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My day didn't exactly get off to a great start. Around 5 AM I woke up unable to breath because I was choking on a big glob of mucus. I was fine an hour later. My guess it that it was a side effect of the H1N1 vaccine spray I had yesterday. Later, I go in to work, and was asked to run cords down from the ceiling to run power to some christmas trees we were putting up on display. That went smoothly, until I plugged the last tree in, and only the lights in the middles worked So I had to go through and check every single light to see where the dead ones were. I found the bottom light easily, but went through all of the top ones, not finding a single dead bulb. Then I noticed the two wires sticking out the top of the tree, with two metal clip looking things sticking out, (the lights were still plugged in at this point), and in my infinite wisdom, I grabbed them both at the same time. Needless to say, it was a shocking experience. The funny part is, for the split second I was touching both the wires, I saw the lights come on. Yeah... suffocation and electrocution on the same day. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go set myself on fire.
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I'm installing AVG Free for now. If you know something free or cheap (< $15) that might be better, please enlighten me!
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Mouseover texts are still flashing for a microsecond and disappearing. This bodes ill. Update: Looking at software called WipeDrive. That should do the trick. DIE MALWARE DIE! Update II: WipeDrive is top-notch, conforms to the Department of Defense standard, and costs $39.95. Active@ KillDisk is free and should be plenty good enough. Update III: Just as I thought: wiping the hard drive does nothing. Am now considering going hardcore and flashing the BIOS. As soon as I figure out how to do that... may involve removing CMOS battery from mobo... ;_; Update IV: Just spent ~2.5 hours finding out that the CMOS battery cannot be accessed without destroying the machine. Non-user-serviceable design for the lose. First few post-op attempts at bootuppening failed due to both hard drive and disc drive not being recognized. Fiddled with connections; bootuppening success! Big success! xkcd mouseover text visibility persists! This bodes well.... Update V: As a result of deep disk wipe earlier, I was able to install Windows in English. Finally! No more mixed-language silliness. As a result of imperfect disassembly/reassembly, the ends of the keyboard are raised ~1 mm. This makes typing feel funny, but should otherwise not be a problem.
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That's what I've had to do with my computer. What a chore. It turns out that the Trojan horse was indeed wreaking its destruction deeper than the level of the OS itself. I figured that out when my keyboard and mouse started going all balky and fritzy under Ubuntu. I have now backed up my files, reformatted the hard drive, reinstalled Windows, and begun the process of restoring everything else. Ubuntu is next. If that didn't kill the sucker, I don't know what will.
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Windows XP is no more. Thank the Trojan horse. My mobile Internet connection is gone along with it, but at least the public library has an open WLAN. Ubuntu is great, sure, but it's still a pain to get used to a new operating system and get it all tricked out with codecs and drivers and software so it'll do everything I need it to do. I really, really hope the virus isn't affecting Ubuntu The guy sitting next to me in the library says it's not possible for a Windows EXE file to run under Ubuntu. What a relief! Thank God I can still access my files under the Windows partition. It didn't work the other way round, so pooh on you, Microsoft. Also, I am making good headway on A. facing and B. changing the reality of my life situation. Soon I will have money to live and eat, and with a little luck, work to sustain that income as well as save up for my trip to Canada next fall (and BRICKCON!!!). So yay for objective realism and awesome friends who help me work through stuffs! On the LEGO front, I have, by last count, eleven finished creations awaiting photography. I hope to have at least some of those done and uploaded by next weekend. As far as WIPs, I've got one in particular, a sub-project of the BIONICLE Concert diorama, that should really wow you guys when it's done. It's a mosaic. Of an eye. With layers and textures. For the stage backdrop. It will be awesome in the nth degree.
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My brother had a birthday party today (his birthday was earlier this week). Our family and a bunch of his friends went to a bowling alley at the local college to go bowling. I ended up hitting 120 on my first game and 104 on my second game. My all time best was 167 that I threw a couple of years ago. I was pretty happy with my first score, it beat my uncles score by one point. We were pretty close and I threw a spare in the last frame so I got an extra throw. I got a nine on the extra throw (an eight would have tied us). The weird thing was I had started out with a 10 pound ball, and I was wasn't liking how it was feeling so I switched to 12 pound ball about half way through the first game. Right away I got two strikes in row. Then my sister used my ball and threw off my groove. I also threw two strikes in a row in the second game but those came later then in the first game and were too late to help my score.
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I have a job again, the same place as my previous job. I have money now, but most of it is not free. I'm still working on getting enough money for the Boy Scout Jamboree. In couple months I'll probably have all the money I need. I think I going to get the canister Mata Nui pretty soon. I saw it in Target on Sunday and it looks pretty good.
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I starting to read Huck Finn this week for American Literature. I read it a couple years for fun and I enjoyed so I should enjoy it again this time. I'm older now so I'll be able to understand it better. On a side note, I aced the test for my college algebra class that I took on back on Wednesday. B)
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So now my room is finally clean. For the longest time stuff was just piling up, on the desk, on the shelf, and on the floor. All my previous attempts to clean met with failure because 50%-75% of the way through I lost my motivation and just quite. This time it's different though. Everything is cleaned up now except my desk. That's because it's covered in LEGO that I'm using for my new MOC. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this weekend, otherwise it may be a while because my schedule is really full starting Monday.
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My last day of school for the week was today. No more classes until Monday. I had a test today for my college algebra class. Hopefully the class as a whole does better on this test because the class average for the last test was about 55%. I'm not sure what I'll do with my free time for this week. I have a MOC I'm working and I might get that finished. I'm also going to go geocaching this weekend, as long as the weather isn't terrible.
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So today I went to a couple of rummage sales. Actually only one was a rummage sale, the second was a moving sale. Anyway, the rummage sale was put on by my church. They usually have two a year, one in the Spring and one in the Fall. At first I didn't find anything too terribly interesting. They didn't have any LEGO, that's usually the first thing I check for at any sales. After that I went to look at the pictures and picture frames. I'm alway looking for cheap pictures, either actually paintings or prints, to hang in my room. Digging around there weren't interesting pictures. I was also looking for a frame so I could hang up my confirmation picture. Picking up one frame I discovered another frame with an interesting document. It turns out that someone donated to the sale a frame with an old Boy Scout Charter in it. It had the date 1988 on it so it's not to terribly old, but it's still older then me. The pack it was for I think is still in existance, the council web site has the pack listed but it only has a person with their phone number listed. The moving sale I went to there was a lot of interesting stuff. I found a small box of LEGO that looked pretty old. I'm going to have to clean it but it's still pretty cool. I also got a small photograph of three loons that was professionally framed.
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I went to Q's place today. He had "Keetongu" with him, who was visiting our town, Oulu, from where he lives, all the way across Finland. I took my self-MOC and my winged scarab along with me to show them off. We had tea, hung out, and talked LEGO for a couple of hours. Q took pictures of my MOCs together with some of his stuff on his desk, then a picture of me and Keet posing, and then I snapped a couple shots of Q with his Eagle mk 3. (I didn't have my camera - couldn't find it at the time I was leaving my apartment.) Keet and I gave Q some feedback on his Kobold WIP, which is coming along nicely. I flipped through some of Q's printed issues of BrickJournal, which was très cool because I'd only read a few issues before, all in PDF, and missed the rest. All in all, it was quite a fun and relaxing way to spend a late afternoon. Next time, I'll invite Q to my place.
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Yeah, it was snowing this morning. I think the total ended up being a couple of inches. I look out my window and every tree in my yard still has most or all of it's leaves. I haven't raked the yard once yet this year. It's like it jumped from the nice warm summer to a short cool period to a cold winter. At least the ground isn't cold enough yet for it to accumulate on the driveway so I don't have shovel. On a side note, my dad bought a new router so my family has internet access again.
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Might play my PS3, or do something else. C'ya later.
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My family's current router died over the last two days. Yesterday morning our internet died, as usually we blamed it on our (un)reliable internet service. After trying to fix our internet connection with their tech support which failed, my dad ended up resetting the router last night. All was well until about 9:00 A.M. this morning. The internet went out again. After bypassing the router my dad was able to get connected on his laptop. Right now we only have one computer hooked up to the internet. I won't be posting many updates, or posts for that matter, for a while. Hopefully we'll get the router fixed, or a new one, sometime soon.
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*spooky Xeno Ghost Noises* ^~^ Quick Update!
~ChanetheDemongirl~ posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_1312
My Folks bought the movie Trick-r-Treat, a movie that critics called the best Halloween movie of the season! Plus Earlier today we saw Scare Tactics 4 episodes and all of them Terrifyingly Hilarious! XD then AVF and then a new episode of Stoked on cartoonnetwork this is gonna be a good night B) -
So I was at the Library last night. Ironically, I spent most of the 1/2 hour I was there on here. Once I was done on here I went to look for a couple books, the last time I read anything for fun was the beginning of September. I read the Count of Monte Christo, which was a good but but I was rushing to get through it so I wouldn't have stop when I school started back up again. So anyway I found a couple of books and then I went to check to see if I had my Library card. Opps, I guess my mother still had it from when she picked up a couple things I had on hold a while ago. So then I went to access the Library card catalog system. I decided to do a search for LEGO to see if they got anything new since I last looked. It turns out they had purchased the Forbidden Lego book. So I'm getting that. And the had The Legend Reborn. What's even better is that there are only seven holds in front of meaning I'll probably get in a couple of weeks, as apposed to a couple of months. So yeah, I'm going to be watching The Legend Reborn sometime soon.
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On account of the boats being dry-docked for winter. Excuse me while I work out my disappointment through music and breathing exercises. Also, it's been snowing like crazy here all day. Not looking forward to winter. The last one seemed like it'd never end! I miss balmy Vancouver....
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Okay yesterday early morning I got caughtup in family time Watching Dark Crystal with my older brother and me. After that movie I came in his room to watch TV and play Overlord on the PS3 Then next morning I went to sleep, and wokeup at 5:00 to eat ramen. Then went on a walk to go check the mail, it was an awesome fall evening! ^^ After that we went and got some domino's pizza and watched the movie small soldiers, until the time came to watch the Season 2 Star Wars Clone Wars: Rise of the Bounty Hunters! It was a wicked awesome hour episode!!! ^^ Anyone else see it?
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For the last couple of weeks my house has slowly been invaded by yellow jackets. We have a nest in the corner of the house near the front door. Last night we had someone take part of the siding off and there was this huge hole in the foundation where they were getting in and out. We foamed it near the hole but I'm not sure how much good that did since the actual nest is probably pretty far into the foundation. On Saturday we turned on the furnace and it got pretty crazy. We killed almost 30 wasps over a 30 minute period in the house. After that we turned off the heat. Yesterday we put screen over all of the vents and watched one of them as 6 wasps tried to crawl out of the vent. Hopefully the cold weather will kill most of them pretty soon. It was just above 40 when I got up this morning so the overnights are either close to or hitting freezing.
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So, for those of you who have read some of my past entries, I've been biking on and off to my classes. The times I didn't bike one of my parents ended driving me. Anyway to start off whenever I bike I wear a helmet. Not usually, always, I actually turned around and went back to the house one time because I somehow forgot my helmet. This is due to two things, one of the them is that I did a persuasive speech for speech class a number of years ago advocating wearing your helmet when biking. I think there were only 1 or 2 people who ever wore their helmets, if they had one. The other reason is that when I got my bike my parents said they would take it away if I didn't wear my helmet. When I have my bike parked I usually just tread the helmet strap through the lock and sort of hang it off of my water bottle holder. Counting earlier a little under half the bikes at the bike rack this afternoon had helmets. Another pet peeve of my is the people who bike on the left side of the road. In Minnesota a bike is a street legal vehicle, with a lot less restrictions then a car. You're suppose to drive with traffic not against it. The only real exception that I'm okay with is if you're on a sidewalk because it's a fairly busy street and there is no bike lane. On the roads that I have to take to class, the busiest road has a bike lane. A couple of time I have ended up passing people who were biking in the bike lane against traffic. At those I had two choices, either I hug the shoulder, forcing them out to the edge of the bike lane and next to the traffic or I can hug the edge of the bike lane and force them out against the shoulder. I always take the latter.
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There's something about the Great Wilds of the North that strikes some deeply compelling chords in my soul. Through books like Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, Farley Mowat's Lost in the Barrens and People of the Deer, and Michio Hoshino's Grizzly, I have been able to vicariously experience some of the unforgiving beauty of those remote lands. When I was a boy, one of my brothers and I went with my dad, one of his brothers, and their dad on a hunting trip to Thutade Lake in northern British Columbia. That trip (and others like it) has remained strongly imprinted in my memory. Thutade Lake is in a region whose sparse network of roads exists primarily to serve the mining industry. It is connected to the nearest city, Prince George, by four hundred kilometres of unpaved road. It is the closest thing to a virgin wilderness that I have ever experienced. This past spring, I got it into my head that I would very much like to visit Finnish Lapland this year, preferably around the time of ruska (fall colours). Since then, given the lack of interested parties and my increasingly cramped financial situation, I'd pretty much given up hope of being able to do it. Now, though, just yesterday, I heard that my cousin "Mats" has been trying to plan a trip to Lapland, lacking only a buddy to go with him. Weather permitting, we will leave on Friday the 9th and head north, destination Karuoja gold claim. Mats is an amateur filmmaker, currently doing his mandatory service in the military. He's getting engaged to his charming girlfriend "Sunaina" in the near future, and being the manly suitor that he is, he wants to give her a ring containing gold that he's won from the bosom of the earth with his own hands. So we'll be panning for gold and filming the trip for posterity. The Karuoja gold claim, located in Lemmenjoki (Love River <3) National Park, has an austere little cabin and a sauna. At this time of year, with winter settling in fast and assuming the cabin's gas reservoir is probably empty, the only place we're likely to get any civilized temperatures will be the sauna. I expect we'll have to really bundle up at night. Good thing I didn't skimp too much on the quality of the sleeping bag I bought last spring. Apparently, we may end up having to hike as much as sixty kilometres if there's no boat for the water crossing. Pray there's a boat. Hoping for bearable temps, favourable weather, and a very, very enriching experience.
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I watched the second showing of the premier earlier tonight. Seems like a good show. It won't go the way Hero's did for me since I don't have anything on Thursday nights this year. I'm looking forward to next weeks episode.
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More properly TheQ, also known as InfamousQ on Flickr. I met him today. First time meeting a fellow AFOL IRL. It was a neat experience to talk about all that brick-related stuff in person. Q is a university student, 22 years old, from the Rovaniemi area, way up on the Arctic circle. He's currently the LEGO Ambassador for all of Finland. He organizes live exhibitions, most notably LEGOPark down south in Tampere, with LP2009 in August having been the third annual LEGOPark, as well as online contests. He has acted as a sort of unifying, catalyzing force between the different local communities (BIONICLE, Trains, and Everything Else). We talked about the possibility of me participating in LEGOPark 2010. At least at this juncture, I don't see a reason why I wouldn't do it, although we shall see what changes these next ten months bring. The MOCs I'm still working on and the ones I mean to keep would certainly be enough material for one guy to display, even to the point where I might have to pick and choose between them. There was also talk of starting a Finnish version of Window into the Community, where MOCs go on display in toy store or department store windows. That definitely sounds like something I'd get into, given the chance. I've had the same idea independently myself. Ironic, isn't it, that this all goes down only after I've decided to quit?
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Catching up once again, to some rather needed attending things to do. I might need to make some Comic CA's. So I'm gonna check out all my comic buddies topics and see if they need assistance
