October 2003 Archives

Okay, first things first. FFXI came out Wednesday and I got it and I'm playing again. And that means I have no sleep and I'm tired and need sleep but I want to play so I just fall asleep at the keyboard. Go FFXI!

So yeah, it's fun and it's especially good to have your character not headed for deletion in 3 months like they did with the beta test. What a waste of 200+ hours or work. :) Okay, so it was fun and I don't think things'll take that long to get back to where I was. So yay. Go retail version.

So now it's Halloween. A person on our team at worked suggested we do the geeky thing and dress up as Epic/Caché/Unix commands. I came dressed as one of our scripts "epiccontrol". So I have a shirt that says Epic and a SNES controller tied around my waist. I know, really creative and a bad pun. But eh, I like it. :)

But now the important part. Candy. I bought candy this year on the off chance that kids would trick or treat in my apartment. But then i realized the front door to the building is locked.....oh well.......see I was counting on no one coming anyway. Big bowl of candy just for me! d ^_^ b

Oh and that's the other thing, japanese smileys. See they don't do ones like :) because of the direction that they read and stuff I think. They do vertical oriented ones like ^_^ or m(__)m which is someone bowing. Of course I think it looks like someone hitting their head on a table but whatever. It works both ways I think. :) er (*'-')b

Well I had a good weekend. From playing lots of FFTA, going to the mall a couple times (wow, interaction with other people), watching a Bills game (yeah I know I know, they lost), to getting my sister's computer running again, it was pretty good.

While I was at the mall I even got to see some shoplifters get away. Felt bad that I didn't notice them sooner, I wish I could have tackled them. That would have been fun. :)

One of my projects this weekend was getting cat hair off the bedspread.......that's not easy. I tried to wash it, and really, not much came off. But it was still a little damp and so I was able to rub it and it all clumped together and came off with not too much effort. I say it was a 75% success. Now, I also washed my sheets, which resulted in me being interrupted while showering by a clunk Clunk CLUnk CLUNk CLUNK CLUNK! Which after I waited a few seconds repeated again. Turns out the washer was unbalanced, and it took like 5 tries to rebalance it. *move stuff around* *close lid* CLUNK CLUNK! *repeat*. Then when I did a colored load later IT HAPPENED AGAIN! I never have had problems with unbalanced loads in this washer. So it was very frustrating. This load took like 10 tries to get rebalanced. Oh well, guess I need more training.

Talked to Scott Gengelbach last night, that was good. He ridiculed me for my team losing to his (he's a Chiefs fan) and then told me to give him money. (Okay, so that was for a different reason ;) ) And then he made me join is Fantasy Basketball league! I mean, the nerve of this guy. ;p

Anyway, that's a good summary, hope it wasn't too boring. Guess I'll go to work now.

So I contacted my doctor's office yesterday to follow up on some labwork. They then informed me that I have hypothyroidism. This may sound bad to most people, but I think of it as good. Why? I FINALLY KNOW WHY I'M SO FREAKING TIRED ALL THE TIME. Yay.

So right now they give me a pill to take daily to substitute for a lack of thyroid hormone (the lack of which leads to low metabolism and stuff) and then they do blood tests for a bit while they get the dosage right. Pretty easy treatment I think.

Now, the real question is whether all my ADD symptoms were caused by this disease. We shall see.

Woooo! I just got back from the Passion Tour concert and it was awesome.

Anytime you go to a Christian concert that starts out with 6 video screens being coordinated and synchronized to techno music (an awesome song that I really want, with lyrics saying something about being surrounded by colors let me know if it's familiar to you), yet still making a profound spiritual statement, you know something cool's going on.

Passion has been around almost ten years and they primary reach out to college campuses playing awesome worship music and giving great messages. I was exposed to their music during college and have been really wanting to go to an event of theirs at some point. I'm so glad I was able to go. If you're wondering both Chris Tomlin and Steve Fee played sets tonight and Louis Giglio gave a great message about passion (the word, not their group :) ).

So yeah, Passion rocks and you should check them out if you ever get a chance. It was an awesome night to worship Jesus and I'm thankful for the chance.

This is Darwin's (Mac OS X) mascot. Isn't he cute? Makes me want a mac.