Vincent The Dragon

Well...It's more than i would have liked to pay but people with shitty credit don't have a lot of choices.
2001 Buick LeSaber
It's in okay shape, it's been wrecked but seems to have been put back together fairly well and doesn't have a zillion miles on it.

Well it's ugly but it will hold.

The fender is bent a little but i bent it back, the bumper is now being held on with some metal strapping (very redneck).
Drivers door trim popped off but i have it and its not broken, dents in the drivers door.
The inner fender well is missing half of it and the head lamp is destroyed.

I can get the fender well for like $20 and the head lamp of $50 - I'll prolly get a matching set but I am going to wait until the taxes are paid or i get pulled over.
The rest will most likely not get fixed, perhaps after the car is paid off I can decide to have the body work done on it. or not...it is 14 years old but only has 100K, interior is in great shape...we will see.

Will and I are together again. He moved back in and so far things are good. Time will tell but as long as he continues to work together rather than the way it was and maintain his own financials things will be okay.

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You know the saying, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

okay, so my X's truck broke down. He is in a hard place (as am I) with finances and is starting a new job very soon so having your vehicle go down is not good.

I was asked to assist, and I am/did.

It's a clunker, cheap and fairly wore out but us poor people got to do what we got to do.
My unfamiliarity with this type of truck set me back a few hours in trying to figure out where all the water you put in the radiator was running out from the motor but i seem to be in the right track. My time outside in the cold wind without the more correct tools is just a donation, the parts required is a loan of sorts. I can't afford much to give but am hopeful that the cost of the parts will be under 150. I go to the auto store in the morning and hopefully will have the thing back up and running before dark.

Oh, and I hit a deer on the way back home...My car is still drive-able but the front bumper seems to be busted and the drivers head light assembly is busted.
I have state minimum coverage so...and I could not afford a deductible anyway. Hopefully I can repair the damage to the plastic and replace the assembly but it will be a while before i can get to it due to this loan and needing a bunch of money soon for to pay my state taxes (my employer doesn't take out state taxes and it really fucks me over in taxes)

my service coordinator up and quit.
We are short staffed as it is and those that we do have are not very experienced nor particularly qualified to fit into the position.
...which will mean more work for me...again!

So...I ran into an issue..
Ubuntu Used to be a good OS that catered not only to the high end but also the low end.
It was not uncommon to use Ubuntu to breath new life into older hardware and do more with it than windows ever could.
This is not the same anymore.
Ubuntu poopoo's on the people that made it popular and instead do stupid shit.
I could NOT get it to recognize my older video card for sit.
Fortunately there is another ubuntu offshoot other than Mint called LXLe that is Ubuntu restored back it its lighter days and works with older hardware...actually ubuntu would work but they removed and/or broke things in the repository in favor of only supporting newer hardware and thier sucky desktop manager.

Issue number two...Windows 7's boot loader is shit and hates anything but itself so i am having to stray from using my normal boot loader, (Grub2) and use a windows bootloader (EasyBCD). No biggy there.

The test bed is now all up and running and dual booting and Damn! is LXLe FAST on this thing.

Finally..we got my 3rd technician hired.
That means I needed to move because I was still in the same room as the technicians and there are only 3 desks in that room.

my office is small, it's really just a cubical and it lacks a door ...but its the first time I have had my own office.

Now, the new guy...I really did not want to hire him but i was over-ridden.
His first day was Monday, it went okay....his second day was today, he failed to bother to show or call and let us know we decided not to work for us..
Fuuuk..welll at least i got a new office?

rummaging in the shelves
Built a test bed
every geek needs one
I always kinda liked this odd case, saturated in blue LED's
the neat analogue temperature dial
It's a pretty clean build if i do say so
Old hardware, AMD Sepmteron 3000
dual booting Win7 pro and Mint Linux

Have a look.
Tell me your thoughts.

Don't be Jelly of my Jam
this is what i did this weekend.
Blackberry Jam made from blackberries i grow myself.

Well..Things are slow as of yet but the web site is now on a new web host...This post also serves as a test post so more information will follow.

so..i am wally world picking up a few things. They have nice cheap bread and i needed some flea meds for the cat...and some other crap that i cant get at a good price elsewhere.

checkout person puts the flea killer and the bread in the same bag...

So I had a friend over for a few days and he brought a game along. I liked it!
I found it used at the local game store and have been playing Super Paper Mario ^_^
it fun...other than right now it's pissing me off with a side quest that is rather lengthy and towards the end it like to just decide you have played long enough and it just kills you.

The first time i tried updating the blog it all blew up.
This time i took it in smaller increments...note to self...Do Not Get So Far Behind On Software Updates!!

Anyway...took all day but the main blog is running. The other blogs can wait as they are no longer really updated.

Now, to find a new web host and move the entire thing.

Aslo, i got out the Dutch oven and chacoal'd

So...we, me and a friend, rebuilt my main workstation Shiny.
Made from some parts two friends of mine donated to me.
Rocking a nice Gigibyte motherboard, and AMD Phenom2 956 black, and an SSD.
It working rather nicely and quite fast...like it boots so fast its crazy.

The website needs to be updated and moved elsewhere. The web host i use has gotten too expensive.

Other than that, just been cleaning the house and orginizing.

This is in response to something posted elsewhere.

Yes, it sounds like a small thing. Bringing home a puppy. We are not allowed to have any more animals in the house we don’t own. The one mom pays for, pays for electricity, water, insurance, trash pick-up and tosses in more even to pay for the mowing on the tractor she bought. The puppy discussion has been had on several occasions but no, William comes first. You do know the two cats here have been exposed to parvo and the puppy could get sick and die. There is no food in the fridge and the tires on your car are bald but sure, a puppy comes first. It's not like i came out and asked a few weeks ago when you had days off that perhaps it would be nice to fix me a meal for us to share together when i got home since you know, i come home from work and fix you food always even when you don’t let me know you have decided to eat at your mom’s or something. Oh, wait, I did...you asked for gas money and spent your time off elsewhere. ..the finger pointing game works both ways but I ask that we digress and step back and simply move on with our lives now as individuals.

Always remember that despite growing apart, there was and still is love there. There is no reason you should not continue to better your life because despite the recent illness. You have come up in the world in job, education and socially. Please if only in spite of me, continue to be healthy, employed at your good paying job and finish your education because you do have it in you.

Be well and good bye.