Domestic Geek

Current mood: irritated
Well, I just got my first spam comment. I am so sick of this spam crap. There are over 700 messages in my bulk mail box on my Lycos account that I've gotten in the last few days that I need to weed through and over 30 in my regular inbox. People, don't respond to spam in any way, shape or form. This stuff is never going to go away as long as it works for the people that send it out. I guess I'll have to start implementing some of the anti-spam measures that are posted over at ScriptyGoddess later this week. *sigh*

It has also come to my attention that one of the possible reasons that my hours have been cut at work is that the new assistant manager hates me and the head manager has a thing for her. Interesting. While that is mainly gossip and speculation, it sure would explain alot. I've really got to get off my ass this week and find another job.

OK, I'm going to go watch the rest of the Bronco game.

Current mood: excited
I got two ribbons at the Platt Art Show tonight!!! My Dalmation Stamps took first place in the Illustrator stamps category. A Kellogg's Special K box I drew took an Honorable Mention in some kind of drawing catagory (packaging, maybe?). Too cool!!!! I'll post pics tomorrow in my gallery.

Current mood: relieved
OK, another final done and another class checked off the list.

Today started off great again. Apparently the video card in my G4 is toast. Of course, I didn't turn the thing on yesterday at all when Marcus had time to help me fix it. I discover it this morning when I go to add things to my notes (that I was allowed to use on the test this morning). Figures that my Mac is the only one in the house with Microsoft Office installed on it (since we use it at school). I can't open them up on the pc because they're stored on my iPod (no firewire port on the pc box). Marcus let me "steal" the video card out of the G3 we have until I can come up with some cash to buy a new card. This soooo sucks. When I finally got video, the computer kept hanging at one spot while it was booting. I've been neglecting the poor thing. It needs some serious attention. I just ran first aid on it and that seemed to help alot. I also moved my ram sticks around. We'll see.

What is up with today? I know they said there were some weird sun spots or something happening that could affect electronic stuff. I just lost my wireless keyboard. The wireless mouse still works, I changed the batteries, but the keyboard still doesn't work. This is too weird. I'm going to work now and staying off computers the rest of the day.

So, Matrix Revolutions will be released in less than two weeks. I can't wait. I put a countdown over in the sidebar. I've been interested in the Matrix ARG that's been going on. I found out about it on the Matrix Essays site. It's pretty cool. One of the forums I've really been watching pertaining to this game can be found here. The people who come up with this are either waaaay gifted or have waaaay too much time on their hands (or both). I don't have time to try to solve any of the game, but it sure is interesting reading about what others have come up with.

Well, I'm off to bed. I have that final exam and the art show tomorrow. G'night.

Current mood: scared
My house is overrun with wasps. Marcus killed one when he got home from work that was up in our skylight. Now there are two more in the window. One is probably the b*tch that stung me earlier (I read online that wasps don't die after stinging like bees do--pity). I have a terrible feeling that they're coming in through the swamp cooler. I hope they didn't nest up there. Anyway, Marcus found some old wasp killer out in the shed and is about to try to kill them.

Update: Yay, the wasps are dead!!!