Vacation ≠ Rest
19 December 2005 at 1:06 pm by Jason 134 views
Well, we have three more days till we’ll be heading down to FL… I feel like we’ll never be ready. We still have to clean the house (water is once again out today), do some laundry, etc… and if that’s not all I should have to worry about, it seems our kitten (Kisa) has developed conjunctivitis (pinkeye). Lovely. 
I swear, you should be allowed to get a bonus vacation after you ever take a vacation that involves going anywhere further than your front door.
On the bright side (and a completely different subject), our lobster (Levi) moulted again… although he doesn’t seem to want to eat his old shell this time. I wonder why? Also, the snails are back to being healthy and since I just did about a 50% water change in their old tank, I may put them back. Now, not to leave anyone out, NoName (the rescue betta) is doing excellent and looks like he’s going to make it. His fins are regrowing some and he no longer has any stress lines. 
Okay, well I need to get back to work (and back to finishing this blog… I should hopefully launch it before I leave), so that’s all the posting you get for today.
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Tags: betta, conjunctivitis, fins, kisa, kitten, laundry, levi, snail, stress lines, tank, vacations
Today is our kitten Mishka’s birthday! Today she turns one year old (which is 24 in human years… oddly enough that’s how old I am!) and Jess plans on giving her tuna and sweet stuff for her present. The cat loves sweet things, melon, strawberries, non-dairy frosting, etc… you have it, she wants it. You can tell me a hundred times that cats don’t taste sweet, but she lives with me, and she will always prove you wrong. Here’s an older picture of her… will update with a new one later:
Besides that, nothing too new. Jess quit her job and has a bunch of interviews, so I wish her well. Also, the fish tank had an issue and I spent part of saturday fighting with a lobster and digging through gravel to fix it. Ugh. Also, I gave myself a nasty little burn when accidentally touching the aquarium heater. Grrr.Also in the last week I finally fixed my computer! It seems that the rear 120mm case fan was causing all my issues. Every BSOD, all the heat issues, etc. The fan would spin, quite fast, but it seems it was actually generating heat, instead of removing it. When I touched it, it actually burnt my finger! Very odd. Well, $10.00 later I have a new fan, and a nice cool running system (it runs about 43 degrees now, instead of the 60+ it was running before). While we’re on the “PC talk”, I got Vista installed and running on my system. While I get plenty of BSODs and the like, it’s not a bad OS, and I really like when Microsoft is going with it!
Let’s see, what else? I’ve been working on a lot of new things for Neowin on my spare time, although no one will see it for awhile. What is it? Not tellin’! Shhhh! It’s a secret! All I can say is, you’ll be happy when you see it.
Okay, that’s it for now… enjoy the rest of your Monday!
So, last night (to make Jess feel better), we went and sat at Borders till Midnight, waiting for the new Harry Potter book. It was pretty nice, some oddballs dressed up (see below):
So, that was going to be the end of this post, but it seems that Kisa (one of our kittens) has tapeworms (gross!!!). We had to fight all day today to give her meds, and hopefully that should fix them. Let’s just say it was horribly gross… and I never want to see it again!Okay, that’s it for now… expect more later!
Well, it seems I lost track of time for the past month. I’ve been kept quite busy so I forgot to update the site. I’m sure you all forgive me.
So, first things first. Go get the October issue of Maximum PC! AutoPatcher is featured there and I want everyone to see. If they don’t sell Maximum PC near you, just click the image below to see the article:
Now, on to AutoPatcher 2000 news. RC2 is being released to testers today so expect a release this month.
Well, what about AutoPatcher XP? Don’t fret, I’ll have an AutoPatcher XP release this month as well (it will be for SP2 systems, I’m still debating whether to keep going with the SP1 releases).
And for a little bit of personal news, I was promoted to the “Grafix” team on Neowin, and helped to get all the images ready for the IPB 2.0 rollout. Also, I got myself a kitten! She’s all white, just barely 3 months old, and loves being next to the computer! Everyone say hello to Mishka (my girlfriend picked out her name):
Okay kids, that’s all for now… I need to finish up the AutoPatcher 2000 release as well as a few other things!
(Ed. Note - This is from my old AutoPatcher news blog)
