Category: Daily Life

Reinstalling software is definitely NOT fun. Even worse is when the DVD drive is a fickle piece of crap. I had to boot up my Macbook as a firewire drive so I could use it’s DVD drive. My external DVD-RAM is USB, so I couldn’t even use that.

Bright side is, my Mac is now running smoothly. Aside from the DVD-RAM issues, that is.

The crappy side is that Adobe CS4 won’t install on my computer. I can’t find the installer on the DVDs. What kind of idiot can’t install software from the installation DVD?! Me, it seems. My only consolation so far is the fact that Adobe has been widely being panned as having crappy installers on their software. That and the fact that it installs a lot of stuff all over the computer. That would explain the slow down I got when I installed the software the first time. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Recently my G5 has been locking up while the monitor is dark. I don’t know what causes it, I just know that the only way to be able to use my computer is to force a restart on it. Sucks.

I’ve decided to reinstall the OS again. Twice in one year now. The last time I reinstalled was back in June of 2008, I believe. Before that I had never reinstalled the OS.

I’ll definitely need to get another external hard drive. The burner takes too long to make discs. The DVD drive is broken too, but on a different level. Ugh.

Quick update.

Sat’s birthday lunch was this Saturday. We had dim sum. After the food, we all went down to Torrance to sing at Karaoke Max. Chris joined us, too. Happy birthday to Chris as well. The day wasn’t over yet, so after karaoke, we went to Sat and Shiz’s place to watch TV and play Bang. Well, I had to go late because I promised my dad that I would be home for dinner, and dinner being sushi, I had to eat it! :9 I made Chai late as well. Sorry, Chai. >_<;

On Sunday, I slept for most of the the day. Woke up to eat, and then went back to sleep. At 6 PM, I got up, showered, and drove to work so I could carpool with my coworkers to see Russell Peters at the Improv in Brea. Thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was my first improv comedy show, too.

The end.

(Oh, and my knee still hurts.)

So some of my tomato plants are doing well, and some of my tomato plants aren’t. I repotted all my plants this weekend. I have green onions, chives, carrots, tomatos, myoga, and nira. I’m not going to say I have eggplant and bell pepper because they’ve never given me any foods to cook. :x

Not being connected to the internet kinda sucks. It’s not the end of the world, I know, but I still can’t help feeling bored without it.

I have plenty of entertainment. And when I say plenty, I really do mean plenty. Nintendo DS, mobile web on my cell phone, iPod, a book from the kiosk at the airport, studying materials for JLPT level 2… Of course, my Macbook.

The sucky thing about having so much electronic goodies is the fact that I don’t have any way of charging anything. I left the Macbook adapter in the car, which is at the Parking Spot on Century. My iPod usb adapter is also in my car. I left my cell phone adapter at home since I didn’t think I’ll need it. The DS? I charged it last night, so it’s not going to be needing anything for a long time.

Oh, there goes the airplane! Not mine. A different flight. Mine leaves in an hour from now.

Speaking of which, I’m sure some people are wondering where I’m headed off to right now. I am going to UC Davis Picnic Day to be with my UC Irvine band friends, playing music while dressed in a Greek/Roman outfit. Yeah. It’s going to be a fun weekend. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a weekend of lots of boring as well. I’m going to be waiting…

Aw, crap. They announced that the flight is delayed by 1 hour. :( Time to get internet.

For the last two weeks, my mood has been blah. More than blah. More like down in the dumps, I want to bash my head into the desk, and die bleeding from the large laceration on my forehead kind of mood.

I don’t like it. It’s not fun. I want it to go away.

Dammit, go away.

….

I blame my mood ENTIRELY on a certain family member of mine, who I will not name, but most people will know who I’m talking about because I rant about it enough. If you get me started, I will start going off on it. My friends and coworkers must think I’m a basket case by now. :\

So what to do, other than blog about it. Well, it’s not something I, nor anyone else in my family, can immediately fix, but we’re working on it.

There are several tomato plants in my backyard right now. I grew them all from seeds purchased at either Lowe’s or Rite-Aid. The ones that are thriving are in the small pots. The ones that aren’t doing so great are in big pots. …What the crap! I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t know what!

After having a karaoke/watch Dollhouse session with 2 of my coworkers, I decided to look into the PS3 version of SingStar. 500+ songs convinced me to go out and get it. I found 2 versions at Gamestop, which I bought both, without any regards as to where my SingStar mics were.

The mics? MIA. I looked all over the place, and obviously I’m not looking hard enough as I still don’t know where they are.

Step in my karaoke coworker, who was nice enough to lend me his for a day or two.

So now I have borrowed SingStar mics, sang a few songs, and looked at the SingStore. I think I’m liking the online selection enough to keep one of the discs. I’m going to return the volume 1 of the PS3 disc and keep volume 2. Since I only really wanted to access the SingStar online store, I don’t really need both.

Tomorrow, I’m giving the borrowed microphones back to my coworker and look harder for my mics.

Every time I see my dad when I get home from work I ask him how his day went. His answer is usually something along the lines of, “it was another boring day” or “I’m still alive.” The same old, same old.

Most days he spends his days reading a book, the internet, watching TV, or sleeping. Sometimes he goes fishing in the morning. He said that he wants to do something new, but isn’t quite sure what. His English skills aren’t that great and add to that poor hearing… Well, I think you get my drift.

I suggested a few things to him. My first one, I jokingly told him he should take up what I always suggest to my mom: ikebana. Um…. I don’t think he will. Maybe even write a novel? He isn’t very good at composition (like me), and he doesn’t want to write something that no one will read. Oil painting is a pain (I agree). I don’t think he sees the beauty of watercolor painting (sad). He is, however, interested in acrylic painting and sculpture modeling. There are classes at El Camino that he can take, but alas, we come back to the English as a second language problem that he has. :\

Oh, well.

For the last several weeks my lower back/tailbone/hips has been hurting. Late last week I figured out why. It’s because I’ve been doing core exercises, namely the plank, that work out areas that I never knew existed. Last night I went to bed with Salonpas and Thermacare on my lower back in hopes that it’ll help prevent soreness. It didn’t quite work out the way I hoped, but it felt good.

When I weighed myself this morning I was almost at my college graduation weight. Woohoo!