Great Big Red Button

I have the devil's luck with computers.

That is, if the Devil's Luck was actually a horrible curse.

So, in an attempt to see how good of a wireless connection I had with the laptop I recent aquired, I tried to download a torrent of a chinese Kung Fu show I was interested in; Legend of the Condor Heroes. Well, it seem those condors, like any other bird, saw something shiney, flew by, and left a steaming present in their wake.

So now my laptop says it's infected with a Trojan bug and I'm not sure how to purge the bastard. Meanwhile, after reformating my desktop, which was also screwed up in some bizzare fashion, it turns out I have to re-install the OS AGAIN just so I can re-partition the hard drive. Apparently, XP has certain HD sizes it'll go up to. Like wearing clothing in a way, it'll only recognize up to about 150 Gig (of the 250 gig drive) and won't recognize the rest of it. As if it thinks it'll look too fat to it's other computer part friends.

And, if that was not enough, after reinstalling the OS on the main partition, it apparently looked at the other partition, hated what it saw, slapped it up a bit and dumped the remains in the river to sleep with the fishies. Fortunately, I don't remember what exactly was on that drive so it's just currently a nameless casualty of war.

So here I am with an infected laptop and a mentally challenged desktop.

All because I was searching for the Big Red Button.

What is this BRB you ask? The reset button. The switch to fix all and make life easier.
Of course this BRB does not exist. Not in any miraculous, flip of the switch, button pressing, action sort of way. But it exists in the form of a series of actions performed by and driven by the will of the button presser.

OK Bob! Shut up and get to the point!

Basically, I've recently noticed certain aspects of my life that are skewed off track and they need to be fixed. I'm so dis-organized, it's messing me up in such a fashion that throws me off my base.

Does this make sense? Probably not. It's not easy to put into words this discombobulated feeling I currently have regarding how I'm living life. All I know is that I feel if I can clean up and re-organize my environment, then focus on doing the same to myself, I can re-center myself and hopefully come out the better.

Doing this, of course, means I have to get over the bloody procrastinating urges that come with being born The Year of the Snake. Bloody lazy snake.

Side Note: I was recently re-reading Fruits Basket and discovered I was born The Year of the Snake. I read the qualities of the Snake and it surprisingly fit me to a tee (Save for being vain. Vanity's not my style)

Hence then my tale of computer woe earlier. My first attempts at getting done projects that I've put off for far too long.

Now, to take stock in Rubbermaid.

Slow Weekend, Changes needed, Inquire Within

Another week come and gone.

Not much really came about of these past few days. Save for my recent discovery last night on Ebay (See my LJ entry Here), the rest of the weekend came and went. Club was alright. Melisa and Brian brought DDR with them so I got to go a few rounds there. I think I'm gonna try to hook mine up in my current room at home. Though I'll have to hoist the TV up onto my dresser so as to not end up with a cricked neck.

My weekly gaming session on Saturday night (not our official one that I run but rather a round robin style game we're trying) was not too bad. Our GM this time around was rather new to it all and, given that I had only 5 hours of sleep the night before, I had a hard time staying awake.
Sunday saw a bit of work around the house followed by a bit of catchup on a new series I got hooked on; Le Chevalier de D'eon. A great show based on the real Chevalier D'eon (with it's own twist of course). Though it's already licensed by ADV, if you get a chance to catch a few episodes of this, do so. It's a great series and one I hope ADV releases soon.

So, on a personal front, it seems it hasn't taken long for me to get back off track in trying to straighten myself out in all aspects of life. I planned on trying to get a workout down pat for DDR...failed. Wanted to clean out part of the garage to better organize my belongings that are stored there (After aquiring some more rubbermaid tubs)...failed.

I beleive a lot of failure to instigate and keep up with this need to change comes from my environment. I've found my will to do things stems heavily from where I'm at at the time. Currently residing with my folks in a room no longer my own, I don't feel quite comfortable. Nothing against my folks mind you.

'Noble as a grape' the way they just let me move back home after being booted from my previous apartment. But I constantly feel out of sorts since all of my belongings (or at least the majority of them, reside in tubs and boxes. In a way, it feels like a part of me is being contained and restricted. I constantly shift things from boxes to the small shelf I have in my room when my mood changes and I feel a need to accomodate that aspect of myself.

All of this shifting and changing leaves me a wee bit out of sorts. Like the shelf I have dictates what aspect of myself is currently in full swing and I'm trying to find that right balance. however, in that search for balance, the room ends up getting cluttered and, in a way, so do I.
I'm hoping that if I can get off my ass and buy those tubs I keep meaning to so I can clean up my room and un-cluter my life, I can find what it is I'm looking for and bring about a well needed change.

Rubbermaid to the rescue, eh?

First Post!

Well, here we are. My first post to my new journal.

But why here? Why not at Live Journal or some other online blog?

Trueth of the matter is, this is my second online journal. I actually already have one over at Live Journal.

I'm planning on maintaining both journals in hopes to get to know more people in this vast world of ours. That and perhaps to get to know some of my friends a bit better (and vice versa) who have journals here.

These journals will actually just be mirrors of each other. I already have enough difficulty trying to come up with something interesting for one blog. No use try to squeeze out different things for two.

So here I am.

For all to see...again.