So after waking up I had a nice meal, but then I saw that there was this interesting looking chocolate cake in the corner of the room. It looked strange, but I was told by my brother that it tastes amazing and the cup cakes are good too. After dinner I’m usually not the type to eat sweets since I consider that a meal on its own. But this time I just tried the chocolate cake from my brothers plate. It tasted AMAZING, I couldn’t believe how good it was, it just tasted blissfully amazing, after that I wanted my stomach to empty out so that I could sit down and devour this cake. Now all I’m thinking about it getting my hands on this cake again!
My sleeping is somewhat still messed up. I had a hectic day at work, but I managed to leave early. I came home to find my niece and nephew at home and they had occupied the rooms. Since I couldn’t use my room to sleep I went straight to the basement and passed out there. I was woken up an hour later to transfer to my bed and I got about 3.5 hours of sleep total and I could sleep more if need be.
The fun part is my nephew waking me up, I think he is beginning to say my name. I haven’t had anything to eat yet since yesterday, and all I can think about this something to eat at this point.
I tried going to sleep again later in the night since I slept most of the time after work yesterday but that didn’t really happen. I tried to sleep until 2:30am but I just couldn’t pass out. So I decided to make the best use of my time.
What I did staying up the rest of the night:
- Commented on the comments on my blog
- Read most of the I’m following blogs
- Visited a lot of tech blogs
- Read a couple of selected articles from Digg
- Read up on a couple of games release dates
- Watched 4 episodes of Noein
- Read Atomic Sushi
- Went on the search for food
Then I took shower and headed to work early, all I know is that I’m going to start feeling tired early! My whole sleep is messed up!
When I got up at 5:55am this morning I had one plane for the day, after I cleared my head of all work thoughts, which was to get home and sleep at 4:00pm since I felt like my mind and body has reached its limit!
I was off by a few hours, work was insane and non-stop, its been like this for the past three weeks. I got home around 6:35pm and I don’t think I could operate any longer. I had a late lunch with my mother, then we adjourned to her computer area. I was reading a magazine while she was surfing and 10 minutes later I passed out and woke up an hour later only to go to sleep for another hour after that. So I slept from 7:40 pm until 9:40pm. I was also talking to my mother inbetween these sessions and I thought I was conherent but it didn’t seem to be the case.
Then we transfered to the tv room and I slept there for about 30 minutes until 10:30pm, and all I was doing was napping everywhere. I woke up and had some mango before transfering to my bed and continuing the cycle of sleep for the next day. Today was a full mental shutdown.
I have a huge amount of anime on DVD and in storage that I can’t even remember from the top of my head. I’m watching a couple of animes right now and all of them seem to be pretty good. I just wish I had enough time to watch all the different animes, and more are coming out. Sometimes I don’t have enough time to catch up with all the different series I have, and I keep forgetting to keep up with the downloads.
Currently Watching:
- Bleach
- Naruto Shippuuden
- Noein
- Kyo Kara Maoh
- Planetes
- Desert Punk
- Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig
- Eye Shield 21
So I have installed the OS but there is a lot of tweaking and things to work on. And after fooling around with the machine I realized there were other driver problems that I had to deal with.
Driver Issues:
- Ethernet port (Not Recognized)
- Sound Card (Not Recognized)
- Linksys Wireless-G Adapter (Wasn’t Recognized even after downloading the Vista driver)
Driver Update:
- Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT (Driver Updated)
My machine was only displaying at 1024 by 768 but after the driver update I was able to get to 1600 by 1200 which is just beautiful, and I updated the Linksys driver and after finding it, it worked flawlessly.
I have to say that I am enjoying playing around with the OS and messing around with the settings, they are taking a different approach to how things work yet you feel there is some similarity. There are some improvements, but my system isn’t the highest system and it isn’t low but you do feel its a bit on the heavy side.
Computer Stats:
- Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
- 2 GB Ram
- GeForce 7800 GT
- 74 GB 10K Raptor
- 160 GB 7.2K WD
I completely formated the machine, but I forgot about the second hard drive so I had to format it in the Device Manager, but it was a bit different then the usual way but still familiar. Also the help files are more helpful then before which is good, since I’m always looking for different tools. Overall I think its a good OS but still needs some work regarding driver support and the way things work. I don’t think I am even scratching the surface of this OS and there still a lot to mess around with.
I installed a few more gadgets for the side bar and I installed Firefox 2.0 and a couple of plugins. I will be getting Office 2007 to install later next week. I will continue messing around with it.
Pending issues:
- Ethernet Port
- Sound Card
I can’t help but enjoy when I walk into Waterstones in Piccadily, it is one of the largets bookstores I have yet to see. When I walk in I get lost where to start because I don’t like missing good books. I start browsing and I randomly pick up a book and read the cover, as well as read the covers of the ones that I do find interesting.
I also roam about for a while on the ground floor between the 3 for 2 books and the best sellers then I go to the 1st floor for Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Crime, after that I head to the 5th floor to check out the photography books. Also on the top floor they have changed the restaurant they had and expanded it, I think its amazing place to sitdown with someone as well as some where to sit and read while getting a quick bite.
There is something about being in a bookstore that I find peaceful and you can just get lost in there, its fantastic, especially this bookstore since its so spacious and everyone is really helpful. The one section that I love about this waterstones is the finding the area with the recommended books, there is the main one on the ground floor, then there are recommended books from each genre which you can find on the different floors.
It has been a weird relaxing day, I have been watching anime in the basement and I have falling asleep in the basement for the past couple of hours too. So I have had to repeat a couple of anime episodes to go back to where I left off. Its been nice, but I wish I could stay awake and continue watching. After taking one of those 30 minute naps I got the sudden urge to get ice cream, there wasn’t anyone that could get me ice-cream so I got up got the Landcruiser key and drove straight to the co-op, when I got there I managed to find a parking spot and walked straight to the 31 Baskin Robins kiosk and ordered my 4 scoop chocolate chip, but only after trying a few different flavors like usual. Some of those colors don’t match the taste, but they do taste good. Then I went back to the basement continuing my anime episodes in complete satisfaction. Driving to the Co-op picking up the ice cream and driving back took a total of 12 minutes and I wasn’t even speeding, I just wanted the ice cream!
I have to stop myself from going overboard when I’m inside a bookstore, the problem is when I pick up a book and start reading and then I went to take the book with me. The most difficult thing is putting the book back in the shelf and walking away. I also came to the conclusion that you have to buy paperback instead of hardback book since you would be traveling. The hardback books fill up your back and make it feel even heavier then it already is. There were books that I picked up and there were books that I noted to order online because they were hardback, and their were some books that I could wait for and some that I couldn’t walk away from.
These are the books I picked up from Waterstones:
- 24 – Behind The Scenes by Cassar and Sutherland (An Essential Book for any Library!!)
- Thief With No Shadow – Emily Gee (Fantasy)
- Innocant Mage – Karen Miller (Fantasy)
- Sovereign – C. J. Sansom (Fiction History)
- The Interpretation of Murder – Jed Rubenfeld (Thriller)
- Operation Typhoon Shore – Joshua Mowll (The sequel to Operation Red Jericho)
- Nathan Fox Dangerous Times – L. Brittney
- Atomic Sushi – Simon May (Humor)
- Web Design: Studios 2 – Taschen
The rest I will be ordering online at a later point!
So I passed by my cousins this Thursday night since I have hung out with him for a while now. He has been traveling and I have been traveling. He also just had surgery done to have something removed which would have caused him some problems, I saw this as opening to attack him if he annoys me since he still recovering.
We had a clear set agenda:
- Orange Sherbert
- Heroes Episodes 19/20/21
- Dinner
- Friday Night Lights Episodes 16/17/18/19
- Orange Sherbert
I was happy he provided me with adequate quantities of ice cream! I also have to say that Heroes is just INSANE!!! I can’t believe that the season is ending, I really can’t get enough of it, I want to watch more. I was just happy for once we could watch a couple of episodes instead of just watching one episode which it has been like for the past couple of months. Friday Night Lights is still damn enjoyable and I hope they keep the show going next season since I heard they might not bring it back.