| WTF is up with ISPs |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|06:33 pm] |
When you first sign up, it's like fucking heaven. Then after a couple months, I dunno. It's like you get dumped on the garbage line or something.
I've been using SBC DSL for a bit. I am supposedly paying for the "best service", which is supposed to have the best speed and connection up time out of what they provide (shouldn't they all be great though? :P). Ever since just before summer, however, the connection has gone to shit. I disconnect from the service at least, I swear I am not exaggerating here, at least once every 20 minutes. I wish ping plotter played a MP3 of yakety saks, because it is nothing but watching SBC machines taking their turn falling and dropping 80-100% of the packets. I don't mean in a chain. I mean one goes up, the other goes down. That one recovers, then another one goes down. Did they just happen to lay off a shit load of techs?
Playing games online has become a bad joke. Staying on IRC for any stretch is like some unattainable dream. Being able to watch more than two Youtube videos in a row is like some sort of fantasy idea. Like flying on a carpet or climbing a tower using only some chick's hair as rope.
I'll be lucky to finish this post before it goes down again.
I guess what I am working up to is SBC/AT&T have been sucking hard. If I switch ISPs though, will it really make a difference? My last ISP was a long ass relationship with Earthlink, which I cut off for the same exact shit. 3-6 months of shitty connection and almost no real up-time. Someone recommend an alternative please. :(
P.S. AT&T cell phone reception also SUCKS (sorry Tom). It's not just in my home. It's everywhere. At least Cathy's I-Phone has games I guess. |
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| It's Monday: RUB IT OUT! |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|09:05 am] |
Woke up at 6. Did cardio. Off to do some art work. Doing weights this evening. Hopefully I can keep this up beyond one day. :P
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| Changes n Stuff |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
It was my Dad's birthday this weekend, so we stopped by his grave. Cathy and I need to fix up his flower situation. We worked out that he would have been 63 now.
There are a lot of changes going on right now. I've decided to re-whack my diet around, since I've been eating really poorly lately. I'm back on chicken breast, rice and greens. I'm also tweaking it so I can add more muscle mass. I'm entertaining the idea of bulking up and studying body building. I have the frame for it. We'll see what happens.
We're also clearing out a lot of shit in the house. All these years since my Dad died and my family split up and there is still all this CRAP that is either someone else's or something I'll never use.
Lemme just hide the rest of this text behind a link...
( long explanation of life cleaning up here )
Non-life cleaning shit: picked up Dark Spire. About 2 hours in and it is pretty addicting. It's a nice stylized homage to the PC RPG's of the far past (Might and Magic, Bard's Tale, etc.).
I'll have a pinball update soon. I have a lot to talk about with that, it just takes time to write up. Time I kind of don't have at the moment. ;) |
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| Nice Timing |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|04:22 pm] |
Looks like YT yanked this week's Macho Man video. Hrmmm.
Working on some female characters, which is an art form all its own. One wrong move and you've added ten years to an otherwise youthful body.
Anyways. Fill up the video hole with my second favorite AVGN episode.
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| NorCal Regionals |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|02:18 pm] |
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For those that are interested in that kind of thing. I've been shooting the shit about it with the people organizing it, I just never thought to mention it. I signed up for Super Turbo only. Fuck IV. I'm kind of not in the mood for Street Fighter in general. Part of that is just my depressed mood. Another part is my left arm recovering from this carpal tunnel issue (still can't dp 100% on the player 1 side). Yet another part is I just don't like Street Fighter IV any more, but that's what everyone is playing. I kind of wish this happened back during summer, when my energy was far more geared up for it. |
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| Took a mindless drive into the city... |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|12:27 am] |
...I miss the city. I miss having an excuse to go to it and walk its streets every day. I miss being a part of it.
Took a drive out there tonight hoping something would dawn on me about everything. Maybe something to let me know everything is going to be alright or strike on some random chunk of inspiration. I don't know that I got anything out of it but burning valuable gas and the knowledge that Oakland's sewage plant doesn't stank around midnight. |
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| It's Monday: Ant Rape |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|02:22 pm] |
Life seems to suck in one way or another for everyone right now. We just need to fight through it.
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| The stupid shit you do when you're alone... |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|07:29 pm] |
...like eating an entire pizza. I dunno how the fuck I did that, but now I want to puke.
Also, I tried playing pinball again today. I don't think I mentioned, but I fucked up my left arm really bad after the last pinball league. I am very sure I have a case of carpal tunnel going on there. I'm sure my work area is partially to blame as well, since I tend to not give a shit about proper posture for anything other than my right arm. The recent Street Fighter session that left me feeling like I jerked off for 12 hours probably didn't help either. I am very sure, though, my pinball stance was the "fuck factor" of this recent injury. I tend to put my palms on the front lip of the machine, fingers wrapped around to hit the buttons with, and here is the bad shit, the weight of my upper body leaning onto my wrists. I tend to stand like that out of habit, getting ready to man handle the machine around if the ball goes crazy.
Today I tried to find a good alternative stance for playing. Something that would keep my wrist straight. I tried adopting a slapping style to hitting the flipper buttons, but timing shots and light nudging the flippers feels off. I also tried standing straight up, with no weight on my hands, but when it came time to nudge the machine I had no power and in general I felt like a stiff dick.
Well. Picking up Cathy tomorrow. She supposedly caught a cold from some sick fucking...lady...who hacked all over her. Now my wife gets to infect a bunch of other people on her flight home. Thanks original sick fucking...lady...for kicking off this cycle. We're both making doctor's appointments when she lands. |
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