What a screamin’ and hollerin’ filled day, AGAIN!.

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Let’s see, where do I start?

Stuck getting up for work, overslept and got bitched at..

When we’re about to leave for work, the battery is discharged.

So I end up walking the dogs, but Coco doesn’t get her turn because their is no time.

So Ma calls the place from yesterday to get someone out here with jumper cables for the car…

Then it’s a waiting for the road service, because the place from yesterday don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. And coco is whining because she didn’t get to go out.

The guy with the tow truck and jumper cables explains the battery problem is bacause the internal lights were stuck in the always on position -> BP or PAC, piss on you!

So we head to the normal family mechanic… Good guy, know him and his wife from church.

The alternator is still working (thankfully), so the battery charges and passes sanity checks when hooked up to a voltmeter. He also dismantled something on the engine and whatever he pushed had the same effect as putting the gas pedal flat on the deck,

Ma decides to get a new battery, since it was 3 years old… Which is roughly another $100 between battery / service / warranty / whatever.

I spend ~50% of my laptops own battery charge righting code.

5 minute down the road, the engines running worse then ever… return to mechanic, and guess what? I hose up top near the crankcase was cracked. As far as I can tell from google and his description, it was probably some kind of breather tube for a PCV system.

Son of a bitch, replacing that tube has fixed the cars chugging up and down the road, which has been driving Ma crazy, for what? Nearly 3+ years by now loool.

It is always the simple things in life that getcha !!! Be it a broken serpentine belt driving the alternator and power steering among other things, leaving a light on, just righting to the teletypewriter device, or replacing a stupid hose that helps regulate the amount of air / gases in the chamber to the right levels.

Get stuck going shopping, since we missed work, and I bloody hate grocery shopping !!!!!

I managed to leak the trooper by accident over instant messenger, and had to change it in a hurry, then report myself for stupidity.

To top it off, there is almost nothing on TV; just Keeping The Faith.

Scratch that, to make it even worse! I just ended up having to rub her royal majesties feet.

If tomorrow is like today, yesterday, or worse, I am really taking the weekend off doing shit for awhile loooooooooooool.

Bartender: Let me get this straight, I’m talking to a priest who went on a
bender, because his best friend; a rabbi, stole his girl.

Priest: Right

Bartender: I want to thank you for telling my this story.

Priest: Why?

Bartender: Because now I can retire.

Priest: You have to give me advice, that’s what this is supposed to be about.

Bartender: Oh GOD, what do I know? I half Punjabi Sikh, one quarter Tummel
separatist, my sister married a Jewish doctor from New Jersey, and our
other grandmother was an Irish nun; who left me this bar, which is a VERY
long story.

Priest: You’re a Sikh, Catholic, Muslim, with Jewish in-laws?

Bartender: Yes, yes, it is very complicated… I’m reading dynetics.

Priest: I don’t blame you.

Priest: I thank you for listening to me, I feel like I should ask you for my
penance

Bartender: I don’t do penance, I do shots!

both: *snorts* Hahaha

*pours them both another shot*

Bartender: I tell you what I know

Bartender: May those who love us, love us. And those who don’t love us – may
GOD turn their hearts. And if HE cannot turn their hearts, may HE turn their
ankles, so that we may know them by their limping

Priest: *nods agreement*

Ever wonder just what gcc does?

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Terry@vectra-$ cat > test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv) {

        int i;

        printf("%s ", argv[0]);
        for (i=1; i < argc; ++i) {
                if (argv[i][0] != '') {
                        printf("%s ", argv[i]);
                }
        }
        return printf("n");
}

Terry@vectra-$ gcc -v test.c -o test-bin
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.3/3.3.5/specs
Configured with:
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3.5 (propolice)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.3/3.3.5/cc1 -quiet -v -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=3 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=5 test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -auxbase test -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -std=c99 -version -o /tmp//ccj26536.s
GNU C version 3.3.5 (propolice) (i386-unknown-openbsd4.3)
        compiled by GNU C version 3.3.5 (propolice).
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=46 --param ggc-min-heapsize=30393
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 as -o /tmp//cca26536.o /tmp//ccj26536.s
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.3/3.3.5/collect2 --eh-frame-hdr -e __start -Bdynamic -dynamic-linker /usr/libexec/ld.so -o test-bin /usr/lib/crt0.o /usr/lib/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.3/3.3.5 /tmp//cca26536.o -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtend.o
Terry@vectra-$ ./test-bin arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5
./test-bin arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5
Terry@vectra-$

What a nightmare

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One of the more sane but terrifying parts of my dreams….

A brunette sits down next to me, while I’m working on a project, and starts asking questions. Although she defiantly failed the computer-intelligence test, she was quite inquisitive…

The thing that makes it a terrifying nightmare?

I was more interested in whatever I was coding, then talking to the woman :

I must be working to hard….

Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

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Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
Said somebody’s been shot, somebody’s been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn’t get too far, yeah
They didn’t get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause

— Beer for my horses, Toby Keith and Willie Nelson.

What a day !!!

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Woke up early, fairly good for a change, but still… 30min before I had to get dressed for work lol.

On the way out of the complex I thought I smelled something, noted it for comment if I still smelled it in a bit, thought it was just something in the terrain. Also heard an odd raddle, but hey… She’s a F.O.R.D.

About ~25 metre down the road, Ma is like “I can’t steer!” and said the AMP light was on the display; so I told her to pull over while their was still a place to pull over.

A quick thumb through the cars manual to make sure of what the bleeding heck the amp light might mean, aside from a low battery (that’s still got 2 years on the warrenty, and hopefully the specs to back it up) says to have the electrical system checked (real helpful). So I got out, popped the hood, and took a quick scan of things.

Sure enough a look at the alternator revealed a broken belt 🙁

I was just happy it’s the belt & tensioner instead of an electicral problem… That would be as good as totaled fincially, but getting the belt and the tensioner done is only ~$150 or so. Ma called the clients we were supposed to work for, and they came out and got us (their very good folk). I started work on the monster sized house myself, while Ma took care of getting the car towed.

Despite a very large work area, I actually made quite a not of headway… Expecting to have to complete everything but the mopping without aid.

Then Ma got in, and I had to brief her twice on what I had gotten done, to avoid her redoing it *grrr*. To be followed by a lot of interupts, hence a sudden drop in productivity… lol.

Got off work around 1630~1700, which is pretty late; usually we get done around 1500, but I only got to start solo around 1052~1058.

As usual, I skipped any concept of breakfast, but we got off late, so I skipped lunch — stopping for lunch takes to long. I’m somewhat like a camel really; little food & water, good imunity to temparure change, barely any rest, and still works like a dog… lol.

At least though, the volume of dinner made of for the lack of lunch xD

A a side effect of everything, since the car won’t be fixed until tomorrow, I’m off work… so it’s just a quetion of whether or not I’ll be both home and available to get stuff done.

Still, it does make me wish I knew more about cars. I know just enough to understand how they work, but not enough to fix them lol. Hmm… that reminds me of a family joke haha, about the person I’m named for. I was named after a close friend of my parants, who introduced them; but as the story goes. My Dad, who could rip an engine apart and put it back together again; called up my mom to explain that he wouldn’t be making it into town, because Terry took apart the Corvairs engine apart, and had parts left over xD

Someday, I think I’d love to take an engine apart (with the manual as he did), and find out if I’d have parts left over or do it right. If I did have parts left over or fouled it up, I could just imagine my father cursing a blue streak from beyond the grave… lol.

the general rant of the night

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Oh what fun it would be to have Google Chrome + Plugins (that work) on FreeBSD or even just chromium + plugins (that works)… It would certainly beat the dozen or so others available (all of the main stream ones are also available in native & linux versions).

All the better, would be a cross platform web browser besides Lynx that does not suck… but Google Chrome at least presents a usable technology for surfing the web 10+ hours a day, even if it’s essentially winsucks only for mere mortorals… for the time being.

And best of all, would be a web browser better then lynx, that didn’t piss me off *eventually* or prove tiresome to use for such long periods of time.

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Hmm, I’ve just seen a movie, that I’ll probably never watch again. Some of the thing troops go through in combat, are truly horrible. Even more terrifying, is what war can do to those that have been at it far to long. In a lot of ways, I’m glad I didn’t pursue a military career, b/c I honestly don’t know if I could live the rest of my life, if I had to experience some of the things that have happened to our fighting men. I generally have quite a hard exterior and the poker face to match it, but for this film, I shed tear.

Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
– Bill Mauldin, Up Front, 1944.




And say a prayer of thanks and for their safety, with my hand over my heart in salute.

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Off work until Monday, and working until Friday… I really like the weeks when Monday falls on a date that I am not working >_>, but that’s only every other week :.

Plans for the weekend:

Work on Rouges project
Work on fixing that bug in XYZ
Play RvS and SWAT 4
Chat with a few friends, if I’m sane by then <_<
Catch up on my postings.

Interference to goals:

Trying to pass level 8 of tetris…. This is what I get for not playing enough tetris as a boy lol.
Having to write the daemon portion of my note taker
Battle for Wesnoth being in the middle of an interesting campaign, and trying to create one of my own.
Any number of personal projects and homework that never seems to be completed on time.

There are two things that I really need, but not likely to see in a long time… In the mean time, I guess there is working to death lol.