Samui’s Blog

i’ve finally gotten my motivation to write once again. kind of. you see, right now, people in orange shirts are banging on my roof. this means i would have a hard time sleeping. so i need something to do, other than read bash.org and some other fine websites. this something is, writing. i’m working on my stories – revising the crap i already wrote because of the crappy quality from back then. once that’s done, i will be doing new chapters. yay!

though i am not only using this time for writing, but i am also working on getting the new forum software set up for kitsune paradise. this mostly entails the themes. i’ve got them done for the most part. the only thing left is the buttons and some of the skins from the current incarnation of the community. once i get it all looking good, i can make it go live, and work on porting munjpets and inferno rpg over — the former being the easier to work with.

also, a note to collections agencies: fuck you. that means you, northland group. i’m not giving you shit. you people left me alone for over a year, then you start to haunt me with your collections notices. no! go away! i don’t even have the credit card any more, and it was dead as of 2007! get over it! i’m also not giving you guys shit for my allegedly unpaid verizon shit either, because i never received a bill from them for that account for months! fuck off!

apparently some dumb bitch was disappointed to find out that crunch berries were not real berries. it took her four years to realize this fact. now they will have to put a disclaimer on the box: “this box does not contain actual berries” or something. i dread how her kid(s) will turn out.

i realize i haven’t been updating this much. oops.

anyways, not much has been going on, really. well, we did get ourselves into a two bedroom apartment, so i have my own bedroom. that is awesome.

today i set up a nethack server, and i don’t remember it being as painful as it was this time. i thank this blogger for guidance. it was enough to make me go postal. damn thing kept dying and wouldn’t tell me why. but i got it all working now, so that’s good.

on another note: pepsi and mountain dew throwback = awesome.

So, I have upgraded my phone to the HTC Touch Pro.  It is a pretty sweet phone. Of course, Verizon’s version is a lot different. They removed a few keys, and made it look square, but I worked around the problem of the missing CTRL key. I’ve changed some keybindings on tf5, irssi, and centerim to work more efficiently with the keyboard layout. And I changed the background of the Home screen to a picture of Giygas from Earthbound Zero.

Oh, and I’ve fallen in love with Token2Shell/Mobile. It is like a swiss army knife for my phone. It does SSH, Telnet, and a bunch of other things. I can even work with files on my server from it as well. I’m definitely going to buy it when the trial period expires.

KENNY GLENN – CAT ABUSER “Timmy’ abuses Dusty Kenny Glenn – Lawton, Oklahoma.

the link that was above previously is now cybersquatted. basically, the website was all about this one kid who had his friend videotape him abusing his cat Dusty. there were two videos, one where he sprayed water on the cat, then proceeded to hit it. in the second video, he had the cat locked in the bathtub, where he slammed it against the wall, hit it several times, and turned the shower on. these videos were then uploaded to youtube.

news story: article, video, coverage on ‘the sun’

the cat has been taken to a vet, where he is safe. the two kids are supposedly in police custody.

http://consumerist.com/5130627/comcast-installs-cable-in-your-gutter-across-your-driveway?skyline=true&s=i

…just, wow…

first, happy belated new year. second, remember the list of resolutions i made last month? i’m doing a good job so far on them. right now i am working on the kitsumuck website, and progress is going smoothly. i’ve found a nice new web-based MUD client that kicks the ass of the crappy Java client that’s been in use for over two years. it’s got lots of neat features, and is in active development. so, i am going to stick to that one from now on.  all i have left to finish is the profiles section, and that should be cake once i get the information imported from the MUCK’s database into the SQL database to make things a lot less hackish. i’m just going to need to make a backend in PHP so the MUCK can update the SQL database through that instead of its SQL functions because apparently, those tend to lock up the MUCK. (wow, that sounded confusing when i read over it)

on other news, i’ve scored myself a 5 day weekend by requesting 3 days paid vacation over the weekend. this would be the third day. monday and tuesday are my normal days off. the main reason i did this was to take a break from .. well, dealing with assholes. i needed to do this so i can relax, and clear my mind…and get some shit done that i’ve been falling behind on.

next up on my list would be my writings. also, what am i going to do for kitsune paradise? hmmm….

yeah, i finally broke down and got a facebook account. i’m pretty sure i’m going to be using it as regularly as my myspace account or livejournal account. not to mention deviantart and furaffinity. did i forget any other sites i have an account on?

anyways, yeah, i’m on facebook now. name me some other social networking sites that demand my joining. i’m fucking bored.

so, it’s december already. meaning 2008 is almost over. it has been a pretty good year, i survived it, so that’s good. i’m no longer living with alynna, she moved out a month ago due to problems with the other roommates. i couldn’t go with her because i still had a job here. she’s apparently happy where she is now, so it’s okay.

and since it’s december, that means i have to tolerate all this christmas crap. okay, so i don’t hate the holidays. but constantly hearing that music over and over burns me out on it. the good part of working graveyard, i can listen to whatever music i want. none of this 24/7 christmas music bullshit. i’m okay with hearing it once in a while, but christ. anyways, i can’t hate christmas, because it happens to be the day i brought digital gate online. it’s an important day in kitsune paradise’s history. the day the server was able to stay online 24/7. (my rants about the crappy linksys hardware aside). since it’s going to be the 5th anniversary, i’m going to have to do something special. (and fast)

and when the new year comes, i’m probably going to have to come up with some ‘new years resolutions’. you know, things that i say i am going to do but i end up … not doing them. but this time, i’m going to do it, for real. a possible list of resolutions?

- stop fucking slacking on projects
- breathe life into kitsumuck
- get out more often
- see about going to school

yeah. the first one, i really need to work on. hell, i might start on that now. or i might go to bed after writing this post. i don’t know. i don’t feel tired.

It felt kind of like a movie. I was witnessing this one girl, who was apparently a psycho killer or something, and she was trying to escape from a mental clinic. She manages to run away, brutally slicing the three doctors that were pursing her. Naturally, the cops come after her, and she runs from them, jumping off an overpass onto the roof of a bus. She opens the emergency exit on the roof, and shouts into the bus “A fox did it!”, apparently trying to imply that a kitsune did something.

The scene cuts back to the clinic, and a couple other doctors were investigating. She sliced something else, about three times, before she left there — a box or something. They opened it up to find … a small piece of paperboard. Something tells them. “I/She told you it was a fox.”

Later on, it was night time. *I* was in the clinic, trying to figure out how to stitch my own wounds…or at least someone’s wounds. The girl returned to the clinic, and was guiding me through it, telling me how she made the slices. I think there was something involving my own back, especially near the left shoulder area.

This girl seemed to be running away from a lot, from what I’ve seen. Even before she was in the clinic, she was running on the roof of *that*.

I’m trying to figure out what else was going on, but, it’s not coming to me.

I woke up with “Push It” by Garbage playing in my head.

– At an earlier point, there was something involving mountains and animals..We were doing something, I don’t recall what.