Not Much New

My computer, which has taken to occassional and unexplainable shutdowns lately has apparently an 'overcharged' battery. If I have mentioned this before, excuse the repetition, but it concerns the website a bit. It seems okay as long as I periodically unplug the machine, so its laptop battery can get drained, but not too much, or it shuts down again...it seems its capacity has been more than halved.

My Dad and I went out and bought a new tool, a router for the immediate utility of hanging door hinges. My Dad has also had some interest in furniture making, so we may go back to Home Depot, and purchase a router-table. so we can make our own moulding and sculpt the edges.

My younger brother finally took his X-box with him to his apartment, (lament) actually I was happy to see it go, for now. I haven't got any money for new games, so I was just wasting my time playing out different side-stories of Knights of the Old Republic. I can't wait for KotOR II: The Sith Lords. I am sure it will be another great game. Currently the only other game I am looking forward to on the X-box, is The Fall of Max Payne.

On a completely unrelated note, I love cordless headphones. I've got a pair of RCA 900 MHz Headphones, and they work great. Especially when you do something like get up from your desk, and go downstairs and outside to hang clothes on the line, you never leave your music.

Lunch-Time Reading

As I sat in front of my laptop, eating a bologna sandwich on an english muffin w/ honey mustard, I read recent poll information regarding the election on Democratic Underground, and other friendly online message boards, (completely different subjects).

It was quite enjoyable, and while I don't always get to it, I think I like reading from message boards more than I like reading online newpapers. Also, I think in this greater age of information distribution, more and more 'common' news sources developed from individual efforts to distribute information, should be getting a larger slice of the pie. Maybe we'll see several sites merge into a News-Ring with a set of advertising contracts that evenly distributes the wealth.

regarding the poll:
looks like Kerry is ahead again, and picking up steam...

Hopefully It Won't Die Yet.

My Computer has been acting persnicketey this week. Oddly shuts down for no obvious reasons. I'm starting to think either a.) I need to not let it go into standby mode (Windows had a hard time with that) or b.) it has nothing to do with that, and my computer is going to die soon.

Hard to imagine life without. Sharing the family PC again. Little or no privacy while e-mailing or whatever. Seems fine now. Hopefully it will stay that way...

It's Been Some Time

More than a week, actually, since I wrote on here. Haven't had much to say. My younger brother is dropping off my application at the place he works at, and also unfortunately at the Kindergarten school my neice will be attending. That is a horrible thought. But it is better than the alternative.

The alternative: a friend from that I've known since high school called me up the other day. He never attended a day of school past high-school graduation. Which is fine, he prefers to work outdoors. He currently works at a construction supply store, that deals in concrete supplies; rebar, forms, that kind of thing. And so I applied there. No sooner had the would-be boss seen the application, than he uttered, "You haven't worked since last October? Prick. Jack-ass as I referred to him later did not impress me. I may be an unemployed nobody, but I still have a small semblance of pride. I am done subjecting myself to others, and their taunts, or extreme short-comings. He is an uneducated moronic ass, and I can't make myself work for those types anymore. They offend me too much, and I am better than them. At least I think so.

Fun Labor Day Weekend

It was a fun time had by all. Most of the family did their own thing. My parents went out for breakfast on Saturday, but they brought me back something, Irish Eggs, which is my favorite from the Early Bird, I highly recommend it to anyone along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire Border. Then my older brother's girlfriend from Toronto was visiting, so he, she, and I all went to see the Bourne Supremacy. Good movie, but the first was better. Today, my younger brother, his wife and stepdaughter stopped by, and he brought a load of comic books, so that was nice, then they left to go eat out for a late brunch. My Dad is celebrating Labor Day by cleaning every facet of his 1988 Ford Escort GT, which can be mistaken for an early eighties mustang, but only from certain angles. He is now either Turtle-waxing it, or cleaning the wheel rims.

Planning on going out again later today, either to see the movie Hero, or maybe to book shop, [Reads: sit in a comfortable chair reading like it is a library.] or both.