My other archive Cdrom... ^.^

Well, here's an example of why you should plan to go through a
collection of floppies at least twice. I found stuff for my other CDrom
and at the same time found floppies I was looking for as well as other
floppies I hadn't even checked! Pics for my anime archive CDrom that I
knew I had, but hadn't gotten to all of my floppies to find.

What's odd is that my other archive disc has a "machines" directory
which for some screwed up reason my Apex player does not show in the
directory screens... I know it's there...

Here's an interesting statistic. It took me over a year to compile the
500Mb of data for my anime archive, but just under 24 hours to compile
the 200Mb for my other archive. I went through my floppies rather
quickly. I guess much of that didn't really amount to much until after
1997, and even then it was a while before I discovered that when
browsing newsgroups on WebTV, you can forward a message to another email
address, which if that message has a picture on it, it also gets
forwarded (MIME, Binhex, or UUE). So I also had fewer discs to go
through, because up until we got WebTV, I had been collecting UUEncoded
pics from Fido:Anime, as well as nice people along the way who helped me
with their Internet access to fill floppies I asked them to fill and
send back. So I pretty much could figure out which floppies didn't have
anything on them for my other archive.

I'm glad I did this 2nd one when I did. Due to how scheduling goes where
I work because of the one lady who does some of the most f^cked up
scheduling, I have no idea when I'll get another 2 days in a row off. I
rather like getting 2 sequential days in a row off, as it gives me
plenty of time to do stuff I can't do in one.

And here after the experience of doing long marathon sessions with the
floppies for my anime archive, I said I wasn't going to do that again.
Well, I had some of that time during daylight hours and like I said, I
had fewer discs to go through. And I think I understand how my mom's
Dell with WinXP does it's little thing with floppies and showing
thumbnails of the pics in My Computer. Write-Enable your floppies. It
goes much faster. I don't know why.

Anywho, I did 2 versions of my other archive so far. I need to diagnose
or copy off files on floppies that the Dell had problems with, as well
as debug the files on the CDrom (fixing those that the Apex locks up
on). I'll also have to rename the "machines" directory for V.3 and maybe
add more stuff. oy vay.

First update in a while...

Nothing much. Except for the dehumidifier... I got that working again.
After going to the flea market with a friend last Friday about a week
ago, I got a spray can of PB Blaster. The stuff works great - the fumes
are not. Still, one fan that gunked up works again, and after letting
the dehumidifier sit for over a week after spraying a lot of PB Blaster
in the fan (which was the part that gunked up on it), it's spinning
freely again.

Added a bit more to my Archive CDrom, then I keep finding discs with
pictures on them that I _still_ haven't added. I want to find a few with
pics I want to try fixing. One called BGC8POST.GIF will have to be
removed. I might search online for its replacement. One was an
interlaced GIF of a rendered Yamato from Space Cruiser Yamato, a strip
of views, and I had hoped to fix that one if I could find it. I may not
be able to. I have yet to count the floppies I've gone through and then
count the 720K and 1.44K ones. I hope to have final counts and such on
everything. Plus have all the JPGs that lock up the Apex debugged.

Been considering a little note about weighing the pros and cons of where
I work now versus where I used to work. I'll look into that at some
point.

ugh

Well, after one week at my new job, I have to take care of a couple
things. Well, at least one. Due to how much walking I do now and the
habits of standing as well, I have a condition with the toenail on one
big toe. It felt like it was going to fall off. I noticed its condition
last night and tried something to help drain whatever fluid built up
behind it. I guess that's what happens after 4 consecutive days of work.
I put some hydrogen peroxide on it and it felt like my toe and nail
began to shrink, making it feel like the toenail wasn't going to fall
off.

Anywho, I got to thinking about something else. If my former manager /
boss really wasn't a jerk like he appeared to me as, he had a really
messed up way of showing it. As the saying goes, you can beat a dog only
so much until it runs away.

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I'M FINALLY FREE...!!!!

I GOT OUT OF THERE!!

Saturday I signed a new W-4 form. After orientation, I cried a little
out of elation that I finally got the hell out of that damn restaurant
as I drove home.

This new job is in a union shop. I will be appreciated, respected, and
treated with dignity. I will get regular raises. I will get paid
vacations AT LAST! It may very well be a place I will want to come to
work.

I also get more access to female co-workers. I may end up catching the
eye of some lady who might be interested in me. I hope it's someone who
I might be interested in, in return. I'm a little picky.

I'm going to beg for hours and be there for them. I need this.

Rant

(apparently, I'm not allowed to have negative OPINIONS of anything, including my employer? Last time I checked, I lived in the United States of America, not a communist regime...)

I get home from work so freaking tired anymore. Today I came home not giving a damn about my job. I get no respect there anymore. Not that I saw any at all that I noticed.

I guess I get crappy treatment because I won't kiss ass, but I do work as hard as possible. I want out of there. Man, do I miss Randy. He got out of there.

I'd love to finally hit the lottery then I'd probably give Pat $2M so she could quit and be a good mother for her kids.

I'm not going to kiss ass. I'm there to earn a buck. It's not my entire life. I've been there 10 damn years, and it's about time I'm entitled to a decent raise for once. I've been there since the store opened. I don't know why I get treated the way I do. I do believe in doing my job the best possible way I am expected to do it and nothing less than my best efforts. Why am I treated badly for that?

What Happened...

The explanation by the phone tech who came to look at the problem, after
having to go back in town, was that the phone company's software messed
up. Well, I could have told you that. ^.^ Seeing as how both times
previous to having line problems, the person we called to report
problems kept saying "the problem's in the house" according to their
online computer diagnosis - and both times it WASN'T. So anywho NOW...
we got a new style box on the outside of the house for the phone line. I
hope the guy did it right because of the Dish Network box also uses the
phone line...

Just glad to have our phone working again.

Why Sometimes You Shouldn't Call 911

OK, around 5 pm Saturday I'm doing an update to my Archive CDrom. My
younger sister arrives to do some stuff for mom, and about the time
she's at the front door, some explosion happens and shakes the house a
little. My sister tries to say she closed the front door and that shook
the house, but I know better. As it turns out, while I was up and able
to look out the window, there's 2 people in a golf cart coming across
our lawn where the external garage stands, and apparently they saw
something that happened and it was across the street.

They see a fire going, and boy oh boy, that was an explosion. So not
knowing what's going on, I get out the videocamera and shoot a little
footage. Meanwhile my sister dials up 911 to report the incident.

Ah. Bad move. Because as soon as she's done making the report, she tries
to hang up and call her house. "Tries to call" is the phrase, because
after the 911 thingy ... No Dial Tone.

Anywho, the fire trucks come out and check on the fire. As it turns out,
the rednecks across the road from us in the trees decided to light a
fire, and to help it along they dumped a container of fuel oil on it.
Which caused the explosion people saw.

In the meantime, we went without phone service for about 1 and a half
days. We had service, voltage on the line was there, just after the 911
call, the dial tone never came back. I'll ask mom later if the Verizon
guy who got here after 10 this morning if he told her what happened...

In the meantime, while I was bored and we had no phone service, other
than the archive CDrom update, I managed to figure out how to burn
Windows WAVe files to audio CD. They need to be 22050 Hz or 44 KHz
sample rate, 16 bit, mono or stereo. And then I figured out how to
record audio from an external source for writing as an Audio CD. Which
means a CD version of my videogame commercials tape is close to becoming
real. I need to figure out how to record stereo audio though. One piece
of software on my mom's Dell can edit video - but without a video
capture device, it's almost useless, but it's there should I be able to
get a capture card that works with the Dell and the software. But it's
also useful for capturing long clips of audio as a Narration. Heh. ^.^
Nothing else on there at the moment will record clips longer than 1
minute, which I used Sound Recorder at the 44 Khz rate to do some clips
off my commercials tape. ^_^

You get bored, you get horny or do something else. Or both. ^.^

Pickled Daikon recipe

From one mailing list I get...

Takuwan (Pickled Daikon)

1 large Daikon 1/10 cup salt
1/3 cup vinegar 1 or 2 qt size jar
2/3 cup sugar 1 small red chili pepper
2/3 cup water

Cut daikon into bite-size slices and pack tightly into jars. Boil
vinegar, sugar, water and salt until sugar is completely dissolved. Pour
boiled vinegar mixture into jars. Put one red chili pepper into jar and
cover tightly. Place jar upside down overnight; refrigerate. In a few
days, the takuwan will turn bright yellow.

"Anyway, it is really good with green tea or genmai cha over rice. I
have tried it myself, and it is really delicious, although it was sort
of on the sweet side so you can adjust the sugar. This recipe is from
the State of hawaii Dept. of agriculture - actually from Times
Supermarket in Honolulu. It's about 5 years old."

I guess I don't have to put up with saccharine sweetened takuwan
anymore! Yay!

Random thought

Doesn't Hilary Duff as she appears in "Raise Your Voice" promos look
like Chii-chan from Chobits? I sure think she does. If they ever do a
live action thingy, she should seriously go for the role, as long as she
maintains that look with her hair. Put some Persocom ears on her (or
edit them in ^.^) and you got the look. Either that or one page with
"Sexy Kirsten". I think an image database of girls who look like Chii
should be assembled. ^_^