mychai's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My mind was halfside this entry. I think I may end up tossing my computer out of my window. It�s a Gateway, first off. When I first got it, the keyboard quit working within a few weeks. The good news was that the keyboard was under warranty and they fixed it for free. The bad news was that I had to ship it to them, costing me $30 that would have been better spent on Internet porn. But since then, it has been pretty well behaved. I do my share of maintenance: I defrag the hard drive quite often. I have Norton Utilities, so I run WinDoctor and other programs to keep my little laptop in tip-top shape. But it is nearing three years old, and I think it is starting to show its age. For instance, it is crashing all the time lately. I�ve lost two diary entries in the past week due to the crashing, one of them being tonight's. I�m taking advice from Roadiepig and am writing tonight�s second attempt at an entry in Word. That way, if my computer crashes, I�ll have at least some of it saved due to Word�s auto save feature. And plus, Word checks my spelling. Now it will appear that I can actually spell words like �knowledge� and �judgment� correctly. Yay for me! Another thing my computer does � and I think it is doing this for the sole purpose of pissing me off royally � is that it waits until my favorites songs are coming out of the speaker, then it silences the music and spouts off about fifteen seconds of the worst screeching and babbling that you could ever imagine would come out of computer speakers. It is most annoying. I�ve pretty much decided that it is about curtains for this computer. A day or two before I ship off to boot camp, I�m mailing it to Best Friend Lisa since she is sans computer. She�s going to nursing school soon and a laptop will be most beneficial. As soon as I get out of boot camp and can actually go into town, I will buy a new laptop. Any suggestions? According to that one Pot Smoking Dude, I should buy a Dell. I�m not even sure I want to buy a laptop next. I don�t take it out of my home as often as I thought I would. I wouldn�t mind a good desktop with a flat screen monitor. But then laptops are fun. Portable porn. What do you think? There�s a commercial on the tv I got a lot of packing done over the weekend. I got no packing done last week since I was focusing on the last week of my school. All of my reports and speeches and tests came out great, thanks for asking. One of my test assignments was to make up a word in a particular structure class of grammar that we learned. One of the words could be a preposition. Well, I consulted my online travel buddy and Ivy League college graduate Nicole, and We had to make three sentences with our new word. So I came up with, �The really fat guy sat halfside the roller coaster.� Pure genius, I am. They should pickle my brain for future study. Today was a fun day. In the afternoon hours, I went to visit the friends I used to play spoons with. They were having a basketball watching party, but since you know I hate basketball more than words could describe, I just enjoyed talking to my buds while chowing down on cheese dip. Also attending the �party� were two teachers. One was an English teacher � junior high � who was checking rough drafts of papers. The assignment was on Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the American West. As far as I could tell. A few students actually put a little time into the assignment. You could tell their sentences were well thought out and time was invested in the research. One girl used a very complex system of commas and semicolons that were surprisingly very well done. Her paper was the only one I wrote �Great paper!� on. I thought she deserved it. The majority of papers, though, involved from what I could tell kids opening up a dictionary and randomly placing their fingers on words and then writing them down. I�m sure those kids didn�t expect their papers being graded by a guy just getting out of a 300-level grammar course. Poor 13 year-olds. They didn�t have a chance. Well, I figure that�s enough for today. I hope you all have a hearty Monday. I�m going to rent my storage unit so I can begin emptying my apartment of boxes. It was sad and depressing at first, but I bought all of my train tickets over this weekend for my trip. I am starting to get excited! Except for the fact that my journey begins at 4:30am next Tuesday morning out of St. Louis. That�s not too exciting. Oh, well. It�s a cheap ticket at less than $12 for a ride from St. Louis to Chicago. I certainly can�t complain. Word out and peace to your mothers. Or whatever kids are saying these days. 11:52 p.m. - Sun., Mar. 9, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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