Visiting

I’m currently at my mother’s house, posting on her sbc yahoo dsl connection, just kind of dropping in to let everyone know that I am still alive and all.

–aj

AFC

I will be AFC for a couple weeks, and I may or may not be able to post while I am away, so please do not give up hope on my blog.

I will be away in Milwaukee visiting my mother over the christmas/new years holiday.

Sorry

All my stuff came a couple days ago… and I’ve been busy using and playing with it all.

I don’t know how I ever survived without a subwoofer.

I’m happy with everything, even getting plenty of use out of the mp3 player.

I’m very happy ^_^

*thump thump thump thump thump thump*

AJ’s post sound track provided by: Utada Hikaru – Automatic [Johnny Vicious Remix]

I have been defeated.

Look down, what is the delivery of the speakers supposed to take place?

Shouldn’t leave the docks until the 10th, right?

I got them today!

I don’t know how I ever survived without the subwoofer…

Stopped Shaking

Okay, I’ve stopped shaking. I’m still extremely excited, and have been forwarded the confirmation email for the shipment. Everything should be here by the 20th, excepting the first copy of my subscription to pcmagazine, which should show up late Jan to early Feb.

Shipping Method: Standard Shipping (3-7 business days)
Shipping Preference: Group my items into as few shipments as possible
Subtotal of Items: $394.56
Shipping & Handling: $27.91
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Total for this Order: $422.47

Shipping estimate for these items: December 10, 2003
Delivery estimate: December 15, 2003 – December 20, 2003 1 “Drumline (Widescreen)”
Charles Stone III;DVD; $16.99

1 “Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card”
Electronics; $71.24

1 “Logitech Optical Mouse (USB/PS2)”
Electronics; $15.94

1 “Creative Labs 128 MB NOMAD IIc MP3 Player”
Electronics; $99.99

The first issue should arrive between January 21, 2004 – February 19, 2004 1 “PC Magazine”
Magazine; $34.97

Shipping estimate for these items: December 10, 2003
Delivery estimate: December 15, 2003 – December 20, 2003 1 “Logitech Z-640 6 Speaker Surround Sound System”
Electronics; $59.99

Shipping estimate for these items: December 10, 2003
Delivery estimate: December 15, 2003 – December 20, 2003 1 “Freelancer”
CD-ROM; $16.99

1 “Deus Ex: Invisible War”
CD-ROM; $44.99

1 “The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition)”
Andy Wachowski;DVD; $19.47

1 “Take a Look in the Mirror”
Korn;Audio CD; $13.99
AJ’s post sound track provided by: Blue Man Group – Klein Mandelbrot

OMG

I was wrong.

Someone did buy me stuff off my wishlist…

I won’t give his name unless he says I can, but those who know me best know who this is.

but…

$394.61 + shipping… on me

*is currently shaking*

*wrapped in blanket and shaking*

AJ’s post sound track provided by: Linkin Park – Faint

No Harm

Noone will ever buy me anything, so the concept of having a wishlist can’t hurt me.

Just Wondering.

I’m working on a stat page for use on my new personal page host… and I want to know if anyone sees a problem with this code… or if they think they could improve it…

<?php
require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/config/db_config.php");
$connection = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password) or die("Error connecting. Please contact Administrator.");
mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection);

$this_page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $IP = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$ref = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; $user_agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
$notfound = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
if ( $notfound != NULL ) { $this_page = $notfound . " [404]";
}
$date_auto = time();

$query = "INSERT INTO stats (page, ip, ref, user_agent, date_auto) VALUES ('$this_page', '$IP', '$ref', '$user_agent', '$date_auto')";
mysql_query($query, $connection);

?>

Power Struggle

Power.

Excerpt:

electricity was out for about 30 minutes, leaving at least parts of Marinette without power between 10:33 and 11 p.m.

An almost-full moon provided some measure of outside light, but indoors, many houses were completely dark as residents fumbled for flashlights and candles.

Still some houses experienced more of a brownout effect, said Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik.

“At my house the power went out but then the lights began to glow dimly,” said Skorik.

He reported no major problems or mishaps because of the outage.

“Our concern when those things occur are intersections because of lack of traffic signals, and of course we try to increase our building security,” said Skorik. “At this point it appears there were no severe problems (because of the outage).”

Across the area, computers were rebooted this morning and digital clocks were reset.

At Bay Area Medical Center, there were no problems that affected patient care, said John Hofer, a hospital spokesman.

But the power outage was widespread, affecting thousands of people in other parts of northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan for several hours overnight.

It began when electric transmission lines that connect northeastern Wisconsin with the Upper Peninsula tripped out of service, Maripat Blankenheim of the American Transmission Co. said.

ATC officials said the system is designed to sustain the outage of one of the three lines, but when two lines tripped out of service, the third was unable to sustain the connection.

The affected area was from just north of Green Bay to just west of Manistique, Mich., ATC said.

Marilyn Westerman, a spokeswoman for WPS Resources, said only a few thousand customers in Wisconsin — primarily in the Marinette, Wausaukee and Wabeno areas — lost power and only for about an hour.

At least 52,000 Upper Peninsula customers were without power, said Janet Wolfe, a spokeswoman for the Upper Peninsula Power Co. But more were affected as that number includes wholesale customers like the city of Negaunee who count as one customer.

All of UPPCo’s customers were restored by 5 a.m., Wolfe said.

“Our crews were very prepared for something like this,” said Wolfe. “The outage this summer did give us a chance to review our procedures.”

We Energies spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the outage affected about 10,000 Wisconsin customers of that Milwaukee-based utility and 26,000 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but all were back in service by about 3 a.m.

Wolfe said it was fortunate the outage occurred in December and “we didn’t have the minus-40 weather and 50-mile-an-hour winds” common later in the winter months.

ATC officials said they are investigating the cause of the outage.

Their crews began working to restore transmission service immediately and said “while many customers will wake up to their electricity being on, full restoration will be delayed while ATC ensures that the lines can be restored safely.”

And the award goes to…

…someone else.

Lets see…

Today, I opened up trillain to find a ton of IM spam…

Today, I drove to work, noticing the effects of a thermal inversion. Very cool.

Today, I did some dishes. Not cool.

Today, I had some popcorn. Always cool.

Today, I posted this today, but the other today’s are actually about yesterday.

Time travel, always improbable.

AJ’s post sound track provided by: Godsmack – I Stand Alone