Gib item plx
As I've begun posting again, the spam comments have increased drastically.
About three months ago, David got me back into Team Fortress 2. I took about a month off, then played a few nights with David and Brian and am back into it again. It really does not help that I finally got off my butt and installed it under wine. It works flawlessly after a few tweaks.
It's been about a week now since David also got me into the whole item economy in TF2. Now I'm keeping track of the random drops I get, what they're worth in refined metalt, and what I can trade them for. I still don't know what I want, item wise, but I'll still trade for things!
I was able to get all but two of my currently played Steam games to work under wine, which is going to be really bad for my productivity, since rebooting into windows was actually kind of a good deterrent. Also included in that list of games: Sim City 4. My academic life is over.
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Gin. Ger. Bread.
After spending an odd amount of time fighting with Samsung's drivers and their "Odin" tool, my Captivate is on Gingerbread. I had to flash back to stock before I could put the proper bootloader on the phone, but it was worth the trouble. On the last few Froyo roms, I was getting lag with the notification bar pretty often, and there were a few other places it slowed down where it shouldn't have.
Now? Performs wonderfully despite a few minor issues: after converting from rfs to ext4, it boot loops twice before finally allowing me to use the phone, but apparently 2.3 kernel development is still a little behind on the Captivate. I also can't use the Google search app, the one that pops up when you hit the search button. It just crashes. Not that I used it much, but still.
Overall, definitely worth it.
Oh look, search is working.
Also boot loops appear to be gone.
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The worst about part about bed bugs in the other apartment..
.. is that I can feel them crawling on me even though we're 90% certain they're not at this one.
I can't sleep right now for fear of them crawling on me and drinking my blood. I feel every itch, every hair movement. That dark freckle on the side of my knee looks like a bug from up here. So does that black spot in front of the bathroom.
Why did we get a dark purple color for our bed sheets? Are they nesting behind the molding? Will they nest in the new bed frame? When we were sleeping on the rug for three or four days, did we let them build a new home there? Are a million tiny little eggs going to hatch from the rug? The wall? The old pillows? Our electronics that we steam cleaned?
I haven't seen them. I haven't seen their poop, or any out of place blood stains. There have been none of the tell-tale bite marks after sleeping. Sarah had one after we went to the other place to get some work done there, but that's it.
Pinto is just licking the floor, not trying to eat a bug. Sarah doesn't seem the least bit upset.
It might help if I wasn't the one sleeping so close to the wall.
I bet it's really hard to see a tiny, dark red bug on a dark purple mattress cover.
It's going to be months before I feel safe and comfortable again.
Why do I have a dark freckle on my foot, too?
Well, the bed looks fine save for some cat hair, Sarah, and Pinto who just came over to tell me to go to sleep. I feel a little more comfortable that he checked out my side of the bed then came back to rub me, as if to say that everything is fine. Also, if he saw something, his being a cat wouldn't let him ignore it.
Kinda wish my cat would do this sort of thing for me. Instead he's just falling asleep on top of the placeware cabinet I built earlier today.
Though at this point, aren't the cats ours, not mine and hers? Funny how one's views on ownership change after becoming engaged.
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Bed Bugs
Basically, they blow. I haven't been to school in three weeks because of spring break and then being sick and then the bugs.
Life is weird right now, but at least going through a seemingly hopeless situation like this is reaffirming my decision to ask Sarah to marry me. She's been immensely helpful.
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A small project
For the past month or two, I've been working on a little todo app for Android in my free time. I didn't like any of the apps on the market, mostly because they lacked a minimilistic widget (or in some cases, lacked an entire widget), so I decided to build my own.
I did the same thing in perl quite a while ago to learn how to manipulate XML from within perl. The android version uses sqlite, since it's built into the system, basically.
It doesn't do anything fancy, nor does the date really matter yet (it is a secondary sort term, but that's it for now), but I'm already finding it pretty handy, and I think I'm getting comfortable with the idea of releasing it.
I think it would be really cool to do some sort of cloud storage thing so that I could link it with my perl script and have the same list on all of my devices, but that'll be way down the line.
NOTE: I apologize for the size of the images, I'm doing this from my phone, so making thumbnails and linking to the full-size image is pretty tough. If I remember to, I'll fix this later.
