So, over the past week or so I’ve been getting seen by an orthopedics specialist, had xrays and MRIs and such, and now ACTUALLY DO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY KNEE. Torn meniscus. So simple.  So I’ll be having surgery in March for it. There is a chance I had the tear and it just didn’t show up on the MRI 6 years ago, or, something. I don’t know. This might remove all kinds of pain.

We’ll see.

Here’s pictures. Click any of them to get to the gallery.

I have a car again. 1999 Audi A6 with the V6 engine. Fully loaded. $9k. Pictures and details later. For now, I really need to fucking sleep.

My dream last night involved rescuing my brother from Bill Gates’ concentration camp that forced people to make clothing. By the end I was some sort of ninja avoiding/killing his guards as I ran by to get to a portal back wherever home was, and found out that it all was a test for some sort of trans-dimensional agency that recruited hitmen (ala Half Life). Somewhere in the middle of all that I was at a 7-11 trying to buy a Snickers bar but they were out, so I bought what looked exactly like a bottle of windshield washer fluid to drink and something else t eat while exclaiming how somewhere could be out of Snickers.

I was thoroughly confused when I woke up.

I’m normally a very outgoing person, but apparently, its not worth it to some people.

I reach out just to get shut down by some people who really seem to not care. I try to involve myself in other people’s lives and they don’t care. I usually will bend over backwards and detach my pelvis from my spine if it helps you. Obviously if you don’t know me this isn’t obvious, but I guess I should stop reaching out because I keep getting smacked in the face whenever I try. Maybe I should stop? I dunno, but its quite depressing reaching out, and barely getting a grunt of thanks or a terse okthx in an IM.

Whatever.

5300 x 1600 (2 30″ Widescreen displays…)

Friend of a friend found this gem:

A professor at the University of Kentucky was giving a lecture on the
Supernatural. To get a feel for his audience, he asks, “How many
people here
believe in ghosts?”

About 90 students raise their hands.

“Well, that’s a good start. Out of those of you who believe in ghosts,
do any of you think you have seen a ghost?”

About 40 students raise their hands.

“That’s really good. I’m really glad you take this seriously. Has
anyone here ever talked to a ghost?”

About 15 students raise their hand.

“Has anyone here ever touched a ghost?”

Three students raise their hands.

“That’s fantastic. Now let me ask you one question further… Have any
of you ever made love to a ghost?”

Way in the back, Bubba raises his hand.

The professor takes off his glasses, and says “Son, all the years I’ve
been giving this lecture, no one has ever claimed to have made love to
a ghost. You’ve got to come up here and tell us about your
experience!”

The big redneck student replied with a nod and a grin, and began to
make his way up to the podium. When he reached the front of the room,
the professor asks, “So, Bubba, tell us what it’s like to have sex
with a ghost?”

Bubba replied, “Shiiiit!! From way back there I thought you said
“Goats.”

I CAN SEE IT

My god its December again. Where the hell did the year go again!?

I had a much longer post typed that I just wiped out. I realized it sounded really whiny because I was trying to go towards a “I dislike change” thesis for this post. So I guess there was some meta-contemplation going on. A lot of it was drivel but made me realize change is a part of life that you can’t get rid of and just need to adapt to (har har massive cliche). Adaptation is something I’m somewhat good at, but I’ll resist the change as much as I can.

So basically I lost pretty much all the posts I’ve had before, so I get to start fresh.

Lately I’ve been just doing work/eat/sleep. Looking forward to Thanksgiving and especially Christmas (friends coming out to visit). I’ve installed Mac OS 10.5 Leopard on my Mac Mini and Macbook Pro and its quite awesome. Time Machine is, bar none, the best consumer level backup solution on the market. Now, it is not without flaws and shortcomings. It doesn’t support backing up to a SMB/NFS server share out of the box. This is irritating because I have a 1.4 TB storage server for such purposes, and would rather the backups go there than monopolize a couple firewire/USB drives for backing up. There is a way to force it (defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1) but allegedly it puts your data integrity at risk, so I’ve been just backing up to some external drives and going to rsync them to the server. We’ll see.

Other than that, I’ve been rebuilding the gallery, and putting up all those stupid things I’ve found over the internets, and pictures of my cat.