long weekend, much?
i typed this all out earlier and then it got erased … growl. i guess it wasn’t really the fault of the closer though. who would think that i’d be saving blogs for later. dammit. and hey there was a free linkup in the deal i guess. the disclaimer: this entry may be short and to the point. but i have no point and have never been short spoken in my life. lol.
my windshield wipers fucked up yesterday. which blew. i was driving home from work at like 10:30 and my wipers started to slow down before i got to the bridge and then they just quit and i couldn’t see cos of all of the rain. so i had to pull over at the first gas station right after the bridge. dad had shown me earlier in the day what fuse went where and where my extra ones were and so i knew how to fix it and i started sorting fuses but i didn’t have any 25s that were small enough for that slot so instead i had to just call dad. and get really wet because of all the rain and my open door etc etc. dad came and got me cos it was about 11 by then and he was just getting off work. we squeegeed my window and then i drove home in front of him and he watched me to make sure i didn’t drive off of any bridges. i don’t know what i’ll do without my dad next year. i thought about that the whole way home. i love him so much. and i’ll miss being able to call him when silly things happen.. like my windshield not working. i guess he really won’t be that far away though.
so my laptop decided to fuck up yesterday evening as well. right after the windshield incident i turned on my laptop in my bedroom and XP decided that it should quit giving me login options thus i was faced with just a blue screen (but as one other person who apparently had the same problem in the past said.. “not THE BLUE SCREEN”) that had the xp logo on it. so i called jarod in a fit and he was asleep and i could tell so i let him go and went to sleep, of course dreaming that the laptop worked.. so i woke up and the laptop was still broken, isn’t it always that way? and i headed to jarods for a little tech support. we installed xp pro over xp home and relaized the files were password protected so we had to mess raound on Knoppix (a cd-rom boot linux os). and then we decided that there had to be a better way. so we finally (after a day and two sessions of tries) got a wonderful email from this guy on the channels who had faced a similar problem explaining that SET can be used in the recovery console to unlock programs. but copying them still appears to be so much work its barely worth it. of course, my files are worth everything, aren’t they? lol. anyway the problem will soon be solved. and really the only reason i cared so much was because i’ve spent a year collecting those albums and i had 3.5 pages of a 10 page research paper on there. and i need those fucking pages. so i got those fixed by about 4:30 this afternoon. go me/jarod.
that seems to be all of my news for right now and thats actually just the stopping point on the last post (the last post was less the good news about it being fixed). but there was a huge-all-out-family-dinner. it was insane. we were there and there were 3 people that i don’t even know, even though it was my fucking birthday dinner, and it was just crazy. we ate at coyote canyon and now i’ll just list the craziness that happened.
1. on the way out we saw a rainbow. which turned into two rainbows. my mom and my aunt were like little kids “wow have you ever seen anything like that? that’s just amazing..” it was kind of cute. and made me less on edge wiht mom who i was not getting along with at all today.
2. as we pulled into the parking lot, my aunt asked who was smoking a cigarette that smelled like grass and mom said “prolly me” and i was like “oh no, that was mine. sorry. i’ll put it out” and my aunt was like “you can’t smoke it unless you share it.” wow. crazy hippie aunts rule.
3. when we got there there were 11 of us. and we were at a buffet but we still had a wait because there were 11 of us. crazy.
4. while we were waiting mom helped herself to some soup. which was also funny. but caused most of us to disown her.
5. my brother apparently overheard the dinner guests we didn’t know talking about the wild sex they ahd last night. and trust me no one wants to think about these people having wild sex.
6. the other dinner guest we didn’t know (daughter of those mentioned in step five) ate about every dessert imaginable. 3 cookies, brownie, cheesecake, ice cream with cherry sauce, and bread pudding. w0w. and that was JUST dessert.
7. that’s all. thank god.