Day: 14 June 2004

Another Pool Day

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I did some scanning of bills in the AM. I got up at 8AM again. that is killing me. Then I went to the pool with Jayson for the afternoon. We watched Aliens the movie afterward. That is one of my all time favorite movies. So many awesome lines in that movie. Bill Paxton rocked. I was so happy when the DVD version came out with the deleted scenes. Saw it for the first time with my surround sound system. The explosions really do sound better. Not sure if family next door to me liked it though?

I took another 2 Butabitols today. I started feeling shitty by the pool. I feel great now with them in my system!!!

I am also almost out of guest passes for the pool club. Thank goodness I move by 7-31-04. More later, I am off to bed. Maybe I will get a good night sleep tonight???

Saving Month

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I am trying, and partially succeeding in not spending allot of money this month. I am moving in July (hopefully) and it costs allot. So I want to save a chunk of cash this month and next. Won’t talk about how much, but it is enough to make me stop and think before I buy anything.

I looked at my credit card balance and almost freaked because it was so high. Then I realized that it was 90% work related stuff. That got me to do an expense report. I hope my fiscal responsibility holds up for 6 or so more weeks. I don’t want to be down in my savings because of a move. Right now I don’t know if I can pull it off. I am keeping my fingers crossed…

Got Rid Of Backups

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Several months ago I read that CD-R’s and DVD-R’s won’t last as long as most people orginally thought. The personally recorded disks may only be good for 3-5 years. No one knows. I have been using CD-R’s and more recently DVD-R’s as my only form of backup of my computer data.

I keep everything on the computer now a days so those backup’s are important. Knowing these CD’s “rot” I decided to take all my backups dating back to 1998, and put them back on a hard drive. I then backed up that directory to another hard drive. Drives are cheap so I figure if I keep all my crap on 2 drives I will be safe from problems. Or so I hope. I took some of the really old backups and destroyed the CD’s. I still have my recent DVD’s of backup’s for 2002-2004, but older stuff is getting destroyed since I don’t really need the CD’s with them back on disk. I use a Lacie firewire drive with 200 gig of storage space.

I also decided to buy a new Firewire drive every year for backup’s of crap. I realized that I bought my 200-gig drive less than a year ago and I have only like 50-gig’s left. It is cheaper to buy a new drive than to worry about removing crap off the existing one when it gets filled up.

I still have some more archiving to do, but I am getting things cleaned up virtually and physically before I start packing to move!

Spring Cleaning

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I cleaned out some of the crap I have in my closets this weekend. I am planning on my move, so I am getting rid of crap now. I got rid of some books that I didn’t think I would ever read again. I also found some old cassette tapes I had from the 80’s and early 90’s. I tossed them since I had already gotten 95% of the music on the computer as MP3’s.

I have more cleaning to do, but I didn’t feel up to doing it yet. I have a ton of old clothes that probably need to go. Moving gets you to think do you really need stuff?

This blog entry was written while listening to Something About You from the album “America Town” by Five for Fighting

Halo Night

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Saturday I went over to John’s and played Halo again. I still suck, but I have a good time.

I also want to note I had to take 2 Butabitol’s for a migraine, or potential migraine. I haven’t had to take the drugs in a while so it wasn’t so bad. The Med’s worked.

Those over to play were John (its his place), Jayson, Dave, Dave’s sister Cindy, a friend of john’s I don’t know, Joe, and his women Karen. Joe is up for the weekend from Baton Rouge. it was good seeing him. I haven’t seen him since my trip to New Orleans way back in December of 2001. It was fun.

John BBQ’s and we played Halo. It was fun. I didn’t get home till late. I am having sleep issues this weekend. Not sure if it is because of the apartment hunting stress, or the alison break up, or just because I cannot sleep or what.

I also went to the bank today to get my deposit money for the apartment I want to get. I had breakfast with my dad, and I hit the bank. I have to remember to go over to his place and show him how to burn DVD’s of photos.

This blog entry was written while listening to Breakfast at Tiffanys from the album “Home” by Deep Blue Something