I hate Windows. With a passion. The computer I am working on here in New Orleans decided to reboot in the night. Why? Because of automatic updates! Microsoft is protecting me! By rebooting two VM’s and closing a $20,000 program without thinking “Hey, he might have some unsaved changes.” Of course, you probably want to say, “Well, you should have saved your changes.” And I would reply, I didn’t feel like sitting here for several hours while it did an import of 100 videos. I do that stuff at night, so I don’t have to sit here an wait. I am now having to redo those imports. I also had the VM’s cracking at bad DVDs to get as much video as I could off of it. A process that usually takes 12 hours if you let it go. I now have to start that over. It was already about 6+ hours in. Windows must die.

I had a dream last night that part of the ring finger on my right hand was turning purple. It was as if part of it was dying. I called my mother in my dream to ask her to check it for me, but she said she was busy putting up a picture frame. In the meantime, the purple was getting bigger. I am not sitting here in New Orleans, and that particular finger is losing feeling and tingling as if the blood supply is being cut off. Was my dream trying to tell me something? Of course, I should mention that my fingers tingle from time to time, but this one is doing it much more than usual.

Here are some interesting excerpts from a recent “chat support” conversation with HP.

Sandra: .

Sandra: Okay, just for confirmation is the printer in the network wright now ?

Sandra: Sure, I am with you please perform them.

Sandra: Jason, let us try to resolve the issue.

Sandra: Jason, thanks for our time.

Sandra: Jason, it is very unfortunate to face this kind of issue.

Sandra: The HP products are always the best.

Sandra: Jason, are you with me (just for confirmation ) ?

Sandra: Enjoy the Christmas.

I don’t think her name was really Sandra.

I was just watching the local news here in New Orleans. This one clip they were doing, they were talking about BlackBerry phones and some new Blackjack phone. The reporter asked how the two were different. The guy showing the phones said that the BlackBerry ran a proprietery operating system. He implied that the Windows Mobile did not. Windows Mobile… Windows for that matter is still proprietery!! It just happens to make the development process a little easier.

If real life were like film I’d be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter. –Matthew Inman

Well, I thought I was gonna be stuck here at the hotel for a little bit as a firetruck was blocking my way out. I did here the fire alarm go off for about 5 seconds about 10 minutes ago (slow response apparently). I think it was a false alarm, but they came out anyway. I was standing in my window watching the fire trucks, and as one was leaving, they appeared to be waving to me. Maybe they thought I was a kid. But I am not dressed like a kid? (I was naked… just kidding!) Should I take all my stuff with me just in case???

My body is falling apart. First I get sick. Two days this week, I was very weak and didn’t want to move around a lot. Then, my father smashes my pinky finger between a tractor and some pallets. It’s pretty messy. I should have probably gotten stitches, but decided not to. For now, I have a brace on my finger to I don’t bend it while it scabs up. It didn’t really bleed a lot, but tore a very large chunk of skin off. It is hindering my typing, and I have a lot to do tomorrow in LA… well, Tuesday. I leave tomorrow morning, and won’t arrive there till about 4:00 in the afternoon. However, on a positive note, I have a new toy. It is similar to a PSP, but it plays older games, like with Sega and SNES, and NES… the games where the game content was more important than the graphics. I’ve also got a Sprint Wireless Access card, so I can get Internet anywhere I go. Tomorrow, I will be driving with Google Earth by my side. It should be fun. Anyway, I must go finish packing. I’ve got to pack for a week, or find a way to wash clothes up there. Also, I’d like to cut my hair while I am up there, but Jessica says it looks good the way it is, so maybe I need to find a way to style it?

Well, I am on my way back for now. This may not be as big of a project as it looked initially, and may not take as much time. But I will still be back and forth quite a bit. I fly to Houston tonight, then back to Tampa, where Lowell will be probably be sleeping when he is supposed to be picking me up. Then I am home for a week. I drive back here on Monday next week. I’ll have a pile of DVD’s waiting for me, and a really nice expensive computer (with dual monitors!). I’ll be ripping DVD’s like crazy (back off MPAA, they are from Sony camcorders) with a custom bash script that I wrote that uses mencoder and lsdvd. I even got it to work over the network and rip from other DVD players in Windows computers. Of course, this was all running through my underpowered laptop, so it was slower than I thought.

I am on a plane to LA. Not Los Angeles, but Louisianna. I am considering doing a major project in New Orleans. I am leaving for the weekend to check it out and see if I can handle it. I’ll keep you updated.

I constantly get calls from “800 Service.” I decided to actually say Hello this time, and the guy was from Network Solutions. He wanted to make me aware of the services that they offered. He warned me that one of the domains in my account was coming up for renewal. It is due in August of 2007. Coming up!?! It’s over a half a year away!