Vincent The Dragon

yay!
Will got a job at the local casino working as security/EMT
^_^
He is doing well in school and well on his way to being a Paramedic

and i need the break from work and all the shit that's going on...

It has become abundantly clear that the place I work for is not a good place to be.

It's never been a good place but I have been dealing with it; lately however its gotten worse and I am tired of it.
So I will be working on my resume and looking for something else.

Also; I am still getting tons of spam so I did some upgrading and editing of some of the htaccess file.
Time will tell.

Conglomeration: Good! We had fun. The Con was not as good as years past but it is still recovering from having been gone for a few years. What it needs is some younger people in charge. Not that us older guys don't have what it takes but you cant have all the same people for years and years...some of them die out so to speak. We sat in on a panel ran by a wonderful artist; Laura Reynolds who gave us knowledge and insight into her sculpting and techniques.

Computer: bad!!...I have been having an issue with flash media corrupting the video cards memory. It's been leaving an image stuck that bleeds through either the white or black component of things displayed on the desktop. I am not sure if its flash (un-installed and re-installed) or something i tried to do with desktop special effects (found to be broken in 10.10), video card dying (it is and 8800GTS and has several years on it), or something gone wrong in the video driver. I downloaded a newer version of the driver and installed it...boots to console and i can't coax it to start Xserver...Sooo right now the computer is updating itself to 11.04 from Bash, which will likely make all kinds of stuff not work but lets hope not...or at least lest hope it boots to the gui again.

The good thing about Ubuntu is even horribly broken I can boot to command or boot via a live disk and recover all my stuff.

I always pack too much...or..my luggage is not big enough.
it's one or the other.

Yup it's time for my yearly colonoscopy...so yay me!

Not much else going on other that work, eat, work at home, sleep, worry about not having money...

Well we decided to go.
It's been a long time since i have been to a Con.
This one is a mish-mash and has always been fun in the past.
It was my first Con and will be Will's and a local Dragon that has been hanging around us for a while whom is going with us.

It will be good to get away for a bit even if we really can't afford it.

The spam is still around. I changed the settings to require moderation of the posts to make it easier to remove them. The update will not address the problem as its just some bug fixes. the problem is reCaptcha is cracked.

Part of the electrical system to the 35+ year old tractor went up in smoke today; can't afford to replace the thing so i will have to do some jury rigging.

IF i stay in budget in gas and IF I don't buy any food for a month i should come up $500 short in the money i need to pay my state taxes. And that if i dont spend anything; like Will's birthday; we very much want to go to Conglomeration this year and i would need to pay for the hotel room now.

Yay! spam!
i cleaned it all out and made a change to the comments.
You will now have to be moderated!
<_< i need to upgrade the blog software again which is a pain because the light box software that runs the gallery pictures doesn't work and it took a friend that knows PHP a few hours to make it work. that means there are a few pages that have had the PHP changed and i will have to go through the code again at upgrade if things break. Ah well...
First step is syncing the offline blog up to current and updating the install in it.

I can't make the ends meet.
Somehow i need to come up with $1600 to pay my state taxes.
Hopefully my federal return will come in soon and that will give me $600 but i still need another $1000
Where am i going to get that from.

My credit cards are maxed, there is nothing left after paying for my bills, and i do mean nothing.
Sometimes i have to put a few $100 on a card some months just to eat, pay for gas...

The only thing i can think of is to take the money from what little retirement i have,

I don't know what to do.

Not much of anything going on, lack of money and a way out of the mess we are in has been getting me down

This e-automate database building/exporting we are doing at work is hard!
bleah...

We had a new furfriend over for the weekend for some relaxation, chatting, movie and stuff.
We all seem to hit it off quite well and plan on spending more time together. (^_^)

The transmission went out again in Will's truck...We would have preferred to pay it off and keep it around while saving up for a better one but nuuuu...So he got a better on this time and they wiped out what we still owed on the other. This one is much nicer but you pay a lot more for a car at a buy-here pay-here. It's an 03 or was it 06...Impala that looks very clean.

Yay! I completed Zelda Skyward Sword last..er..something around 3 am

I really hope the next console from Nintendo catches up graphics wise...at the moment the PS3 and Xbawx dance around it.

**spoilers a little**

The game it self was right up there with the current Zelda games in complexity. The side plots were there but were not as integrated into the ending as in previous ones. This one's main enemy was very much darker, pushing the limit of the games maturity rating. I rather liked that.

All in all it's a good game but not the best in the series.
Link is still the cute little hero in desperate need of tossing Zelda, whom always gets him in trouble, to the curb and getting himself a nice man.

Well, it's day two for this week long school in Atlanta.

This time, unlike all other schools i have been to for work; it's not a technical class per say.

This time its over a software package we purchased to help run the company, that means i am here with others from the company; being the HR manager and the Owner. So things are a bit different..i.e. weird.

Other than that, it's boring as hell!