Pineapple Express

This morning Chip wanted to go to Albertson's to get some meat to BBQ and he decided hey, let's go to Home Town Buffet instead. He said it would probably end up costing us more and all we'd get is the meat but at Home Town Buffet it would be a lot cheaper and we'd get more than just meat. So I said ok good deal. But we got there too early and they were still serving breakfast for another 15 min which to me is no biggy because I love breakfast. Even at dinner time I love breakfast. So then we left there and he said hey, I don't feel like going home, let's go see what's playing at the movies so we went and saw Pineapple Express. Hilarious movie. I myself don't care for pot but I do love a good pot joke lol. Seth Rogan seems to be a very funny guy and he is working his butt off this year doing so many movies.

David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction

David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction

The link to the news story is gone because the website I got the news story from removed it.

I just cannot imagine David Duchovny going into rehab for sex addiction lol. Ok yes he is allowed to have that problem but after seeing him in so many years of X-Files it just disillusions me you know? It's like finding out your hero is a drug addict. Not that he's my hero but you know what I mean.

GPS for PSP

As some of you know I'm very excited about the GPS module coming this holiday season for the PSP. Well, I just read on the Playstation Blog that it will be out later this year and there is a company who is making a dashboard bracket for the PSP making it easier to navigate the country without needing to hold your PSP while driving lol. Here is a picture.

Now just tell me how I'm supposed to use my PSP while riding a bike without crashing into a car, breaking both my legs and smashing my PSP into a million pieces.

Les Grossman

I just saw a commercial for Tropic Thunder and they are introducing a new actor named Les Grossman. LOL That's hilarious. That is Tom Cruise under all that fat and baldness. He's trying to make a new name for himself as Les Grossman either as a joke or to help boost his career again. Whatever, he was good in that movie.

Hose Water

OMG YUCK! We ran out of the bottled water and I put a few ice cubes in my cup and just got water from the tap because there ain't no way I'm gonna go fill the bottle at 12:40am. OMG so sick. It tastes like hose water. I really wish Bakersfield would clean the water up a bit more. In Los Angeles I could fill my glass with tap water and drink it and it didn't taste any different than bottled water does. Here you fill up a glass with the tap water and it's white instead of clear for a few seconds then it starts turning clear from the bottom to the top. This is not PG&E water either, this is from California Water Service Company in San Jose, CA. I'm still not quite sure why San Jose is in charge of our water. But it's sick. That's another reason for me to miss LA.

PSP Game Page

Last night I updated my PSP Game page. It looks a lot cleaner now because it just has a link which is a pop up window with the full description with my notes and it may or may not have a YouTube video embedded into it which would be the video that I made of me playing it to show what the game looks like when played. I think it looks pretty good if I do say so myself hehe.

Car Repair

We were going to the bank so Chip could cash a check and then pay his credit card bill then go to AAA to pay his insurance bill and as we left the house in the car I noticed that the A/C wasn't working. It wasn't blowing out cold air, instead of was warm. I put my hands up to feel the air and I said it's not working so Chip put his hand up to it and noticed that it was warm. So we turned it off and rolled the windows down and he could smell burning rubber. He figured it was just a belt, you know, something easy and cheap. Well, that wasn't the case at all. The Ford dealership which is where he likes to take the car called him back and told him it would cost $1852 WOWOW!!! Sheesh! I guess we have no choice right?

Dream

I have the weirdest dreams. I had to blog this before I forgot it. I am already starting to forget most of the dream but the main thing I want to write about is that we were running around and we had these duffel bags and my duffel bag had a camcorder and my PSP and my house keys inside it along with clothes and whatever, I don't know what else actually. Anyway, we stopped carrying them and at some point we were passing where we left them and they were gone and I said our bags are gone and Chip looked at me like OMG WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW!!!! And I turned to him and said don't worry, this is just a dream. I will wake up and that stuff will be where it's supposed to be. Then when I did wake up I was like whew hehe. But I find it strange that I knew that it was a dream so I chose not to stress over it in my dream.

My Cousin Stephen

I was about to go do the dishes and get ready for bed at about 12:30am and just as I was getting up out of my desk chair I heard the sound of someone signing in on the Station Launcher which is SOE's (Sony Online Entertainment) recent software for launching all of their online games such as EverQuest and EverQuest 2. It was my cousin logging in to EQ2. I immediately sat back down and clicked on the little box that popped up above my task bar in the clock area and started chatting with him. He doesn't have very much game time because of work and home life so I was basically keeping him from playing. We chatted for an hour and I told him I really have to go now. It was so good to chat with him and I hope I see him online again.

Step Brothers

We went to see the movie Step Brothers today. It was very funny. Very dirty but very funny. I wanted to see either The Dark Knight or the new Star Wars cartoon movie but as usual I never get to see nerdy things. Oh well, guess I have to wait for it to be on DVD before I can see it. But, when Harry Potter comes in theaters this November I don't care, I'm seeing it. With or without Chip. Most likely he will be asleep next to me in the theater hehe.

Echocrome for PSP

I downloaded the demo for Echocrome for the PSP tonight and played it for a few minutes but I really wasn't into it enough to want to buy it for $10. It's only 45mb but I don't really think it's worth $10. It is rather difficult but I'm just not into it. I love games that are difficult but this one didn't scream buy me.

Flow

I just video taped Flow Game Play and I just took my ambien so I will work on editing it in the morning to put it up on YouTube.

Beverly Hills

Well Chip had a design job today and so we drove to Beverly Hills (I was the navigator with my GPS on my laptop). I was sitting in the car with Flower while he was doing his job by looking at the rooms that he is going to be designing. I didn't want to take the focus away from him by being there especially with Flower and I heard a dog barking so I figured staying in the car was the best course of action. I was wrong. This woman whose house we were parked in front of was getting paranoid. Well, who could blame her, it's million dollar mansions in Beverly Hills. She called AAA because I guess 1 of her cars wasn't starting and she came up to the car and I rolled down the window and she was all "how long are you going to be here?" and I said that the person I'm here with is a designer and he's across the street and I was asked to stay in the car. She walked away but I was so uncomfortable being in the car so I just came up to the house and rang the doorbell and they let me in. I sat on the couch while Chip was telling them what he was going to do blah blah blah. Of course the focus was then on me and Flower lol. Anyway, it's good he has a design job. No painting WOOT! Hehe.

Kodak Printer

Ok, today Chip printed a couple of things and the ink levels have not changed at all. This means that the print head WAS the problem and I'm glad we didn't give up and just get a new printer, that I went to Kodak's website and complained and got a new print head sent to me. Thank goodness.

2 Girls 1 Cup

OMG!!! GROSS!!! TOTALLY GROSS!!! DO NOT WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XP Antivirus 2008

I was looking at a website and it said that I needed to download active-x or something to view a video and we had to go to the grocery store real quick. When we came home I noticed Norton Anti-virus was going nuts saying it was blocking a virus and I saw this program running called Antivirus XP 2008 on my screen saying I had all these viruses on my computer and wanted me to click something to get rid of them. I knew something was wrong because I didn't install that program and for some reason it wouldn't allow me to uninstall it through the control panel. I used the laptop to search for it on Yahoos search engine and found this:

http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/xp-antivirus-2008-removal-instructions-xp-antivirus-2008

Please, take a look at the pictures and memorize them so if this happens to you then you will be able to arm yourself. You don't have to bookmark this site or keep the email if you don't have this issue but just remember to search for it through a search engine so you can be able to get rid of it. I was able to get rid of it but I had to follow the instructions on this website. I hope for your sake you don't get this but in case you do make sure you get rid of it right away. Oh, one of the things you will notice is that your screen will be blue or maroon, your wallpaper will be gone. That is a good indication that you have problems.

Update: After I went through all the steps to remove this thing I went to lay down on my bed to watch TV and I noticed that it went to the Windows Login screen so I got up and clicked my name and went to see the screen saver settings, I right clicked the desktop and clicked Properties and there are 2 tabs missing.  Desktop and Screen saver.  They are gone!  I don't know how to get it back.  If I have to reformat my hard drive I'm gonna be pissed.

Another update: I get these email supposedly from CNN.  They are usually 1 line emails with a link and I clicked it to see the video for a news story and it said that I needed the active x thing and that is what happened.  I was trying to see a news story.  I am not going to click any of those emails ever again and just assume it's a link to a virus.  My Norton is still finding virus's left over from that and deleting them.  So, if you get emails from CNN make damn sure they are really from CNN and not a fake website.  Just go directly to CNN.com instead just to be safe.

Doctor Who Season 2

I've finished watching Doctor Who Season 2 which is 1964/65. It's very interesting to watch and even though I shall miss them, Ian and Barbara found their way back home although 2 years into their own future (they left in 1963 and returned in 1965, I guess they couldn't go back to where they left). Poor Susan was left behind on earth in I think the 23rd or 24th century right after they defeated the Daleks. At any rate, he has 2 new companions and I can't wait to see their futher adventures in season 3 which would be 1965/66

Kodak

Well, today I recieved my new print head with a complimentary black ink cartridge, color ink cartridge as well as 5 sheets of 4x6 glossy photo paper. My printer is back to normal again. I hope it lasts this time. But, I'm satisfied with Kodak. It's a very good printer as I said before and I love that the ink is so cheap, that was the selling point you know? Chip was ready to just go out and buy a new printer and I was like no this one cost you a lot of money, I'll just deal with it. But why should I just deal with it if the problem can be resolved by emailing Kodak and asking them what to do? As I said, I'm satisfied.

Kodak

I sent an email to Kodak the day before yesterday and yesterday I got an email back from them asking for the serial number and the model number etc as well as my home address and phone number. I did the tests they asked me to do and it really pissed me off that all those tests sucked up an entire cartridge of color and black ink. That's $22 of ink that is gone now. Thankfully they are sending me a new print head because they think mine is defective but I wont be able to test out the new print head with no ink so hopefully they will send me new ink cartridges. I told them that it sucked up all my ink and so I have no more ink. I will cross my eyes that they send me ink too and not just the print head. They are sending me a envelope to send them the defective print head as well and I will include the ink cartridges as well to show them that it's brand new ink and it's all gone. If they didn't send me ink with the new print heads then perhaps sending them the empty ink cartridges will make them see that I was telling the truth and they will send me more ink.

Kodak All-In-One Printer

Chip bought me a Kodak All-In-One Printer for Christmas 2007. He bought it on Shop NBC and it was a very thoughtful gift. It has a scanner and you can print directly to 4x6 glossy photo paper with it's very own slot to keep the paper. It has SD card slots for several different kinds of memory sticks so you don't even need a computer to print your pictures from your camera. Just put the memory stick in the printer and it prints directly to 4x6 photo paper. The scanner does a fantastic job scanning with it's Kodak technology where it fixes colors and stuff. It's a great product. It's selling point is that the ink is cheaper. The black ink is $10 and the color ink is $15. Good deal right?

WRONG! Last month, after I've had it for about 6 1/2 months, it started messing up big time. I bought brand new ink cartridges for it and it ate it all up and I barely even used the ink and it was printing with white lines and all of a sudden it stopped printing the red and yellow ink. Chip bought another package of ink (black and color together is $22) and still no red and yellow. I cleaned the print heads with the basic clean and deep clean and mind you these are brand new ink cartridges and cleaning the heads ate up all the ink on these BRAND SPANKING NEW ink cartridges. The black has like 1/3 left and the ink is less than 1/4 left and it has the ! exclamation point on it saying it is running out and I need more. I haven't printed anything yet for crying out loud. BRAND NEW! This used to be a good kick ass printer, now it's crap. All it's good for anymore is for scanning, that's it. And it was $250. What a total waste of money.

Update: Kodak, Kodak, Kodak Printer...  Those posts reflect that Kodak did do right by me and they sent me a new print head which totally fixed the problem.  So please don't let this blog post change your mind about buying a new Kodak All-In-One printer because it really is a good printer.

Skype Phone Number

Well, I'm sorry to say that I will not have a phone number for Skype. I refuse to pay $24 a year to have a phone number when I wont have it turned on enough to need a phone number for it. And that was with a $30 discount. And I'm not even sure if that discount was for the first year or not. I'm not going to have Skype running or even have the PSP running constantly so it's just not worth it. If I want to use it to call someone it will only be because either Chip is on the phone and wont let me use it or if were not even home and I am too cheap to use the cell phone and we are near a WiFi hotspot. Which reminds me, I am gonna need to find out how to use the AT&T WiFi hotspots with my PSP. I know it works with my laptop but I can't get it to work with my PSP. T-Mobile has WiFi hotspots too but since I get AT&T hotspots free because of my DSL why pay more when I will probably only use it once a year you know? I've yet to even use it as it is.

Skype for PSP

Well, today we went to Game Stop at the mall and bought the "PSP Slim Skype Headset Kit" for $32.16 (after taxes) and made a call my friend Sue. Chip talked to her for nearly 45 min but then I was able to talk to her for awhile until Big Brother after dark started. The quality of the phone call was really amazing. I'm able to walk around the house, even go outside, just as long as I stay inside my wifi zone. With my regular telephone I get a lot of static because the cordless phone in my room is too far away from the main base in the living room so it's nice to not have any static. So, I'm going to use my PSP from now on to make phone calls. Usually I can't get on the phone because Chip is always on the phone hehe.