New Computer!

It's the same as my old laptop, just with vista (boo), a 2GB harddrive (upgrade from 1 gig), 240GB dual processor (another upgrade) and the same graphics card Anna has, I cannot think of what it's called. But it's an upgrade. It won't be made until around January 31, and then it'll be shipped to my mom's house, then she'll ship it off to me, so I expect it early to mid February. This rental I've been using for just about 2 months has cost me about one third of the cost of my new laptop, so I really can't rent it out for another month (though I desparately want to). I may end up doing it, though it'll just about empty my bank account of any leisure money I had left. I can always try to pick up a job at college, as the work load generally isn't terrible. I'll figure something out.

Anyway, that's really the only major thing of any great importance.

Oh yeah.

Rock band f'ing rocks. And if I had the money, I would buy it and an xbox 360 (and halo 3 and xbox live, since I have the xbox). Fuck I want money. I may just get a job.

Short splurt of random things.

Firstly, http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/414516#

Now then. Much in the wake of Dani, I am going to start a new blog about WoW. It's either going to be paladin-exclusive, or more of a "my thoughts based on my characters" thing. As soon as I can think of a good name, I'll make it, do the silly wowhead autosearch link thing whatever, and it'll be up for your viewing pleasure.

Also, My computer's still broken. Best Buy says it'll cost 700 bucks to replace the motherboard. Probably going to send it back to HP and see what they think. It's out of warrenty, so I'm SOL in that department. I'm renting a computer for 40 bucks a week at the moment, may end up taking it home with me on Friday so I can spend 200 dollars for a month and a half with a computer. Past that, I don't know what to do about the situation. Hopefully HP will be like "Oh, well all you need is a new (insert computer part that is not the motherboard), we can do it for 200 and you'll have it before you go back to school." But that's not gonna happen. I may end up splurging and getting a new computer if it'll cost that much to fix my old one. It will not be an HP.

Computer Asplode

So my laptop died. Hardware problem. Gonna take time to fix, and it's gonna be expensive.

So, I bought a new desktop. Cheap, 500 dollar one that I'm going to return next Thursday, the day before I go home for Thanksgiving break. Hopefully I'll have my laptop back by then.

Good Comic Day

One of the few days where more than one comic makes me lol out loud. Yes, that's lolol. I lolol'd.

Cyanide And Happiness

Penny Arcade

VG Cats (I know it's been around for a while, but it's still up, and it's still funny)

XKCD (As always, read the subtext for the full lol experience)

Dark Legacy Comics

OoTS

CAD

Back to School

As most of you know, I'm back in school from a semester-long hiatus. I'm in a culinary program at IUP's Punxsutawney campus. What does this mean? It means that in a year and a half (Three semsters - Fall, Spring, *shudder* summer, then a semester-long externship), I'll be a certified chef. After this, I'm hoping to go to go to IUP's main campus to get my bachelor's in Hospitality management. I'm considering applying at IUP's honors college (Because, well, IUP doesn't have the mos rigorous screening process, save for the honor's college), but Dani doesn't think I can since I've already taken a year of college out of it. Something about credits and classes I can't take or something.

I enjoy the program so far, except for the 8 o'clock class every day and the five hour lab class every day. Too early, too long. I'm in a sanitation class OMG GERMS in the morning, which is mostly common sense. The lab I'm in at the moment is baking, which is really nice. Lots of pastries. The way this program works is you get five fifteen-day cycles every semester, where you have a 2-hour classroom class, a 1-hour classroom portion of your lab class, a 1 hour break, then 4 hours of lab.

What else is going on in my life besides college? Nothing. I'm in Punxsutawney. There is NOTHING in Punxsutawney save for groundhogs. I didn't even have internet my first week, which in retrospect wasn't terrible, as I had so much homework that first week, and Dani came to visit so I didn't do something stupid out of boredom on the three day weekend.

This weekend will be heavy with WoW. I should probably get back to that.

Operations suck.

Especially when they need to amputate a leg.



Now that I have your attention, I had some minor surgery done on my lower lip to take a broken saliva gland out. It was salivating inside my lip, making it all ballooney. So, I made a date with the oral surgeon, and yesterday morning, he cut it out.

Now, I had my wisdom teeth taken out the year before, and despite the horror stories I had heard from others, it was nothing. Very little pain, up and around that very day, the whole nine. This minor surgery was going to be nothing. It would take only a fraction of an hour, I would be up and around as soon as I got out, it wouldn't even hurt. Well, two out of three ain't bad.

Due to some misunderstanding on either my mom's or my brother's and my own fault, I arrived at the surgeon an hour early. I filled out what I needed to fill out, and my bro took me home for half an hour. I come back at the right time, and they take me right back to the chair. The doctor looks at it quickly once more before he whips out the Novocaine. The needles stung (he stabbed me about three times), but the contents of those needles numbed the problem pretty well. My eyes were closed, because the thought of seeing a doctor hacking away at my lip was bad enough. However, since I was all numb, I wasn't sure if he had started yet. I open my eyes for a second, and what do I see but a scalpel inches from my face. Very reassuring. I close my eyes again with the picture fresh in my mind. Good thing it's a short surgery. Doctor finishes up, and I sit in the chair for about five minutes before they let me go. Awesome.

So I'm at home, my friends sleeping in the basement still, my brother hobbling back to his room to sleep, I sit on my computer and play around for an hour or so, happily numb. An hour goes by, and Novocaine starts to wear off. Slight discomfort, no big deal. An hour more and I'm in a massive amount of pain. My lip is on fire, and I can' do anything about it. I have codeine pills I can take, but can't take them on an empty stomach. I was in no mood for food, and I hadn't eaten since the previous night. My one friend goes home, as everyone who isn't in searing pain is still asleep. I finally crack and bust out the ramen soup. Have you ever seen a baby bird who's feeding? Head straight up, mouth awkwardly open, nearly gagging the food down? Yeah, that's me as I eat this. I get through about 3/4 when I figure my stomach's full enough for a codeine. It works marginally, but enough so that I can manage without thinking "OMGHURT".

I hop onto starcraft and play a bit before heading over to Dani's house, where I can manage to swallow some pasta. I snag another codeine pill before we trek over to Best Buy to do some more college shopping. Dani starts suspecting the codeine for making me a bit "loopy". I blame the combination of that and my own fatigue. I skipped on the printer I was supposed to buy with the notion that I can get a small, cheaper one at Wal-Mart and instead opt to get some extra memory for my phone and camera, as well as a laptop cooler that I may or may not end up keeping. After Best Buy, we stop at Ritas for Gelatis (I got raspberry, Dani got blueberry) as I had very little to eat that day, and things that don't require chewing (I have this terrible paranoia about chewing food and accidentally catching one of the loose stitches in my teeth), and we go back to her mom's for a few minutes while she packs her stuff to go to her dad's. I fall asleep. She wakes me up to take me home. I fall asleep in the car. Needless to say, I go to bed when I get home.

Today, the pain isn't so bad, although my lip has swollen quite a bit. I'm going to dinner with Dani's family again for her mom's birthday, though I don't see myself eating much today, either. I hope the pain goes away by Saturday, when I'm heading up to college, and hopefully I'll be able to eat by then. The swelling will go down shortly after I get there, probably around Monday.

For Anna

Whereas I found this as my brother walked into the room and busted out the terrible music with a guy who sounds SO MUCH like a girl and therefore did not get a chance to see it all, I thought Anna would like to see this. It's an informal interview with Billy and Jimmy from Smashing Pumpkins through Youtube. I'm going to take a looksee at it as soon as I can.