Shadee’s Blog

Been seeing a lot of those annoying Mac commercials again lately.

Today I found this and I lol-ed

That’s the best one I’ve seen since :

-Dee.

The other day I was wondering….

What would it be like if WoW inventories were actually handled realistically?
I thought of all the crap my characters carry around in their bags and I started imagining…

What I came up with actually made me giggle, so I decided to put it down in sketch form.
Some of you have already seen the sketch version and I wasn’t sure if I would actually do anything else with it but after some poking and prodding from a few different people I actually decided to sit down and finish it

So here it is, this is what a flight would probably be like if they were to display your inventory properly.

-Dee.

The last session end I had in #blitzcoder was

[16:55] *** Disconnected
Session Close: Thu Dec 01 16:55:54 2005

years passed…
And for some reason I got bored and curious a few days ago…

Session Start: Wed May 14 18:48:20 2008
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Names for #BlitzCoder: Shadee robp NickSheets Nathan nuada @Cicero Sir|Manfred poedgirl jangle @misterx
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[18:48] Mode (ChanServ:#BlitzCoder +o Shadee)
[18:48] (@Shadee) lol
[18:49] ! @Shadee slaps misterx around a bit with a large trout
[18:49] ! @Shadee slaps Cicero around a bit with a large trout
[18:49] (@misterx) gasp
[18:49] (@misterx) lo
[18:49] (@Cicero) omfg
[18:49] (@misterx) And wtf
[18:49] (@Cicero) \o/
[18:49] (@Shadee) hahah what are you guys still doing here XD
[18:49] (nuada) O_o
[18:49] (@misterx) Question is
[18:49] (@Cicero) lo Shadee
[18:49] (@misterx) What are /you/ doing here.
[18:49] (@Shadee) I’m bored

I was laughing my ass off. I so wasn’t expecting anyone in there let alone any familiar faces.
Or that I’d still have ops lol! I probably confused the hell out of the new people when I signed on

Kinda cool to see there’s still something going on there though.
Guess I’ll have to pop in more often again

-Dee.

So yeah, I finally managed to reinstall Win without any crashes.
It actually took me pulling out one of my sticks of RAM for it to work.
I’m still not sure whether the problem’s the stick of RAM or the memory bank on my main board, but I’ll test that later when I have time when I can be arsed

If it does turn out to be my memory bank then I guess I’ll just get a bigger single stick of memory for now. I’m so not going to buy a new mobo and CPU right now.

But in the mean time, OMG…. look at the clean desktop!!!
Look at the SPACE on the partitions! :O

The drive was already huge compared to the one I had so it would’ve given me a lot more space even if I’d ghosted everything but I gotta admit, it’s so nice without all the crappy software and files I never used anymore gone
I installed the things I could think of which I knew I used on a regular basis and I did have to reconnect my old drive for a bit just to copy over my music, some smaller apps and some of the art that hadn’t been backed up yet but that wasn’t too bad
(I gotta admit that I was half tempted when I found out that my old drive worked perfectly fine with the one stick too, but meh, after all the work, I might as well finish the job and take advantage of the opportunity to have more space and start clean).

So I can has space and a fresh OS noew!!…
Ready to once again be polluted and have fester into another messed up monstrosity of a tangled, half corrupted limping OS/file hybrid which I’ll be able to lovingly latch onto and use for at least another 10 years! XD

HAHAHAHAAA AHAHAA HA…

-Dee.

My Compy finally died this morning
I’d been having trouble with it ever since the move (probably got shaken up a bit too much during transport), so I knew this was coming. You just know somethings horribly wrong when your PC freezes up at random intervals while playing wow and punching the case actually fixes it. (lol)

I know I know, I should’ve looked into it sooner and now that it’s finally bit the dust I should probably take it apart and properly diagnose the problem so I can fix it.

But I won’t

*watches Specis cringe*

instead I dug up an old (new) hard drive I had lying around. I meant to ghost my drive to it cause it’s bigger a while ago but I kept putting it off (gee really?? how unlike me ), so I figured yaknow what? I’ll just do it now!
I have no idea whether or not the drive’s the problem or if this ‘ll fix it but if anything I’ll have my files backed up if it does turn out to be my HDD that’s dying.

So yeah, if this works (even if just a little) I’ll be merrily continuing my on-line endeavors from my new and improved hard drive
And if not… then you probably won’t see me for a few days because I loathe Mord’s ARRRGHonomic keyboard and I’m having a hard enough time just typing this entry with it

So ya, back to the laundry with regular breaks to stare at my ghost progress bar.

-Dee.

[EDIT]
Ghosted the drive but it’s starting to smell like memory, mainboard or CPU :/
Meh, won’t be on for a bit I guess.
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[EDIT#2]
Found my knoppix CD and am running it, but I got distracted by gaim and KTeaTime lolz.
On a good note though, no system crashes yet and I’ve been using it for quite a while now.
So my HDD might’ve just died and left a borked win install which I ghosted. So meh, time to find that XP CD…
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[EDIT#3]
Well, I tried formatting the new drive and starting a fresh install (finally found my XP CD) but no luck.
It went quite a ways but then it crashed horribly. So I guess it has to be some kind of hardware problem after all. And I guess whatever it is is something knoppix doesn’t use much because when I’m in here the system seems pretty stable.
So meh, I guess I’ll tinker with it again later. Just need to rebuild my tolerance buffer and do something else for a while
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[EDIT#4]
Looks like my RAM is completely borked :/ Running memtest right now and it ain’t looking good. I’m almost too scared to run any of the other hardware diagnostics. Let’s hope the memory is all that’s died.
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I was staring at Deviant Art and instead of wanting to log right back onto WoW I got inspired to start drawing again. Of course I couldn’t get anything decent on paper, and after many brainless scribbles I somehow ended up with my Tauren hunter lol.
I guess wow is still lurking somewhere in the back of my mind even when I don’t think it is

Don’t try to identify the armor, I couldn’t be arsed to use a reference so this was all just made up on the couch
After I did the sketch I started randomly messing around with all the stuff in an art kit I got for my birthday a few years ago (which was the only thing with colors in reach) so it’s a weird mixture of pencil, crayon and watercolor lol.

/moo

-Dee.

My brother and his wife got a divorce a few years ago, I’ve written about this before but I just can’t get it out of my mind, it’s eating me up and it’s so frustrating.

They have two sons together. Things were ok at first, and he was allowed to pick his kids up for a weekend once every 2 weeks, which is in the legal custody agreement too. The kids loved him and their grandparents (my parents). They’d often visit their grandparents on their own too, sometimes daily, since they only lived one block away and they enjoyed playing there so much and were always sad when they had to leave.

My ex-sister in law got a new bf (she didn’t even wait till the divorce was final) and my bro eventually got a new gf too (The two of them used to be married to each other too to complicate things a bit more for ya :P). And that’s when things started to fall apart. She didn’t like my brother’s new gf for some reason, they had a few arguments, nothing major, but suddenly my oldest nephew didn’t “want” to visit his dad anymore. Whenever he’d bump into anyone of my side of the family outside, even his grandparents who he used to love to visit so much he’d turn his head stare at the ground and would run off as if they’d done something horrible.

My youngest nephew did still visit his dad for a while but after a while that stopped too. One of the things he’d told his dad not too long before his visits stopped was that his brother and mom had been calling him a traitor for visiting his dad. And that they were being pretty horrible to him. My family has been very careful to not probe the kids about the situation because they didn’t want to upset them. They never said anything bad about my ex-sister in law in front of them either because you just don’t do that. You don’t put a child in that kind of a position, it’s got nothing to do with them and they shouldn’t be the ones carrying that burden.

Well apparently she disagrees.
I don’t know what she’s been telling them or possibly even threatening them with but both of them are too scared to visit their dad and grandparents now. They have a new family now, and their real father doesn’t have a place in it anymore.

The new guy she’s dating also has kids. They’re living with their mom but now he also refuses to have contact with his own kids even though they have tried. Probably because his dear new gf won’t allow it because they’re not a part of their new little family either in her eyes.

She’s completely lost it.
Why is this horrible woman doing this?
If she wants to be a bitch then why doesn’t she do things like dent or scratch their cars or something to take out her aggression? But instead she’s using the kids as peons and they’re the ones who are ultimately suffering in all of this.

And what can you do when you’re in a situation like that?
As a father you don’t have any legal rights unless she physically abuses them.
He could enforce their legal agreement and just “take” them for a weekend every two weeks, but if they’d be kicking and screaming then that’s not going to do the poor kids any good, and he knows that, and that’s why he hasn’t. He doesn’t want to force them, he just wants them to be happy and healthy, but the way she’s transformed them doesn’t seem to indicate that they are.

What it basically comes down to is that I’m worried about the mental welfare of my two little nephews.
I’m afraid that she’s been manipulating them horribly and that if they ever find out the truth about what she’s been doing when they grow up it’s going to pain them so much and they might loathe their mother for the rest of their lives (which she would deserve but I still wouldn’t wish for that because it would be horrible for them, even worse if they don’t find out until after their grandparents are gone and they don’t get a second chance).

I don’t know. You want to do something about it but it’s such a delicate situation with the legal rights being so much in favor of the mother by default. You don’t want the kids to think you gave up on them and don’t care but you don’t want the mother to have any ammunition and say you’re being aggressive or are stalking them and take legal action to try and completely forbid contact, which she very well could do in her delusional state even if all you’re trying to do is talk to them.

Living a continent away myself there’s even less I can do. But it doesn’t mean it’s not on my mind a lot.
I still send them Christmas presents. My mom drops them off at the door and tries to make sure one of the kids takes them because you know it’s probably going straight in the trash if you give it to her

Meh, I don’t even know what I’m trying to accomplish by typing this.
Just trying to vent I guess.

Unfortunately it’s not actually helping or making me feel any better.

And there’s a lot more to the story which would make your jaw drop but blah….. just blah…
I’ve riled myself enough just thinking about it again.

-Dee.