August 22, 2003 - Friday

Nyo! Belldandy Clock! Skuld clock! Urd Clock! Those are the links to my auctions nyo! Wish me luck nyo. Hopefully these will help me pay rent nyo! ^_^ Only a few more days left to bid nyo!

[^Young^] - 12:00 AM PDT

'allo everyone! I've been having a ball here in the glorious Switzerland. I've seen some beautiful sights, and even popped over to Germany for dinner last night. ^^ Most of yesterday was spent exploring the joys of the area. Susanne took me to Rhinesfeld yesterday, where we walked around the old town, and looked at the lovely Rhine River. That afternoon, we went a little ways south, to ride something called the Solarbob, which was basically bobsleding down a hill on a steel half pipe track. Of course, now that the Neko-gumi have seen what that thing is, I'm sure one of them will start planning up how to make one of our own. ^^ I hit 50kph (about 32mph) going down that thing, setting a speed record for the track. Fun times. Anyway, all has been well. The only icky part of the trip so far has been the mosquitos joy in sucking my blood, but if I could deal in China, I'll deal here. Oh, and send e-mail! It's hard being out of contact... I miss the Neko-gumi... ;_;

[^e^] - 12:42 AM PDT

Hmm, more bad news dear readers... (Oh, and as an aside, I've gotten 18 emails with virus attachments after posting my warning advisory... I'm seriously wondering which of our readers are infected, and don't know it?) More SoBig.F activity. Evidently SoBig.F is programmed to download *new* code to execute... I'll give a brief overview for our readers that may not understand how SoBig works. An infected machine harvests emails from the Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Outlook Express cache. It uses these addresses to send viruses to, and to spoof addresses from. A 'simple' way for all our users to be proof against 99% of the viruses that exist is to stop using Outlook and Internet Explorer. Okay, back to the emails. So an example, the infected machine takes my email from it's cache, and uses that as the target. Then it takes, say, Young's email from the cache, and uses that as the spoofed sender. Then I get an infected email that *looks* like it's from Young, but is really sent by one of our regular readers. In fact, after this post I would not be surprised if I got 20 virus infected email, because of our kind and loving readers. So that's how the virus gets it's targets. It will then spend all it's free time collecting emails as you surf the web, mixing and matching addressees and addressers, and sending out more emails. How, pray tell, do you get infected? Say you get an email from, say, me. Currently most of my virus email has the title, 'Your details" and the body says 'See the attached file for details". So you get one of these emails with a pif attachment. Double clicking it means you become infected. That's it. Technically it's a trojan, not a virus. MSBlaster, btw, is a worm, but that's a different story. If you're looking for alternative email programers or browsers, Eudora is a capable email program, and Mozilla is a capable browser and email client. Though maybe one of you readers will know you're infected by reading this mail... I'm getting a *lot* of email from people in the .ru domain... That may mean a Russian (.ru?) reader is seriously infected. This page tells you how to manually find out if you're infected, short of using an anti-virus. I can't recommend how to remove the infection, short of an anti-virus...

[^Louis^] - 2:38 PM PDT

August 24, 2003 - Sunday

Much ass whoopage tonight. 13 tables. Was barely making it, though a few tables we're unhappy with the service. Maybe I'm not cut out for this waitering/server stuff. I bet a whole lotta you out there in the restaurant business are laughing saying, "Feh! 13 tables. That's nuthin'!" Meh, there's always gonna be people like that who think other things are just cakewalk. Got me thinking a bit. This current job is a'ight. I like it. Less stress and more organization. But then there's always like some kinda trade off. I gotta serve people who have really really really high standards. Even the slightest goof up can spell disaster. Gotta be really careful with orders, especially drinks. But there's like so many members there it can be quite overwhelming. Maybe I should give myself more time. All the goof ups are learning experiences at least. I kinda miss working at my old job.....well ok, I just miss hostess girl, but I see her once every week now since I'm working at my old job on Mondays and Tuesdays, but I still miss her. I'm gonna give her a big drawing of the nekos I've been drawing for her, wai~! I guess that's the only thing worth hanging on for that job for. I mean, I could just say I quit and just keep in touch with her but it wouldn't be the same. In other ponderings, I've been thinking about something that I've been hesitant to bring up. Mainly it's a friendship that I've been thinking of terminating. Don't worry, it ain't one of the Nekobox Gumi. They're kewl. It's this one friend of mine, I think we've been friends for a few years now but now I kinda had it with this person and it seems like no matter what happens there is just pain. I can't really explain it but it's just pain and I'm sick of it. Most of the time I'm patient and sometimes I can over look the pain but it just seems like an endless cycle and it makes me feel insecure and I hate that feeling. Plus I've been putting a whole lot in this friendship in the past but I feel I haven't got anything in return. It's like I've been doing all the work. So I've decided to end it and forget about everything with this person. Well, not everything of course. I'll take all the stupid I've done and learn from it and try not to repeat it. I doubt I'll do that though cause I bet there'll be some other way I'll repeat those mistakes. Meh, I can learn from those other mistakes. I'm just hoping I'm not doing something stupid. Sometimes I wonder maybe I'm overreacting about stuff. But right now I'm sure I'm tired of this crap and I just want to end it and forget about it. There's nuthin' wrong with that right? Friendly note. Don't ever go to Cogswell Polytechnical College. Just go to a state university or college and take as many art classes as you can. Learn the 3D stuff and digital painting stuff on your own.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 12:15 AM PDT

I want to crawl in a hole and die in there. Ok, maybe not really. But heck, that's how I feel like after a fender bender. Totally my fault. Thought the driver drove off at the right turn but he didn't and I kept on inching forward. Man I feel like the lowest of the low things that you can think of. Feels like the whole world is against me. Dunno what's gonna happen. We exchanged info and stuff. It wasn't that bad though. Just a dink and some paint scratch. But still the guy was upset even though he didn't show it. That's another thing, you say sorry but still sometimes it ain't good enough. I mean I understand if sorry isn't good enough when you kill a person but heck, it was a honest mistake, no one got hurt and there was very very minimal damage. But then sometimes sorry just a'int enough I guess. Well then, next time I'll give you a gun and you can shoot me and then we can call it even. You know, sometimes I hate people but then I think about that statment. It's not that I hate people, I hate certain aspects of people. Gosh, I just feel like crap now. Whole worlds against me. Can't imagine what my parents will say. Dang, I'm 26 and they still say stuff about things. Did I mentioned I feel like crap now? It's like everyone else in the whole freakin' world is capable of doing anything responsible except me.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 3:42 PM PDT

Yep. Sure enough the whole world is against me. Now my left headlight won't turn on. It's works when I activate the halogens. Sucks. Anyway, funny link here. Weird, eh?

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 11:25 PM PDT

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