Drako

As of now, at the time of this posting, there's no movie schedule for Friday, April 15, for most theaters around where I am, and the rest have only partial schedules up (up to 3 movies listed). I don't know about the rest of you, but I've never seen the theaters around here fail to have the Friday schedules up this late. Just makes me suspicious.

At least now I have this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/48ESU00FVUDU just because.

Those that know me and talk to me regularly know that I work in the factory outlet of a window and patio door factory. I'm a loader, I locate windows that factory outlet customers ordered and help those customers load them. For the year and a half I've been working there, I averaged 18 hours a week (3 hours Monday through Thursday, 6 hours on Saturday). Today, I officially switched to working Fridays instead of Saturdays; the other loader that used to work Fridays will now work Saturdays. Friday is a very long work day, 10.5 hours instead of 6. I'm not looking forward to going to work for 7 am every Friday, but I can manage. It'll be an extra $55 on my paychecks.

Also... here's something fun for you all. I never play MMORPGs, I don't like the concept. So I was amused when I started getting emails like the following in the spam folder of my gmail account.

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These emails started with one that said my account had been compromised and I needed to login to verify my account and information. I've been getting these for a week or two now. Those of you that play WoW, how legitimate/accurate do these emails look? I'm just curious.

Ronnie James Dio passed away yesterday. RIP, man. I'm just glad I got to see you twice in concert.

I saw the instructional video, but I still don't have a dragon to train.

Does a circular building have a cornerstone?

So here's what I got, in case anyone's interested.

What I got from my mate, diasis_jr: iPod Touch, Garage Inc. by Metallica, Dragons 2010 calendar, Princess Bride 2010 calendar.

From family: $10 FYE card, a total of $360 in cash (wow), a 6 pack of IBC cream soda, a 6 pack of IBC root beer, Bob Seger's Greatest Hits, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Live Bullet, 12 oz. box of Whoppers, some nice slippers, A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks, one of those coke ball bottles, small 2009 Swarovski crystal snowflake ornament, Irish Lucky Penny (yes, from Ireland), Samsung Alias 2, and an unknown (but pretty) piece of crystal mineral.

I also got books 6 - 9 of Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, but I already had those. That was a rare mistake my parents made in getting me something.

Prolly gonna go off today to get my phone activated, and buy a couple things.

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas!

Every year seems to pass by now a bit quicker. At least I have some money now, this time last year I was just barely started in one part time job. And I'm going to have to wait longer before looking for a full-time job, although it would be nice. Ah well, another year gone. The waiting and not getting very far can be frustrating at times.

...maybe the aborted format attempt was a good thing. After having a friend take a look at it, and fix the things I had problems with, he discovered that the harddrive had bad sections and was starting to crap out. At least now I have everything crucial backed up (on both my powerbook and a portable harddrive), and my desktop tower now just needs a new harddrive. This being said, I wouldn't mind a new desktop and laptop (desktop is 8 years old and the laptop I bought is 4 or 5), but they'll do for now. They still run very well for as old as they are. I'm just glad I was able to back up my files, instead of the harddrive crashing on me and causing me to lose everything.

My 8 year old desktop is now not in use anymore, due to my own doing.

I recently bought a laptop from a friend, and decided that my computer could use a formatting to make it run better. A while back I made an improper attempt to format my computer, but just installed Windows 2000 over what was already there without formatting. It removed my programs, but didn't really get rid of anything. I was able to reinstall all the drivers and everything just fine. A partition was created when I was messing around before, but didn't have any space in it at all and was undefined. Since I got the laptop, I had been given a tip on how to format more properly. The format went well, but the reinstalling is where all the problems started. Windows 2000 would keep freezing or be unable to install all the files it needed. I had the cds cleaned, and it still wouldn't install right. I had to reinstall Windows ME (during which I got a few BSODs) and then put the Windows 2000 cd in. Everything went alright, until I discovered that somehow a partition was made that was only 2 GB big. So I formatted again and installed on the rest of the harddrive. Now I have two defined partitions and 3 undefined ones, with no clue on how to get rid of any of them. And to top it all off, I can't find a proper video driver for my video card (and before any of you ask, no I don't know what it is specifically, it has no markings whatsoever besides the fact that it's an ATI). I don't have a cd for it, and because I'm stuck on 800 by 600 with 16 colors, it's very hard to get on websites, and I can't get onto the ATI website at all. So I disconnected everything and shoved the monitor to the side, and now I have the laptop on my computer desk.

Eventually I may ask a favor or pay someone to see what's wrong, but I just don't feel like dealing with it anymore. I've been messing with it since Sunday afternoon, and now it's 1:30 am on Friday.