Sunday, June 20, 2004

The rest of it

I finally finished making that web page. It was a bitch to do but here it is.
It looks like shit started hitting the fan again today because I wanted to just get my oil changed, fuel injector tune-up, and clean the crap off my battery contacts but, of course, that would just be too easy and too cheap. It turned out I needed a new "Oil Sending Unit" thingamabob because my oil was leaking. So, what I expected to only cost a tad over a $100 for all the stuff I wanted done, turned into $190.05! I also went to West Palm and spent over 3hrs sitting and waiting for my roomates damn car to get fixed too. It's times like those I wish I didn't sell my laptop. I had a client to see today but I, of course, canceled that so there goes $25. Luckily I got a new one for tomorrow morning and should make $35.
Oh, and another thing... I thought I would get that 1-credit I'm missing fixed but NOOOO, it can't be done, requiring me to take another damn class I don't want to take and spending over $250 for the damn class and damn book. So, there's more money I don't want to spend going down the drain! So, there goes my summer of wanting to visit NY because I haven't been back there in over 5 years. Now, I'll spend the summer stuck in the Police Academy, taking a class I could care less about.

I wonder what next week will bring me,

Justin

Friday, June 18, 2004

Why they gotta be stingy on the mashmallows??

I just had some of that "Smores" cereal straight out da box and boy are the cereal makers stingy with the damn mashmallows! It's like I look in straight in the box and see only 5 'mallows on top! I'm sure there are no more than 40 in the damn box. And why are the damn 'mallows crunchy in cereal. When I ate it out the small box I got from my sister, they were soft n' chewy; these were all crunchy! Anywho, enough of that...
I had a pretty busy and shitty week (and that's not including the bird shit I got on my car which is still caked on even AFTER I got my car washed through the automatic wash!)

The week wasn't that bad until Wednesday evening when a current client of mine informed me my ad wasn't it the paper anymore. I didn't believe it because I renued it on June 6th so he got the paper and showed it to me. Low and Behold, the ad wasn't in there! It was June 16th and my ad wasn't in the paper. I was pretty pissed. I left the place in Stuart at arounf 9:45p and it was a bitch to get out of that area because there were no lights on that dark, pot-holed, dirt road. I'm glad my brights worked this time but every time I used to put them on, all the lights would just go off on the outside of the car.

I got home at around 10:30p after picking up some Taco Bell & Mc.D's (and Mc. D's didn't have anymore crapple pies left so I ended up getting a Sundae in place instead which was pretty damn good, btw). As soon as I got home, I opened a coouple letters I got in the mail from the Regestry Tape Network, which is the Co. making the receipt tape with my ad in the back. I opened them up and it had a "Proof Copy" of my ad and if anything on it was wrong, it said to fax in the correction or call the number. Welp, it turns out, they apprently had not received the email I sent a day after I saw the guy to sign up for the thing with my "updated" business card because they printed out the "older" version, which I did not want! So, I had until the next day at 4pm to contact them about it. Also, I received an email from the guy who did the signs for my car about the rest of the stuff I wanted to do with it and all is good with that but instead of the price being $30 like I assumed, it is going to be around $60 so that's what I get for trying to assume; I made an ass of myself!

After that email, I got another email from a person I helped out previously with her scanner and printer, which I fixed when I was there the last time but is now F'ed up again. I sent her an email on the matter already but I guess she didn't get it so I sent another, more intense one, which I'll post on my site along with hers right now... ah, screw it. I didn't realize it's getting late and I'm hot and I gotta wake up early again tomorrow and head to Stuart to help someone else out.

I'll continue this ranting post tomorrow when I get back,

Justin

Monday, June 14, 2004

Updated a bit

I added a car pics section on my site, located here.
I spent quite a few hours trying to sort the pics and editing the pics but there it is! It looks kind of sloppy and slapped together but I don't have the time yet to make it look good like I want it to yet but there it is for now!

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I tried Mozilla's Thunderbird email client. All I'm going to say is it has quite a bit of potential to be my Outlook Express replacement for an email client! It's that sweet for something free!

That's it for now,

Justin

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Wow, been a while

I can't believe how time flies.... when your havin' fun! ;-)
I got that email back about the Smart Computing page and the guy said he will allow 25 articles but no more so... instead of having them ".mht" format like I planned, I will just link them all to the site, which shows the partial article. This is better anyway because the full articles take up a lot of space on my server. I also understand the reason for not allowing all them articles but it's alright. I will probably still select a few to be full and eventually make my own (props to Drew in NY!) and use the SC as a reference to them. I added another page to my site called, "Justin Rocque's Recommended Software." I am going to be adding more stuff to that soon but for now, that is the main layout. I also have an idea p00d in NY will be taking care of for me also which I can't wait! I will be adding some more pics of my car I just took yesterday too.

Life--
I will be moving out this other nest by the end of this month to a bigger and better place. ;-) This place was good... until I outgrew it. I'm starting to feel claustrophobic (and yes, I had to look that spelling up!) in this room but it was a fun year while it lasted!
I can't wait until the end of the month because that will be when the receipt ad starts rolling in! I should be getting some people from that because I'm the only computer dude in there. I also got another one I'm thinking about doing so I can drop the ad in the paper but I'm not sure yet.. and I'm not sure if I want to drop the ad in the paper because I get a decent amount of people from that. As a matter of fact, I just got a call from someone today who saw my ad a few months ago! It's another "Dragon Speech Program help" but I'll still be helping them out with it! Damn that Dragon program! Damn it to hell! ;-)
Other than that, nothing else new is going on.

I'll be keeping you guys updated,

Justin

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Bidnis' is still Boomin'

Just want to make a quick update while I'm still awake.
Business is still booming this week, which is GRRRRRREAT!
I am still working on the Smart Computing permission to that page I want to put up. I sent another email and got a response this morning so I responded with more details about what I want to have on the page so I SHOULD receive a response sometime tomorrow.

I went back to St. Jucie West today to the Cascades and check out someone's PC because it wasn't working. I brought it home and plugged it in using my stuff and it worked fine so I assumend it was a faulty monitor and told her about it. I went to Best Buy and got a new one for her then went back to her house with it. Just to be sure the monitor didn't work, I plugged it back into the PC again and it worked fine! Sheesh, what a bitch that was! Going all the way to Best Buy to purchase something big like that and now having to return it? Sheesh!
Anywho, the monitor has been a pretty good passenger in my car. ;-)
I am HOPEFULLY going to TRY to goto the academy to take care of that other business so I can get that thing over with. And I will also get a hair cut!
Anywho, that's all I got to say about that!

If I'm not that tired toknight, I might update my site a tad maybe.... Oh, and one more thing.... since I loaded the code, as you can see on my main page, my site was entered into the Langa List and I got mad hits from it! It appeared in this newsletter issue, here! I didn't expect it to come on so quick so now I gotta update it a bit more and email him a thank you! ;-)

Monday, June 07, 2004

Pretty Damn busy!

I've been pretty busy working this week so I haven't had a chance to update the site at all. Every day I've been waking up at around 9AM to be at peoples houses by 10AM and when I get home, I end up falling asleep and somtimes going straight to bed at around 11PM. I made quite a bit of dough this week; more than I made in my life I think, including what I got Saturday. I will be seeing this person again sometime this week for more training. I also have someone for tomorrow and I will be bringing my laptop (make that two people) to sell to someone and while I'm there, I'll be helping out this persons' cousin. I can't wait to cash my checks and get that dough for the laptop! It will actually the most money I made in less than two weeks than I have ever before! It feels good getting money.... to pay off my credit card bills. :-) Too bad I have to wait to get that LCD monitor I want. :-( But, business is boomin' and the time will be comming soon! I'm still working on getting rid of spyware and adware from my cousins' laptop. It's a bitch of a process; editing the registry is required to get all the mess out. it's take around 5hrs so far. It could cost a client over $200 to fix this all without the restore cd's or Windows CD's!

Welp, I got nothing else to say right now... back to watching "The Net"

I'll be keeping you guys posted,

Justin

Thursday, June 03, 2004

I said I will keep this updated and I stand by it!

I know it's been a few days since I posted here and I'm sorry. I've been working my ass off these past 2 weeks with waking up at around 8AM to get to places by 9AM and 10AM and when I get home, I'm fighting to stay awake. I have emailed Smart Computing about the page I have on my site and the wheels are in motion for the response, which should be tomorrow hopefully. The person who read it CCed it to someone else, who did the same thing again. So, it's someplace at Smart Computings Headquarters awaiting for a reply. As soon as I get the response from them I am looking for, I will be updating that page of my site and then it will go public. I also have something else I've been meaning to add to my site which might come soon, I hope, depending on how busy I will be this weekend.

Lifewise, I helped three people this week and made a nice chunk of change. If this keeps up, I will have nothing to worry about financially. I also have another thing I will be doing tomorrow maybe to help with my finances. That is..... Grants. More details later. Today was the easiest $35 I ever made for PC assistance. It was a pretty nice place in Stuart. I'm not going to devulge what was wrong with the PC because they paid me a bit more to keep my mouth shut. LOL! What I will say is, I got there, turned on the PC and everything worked fine! ;-) I'm da man with da magic touch!
On a side note, something big "might" and I do mean "might" be going down in a month or so but I'm not going to get into the details until I know it's afloat. It's a good thing, though!
Other than that, besides trying to catch up with my emails, magazines, and such, nothing much else is going on. I plan on going to the academy to speak to someone to take care of that 1 credit f-up. HOPEFULLY I can get that fixed and get my damn degree FINALLY and not have to worry about that anymore!

Until next time,

Justin