Author: papa

stupid roomate

me and my girl had been lookin for a new roommate for quite a while, since about new years, but no luck. so she started to get a little desperate and this guy shows up with this hella pitiful sob story about how he has to be out of his current place in two days.

he seemed cool enough, to her, i never met him before he moved in. so he gets moved in in like 8 hrs, all his crap in the garage and all over the basement. i finally meet him, and he’s kinda wierd, not good wierd either, kinda creepy and shady. for example, the first or second night that he was there, i was coming out of my room heading for the kitchen and he’s walkin past me with his hands behind his back, so i get a little curious as to what he feels he has to hide from me, because he’s 36 (which in itself is kinda odd, living with people 10 yrs younger).  i talked with my girl about it, and she said that she found a brown bag next to the couch, so i figured he just feels like he has to hide his booze from me and think nothing more of it. but then the next day, my girl asks me how much jack was in a bottle we had in the cupboard, and i told her i didn’t know, but she says there was only like an inch left in the bottom, and i’m pretty sure the bottle was half full when last i saw it, but i can’t say for sure, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

the next day. while straightening up my room, i notice my piggy-bank is gone. i may have misplaced it, but my first thought was that the new roomate (joel the creepy fucker) stole it.

it stays missing, i never find it, and later that week, we talk with our other roomates, and come to find out, he’s been stealing change from them as well. i guess they came home from a nice valentine’s weekend away to find their change jar, which is rather fat, and hence holds a lot of money, was missing about three inches worth of change, about $60. but the worst part is, it was hidden in their closet, so that means the fucker was going through our stuff!  after i heard that, i decided right then and there that he was out, i don’t give a shit about the lease, if he’s stealing from us, he’s either out of the house, or i’m beatin his ass.

my girl calls her dad (the landlord) and gets his permission to kick him out of the house, so joel calls her, and she tells him that he has three days to get out, he asks why, she tells him, and all he cares about is getting the rest of his rent back, he doesnt even try to deny it.

so he’s gone, moved all his stuff out in one day. but before he left, he stuffed our garbage cans FULL of his shit, which may not even be his shit the way he was going on around the house.

but i gave him a little going away present… while he was gone one night, after the incident, i cracked open his coffee maker and disconnected the heater, so it will only make cold coffee.  =)

so today, we’re gettin ready for a little party, and we noticed that there was a bottle of sprite that was in the same cupboard as the jack, that is now empty. fucker.

anywho, long story short, make sure you check references of new roommates, now matter how desperate you are or how nice they seem…  and keep a screwdriver and a coffee (dis)repair book handy in case things go sour.

plur l8

OMFH

that’s Oh My Fucking HELL!! for those of you not in the know.

i am so sick of the company that my domain is registered through right now it’s not even funny. they have pretty much killed my site for the past three weeks and it is still dead. (i’m writing this through a more direct path that my hosting provides in situations like these)

my current registration period was going to expire, and my hosting company started offering domain registration services that they didn’t offer when i got the webspace, so i wanted to switch over to them to make everything easier. so i pay for the domain service through them about two weeks before it was to expire, and they tried to switch it but it didn’t work, so they tried again, but the second try was too late and my name (iohelix.com) was now being held ransom (ok, not really, but that’s what it seems like).  come to find out that there was a registrar-lock placed on my domain that nobody told me about, and i can’t remove it until i renew my subscription through my current company, so i finally give in and pay them what i need to to get it working…

still waiting…

its been a week now and i still have no control over my domain. the customer service they are providing is horrible, they have NO customer service on the weekends (?!?), no phone numbers that work, and the customer service they do provide is either wrong, or ambiguous (“don’t worry, we are getting in contact with department concerns”)  WTF???

anyway, they finally figured out that somewhere along the line, the order got lost and they are currently working on it, but that’s what they’ve been saying this whole time, so we’ll see…  anyway, just to let you all know, if your domain is registered through HostDime, Fariert, or any of their affiliate companies (except eNom, who is the actual registrar that HostDime is a reseller for), get out now!

just venting…
>(  l8

more to come when my service is finally back up…

school and dumb buses

so school started again, that break was either not long enough or too long, i’m not sure which, but it definitely wasn’t time to go back to school. as much as i love school, it’s still poopy to have to wake up that early just to fall back asleep in class. or have there not even be a class, which was the case yesterday. i woke my ass up at 7:30 to get to my class at 9:10, but then, after i got there, i sat there for like 20 minutes out in the hall, waiting for somebody, anybody, but nobody showed up, no teacher, no students, nobody. stupid first day labs.

my next class was at 2:00, so i went to work, then back to school for an hour, yep, that’s it, 1 hour. went home and sat around, or rather drove around, hunting down some money so i could buy me and my girl a couple of iPod’s (which are dope as hell by the way), then i had to go back to school at 7:15 for a night class, which is going to suck, but at least the class will be worth going to.

so i got home from that class, loaded some songs onto my iPod for today (gotta love firewire, 800 songs in about 5-10 min), then went to bed, but couldn’t sleep, and after i finally got to sleep, the dumb dog woke me up at like 6:00 this morning, and i never got back to sleep… so i got up around 8:30 and headed off to school with my girl, she had to go to work before school so she dropped me off and i waited for the shuttle… saw one, but it was the wrong one, going the other way, too far away to catch, then another one, and another… still waiting for mine…  40 minutes later, as my class was starting, i called my girl and had her take me to school. stupid shuttle.

so now that i’m finally warm again, i’m chillin.   ;)

but school’s lookin good, the iPod kicks ass, and i have a girl that loves me enough to leave work just to take me too school.

plur, l8

oooo…. my head

drinking is bad. no more drinking. especially not martini’s, they beat you up and don’t even ask for your name.

so yeah… the party was fun, what little bit i remember. and the rest is forever saved as digital photos of my drunk ass huggin the toilet. i didn’t take them, obviously, but my good friends did. i’m sure i’ll post them in an anti-drinking section of the photos page sometime soon, but for now, you’ll hafta be happy that i finally got the render i was working on for 6 days into the office to upload. it’s in the photos section under art -> other and it looks pretty good, but you’ll hafta let me know what you think. if you happen to live in the salt lake area, or are familiar with the wasatch front, then the mountains should look very familiar to you, and you may even be able to pick out the various canyons that line the range.

anywho… gonna go back and continue catching up on sleep that was lost, or gained, i don’t remember, from new years…

hope yours was fun!

plur, blegh.

stupid snow

ya know what really sucks… when your writing a blog entry and then when you go to add it to the database, you get a nice little internal server error. that sucks. i had this whole post typed out yesterday, but when i went to send it, it died, so i’m typin it again…

i was tellin you about that render i was working on that was takin like 6 days… well, we went up to my girlie’s parent’s house for christmas, and it was snowing pretty good up there, so after the day was over, we decided that it would probably be better if we left earlier instead of staying and watching a movie with the fam. so we left and when we got to the bottom of the canyon, it was snowing pretty hard. one of the first things i did when i got home was check on the status of the render… it was coming along nicely, and it actually looked pretty good at the point it was at, so i saved a version at that point and went about the rest of my evening.

when i woke up, i noticed that the clock was blinking… fuck. the power had bliped. it doesn’t really matter if the render had finished during the night, i hadn’t had a chance to save it completed before the power bliped. 6 days of rendering, lost. but not completely… i still had the almost complete version saved from the night before, which is good or i would have been really upset. but it snowed pretty hard that night and there was like a foot of snow on the ground in the morning and it was still snowing!  it’s a good thing we left early or we would have been stuck up the canyon for 2 days.

i shoveled the driveway that afternoon with my gilrie and again that night by myself because it had snowed another 6 inches. all in all, over two days it snowed about 2 feet at my house. it looks cool, but it sucks to have to shovel that damn driveway three times a day to keep it managable. otherwise we’d have to shovel a foot at a time, which really sucks. it took us about 2 hours the first time.

oh well, sammie likes it.

plur, lates.

christmas

wow… christmas really snuck up on me this year. usually, around this time, i know that it is christmas, i just don’t have any of the shopping done.

this year, i went shopping yesterday (which was awesome by the way, it’s so nice to be able to buy about half of the stuff you need to get at one store, although the store i got everything at wasn’t even close to the kind of store that i thought i would be able to get everything at… and everything else at another store, which was also a big surprise, anywho…) i went shopping yesterday, and didn’t really get the christmas feeling until last night after that awesome day of shopping, but thats okay, cuz i gots it now, and i’m excited!!  i only have to buy a few more things today, but they’re the important ones, for my girlie, and then i’m done, and it’ll be christmas before you know it, and i’ll get lots of stuff.

and i know that may seem selfish… but whatever, you know you get excited when you get cool stuff for christmas, too.

don’t get me wrong, i love being able to buy stuff for other people, but gettin stuff is cool as hell, too.   =)

anywho…   Merry Christmas!!!

and i hope you get everything you wanted!

on a completely unrelated note… i’m currently rendering something in bryce that is taking like 6 days to render, not even kidding… i started it on friday or saturday and it has been running solid ever since (today is tuesday). it still has about 2 days to go (it’s currently about 65% completed), so… takin a while. i’ll post it when it’s done so you can see what all of the trouble is for, it’s pretty cool…

grades

well, i was checkin my grades for the past semester and just about shit myself…

i was takin a PDE’s class that was rather difficult, and the teacher kinda sucked, so i quit going about halfway through the semester. i was going to drop it, but i had debated whether or not i should drop it too long and missed the deadline to drop the class, and i figured i was going to need to take it again anyway… so why bother going anymore, ya know? so i quit going.

I GOT A B IN THE CLASS!! holy shit!

i only took one test out of three, turned in two homeworks out of about 20, and never took the final. got a B.
i’m not really complaining, but dang, that’s messed up.

anywho… the other classes…

i got an A in complex variables, which is dope, because i was kinda worried about that one.
i got an A in computational physics, which isn’t surprising, but coolio nonetheless.
i got an A in undergrad seminar, but that wasn’t hard, all i had to do was show up, but that class was dope as hell, i loved it. it was basically a class where you go and listen to professors talk about their current (or past) experiments and studies that they are working on. pretty interesting stuff.
the other classes (optics and the lab that goes with it) don’t have the grades up yet, so i’ll keep you posted.

just thought i’d share that interesting turn of events with you.

plur, l8s

EDIT: I got A’s in all of my other classes, for a grand total GPA of aboout 3.85

finals

i took my optics final yesterday, it was okay. it was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. usually the professor gives out these really easy tests with 3 problems and a 4th problem as a graduate student problem or extra credit for the undergrads. it usually harder than the other questions, but this time it was the easiest question on the test, with the first question takin up like 45 min of the 2 hrs allotted for the test. i feel like i did okay though, it wasn’t too bad, but then again, it hasn’t been graded yet…

i took my complex variables test this morning, it was a lot easier than i thought it was going to be. i’ve been pretty much slackin this whole semester in that class, but my test scores have been improving. the good part about it is that he figures the grade for the final, then figures the grades for the tests and adds them to the grade for the final, and whichever is better, with or without the tests, is the final grade for the class. so basically, my whole grade rests on this one test, and i already know i got a few wrong, so…

i have one more final to take today, but i’m not worried about it. although i know it’s going to take me pretty much the whole 2 hrs to do it, just because most of the assignments and lab exercises have been very work intensive. but it’s because of that that i feel pretty confident going into the test…

we’ll see…

plur(it’s like plus, just not spelled the same) l8s

EDIT: well…  i took the last test of my first semester at the U. man that was a hard test, not to brag, but i was the first one done, and it took me the full two hours to do it. it was tough, as i thought it would be, but i never thought it would be that tough. oh well, time to go have some liquor or something…

it’s about time

wow…   i can’t believe the semester is actually over. it’s so nice to not have to do anything…   i can sit around, lay in bed, watch tv, stay up late, eat whatever i want, wait…   i could do that before, but now i can do it whenever i want, i don’t have to wait till class is over.

i have three finals next week. but i don’t think any of them will be really hard, i mean, all three of them are open book/open notes, and one of them is like four problems long… in two hours?!? and i know what you may be thinking…  those four problems are gonna be HARD!   nope   they’re not. its gonna be easy, and then one of the other ones is online, but that class was pretty time intensive. i just spent the better part of a week working on the final project and i’m not talkin like when i had free time all week, i’m talkin like for 10hrs a day all week, as well as going to school and sleeping and eating. it was tough but it turned out pretty good. (i’ll put it on the site for ya’ll, go to http://www.iohelix.net/proj/ and check it out. click the .pdf file for the final report, or check out the source code i wrote in the .cc file).

the third final has me a little worried, but not too bad, besides if i do good on the final, the grade comes off of it completely, and if not, then the other tests are figured into the grade as well, nice, huh?

so now i’m at work, and when i get home i’m prolly gonna clean my room cuz my girlie is complaining that it’s dirty. next week, i’ll be workin at all three of my jobs, as well as trying to figure out what classes to take next semester, and prolly start thinking about what i’m gonna be gettin peeps for chrismukah (and no, i don’t watch the o.c.,  i just happened to be laying there last night while my girl was watchin it).  then i’ll be workin at egi pretty much the whole christmas break trying to get money so i can buy those presents, and that’s about it…

i miss school.

plur, l8s

p.s.- if you have any questions about that final project, the code, the LaTeX files, whatever, let me know. they are NOT for use though, so don’t copy them, unless you ask, and i say ok.

weird

so some weird stuff has been happening in my life lately…  for one, my friend beaker called me up out of the blue (which itself is weird, cuz he never calls me), and invited me to come and play at manhattan on monday, which i did, and it was pretty fun, except that the person i was hoping would come (it was his birthday), didn’t. but it was still fun. (insert topic change here)

another thing is, while we (my parents and i) were at lunch about two weeks ago, my mom was talkin about how my brother is trying to get in touch with his biological father, and that they had set up a meeting, and then she asked me if i was interested in meeting my biological father, which i said i was, but only to see what he looks like, to see what kind of genetics i have, and if i have any other siblings that i don’t know about, etc. not to fill any ‘holes’ that i may have in my life, my adoptive father takes care of us very well. but right after i had said to her, that i was interested in finding out if i had any siblings, she told me in a very ‘it-happens-all-the-time’ way, that i had a sister who was about 23-24 yrs old.   !!!   that pretty much floored me for the rest of the day…  i mean, its not everyday that you find out that you have another sister out there that you don’t even know.

so it got me thinkin that i’d like to meet her, and find out about them and everything, which is weird, because two weeks ago i was fine with my life, and had no real desire to meet my father or anybody from that side of my family, but last night my mom called me up to tell me that she had found my uncle and had contacted him about me and my father…   and he wants to meet me…   so we’re (my parents and i) are going to go to lunch with him on friday.

yeah… weird.

i have to admit, i’m a little nervous. i mean, its so weird to find out that there are people out there who are related to me that i don’t even know, that know about me, and want to meet me. its kinda messin with my head.

while my mom was visiting with my uncle, she gave him a picture of me, and he told her that he was going to put that picture on my fathers workbench and see if he notices and what he says about it…   that would be weird also (i told you this post was about weird stuff), to all of a sudden have a picture of your long lost son on your workbench and not know who it was…

anywho…   long post, gonna go now
plur