Oh well.. there goes my gas bill, it’s 38F outside so I guess it’s time to turn the furnce on.. I held out as long as I could, but that’s that… back to the $400+ gas bills every month, and supposedly there’s an 18% increase this year as well.. so this should be a rough winter.. but I’ve got children, and when they complain they’re cold, it’s time to turn it on.. fun-fun

I don’t get it really why the gas has to rise 18%.. I mean we’re not making anymore money than we did last year, but they want us to pay more…

it sucks, it really does

So, yesterday my hard drive died one me.. yesterday morning actually, it was making loud noises like it was searching alot so I thought mayb disk cleanup and defrag would help things out.. ran all that, still no difference but the hdd was getting louder, making noises it shouldn’t make.. so I restarted my computer and that was that, wouldn’t boot anymore, no errors, no nothing.

Using vista ultimate 32bit, so I ran the repair disk thing and that did do anything for me…

I had just gotten Vista Ultimate 64bit last week, didn’t install it yet as I was waiting for my new 500gig hard drive to get here, it got here yesterday of course..

so I’ve had 6 drives die on me in less than a year, western digitals and seagates, and I’ve had a maxtor die in the past as well, so who does that leave for hdd manufacturers? Hitachi?

so I’m still recovering, luckily my data is still intact, at least what I needed to get at..

got Crysis Warhead for review, but it’s a download, in toal it’s a little over 13 gigs between Warhead and Wars, so I’m still re-downloading that as I type this, got warhead already though…

also I got a nice brand new Radeon 4870 vid card which I really didn’t get to play with, ran benchmarks but that’s about it…

I’m swamped with work, but I like being busy!

hmm.. so today I got to send my first DMCA Takedown Notice!

an obvious spam site copied and pasted one of my reviews that I did over at Tiltmobility, they couldn’t even host the pictures, they’re still linked to Tiltmobility..

the site, which I won’t link to, is hosted on WordPress.com, and they have a system for the takedown notices..

of course they ask for proof, well gee, I just sent them links to both pages to compare.. that’s more than enough proof there..

I hate spammers…

When everything just seems to go wrong in life how does one cope?

Especially when it seems to all happen at once…

Just when I think I’m geting ahead something comes along and takes it all away from me…

I don’t get it… I have to ask ‘why me?’

A few months ago my wife hit the curb and ripped a hole in one of my tires, I come to find that I had to replace two tires instead of just the one because it’s an all-wheel drive vehicle… so $350 later I’ve got two new tires..

fast forward a couple months, wife wrecks car again.. this time hits someone, does a bit of damage to the right side of car…

fast forward to this past friday, wife swerves because guy cuts her off, rips hole in relatively new tire again…

go to mechanic yesterday (monday) can’t have tire until today, fine…. leave busted tire, go home..

come tuesday (today) I go to get new tire put on, only to find that the rim is bent as well, so now I need a new rim also….

fine, come back home, leave again to go pick up kids from school…

on way home, school bus does a hit and run on my car… stupid lady cut the corner too sharp (I was behind the line where you’re supposed to stop at light) hits left front fender, I get out of car to inspect, see scratches, turn around and the bus is long gone, apparently she floored it when she saw me get out of car… I couldn’t back up to chase her, there were cars behind me, so I had to go around block, and of course after that she’s long gone… and OF COURSE no one saw anything at all including the crossing guard who saw her hit me…

AAARRRGGHHHHH

GACK.. my DSL was out for over 10 hours today…

I was like losing my mind, I used my phone, but I’m gonna end up paying for data charges.. I was just thinking of adding unlimited data to my service, but now I guess I need to..

anyway, I’ve been with Verizon DSL for about 5 years, and this is the only outage so far, besides of course power failures, but that’s not heir fault..

so I guess I can’t complain too much..

Earlier I posted about how I’ve learned to hate people basically, at least it seems I find the goofballs, or maybe they’re attracted to me.. dunno, haven’t really figured it out yet..

but I’ve got another reason to hate people now..

so my friend asked me to help him fix up on of his apartments to get ready to rent for the 1st of September and this place was a mess.. I’ve been over there a few hours a day for the last couple days..

now normally he doesn’t allow pets in his apartments, but he thought he was being nice by letting these people have their dog with them.. mistake #1 apparently, just because you are nice to someone doesn’t mean they’ll be nice to you… this dog pretty much pissed all over the carpets and left stains on them, these are light tan carpets mind you… but the stains did come out, he called over one of his ‘other guys’ who do cleanup work like that and he got the stains out, but of course it still smells like dog, so the carpets will have to be scrubbed a couple times… apparently also they didn’t care to clean the apartment either, there was dog hair everywhere to be found, the place was just a mess really..

oh and if you rent don’t put large holes in the walls please, it’s not fun fixing them… little finish nails are fine, they fix easily, but these people decided to use screws with anchors all over the place and in the oddest places as well, these left 1/2″ sized holes in the walls, there was at least 25 of them that I had to fill..

but the best part was the dart board they decided to hang up, and from what I saw they weren’t very good at darts either, there was a spot at least 7 feet high by 5 feet wide just full of little tiny holes, and of course one bare spot int he middle where the dart board was…

not only all of this damage was there, but before they left they went on vacation and bought a house, mind you though their lease wasn’t up, they just decided to bail towards the end of the lease, and I find out that they even still owe him a couple months back rent as well!!! So now of course he has to pay me and the other guy to fix and clean the place, but he’s also going to have to go to court to fight to get the back rent…

Try to be nice and things like this happen, it’s amazing how people take advantage of the kindness of others and have no respect at all for other peoples property.. I would never think of doing something like that to someone elses place!

The world we live in is going downhill and has been for quite sometime, I’m hoping that maybe it will change but it jsut seems to be getting worse, people just don’t care anymore about anything, old values are gone, there seems to be no kind of respect anymore at all for anything or anyone..

So in mid July I made a post HERE about how my two year old opened the car door and tapped the car next to us and the lady flipped out.. I wasn’t there for the incident, and things can get exagerrated a bit at times..

Today I finally saw the car, it’s a nice car and does have a ding in the door, So I figured whatever, I took some pictures and I was waiting for her to come out to apologize for this mess and tell her that the insurance company would take care of it for her and that it’s over with..  but before I could even say anything to her she’s screaming at me saying I’m harassing her, and that she’s calling the police and pressing charges.. and saying that she’s told people that I’m harassing her and I need to leave her alone.. meanwhile I’ve never seen this lady in my life so it’s rather damn impossible that I was harassing her before…

all this while I’m trying to talk calmly to her, but she didn’t care what I had to say so I ended up walking away, and she follows me to where I parked the car to pick up my wife..

all she had to do was shut up for one minute and let me apologize to her for this mess and explain things but she wanted no parts of it for some reason… I don’t understand people at all really..

so basically now I sit here and wait for the police to possibly come knocking on my door becuase I tried to apologize to someone… what a screwed up world we live in, it’s truly amazing that people like this woman exist…

It’s not like I’m even this big guy or anything, I’m all of 160lbs when I’m wet, so it’s not like I’m intimidating or anything.. wow.. just wow