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