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• 07.31.07
  don’t shop tiger direct   Hardware, Rant! (0)

  these mother fuckers are slow. I make the mistake of ordering a processor from them because it says “in stock” however after purchasing it my order has not moved from “Status: In Process”.
  hell I could have asked for over night shipping and paid something like 30 bucks for it but guess what? I still wouldn’t [...]

• 07.31.07
  repeats pt. 2   Rant!, Work (0)

  ok so I went to 2 repeats yesterday. one of which really pissed me off because last time I was there I did everything I could to insure I’d never be back there again. I fixed everything and told her if she had anymore issues and if her MODEM IS ONLINE that her router is [...]

• 07.30.07
  repeating mother fuckers   Rant!, Work (0)

  there are certain places you’ll always have to go back to.. I don’t care how far you go out of your way to never go there again. some people are just prone to complain.
  I’m getting sick of having to go back to the same places over and over. first house I’m about to goto I’ve [...]

• 07.30.07
  MCSE.. I’m selling out   Rant! (0)

  so yah I picked up the MCSE ‘training kit’ off amazon last week. actually it was a hell of a deal compared to what the book store sells it for.. 80 some bucks compared to 200?! hell yah.
  I’m pretty anti-microsoft. I have been ever since I discovered linux about 7 years ago, then in the [...]

• 07.30.07
  computer issues still to be determined   Hardware, Rant! (0)

  I was excited about getting my new hardware so I decided to prep my case, taking everything out, cleaning it, etc..
  well as I was doing that I decided to try a few more things, and what do you know.. I got the fucking thing to boot! now.. umm.. I’m still in a weird place with [...]

• 07.29.07
  desktop upgrade time   Hardware, Rant! (0)

  Ok well after fucking around with my desktop for maybe four hours I have come to the conclusion that it must be the mother board… or ‘maybe’ the cpu- but it wasn’t over clocked so that might be a little doubtful, especially considering the amount of fan action I have going on in the case.
  the [...]

• 07.28.07
  what a horrible saturday   Rant! (0)

  I thought today was off to a good start.. I slept in and had a terrific work out. it starts to go downhill when I get home. due to certain circumstances I don’t get to go see the Simpson’s Movie as I had planned and looked forward to all week.
  I decide for some reason to [...]

• 07.28.07
  OPPPS that was my bad.   Rant!, Work (0)

  so the other day I had an evening appointment, it was a 3-5 and in the notes it asked that no one come till after 4. everyone hates getting these kind of jobs because your ‘trying’ be at your last job at 4 and hoping you finish up slightly after so you can get off [...]

• 07.26.07
  a long lunch saved my life   Rant! (0)

  … and my pants.
  I was about to walk out my door to go back to work but the job I was about to goto ended up canceling so that bought
  me a little extra time to do a lot of nothing. then the unexpected happened.. I had to crap like no ones business, it came
  at me from no where- I barely had time to make it to the bathroom. had I of been driving to that job I’d of been in quite
  the pickle. more than likely would simply have to dump right there and ride back home in my shame ridden shorts. thank
  goodness that didn’t happen.

• 07.23.07
  bad start to a monday morning but at least there were eggs   Rant! (0)

  the last two or three mondays I’ve had a difficult time waking up.. I wake up at 4:30 as usual to make it to the gym by 5 but on mondays I always lay back down. I lay down and think ‘just a couple more minutes’. a couple more minutes easily turns into 1-2 hours, [...]

• 07.23.07
  Jim Norton’s Happy Endings   Uncategorized (0)

  I had just finished Happy Endings last night. It’s a collections of stories by comic Jim Norton. stories as in life experiences, random shit, it reads much like a blog.. maybe even like the one your reading right now.
  It was a quick read for the size of book- that may be because between chapters there [...]

• 07.18.07
  your home business is shit woman   TV, Work (0)

  I had a modem trouble call last night. in the notes on the work order it said something like slow modem speeds, customer said the line shocked her one time. may need replaced… I had when SALES reps put shit like that in the work order. thats like someone who washes windshields for al living [...]

• 07.16.07
  to contract or not to contract?   Rant!, Work (0)

  I seen a buddy of mine the other day. I hadn’t seen him for almost a year now. he waved me down and yelled “he competition!”, I thought.. ‘huh.. what?! what’s he mean by that?’. turns out he contracts for my companies competition.
  he asks me why I don’t work there.. well first of all I [...]

• 07.16.07
  old men, porno and broken computers   Uncategorized (0)

  I spent a good portion of my morning at some fat perverted old mans house. he sat behind me and watched my every move and I shuffled through his computer trying to figure out what the fuck was wrong.
  I can’t say for sure but he probably got some sort of virus or a really bad [...]

• 07.16.07
  it turns out mystery money sucks   Rant! (0)

  ok well I figured out where the ‘mystery money’ came from… yes I ‘thought’ I had set money aside for this months truck payment, that is of course until I went to pay it and noticed only half of the money was there. where was the other half? inside my wallet of course, well actually [...]

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