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State fairs and pink hairs… 29 August 2005 at 8:53 am by 407 views

So, this weekend Jess and I decided to go to the Nebraska State Fair. Last year we had gone to the Iowa State Fair and it was great, we spent the entire day there and didn’t get to do everything, so we thought we’d be able to spend the entire day at the Nebraska one as well. Boy, were we wrong. We showed up at about 9:00 and by 12:00 we had seen everything (some things we saw more than once). There was a concert we wanted to see at 7:00… but we just couldn’t think of anything to do until then. After wandering around for about an hour, we decided to just leave. Jess had hurt her foot, and we just were too bored to go on. The weird thing is, they were discussing getting rid of the fair last year, and the state rallied to keep it, but I just don’t see why… there’s nothing there. We ended up spending the rest of the day just relaxing at home and complaining about the fair.

I know what you’re thinking “Explain the pink hairs, already!!”. Okay, here it goes. Before we went to the fair, we decided to dye Jess’ hair pink (for the concert) so we bought some “Atomic Pink” hair dye, and dyed her hair. It didn’t look bad, I thought it was quite cute… see for yourself:

As you can see, she wasn’t thrilled. Anywho, she got a new job and it starts on Monday (today) and she wanted to get the dye out. Therein lies the problem… it wouldn’t come out. She washed her hair about 12 times on Sat, and it still didn’t come out. I came up with a concoction of 40% Witchhazel (65%), to 60% Isopropyl Alcohol (93%). to pour on her hair. Amazingly it worked great, but it still didn’t get all the dye out. So she decided to dye over the pink. So we went to the store and purchased “Red Pulse” hair dye. So, it turns out that “Atomic Pink” + “Red Pulse” on light brown hair turns into a kind of Neon Maroon (the neon can only be seen in person)… a nice close-up of it here:
So, I think it’s cute, and she likes it’s better than the Pink… so that’s good. If you’re wondering, this is her with her natural hair color:
Anyways, I told her I’d make her feel better and dye my hair this Friday (it’s a 3-day weekend, so I should be able to get the dye out by Tuesday). So here’s the question, what color should I dye it? I have very dark brown hair, and I’m not bleaching it, so the colors to choose from are Black, Purple, Blue, or Green. Feel free to comment on what color you think I should go with, and you’ll see pics of the results in a week or so. ;)

+ Life, the Universe, and a Blog… By 22 June 2005 at 6:22 pm 302 views 1 Comment

This here, is Levi. He’s not really a lobster, he’s actually a crayfish (Procambarus alleni, to be exact). Why am I blogging about my aquatic pal here? Well, I figured he’d never be able to claw his own blog, so I’d help him out.I’ve had him for about two and a half weeks now, and he is one of the coolest pets I’ve ever had (no offense to the snail, fish, or cats I own). He spends his days under the leaf you see here, coming out at night to dig up all our rocks. So far, he’s left the rest of his roommates alone, except I believe he ate two of our smaller fish the first two nights we had him, but none since (guess the stuff I feed him tastes better than real fish, anyhow).

Well, that’s all about Levi, for now… I’ll be sure to bring him up again at a later date.

Now, about other things!

I have about 40 min to go before I can leave work and go home… and I just can’t wait. I just need to relax (had to format a machine this morning, and currently I’m in the middle of burning 36 DVDs on a 4x burner), plus, my new favorite show comes on tonight!

30 Days

If you haven’t already started watching, you need to. It’s one of the best shows on TV right now, and it might make you learn something (I can hear the groans now). So, if you have FX, you need to tune in… do it! Now*!!

So, I need to do a little complaining about a company I have to deal with on a daily basis. Let’s call them “HouseCube”**… they make a product called “Constructor180″** and it sucks. Now, we’ve been using this product for over 2 years now… and it still isn’t being completely implemented. Why? Well, because it sucks. It crashes constantly, and when it’s not crashing, it’s changing our data… which ties into our accounting, nice, huh? Also, to make matters worse, they have a support staff consisting of 2 high school cheerleader dropouts and one trained monkey. It takes days (if not months, one issue has lasted nearly a year) to have them get back to us and fix the problem. Also, they rarely (if ever) admit it’s their program’s fault. Here are the things they normally blame:

Microsoft Windows (and components such as MDAC)
Microsoft Office (namely Access)
Dell PCs (when blaming software gets boring, try hardware!)

I just don’t see why we still use them. As I type this, they are currently on two different computers, logged in remotely, trying to fix issues that they don’t understand. *sigh*

Okay, I think I’m ranted out for the moment (plus, I have a couple things to do before I leave)… so feel free to drop a comment or whatever, and I’ll try to keep this up to date.

* Not “Now”, at 10:00pm, EST
** The name of the company and product have been changed to protect the innocent.

+ It’s my birthday and I’ll age if I want to, age if I want to… By 02 June 2004 at 1:32 pm 233 views No Comments

Well, I turned the big “23″ today! That’s about all the news for you I have! If you want to send me a “Birthday Donation”, click the link below, it will show up differently than a “AutoPatcher Donation”. And for those who sent me e-mails, thanks for your kind words!!

One quick update… I fixed the problem caused by the new site index page being named different than the old site’s page. Now anyone going to http://www.autopatcher.com/Index.htm will be redirected to the front page, rather than the 404 page.

(Ed. Note – This is from my old AutoPatcher news blog)

+ Happy Birthday to me!! By 01 June 2004 at 12:28 pm 257 views No Comments

Well, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend (those that had one). I just noticed that we once again broke our records for people visiting the site! We had 63,110 Unique Visitors, this month… very awesome! I posted a picture that shows all the months compared to each other. Check it out:

On a side note, tomorrow is my birthday! Anyone getting me anything? haha

And finally, I noticed someone tried to “cheat” the giveaway by donating $0.04… knowing PayPal would take the entire thing and give us nothing. So, since it wasn’t said before, I’ll say it now… no donations under $1.00 will be allowed for consideration for the 100th Donation Giveaway. Since I didn’t say it before, the person who did that will have his name entered as a donator, but all others after him will not.

(Ed. Note – This is from my old AutoPatcher news blog)

+ Holy Cow!! By 21 May 2004 at 10:11 am 235 views No Comments

Well, I have some amazing news!! So far, with just torrents alone, the AutoPatcher has used up over 2.44 Terabytes of Bandwidth in the last 6 months!! Don’t believe me? Check it out here: http://autopatcher.scarywater.net/ That surely is something! We’ve also almost hit 200,000 unique views this year! At this minute we’re sitting at 199,240 unique views!! One more thing that I just noticed we’ve almost hit 100 donators/donations! So, to show my gratitude, I’m offering a giveaway of sorts! Whoever is the 100th donator will win a bunch of stuff! What stuff? Well click here to find out: AutoPatcher Giveaway I suggest you all check that out, since once the 100th donator/donation is reached, all our previous donators will get a nice gift too!

One last note, a couple of fans of the AutoPatcher have been begging me to open some sort of store to buy shirts and stuff, so if anyone want, the AutoPatcher Swag Store is now open for business:

http://www.cafeshops.com/autopatcher

Enjoy!!

(Ed. Note – This is from my old AutoPatcher news blog)

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