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Well I got Linux (Ubuntu) installed last night. (Okay, with the guided help of Rem, there ya happy! Maybe I should put that footnote plugin to work, so I footnote everything I ever work on since you seem to help me with it!) So far I'm loving it. I haven't had a chance to really use it yet, but I've messed around with it enough to understand the concept of it. I was telling Rem last night that I might consider using that as my desktop OS and just putting Windows XP on VMware instead. Who knows though, because that will require me reformatting again and I'm not sure if I really want to go that route. We'll see though.

In the next couple of days I plan on really working on aow, and changing the theme to one of my own. I haven't had a chance to finish tweaking with this one, and the amount of validation errors were just too much to even go through and fix them all. I have a theme ready to use right now, but I have to go in and add all of the plugins, but of course I'm too lazy to do right now. Also plan on adding some content. I really want to add my recipes up, so I'm sure that's what I'll be adding soon. I dont' care too much for content, because I can list so many other sites that visitors could go to instead.

Pink eye is slowly but surely going away. It's still a bit itchy, and dry but hopefully tomorrow it will be all cleared up. I'm wearing glasses right now and will be for a long time, unless I get order contacts online without having a Doctor verification on the prescription. Now I remember why I never wore these glasses. With my short haircut, I look like a librarian--or so Rem says.

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Well, I woke up this morning with my right eye entirely shut from all of the dried up mucus. Go to the bathroom to see that my entire eye is red, still achey (it was hurting last night), and watery. Was scheduled for work today, so I didn't want to call out, so I went in anyway. Was told that I needed to go back home, but I was able to stay for 30 minutes while the store was still closed, to make sure that Adam, my co-worker actually came in.

So here I am a couple of hours later, dreading the thought of waiting hours in at the doctor's office. I have to run to the bank to get some cash out, because I have a $25 co-pay, but 100% of the rest is covered by my insurance (United Heatlhcare). Guess I should take a quick shower (my hair is nasty) and find a book to take with, because I foresee me being there for at least 2-3 hours. This is going to suck. -sigh-

I guess I should also take initiative and call around optomotrists to see who is taking new patients, and to get an appointment set up. I need to get my eyes checked out, and a new prescription for contacts; I'm on my last pair, and now that I have pink eye, my right contact is infected. So I need to buy more solution that will hopefully disinfect it. Who knows.

edit 5:20pm - I ended up going to Norton Immediate Care center around 1pm. Thought I was going to be stuck there forever, so I packed up my ipod to watch a movie there. I endedup waiting max of about 10 minutes.

The doctor confirmed that I had pink eye and also did a bacteria swab on my eye to make sure that it wasn't anything else. She then gave me Zymar for the bacterial conjunctivitis so it wouldn't spread to my other eye. Then she referred me to an opthomoligist, and was able to get me in today as well. So after NIC I went over to a Dr. Black's office (Eye Associates I believe?) and she took a look at my eye as well.

Confirmed what I already knew, and agreed that the drops I was given will be excellent to help rid of the infection. Also tested my eye's pressure to make sure it wasn't anything else, and scheduled me to see her again on June 6th pending my eye is good to go. Now I have to check out with United Healthcare to see if my VSP will cover for their service and vice versa, because I could really use a new prescription and an order for contacts. I'm entirely out, and after today I've noticed that my eyesight has gotten a little worse. And to think I'm currently at -5.00 pres.

Time to go find my glasses. I had to throw away my [right] contact as well as my mascara and eyeliner, to prevent future infection. I can't see with just one contact in, so I need to get to those glasses. Haven't worn them in well over a year. Hopefulyl I can find them!

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Well, after a year and a half of smooth sailing with my computer (or rather the hard drive) it finally decided to take the world's hugest shit on me. It didn't even die, that's the worst part. It ended up getting horribly corrupt to the point where I couldn't delete files without getting read and/or CRC issues, nor could I install various programs (though some worked just fine!?)I wasn't able to backup anything. The zip I made of my important documents, was going to take well over 24 hours to upload (wtf?) so I decided that I needed to get used to a clean plate to work with. I'm going to ship the drive to Rem so he can take a look at it and work his magic. There's over 3,000 photographs, and about 2-3gb's worth of website files. But right now I'm fine with the thought of not having the back. Sometimes it's good to have a clean start. -shrug-

I'm now running a 120gb Seagate (ATA). Well, it's not running YET but I just took out the old drive, and put in the new one. Going to boot from cd-rom, so I can install a new OS. My other problem I came across after the drive pooping: Not having my old restore disc, aka I am SOL. Thanks to Rem (again! what a life saver) he went ahead and uploaded it for me, so I could burn the cue file to a disc. So I have to get that started, but right now I'm taking a break and enjoying some Chocolate Marble Ice Cream, and checking up on e-mails and writing this post via Chris' laptop (the one I'm blaming for my Maxtor's death!)

I'm excited because this kind of gives me a chance to get everything anally organized. I'm going to partition for the os, one for programs, one for photos, one for music, and one for website files. It's going to look rather snazzy. Then once I get all of my programs uploaded (it's going to be a bitch, I have so many in regards to photo editing, os themers, and various other programs.) I'll worry about uploading my ipod's hd. That was the one thing I wasn't worried about--my music, all 30gb's of it. Hehe, it's on my ipod, and I knew it was as simple as downloading a program to be able to upload from the ipod. sweet.

Back to getting my computer back into tip-top shape.

edit: Well, my computer is now back up and running. Installed the new hard drive, installed Windows XP Pro, and updated the drivers. Currently reinstalling all of the software programs. It's a bit tedious and frustrating since I can't remember the names of some of them--but maybe that's a good thing. I'm also going to let my iPod upload while I'm sleeping. Which I should be doing in a few minutes...

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Almost a year of not cutting my hair (aside from a couple months ago when I trimmed off part of my nasty mullet that gew) I finally got it cut again. Generally I tend to pick shitty haircuts that I'm dissatisfied with within the first month or so. So I really don't know if this haircut is going to end up that way or not. I went with an A Line style cut, which is a first for me. That and having my hair so short. I'm still trying to get used to it.

In my last post I talked about a customer, Jerry, and how I helped him buy his first computer. Well, he gave me a call at the store today, and thanked me for being so nice to him, and for taking my time to help him get his laptop. Told me that he spent fifteen hours on it the night he got it. Mentioned that he'd be in next week to buy a bag for it. I'm so glad he called, because after I left work, I felt disapointed for not telling him to call the store once he played around with it.

This weekend is going to be a very busy weekend. Rem and I are going to install Linux on my computer. I've been dying to get this done for quite some time and finally ask him to help me do it, because well, I've got Friday and Saturday off. What better way to spend it!? We're also going to put the finishing touches on HF. Just minor details like retweaking the layout, customizing whmcs so that the design is incorporated into the main style of hf, and to create a logo for the software. Other then that, life has been pretty good.

Time to go look at round trip plane tickets to Houston. SOMEONE changed my mind on driving down there, so I'll be flying there instead. It'll be my first flight too! A month away! YAY.

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