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By the way, I finally have a skype account now. Shoot me an email if you want to chat.

P.s. I’ll probably be drunk.

Got my new RAID case in:

It works like a typical internal HD install, but without the cables which was rather nice:

Two 2 TB drives now installed:

Yay, an empty SATA port!

Now to install the SATA interface:

And now to partition the…

What the fuck!?

Let’s back up here for a second…

I ordered this PC a couple of years ago with two of the biggest HDs available at the time. Being that I was running out of space, I decided I HAD to get some more storage space. Note that I had been using the OS as it had been installed without alteration.

Why, oh why, did they only partition under half of my drive space on both of my discs? I had a full 170 GB available on both that I wasn’t putting to use!

Second bit of fun, I quickly learned that the SATA ports on the motherboard apparently don’t support port multipliers, leaving me only able to access one of two of the discs in my case. Luckily however, I had purchased another SATA interface (PCI card) thinking that I wouldn’t have any extra available, and I was able to install and use that one instead.

Nothing is ever as straight-forward as it should be eh?

I had been rather looking forward to 2010 being that 2009 has been so fucking horrible but unfortunately, so far it has been just a one-two punch to the nutsack. Out of two active interview processes I lost both — in the same day. My unemployment was terminated and I’m currently paying for formula with retirement money. So of course like all 30 year-old men with no future I waited till my family went to sleep to be really, sincerely depressed, but Ren decided that shit wasn’t happening and instead preferred to scream his head off for a couple of hours. And throw up on my shirt a couple times for good measure. And so I got stupid frustrated and laid him down and he screamed, and picked him up and he screamed, but slightly less, so I alternated between standing up and holding him with slightly not-so-aggravating screams to laying him down with wake-up-the neighbor screams.

And then he went to sleep and I went to the bathroom to cry for a bit.

Only after 30 years of socialization that men aren’t supposed to cry, I appear to be physically incapable of doing it anymore. And that pisses me off more than anything — cause god damnit some times it’s necessary.

When no one else is looking of course.

So my shitty mode continued on to today and I was putting the princess in the shower halfheartedly, once again with my head in my hands. And she kept calling my name, over and over and over again. And I said “what?!” really frustrated.

And she bent over naked with her head between her legs and said “I can see my own butt!”

Man, I have just been so busy since I got back to Japan — and the kids’ sleep schedule has been all over the place which has made things all the more interesting. I had one interview a couple days after I arrived and did a bit of an online shopping spree the other day. I have totally exhausted the hard disks in my computer and am in desperate need of some more storage, so I put in an order for an external eSATA chassis, interface card, and two 2TB drives. Hopefully that will be enough to hold me out for general data storage and backups for a little while.

I also put in a order for a LinkTheater (and another external HD to connect it to). Having kids means you pretty much get to watch zero TV, and I have been wanting a digital storage device of sorts to save programs so I can watch them at later times (and to save shows for the kids). This one caught my eye because one, its hard drive is external, meaning you can increase the size or swap them around eliminating worries about space limitations, and two, I had been wanting a way to connect my PC to my TV to watch programs and whatnot, and using the LinkTheater LAN connection I should be able to do that as well. Anyhow, we will see how well it works once I get it in.

I watched Avatar with my brother and dad when I was back in the states and rather liked it. The visuals were just downright stunning. Unfortunately I was only able to see the 2D version, but I have heard nothing but good things about the 3D one as well. I would love to see it.

Anyways, the story was entertaining enough but not fantastic perhaps. It was mainly a combination of elements and ideas that you have most likely seen before in one form or another. That’s not to shit on it though — as I said, it does at least keep you engaged. And the bad guy is badass.

As for books, I picked up a copy of Maddox’s “The Alphabet of Manliness.” It was pretty much in the writing style that he uses on his blog, and the content was on that level as well. If you like his blog, you would like it — it’s pretty damn funny in parts.

I also picked up a copy of “Flash Forward” by Robert J. Sawyer. My brother was telling me about the series on ABC (which I haven’t seen yet), and noticing the book it was based on in the bookstore, I grabbed a copy for the flight home. It is probably one of the better books I have read in the past year or so; the story is really original and catchy. If you haven’t heard of it yet, essentially the plot centers around the entire world blacking out at the same time for a little over two minuets, and everyone getting a brief glimpse of their own future — and of course all the different human and scientific repercussions of that event. As for the story, I really have no major complaints. On the other hand, the writing wasn’t anything to write home about. Not distracting per se, but not fantastic either. Either way, it was definitely a good read.

Getting ready for the 17th!

Note: that was your cue to be excited.

We’ve had a decent amount of interest regarding overseas purchases but to be honest, unfortunately, we really aren’t in a position to distribute that far in any organized way. I am however considering setting something up custom for those people who may be interested. The problem of course lies in the fact that I have absolutely no clue what I am doing.