after activating my phone yesterday, i rooted it and installed cyanogenmod. it is far more responsive than my old phone. it runs great, even after having a few apps running in the background.

of course, something good doesn’t come without a few quirks. first thing i noticed was the in-call volume being very low, even at the highest setting and installing an audio hack (which worked awesomely for other sounds). another problem i have is that it doesn’t seem to detect when i plug it into either of my computers. according to osmonitor, it only believes that it’s getting AC power. the message log shows…some things i don’t quite understand that may be relevant to the issue (see pastebin).

other than those two issues, i can say i’m very happy with this phone. it makes me wish i went with android before.

i don’t have much else to say today. for those who are following my posts on livejournal and wanting to know what i’ve been up to lately, you can read my main blog.

not long after my laptop died, i got the check for my tax return. i used that to buy a new case for my main pc. so, that’s been up and running as of early march. other than that, i mostly spent the money on my share of food and other necessities which i do not remember at this point.

last month, i got hired by walmart as a stockman. basically, what i do all day is pull carts from the parking lot back into the store. i also assist customers with carrying items out to their cars – whether it be regular groceries or large pieces of furniture. it’s part-time and minimum wage, but it’s income. and from the looks of it, i might be promoted to cashier in a few months or so. i’m going to try for a position in electronics, because, well, i know a lot about that kind of stuff.

as for my resolution to get out more often? yeah, i’m doing a good job so far. i’ve started going out every month to bowling meets with other furries in the area. there are also a few weekly events i try to attend.

things are going well so far. i may not be making as much money as i was before, considering the hours i work, but it’s enough to pay my share of rent and to buy some things that i need.

I’m hoping to be able to get a refund for the power adapter. And as for the laptop itself, I will need to perform surgery. It needs a new power jack, and a new adapter. At least, that’s what I think. Since laptop repair is a bitch, I’m going to wait on that. When I get my tax refund, I am going to get a new case for my main PC.

Maybe someday, I can bring new life to this laptop.

first: holy shit, 12 days passed since my last post already? jesus christ, where is the time going? maybe it has to do with my fucked up sleep schedule, i don’t know. i need to fix that somehow if i even want hope of getting a job.

and now, the twitmonologue.

i’m listening to a spin doctors album “turn it upside down”. for some reason, it makes me remember things from over 10 years ago. grade school. i hated those years. especially during school. in fact, i’ve mainly blocked out anything to do with school (other than shit i’ve actually learned). i remember more of the things at home, than anything else. even then, it was kinda “meh”. not saying i hated it there, too (though at the time, i probably did), it wasn’t terribly eventful.

what i do remember is playing myst, since it was one of the only good games that ran on my computer. there were also some good DOS games and Windows games. though, i couldn’t use the floppy drive. it was broken. the computer before it got infected by a virus.

another thing i remember from that time period was a dream i had in 1999. this touches somewhat on my spiritual side, which i’m not going to get into with this post. it centered around a “pink eevee”. i was in class at school doing a word search puzzle, where that was one of the words. then, we went on a field trip to go see this “pink eevee”. turned out it was a pink fox. or that’s how i remember it now, anyway. either way, it wasn’t an eevee, and it was pink and foxlike. there was also a flying creature that was a half-evolution of biyomon and birdramon – like, it was halfway through the evolution. and there was fire. that’s about all the relevant part of the dream.

now, i don’t know why this band in particular brings back memories. perhaps it was one of the few things i listened to back then – not having many CDs at my disposal or anything. other than that, i listened to Radio 104 (modern rock) or Kiss 95.7 (pop). though, i strayed from rock for a while, and i regret having done so. though, i’ll admit, Kiss 95.7 played some catchy tunes, and i probably would never had known about some of the good techno bands that i do today.

anyway, that should be all. i pretty much repeated everything i said on twitter, elaborated on it some. i need to catch myself next time.

eeebuntu 4.0 beta

So, I am trying out the beta for Eeebuntu 4. So far, it seems to run okay. Hardware works out of the box, though it doesn’t seem to scale my CPU anymore (I’m using an Asus eeePC 701). Other than that, everything seems fine.

For some reason ifconfig/iwconfig seem to be missing. Hopefully those would come back in the final release. Also, I had to manually install some software (maximus, window-picker-applet, netbook-launcher, pidgin, rhythmbox, etc.). I’m sure the first three will be in the final release. Pidgin will probably be replaced with Empathy. As for the media player that comes with Eeebuntu by default (Banshee), I don’t really like that. There’s one thing that just plain turns me off from it, and that is the (apparent) inability to use a network share to add music to the library. Rhythmbox does that without a problem.

A couple glitches that I noticed:

- gnome-panel would become invisible whenever I have netbook-launcher running. I don’t know why that happens.
- When I have a background image in gnome-terminal, it tiles itself.

Also, when installing eb4 onto my netbook, I had a problem getting Grub set up. I managed to work around it somehow. I don’t know what I did, but I made it work.

I’ll post more about my experiences with the beta over time. Despite the quirks, it’s been satisfactory so far.

on other news, my laptop’s power adapter finally crapped out, so i am stuck using my netbook. at least it performs well enough (now that i took the time to tweak everything to my liking), so i can do what i need to do. i’ve already established my main goals after i actually find work. first i’m going to pay off verizon so i can get my regular phone online again. then i’m going to get a new case and PSU for my main PC (or, at least a new power adapter for my old laptop).

Let us rewind to this morning. Well, early afternoon. Because I went to bed late and was forced out of bed by my landlord. I was on the phone with the real landlord, and he wanted to talk to me about Jesus, and the bible. He wanted to invite me to church. He offered to let me borrow his bike on the condition that I look for work daily, and that I spend 15 minutes per day reading the bible. I refused. Why? I do not want to be converted to Christianity. I was raised Catholic, went to a Catholic school, a Christian high school, then after that, I went my own way. And I am not turning back from that. The only reason I would ever step foot into a church is if it is with my own family. Or if it’s with my friends from high school. Other than that, no. I will not be dragged into Christianity again.

Early this evening, I was told by my landlord that if I don’t get a job this week, or if I don’t change my heart, I am going to be kicked out. Fine. Whatever. I already have a plan B. It was my plan A before I had an interview with Burger King on Thursday. I am still waiting to hear from them, but I am working fast on this plan. At this point, I don’t care if BK doesn’t hire me. I want out of this place.

Now, before you say anything like “you can sue him” or whatever…No, I can’t. There is no binding contract or agreement. They are not legally obliged to let anyone stay here. I’ve been working off my rent during the past couple months, but that doesn’t mean anything. So, no.

There’s only one thing I have to say to them, and it’s right at this youtube link below:

i still have yet to find another job. and right now, a job would make an excellent christmas present. i’m currently living off of the money i make off of the GPT sites you see to the right. it’s not much, but is enough to get me some food to eat. hopefully soon, i will find work.

i’m not going to worry about making new years resolutions right now. it’s pretty obvious what they are. i need to find work, and maybe actually start school. slacking on my projects is another issue i need to fix, and i’m already starting on that now.