Monday, December 29, 2008

Random Acts of Kindness

I ran to Target today to pick up a prescription and decided to run through the clearance Christmas section. Now yesterday we were at Grandma P's and I scrubbed her stove within an inch of it's life to remove the grease and dad fixed the sink. While we were there we found out that her Christmas lights outside weren't working. So when I was at Target I walked by the lights and found a bunch of the kind that she likes to put outside. So I bought her four boxes. I didn't have a cart with me but headed up to the front of the store and was balancing the four boxes plus my prescription in my arms when the women in front of me were nice enough to let me put my boxes in their cart while we waited in line. What goes around, comes around.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Eragon and Eldest

I recently finished reading Eragon and Eldest and as I read them, it was amazing the parallels that I drew to the Star Wars universe. Now, I haven't read Brisingr yet, but if what I've learned in the first two books holds true, then it's going to be even closer to the Star Wars series.

Eragon: Eragon is an orphan living with his uncle
Star Wars: Luke is an "orphan" living with his uncle

Eragon: Eragon finds something that belongs to the King (Saphira's egg)
Star Wars: Luke finds something that belongs to the Emperor (Death Star Plans)

Eragon: Eragon's family is killed because of Saphira's Egg
Star Wars: Luke's family is killed because of the droids

Eragon: Eragon rescues Arya from death
Star Wars: Luke rescues Leia from death

Eragon: Goes to the hidden camp of the Varden just ahead of the Urgals
Star Wars: Luke gets to the hidden Rebel base just ahead of the Imperials

Eragon: Eragon defeats the bad guy Durza with the help of Arya and Saphira
Star Wars: Luke blows up the Death Star with the help of Han and Chewie

Eldest: Eragon goes with Arya to Esmerella to train
Star Wars: Luke goes with R2 to Dagobah to train

Eldest: Eragon gets trained by an old elf
Star Wars: Luke is trained by Yoda

Eldest: Eragon learns that his father is a bad guy
Star Wars: Luke learns that his father is a bad guy

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Friday, December 05, 2008

It never rains, it always pours

Seriously, why can't anything ever work the way that it's supposed to work in my life? Is that too much to ask? I've known for a while now that I need a new power supply for my desktop PC because the one fan in it quit and I knew it was just a matter of time before it was going to die. Two or three weeks ago, it died. But I haven't gotten around to ordering a new one yet because I mainly use my laptop.

Now it's the week before the end of the semester. I have projects due. I have papers due. I need my laptop right now. In fact, I took it to work with me last night and was working on my paper that's due when I didn't have anything to do at work. I go to lunch and the laptop is working fine. I just shut it to put it in hibernation mode and when I come back from lunch a half hour later, my laptop has been possessed by the matrix. Every pixel that is supposed to be black, is now green. So I shut down my computer for the time being. Then I come home and try to see if maybe it was just a glitch and it's working fine now. Oh no, when the first black screen comes up, nothing but green with a line down the middle. My desktop doesn't look so bad except for the fact that I'm apparently wearing a green leather coat until I try to get on the internet.

Shit shit shit.

Now I have no computers.

The week before class ends.

Shit

And I woke up with a sore throat today.

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

The real reason why the carmakers are failing

After my most recent experience with GMs warranty plan, I think I've figured out why the CEOs of the Big 3 are in Washington begging for money.

GM doesn't stand behind their car parts. I just had my car in to get the stereo replaced for the second time, which means that I'm on my 3rd stereo and my car is only 4 years old. And since I got the stereo replaced in 2006 and it started doing the same thing again a couple of weeks ago. So I take the car in to the service department and they tell me that it's going to cost $100 to get my stereo repaired, which is ridiculous because apparently even a stereo has a 12 month, 12,000 mile warranty. However, if they were producing quality parts that didn't need to be replaced constantly, then it'd be less of a problem. Hell, even if the individual dealership decided to waive the deductible it'd be happier. But, luckily I had enough rewards points that it only cost me $45 to have it replaced.

But then, the mechanic that was replacing my stereo forget to press eject before taking out the stereo. So when I got to pick up my car and pressed the CD button and the CD player was empty and I checked the case and that was empty as well. So, I said something, and surprise surprise, the CD is still stuck in the CD player and will now have to go to the refurbishing company, and I'll get it back in 1-2 weeks

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