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It’s a strange thing. I use iTunes for all my music on my computer (like 99.9% of all mac users) and like many jukebox programs, it allows you to rate songs. I have a problem with this though, It allows you to choose from between 0 to 5 stars for each song. Why would you even have a song though, if you only thought of it as a 0 or 1 star? Hell, anything under a 4 should probably go. So, you need to totally rethink the way things are categorized when you rate your songs. It really screws with my head to do it.

Mill End is now at 70% off everything, right down to the racks and lights. I need to get over there and see what’s left.

Jenn and I went to the Birch Run RV show. It was pretty cool, some neat stuff.

We also ate at Arby’s. The gyros are good, but lamb is better.

I have currently spent $0.15 on bandwidth/storage. Not bad really. I figured like $3 a year, and $0.26 a month, so we aren’t too bad yet.

All right, See you Monday, with more than this I hope.

Three hundred!

Yay! My 300th post. Granted, it was really a few back, since I deleted some, but this is the official one. The one that really counts.

School is going well. None of my classes seem too horrible. Though, I am out of Fin-Aid money for books and supposedly will still need 1 more, but that’s how school goes.

One of the very cool parts about having Word-Press is, I am at Jenn’s, on her computer, and can post a blog. I love that.

All the old posts are now on this blog, but around 60 of them got screwed up dates. I am working on fixing that, along with deleting incorrect line breaks that were carried over somehow. Want to have it all fixed over the weekend, but probably not. My goal is at least the mis-dated ones.

I made mussels for dinner. It was OK. The pasta and sauce were real good, the mussels were just scary. Like I told Jenn, worst case scenario is we die.

Notice that now, under (or over, I forget) the counter in the blog sidebar is a word counter. I will of course have a special entry for my 100,000 word, but that’s a ways off.

I think that’s it. Enjoy the now-official new blog, and have a good weekend.

Poll’s will return when I get all the old posts straightened out. I have enough to work on for now.

The End

For the second time in 2 years, I present my final blog of a particular address. Two years ago it was the final at blogger (which is actually still up) (and oddly, I was sick then too), and now I present my final blog with iblog on .Mac. This blog will not stay up, and will disappear on October 1st, 2005.

So, I am almost better, just a stuffed up nose mostly. My mom now has whatever I had though, so it is most definitely not an allergy.

I returned to school today after 486 days off. It sucked, but wasn’t that bad. They still only had the 1 book, that I don’t need until tomorrow anyway, so I didn’t get that. Went to CAD, and that seems like it will go fine. Pre-Calc was odd, because I have gone up through Calc 2, so should be easy as everything goes by, but since I haven’t had a math class in 2 and a half years, I needless to say am having trouble remembering some “should be easy” stuff. So after that, I went back to the bookstore and wow! They now had a second book! The line was long as hell though, so I walked out anyway. Maybe tomorrow.

So, I came home and took a nap cause I only slept like 4 or 5 hours last night, and made some steaks for dinner (which were awesome).

They just showed the Jeopardy that was the first with Ken Jennings. Yeah, he kicked some ass, huh?

What else…

You see that new Triple Whopper? Talk about a heart attack waiting to happen.

I guess that’s it. Wish it were a little more interesting, for being the last here, but then again it will just continue in 3 days anyway.

OK, so long, and see you Thursday at the new blog. I may or may not have all these posts up there by then, we will see.

nick

Sick

Yup, late August and I’m sick again. Today I’m not too bad, not now anyway. At least I can breathe. Wish I knew what the hell caused it.

So, this and one more. Scary stuff man. It seemed so far away when I announced the move, and now it’s creeping right up.

Due to being sick, I haven’t accomplished much outside, or with the website, or anywhere really. Mostly just slept on the couch, or in my bed, or anywhere I can curl up in a decently comfortable ball.

School starts Monday, just 3ish days away (being 11:40, its 2 full days, plus 10 hours in the morning). So that’s something to not look forward to.

OK, goodnight all, I tired.

nick

I Want to Play the Bagpipes

I do, sadly, I really do. I think it would be cool. Nobody would like me while I learned, especially my family and neighbors and anyone else I practiced around, but who cares, in the end I would be able to play the bagpipes! I mean, how hard could it be, really?

Also, in researching all this, I found a band called Enter the Haggis. Seriously, a scottish bagpipe rock band. Some of their songs are actually really good, to me anyway, but I want to play the bagpipes, so what do I know.

So, to get started I need to get a practice chanter, which is basically the part of the bagpipe that goes from your mouth to the bag, looks kinda like a flute. This is what your supposed to learn on when your first starting out, and to practice new songs even when your an old vet. I have seen them on eBay and the sorts for $35ish. Also, I am going to ask some people at the river of time for suggestions. I have no intention of jumping right in after all, since I am poor, and I am afraid of the horrible sounds I will make.

In other news, There is this post, the 26th, and the 29th, thats it, in case I haven’t warned you enough.

Thursday is 2 weeks to my birthday.

Two weeks from today I have an interview for RadioShack. Hopefully I get an interview this time, instead of just standing around waiting then being told to go home, after being told 3 times that the store I am applying for isn’t hiring despite me having talked to the store’s manager just 2 days earlier and being told they were.

I still don’t have books for school, they weren’t in yesterday when we went to look. I will try Thursday, and if not go early for call Monday. Is scary I have only like 5 days left, especially after 481 days off (as of today).

Tomorrow will be a year since Jenn and i went to Mackinaw. We are trying to work in a camping trip the week after Labor Day, and I would like another one during fall colors. We will see.

I have the gallery up , as well as an online status indicator on the new site. Gallery is pretty much as it was on this site. I will be making modifications to it over tonight though.

Today Jenn and I went fishing at State Park, and I caught the biggest weed I ever have. Really, this was a big weed, like 4 foot long, and weighed a metric shitload too!

Also today, I installed our back screen door, and yesterday we finished the fence.

OK, I think that is it.

Till
Friday,

nick

Darkmatter, each pound of which weighs more than 10000 pounds!

the Post that Evens Everything Out

So, as suggested in the title, this is the post that will make everything even. Now, my first real post here, the next one here, will be 300. Woohoo!

I have a bunch of pics scanned in to put up in the gallery, but I can’t. They all have a big heap load of whitespace from scanning and I can’t edit it out. iPhoto crashes because I don’t have enough RAM and the rest of my editors don’t work as well. Soooo… until I get about $110 for a RAM upgrade, the photos will just have to sit.

I do have the Stories section up, and a few other pages. Also, I have a counter display on all my pages and a “Go 1 year back” feature installed in the blog, for when I get the old posts up.

So, I guess that’s it. No more posts here for about 2 weeks. Stay tuned to the old blog till then.

nick

3 Entries Left

Yes, just 3 blogs remain after this one. It is coming upon us. I am antsy to get the switch over, but I still have some stuff to do on the new site before it’s ready.

We just had dinner, grilled lemon chicken and pirogies. Yum. Jenn is gone tonight at work, then off with some friends from work, so I’m all alone. Too bad Saturday TV sucks.

It felt like fall almost the last few days, which makes me want pasties. I like pasties. I either need to try making some, or just go to Yooperville.

I finally got all the pics from Mackinaw scanned. Will put them on the new site soon. They had good pasties in Mackinaw.

OK, I’m off to scan more.

nick

no quote today

Number 292, Part Deux?

OK, so this is post 292, after deleting 6, 2 from “info” and 4 from stories. Then you add in the upcoming posts that will be on the 20th, 23rd, 26th, and 29th and were at 296. Then, the 2 I already have in the new blog, plus another in the next few days is 299. So, my first real post in new blog, on Sept 1st, will be 300th.

Also upcoming is my birthday. September 8th, 3 weeks away. Fun fun.

We went to Hahn’s today to do a little work for a party their having.

Jenn and I went to state park yesterday. Was cool, but icky. We saw 3 deer, and a black squirrel, and a bunch of bluegill. Also, we walked on the beach, which was the icky part. The beach has about 10 ft of water access, the rest is a muck made up of zebra mussel shells and dead weeds mixed with some sand. The result is 12 inched or squshy spongy stuff that crunched when you step on it. Very odd feeling.

Afterward we went to Turkey Roost, but they were closed, so we went to Buffalo Wild Wings. Not bad, I wouldn’t get wings though cause their naked, and I don’t like naked wings. Boneless wings were good though (I think were thighs, maybe not, maybe just less-desirable portion of breast).

Hmmm…

So I have more up on site, going to go do a bit of updating now.

See you Saturday.

nick

What I need is a nice disease that causes money to chronically fall out of my ass.

17 Days to Go

So, My Uncle Steve and his family went home today. He did a lot of work on the back entrance, and I thank him much.

We finished the neighbors fence, and should have ours done within 2 days. I also need to do the wiring for the shed and back entrance, finish insulating, and help my Uncle Mike with dry walling the inside of the back entrance. We are moving though.

Jenn and I went to Red Lobster today. They have an unlimited salad and soup lunch which is awesome because 1) the soup is WAY better than Olive Garden’s and 2) it’s the cheapest thing on the menu and definitely fills you up. The clam chowder was good, the bayou gumbo was also, I didn’t find out what the soup of the day was.

The new site is still moving along. I have a new main page up, have the counter fully working, and found out what the problem was that kept most of my site down for the last 24 hours.

OK, I guess that’s it. Back to working on the site.

nick

On the good side, it no longer causes anal leakage!