I’m Hearing: KoRn - Shoots and Ladders

=_= Whoa, I’m tired.

Well, this weekend got off to a horrible start but ended quite well. After feeling like shit to begin with (physically ill, yet), Friday night while we were roleplaying, my internet connection just…disappeared. I got really frustrated and upset and then the guys left, so there I was without an internet connection or any company. I forgot what I ended up doing, but ultimately I just went to bed in frustration.

The rest of the weekend was much much better. I started feeling a bit better by Saturday afternoon so that was one great thing, but my internet connection didn’t come back until Sunday night, so that was irritating, (but at least it did come back.) Stoooooopid stoopid worm!!! :-( At any rate, the high point of the weekend was meeting Will (jetfuel) and Hiroko. On Saturday we met up with him at Best Buy then ate at Olive Garden. It was really great talking to him in person after all this time of only knowing him as an online entity. The conversation was really friendly and comfortable, and it was like I’d known him forever. We didn’t get to hang out much that night but Sunday Jon drove us up to the place where Will is staying (another "Jon’s" apartment) and we hung out with Will and Hiroko all afternoon and evening, then had supper with them. Much video game playing ensued and fun was had by all. (Rez is a very fun game, but very very trippy!)

Hanging out with Will & Hiroko

I was kind of afraid that it was going to be a weird or uncomfortable situation….y’know, meeting someone you know online for the first time? I’ve never done that before. ^_^; I guess the fact that Jon knows Will so well helped, but it wasn’t weird at all!!! There was a brief moment of unreality when he came walking towards me when I was like "Holy shit, this is real!" but that quickly passed and it was like hanging out with an old friend. I dunno, maybe I’m making a bigger deal out of this than I should be, but it was really momentous for me! The other Jon had to go to work so we didn’t get to talk to him much, but it was really cool talking to Hiroko. She was much friendlier and easier to communicate with than I expected, but of course I didn’t know much about her either. :-D

Oh yeah, and Will gave me the coolest gift on earth. After he posted this awhile back when he was still in Japan, I was going on and on about how hilarious I thought it was. And guess what….he brought the actual thing back for me! :-D hehehehe!!!!! It was very unexpected but highly appreciated! :-D :D (Still no USB working on my comp, so I can’t scan the actual item sadly…the only reason I’ve been able to get the pics uploaded is because I can pull them onto the mac then send them across the network to my PC…oy, so convoluted, but at least it works.)

Arg…Jules! Hope you can fix up that computer problem soon!! What the hell happened??? O_O

Oh, that reminds me…after I got my connection back, I did some research on the display problem my Mac has, and found that it is actually a pretty common problem among iMacs of that type after installing OS10.2….apparently it’s a firmware issue. So hopefully Jon will be able to help me with that sometime this week. Then maybe, just maybe I’ll start using that a bit more if we can get it working, since I’ll be using macs in my classes and my new job. I’m not going to be able to escape them in my everyday life at all. It’s not like macs are that bad really…I have just found that there are things missing on macs (or that are terribly hard to locate) that are simple and easily available on PCs. The first computer I ever touched was a mac, and pretty much all the way through elementary school until about halfway through middle school I had no idea there was anything other than a mac for a computer…after all, that’s what all the schools used. I can remember wanting a computer so bad when I was younger that I made a computer lab out of cardboard boxes and took my stuffed animals into it so we could play "Number Munchers." But once I touched my first PC, I was totally entranced by it and the glory of Windows 3.1. I know lots of people put a lot of effort into criticizing Windows and Microsoft and whatnot, but I must admit I find that to be quite useful, and aside from the occasional annoyance, I’ve really had very little trouble since I’ve been using Win2k. I’ve never had to reinstall it (maybe I *should*…) unlike with 98 where I was reinstalling every 6 months or less.