I shall own one of these...and soon hopefully. Going out to the dealership in San Antonio on Friday or Saturday!

Sunday, emilie  was sick so she didn't end up coming over. It was okay though cause she called me and we talked for a bit so that was nice. Then Monday I got her to help me with my car and picking it up from the repair place. I spent like $100 on repairs, and it needs another like$400-500. Uuugh, I think once I get that stuff done I'm definitely trading it in for a Subaru WRX. There's really no sense in me dropping more money into it.

I did have a consulting appointment on Monday today, which was before I got together with Emilie, but it was really easy and quick. Then we picked up my car, got lunch at Quiznos, then headed out to the barn. I took a couple photos of Nippet, she took a couple of me and I took a couple of her. We just had a fun time :) After that, we came back to the house, I let her work on her resume and get a couple copies printed off. Then we just hung for a little bit and then she was off.

Today, nothing special. I wanted to flash the Cisco switches with some new firmware, but didn't get to it. Maybe this weekend. Nothing special going on this week except Norma Jean and Underoath on Friday which is going to be amazing. Weekend not much going on, I'll probably end up hanging out with Emilie I would think.

Fairpoint sent me a bill this weekend, after I had cancelled my service like back in January...so I called them today, I think was on hold for like 30 minutes, sheesh. Finally got through and got it taken care of, apparently their bill processing is a bit behind, so even though the service was cancelled, the billing part of it wasn't, so they're going to get that taken care of.

Alright, well, I'm tired and I've got work in the AM, oh joy. Hahaha.

I've been downloading massive amounts of anime since getting access to that new server. For $5/month you cannot go wrong. It's already paid for itself 50x over. I hit a pretty good road block though when it came to converting the MKV files.

After trying out literally 20 different video conversion tools, I finally found a decent yet painfully long string of applications (which also span over multiple operating systems) to get the job done. First I convert them to an MP4 format using Visual Hub in OS X, then I take the original MKV files and bring them into MKVExtract (on Windows XP) to get the subtitle files extracted. So far they've been .ASS files (ha ha, laugh it up, I have no idea why they chose that file extension, they just did...). Then I bring them into Subtitle Workshop which is also in Windows XP to convert them into SRT subtitle files. Then I bring them back into OS X and into a program called ViddyUp! along with that MP4 file and then I stick the MP4 and the SRT together and get my final result. It's definitely worth the time and effort though.

Yesterday we got snow tires on Emilie's car. it's a good thing cause she got stuck in the most simple places the day before. Very sad...We went out for breakfast to this great little dinner (quite packed though). Delicious food! Then we came home and I took a nape for a bit. By the time I woke up it was time to go back out and get her car. Then we went to dinner at the pizza place in Montpelier. As usual great food. Then we went to this little toy story right near the pizza place and got some magic rocks and this pirate treasure archeological dig thing.

Came home and did the magic rocks (haven't done those in so many years, I love em!) and Emilie and I unearthed a skeleton hugging his treasure. Believe it or not we both got wounded, even with the wooden dowel they provided to dig the guy out. Funny. But we eventually got him completely unearthed. I will post some pictures of it later.

After that I tried to get Emilie setup in Parallels to play Rose Online or Maple Story but both failed, probably because the video drivers in Parallels are crap. So we basically just watched some Chobits and went to bed around 2AM.

I woke up this morning around 9AM, emilie got up around 11:30AM. Ha. I worked on setting her up with a real PC while she was sleeping. Unfortunately the video card in the real PC is crap so we ended up getting a BFG 7300GT 512MB card and that worked great.

So I taught her to play Rose Online and she seems to think it is cool. I like it, it's different from World of Warcraft, I have a lot more fun with it right now. I actually setup my own server, I dunno if I posted about that. I do wish they had Linux code though so I could run it from one of my "live" servers.

So we also hit up PetsMart, got kitty some more food and kitty litter. Also got some batteries and another CD binder for my XBOX360 games. A nice big Lego castle too, and since it was open box we got a nice discount on it too! I've been building it all day long, it's done now. I'll post some images later.

I've not had much time to play Maple Story or Rose Online myself, but maybe tomorrow night when I get home from class, or maybe a bit tonight, although I feel like relaxing and watching some more Chobits. I did bring Unreal Tournament 3 and Riding Star 3 over from the Moretown server so I want to play those, especially Unreal Tournament 3.

I think I am getting Super Mario Galaxy for Christmas from my grandparents, so I'll hold off on purchasing it myself. Ryan at work got it and said it was awesome, so I cannot wait!

Back to work and class tomorrow, how fun...blech! At least I don't have to go into work on Wednesday since my car is going to be in the shop. I do have to give my presentation on Social Networking though, at least it is only to the professor though...it won't be that bad and I don't have to sit through 10 others since it'll just be me!

Alright, I'm out.