I hope everyone’s Christmas was save and fun. Mine was, but that’s because my mom’s side of the family didn’t implode in any way, shape or form.

My haul was pretty good. A couple of DVDs, a really nice coffee pot and a pair of headphones were just the big ones on the list. I also got a gig of ram, which I lucked out on. I asked for 1 to 3 gig of ram, because my computer can support up to four gig and it’s only got one right now. Well, turns out that my mobo only has two ram slots on it, so I’m kinda glad that my parents didn’t buy me three one-gig sticks.

I did come to the realization that I need to clean my computers more. I was amazed at how filthy that thing had gotten since the last time I had done anything with it. I’ve decided that every three months I’m going to clean all of my computers, just because having that much dust in them is not good for the computer itself.

I got to play Portals and Team Fortress 2 at Will’s over the weekend and I can say that both of those games are fantastic. TF2 is just a blast to play, even tho I suck at it, and Portals was a refreshing change of pace, regardless of whether or not the cake is a lie. I probably would have played more but the TF2 server Will and I were playing on got overrun with greffers, and we decided to call it a night.

That’s all I got for now. Atleast it’s a post, yeah?

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Have you ever had one of those days when you just start working on stuff and you find it hard to slow down? That’s the way I’ve been today. On my Wednesday’s I don’t go home during th middle of the day because I the school is now farther from my house than it used to be. I mean, I’ve gotten a good chunk of my homework done so I don’t have to do anything over break. I’ve gotten other stuff done and I feel great. Actually doing things as opposed to just sitting on my ass is awesome.

Keeping my mind busy also has the added effect of keeping my mind from wandering into doom and gloom, which is its want during the winter. Am I doing the right thing with my life, etc. As long as I’m working to better myself and to hopefully better the future, the less I need to worry about and the less that I will worry about.

On a slightly geekier note, I got my spare box working and I think I’m going to use that to join the ubuntu testing team. I want to get more involved in the opensource community, and since I don’t know how to code in C or Lisp, I figured this was the best way to do that.

It’s currently great time to be Matt, and I’m positive that the end of 2007 and the start of 2008 will be awesome too. Watch, now that I’ve mentioned that, it’s gonna suck balls. And probably by mentioning it’ll suck it’s going to suck. Or whatever.

Anyway, I’m out, later.

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Some days, I’m a system administrator, some days I’m a customer help tech. Today? Today I was a janitor.  After doing my normal beginning of the shift check to make sure that no one had trashed any of the rooms, I discovered that someone had dripped pop all down the hall. And guess who got to clean it up? You know, I’m not complaining, but days like this are boring. I’ve been in the library for two hours. Alteast I got some homework done.

Don’t you hate it when you go someplace, wanting to buy something and then you told forget about it? I went to Barnes and Nobles this afternoon to kill some time before work. I wandered around aimlessly for a few and left to finish my shitty shitty coffee. And as I was pulling out onto Miller Rd, I remembered like half of the books that I wanted. Now you’re all thinking that I should just wait until Christmas, because I might get these as gifts. Not likely. I didn’t ask for any of these books for Christmas. Ohh well, I have an iphone, you’d think I’d write some of these stuff down.

Any back to work, enjoy Internets

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It would be a lie to say that I forgot about my blog. It would a truth to say that I did remember it and just was too lazy to post. I’m sitting at the library at work, making sure that the whole zero people here besides myself don’t steal anything, so I decided to update this bad mama-jama.

Things have been interesting in Matt Land, to which I immediately started humming the old Batman theme, but only with MattLand instead of Batman.

I got a new laptop. I broke Chiyo because I was being careless. The powercord got wrapped around the arm of the chair I was sitting in and when I went to pick it up, breaking the powersocket on the laptop in the process. So with a little help from my parents, I’m the proud owner of a Dell Inspiron 1501. It’s faster and lighter than my old laptop, and it runs Linux. What more could I ask for?

I won a poker tourney a couple of weeks ago. I played in a $25 buy-in tourney at the Palace Poker Room that had 62 people in it. I was the last player with chips and got $455 as winnings. I felt I played well, while not having very many “monster hands”. I had a lot of pairs and two pairs, and a couple of straights, but very few trips and flushes, and no full houses or better. I only misplayed one hand in my oppinion, and that was me hitting a straight on the turn against trips. I had a feeling that my hand was good, but the board was too messy for me to really make a move. Best poker I’ve played in a while but I haven’t been able to do anything since.

I won National Novel Writing Month, yet my novel is no where near complete. It a novel based on the comic that Mike and I are working on, and that I promise will continue to work on now that Nano is done with. While writing an Nano based on the comic was a very fulfilling exercise from the standpoint of getting the background of the comic fleshed out, I would not do it again. It was painful at times. Nano was a very cool experience, like always, and I managed to meet some very cool people in the process.

I just found out that one of my  classmates had to take a quarter off because he found out, by fainting, that he was diabetic. My thoughts and prayers are with him while he recovers.

I’ve been fighting a little bit of a cold the last couple of days, and as such I’ve been living off of Advil Cold and Sinus. That stuff is a God-send.

Well, that’s all I got. Take it easy Internets, and I promise that I’ll be better about posting.

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