October 31, 2003
It's Friday

Finally, of course this is the week from hell so even Friday couldn't possibly have gone without something happening..

This time, a tire.. on my way home from work to give out candy to the neighborhood heathens. Thankfully, some good soul took pity on my desperate attempts to loosen the lug nuts(? is that right?) and helped me out.. He said it's the first time he helped an elf change a tire. I'm Legolas for the day.. we did "Lord of the Rings" theme as a group (the geeky engineers, of course). I like the pointy ears, I may keep those, but the blonde wig had to go.. it looked more like "Legolas the porn years" than the LOTR kind.


So right now I'm sitting on my doorstep, giving out candy to the occasional witch and monster and utilizing my wonderful wireless. It seems we get much fewer kids than we used to, so it's a bit boring to just sit here waiting. Must wonder, what else could possibly go wrong this week? Will a vampire-dressed 5 year old mug me for my powerbook? Of course, there's always tomorrow too..

<Two minute break>
Cute, minature white ninjas. And why is one of my neighbors playing the musak version of "Lean on me" loudly on his doorstep? Not exactly Halloween music..

Posted October 31, 2003 06:42 PM in Random
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On October 31, 2003 07:12 PM cozza added:

I read ur post about this yahoo messenger problem:

Yahoo messenger problems
This is on linux (obviously), v 0.99.19-beta.

Started it, signed on fine.. but couldn't see any text in IMs at all.. including my own. Nicknames, fine.. text, nada.

Restarted yim.. didn't help, next X, didn't help.. rebooted (oh, the humanity), nothing...

I got tad annoyed at this point.. installed a fresh version.. same problem.

Aha, those famous problem solving skills kicked in and looked inside . ymessenger.. hm, all the files (history.dat, menu.rc, messages.dat and preferences) had a size of 0. I guess something got corrupted and yim just doesn't handle that well.

Removed ~/.ymessenger/, reinitialized it.. (changed my yahoo password as I managed to forget it) and now works fine.

Annoying.

Posted September 16, 2002 09:17 PM in Geek Stuff
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i was just wondering if u could explain how u fixed it in more detail cos i am really bad at fixing computers. if u can't thanks neway...

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On October 31, 2003 07:16 PM fluffy added:

The muzak version of "Lean On Me" is surely scarier than anything else they could be playing right now...

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On October 31, 2003 07:17 PM fluffy added:

Uh, this was supposed to go on "It's Friday," entry 1212. I think movabletype is messed up.

TO answer your question about what else can go wrong this week.

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On October 31, 2003 08:41 PM David added:

The joys of halloween..passing out candy and eating it all at the same time :)

I don't pass out candy anymore sadly..not enough kids come by to do that. It is nice however to know that you can walk out at night like in hawaii and see a bunch of people walking around.

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On October 31, 2003 08:49 PM Jeremy Zawodny added:

Mmmmmm... Wirless candy.

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On October 31, 2003 11:05 PM garrett added:

Oh come on, you can't tell us about your halloween costume and not post pictures, that's just totally unfair! ;-)

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On November 1, 2003 06:19 PM Mike Short added:

Picture! Picture!!!

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On November 1, 2003 09:11 PM Lynne added:

I went through 80 bags of candy, I think someone was shipping in kids from your neighborhood.

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On November 1, 2003 09:52 PM Techie2000 added:

I also demand pictures of Legolas/Kasia. However I always pictured you as more of an Arwen.

Anyways we also didn't have many kids come to our door this year. I wonder why they stop coming?

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On November 3, 2003 05:55 PM Paul added:

"Legolas the porn years" Got pics? ;)

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