one of many in the wild, wild net.

This post is pretty much for the Google spider, and not so much because it’s important to me.

If you happen to be getting error 0×800300FD when doing a Send/Receive mail operation, I managed to get rid of this by

1. Deleting temporary internet files in Internet Explorer
2. Rebooting my computer
3. Renaming a certain outlook.srs  file to outlook.srs – noload, effectively preventing it from loading when I open outlook.

When I started outlook up again it worked. Go figure. The outlook.srs lead was from some lady’s one-line reply to some guy having the same problem… just look up “Outlook 2003 0×800300FD” on google and you’ll probably find the same post I found.

Happy Trails!

-TJ

… good morning.

-TJ

Good morning.

There. That’s it. As of tomorrow I’ll be waking up in the evening and covering a midshift at work. Soon I’ll be playing WoW at odd hours of the night with my friends Law and Cookie.

I also found this article about Second Life. I’ve noticed this “game” has been getting alot of press coverage, and I couldn’t help but think that someone, somewhere, somehow is manipulating the press into covering this game. I personally see no appeal to it, and can’t imagine why people would want to log on… there’s nothing to do! You fly around a laggy world, chat with people… I guess it would be nice if it were like a place to *meet* folks, but so many people (myself included) are paranoid of internet stalkers and other scumbags that use the anonymity of the internet to further their own evil ends that I would find it hard to actually meet someone from the internet in real life. I’ve done it once, and it was just okay… I’d rather not do it again if I could help it.

Anyway, about the article, I was reading it with the usual grain of salt I tend to read Second Life articles, but when I got to the end, what I read echoed a sentiment I voiced a few months ago in one of my posts:

“…. For the time being, I would rather buy my first ‘real’ house.

I have enough things to do in this life, that the thought of a second life gives me a headache.”

Go figure. Other people actually see it the way I do. At least I’m not alone in this notion.

-TJ

WHAT THE FUCK!?!

I have two problems. (1) I simply buy too much shit. I do. I have all these wires of gadgets and gizmos I bought at one point or another. I spend too much on useless junk. (2) I have too much shit. You may have noticed (because I certainly did) my liberal use of the word “shit” to describe my belongings, but that’s exactly how I feel… of my posessions, I only really use about 10% of them, and that’s using the term use in the most liberal sense, i.e. if I look at it and even think about it, then I consider that use. So 90% of my shit I don’t even look at day-to-day, or even in those rare occasions where I want to look into my past. I have an Xbox here that I haven’t used since 2004, but I’ve kept it for one reason or another all these years for no real reason. I haven’t even felt the compulsion to play on it. I think I’m going to EB Games today to sell it for $20 or however much it’s worth. I have a GBA SP and a Nintendo DS… why? Too much shit. Time to liquidate.

Anyway, those are just two of the multitude of things I need to throw away or redistribute somehow. I came across this Boulder recycling place called the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM), so I’m going to drop off a busted printer and a scanner I don’t use, as well as other shit that I’d rather not see sacraficed to the dumpster deities.

On a completely different note, I picked up a Living Language Complete Russian: The Basics from B&N. I cracked the first two lessons already, and I’m just having those play on repeat when I’m not doing anything else in my dorm room.

On a completely different different note, I now have a new scariest movie of all time… Unfaithful (2002). Say what you will, but I think having my wife stray on me is scarier because it’s realistic, and causes more damage over more time. Getting hacked to pieces by an axe murderer is scary also, don’t get me wrong, but it only hurts until I’m dead, which shouldn’t take long after an axe attack.

And finally, the idea… I should strive to talk to someone I don’t know at least once a day. And in the interest of not bothering random people who don’t want to talk (I get like that), I should try to first learn to pay attention to signs of people open to conversation. I guess I’ll flesh that idea out later…

-TJ

Well, I had to move my dorm, and now all the shit I own is all over my floor. Hooray. Who/what/where/when/why will have to wait for a waiter date… a later date. I’m too tired to think.

-TJ

Reason: My girl-interest girl-speculation looks alot like this actress.

-TJ

Work. School. Work. School. Violin.

Work. School. Work. School. Violin.

Etc. etc… repeat ad nauseum.

Not to say that I’m not living an awesome life, I am, but I recognize when I fall into a pattern, and as much as I want stability in my life right now, that isn’t to say I want to be doing the same things *all* the time. Oh well, I’m still active in school–as opposed to the way I was back at UCLA, where I’d get bored of a class after the first midterm (as exhibited by all the pretty good first midterm results, followed by lapses in homework and a less-than-mediocre final grade). Part of it is a new way I think about these kinds of achievement-related activities. I consciously tell myself and believe that I deserve to be the best, so now I don’t short-change myself by sabotaging my own work.

Anyway, what else… I wouldn’t say a new “girl interest”, but there’s a girl I am interested in asking to hang out. Something I realized yesterday while driving to my usual spot to study… I learn something new from each girl that I’ve been interested in. From A (last summer) I learned about a parking structure in downtown near Pike’s Perk that only costs $1 after 1400 during the week and all day on the weekend. From CSS I learned that the girl-as-painting (Alvin knows what I’m talking about) is usually not the girl, and although it’s a “no duh” kind of lesson I really had to see this unfold for me in person… and I’ll leave it at that, out of respect for her. From P I learned that girls out there see me differently from the way I see myself, and that as decent-to-okay I thought I was, I have more going for me than I originally thought… specifically, P elucidated certain aspects about me that I was self-conscious about but now I’ve accepted.

I won’t lie. I was previously sold on the one-hit-perfect romance story, and always hoped that the (next) girl I met was the one I was destined to be with. I kept telling myself “hey, this is it. This is the girl. It’s going to work out this time.” Either that, or I would just not talk to a girl at all because I somehow knew it wouldn’t work out anyway (nothing ventured, nothing gained, by the way)… But in reality every girl, or every person for that matter, is kind of like a stepping stone for me. I observe, I note what I like and what I would do different, and I grow.

There were times in the past where I pictured myself as a sponge, and I drew traits and characteristics from various people I came into contact with. I used to wonder if I was actually the unique individual I thought I was, and lament why I didn’t have a more unique or prominent self-identity. I guess being adaptive and evolving is my self-identity… it’s why I tend to hear people out instead of feeling compelled to say my point of view and convince others that I’m right.

I wonder if I’m growing. I think I am. I started my blog back in 2003 with the intention of recording my thoughts so that one day I may come back and see how I’ve grown, and perhaps learn lessons from my past that I would never have been able to extract at the time.

Anyway, listen to me ramble, eh? I’ve gotta go study now. We’ll talk again soon.

-TJ

Well, I just came back from watching my violin teacher in what I like to refer to as her “real job”, AKA playing in an orchestra. That was pretty cool… makes me want to practice even more and become good at violin just like her.

I’m tired.

-TJ

Nothing much has been happening this week. Busy as usual due to all the reading I have to do, not to mention I’ve been wasting a little bit more than a little bit of time on warcraft…. Anyway, I had my violin lesson this week on Wednesday. I only really started in December, and I sound like garbage, but my teacher gave me some sheets of difficult pieces. I’m going from easy stuff with regular beats (all quarter notes with some half-notes) to pieces like Paganini’s 24th Caprice (I can kinda play it, I still sound like crap). But that did it for me… I’ve been practicing every night since Wednesday trying to sound better on the songs she gave me, especially Paganini.

In other news, I came across these links in Google reader:

Japan Watch: Vista Handles Japanese Hentai Games Really Well

Google Earth Version 4

I’m going to get Google Earth and check that out… I love that program. Anyway, thanks for reading. If there’s anything you the reader would like me to talk about or something that you think would improve this blog, please let me know. I used to think I was too self centric, but when I consulted my brother-from-another-mother Lorenzo, he said I wasn’t being self-centered enough, and that I should be as self-centered as I could be since it’s my own damn blog. So yeah. Peace out.

-TJ