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Migrating Vulpines Tue Aug 26 21:12:42 CDT 2003
Mood: Scared Music of the Day: None
Well, I've decided what I'm doing next with my life. And I've decided to go back to Dallas/Fort Worth. I've just got better chances at a job up there, plus more people I know, plus my mom. My mom is more than slighty important to me. So I'm going to get my stuff all packed up, grab the things I need to survive, grabs the cats and ferrets and head to DFW. I'm going to miss Austin, it's a nice town. But, I think it's time to head back where I know.

Very special thanks to Mare , Hunter and Laurel, aka my coven. You guys are the best thing to happen to me in Austin, and if you think you won't see me because I'm in Dallas you have another thing coming. I love you guys...

Vulpine

Reason for Earlier Melodramatic Post Wed Aug 20 21:15:06 CDT 2003
Mood: Bleah Music of the Day: None
Ok, a short post to explain the earlier short post.

Me and Rhiannon broke up Monday night. Long story short, neither of us have been happy for a while. So, we ended things. I'm not going into the gory details, one they're more dull than gory, and two I just don't want to. i

And to answer the most common questions of those who knew what happened, no I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not moved out yet, don't know when I will be. No, there really isn't much you can do, save understand if I'm a little short or strange (ok, a little more than normal). I'm going to be ok, I always am. Like the rats of New York, I can survive damn near anything.

Silly Joke Wed Aug 20 20:51:34 CDT 2003
Mood: Silly Music of the Day: Vandenberg - Time Will Tell
There's a man trying to cross the street. As he steps off the curb a car comes screaming around the corner and heads straight for him. The man walks faster, trying to hurry across the street, but the car changes lanes and is still coming at him.

So the guy turns around to go back, but the car changes lanes again and is still coming at him.

By now, the car is so close and the man so scared that he just freezes and stops in the middle of the road.

The car gets real close, then swerves at the last possible moment and screeches to a halt right next him.

The driver rolls down the window.

The driver is a squirrel.

The squirrel says to the man says, "See, it's not as easy as it looks, is it?"

Life Blows, News at 11 Tue Aug 19 00:21:05 CDT 2003
Mood: Don't Ask Music of the Day: Goblin - Phenomena - Sleepwalking
Subject says it all. Details will be coming eventually.

Fox Talk :) Sun Aug 17 00:09:36 CDT 2003
Mood: Recovering Music of the Day: Warlock - All We Are
Well, it's been a while since I posted anything here, most of my day to day babbling has been done on LiveJournal. This doesn't mean I'm going to stop updating this, just that alot of the crap I've been talking about fits that better.

I've been sick as a dog for a week now, I helped a friend move last weekend...and I inhaled a lungful of dust. Which set my allergies into overdrive. Bleah. Slowly I'm recovering from that, but it has not been fun to say the least.

On the Apple Front:
When last I babbled, I had survived my tech interview. Friday, while I was up in Dallas, I got a call from the company doing the background check. Seems they couldn't contact a company I worked for back in 2000-2001. Can I get them a contact # or proof of employment (paystub or w2). When I got home on Monday, I hunted down their phone numbers, as well the numbers of the company I was consulting at (this was a consulting firm I was working for). Well I get another email saying they needed still more, could I send a paystub or a W-2. Well bugger. I'm bad about keeping paperwork, I know I know...that's a dumb thing to be bad about, but it's a fact of my life. So I spend yesterday and today tearing apart the house...and I finally find it. I also find about 30 lbs of dust for my lungs *wheeze* But I got the W2 info faxed to the background company, and things should move along. I'm actually fairly positive now...since they spent the money for the background check, I must have done well in the interview. So cross your fingers for me :)

I'm slowly adapting to the new keyboard. All the function keys work, and have nifty little tricks mapped to them. The problem is I'm used to having my hands in a certain position for typing on an ergonomic. On a flat keyboard it doesn't quite map the same, so I have tons of typos. But I'm getting better. For feel, the keyboard is rather nice. Not mushy at all, which was a worry of mine. Now to get black monitors and a black cdrw, and Shub-Internet will have an all black setup ;)

Had to do a complete reinstall of Rhiannon's computer. ARGH!!!!! It still has no NIC, since it won't accept the drivers. So off to get a new NIC one of these days...probably next week when she gets paid. Hell, that means I need to install a floppy drive on the Wintendo. *thud* I hate floppy drives. Hmm, hope I have one. Or I hope that NIC's come with drivers on cdrom. That would be easier...but when has my life been easy. *sigh* I'm also trying to decide what I want to do in the eventual future with Shub-Internet. Dual Pentium III, AthlonXP, Pentium IV. She's a workstation, so the dual CPU would be nice. But AthlonXP is cheaper for similar power, just not as robust with the single CPU. I dunno, I guess it depends on what I can find after I have a job. We'll see...I also want to build a gaming box, and get a new laptop as well...Greedy ? Me ? Nah....

New Keyboard Thu Aug 7 15:14:44 CDT 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Tom Smith - Werewolf At Guantanamo Bay
Well, I got my new keyboard in today, thanks to the magic of Ebay I now have a Logitech Elite keyboard for about half the price. Happy fox. The downside to a new keyboard, I have to remap a number of keys. If this was windows, I'd just install the software...but I'm a Linux freak, so I have to do it the old fashioned way. Took about an hour, but I got all the extra keys mapped, save the webcam and shopping...and that's because of a typo. But since I don't feel like restarting X again, it will wait a while. It's kinda cool, though the keyboard feels kinda small compaired to my Microsoft Ergonomic keyboards. I'll get used to it though. All in all I'm pretty happy with it.

New Email and Modem Foo Sun Aug 3 19:19:23 CDT 2003
Mood: Confused Music of the Day: Charmed on TV
Well, thanks to Robin, I have a new email...#108. Funny, I wasn't planning on i keeping up with this, but when I got the new address...the old instincts popped up. So back to collecting.

As for modem...Shub-Internet is acting up majorly, if I run the DVD the modem connection is flaky. Stop the DVD, and it's fine...back to 40k plus. *shakes head* No clue why this is, only difference in things is the long ass phone cord. Can't think of anything that the DVD would affect. *shrug* Well, we'll see if moving the modem to Tru-Namedra will help things. Who knows.

Various geeky bits Sun Aug 3 15:44:47 CDT 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Dream Theater - In the dead of night
Well, been a geeky few days here at Chez Cabal23. I had a phone interview with Apple on Thursday, it went fairly well. I have an inperson interview on Tuesday. Wish me luck. Yesterday was Lammas, so I spent it with my coven. Had a good time, came home and crashed out early. Slept til about 2:30 am, then woke up wide awake. So I geeked a bit, setup Pine 4.56. Rearranged the mail folders and started using a new feature, allowing me to setup multiple viewable directories. So all the email that I have stored from various people, plus all the various months of sent emails are all archived in one folder seperate from all the others. So my archive is well, archiving ;)

In other geek news, we finally got a second phone line hooked up, and a LONG phone cord stretching from one side of the house to Shub-Internet's modem. So, no more fights about phone vs internet usage. Woohoo. Later today or tomorrow or whenever, I plan on trying to switch things around so the DNS and Web server also acts as a gateway, take some of the load off of Shub-Internet. But mostly cause I can ;)

Not much else going on, probably should do something silly...like take a screenshot...which I just did. :)



Nothing too fancy, just my new modified background, reading alt.fan.rawilson in pine and chatting online via Gaim and BitcHX. A normal day for me :)