of Percula clowns. Then I dunno. We’ll see from there.

I’m totally excited, and really, I can’t even put it into typed words. Mollie thinks I’m retarded. I guess she doesn’t realize this is what I’ve been waiting for for nearly 6 months! Oh well. I’m still excited.

girl.

So yeah. I’m dumb. I’m retarded. I met a girl. At work. Melinda. At first, I thought she hated me. For nearly two months she barely said more than a few words at a time to me. Then the other day we just started talking about work. About how much it fscking sucks, and about getting fired, and, and, and, and. Two weeks ago I couldn’t have heard this girl’s voice in my head, but now I can hear her laughing and saying how lame that last attempt at a joke was, as she takes another drink from her never ending supply of water bottles. I could only vaguely describe the way she looks, and now I notice when she looks like she’s ready to put her glasses on by the way she starts squinting.

She’s shy and quiet. It takes a while for her to open up. I get the impression she has friends, but not many. She doesn’t go out much, except with her friends and to certain places. She loves animals. She hates working on Saturday, cuz the vet comes in and gives shots to dogs and cats – hearing that in the background all day can be quite sad at times. But she wishes more people would come. She hates it when people don’t care that they’re killing their animals, and is so happy when people seem to know what the right thing to do is. She’s really nice, but often misunderstood. People mistake her quiet nature as being aloof. She’s a self-proclaimed innocent. She’s cute; she has a great smile. She drinks way too much water. She makes me want to relearn Hebrew, even though she’s not jewish.

And I’m so totally crazy. Someone needs to smack me and tell me there ain’t a chance in hell.

Ok, so apparently my previous entry was not “good enough” for some people.

Not that I’d totally given up on this diary, mind you. I just have either had too much or too little to add lately.

I guess I’ll go ahead and sum up the larger points…

1) I gotta say this. Rock N Jenny’s FSCKIN 0wnz m3. For those of you ignorant thus far, Rock N Jenny’s is the coolest place in Escondido I’ve found. It’s this little restraunt right next to work (which I’ll get to in a moment.. ahem.) So anyways. Right next to work. I go there on my lunch break everyday. Yes, every day. Even if I’m not hungry or not buying anything I go there.

There’s a couple reasons for this… first, I don’t like being at work (again, I’ll get there)… second, there be some hotties workin up in there. Serious. And friendly, too. This girl Ami works there, and we talk a lot… I see her all the time at school. I think she might even be a nerd. But I digress. Where was I? Ah yes. Hot and friendlies. That sorta leads me to the next point; Jenny. No, not the namesake Jenny, just another Jenny that happens to work there. I’ve no idea how old she is… late 20’s early 30’s?

So Jenny is hella cool. She likes Fight Club. Has a shirt with a picture of Tyler Durden on it. Which is how we got to talking… she noticed on my nametag that I had a pet named Tyler Durden.

So anyways, Jenny is almost always there, and is someone who I can talk to about work or anything really. Which isn’t to say we’re the best of buds or anything, its just nice to have someone to talk to who seems to listen.

lets see…. oh… right. Work. Work Sucks.

I dunno. It’s just not the same. The people there aren’t as social. And even when they are, there simply isn’t time or oppurtunity to socialize. And Management is hella lame. They’re very anal about the store’s appearance. Sometimes even if that appearance makes it harder for the employees to do their jobs.. including maintaining the animals. Like using crushed coral instead of a sand bed for the salt water aquariums. I’m convinced that would solve a lot of our mysterious deaths we have. But no. “The coral looks better.” My ass.

So I’ve begun the search. I’m looking at a couple different places. More on that as it develops, of course.

School is… going… I’m thinking about dropping my CS class, actually. It’s not really teaching me anything, the teacher’s a dick, and I could really use a lower homework load.

Other than that, school is just school… but its not school, at least. No offense, of course. Just glad to be away from that.

On a happy note, I’ve just installed Slackware Linux 9.0rc1. And its lookin mighty sweet. It’s been too long since I’ve had Linux, and I sure as hell had a hard enough time getting it on this machine.

All-in-all though, I think I really am much happier than I have been in a long time. The independence I have now feels great. Even if I know I have to keep working to keep it. Maybe moreso because of that.

Well, I hope this fills a certain someone’s (who shall remain nameless) need for journaling. I think I’m gonna call it an entry for now.

Still alive!

Tragedy today. The Space Shuttle Columbia, scheduled for touchdown at 9:16AM, February 1st, lost contact with NASA at 9:00 AM over Texas. The Shuttle was then seen, breaking apart, 200k feet off the ground. As of now, 11:30 AM, it is believed the crew are all dead. As of right now, it appears it was a problem with the heat shield having a flaw.

Almost 17 years to the day after SS Challenger exploded after takeoff. Please, take a moment out of your days to think of the crew, and their families. Take another moment to thank them, as well. They were doing a service to humanity, furthering exploration and science.

Rest it peace,

Rick D. Husband (2), Commander

William C. McCool (1), Pilot

Michael P. Anderson (2), Payload Commander

Kalpana Chawla (2), Mission Specialist

David M. Brown (1), Mission Specialist

Laurel B. Clark (1), Mission Specialist

Ilan Ramon (1), (ISA) Payload Specialist

There was a penguin driving his car down a desert road.

It was a really hot day, and his car is really a really old convertible. Up ahead he saw a small town.

All of a sudden, his hood burst open and oil shot into the air.

He pulled it into the first mechanic he saw in the town and cleaned himself off. The mechanic told him it could be a little while, so he waddled across the street to the ice-cream stand.

He got a dish of vanilla ice-cream, and since he had no arms, just flippers, he had to fling it towards his mouth. Well, after he finished his ice-cream, and was covered with vanilla ice-cream, he waddled across the street back to the mechanic.

The mechanic was looking at the engine and said, “Well, it looks like you blew a seal.”

The penguin says, “I did NOT! It’s just ice-cream!”

Ho-hum, its my day off of work, and I’m just layin around. I was supposed to get some stuff done today, and I *did* try to do it…. but none of it seemed quite doable.

Went to Wells Fargo to close my account. But it turns out there’s still transactions going through… “shouldn’t close it for another 3-5 days at least” Hmmmph.

Go to Palomar to go shopping for books…. only I’m not sure if I’m actually *in* my english class or not (I’m on the crash list) they were sold out of my CS class’ book, and I couldn’t figure out which Calc book I need. Go to get my Parking Permit… it costs more than I brought with me, and I don’t want to use my debit card cuz that will just prolong the amount of time before I can close the account.

Go to WaMu to open a new account. Hazzah! Managed that one ok. Too bad I can’t put more than $100 in at a time without them putting a 9 day hold on it (but only for the first month).

Then I went and rewarded my… ehh… ‘efforts’ with a Tazzoberry from Starbucks (thank you again, Amber) then I came Home.

So whats left of today? Well, I plan on installing Linux, swapping my CD-burner from my old comp to my new one and putting the CD-ROM in the new one into the old one, and copying all my files, music, etc from the old harddrive to the new one. Although I think the old hard drive is better. See, they’re both 80 gig, but the old one is a Western Digi and the new one is a Maxtor.

I’m partial to Western Digi as it is, but that drive also has a 8 MB on disk cache, as opposed to the Maxtor’s 2 MB. So it should be a bit faster.

So I guess I’ll end up reinstalling everything on the old one, and copying stuff from the new one over.

Not that it was terribly important for me to go into all that detail.

I’m Still Alive!

Yes, thats me, still living in the void. No Internet, no cable… not even phone! So for those of you wondering (or maybe not wondering…) I’m still around, just a tad bit further north than normal.

The apartment is looking great, even though not everything is unpacked yet… it already feels like… Home. A strange thing, that. Almost as strange as using a keyboard again.

Life feels different. It feels fresh. It’s like a new shirt, or a hot shower. Like all of my problems are in the past. Well, maybe not all of them… but like so many of them are so much smaller now. Everything up here just seems so much more rich. So full. There’s very few things that Mollie and I can find that we don’t like – far fewer than even I thought I would find.

This weekend, people should come visit us. Amber will be here on Sunday, but I have Saturday off, so people should try to come then, too.

If you need to get ahold of myself or Mollie, the only way currently is to call her Cell – which I won’t stay on for long because it gets bad reception and it eats up her minutes. But at least we can talk. I won’t post it on here, but you can get it from Tres if you need it. And if you know someone is trying to get ahold of one of us, please give them the number.

Anyways, I have to go sign up for my classes at Palomar now (I’m at CSUSM in their library), but I’ll try to come back and add more possibly tomorrow or the next day. I can’t wait to tell you about the 1337 Check of Doom.