there's little in this world i hate more than having to upgrade stuff on my dad's computer. it's not so much that its hard, or annoying to do, or that i don't want to do it. nope, none of those things. its all about the hazards involved.

my dad's case is one of the ancient extra-lowend enlight middle-tower cases. good construction, but razorsharp edges everywhere inside. hell, i don't think you really have to touch it properly to get a giant gash along your fingers. you just kind have to look at it sideways. even that, though, doesn't begin to describe the horrors of upgrading things in there. the table he's had his computery stuffage on for, well, ages now, has this little keyboard tray. it's set up so you can adjust it to different levels. so theres like this bracket that swings down, perpendicular to the table. on the underside.

now, me being the lazy type, i can't be bothered with unhooking everything, moving chairs and tables and paper and shit around just to swap out a videocard, or add some ram, or verify that something didn't explode in there. so i just crawl under the table, and get to work.

the actual upgrading process isn't bad. if i'm not moving the case, i'm not having to grab hold of it. if i'm not having to really hang onto it and move it around, low chance of slicing open my fingers! i think this is just to lull me into complacancy, though. can't have me thinking that i'm in danger. it knows it has me by this point.

so anyways, i'll finish what i'm doing, close up the case, and go to get up. one of two things will happen here:

1. i will bump my head and scrape the fuck out of it on whichever bracket hangy metal thing of doom is closest to my head. or i'll hit my head on the tray. or both.

2. i will misjudge how far out i am from the table, stand up too soon, and catch one of the brackets on the small of my back. since i can't really do much at that point, i will stand all the way up. it will dig into my back and scrape aaaaaaaaaaall the way down. and it will hurt. lots.

or hey, sometimes, if i'm lucky, BOTH will happen. yeah, that's great fun. whats best is that always, in the back of my head, i'm looking for it. i'm thinking "oshit, i'm down here, aren't i? am i going to hit my head? am i going to scrape my back? naw, not this time, CAUSE I'M ON WATCH." and of course, minutes later i'm screaming in agony due to having a gash the size of mars in my forehead and/or back.

so anyways, awhile ago i was working on a bill, cause i've got a computer to pay off, and remembered that i updated pphlogger on skifyre.com last month. i remembered that i hadn't been by there, recently, and stats are always fun to browse through, so i headed over.

once i reached the mainpage stats, one of them stuck out. it had a referral, and it was from a search engine. that was probably why. different colours, and a tick in the "referral?" column. stuff i look for. apparently it was someone who had gone to yahoo and searched for "better than skizzers". i find this hilarious, for some odd reason. people looking for better-than-me, and finding also-me. i bet they must've been very sad afterwards. [07.09.03@04:29]

word. naota is now equipped with so much ram it hurts. and i've got a whole computer sitting over in the corner [sans hard drives + video], which is PRICED TO MOVE. inquire within.

oh. also. it appears i was hating our good friend digger before it was cool. remember, kids. he just wants to get in there, under the horrible rusty car-hood that is your toenail. [07.16.03@14:47]

after 19 years [and change] of in-depth research, i think i've finally found a sleeping schedule i absolutely hate. for the past few days, i've been waking up at around 0300. from there i'll screw around for a few hours, watching stuff i leeched from the day prior, watch some anime, do some work, etc. just something to kill time till ~0700, cause 0700 is when cnn really starts going in the morning. then i'll idle and screw around with cnn in the background. possibly play some picross, something, anything. maybe i'll set up another day's queue, maybe i'll burn some cd's. it's all about wasting time, because there's not a whole lot to really do. so i just screw around all day, get some breakfast, watch some tv. then noon starts to roll around, so i go wait for one of 27 things i currently have up-in-the-air to come in the mail. and then it doesn't, so i head back to my room around 1300-1400. nothing's on tv but cnn. queue may or may not be done. and i'm out of shit to do.

so i watch some anime or something, and eventually pass out. then i sleep till 0300 the next day, possibly waking up occasionally to see that i had mail, or someone tried shooting a message my direction on icq, or something. if it's important, sure, i'll answer it. and i might stay up from then. but most of the time it's just automated shite in the e-mail, and some kind of random note from mikel, or a request from cv to add something to adtrw.org, or some other random thing that can wait till i wake up.

so i end up getting a decent amount of sleep, but what do i really get out of it? my time is being sorely wasted. but i can't think of anything i should really be DOING. and my human interaction goes in the fucking tank on this schedule. even the kind of human interaction that shouldn't count because it's just over a computer. cause who the fuck is awake when i am? people who are going to sleep, and people who are waking up. and in between there, NO ONE. its really the worst sleeping schedule ever. and i really want to get off it, but there's no motivation to do so at all. so instead i'll just roll over and go back to sleep, or play some more picross. [07.22.03@03:46]