The Life Of A LittlBUGer

Yes, Thanksgiving has come and gone and I was terribly ill throughout my 4 days of vacation.  It was kind of a time of hell for me, especially trying to deal with my family as I went through it, but alas, I’m still here, working and OK on Monday.  Luckily, for the first time ever, my wife was nice enough to be kinder than usual while I was sick and decided to give me a little bit more computer time than ever before.  As thus, instead of going the Vista route as that OS is horrible, I decided to wipe my PC and start from scratch with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition (the 64-bit edition, yes).  As I can conveniently use my job and get a valid license and copy of the OS, I went this route to see if there really was any performance benefits of using a 64-bit OS over a 32-bit OS, as well as any programs that ran natively in 64-bit.  As I’ve been finding out, I was correct and things have been working quite nicely.  It took me a couple days to get everything back up and loaded, but it was worth it.  I’ve only had one minor driver issue, which is actually with a device I don’t even use, so I’m quite happy.  Gaming has been great and whatnot else so that’s all I need for the most part.  I’ll have to test it more but for now, I’m good. 

Also, I’m sorry for the lack of posts recently, but work has been very chaotic lately as a program I’ve been working on is coming to a close so I’m trying to get everything ready, including documentation and whatnot, so ‘play’ time at work is down to a minimal amount.  I’ll try to post more later, but for now, please enjoy my rant above.

Well, Halloween has come and gone, and so comes the time of year, where the next couple of months is spent on gaining 30 pounds after first eating candy for weeks, then eating Thanksgiving food for weeks, and then Christmas food after that.  Seriously, for people like me, who just don’t have the time (motivation) to exercise and work out, it just damn sucks.  But we get through it, only to realize Valentine’s Day will be near and so on and so forth.

Sadly, yes, I’ve actually thought about every single month of the year which holidays happen, how much it costs, etc., etc.  I got sick an tired of always having things change and always having to compensate our budget for holidays and special occasions, so I tried to figure out which time of the year things would calm down and be nice and quiet.  Because there’s people out there, like me, who don’t have savings, and who have a family to feed and just get by on the money we make each month.  Well, it turns out, it never does get calm and quiet damit!:

• January:  New Year’s Eve - Where you get drunk off your ass and don’t remember where that $500 went to… or that stripper you gave it to.
• February: Valentine’s Day - Can’t you just hear the fat melting off of you during your passionate love making?  No?  Neither can we… the fat remains while the sex does not.
• March: St. Patrick’s Day - Seriously, must we repeat the month of January so soon?  Oh, we throw in the color green and crazy leprechauns? Party!
• April: April Fool’s Day - Where either you paid to make the big laughs, or clean up after them.  So who’s the fool?  The fool that fools the fool or the fool who’s fooled by the fool?
• April (2): Easter - Shall we learn about Christ and praise Jesus on this holy or create ridiculous candy, food and games loosely based on bible themes that almost shame the purpose of the day?  I bet you voted for the candy!
• May: Memorial Day - Eh… yea you’re right, that doesn’t count.  Onward!
• May (2): Cinco De Mayo - Yes, this IS a real holiday!  :p
• May (3): Mother’s Day - It’s bad enough we have the wife’s birthday and Valentine’s Day and our Anniversary and other crap to deal with and buy shit for, but this too?  Damn…
• June: Flag Day - Seriously, this is a big…. oh who am I kidding, this doesn’t count either!
• June (2): Father’s Day - Don’t worry dads, you don’t actually get a day to yourself and not have to spend any money.  You should have re-thought that joint checking account and 5 kids idea…
• July: Independence Day - A time where it’s actually fun to spend your money because you get to blow people shit up!
• August: Don’t worry, though there’s no big holiday this month, you’ll have plenty of birthdays, anniversaries, fall parties, and other things to empty your pockets with.
• September: Labor Day - Hey, what do you know, you may end up not spending any less than $10 this day.  Good for you!
• September (2): Grandparents Day - The time of year where millions of people see and smell the joy of silly sweatshirts, cotton socks, and Old Spice cologne!
• October: Columbus Day - I need to seriously stop posting these useless holidays… but it’s just so fun!
• October (2): Halloween - Haven’t we just recently been over this before? 
• November: Veteran’s Day - Sorry, I had to post one more just one last time!
• November (2): Thanksgiving - Nothing says ‘thanks’ more than a bunch of old guys with beer guts hanging out yelling at the TV.
• December: Christmas - The grandest and most expensive day of the year… so big, it sometimes begins in late October and ends in early September.  Now that’s celebrating The Lord isn’t it!  Wait, screw that, I just want the gifts…

So, as you see, there’s no end to the misery of your money, time and energy floating away for you.  Because big business is smarter than us and we seem to accept that.  Oh well then eh?  Let’s go out and buy a new computer, because everyone knows, Christmas start on November 1st!  What about Thanksgiving?  Who cares! 

On a brighter note, just for fun…

The Portal Game End Song Lyrics:

This was a triumph,
I’m making a note here: Huge Success.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Aperture Science…
We do what we must because we can,
For the good of all of us,
Except the ones who are dead.

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun,
For the people who are still alive.

I’m not even angry,
I’m being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart and killed me,

And tore me to pieces,
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because,
I was so happy for you.

Now these points of data make a beautiful line,
And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time.
So I’m GLad I got burned, think of all the things we learned,
For the people who are still alive.

Go ahead and leave me,
I think I’d prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you.

Maybe Black Mesa…
That was a joke, ha ha, FAT CHANCE.
Anyway this cake is great,
It’s so delicious and moist.

Look at me still talking when there’s science to do,
When I look out there it makes me GLad I’m not you.
I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done,
On the people who are still alive.

And believe me I am still alive.
I’m doing science and I’m still alive.
I feel fantastic and I’m still alive.
And while you’re dying I’ll be still alive.
And when you’re dead I will be still alive.
Still alive…
Still alive…

Oj joy, the fun begins tonight.  Me and my Transformers costume, here I come!  Seriously though, it should be fun.  My wife goes crazy on Halloween though, a little too crazy.  I know transforming the house and the yard and whatnot is always a must for her, and that we must have a huge party before we go trick-or-treating, but sometimes… it goes a bit overboard.  Like this year, instead of a few pumpkins to carve and/paint, we had 10.  Instead of one strand of outside and inside lights, we have around 10 (inside AND outside).  And instead of covering the ceiling of one room of the house with spider web and spiders and whatnot, she covered THE ENTIRE HOUSE with the damn web.  I can’t take a single step without having web get in my face or stuck in my hair.  Grrr…  But what are you gonna do eh?  You love your wife so you bow down to her needs, then you yell and whine at her, then eventually bow down to her again because  you prefer getting laid over getting your way or being right.  Yes, that’s right ladies, we men know what we are doing… sometimes… 

As for my server, the move basically went pretty well and all seems to be OK for the most part.  Sorry about the downtime and delays in posting.  If anyone sees any problems, please let me know.   Enjoy the new server!

Oh yes, who could forget:  How to Get Laid in 1977 and Your Ass Kicked in 2007

Ahh yes, Halloween.  One of the only times of the year where my wife goes crazy (well, more than usual I mean).  She is so gullible and so easy to scare (I mean, Harry Potter scares her) and yet her most favorite holiday of the year is Halloween.  She goes all out on exterior things such as pumpkins, lights, hey, spooky sounds, and other stuff, and the same with the interior of our home.  But, things get a little hectic during our costume choosing and then of course Halloween night.

Seriously, last year she wanted to be some sort of Pharaoh/Greek/Caesar lady and wanted me to be the accompanying guy.  Well, her costume turned out to be great, as she’s hot and she can make a long white dress type of thing look good.  On the other hand, mine (though it was made for a man) looked almost exactly like hers.  She loved it of course, but I did not.  I wore it anyway (silly me) and it turned out I was right.  As we were walking about, going trick or treating with our kids in the freezing cold (it usually snows her in Montana right before Halloween night), all dressed up as we were, we walked past a couple of  10-12 year olds.  At that time, I was pushing our stroller, as it was a backup in case our youngest at the time (our little boy who was 1) didn’t want to walk anymore and it provided ample candy storage.  Well, as we past those kids, they both laughed at me and asked “What are you supposed to be, a woman?”, and laughed some more.  I replied with the likes of “No, I’m Caesar…” to which they sharply replied “Oh, well isn’t it the woman’s job to be pushing the stroller?” and they laughed and walked off.  Holy crap you should have seen my wife when she heard that.  She is a bold person who stands up for herself and doesn’t take any shit or femist crap from anyone.  Me, being me, was nice about it and just asked her to please listen to me for once (she still doesn’t of course) and what a fun 5 minute night we had (I told you it was freezing).

So costume time came around this year, and I was dreading for the worst.  Luckily, my oldest son, 4, wanted to be Optimus Prime of the Transformers and wanted me to also be the same (like a son/dad or little/big kind of thing) so I thought that would be a lot better than last year.  Well, though my son likes it, I still look like a fricken idiot.  Luckily I have a mask so it’s not quite as bad…

Anyway, to make a longer story shorter, never take your kids to a public Halloween event at a tiny school where they have 10 games and about 1000 kids in a tiny gym to play them all, and never listen to your wife… ever.