I’ve been pretty annoyed today, it’s more of a general irritation versus real anger. Here’s what today has been so far:

I went to bed at like 4am after bingeing on about 100 pages of “Mona Lisa Overdrive”. When I first read that book I knew it was awesome, but since I hadn’t read “Count Zero” first there were parts of it that I just didn’t get (which I of course attributed to Gibson’s knack for leaving out details for you to figure out later).. That book has become an obsession, I will probably finish it tonight.

At 9ish, the doorbell rang, and I knew it was the UPS guy, because that’s the time he usually comes. I was expecting something, but it wouldn’t have been here today so I decided to let someone else get it.. Well, the doorbell kept ringing and my stupid-ass roommates of course didn’t bother to get up, so I have to get clothes on and run down the stairs to get the door FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW. I get there and once again the package isn’t for me, it’s for rando-roommate, FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW. That fucker has begun to really piss me off, fortunately I only have to deal with him for another month or so… Hopefully he will move out before then, actually.

I went back to bed and while I was sleeping Mr. USPS delivered “Idoru” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties”, which given the imminence of the end of “Mona Lisa Overdrive” is timed pretty well. Rory and I head over to the Mass Ave Restaurant for breakfast, which was pretty good (french toast and bacon, if you are interested).

I spend a few hours searching for jobs, to no avail. Why the hell does searching for “Software Engineer” on HotJobs return a “Word Processor” position?

I found a new reason to hate the term ``blog’’: It is already being mutated into ``BLOG’’ as if it was some kind of acronym. I find the shouting of the word to make it 8 times more irritating (and it was pretty awful to begin with).

Rando-roommate has been doing laundry for what seems like 300 days now. Every time he moves stuff between machines he leaves the fucking laundry door open, so we are all subject to the incessant din of the laundry room. Every time he moves stuff, I have to walk down behind him to close the fucking doors because he is too inconsiderate to do it himself. Did I mention I am looking forward to his departure?

My uncle is leaving the Syracuse Wing in April for a new position: CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE NY AIR NATIONAL GUARD!!!! That’s fucking awesome! In addition, it sounds like he is going to be promoted to General… Apparently the promotion has been approved by NY and now has to be approved by the Senate..

I am definitely an “innocent until proven guilty” kinda guy, but lots of people are defending Pete Townshend by saying that “he has contributed so much to children’s charities”, yet nobody was defending Michael Jackson when he was accused of screwing little boys…

I certainly hope that Pete’s name is cleared, but I still think he did a terribly stupid thing and deserves to get some heat for it..

I’ve been out of school for just about 2 years now. While I recently started entertaining the notion of returning for grad work, I haven’t even picked a subject yet let alone seriously thought about it. But all along, pretty much since the beginning of college until the present, every few months I have the same dream (not the same in the details, but in the overall “plot”):

In the dream, I am doing something completely unrelated… Last night I was in a computer store talking with someone about the problem I am having with the Mac. After awhile, it will hit me, that I haven’t attended any of my classes this semester, and it is already several weeks into the term. I start to think about how I initially just skipped the first few classes, but then I somehow just “forgot” about classes until now, several weeks later.. I start panicking and thinking about each class and if it was possible that I could return, after 6 missed weeks of class, and still pull off a passing grade. I soon realize that isn’t going to happen and then freak the hell out. I wake up, in a cold sweat, looking at the clock still completely convinced that I have missed 6 weeks of class, and it takes me a few minutes to come to my senses…

Now, I have lots of nightmares, but this one is one of the few that persists so long after I wake up.. Normally, if the dream manages to wake me up at all, I wake up in a panic and quickly settle back down into sleep… But this school dream, I am literally freaking out for minutes after I wake… What the hell is up with that?

Ok, so I have been investigating my stupid OSX problem that has been driving me insane… I thought I had fixed it about a week ago, but alas, it resurfaced… I just got tricked… But today, oh, today I actually have a clue and a definite symptom that is tied to this (instead of all the previous hand-waving). It seems, that whenever one of these hangs occurs, once the blockage passes and the application ACTUALLY begins to start, the following is printed to the console logs:

Jan 21 02:16:49 carlos netinfod local[272]: unable to bind to parent - RPC: Timed out

So now I just have to figure out how to fix the problem… ;) But at least I have something that I can point at…

Man, these old SNL episodes are great… I’m glad that when I want to watch old SNL reruns I can tune to E, and when I want to watch more modern ones I can click it over to Comedy Central…

The hippie deodorant seems to have done the job, although I didn’t really do much today. I was. so. bored. today… I took a ride over to the Arsenal Mall in Watertown to try and find something interesting and grab some lunch, but was just really bored and only stayed long enough to eat and run.. I came back to the apartment and applied for some jobs and looked at some apartment listings.. It looks like it is still a little too early to look for March 1 vacancies.. Most of the listings are Feb 1.

Adam and I headed out to the supermarket around midnight and got snacks… I got sick of not having any snacks around here and it started to drive me crazy…

I’m ugly in the morning

Been on a real Faith No More kick of late, which isn’t a bad thing at all…

Time to take a shower and try out this here new hippie deodorant…

Ok, so I went out to the other hippie mart (the harvest co-op) and picked up one of the alum salt stones that a few of you recommended.. I figure that it definately won’t cake, it doesn’t smell like anything, and hopefully I won’t react to it.. It seems way to freaking hippie for me, but my skin seems to be getting pretty sensitive in my old age, so I figured I would give it a chance..

And while shopping for deodorant I realized that while before I said " This one goes out to all the guys out there…" I soon realized that deodorant is largely non gender-specific… For some reason I thought there were male and female styles, musta been all those “Secret” ads when I was young polluting my brain…

Of course, now that I am using unscented deodorant I wonder if I should start using some of the mountain of cologne/after-shave that my mom has been giving me for the past 5-6 years… It has always collected dust… Ladies?

This one goes out to all the guys out there… What antiperspirant or deodorant do you use? I was using a few of the different Old Spice products for a few years, but recently (either due to change in formula or me getting old) I started reacting to them so I have to switch… I first picked Mitchum, because it didn’t have any perfume, and it worked fairly well, but it does this nasty caking thing which just grosses me out…

So I am looking for endorsements, and looking for a deodorant that doesn’t smell too strongly but does the job, and doesn’t cause you to break out into hives… =)

Ok, I’m probably not the first to touch on this, but I have to say that I derive extreme amusement that the title of R. Kelly’s new album is “Chocolate Factory”… Perhaps he should title his subsequent albums “Rusted Chevy Van”, “Would You Like A Balloon”, and “Hey, Teen Girls… Wanna Fuck??”… What the hell is wrong with this guy (you know, other than the pedophilia)?

Finished “Count Zero” last night, and it was so great… I am ashamed to have taken this long to finish it.. Gonna start re-reading “Mona Lisa Overdrive” now, and copies of “Idoru” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties” are on their way.

OS X is acting up again, same problem, which leads me to believe that the prior “solution” was a red herring as well.. I am going to try yanking memory tomorrow to see if there is a flaky DIMM (which I really doubt… I would expect instability, not slowness) and also create a new user and see if there is some other badness in that department (which would really cause me doubt in Apple, as I have already had to do that once already).

I am hoping to travel up to Rochester around March 8th for “FUMN: The Redemption”.. I definately need to redeem the glory of FUMN after the abysmal screenings last time around… Fortunately, the list of films I haven’t shown is still longer than the list I have.. I am also planning on giving myself more time and less to do on this trip, so hopefully all the people I neglected last time around will get to see my fine ass.