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!