So yesterday I was sick, it sucked.I was achy all over, had the worst heartburn i’ve ever had, and was coughing up lots of gross stuff. Today I feel much better, no more heartburn, no more heartburn, but I’m still coughing up stuff.

Anyway,  got an awesome new cage for Mushu, it came from my boss’ father. I guess he used to have snakes or another reptile but they passed away and the cage was just sitting in their garage. So here it is:

Now for some catch up, in December my work has an anual Christmas party, and in this party we do gag white elephant gifts, it is quite entertaining. Anyway for this year I made this awesome bowl:

This was an old power supply I had under by bed. I ripped it apart, made sure to discharge all of the capacitors, just in case, and used the wires and some ducttape to make it. I’m quite proud of it, it rocks. Unfortunately for me, the night of the party, my roommates car died. I spent several hours finding a new battery for him, I guess he has a rare battery. We eventually found it and got his car roaring back to life.

My main desktop, which has been dead for a few months has risen from the grave. I did not have to purchase anything new. All I did was replace all of the cables in there with a new one. Lucky for me I had a ton of SATA and other cables just sitting around so I could replace them. After I did that, I grabbed the latest bios from Asus’ website and re-flashed my bios to the latest version. Last thing I did was I cleaned out a lot of the dust that was in there, unplugged everything, and then pluged it back in. I then proceeded to install windows, and this time, no BSOD, no CRC errors, no bad indicators. I installed Vista Business x64 on it, then upgraded to service package 1, nothing bad happened there, and everything appears to be okay on the Windows side of things. I then put Ubuntu 8.04 on there and even upgraded to 8.10 and it took the upgrade like a champ. I have been copying my music and pictures to it and it still seems as happy as can be. So hopefully it stayes fixed, we will see though. I will run it though some paces of Game Play and Visual Studio and we will see how it fairs after that.

I have been pretty lazy lately and haven’t been programming much lately, just a bit of error handling here and there. I asked one of my co-workers about bash scripting and how he he learned and that I would have to probably take a class and buy a book. All of a sudden blam he gives me a 700+ page document on advanced bash scripting. I love it, so far it is more exciting than any fiction book I have ever read. I think it may also be one of my favorite books of all time. We will see how the “plot” thickens as the book goes on.

I’ve also been pretty depressing lately, not eating regularly, just laying around, doing nothing or watching TV or playing Little Big Planet Beta. I guess it feels that i’m hopeless on the girl front. I have tried several times to get a girl, and the only rewards are friends, which are always nice but I am yearning for more than just friends. I want someone I can buy stuff for, someone I can yearn for, someone I can love. I also want someone to love me for who I am, I don’t want to force myself onto anybody and I don’t want anybody to be forced onto me. If its not real love, then the point is lost and true happiness cannot be achieved. I wouldn’t mind having a girl friend right now, but I am not going to be desparatly searching for something when I need to focus on school. Once I am done with school, then I can focus more on girls and finding myself a wife.

My Mushu has been very happy lately. He has been really hungry and has been eating a ton of crickets lately. He isn’t becoming fat either, he is just getting longer, he can’t flatten out not even a 1/4 of what Leo can. I got a new video of Mushu Hunting Crickets up on Facebook and Youtube, heres the youTube link: Mushu eating crickets Newer videos will be done with a Tripod because I hate shakeycam videos and so it is hypocritical of myself to create videos that are of a type that I dislike. I think I will try to take a video of Mushu or another one of the wonderful pets we have at our apartment at least once a month. Leo has been pretty happy lately, Amy made a little platform out of rocks and a tiny log underneath for height and Leo loves that thing, Mushu’s Favorite place is still his corner hammoc.

I got into the Little Big Planet Beta, and can you say freakin epic! I can’t get enough of this game and its not even out yet. I even got Amy to play a few levels with me and she was having fun and having her Sack-girl throw her arms up in the air and stick out her tonge, it was really entertaining to say the least. The 21st is when it comes out, i’ve had the darn thing reserved for more than a year. On the gaming front, not much is going on, I haven’t been playing anything other than the Little Big Planet Beta, and even when I play that its not for very long. It almost seems as though games are not as important for me simply because I see my brother, he is hopelessly addicited to them, and yet he doesn’t care. He works part time, lives with my parents and he just plays games all day long. Don’t get me wrong, my brother is cool and all, but he has never ever been on a date, he doesn’t have a lot of friends, he just sits in his room and plays games. While people may think I do something along the same lines, think again. I am getting an education, I moved out of my parents house, I get outside at least once a day (i’ve seen him stay in his room for a few days without coming out other than to eat or use the bathroom), and most of all, I’m not addicted to games. Sure I get excited and buy a few, but once I beat the game, generally I am done, I don’t need or really want to play it again. Once I know the story line, it feels pointless to play it again. Same with books, If i’ve read them once, it doesn’t feel right to read them again, its not the same experince because I already know whats going to happen and so it is not nearly as exciting as the first time.

Look forward to more videos!

So my car, Mister, has been leaking oil and transmission fluid, from what I can tell and what my Manager thinks, it is the crankshaft seal that is going out. So I have at least 1 bottle of oil just sitting in my car now just so if I get low, I can fill-er-up at least a bit to keep her running. I’m not quite sure what I should do, get a new car (or a scooter has been suggested more than once to me)? Spend a lot of time and money trying to get it fixed? I’m not sure what to do, but its for sure, either way I am going to have to spend money I don’t have trying to get my car running as I think it should, namely not leaking oil when I park him.

My work is having their Quarterly (I think) highway cleanup so I am going to go do that tomorrow moring at 8am. Not too exciting but not too bad, it will help the environment, even if just a little bit. Anything is better than nothing right? Plus it will be with a whole bunch of nerds (Maybe? I’m not sure) so that could be lots of fun, I just need to make it fun.

Mushu has been getting really big, it is suprising me, he used to fit really easily in the plam of my hand, and now he is the size of my palm. I can’t wait until he gets huge, I expect it to be at least 4 more months until he is the size that Leo is now, and with Leo you have to use 2 hands to comfortably hold him now adays.

Anyway I’m going to get back to programming, hopefully it can calm me down enough that I can figure out what to do about my car.

So I have been watching a lot of Planet Green lately, and I learned that Bill Nye is going to have a new series called, “Stuff happens.” And the “preview” of the channel ends tomorrow meaning that I will lose the channel and to upgrade to the package that has that channel, it would at least double the TV bill which I do not think I am prepared to do. The first episode is tonight, I guess I will have to see if it would be worth it.

Leo seems to have been chilling out, we believe it is just a teenage mentality. We did lots of research and most people say that Beareded Dragons get cranky around their teenage years, which Leo is now considered a teenager.

So this semester I am not going to school because of a mis-communication. I asked my mom to send me some money from my fund for school, she sent off the letter and she sent the letter but the letter never got to the bank, so I never got the money and therefor the school did not get the money so they dropped my classes. It does suck, but you know it is alright, I am planning to go to it next semester, but for this semster I am just going to work for full time and save up for school for the next few semesters.

This week I ordered 1/2″ crickets because a little while ago I bough 1/8″ crickets thinking that Mushu would enjoy those better, but no he perfers the biggest crickets he can find. So those should arrive later today and I am sure he will love them.

Leo has gotten huge and so Amy got him a 40 gallon tank finally. here are some new pictures of him in his new tank:

and guess what else? I got a new laptop, picture here:

Mushu also got new stuff in his cage here are pictures:

You may wonder why I am going so crazy with pictures. Well, the reason is my old camera died, however there was a recall on the model so I got a nice new camera in exchange for me giving me the broken one. It is a Cannon PowerShot SX100 IS. You can see more about it here. I got the black one and it is nice. A bit bigger than my old one, but that is perfectly alright, it has a higher resolution on its pictures and it is black instead of white, rock on!

Expect a normal post sometime later in the week, whenever I get around to it