The Life Of A LittlBUGer

So my wife is in a panic last night as she’s behind on the general household chores and grocery shopping (as usual) and we’re having guests over tonight, so things need to get done.  She doesn’t have the time as she takes forever to do things and takes even longer with the 3 kids we happen to have.

So to help her out even more than I’m already doing, I decide to do some shopping for her.  She says we need just 4 things at Costco.  I say fine, that’s not bad, just write me a list and I’ll go.  So she does and I go and all seems fine.  I get there and find 3 of the things on the list easily, after some serious walking around as the store is huge.  Then I’m a bit frustrated as I can’t find the damn paper towels after I’ve been around the store 3 times.  They just happen to be far in a corner, a corner easily missed, behind a lot of stuff… who would have thought.

So after about 40 minutes of shopping which should have taken 10 I get to the checkout.  After waiting my turn, I put my 4 lonely items on the checkout belt and begin to pull my check card (which can do debits or credits) to pay.  After the nice $80 price tag rings up (for 4 items!) I slide my card and then… but wait a minute, there’s no option to choose a credit instead of debit.  So I cancel it, try again, and still find there’s no way to do a credit instead of a debit.  So I ask the cashier how to do so, she says you can’t do credit unless it’s American Express, though a debit should work just fine.  I say I don’t have American Express and I don’t know my PIN as I never do debit.  I then realize I also don’t have any checks (as I rarely do anyway).  She says, well, we can hold the items for you until you get back.  I say I don’t have time for that I’m in a hurry and can’t go all the way home and then back.  She says, “Ummm…. well….”  “Alright then, cya I guess,” I say as I leave…

…  Wait… what???  Hold on a minute here… you’re telling me a huge national multi-million (maybe billion) dollar foodstuff and other goodies store such as this does NOT take any credit cards other than American Express?!  Seriously?!  All that I ask is, why Costco, why?  It seems to be the dumbest business decision, especially for a business that large, anyone could make.  All I’m saying is, I want a piece of your sweet American Express deal as you MUST be getting a damn sweet deal with them to be able to do that.

Anyway, I call my wife as I’m leaving the store, empty handed, explaining the situation.  She says, “Well yea, didn’t I tell you that already?” 

Finally, someone out there has expressed my pain in such a way that I never could.  And the story is called: Why I’ll Never Make Digg Popular

Not only does it express my feelings about Digg.com (even though I still like it), it expresses a bit about my feelings posting ON MY OWN BLOG!  So that’s why there’s few articles here, but I just don’t give a rat’s ass.

Enjoy your day!

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Life just sucks… but that’s mainly because I don’t have the money I require (not just want) or the time to enjoy it. And that pisses me off beyond belief… then just add the fact my wife is more annoyed by it and rants about it to me makes my life suck all the more.

So, anyway, yea, I don’t have much to say, though I should keep trying to update this thing. I’m just so damned busy with other things.

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Well, I know it’s been awhile again, but oh well. Life is busy, suck it up.

I just had to post today because I came across such a cool site and idea: The PimpStar

“The PimpStar is a huge leap forward in the evolution of the wheel. With the PimpStar’s built-in full color LED lights, microprocessor and wireless modem, you can display virtually any image, including text, graphics, logos, and even digital photos!”

Now, to me, when I first saw this, other than the ridiculously stupid name, I thought it was a neat idea. That was, until I watched the ‘promo/demo’ video: PimpStar Video

I’m not going to spoil anything, but seriously… seriously??!! Then I saw the price neat the bottom of the page… yea… no thank you.

Oh, and the picture of the day is: What Video Game System Should I Own?

Thanks for playing!

As per Neowin.net and this link:

Happy New Years folks and that means it’s time for New Years resolutions. We have some suggested resolutions for the PC Industry that will help them…and us!

#1 To the PC Makers: Stop pre-loading shareware. Nothing is more annoying than getting a new PC loaded with “trial versions” of programs. Just stop it.

#2 To Microsoft: Get Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista out there ASAP and make sure IE 7 doesn’t hang anymore for no apparent reason.

#3 To Apple: Get that 3G iPhone out the door sooner rather than later. GPS on it would be nice too.

#4 To the RIAA: Just stop it. I mean, seriously, just stop.

#5 To Jack Thompson: Get a new hobby. Better yet, get a life. In a world in which one can’t escape “The Girls Next Door” on TV are video games really a threat?

#6 To Google: Please make a Project Management extension to Google Calendar!

#7 To the BluRay and HD-DVD consortiums, please find a way to work together. You’re just slowing down adoption (massively).

#8 To Amazon: Just because you think it might be patentable doesn’t mean you should try to patent it.

#9 To Bloggers: This year is the US Presidential Election. Just remember, just because someone doesn’t agree with your political opinion doesn’t mean they’re a bunch of sub-human monsters who eat babies.

#10 To Internet Users: Just remember that there is another person on the other side of that screen. Just because they aren’t there to punch you in the nose doesn’t mean you should surrender any semblance of civility on-line.

Have a Happy New Year!

Yes, it’s a new year, get over it. Same old stuff, just another number. December (and thus the insane Christmas and other holidays and stupid family, etc.) has come and gone and thank God for that. It can be a fun time but for the most part, it sucks ass. I’m now more in credit card debt then I’ve ever been and that sucks ass. I’ve also seen a huge decrease in traffic to both my popular sites, LittlBUGer.info Downloads and Sat-House Uploads. I have no idea why other than being the holidays but I can’t figure out any other excuse. Can someone clue me in here? I’m losing money now on my servers and I can’t figure out why.

In any case, I’m tired as I had to come back to work today (I had 11 days off counting weekends and whatnot) and I didn’t sleep well because of two things: I had crazy hard and long sex with my wife last night and my stomach decided to ‘act up’ on me again early this morning, maybe from the crazy vigorous sex. Anyway, sleep was in between, during those 4 lonely hours, so I’m tired and I’m at work, and it sucks. The sex didn’t suck, no no, but the stomach, and the tiredness, and the work sucks ass. Now I bet you didn’t think I could say that several times like that and not be an ass myself now did ya?

Anyway, have a good year I guess. Have fun sticking to your new year’s resolutions for about 5 days and then going back to your dumb old pathetic self. Have a good one!

Oh yea, here’s a good pic… just to show there’s a bit of hope left for us all:

Yes, tis the season to be jolly and happy and just spend your hard-earned cash like crazy, but it just doesn’t seem like it so much for me. Life has been so hectic lately that I feel like it’s just another day, Christmas I mean, another day that just took away like $500 worth of good money that could have went to pay off some of the bills. But oh no, my family has to be gi-normous and as thus, there’s lots of presents to be had. I pretty much know that our kids are going to receive about 5 million gifts while my wife and I get 1, and it’s sad. Why is it sad that my kids get more than us? Because my kids are already spoiled beyond belief and already have too many toys as it is that we have to literally give toys away, that it’s useless to give them more and try to make them understand about how to earn things in life. Then you have my wife who works her ass off to do just about everything, while all I do is work (overtime a lot lately) to make the money, and we get the shaft. It sucks, it’s sad, and it doesn’t feel like Christmas.

Actually lately nothing really feels right and I really just don’t care about things. All I want is to pay off our crap debt, give away the kids, and go on a damn vacation and then buy the stuff I’ve always wanted to buy and actually live happy and stress free. But America isn’t as free as the slogan goes…

And damit people, where’s my frickin Nintendo Wii?! I’m warning you, I may not continue to post if I don’t get a donation of one soon!

BAH HUM BUG!

Anyway, yea, I need to post something actually entertaining or news relevant soon or I’ll probably lose the 1 reader that I currently have! Any suggestions?

So yea, been a while again, sorry, suck it up, I just forget or don’t have time.  And no one sent me a Nintendo Wii so I’m not gonna try hard.

Anyway, not a whole lot of other things are happening other than gobbs of stuff to do at work, crazy wife and chaotic kids, having my bank account near bottom out, and me with no time to do what I really, really want… you know, same old, same old.  I finally finished completely redoing a friends PC after it’s been a big POS for 1.5 years.  Only took me 3 days during a 2 week time period.  All I want to do now and forever is play the latest games and watch the latest movies and so on and so forth, but I can’t, and I’m sad.  And yes I’m pissing and moaning but that’s how it is.  You never know, maybe someone will throw me a bone.  I mean, shoot, if we even had $1 million, not only would WE be set for life, but we could help many OTHERS be set.  But alas, the really rich people don’t really ever donate or help the little guys like me, people like me who know how to save their money and spend it wisely and live off of ’small’ amounts of interest for years… no the rich blow their money as fast as they get it or just are greedy bitches and keep it all to themselves even though they’ll never spend more than 20% of it all.  Anyway…

Enough rants for today, someone finally put out an article worth reading.  It’s about the lovely transformation your PC will have when you UPGRADE (yes, upgrade) from Vista to XP!  For those of you poor people whom I pity so much who either got stuck with Vista or decided to downgrade to it, I’m sorry, but maybe this article will help wake you up a bit, you damn fools.  Here’s the Link.

Oh, and I guess here’s a pic of the day: Coolest Cop Ever

Seriously, something is wrong with me, or wrong with the world (well, that’s a given, but still). Either I’m not paying attention to time and space (and/or the space-time continuum) and just let about 6 days go by without notice, or ‘my head esplode!’, to somewhat properly quote Strong Bad Email. But seriously, I do feel bad about not posting as often as I should. I probably could post about random crap and other stuff once a day as I sure do find some crazy stuff each day to post, but I just am too damn busy or I just plain forget. “I just plain forgot”? Doesn’t that make me clinically insane or stupidly quoting the movie ‘Grumpy Old Men’?! Damit people, help me not get old and forget! Send me money and pie or a damn frickin Nintendo Wii and make it all better! OK, thanks! Until next time, here’s a funny story:

EU Adopts English - Link

And here’s the link of the day: The Least Used Page at Microsoft