09.30.04

5 days till my birthday! Hooray. I've been trying to act like more of an adult lately... since at 24 I'll officially have to become an adult. So in following this new adult-like trend, I'm going to talk politics. For like 1 minute cuz I have other higher priority stuff to do. I figure I'll work something big up over the weekend.

One Minute of Politics with Sarah Jameson
(notice how I didn't say 60 seconds... that'd be copyright violation)

My name is Sarah Jameson and I approve of this message (duh). The two main candidates of this election are both equally lousy, as I have found the Republican and Democratic candidates of every election I've been a "party" to thus far in my voting career. You have the Democrats, you have the Republicans, and while I do prefer if I must choose one to have the Republican party in charge, I cannot underemphasize the greatness of the alternative the Libertarian Party has to offer the common, over-taxed, over-worked, underemployed and underrepresented any-class American.

If you haven't looked into the Libertarian party, you should. If you've voted for a man you didn't think would make a very good president, because he represented to you the lesser of two evils, you should look at the Libertarian party. If you've found bipartisan politics to be all the same old bullshit, you should look at the Libertarian party. The party of common sense, the party for respecting individual liberties and rights, the party of leaving other countries the hell alone and focussing on keeping America productive and secure to ensure a promising future for the lives of Americans now and for the generations of Americans to come. This has been One Minute of Politics with Sarah Jameson, and I thank you for your time. Oh and, Vote Libertarian!

09.28.04

My mom laughed at me when I did a phone survey for Petsmart to get $5, but I got my check in the mail! Who's laughing now? (Besides my bank teller). Surveys that pay are awesome.

09.25.04

Okay. First off, I read very, very few non-informational things on the web. I'm not one to post links or talk about the funny story on... well you know, those funny sites, that post funny stuff. I'm extremely anti-that for some reason, I guess just because I've known too many people that were way too pro-that that annoyed the hell out of me. You know those people... the people that are always sending you links to videos of stuff that you don't care about saying "ya gotta see this its soooo funny!". Well I hate those people. That whole time-wasting collective. Man, I really do hate those people, I think I might hate them as much as I hate liberals. And man, do I ever hate liberals. I guess they're kind of like liberals if they're really into time wasting... damn hippies.

Anyways, back on track, I saw that the new Sims game is finally out. So I was looking around to see what kind of improvements there were, see some screenshots, junk like that. I found this review, which is just... completely... hilarious. Even if you didn't like the Sims or never played it, this review is just downright hilarious. The reviewer (whose name I won't bother to change IE windows to find out) plays the game for 10 days and shows you all that happens in his little created worlds. Of course, hilarity ensues. Maybe I should remember that guy's name... he's pretty funny. Scott Sharkey. Okay, Scott Sharkey is hilarious. Of course as far as reviews go, I don't know what he actually thought about the game, which is kind of odd. But who cares... I'll go buy it eventually just because I'm a recovering Sims junkie. And well... I think you alcoholics know what I mean when I say, nothin' beats a good hard fall off the wagon.

I've been a Sims junkie off and on for a few years now. I obsessively played the crap out of that game (that's my M.O., obsess over something until I hate it). I was mainly into the house building and interior design aspects, but I had a couple families I actually stuck with long enough to get bored of and kill off at a successful and happy point in their lives. The Sims is great... that's just all there is to it. The new one looks even more awesome than the first. A 3.5 gig install! Do you KNOW how many different types of CHAIRS and FLOOR TILE TYPES that is?!

Having read that review, now of course I will have to buy the Sims 2. But I think I'll wait till it drops about $20 in price. Who can pay $50 for a freaking game? I doubt my video card can even handle it. Ha! I was joking when I said that but I guess it's true. Crap. So now I have to buy a video card and the Sims 2. Guess I should wait till it's reeeaaaally on sale, like on a negative sale, where they pay me to take it. I'm sure that's one of those terrific marketting ploys that's just making its way down through all the layers of industrial corporate bureaucracy. I can't wait till it gets here! In much the same style I think Nvidia owes me a graphics card. I should probably write them and let them know that I'm willing to let them pay in installments if it suits them best. I'm nothing if not a reasonable person. Well it's 10:47, time to hit the hay. And yes, I am well aware of how lame that is.

09.19.04

Just switched over this index to php, so if you have any bookmarks that point straight to http://www.sarahtory.com/index.html they're not going to work any more. Adjust to http://www.sarahtory.com/index.php, which is where you'll be taken if you go straight to nevernevernet.com anyways. Of course if you're reading this you either don't care or already know. Whatever. Whatever! At least my countdown will update every day now. I'm going to have a countdown to something always going... I think it makes time go faster. I'm in a big hurry to watch my life pass before my eyes apparently ;)

09.18.04

No updates for a week... what can I say, having a blog is occassionally tedious. Frankly sometimes I just don't have a darn thing to say. If I just went and said nothing though, then no one would ever come here, because the updates would be so sparse it wouldn't be worth the effort. Then when I did have something to say, there'd be no one to read it. So what I have to do is skillfully give the impression that I have stuff to talk about, all the while hiding the fact that I was tapped out long ago and there's just no reason for anyone to ever come here again. Well, that's not true. I have the day to day stuff to offer still of course, but I do still think of good rant topics I'd like to address sometimes. My problem is that when I'm all pissed off about something, that's when I want to write the rant. But I don't get to my blog till late at night when everything else is done and I'm winding down for the day... then I'm all chilled out, I don't want to get all upset again by ranting about the thing that pissed me off earlier, I just want to kick back and let that kind of stuff go. I've just realized what I need to do. See, I've wanted a laptop for forever, for various reasons. Recently, I wanted one for work. Not as recently, I wanted one for school. Right now I'm thinking I want one so I can update nnn whenever. Wouldn't that be awesome? Only more reason to get a laptop. I was going to set up a donation fund for myself so you can give me money to go towards a laptop but instead I think I'll make a new "About Me" section. I don't quite recall how one track led to the other. Oh well... bedtime for now!

09.11.04

I have good news and bad news. Well great news and bad news. The great news is that I got the job! And it sounds totally, completely awesome. I'm so excited to start! I will post details on what kind of work it is later... I'm pretty tired at the moment. In summary, it's technical writing mixed with graphic design, among other duties, with incredibly amazingly great opportunities for advancement, all for a company that supplies training for Java, Linux, and Oracle. That's about as good as good news gets, really. By the sounds of this job, I'm not sure I could've designed one more awesome myself. I guess there could be a company helicopter or something heh.

The bad news... is that I got a cold. So my ears are all stopped up, one side of my nose doesn't work, and my head is all foggy from cold medicine. I don't get sick very often... I think that's why when I do it makes me so mad. Then for days I'm just some fuzzy headed pill popper wandering around in complete oblivion until I rejoin society when the cold passes. What a nuisance. I should really appreciate my health more when I have it. Yeah, I should do a lot of things.

I get to work at home with this new job, so that's pretty awesome. I think for that reason I will be able to justify upgrading my computer and buying a laptop (which I have already had plans for anyways). Now it seems like it'd just be silly NOT to. So once I pay off all my debt (which should take about a month or so), it's laptop time. Then it's upgrade time! Life is good! Then I'm going to completely join this century and probably get a cellphone. You just can't be cool without one any more. Of course I was never particularly "cool"... but hey, I can pretend.

Long term goals? Fix my fender on the Acura! Get a paint job! Tint the windows! Ooh, make all the dash stuff all indiglo-y. Oh, and fix the alarm! That's a no-brainer. Talk of a Linux cert... man I'm just going to burst from excitement of all the great things to come. Guess I'd better take that Tylenol PM before that happens.

09.10.04

Uhh... hmm. I love the web.

09.10.04

CSU sure is making the news a lot these days. Topping the "lousy way to go" charts, a recent edition, Samantha Spady, found dead 12 hours after her passing in a CSU frathouse. And they're calling it alcohol poisoning. What a lousy, lousy way to go. Nineteen years old, good student, totally involved in high school, homecoming queen, student council, volunteer, head cheerleader, a pretty typical "the girl everyone knows about" chick. And she dies in some anonymous room, alone, and no one notices for half a days time. Passes out... never wakes up. She's discovered by some kid giving his mom a tour of the frathouse.

Her parents think she just "made one mistake" that cost her her life, but then up springs a webpage detailing her drinking and partying history. God drinking can make people stupid. Pushed into a close second place on the "lousy way to go" chart is the guy in Marietta, Georgia, that got decapitated while throwing up out the side of his friends truck, whose body wasn't found until the next day (the guy driving went home and passed out, leaving his best friends decapitated body in his truck for some guy walking with his daughter to find the next day). Still a remarkably bad way to go... but you gotta figure he was probably having a blast right up until he, well, "lost his head" (pun intended).

09.09.04

Hey guess what! I might have a job! I think I will find out Saturday! Yay! It sounds like a completely awesome job too... well to me hehe. I've always loved editing, but I wouldn't want to be an editor. I've always loved making little graphics, but I wouldn't want to do just that either. And I've always (or for like 3 years now) loved unix, but I wouldn't want to give up all the other stuff I do for it. So what kind of job do all those things mix to create? A technical editor for a company that makes training stuff for Oracle, Java, and Linux! Woohoo! What a cool job... making graphics and editing. And some administration stuff on the side. I'm pretty psyched anyways. Let's hope for the best.

09.05.04

Dammit time to archive again! Anyways... happy Labor Day Weekend kids. No school Monday, woo! I'm personally going to completely waste my day off doing homework. If my life was any more exciting people in Hollywood would be losing their jobs! Ugh. Went up to my aunt/uncles cabin Friday night/Saturday, you can check out the pics under Misc here.

It was fun... kinda cold, kinda rainy, but hey, that's Colorado weather these days I guess. Got to play some system link Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow with the cousin and the boyfriend... that was quite fun. That game cracks me up... its kind of like hide and go seek, only with violence and explosions. So the fun kind of hide and go seek we always WANTED to play as kids, but that our parents wouldn't let us. Definitely fun.

Y'know what annoys me? People that won't let you take their picture, the "camera-shy". I of all people should be more camera shy than everyone else on the earth combined due to the awfulness of the majority of pictures taken of me. I can look completely different from one pic to the next. That's a compelling reason to hide from cameras, but do I? No. Because it doesn't really matter. See, people take pictures because they want to remember stuff, how things looked, who all was there for that moment, whatever. A perfectly respectable reason to want to take pictures.

When you don't let people take your picture or you hide your face or something, it's kind of like saying you don't want to be remembered as being there. Think if you lived your whoooole life never having your picture taken, then after you died, no one would even know you were around. It'd be like you never existed! What a terrible thing. That's why IMHO, unless you want to leave your relatives and friends and everyone you care about with nothing to look at of you to remember fondly after you're gone, get in some damn pictures! It's just selfish as hell not to.