Monday, January 29, 2007

blue and white

What is it with men and Ketchup? The bottled substance came up in conversation with my brother. He likes the stuff on cheetos. The connection seems clear - all the hard core ketchup fans have all been male. Next question- Does this statement make me sexist?

These weeks have been simple routine to wrap it all up. The biggest accomplishment : getting to the end of my game but haven't nuked the boss just yet. Wow, don't over do yourself there. Sheesh I really need to apply myself to something. How bout I jump on those plushies I've been talking about making?

I've had little to no ambition as far as the job hunt goes. I'm taking my time, the experience at sams was just too much.

I realized a little more the attitudes that I have ever since moving back in. I guess it doesn't help to be in an underparented atmosphere where whoever throws the biggest fit gets away with things. It makes me feel like theres not a whole lot I can do when a problem comes up simply because I'm not allowed to. I haven't been perfect, in fact I've just been getting worse, there are times when I am less than decent to my family, and its something that needs to end.

And more it bothers me that I haven't been asking myself how I can improve anymore and don't reach out as much. There are a few things I need to change.

One thing I do like is being up this late or early you choose to ask myself how I feel and what I think of things.

Monday, January 15, 2007

trails

Most things of this nature come to me in bleak and quiet hours of the morning. Night is when I think the most, which explains my staying up well past midnight. It's when there is more to be found on a subject that I go mad and spend hours tapping into it.

I love having the time to do this.

I feel a little like Galileo and his writing backwards to conceal his findings. My circumstance isn't so much life and death as his. The mode of questioning he was in and the rejections to that questioning state could be alike on a smaller level. All was done alone, and in silence. Everything that I found that I felt was valid was written down in an old math notebook.

There are fewer and fewer broken links from what I see. Still it's only beginning to connect. There is just so much you can mask under the banner of meaningful organization.

It's a start at least and definitely a better channel for all these unrelated current issues that rage on in my mind.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

death to all computer liar thingys

I got stubborn with trying to install Diablo today. It says specifically that it is Mac compatible on the package but gets messier as you go along. I've been wild goose chasing all over the internet tonight. I am glad that my internet isn't down, I thought it was earlier.

So much for using the basic system requirements or above... I open the installer, and my computer tries to use a lite program called Classic. Classic is supposed to be used for OS version conflicts so you can still run the old programs they threw out. It all looks like they threw even the baby out with the bathwater after OS 9.

It's not set up properly, you have to have OS 9 handy to use Classic right. It notifies me when I click on the installer that there is no OS 9 system folder and asks for OS 9 to be installed. I went online to try and configure Classic and get an OS 9 reference for it. Couldn't find anything at apples website for the download. My $70 Apple support doesn't cover version conflicts. The forums say it's not even an extension, I have to download an installation copy of OS 9. Even better the link that it gives me to download is now expired. How consistent of you Apple, no really thank you.

I could get over it but then the mac read me says: " Diablo has a minimum requirement of System 7.5.5 or greater. Due to improvements in Apple’s System software, Diablo will perform best with System 7.6 and better. "


will perform best with System 7.6 and better..?!?!?!?!!
Ahem? OSX 10.4.2 isn't going to be better?

Grrr...

I'm glad I looked at the Diablo mac support link again. I completely missed that it asked for users using Mac OSX need to email them specifically.

I'm going to get to the bottom of this, because if you say you're mac compatible, you'd better be mac compatible. What is frustrating is that Diablo II works and has a separate install for OSX. So Diablo II can work but not Diablo I? One comes before two! *sniffle sniffle*