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It's that Birthday time of year again!

Every year, around this time, it starts to heat up. What do I mean? I mean birthday's of course. Yesterday was my grandfather's birthday. He's 74...note the significance of the 7 and the 4 on his plate. Tomorrow is my grandmother's. The day after THAT is my dad's. Three more days after that is MINE! See how hectic it is?

Anyway, I went to a job interview today and I have high hopes for this position, but for now, I'll just have to pray and hope. Wish me luck my dear faithful reader(s).

Oh man....

Sorry I have posted in awhile. Things have been kind of crappy around here. I've been jobless for about 15 days now. It really sucks. I was getting into the swing of things and starting to get used to going to work everyday and now I just can't seem to find another job. It's aggravating! All the damn tech support jobs are overseas or require helpdesk experience, but I can't get into a helpdesk to get the experience.

Anyway, I'm looking for a job, and the job hunt sucks, so I'll try to post more, but don't count on it too much.

Hmm...I wonder what the problem could be?

This computer would boot up, run fine for about two minutes and then the screen would freak out. Replaced the video card and letting it run overnight and we'll see how it fares tomorrow.

Resident Evil: Extinction

I went and saw Resident Evil 3 tonight. It was pretty good, all in all and definitely is an awesome zombie movie. I'm a big fan of trilogies and movies that add on the experience of the first movie, such as Spiderman 2 was better than Spiderman because they didn't have to tell the backstory of Spiderman, they could get down to the nitty gritty story.

Resident Evil is different because there have been several games made around this particular storyline. Umbrella Corp. is at it again, except this time, they're the only ones left and most of the world is a zombie. Umbrella Corp. is hiding in underground bunkers and testing on the undead population. Alice, from the first two films and a smattering of others from the second film, make an appearance and add some popularity to the story. The first Resident Evil departed from the games in that the opening scene of the game was the closing scene of the movie. The second was closer to the game, but still deviated somewhat from it. What's interesting to me is that this is the first time we see wildlife being affected by the t-virus. Crows are the villains in this, as well as your usual undead shuffling along. Crows, in fact, are responsible for a delicious slaughter not unlike the one done by Alfred Hitchcock. I find this interesting because normally, where there is a dead body, there are some types of varmints feeding on them. In a major city, I venture that pigeons would be the undead fare, but out in the wild, I would expect to see undead cats, dogs (even though these have been prevalent in all 3 movies, they've all been dobermans), birds, ferrets, skunks, etc.

The movie does enjoy the typical horror film scare, where the camera pulls in close to the actor and then bam, an undead or an AI is behind the character, or in one scene, hanging over the actor. I'm still curious how he got out of that particular entanglement. The movie has some interesting costumes as well. Alice wears a one piece pajama? and a tank top, and some very interesting boots, as well as a trench coat. The film listed her clothing company (I believe) as the provider of her costumes so that may be why they are so revealing. I'm just curious why all 3 have to have her naked. This annoys me and it seems to be a shout out to the geeks in the basement rather than an artistic take on the story. It's worse even, than the 300 scene with the doped up adolescent girl and her nipples bared all for the world (and the pedophile lepers...whatever they were). At least the nudity was contained, for the most part, but it was still there, and still bothers me. I'm all for naked women, but Milla Jovovich has nothing up top. I wouldn't want to see her with double-d's either, because that wouldn't match her body style and would make her almost appear like Seven of Nine's figure e.g., huge bosom, rail thin arms and legs.

Clothing (or lack thereof) rant aside, this was a good movie. The way the Doctor becomes true evil is interesting to say the least and his right arm would make a hentai porn proud. All in all, I give this movie 3 and a half stars out of 4. It would have gotten four if certain people hadn't died, who shall remain nameless, since I don't believe in spoilers, but alas, I'm distressed at the loss of two particular people, mainly because they were rather comedic and entertaining, both in the second movie and in this one.

My new coaster....

In case it's too fuzzy to read (which it is), this is my new coaster, an internet explorer 4 for windows 95 cd. Yay me!

Like that gas mileage?

That's a 12 gallon tank (reserve is about a gallon). I normally put just at 11 gallons in when I fill up.

Boy, this is funny....

Co-worker was setting up a laptop for a user that we had purchased from HP. It came with Vista Business on it and he set about wiping the drive and installing XP, since we have software that can only run on XP (Cisco call manager, etc). He starts the boot process and it takes 3 and a half hours for Vista to finish loading everything and show a desktop. Then he restarts, and the XP install stalls because it can't find the hard drive. Then, as he's trying once more to correct that issue, the os locks up because it can't load the scheduler. Talk about annoying. I'll upload a pic of the screen when it locked up here in a minute.

Notice something wrong?

Funny

Coworker was trying to put the side of a Dell 3U server back on and was hammering at it. Looked at it a second, turned it over and slid the side back on and screwed it down perfectly....I love my job.

Before the move...

I had light, and a screwdriver. Now I have no light, but I have plenty of screwdrivers!

Well, doesn't that suck....

The mechanic that pulled this tire off asked me how I made it to the garage. Little does he know that I've been driving for over a month with the tire at or getting to that condition.

Bored at Grapefest.

Sarah showing just how bored she is at Grapefest where we were waiting to get to volunteering. Grapefest, by the way, is for the citizens of Grapevine to get merrily drunk and the wineries in the area to push their wines to be the number 1!

Train car at Grapefest

Office desktop

Bree and Allie looking bored