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So I don't have much for today. Just a pictures and an update, but not in that order. Enjoy.
Daily Memoirs Project Update
current word count: 18,107
If you have been paying attention you will notice that the word count on the story has gone up about 3,000 words since I started posting the updates. Pretty proud of that, until I realize that I'm at BEST 20% done with the story. Oh well, I still have a lot to say with these characters and lot more to develop.
I am currently writing chapter 19 which is so far turning out to be my longest chapter yet by far. Chapter 19 is currently 2,442 words long making it 13% of the entire story thus far. This will change because I do plan to go back and elaborate even more in the early chapters and the next chunk of chapters will be quite lengthy because they each tackle a big chunk of the story.
All in all I am impressed with myself to what I have gotten done. I do think after 20 chapters are completed I might try to see if there is any interest in it.
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j
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So the wife dropped the bomb today that she wants me to get more hours here or go to the shipyard, construction of landscaping. This really upset me. I do not mind getting more hours here, or looking for a new job, it's that I do NOT want to do construction or landscaping. I am not that kind of person. And the shipyard...I don't know. I have a hard time being away from my wife and kids, especially since Jakob has all his medical problems, Kodi has all his court issues with CPS and my wife is pregnant and I hate to leave her home alone with 2 young boys to run her ragged. That and I just really don't want to do the work they have there. I don't want to do something I will hate with every inch of my body. If I absolutely have to I will, I would rather get a job at Keyport or something that challenges my mind and is something I am at least remotely interested in. I don't know..I am at a loss right now. I need some direction...I think I need to go back to school and finish OC for a change. I need to get my head in the game...
So I just called OC to figure out what I need to do to get reinstated with Financial aid. I went Winter 06-07 and ended up not completing any of the three classes I was attending due to Jakob's medical and Kodi's court. I plan to go back a little smarter this time and only take one or two classes and not have them everyday but only go twice a week. Assuming I can get my financial aid back I should be able to graduate at the end of this coming school year with my AAS. I feel like I make a post similar to this EVERY year, but maybe this will be the year I complete it? After I get this I plan to move to a different school to get my Bachelors probably in Web Development. I am hoping I can get OC to approve me to take 2 classes a quarter for three quarters so I can take one class I need then take a design art class to prepare me for the Web Development program. Maybe I should make an appointment with a adviser, see if they can help me? (Yes, this is all in repsonce to me getting pissed that my wife suggested construction or landscaping)
So I need to tell you a story of a customer call that a co worker received today. This customer calls up and I will type for you now what I recall as what was said:
Customer: "Hi! I haven't signed up yet, but I am interested in your service! Can you please tell me about it?"
CSR: "Certainly sir, what can I help you with?"
C: "I see your trial is only for 10 days. I hardly see how this is enough time to make an appropriate judgment on your service. Can you extend it for me since I am special?"
(I may be exaggerating what was said a little)
CSR: No sir, I am unable to extend your free trial. 90% of our customers find that they know if they want to keep the service during the 10 days.
C: Well the STANDARD is a 14 day two week trial! Why don't you follow the standard!? They have been giving 14 day trial for 100,000 years! WHY CAN'T YOU?
(I swear to Christ this is what he said, NOT me elaborating it)
CSR: (trying not to laugh) Sir, I doubt internet companies have been giving free trials for 100,000 years.
C: Well, maybe a 100 years to be more exact, but I was exaggerating to prove a point!
(Again, this is almost word for word what he said)
CSR: (Still trying not to laugh) Sir is there anything else I can help you with?
C: I WANT TO SPEAK WITH YOUR MANAGER!!!
(he says this as if the manager is going to do something different, or maybe he wanted to talk about the ancient 14 day free trials the Greeks gave out when they rented their video games)
CSR: Fuck your mother sir.
*CLICK*
OK, ok! So maybe the call DIDN'T end that way, but in my world it did.
Anyone looking for a 99 Acura?
These are for my nerdy friends...
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j
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So on Saturday I had a real nice post typed up with a pretty good rant about going to work then finding out I didn't have to work so I got to go home. Well Firefox ended up freezing up and that sucked. Why might that suck? Well you see I write my post in a thing called 'Scrivefire' which is an extension/add on for Mozilla Firefox. It's really neat and allows you write you bolgs within Firefox ina split window while you have webpages loaded above you. You can also 'x' it and it keeps your post until you clear it. Only it doesn't keep your post if Firefox crashes. Ok, I'm done giving 'Scrivefire' free advertising, and it wasn't that good of a post anyway.
I stumbled upon this cool website that showed me this neat trick with 12v batteries. Let me see if I can find it....
12 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Surprised...
I'm going to try this!
DAILY MEMOIRS PROJECT UPDATE
Word Count=16,990
So I worked on Memoirs for awhile over the weekend and got it to where I am only one chapter away from being caught up on my revisions and making notes for each chapters. In case you where wondering, right now it is at 19 chapters and nearly 17,000 words.Once I finish making notes on chapter 19 and start to actually write new stuff things should run pretty quickly seeing as I have a ton of ideas in the works for this project.; I somewhat have a direction that I want to turn, or rather have Robert (the main character) turn.
Oh, and if you have read one of the previous drafts, even if you where one of the few who received a copy in the last month, I have re-worked a lot of the story and it's worth another read.
NICK - You will be getting the first copy of the reworked first 19 chapters this week.
Bikini Jeans
Crazy ass Japanese people, I swear they sit around and just try to think of fucked up ways to shock the world. The worst part is the citizens over there buy into all the retarded shit. It's weird shit like this that makes me want to move there for a year just to experience what it's like living in a crazy man's mind.
Yesterday we started to go through our upper Garage and organize it for the garage sale we plan to have next weekend. My sister and her hubby Mike came down to help out and we spent a good several hours going through shit. On the plus side I got all my art supplies that where up there moved all together and got a spark of wanting to paint. On the down side they just got moved to the lower garage since there is NO way I have any room to bring them into the house. This leads me to my next topic...
I really need a better paying job. Even if they gave me 40 hours a week here I still would be making barely enough money to scrap by. With two young boys and a third child on the way $9.00 is not enough money to support my family. It kind of makes me feel like a failure in life to only be making $9.00 with a stay at home wife, 2 kids and a third on the way. Something needs to change, and it needs to change now. Maybe I'll whore myself to fat chicks.
So remembered today that I have a Deviant Art account and should probably start posting to it again. I did some research and it looks like they only allow HTML posts if you are a PAID user. How fucking gay is that? You have to pay $30 a year just to allow your posts to be in HTML. Also, it looks like they only images if you have a paid account, not links or anything else. This is frustrating. I Like deviant art, but might ignore it for my blog because it's just a pain in the ass and I'm poor.
Ok all, I am getting off work a half an hour early and I'm going to go home and surprise my wife. Hopefully she doesn't read this before had.
~j
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So most of my day today at work has been spent tuning up my website jhorsley3.com. Man it feels good to have it running again. I called Garret and told him what it was that broke it and he pretty much called be a fucking dumbass. Rightfully so. Man I hope I can get back into the swing of this and make it fucking work
The next big step for my site is to figure out how to make the front to update via RSS. I found the code to do it, now I just need to figure out how to make it fucking work!
And speaking of fucking, I did a word count analyzer on my blog for the last 4 years and 'fucking' is the number one said word. 'Kaylie' was number 20 or so. Not bad, she gets into the top 20 with only a year of being in the blog which has been going for 5 years now. Ill post more statistics on my blog tomorrow, they are neat. I know no one cares, but its fun.
stolen from IParkLikeanIdiot.com
I wonder what the story behind this is?
This customer just called in an yelled at me. It was funny, I think I might have sort of laughed at her. She was a bitch and I hung up on her. Damn I am a great CSR. They should promote me.
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j
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So I started writing a post last night and then I emailed it to myself. Only it never came through. Well, let me correct that, it DID come through on my phone but not on my actual email. I have attempted to forward it off of my phone so that I can just copy past it because it was some pretty neat stuff, but alas it has not come through. I am going to have to re-type in manually.
remind me in the future when I do this to just upload it to my Gspace and not email it.
If anyone cares I will be spending a lot of my free time reading practically everything on THIS website. Learning everything I can about PHP and mySQL. I need to learn this to program the JKLM website and to be able to update my own website.
On a good note, I talked with my boss Micheal today and he figured out what was wrong with my website! IT WORKS AGAIN!!! FUCK YEAH!! OMFG DAWG!!!! Now I can have all of this posting on my website as well!
The Official God FAQ
I've often wonder if God might have a "Frequently Asked Questions", low and behold I found it! Take a look, it is very informative. I know I learned a lot by reading it.
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.
I wonder if Buddha was as resentful to be awake as I am right now?
And now something I found completely amazing:
(They are all drawn in DUST on car WINDOWS!)
see all of them here
Here is something to do if you are REALLY high
© Kenneth Parker 2007
Check out this guy Kenneth Parker, he takes some amazing fucking photographs. His color balance is amazing. I'm no photographer but damn when I found his website it blew my fucking mind.
MS Escher and legos? Who would have thought?
see more here
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j
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Oh man I have so much to write about right now!!! Where the hell do I start? How about with THIS!
THAT'S MY BABY!!!!!
And the best part? I SAW THE EFFIN' HEART BEAT!!!! During the ultra sound. Holy poo in a shoe it was the greatest thing ever! EVER I SAY!!!
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j
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Hold up! What's that you say? This image is anti-American? Why sir YOU are anti-American! How do you know Dubya DOESNTY heart midget porn? HMM??? There is nothing more American then watching God's little punch lines Midgets expressing their freedom of speech and horrifying pleasing us all with sexual acts.
Man, you know what sucks? I had a post going then Bill (my bosses bosses boss) asked if he could use my desk, naturally I said ok. Well I am up front this week at Aliesha's desk while she is on vacation and I was remoted into my computer in the back. I was writing my blog on that computer and when he went in there he took the network cable off of it to plug his laptop into. So I got booted off. Hopefully it's still there when I log back into it after he leaves!! Heh, I got my remote connection back! Now let us see if you can figure out what it was that I thought I might have lost!
DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC?
stolen from SlashDot
DragonHawk writes "According to Wired, John Stottlemire found a way to print duplicate coupons from Coupons.com by deleting some files and registry entires on his PC. Now he's being sued for a DMCA violation. He says, 'All I did was erase files or registry keys.' Says a lawyer: '[The DMCA] may cover this. I think it does give companies a lot of leverage and a lot of power.' So now the copyright cartels are saying that not only can we not copy things on our computers, but we can't delete things on our computers? Time to buy stock in Seagate."
Well shit, I'm not sure that should be right. How could it possibly be legal for them to not allow you to delete your own files? It should be up to them to make sure you can't cheat them out of whatever it is they are offering on their end, not yours.
Last night after the kids went to bed, Gramma watched them while I made Kaylie go up to my parents house with me so I could sort some cards. I just really wanted to get something done on JKLM. I got to give it to my wife, she did not want to go but she did because I was so adamant on wanting to get something done. On the plus side I got a lot of shit done. On the negative side I was fucking tired this morning cause I got to bed after midnight.
Ok all, I am off to take my lunch break and to head off to Kaylie's first baby doctor appointment. I will probably post again later today.
~j
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Two posts in one day? by god I haven't done this in a while. Why might you ask am I doing this?
For starters I got a call from my wife (I LOVE YOU!) that my sister is in the hospital for tummy pain. She is a couple months prego right now so this is a little scary. I myself am not too worried about it and am 99.9% confident that she and her unborn child will be fine, but it is scary non the less.
Next on the agenda of craptastic is the toilet at home upstairs overflowed and flooded the upstairs bathroom. So I get to rip out carpet tonight. And to top all that off it flooded so much that it seeped downstairs into our living room and soaked the floor. The best part is that the water came down through the outlet in the ceiling so hopefully we don't get shocked to shit. I had Kaylie turn off the computer and unplug the power strip runs the entertainment center as a precaution.
So my nice easy night that I planned of going through trading cards and bullshitting just got turned into ripping out carpet and quite possibly getting pissed off.
On a good note I found this in my /crap folder
I think it is mighty appropriate, to a degree.
~j
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The safe word is....banana. B.A.N.A.N.A.S
I am back from my wonderment camping trip of everlasting joy and...rain. Why is it that the drive out there always seems to take for-fucking-ever, but the drive home goes like a snap?
On any account the trip was for the most part pleasant with only one real tufflle that I see no need to go into. Saturday morning we got up at 5:30am to go fishing out on some remote part of Cushman. We didn't catch shit but it was fun never-the-less. Kodi had a great time. I didn't do much fishing since I spent the entire time with Kodi helping him cast and try to catch a fish.
Boe mad some delicious food (as always) and we spent some time on the 'beach' skipping rocks and seeing how far we could throw them. Needless to say my arm fucking hurts not, but god damnit I threw the furthest rock! I have some wonderful pictures from this adventurous weekend but they will have to wait seeing as I am at work and the pictures are at Kaylie's mothers house on her camera since neither Kaylie nor I was smart enough to charge our camera before the trip. Oh we brought it, but the battery was deader than LiLo's ability to be taken seriously.
You know what sucks right now? It's only 1:20pm and I have to be here at work until 7pm tonight. And I REALLY do not wish to do this. But I need that money dawg.
It appears that no one read my version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What a pity, I spent a minute or two writing it. Oh well, You will all just have to suffer in the future when I re-write my versions of other classic books. Yes, I am calling the newest Harry Potter book a classic. Deal with it.
Speaking of Harry Potter, I was watching the 40 Year old Virgin last night and Paul Rudd's character David brought Steve Carell's character Andy a big 'ol box of porn. In that big 'ol box of porn they mention a movie called Harry Twater. So what did I do? I attempted to find said porn, but alas to no avail. The only thing I could find was Lindsey Lohan SNL skit. Here is a screen cap.
Not to be a complainer, but I don't remember Harry Potter being female nor Hermione being taller then him and having pillows quite that large. Not to say that Emma Watson Isn't wonderful looking in all her underage glory ( and she likes good beer)
To bad I'm married and not 16, cause then I would find her attractive. As it is she can only be cute at best.
DAILY MEMOIRS PROJECT UPDATE
Current Word Count: 16,467
I love how these 'daily' updates tend to only happen once a week. As you can see only 400 new words where added to the story since the last update. This isn't because I am slow at typing or anything, but simply because I have been going through the book and making notes for myself as well as cleaning up some of the previously written material and expanding upon what was already written. If any of you know what "breaking the third wall" means then if you ever read this story be prepared for me to do this several times throughout the story. I tend to ignore that first rule of writing. I don't ignore it because I think I am an excellent writer, I ignore it because I don't care about that rule. And I find that when I break the third wall it gives me several options to make some very funny things happen.
I was up until 2am last night going through the chapters and adding stuff. I got through 4 more chapters with making notes and expanding upon what was already there. Honestly, I will probably do this a good 10 or 20 more times before I consider the chapters to be 'finished'. I have already have re-read and re-worked the first 4 chapters countless times. Hopefully I can get a finished 'first draft' of this story soon, something I can really re-work from start to finish. Going back through everything has really been helpful for me to try and figure out where this story is going. I say that because as of right now I really do not know what is going to happen next. I have some ideas, some places I want to take this story. But when it comes to an ending and how this story will come to a climactic ending, I have no fucking idea. Only time will tell. Right now Robert is walking through a 'Dreamworld'. And yes, it is exactly referencing Neil Giaman's Endless. Hopefully I can make it come across as just an homage and not me stealing ideas. Let us also hope that DC Comics doesn't sue the shit out of me.
I need to draw up some sort of a design that I can post up with these updates, make them 'prettier'
Let me dig through my /crap folder and post some random old images for you all to gander at
I should finish this sometime...
Cover for a CD that was never recorded. Something else I want to finish...
it's to bad the shadowing looks like ass on this.
I think thats all I got for now.
~j
