Well today I had consulting. Previous to that, I did sleep in a little, I've got to stop doing that...it annoys me, mostly because I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time. emilie made us some delicious pancakes for breakfast, she's still not 100% but she's getting there. It must really suck, but I'm proud she's doing well.

Consulting was relatively easy considering I've never pulled apart an iMac G4 before. The only thing that was a bit difficult was getting the thing to split in half. The heatsink was pretty well attached so it made it a bit difficult. I basically pried it from the metal piece it was attached too. Got the drive replaced and the thing back together within 30 minutes or so. I was pretty impressed with myself haha Unfortunately the software end of things didn't go well, I just blame it on Panther being old and all. I recommended that he just find a copy of OS X Tiger so I think that's what he'll do.

I worked with the horses this afternoon after doing stalls. The kittys are all growing up and now they're really starting to act like cats. I love it.

I attempted to play some COD4 this evening but it was being stupid so I didn't bother with it. I finished up issue 163 of Game Informer, had a nice review of Final Fantasy XII so I can't wait to play it. Also had a big thing on Dark Sector which I played a couple weekends ago at Keiths. Definitely a lot of fun.

Tomorrow, nothing is scheduled so I might play some Star Fox Adventures and will work the horses. I'll be going to see the new Indiana Jones with my Dad tomorrow. That should be fun.

Hope everyone had a nice day!

On Saturday night I believe it was I got my hands on the trial edition of the Spore Creature Creator. Unfortunately, I did get to play it until last night. emilie & I have been making tons of these little critters!



Hopefully sometime today we'll be getting the full demo version, I know I pre-ordered it last night. I'll probably buy a couple copies (for $10, why not!). That means we'll get access to even more body parts and stuff. It's definitely going to be awesome. I even made that ClipShare site (which is where the above video comes from) so I could upload my own videos and stuff. What a pain in the butt, but I finally got it working :) I know Spore integrates with YouTube, but I hate relying on other people/services haha

So besides playing Spore yesterday, I worked at the barn. I brought the baby kitties a new box. I used the big one from my State Line order. It was actually not as big as I thought it was, after seeing the kitties inside of it. It worked out really well. They're starting to become a lot more lively, and are looking to play a lot. After the barn, I got some food shopping done. Got these awesome chips, can't remember what they're called.

Before heading to the barn and all though, I spent the morning, installing Mac OS X Leopard Server on my Xserve. The poor PowerBook had had enough of being the server I think. The little laptop can't handle such tasks haha So I migrated all my iTunes stuff over and got it working with the AppleTV. Works pretty well now, although the server sucks up a lot more energy and all. I also got my PC up and running so I could play the Spore trial later that night.

We got Chinese food last night, quite delicious. Then we spent like hours and hours playing with the Spore Creature Creator. I was up until like 2am working on that video site and playing Spore. Unfortunately I got up around 7am today, which sucks, but oh well, I'll probably take a nap this afternoon or something. I've got a consulting appointment around 10am today, should be pretty simple, but who knows. I've got to install Mac OS X Leopard Server on a PowerMac G5 and then migrate some data over. Hopefully they'll be using OpenDNS so I won't have to worry about setting up a proxy server of some type.

So hopefully sometime today the full version of the Creature Creator comes out. I pre-ordered it last night. If not, well I've still got lots of ideas to mess around with and we've got a bunch of new movies to watch. I got every Dirty Jobs episode, so we'll have fun watching those.

Have a lovely Tuesday everyone!

Yesterday, we woke up around 8am and got a few things done around the house. Then emilie and I went over to Greg's house (well his parents house). Greg and I scouted around in the woods, and we're quite happy with it all. Lots of places to hide and stuff. We could definitely have made some bases and stuff, but we left it as-is for the moment. So we hung out and waited for some more people to arrive, finally his brother got there and then one of our old high school buddies came. So we did a little 2 on 2. It was definitely a lot of fun. The first game, we basically won pretty quickly. Then second game was a bit longer cause we did it in the woods, and I was up on this big tree that had fallen over and I finally killed Connor.

After game 2 we got some lunch which was awesome. Then we played a couple free for all games which was definitely fun, until I got shot in the neck haha I think there's still a little red mark haha Then another old high school buddy showed up and we got in another couple games before it started thundering and down pouring like crazy!

Today, Emilie and I watched an episode of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad. I definitely enjoy that anime, kind of funny :) I did take a nap, so there's a possibility of me being up quite late tonight haha but that's okay because I got my hands on every single Dirty Jobs episode, Dinotopia and the most important thing, the Spore Creature Creator!! I am going to have so much fun with that tonight, of course I first need to re-install Mac OS X Leopard Server on the Xserve, then I might do Mobile home directories, but we'll see.

Anyways, I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend, I know it's not over yet, so go have so more fun!!

It's been a busy couple of days. Mostly working from home, just researching and getting things together for people. Yesterday I put in like 2.5 hours, today about an hour, maybe a bit more. I just can't handle this heat, I am about to just go sit in the bath tub or something because this is ridiculous.

The horses are pretty pissed off too, they're dying out there. It's just way to hot. Currently there's a tornado watch in effect for Vermont, they always say that, but nothing happens. I mean this is Vermont, come on. I would be very surprised to see such a thing here. I've been enjoying the ice though, we got this like no brander cones and they're actually really good believe it or not. I've mostly been staying indoors too, even though it's still way to hot inside. We've given the horses baths, so hopefully that should help cool them down momentarily. Nippet was being a complete asshole about, so I gave a few good smacks, didn't really seem to help though...even Buddy was better about it then him was I found to be unusual. Definitely haven't been riding them in the heat, hopefully it cools down soon because I really need to get riding.

I've been trying to figure out if I can get into the Equine Science program at UVM, of course it's taking forever...I might as well as make some phone calls, because these people don't seem to check their email. I have a feeling even if it is open to me, I won't be able to get in because I didn't take calculus or chemistry in college, in high school I did do chemistry, but screw calculus. I really dislike mathematics, of course you really need to know if for that program, so we'll see.

I've finally gotten Subversion up and running and I really like it. I'm just a bit annoyed that I have another step in my process, instead of just making changes to a file, uploading it to a server and then synching it across the servers, I now have to make changes, commit them to Subversion, then upload it to a server and synch it across the other servers. So it's like an extra step, but it makes sense, it just sucks. But I am sure it'll come in handy when it comes time to update the whole code base and such. Or when I break something I can just go back a version. I am using this new OS X application, Version, which is WOW. It definitely makes my journey into using Subversion quite easy.

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Hrmm, so besides roasting alive here, things have been well, I've been watching a lot of HorseGirlTV and catching up on old (we're talking 2005/2006) issues of various magazines. Haha I am a slow reader lol.

I believe that's all for now, I am going to get something cool to drink/eat.

Well today was quite good, minus the server troubles we've been having. This morning I went out to the barn, got my chores done and then I got to play! I groomed my Nippets, and shaved his little man beard...haha or just the whiskers, cause he doesn't really have a beard lol. The razor is fucking ridiculously sharp, you can pretty much just barely touch it to a hair and the hair gets cut. It's insane...but it does a really great job. So after getting him all cleaned up and pretty we did some ground work which went really well. I can pretty much take him off the lead rope and he'll follow me around, stop when I ask him to stop, turn when and where I want him too. It's like having a big dog haha After ground work, we tacked up and rode around for a bit, which he did very well with and me too, I'm proud of both of us and I hope we'll become awesome this summer. So this is the start, we'll see!

After that I gave him one of the new treats emilie picked up for the boys. I actually gave Nippet one and Buddy one, they absolutely love those treats. I have a feeling we might be able to make them, it looks like it's just grain, molasses and some other things...

Poor Emilie got sick at work today, so I've kind of been taking care of her, she came home early and she pretty much slept all day, still sleeping now...I am not sure if I should move her from the floor to the bed...

I've pretty much got Mint installed everywhere I want it, unfortunately I've not been able to get through a full day in the past 3 days without something crappy it out, which means the statistics aren't 100% right now. I'm definitely quite pleased with the software as it gives me the data I want without the bloat of Google Analytics (although I still like Google's stuff!).

Hrmm, not sure if I've got anything else to say. I'm compressing some mail server backups right now, oh fun fun fun!! Then I think I am off to bed. Good night everyone!

Well yesterday I had some consulting in the morning, it was for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, great place, great people. Unfortunately, the guy had some corrupt software so we ended up backing up his data and doing a re-install. Then I went to the Post Office and so many people were wondering about the iMac I was shipping off. They were amazed that there was no big tower and it was all right there in the monitor. I love it. Then I found out you can use your own pictures to make stamps which I thought was really cool. I think I might make some with Nippet, it'd be cool.

Then I called Jaime, one of the shipping guys at Small Dog since we're buds and I asked if I could just ship it through him since he's got access to WorldShip UPS software, so he can pretty much ship anything via UPS, and they're pretty much a drop off point anyways. He was totally cool with it and it saved me from having to drive up to the UPS Store in Stowe AND I was going to be at Small Dog anyways cause I had Daniel put aside some nice Klipsch speakers for me, so it would have worked out great. So after getting some lunch or something, I drove there and when I got there Jaime said I couldn't ship it there, that someone had told him not to allow me too. Now I won't name names, but this person has been kind of a douche bag on more then one occasion when I did work there. I mean seriously...why are you such an asshole, give it a break and stop licking the nut sacks of the CEO and CFO, it's lame. But whatever, I didn't want to get Jaime in trouble, he even agreed with me, so we left it at that. On the bright-side I spent more money with these asshats but I did get a nice pair of speakers and I did get to chat with Daniel and Eric, great people.

Didn't really do much last night, just hung out, I did was The Forbidden Kingdom. I enjoyed most of it, mostly because it was awesome to see Jet Li and Jackie Chan together. I do love them, I love watching Jet Li's stuff, I want to get all of it, and Jackie's. I thought it was cool how they had him doing drunken boxing which was in Legend of Drunken Master hehe

Being that I didn't get to ship what I needed shipped yesterday I took care of it this morning. I ordered the wrong name tapes again haha I got 3" tapes instead of 5" so I re-ordered them again. Craig should be shipping my gun out today or tomorrow, apparently the motor was to high so it was fixed and hopefully it's all good now. I can't wait to get that back.

I finally beat Resident Evil 1...only ~10 years after it came out. AWESOME GAME! I absolutely love the RE series. Star Fox Adventures is next on the list, I hope that's a quick on LOL. My Mom called today, she and Dad are in Ireland having fun. I talked to emilie this evening. I think we're going to go out to dinner at Koto when she returns from PA.

Tomorrow, I plan on working both the horses, hopefully outdoors if it's nice. makkintosshu and I might go out for lunch or something. Him, Keith and I played like 2 hours of COD4 tonight, definitely had a fun time. I am getting really addicted to using that G36c with the grenade launcher attachment. I am now level 46...woohooo!

Hope everyone had a nice day and have a lovely Thursday!

I snapped a couple pictures cause it seemed to funny not too. Sorry for the ass quality, I was using my iPhone and it takes horrible pictures...I was pissed I forgot my Canon(s). Nippet is the one laying down, Buddy is the one on the other side of the fence, standing up :)

I've been quite busy with work and playing some of my new video games. I am very close to beating Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and I just beat The NEW Super Mario Bros. Bother very very good games.

I also attempted to play Assassin's Creed last night, but I think I was just to tired to comprehend what was going on in the game. The graphics are very very cool though, the controls and something that I've never experienced before, very new and unique. I think that game will have to wait until I actually have time to sit down and understand how it works. The story is also something that is something that I didn't think it would be. So yeah, it's good but I have to find some time to work with it.

Tonight (in about an hour) Emilie and I are going to this equestrian 4H banquet in Montpelier. I think that should be fun.

I didn't do much else today but work on Wind Waker and this Mario Bros. game. Fun times, I think tonight I will finish up Wind Waker and work on some homework.

I also am trying out Maple Story, but that too needs a lot of my time to understand how it works. I really want to setup a ROSE Online server, but I am not sure if they've got it working under Linux yet, we'll see. Or a Ragnarok Online Server...I do wish both of those had OS X client, it's to bad.

I finally picked up a copy of NewType before programming class on Thursday. It's this really nifty anime magazine I'd been hearing/reading about. It's actually really good, I like it a lot. The only downside is that it's pretty expensive...I might ask for a subscription for Christmas though...if you're into anime and stuff, definitely check it out.

Alright I am off to go do who knows what...