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August 7, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, mumble | No comments

So, like 3 or 4 months ago Eddie’s main monitor started acting weird.  It had this strange green haze on the screen.  We turned it off, turned it back on, unplugged, different cables…we tried everything and it just never was right again.

Our friend John was going to Thailand for a few months, so Eddie asked if he could borrow John’s 2 24″ monitors until we could buy some new ones.  John said yes, and Eddie used them until he got 2 24″ Samsungs from the Full Tilt store.  The Gateway stayed in the closet.

Now that we’re getting ready to move, we decided to see if it could be fixed or whatever.

We hauled it out of the closet, plopped it on my desk and hooked it up. Green haze everywhere.

Eddie contacted Gateway, who’s response basically was, “It’s not under warranty.  Go fuck yourself.”

Eddie called around to a few computer repair shops and found one that said they could fix it.  $200 and it would be like a new monitor.  Seeing as the thing cost over $1,000 to begin with, $200 sounded pretty good.

We take it yesterday.  This afternoon the place calls:

“Sir, we have good news for you!”

“What?”

“There is nothing wrong with your monitor.”

Blink.

Blink, blink.

“Yes, there is.  I guarantee you there is.”

“Well, we’ve had it on for 7 hours and we see no green haze.  So we were thinking maybe it’s the cable you were using, so go ahead and bring that in and we’ll test it.”

Now, we told them yesterday that the green haze was over multiple inputs, so to me that would rule out the connection, but whatever.  Eddie takes the cable and goes to the repair shop.  He views for himself that there is NOTHING WRONG AT ALL.

He brings it back home, after making a deal with the manager of the shop that if he gets it home and there’s green haze, we’ll video it and they can make a “house call” and see it for themselves.  Free of charge.

It’s been home and on Eddie’s desk for 5 hours.  No green haze.

I am so confused.

edit:  Well, now it’s back.  Fuck.

Absence

August 4, 2009 in baseball, daily life, mumble, only me | 1 comment

I have been very busy lately, what with all the staring, sleeping, eating, not pooping, playing WoW and reading Dooce.  I started reading the archives (began reading it in like late 2006, so I have a lot to read), and that’s all I’ve been doing for like 3 days.

Oh, and I’ve filled out so many job applications that my right hand and wrist stopped working.  I was in so much pain I was contemplating sacrificing one of my few remaining pain killers.  (I have to take a half of one each time I have a migraine, and I’m down to just a few.)  I didn’t take one…just a lot of Advil.

If reading Dooce has taught me anything, it’s YE SHALL NOT BLOG ABOUT WORK.  I’m going to take that as even to not blog about the possibility of getting a job, so I shall refrain.

It’s difficult to find something to blog about when I can’t talk about work, I can’t talk about the thing that might be happening, or about the other thing that might be happening.

So, I guess I can just blog about not being able to talk about anything.  Or about how I can’t make anything chainmaille without my wrist hurting so badly I can’t move it.  Or how much the Reds suck and how I want Dusty Baker to actually realize that batting Willy Tavaras in leadoff or allowing Alex Gonzales to still play shortstop while they are the 2nd and 3rd to last in being the most horrible baseball players in MLB WILL NOT MAKE THEM BETTER.  Bench them or I will have to come to Cincinnatti and strangle you with my bare hands.

Either that or just do all movie reviews all the time.

Eddie’s birthday

June 10, 2009 in Eddie, Vegas life, daily life, food, mumble

Conversation Monday night while we laid in bed:

Eddie:  “I just can’t get poker out of my mind.  Whatever I do, it just swings right back to poker.”

Me:  “Well, stop trying to fight it, then.”

Eddie:  “I guess I could do that.  Didn’t really occur to me.”

Me:  “Just think about hands.  Eventually, you’ll realize that, for some reason, a giraffe is playing at your table.”

Eddie:  (laughing) “Okay.”

Me:  “And then, all of a sudden, you’ll realize you’re in the OCEAN!”

Eddie:  (really laughing hard now)

Me:  heehee

Monday was Eddie’s birthday, as well as our friend Jody’s.  (Jody lives in Canada and has come down to stay with us for a few days.)

So, to celebrate, we went to Lotus of Siam for dinner.  According to many reviews, it is the best Thai restaurant outside of Thailand.  It’s SO GOOD.   We got like 2 appetizers and 5 entrees to share between the 3 of us, then the waitress brought Eddie and Jody a dessert platter to share for their birthday, and sang Happy Birthday to them.  It was really sweet to see this little old Thai woman sing Happy Birthday.

The dessert platter consisted of a scoop of coconut ice cream, fried bananas, mango and some sort of sticky rice dessert thing.

While we were eating dinner, we were talking about what we could do after.  We were either going to go to the Strip and do something, or just go to a casino near the house and play penny slots and drink.  Since I’m still recovering from being really sick (also why there have been zero blogs for awhile), my vote was to just play penny slots somewhere close.

We went and played quite a few machines, but by far our favorite was one that we could all play together, and then sometimes (and somehow, I don’t think we ever figured it out) the “feature” would happen.  It was “Reel ‘em In” and it was SO MUCH FUN.  The feature would happen on two big screens above us, and was 4 fishermen that would either catch fish or race.  My guy won like 8 times in a row, and then Eddie chose him too and he started losing.  We figured that the computer can tell that more than one person has chosen the fisherman and sorta fixes it where he doesn’t win anymore.  But we still had a ball.

I think the two of them had a great birthday.

Not really at all awesome

May 11, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, mumble, only me, poker | 3 comments

  • Eddie got chosen for jury duty.  The trial will be at least this week.  Fucking awesome.
  • Talked to my parents today and found out that my last living grandparent is very sick.  Fucking awesome.
  • I tried to cook myself food and being a dumbass I walked away from the stove while water, milk and butter were coming up to a boil.  Now the entire house smells like burned milk.  Fucking awesome.
  • Was playing poker today and rivered a full house.  “Yay!”, right?  Not when the other guy turned a bigger one.  Fucking awesome.

Ack.

Thinking out loud, May 5

May 5, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, food, mumble, only me | 1 comment

  • My birthday is tomorrow.  The big two-nine.  Getting old.
  • So, Saturday night.  The friends bailed, but we still ate yummy hamburgers and watched Hatton get his ass handed to him.  Bah.
  • The unicorn horn is better.  The knot is almost gone, but the bad news is that since the blood is re-absorbing, the yellow/green is starting to creep upwards. lol
  • I saw a little blonde girl yesterday outside the doctor’s office (girl checkup) with a shirt on that said “I had a nightmare I was a brunette.” Lovely.
  • Speaking of funny t-shirts, I saw one the other day on this about 15 year old, super skinny girl that said “Hating me won’t make you pretty.”  I think that’s one of the funniest shirts I’ve ever seen.
  • It’s not the easiest time in the Amanda and Eddie household right now, so if updates are more sparse…forgive me.  Just can’t come up with anything witty or interesting.

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