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Rest In Peace Frack the Hamster

Chunker — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:53:56 +0000

Over the last few days I’ve noticed that Frack has been acting lethargic and walking with a hunched back. After some research I came to the conclusion that she was nearing the end of her life. She was at the ripe old age of 1.5 years and she lead a happy hamster life. Frack always had plenty of food, water, toilet paper rolls to crawl through, a wheel to run on and a house to live in. It was hard watching her slowly pass away and I tried to hold her as much as possible to try and comfort her. She even fell asleep a couple of times! I will miss her.

Quote of the day!

“Squeek squeek squeek!” (rough translation: Give me treats or I poop in your hand!)

–Frack the Hamster

In loving memory of Clara Crawford

Chunker — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:09:32 +0000

Clara Crawford died today. My heart goes out to Kenny…I cannot even begin to understand the pain that he is going through right now. It came so suddenly…a lot of us couldn’t even believe that it was Clara Crawford…it must have been some other Clara that we knew because the Clara we knew was just fine and dandy. We all had just seen her three days ago at her house warming party where she was laughing and talking…generally having a grand old time. She even yelled at us for putting that free couch on her lawn =) Well…not so much yelled but more like a playful angry shout…=) My heart also goes out to Clara’s family and everybody else who knew her…we will miss her…I will miss her.

Quote of the day!

“thanks everyone who came to her house warming party and frowns up those who put that damn couch on her lawn. you KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!”

–Clara Crawford in response to us putting that damn couch on her lawn…=)

Hacked…again and some other stuff =)

Chunker — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:05:45 +0000

So once again my site was hacked…but it wasn’t wordpress it was the actual web server =( Luckly they didn’t do too much damage before I noticed and was able to change my passwords and do some clean up. I was a bit worried for a bit there though…wordpress is easy to recover cause I do backups of that every week…but the entire web server…never thought I’d have to worry about that. However I choose to look at this latest hack attempt as a lesson to not only backup wordpress but my entire web server….so thanks Mr. Hacker Person for teaching me an important lesson…=)

So I started to RP again…a superhero and a Call of Cthulhu campaign GM’d by Dave “D” Dukellis. For the superhero campaign I am not playing my usual liquid metal guy but as guy with teleportation powers. My character’s name is Don Jon and his alter ego is Bamf. It’s gonna be strange having to dodge bullets and stuff this time around. Call of Cthulhu was always one of my favorite systems to RP with. Mostly cause it’s dark and kinda scary….I mean how often do you play a game where blood coming down from the walls is just a normal part of the game? =) I’m also excited cause I finally live in a place where I can actually host the games and not worry about living in a crappy apartment in a bad neighborhood with no parking.

Quote of the day!

“Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?”

–Britney from Glee

New news!

Chunker — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:32:14 +0000

So…I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. Good news is I recently moved in with my good buddy Brad to a safer neighborhood and that my rent has been reduced by a fair amount. Bad news is my blog go hacked and I had to do a fresh install. Thank you WP DB Manager for helping me get my blog back up and running!

Anyhoo…the new place is great! Needs some fixing up but it’s tolerable AND I can throw parties now…cause throwing a party in a studio apartment would kinda suck…=) It’s a 3 bed/1 bath house with a fairly large back yard and as I stated earlier the neighborhood is way safer than where I was in Long Beach. My room is smaller than the studio but with the public areas (kitchen, living room etc) I have more space over all. A few things need to be fixed up in the house but that’s gonna be taken care of by the land lords soon…but I don’t mind because well…I’m out of Long Beach finally =)

Hacked blog…Christ I’m embarrassed…not sure if it was my fault or just an issue with wordpress 2.9.2 and some sorta security hole. I’m kinda glad now that not many people read my blog because it was trying to inject a virus in to computers as they loaded up my front page…=( I can say however that this was a recent thing…probably with in the last week…so if you actually visited my site within that time I would run a virus scan just to be on the safe side. Again thank you WP DB Manager for helping me get my site up and running with little to no effort on my part. =)

Quote of the day!

“Nom Nom Nom”

–Pretty much anybody that eats something yummy

Colds and Coughs

Chunker — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:17:51 +0000

So for the past week I’ve had a pretty bad cough…to which I blame my runny nose. Starting at around eighteen years of age…I decided to not take medication for a simple cold or cough. Why? Mostly cause when I took stuff like DayQuil or NyQuil they only worked for an hour or two if at all. So anyway….this past week has been bad. I can’t sleep any longer than a few hours before I start to have a coughing fit and forces me to sit up because if I lay back down I just cough even more. I decided that it’s been many years since I made the decision to not take medication and to give them another shot. I try NyQuil first…same basic result…I’m okay for about an hour or two then I start to cough. I then try to find a maximum strength type cold/flu/cough type medication…cant’ find anything. Feeling a bit disappointed and a bit desperate I try Tylenol Cold Mult-Symptom and surprise surprise…same result. I was hoping that either NyQuil or Tylenol’s Cold stuff would knock me out for at least four to five hours but I didn’t feel drowsy at all. Now I could just take say…double the dose…but I don’t know enough about these medicines to make such a call and I’m too lazy to google it….=)

One good thing did come out of me buying these medications though…I found the aftershave I thought was discontinued…=)

Quote of the day!

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils …”

–Louis Hector Berlioz

Jury Duty…yay…

Chunker — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:05:37 +0000

Guess what I got to do for 8 hours today? Yup that’s right…sat on my ass waiting to be called up for jury duty! Yay! Jury duty!!! Bleh. While I did not actually want to serve on a jury and I did not get called up to be even considered…I can’t shake the feeling that this was a complete waste of my time. I wasn’t really keeping track of who was called up and who was not…however it seemed like no more than half of the people who showed up today were actually called up to be considered to serve on a jury…so in a room of 200 or so people…only 100 were considered. There has to be a better way to do this…although I can’t think of one at the moment.

What I did find amusing was the guy who explained the entire process to us, called our names, answered our questions…etc. He gave us all the information that we needed and made us all laugh in the process. One thing that I found really useful about what he did was he would not just read the legal jargon of the rules to us but explain what they meant in layman’s terms. I suppose this was to help his sanity more than it was to help us understand…cause I can only imagine if he didn’t do that he would get a rush of 200 people asking questions about what he just said. But anyway…still a waste of time and I’m glad that I won’t have to serve for another 12 months.

Quote of the day!

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

–Robert Frost

Final Fantasy XIII first impressions…

Chunker — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:30:47 +0000

Final Fantasy is one of the main reasons why I wanted to get the PS3 (well that and Kingdom Hearts). I have been looking forward to playing Final Fantasy since I played FFX back in the PS2 days. I had been holding out for a Wii version but realized that because the Wii is under powered and only puts out 480p…it was highly probable that Square Enix would not waste their time making a version for the Wii. When I came to this conclusion I started to save for a PS3 and with the help of my family and friends I was able to scrape up enough money to get a PS3 after Christmas.

Anyhoo…enough of the background crap…on to FFXIII! The first thing that I noticed is that it is probably one of the most liner games I have every played. No left, no right, no up, no down…just put on the blinders and go straight on through. Second is that you cannot upgrade your character until you have played the game for about an hour or so. Another thing that bugs me is that the fights seem a bit easy…I have yet to find a boss that has taken me more than two or three tries to figure out and kill. These things annoyed me greatly but the other aspects of the game make up for it. The one thing I really like about the game is that it plays like a movie. You do a few things and you get to watch a cut scene about what you just did and what you will have to do in the next leg of the game. The story is another thing I like…so far it is a compelling story line…I care for the characters and what will happen to them. The thing I really like is that they changed the way you fight in the game. No more turned based crap…it’s all done in real time. Characters are no longer locked in to one specific roles but they can do 1 of 3 roles and can swap to any of those 3 roles during the fight via paradigm shifts. For example…Lightning (the lady pictured there to the right) can be a command, ravager or a medic and each role has it’s strengths and weaknesses. The other roles that can be played are synergist, saboteur and sentinel. Even though they tossed turn based fighting out the window…the new system still feels familiar. So yeah…those are my first impressions of FFXIII…will there be a second review? Who knows?

Quote of the day! (actually a joke)

A bacteria walks in to a bar. The bartender says “We don’t serve bacteria in here.” The bacteria says “It’s okay…we’re staph!”

–Brian Malow The Science Comedian

Mmmm….Thin Mints…::Homer drool::

Chunker — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:34:01 +0000

So…it’s that time of year…or rather towards the end of the time of year where The Girl Scouts sell those wonderful cookies of theirs. It is a little difficult for me to get my hands on them because of the area I live in…The Girl Scouts do not sell their cookies at any supermarket near me…=( Last year I found them via their website which told me exactly where to find them…but this year they took out that feature. Why? No clue in the world. I resolved to not get any cookies this year and not add any more weight to my ever growing stomach. However…on my way to the gym today I saw a ray of light…they were selling cookies no less than 2 miles away form the gym!!! Unfortunately I was already 10 minutes late so I deiced to roll down my window and ask them if they will still be there in about an hour and a half and they would be! I was happy. Then I thought about what I just did…a car pulls up to a bunch of girls…guy rolls down the window and asks how much longer they will be there. Yeah…I felt like some sorta sick bastard predator like thing…=/ Anyway I went back after the work out and got 4 boxes of thin mints and they are currently sitting in my freezer because well…frozen thin mints are the best.

Quote of the day!

“Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”

–Wednesday Adams

Intoducing Frick and Frack!

Chunker — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:54:54 +0000

Meet Frick And Frack The Dwarf Hamsters! Frick is the black one and Frack is the gray one. Here’s a link to the pet section of my flickr site if you wish to see more pictures of them…btw they are both girls =)

So Frack is the smaller of the two…yet she always picks on Frick (who is like 30% bigger) I guess it’s Frack trying to show her dominance. There is nothing to worry about though as there is no blood or missing ears/legs/eyes whatever…so it’s all harmless atm…but I’m keeping a watchful eye on the two of them just to make sure. Another thing is that Frack still tries to bite me when I try to pick her up but Frick is all cool and welcomes my hand…go fig. I hope Frick will get over her hand biting thing soon…

Quote of the day!!!

Oh, Harvey, Harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster
He doesn’t bite and he doesn’t squeal
He just runs around on his hamster wheel
Harvey, Harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster
Hey, Harvey!

–Weird Al Yankovic

Another weekend at the desert/scary moment

Chunker — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:13:34 +0000

Roughly twice a year a bunch of us head out to Palm Desert and hang out at Lon’s parents place for three days or so. What do we do for those three days? Hang out, play games, get drunk, eat the breakfast of death…basically relax and enjoy each others company. What is this breakfast of death you ask?? Well we start off with about two pounds of bacon and fry that up. Then we take the hash browns and fry that up in the bacon grease (with a slab of butter on top for taste). Next we mix chorizo sausage, mexican cheese and about 30 eggs and scramble that up. Last we whip up some chocolate chip pancakes and call it it all the breakfast of death. After we feed on all of this none of us can move for the next few hours…some sleep…some watch TV…but most just sorta lay there half dead =)

As for games…this time two new game were introduced….Three Man and The Great Dalmuti. Three Man is a dice based drinking game that will get you drunk so fast you’ll be on the floor staring at the ceiling before you know it. It’s lots of fun =) The Great Dalmuti is a card based game (that can be a drinking game but it wasn’t played that way) made back in the 90′s that won a few awards for how good the game was. Some other games we played were Bull Shit, Poker and Apples to Apples.

Soo…about this scary moment…at around 5pm I get a phone call from Victoria saying my mom is in the hospital. My first reaction is crap…first off I’m 2 hours away and second…I’m kinda drunk. Apparently my mom was feeling weak and had a fever of 104…Vic asks me if I can come out and I tell her that I’m in Palm Desert (I didn’t tell her I was a bit drunk)…she tells me that I should just stay out there and wait for the test results to come in. I agree with her and she tells me she’ll call me back as soon as the test results come in. An hour or two later I sober up and decided to hell with it and head out anyway. When I was about 40 minutes form the hospital I call my dad and he tells me that everything is okay and that she only had strep throat. They are both at home and she is resting comfortably….::sigh of relief::

Quote of the day!

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

–Charles Shultz