Well, at least that's a load off my ass!

I wasn't going to post anything today but I just had to say I finally paid off that ticket so that's a load off my ass and I don't have to stare at it sitting next to my printer anymore. I had to hand it in by the end of this week otherwise it will be too late and I'll have my license suspended.

Now I can enjoy next month of not paying for anymore advertising except for the newspaper ad. Also, when the Money Saver people credit my checking account and give me back my $265 they owe me because I did NOT approve them of putting my ad in their magazine again because I had canceled it a month before, I will be pretty damn happy. I called them about it on Monday and I have not received credit yet so another phone call will be made tomorrow. See the shit I have to put up with? It's a bitch.

Update on the surprise.....

Because of a major necessary delay, it will probably be delayed until the beginning of next week. It shouldn't be later than the middle of next week this time. This is certain.

Justin Rocque, the Security Guard?
Class starts this comming Monday for that Security class. It's 6-10pm for two weeks. After that I can apply for a "D" Security license and get a job doing that at knight and still be a computer consultant during the day. And like I said before, if the security thing does not work out, I must resort to the last resort.

I'm going to head to bed early tonight for reasons I will probably explain tomorrow in the week ending post.

Have a great knight,

Justin

Where's my damn sign?

Yep, it's been a while again, I know. Good news is I've started to work on the Y2K+4 update. That should be done by the end of this week. It is going to be the best essay yet! ;-)
I managed to pull in a decent amount of dough last week yet.... I have nothing to show for it again. I've decided to have no more ads except for the newspaper one because that is where I have been getting most of the clients from and the other ads have been eating me dry. I wanted to try and have a go with that big surprise last week but that has to hold off until the beginning of this week for reasons I cannot disclose right now because then it won't be a BIG surprise anymore! ;-) I know, I am just full of surprises!

Unforntunatly I had to work today so I didn't get to work on that essay or anything else for that matter except get a DVD burner. I made $100 and got a free printer/scanner though so that was cool!

Yep, I got a DVD burner. I was going to hold off on that for a while but I need to back up 13GB worth of stuff from someone's old hard drive. I'd rather back the stuff up to a few 4.7GB DVD's then over 20 700MB CD-R's. I went to Best Buy to see what they had and they had a bunch of crap ones and the other good ones were out of stock I guess; I don't know if they were or not but apparently nobody came over to ask me if I needed help when I've been in the isle for 15+ minutes, yet when I don't want to be bothered by anyone they all come out of the wood work.

I ended up going to Circuit Shitty and saw a Sony one there and got it, along with a 25 spindle of DVD-R's (Yes, there were DVD+R's but I don't know the different formats yet. Mainly it's because one drive maker came out with one standard and another came along and made another and it got all confused from there but if you get a DVD+-RW/+-R or if it says dual format compatible or something, you are safe. Funny.... I just looked at the bottom of the box and it reads:

Note:
PLEASE ACT RESPONSIBLY
Before copying anything onto a DVD+R/-R (and all the other formats it listed), please make sure you are not violating copyright laws.

HA!! I'll be sure I do that! I don't want to get caught by the copyright police.

I installed the DVD drive as a slave and had the jumper on it set as "CS" (Cable Select). I turned the PC on and it did just that; went on and stood there with a "-" on the upper left part of the screen. I was like "what the hell?" I turned the PC back off and tried it again; no go. I had to unscrew the case again (I thought there would be no problems so after I installed the drive, I screwed everything back in and stuck the PC back in the desk but, lucky me, problems always arise when I do the SIMPLEST things with a PC) and take a peeksy. It looked good from my end but I changed the jumper setting to "Slave" instead of the other one and cranked the PC back up. Still no go. "What the hell is wrong now?" I muttered. I turned the PC back off and decided to change the jumper of the "Master" drive to "Master" instead of "CS." I turned the baby back on and all was good.

Now it's time to install the software for the drive. I popped in the disc it came with in the top drive (the cd-rw one) and waited for something to happen. It span and nothing popped up. It also made a funny sound so I opened the drive and then closed it again. Nothing happened so I tried opening the cd drive from "My Computer." It didn't even show the name of the cd in the drive nor did it show anything on the cd. I took the cd out again and looked at it. To my surprise.. way on the bottom of the disc it read "DVD." It's only obvious why a DVD came with the DVD drive and not a CD so I didn't even go there. I put it in the new "DVD" drive I installed and... to my nonamazement, it worked! So, where the heck is my sign? For people who are reading this and don't know what I'm talking about... read this...

There are some people that should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm stupid."
That way you wouldn't rely on them would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind. I didn't see your sign."
It's like before my wife and I moved from Bay Shore to Coram...our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My neighbor comes over and says, "Hey, You moving?" "Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week. Just to see how many boxes it takes.... Here's your sign."
Last summer I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, y'all catch all them fish?" "Nope. Talked 'em into giving up..... Here's your sign."
I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel, there was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There's only one way to test that. "All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good...They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you." "Well all right....hold my sign, I don't wanna lose it"
Last week I had a flat tire, so I pulled my truck into one of these side-of-the-road gas stations, the attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" I couldn't resist. I said "Nope. No, I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me...... Here's your sign."
We were trying to sell our car about a year ago, a guy came over to the house, drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then goes, "Darn that's hot!" See.... If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

Anywho, it would be cool if I got the same amount of money as I did last week so I can pay off my one card before $300 get's dedected from it for the last installment of the shitty receipt paper ad. What a load of crock that was! I didn't realized until now I could get a LCD display for $100 more than that price! Damn! There is this whole week then next week and it's November already. Time sure is ticking! Then it's December and we all know what goes on there!

Well, I said a shit load tonight!

Time to call it a knight,

Justin

October is starting to shape up pretty good

Welp, the thing I wanted..... I just picked up tonight and it is sitting someplace right now. I won't get into the full details about it yet but it's something which made me pretty happy and it's something I have wanted practically all my life. There will DEFENETALY be a page on my site devoted to it. Soon, after I get everything straightened out with it, it will be posted on my site for the world to see! ;-) (Well, not the world, but the 4 people who actually view my blog!)

October is turning out to be ok so far.... I just hope I will be getting more people to help out some more soon because I am financially screwed. I have a feeling everything will turn out ok soon but I just need it to be SOON! I am going to take that security class next month like I said for a couple weeks and apply for a job. But....... should that class get canceled like the other one DID, I will have to resort to the... last resort, which I didn't really want to do but, right now, it's something I KNOW I can do and will be happy doing it and be financially stable.

And yes, I know.... the hurricane page is not up yet but with the shit which went on this weekend and this week.... I just haven't gotten around to it. I know I haven't been doing anything with my site in quite some time but it will be comming.... soon.

Until next time,

Justin

The straw really was in the bag!

Well, it's October now and things look like they are going to shape up (or ship out). I hope the rest of the year won't be as shitty as these past few months were.

I went to KFC yes... well, two days ago and the dude said the straw was in the bag. I went home and took all my stuff inside with me. I was getting ready and prepared to eat my KFC feast, which I haven't had since a week or so before the hurricane, and discovered there was no straw in the bag like the dude said. "What a bastard! Is it so damn hard to put a straw in the bag?" I shouted. So, I found another straw and proceeded to eat and try to enjoy my feast. I went back in my car later that day and discovered the straw on my seat. "What the heck was it doing on there when it was supposed to be in the bag?" I mumbled. I guess it fell outa da bag, biatch! Ah well, I just went on with my pitty life after that.

About the things getting back into shape...
I had a current client call me about her PC again. It was the same monitor deal as before. I looked at the pins on the monitor cable and a few were missing. I told her this may be the problem why the PC isn't detecting the monitor anymore. I went out and bought her a new Samsung monitor and came back. I unplugged the old and put in the new. Same thing happened. I was like, "well, shit on me!" I opened the case of the PC and took a peak inside and, to my horror, found a family of dust bunnies having a party in the case; it was wild in there! I looked at the graphics card and told her, because of the dust bunnies, she may need a new one because it probably overheated and blew.

Yadda Yadda... I took the PC home and did a massive clean of the inside of the case and gave the bunnies a new place to have their cake.. and eat it too. It was in the vacum! LOL! They made new friends and are now happy. So, I sucked and blew all them away and fired up the PC. After I did that, the PC has been working good again. So, apparently, the card was getting too dusty and not enough air was circulating from the fan. I had the PC on for a few hours now and it's been working pretty good now. Another job well done for the Dragon! ;-) Oh, and I charged the monitor on my already-high-card and deposited the check so I have a decent amount in the bank before it "capoo's."

Also, another good thing (yea, there's another! Isn't that just dandy?!), I went back to the IRCC site to see if the security class was available anytime soon and..... it is! Lucky me! Starting next month, I'll be taking that for a little more than a week and should be getting me a security job after that. I told my friend Bob about it too and he should be registering for it also soon. We will be in the same class together again. It should be fun. Hopefully THIS class won't get canceled!

Welp, that's enough good news for tonight!

Time for bed,

Until next time,

Justin back and better than before!