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Hey, if anybody actually reads this. I’m ditching scribble in favor of my own, hand-crafted verison to be integrated into my new website. So there’s no more content here to see.

I’ll post a link when the new page is up. Not that you care. #

Wow. So, I’ve been playing Counter-Strike for about an hour now, and I was acting as a sniper. I just exited, and I keep looking around the screen as if I were still playing CS. It’s pretty funny, really — all the animated gif ads are making me jump.

Fire in the hole! #

This has to be the best PA ever. hahahahaha! #

A Message to God. No offense, buddy. Really. But please hear me out when I ask: Jesus H. Fucking Christ!, what the hell did I ever do to you? This is true horror. In fact, I think this almost disproves your existence, because no conscious creator would ever cause anyone this much pain. Fuck.

Just one of a few entries I made whilst my guts were twisting in pain. I think, rather than retell the whole story, I’ll just post what I wrote to Joe over AIM to explain myself:

cgkampers: for my jaw, i’ve been taking this tylenol w/ codeine, which at first was working well but now is working not so well, about two weeks and a zillion doses later. anyway, apparently this stuff has a side-effect of completely stopping up any bodily function below your ribcage and above your knees while you’re taking it. yesterday was the first day that i didn’t take it (because i was starting to feel better) and then, all of a sudden…

cgkampers: bam. the most intense abdominal pain i’ve ever had in my life, hell, the worst pain in my life. like no other, holy shit. hurt. i had baaaaad pain for about 4 hours yesterday, and just now for about 1.5 hours. yesterday, i was praying to anybody who would listen to make me pass out. (i didn’t mention, i have some weirdness in my stomach to begin with. i always get bad stomach aches, so this was just a compounding. i have drugs for this, but they didn’t help at all.)

cgkampers: in retrospect, i was apparently “dependent” on the codiene. i don’t think i’d qualify it as ‘addiction,’ because i didn’t “want” it or “need” it, but boy o boy did my body fuck up when i stopped taking it

cgkampers: i wish i had known this ahead of time, because i wouldn’t have downed so much of it

So yeah, you get the picture. #

In other news, CNN would like to report that Japan has cornered the market on square fruit.

Weather after the break. #

check this hot action:

oh yes. respect that.

ok. actually, i’ll be hardcore when i have a hole in one of those drive-bay cover plates to put that LCD in. i’ll do it eventually. #

well, in a literal sense. that’s how i’m “eating” my food nowadays. suck, suck, suck.

let’s see. today really hasn’t been that great. my little surgery has been pretty painful today. my chin feels like it’s been cut in half and put back together. (oh, wait! that is what happened!) i guess some of the nerves must be reconnecting, because my chin sure hurts. it’s a weird kind of pain, too — more of an instability. must be those nerves.

my LCD came today (w00t w00t!). it looks cool, but alas, i don’t have the stupid serial cord to connect it to my computer. i tried to go to radio shack, but they were closed at 8. oh well. tomorrow is another day. i’m not quite sure how i’m going to cut a hole in my case to mount it, either — dremel? hmm. that scares me. i’m too clumsy to not lose a finger in that operation, owen meany style.

rounding out today’s news… i have to send my uber-sleek keyboard back to buy.com… it has two defective arrow keys. too bad. i’ll just get another, though.

haven’t seen any of my friends in a while… perhaps i’ll be ready (read: not self-conscious) in a few more days of healing. i need to plan this party with mike, too, and work on TQ with joe, with an urgency. i’m sure FSU starts nice and early…

note to self: make sure to remind self of how cool slot-load DVD drive is. =p #

wow, i just logged into scribble, and i was immediately faced with six (count ‘em, six) popup ads. jeeez. some of them were duplicates, too. ugh.

anyway, much has happened since my last entry. i had my surgery… it hurts a bit, and the painkillers hurt my throat. my mouth is rubberbanded shut, so i can’t really eat anything. so i’ve been drinking a lot of milkshakes and soups. which is even difficult itself, because my whole face and mouth is numb. drinking can be harder than you think.

in unrelated news, i am typing this entry on a new microsoft split keyboard, which is connected to my new computer! w00t! everything’s working pretty well, although i had some problems with windows (first 98SE, then 2000) during setup. specifically, the drivers for this sound blaster live card suck. oh yes, do they suck. yes, please, soundblaster, install a toolbar at the top of my desktop so that i can have quick access to all the sample sounds you included, for the rest of my life! i want to be able to configure my sound card just as easily as i would click the start button, or glance at the time! sigh

that’s all for now. visual studio 6 installation wants to restart. #

well, i had another pre-op visit today, this time at ORMC, bla bla bla. anyway, on to the important stuff. i was sitting in the waiting room with my mom… we both had books, but we ended up just talking about religion for about 10 minutes. (this stemmed from the subject of her book, the ancient aztec civilizations. basically, they were smart in some ways and dumb in other ways.)

This then segued to judaism, which is one of the only modern religions without a ‘savior’ figure (the aztecs were polytheistic nature-types, not that they are modern). This then segued somehow into how much we think W. is an idiot — and then, back to religion — how christians, no matter how religioiusly active, tend to align themselves with the politial right.

In the end, on a semi-related tangent, I think we decided that any religion that worships the execution of its god is pretty messed up indeed. Basically, we analogized it to the martyrism of some of these whackos in palestine/isreal right now, who seem to think that suicide bombing is a fun afternoon pastime. timothy mcveigh, too. Those guys are dying for their causes — good for them. will they also become popular religious figures shorty after their deaths, and last more than two millenia? Of course not.

I’m having a hard time materializing my thoughts in a coherent manner right now, but my point is that the terrorist bombers of today seem no different than the ‘martyrs’ of yesterday, to me. What has changed is the public perception of loners in society — I guess we have more common sense now. Go figure. #

joe’s asleep on the futon.

mike’s playing tony hawk.

it’s late.

heh. #

well, depression ensues today. got in another argument with colleen. seems to be happening more and more lately.

oh well. on to more geeky topics — hey, my motherboard came! it’s a soyo. it looks pretty cool, except i’m not sure that it’s going to work with the processor i ordered. the website that I ordered the board from said that it would take up to a 1.2GHz T-bird, so that’s what I bought. However, the docs for the mobo say that it only supports 1GHz. the proc is a 200MHz bus, though, as is the mobo, so it should work just fine, in theory… guess i’ll find out once i get everything here.

word of the day: see title. it’s in weezer’s “photograph.” hmmph.

=w= #