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Eh… it’s the 4th of July…. Don’t think I’ll be doing much this year.  All my friends are on vacation or working… so… uhhh… I thought about going to the fireworks with my mom… but she’s probably going out of town with my step-dad…. So I’m getting lunch with Sarah tomorrow on her break, then gonna visit my relatives for a cookout thing…. won’t be seeing the fireworks though… it’s kinda sad…. but then again…. I don’t REALLY care… it’s just strange not going…. It’s also strange to think that the next time I have a chance to see fireworks it’ll be with my …. ….. dun dun dun…. WIFE!  I don’t think it’ll ever fully “hit” me until it’s final… but that sure is a fun thought to have…

So I just installed a new chipset fan on my motherboard… the previous one liked to make fun noises and stop spinning until I smacked the case really hard… Then it’d work again… but I figured it’d probably be best to buy a new one.  It took me 5 months to hunt one down!  It had to be a very specific one… and finally I got it through the official Abit parts reseller… Then it sat on my desk for another month… then when my computer started locking up randomly… I figured I should put it in to cool the chipset… …. … Just maybe….

I’m also working on getting my linksys router to not suck and keep kicking me offline once every 5 minutes… Not a ton of luck there, but at least I’m eliminating possible causes… Figure I’ll get to the end result EVENTUALLY…. The downside is that while I’m working on that, it’s down in my step-dad’s bedroom… and when he’s here… it’s like trying to work with someone staring over your shoulder all the time… and dropping really annoying jokes that are nothing more than insults in a joking manner… you know… the kind that you react to with… “heh heh heh…. ”  Then you drop the fake smile and sneer and look away… yeah.. so after an hour or so of that… I finally got it to a semi-working state and left…

I know it sounds like I’m a jerk here… but there’s only so much “Maybe you don’t know what you’re doing…. Want me to call (insert name) and have them teach you how to do that?” that I can take… especially when the person he’s talking about is someone who I dance circles around in computer knowledge… but to my step-dad we’re both “good” at it… VERY FRUSTRATING…. and the kicker is… he’s NOT being serious… he is totally sarcastic… and only looking to get a rise out of me… he stares at me with a smile on his face and then laughs when he gets me upset… and if it wasn’t for the fact that my internet connection in my room depends on that equipment in his room… I woulda walked out long ago…. in fact, I still considered it… I just don’t get the same pleasure out of harrassing someone to frustration that he does… somehow that’s not my idea of a joke…

OK…. I’m done ranting… I’m obviously in a bad mood… I’m gonna go sleep….