Geekery

TEARS OF JOY!!!

… are pouring from my eyes as I look at the current speeds on my torrent client!! After weeks of down/uploading at only 5kB/sec I am now finally transferring at a proper speed! Maybe now I will finally get decent ratios on my torrent sites! I will download a movie in less than a week. OH my GOD I’m so …

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Touchy Touchy!

This guy got fired from Waterstones for bitching about his work in his blog. Article Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Apparently this guy has a pretty popular blog and on a few occasions he came home from work complaining about certain things that had gone on there. He didn’t name anyone by name, or even the exact location/branch …

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Burn Baby, Burn!

Mood: Burn Crazy! Chatting With: Andrew & Steve Craving: Piccolinis Wishing: My ankle would stop hurting!! Latest Download: The Incredibles Last Watched: Shaun of the Dead I love my DVD burner! This is the first movie I’ve ever ripped. We rented it last night and today I followed some directions online for how to copy it and burn it onto …

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Why Do You Blog?

Today is the first day of the year that I can say it’s FREEZIN’ outside!! Brrrrr! It was mild this morning when I left for school but when I came out a few hours later it was much colder. That’s the only down side of Autumn in the Netherlands, it’s even more impossible than usual to judge what to wear. …

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Webcammin’!

Last night I actually slept through the night. Which is quite unlike the few nights before. We got a timed feeder for the cats hoping that if they get fed part way through the night they won’t start getting rowdy at 4-5am. Joke as on us because they figured out how to get it open, but that doesn’t happen without …

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Colors of Home

Yesterday I returned the Creative Camera and got the Logitech Camera back with a powered USB hub. The camera didn’t work. I spent most of the afternoon on the phone with the people from Logitech (Who were as useless as tits on a bull!) and with the makers of this laptop (Who were great!!) yet we came to no solution. …

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Oatmeal Cookie Chunk

I absolutely love this stuff! It’s the first time in years that anything has challenged my alltime favorite Haagen Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream. This new Oatmeal Cookie Chunk ice cream by Ben & Jerry’s is definately giving it some competition. If you haven’t tried it you really should. It’s absolutely delicious! Last night I watched an interesting show on …

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First Day of School

Yesterday I went for my first day of my lessons. Turned out it was just meant to be a quick meeting to sign the contracts for the course. There was only about six of us all together, not counting the husbands who tagged along. Silly me of course, I was like a 5 year old with her daddy. “No Xander …

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European Freak Boots

Well once again I’m writing this while I have no internet. I don’t know what has been happening lately, whether it’s our wireless or the internet itself but it’s really unstable. That can be a pain for someone like me who is constantly downloading things.I was just watching Suddenly Susan and they were bowling. Todd goes to pick up his …

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Rotterdam > Amsterdam

Well for some reason my internet isn’t working. I woke up and was disconnected and can’t seem to get online again. I’ll have to wait for Xander to get up and fix it.Been thinking a lot about giving this website a makeover. The last few times I’ve looked at it I was sickened by all this teddybear crap. It’s SO …

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Gamer Boys

As promised, here is Daisy! (click the thumbnail to see her gallery). This morning I went in to check on her and she was hanging out in her flower pot with her little turtle behind sticking out at me. When I turned it around I saw her peeking out the other side and just had to take some pics. I …

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