--Archive--
((2001))
March 20 - March 23
March 24 - March 29
March 31 - April 6
April 7 - April 13
April 14 - April 21
April 21 - April 27
April 28 - May 3

Well, I should have Debian by this Monday (Jimmy, I hope you're happy and smiling at this point). I can't wait to see how it runs. This Redhat 7.2...well, I don't know. I don't think Debian is going to be all that fantastic either, because running a Linux-only system is somewhat depressing. The web browsers suck. Sorry, this Mozilla/Konquerer/Netscape Communicator crap has to go. Where are all the great web browsers? And the fonts. Ugh. Something has to be done.

Anyone have any idea how to get Mozilla to recognize that I've already installed java so I can play Nisqually? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Anyway, today at work was another manual-filled excursion that turned into a long drawn out clusterfuck. You see, the mainframe's UPS (uninterruptable power supply) went out a few days ago and I had forgotten it was my job to get another one. Well, the bossman comes in, not my boss, the branch mgr, and raises all kinds of hell. Eventually we drag another 50 pound monster (this is one of the big-ass ones) up from Bookkeeping so we could put the server on it. Anyway, long fucking story short, here I am and I can't find Ericka anything for Mother's Day. I want to find her the book "The Girlfriends' Guide to Early Motherhood" (she's been looking for it) but I can't find it. At least not at the mall here in town. I'll attempt to find it in Knoxville but I just dunno.

Hmm, speaking of strange things, it seems as though I might be playing a little music here soon. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (I'm pretty sure those days are correct) I might be playing up at Walter State Community College. Damn, I just remembered I have to be in Atlanta from Mon-Wed so I might not get to play any day but Saturday. I don't want to come unprepared, so we'll see how it goes. Me and my bud Tommy should be belting it out. I dunno, but I sure would love to break in my Stratecaster that's been sitting in my mom's house for a month now, and hasn't been played in probably a year. A shame I tell ya, a shame.

Ugh, I'm tired and Ericka will soon be home with more worries, concerns, complaints and whatever else she can come up with. I love her, I love her to death, don't get me wrong, I'm just irritated and sleepless. Sigh.

Damn, the linux thing. I love it but I need to have at least the following:

A good Email program. Kmail ain't gonna cut it.

A good newsreader program. No Agent for linux I'm afraid.

A good web browser. 'Nuff said.

I"m not going to bitch about word processing. Not a huge deal to me. Whether you twist, toy, bend, or bold the words, they're still the same old words and for a writer that's all that matters.

And don't start about WINE either. If I wanted windows programs, I'd install windows.

peace.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 8:19 PM

Woo hoo! Here I am in Gnome inside Redhat 7.2. I'm completely, as of this moment, Windows Free (tm) at home. It's a strange, wonderful, and visceral feeling. While I dig Redhat a bit, I think I may try to hunt down some Debian tomorrow or possibly SuSe. Why isn't Mandrake available? There's a good question.

Anyway, what's up with the X fonts? I'm getting a headache just looking at what I type. I need to figure this out. Shouldn't be too tough. Probably just need to find true type fonts for linux. Hmm.. sounds like a question for Google, eh?

Evan Erwin from URL @ 12:12 AM

You have been warned. Nisqually is the most addictive, hardcore, kick-ass games around. I dare you to beat level 7. I dare you.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 8:35 PM

Okay, you tell me: which is better:

or

I love the fact that Buena Vista isn't even bothering with two editions (a shitty barebone and the Gotta Have Criterion) and just letting Criterion take the ball and run with it. I just hope they choose the kick ass cover. May I remind how damn cool the Rushmore Criterion Collection art is?

Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:30 PM

So here we are, and I'm in manual hell. At work we've had an IT (Information Technology kiddies) audit and I literally added that (Infomation..) crap because I'm so damn used to doing that for abbreviations. You see, the magic inside creating stupid-ass manuals and policies and procedures that no one will actually read is to bloat as much as possible. If you can't think of anything to say, list what you're talking about, who you're talking about it for (ie, institution, company, etc), and then how damn important it is that this thing be listed and documented somewhere. Basically our IT department was shit out of luck as far as policies and procedures go, so that's all I've been doing for about three days and will continue to do so until tomorrow. I'm on my last but it's also the longest/hardest (dear god, there's a porn reference) and I'm pretty burnt out on the whole thing. Maybe it's lack of sleep.

My sleep last night consisted of finally dragging my tired ass to be at 2:15am, closing my eyes, trying to curl an arm around my wife (who sleepishly pushed me away for some reason or other), turning over to look at the clock, and blinking.

When I opened my eyes again, the alarm clock was going off and it was 8AM. I swear, it happened just like that. At least it's not one of those nights where you close your eyes, roll over, wake up and see a few hours have passed. Close your eyes, roll over, wake up and a few more hours have passed, etc. Those are the worse, but this ain't far behind.

I meant to bring my gym clothes with me. It's been Too Damn Long since I dragged myself to the gym, and it's high time I done so.

Uploaded my Smashing Pumpkins video collection review last night and of course fucked it up. You'd think that the damn php script they use to enter the reviews would have some sort of "Preview" button instead of just "Submit" at the bottom. Anyway, I got that squared away. If you're interested, here's the Smashing Pumpkins Video Collection Review. Feel free to visit many times. :)

Need to write something for Filmthreat. I was thinking of like a mid-year DVD review. Last year's DVD Year In Review was a bitch to write and research. I think taking 6 month doses would help out considerably. We'll see.

Yesterday work threw me and Ericka a "Happy Marriage" celebration in which we received $100 from everybody at the bank (thank god!), a few baby stuff from Travis (I told him it was a baby shower and I thought it was, but, anyway...), and also some baby stuff from the lawyer's girls who work in the lawyer's office located inside the bank. But the big thing was not the baby stuff the lawyer's girls got me, it was the fact that they all chipped in and bought me a Microwave. Can you believe it? I sure as hell couldn't. I
was blown away. So now, after one of my coworkers has already given me a microwave we have a brand new one. Me and Ericka decided that since her work is having a yard sale to raise money for a vacation for the kids she takes care of, we'll give the old microwave to them and keep the new one (of course). I figured we'd have to give it to goodwill, but this is a better cause for sure.

I also got another card from some other co-workers which included $40. Life is good in this respect, certainly.

However, life is not good regarding the wet closet residing in what will soon be the baby's room. I'll be damned if the thing just stays wet. I'm not sure what it is, but it's fucking annoying, that machine has to have its bucket changed like every day, and the closet is growing mold. We have no idea as to where, exactly, the leak is coming from, but dammit, it needs to be stopped before the screaming child comes into the picture.
Anyway, that's all the news (sorta) fit to print. Time to head out and
resume Normal Life. Peace.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:18 PM

Ooooh, new format. I dig it. I also dropped "Life, Love" from the beginning. I think I've moved on.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 12:31 AM

Damn, Spider-Man actually did make 114 mill. Crazy shit. Episode II won't make as much, sorry Mr. Lucas, but I am sure that of the two, which is going to make more money in the long run? Besides, the competition in two weeks will still be too diverse with the might-be-a-sleeper Unfaithful and Spider-Man only in its 3rd week.

Picked up my guitar from my mom's the other day and have gotten back into the habit of playing it. It's nice to have around and I've written a few songs already. Not great, amazing songs, but songs nonetheless. Of this I'm happy for.

Sigh. It hurts to say this. It pains me to say this. But the novel is dead. Sigh. I let it go and stopped writing on it and there it went, right out the window. You get into a groove, you find a pattern, and you stick to it. That's the only way you can finish one. I certainly did get a long way however, and of that I am proud. I'd say, probably, 175-200 pages out of a 300 page tome is about right. of course I've handwritten everything so I have no idea exactly how many words or pages, but it's something like that. Anyway, I think my next writing project will stay on the computer where I can type instead of write, but also have the possibility of writing else, that is, not sitting at my desk in my bedroom (Laptop, anyone?).

The bills. The bills, the bills, the bills. They're getting to me. They're REALLY getting to Ericka. We're got this and this and this and this, but only THIS much money to cover it. All those this's. The rent comes out and I've got $120. That's it. By the time next fucking week rolls around? Probably less. Sheesh. And this isn't $120 with my $1000 overdraft protection, this is the overdraft protection balance. Which means I'm in the hole $780.00. I will stay in the hole until Something Magical Happens or Hell Freezes Over, most likely. Ugh. I try not to think about it. I'm not a worrier, never have been, but these are times that try men's souls, know what I'm saying?

Anyway, off to see the wizard. Adios.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:24 PM

114 Million Dollars. Three days. Spider-Fucking-Man ya'll. I knew it was going to be big, but not that big. It sold out practically every show it was in. I had to wait two hours to see it and my showing was packed. Holy damn.

Haven't gotten to reformat this machine yet. I need to get my Win98 CD from wherever it's hiding.

But still, 114 million. the final total will probably be in the 110 million range (let's get real, folks, Harry potter supposed to have had 95, ended up 90 if I remember), but that's a lot of dough folks, mine included.

Anyway, that's the news. Hell, even slashdot had a story about it.

G'night.

Evan Erwin from URL @ 3:00 AM

Backing up my machine as we speak, in efforts to reformat and put on a win98/Redhat(e) combo, I looked at my Journal, this one kept from January this year up to the creation of this blog (I don't need two journals..).

Evan Erwin from URL @ 3:40 PM

I have seen Spider-Man, and it is good. Oh yes, it is good. A living comic book that stays true to its ethics and remains a great story with some kick ass effects of flying through the air. (The final shots were fuckin awesome!)

Well, that's about all I got accomplished today, apart from buying some DVDs. Including The Man Who Wasn't There, Session 9 (look it up), Metropolis (the new Anime), and others (I'll list them if I think about it).

My bud Tony wrote me telling me how much he liked Spider-Man. I wonder if he has a blog...if he does, lemme know, k? Thanks.

Outlook is having problems syncing with Hotmail. Is anyone else having these problems? One account does fine, the other fucks up. What's up with that?

Also, I finally got some progress on my friend's movie. I found Premier 6 (I had downloaded it and forgotten having done so) and whipped up a Quicktime trailer for the guy's flick.

I think I'm gonna reformat my hard drive tomorrow and put on Redhat (Redhate..) 7.2. I looked around at some other distros (yes Jimmy, including Debian), but none are too happy about throwing around ISOs of their versions. Not the big ones anyway. This includes Debian and SuSE, the ones I was most interested in. I don't want Slackware, I'd rather not need to know the timecode references and serial number to my CMOS to install an operating system, thanks. But I'm curious to see how well the system maintains itself with my system, and hopefully I can go Window Manager nuts. Once I get the cable modem working, which should be a snap, it's all gravy. I think that, in addition to DVDs, is going to equal my Sunday.

Till next time!

Evan Erwin from URL @ 12:32 AM