so i’ve been trying to come up with something interesting to say on my blog but alas, i have nothing. i’ve been so good at not being sick in 2008 so far and then BOOM…i got sick over the weekend. perhaps it’s the universe telling me that i’m stressed out and overworked? check. sick and tired of being a wage slave? check. i keep telling myself that i should give freelancing a shot but all i ever do is just “think” about it; and i know what it is too, it’s the fear of not getting a regular bi-weekly paycheck to pay for everything…i need to be more action-oriented.

on the upside, i got to draw. that actually made me feel happy & magical on the inside because i’ve haven’t drawn in a while. i should draw more often!

also on some nerdy geek shit, i souped up my G5 - i added a 2nd internal hard drive (640GB) from Western Digital, i bought OSX Leopard and installed it (so far so good), and i now have a USB hub (thanks j) for all my electronic crap so i don’t have to keep unplugging shit. i’m still frustrated about all these wires though. and since i had to open up the machine i had to actually clean and wipe down all the dust too. pretty eventful weekend! i took a picture because i just LOVE my computer…

uh…wow! to all the people that read this (i’m pretty sure that’s a whopping grand total of 5)…sorry for the lack of interesting content around here. i had a mini-vacation, which meant staying away from the computer too, because i tend to be a workaholic. so this is what my weekend consisted of:

out with the old…

 

and in with the new. i braved the mall to purchase a birthday present for someone close to me (who everyone knows but shall remain anonymous). they were hella hecka surprised. it’s stunning to say the least. the keyboard is ultra-thin and quiet when typing on it; no more click-clacking. my G5 seems so ancient now, and loud.

the only downside was that the iMac G5 sucks without real speakers. the iMac G4 on the other hand, came with speakers that were actually pretty good. so new speakers it is! iron maiden and dethklok all weekend.

 

messy ass ribs and chopping it up with a friend about his Crazy Outlandish Ideas…ha! i felt a little fat and gross after eating all those ribs though.

 

This may or may not be useful information; but if for some reason you ever need to convert an AVI movie to an MPEG movie that you can play on your iPod, iSquint for Mac OS X does the trick. It also converts it to TV size or whatever size you specify. Thought I’d share because it works really well and it’s fast. Fuckin’ awesome, dude.