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Kittens

Kevin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:29:33 +0000

We have rescued a litter of kittens from our back yard and need to find them homes. Out of the original seven kittens we have five left. We have two short-hair grey girls, one a light grey and one a darker grey. Also we have a brown tabby that is a girl. For the boys there is a grey tabby that has a leopard spotted coat, and a dark long-hair brown and black tabby.

If it weren’t for the fact that we already had three cats of our own we’d consider keeping one or two of them but that just isn’t an option. Please help us find them homes! All of the local shelters are full and won’t take them and animal control will just put them down. Help them have a chance!

- Posted with my iPad

Location: Lawrenceville, GA United States

Brush With Death

Kevin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:17:43 +0000

So I had a small brush with death this morning. After waking up and finding some clothes; I staggered into the bathroom, peed, and then started to brush my teeth. Halfway through brushing my teeth the damn tooth brush snapped in half lodging the brush end in my throat. I coughed it up thankfully but damn! Completely unexpected, although it did wake my ass up. Now I feel the need to be adventurous today and try to cheat death again.

Hahaha!!! I just realized I said “brush” with death. LoL!

– Posted with my iPad

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Finally!!!

Kevin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:26:20 +0000

Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely love my MacBook Air.

But…

I’ve owned it for over a year now, and ever since its purchase it has had one big plaguing problem. It has a tendency to overheat when doing mildly intensive tasks (mainly video/flash playback, or other intensive tasks). Now I know this is an ultraportable machine designed for use on the go, and its not intended to be a main workhorse computer. I do use this as my main machine, mainly because I hate having to keep track of all my files across various machines. For me, I don’t generally do many graphics or processor intensive tasks. I do encode video (tv shows) for playback and storage in iTunes on my television, however I store those on the Mac Mini that is attached to the tv and it has a faster processor; so it gets to have that fun. With my photography I do edit photos, but I absolutely hate Photoshop (mainly due to its complex nature, and all the classes I’ve taken in photoshop have taught me nothing) so I use Pixelmator (which runs so much better on any machine). So as you can see the only problem I should be having is storage, since this machine was only available with a 60gb SSD or 80gb ATA (and I have the 80gb). I’d love to have an SSD but thats a story for another day.

Now this overheating issue use to be much worse, Apple has issued a firmware update that helped mildly. No longer did it simply shut down one of the cores to cut back on heat problems, now it just scales back processing so bad that watching youtube videos are impossible. Playback becomes so choppy that you can’t make it through an entire video. It would get so hot trying to play freaking farmville on facebook (flash content) that it got out of sync with the server because of how slow it was loading.

On to this magical fix; and no I didn’t buy a Rev. B or C MacBook Air to replace it. There is a utility called CoolBook that allows mac users to effectively under-clock the processor. This utility lets you specify the voltage the processor is getting when its running at different speeds. This doesn’t change the speeds, just the amount of power its consuming, therefore keeping it from getting nearly as hot. This also has a side benefit of using less battery power and giving you more time away from the plug. The utility is $10.00 and its attached to the computer you are using so it isn’t transferrable, its tied along with its serial to the machine. I installed it earlier today, and while it has gotten warm, it hasn’t gotten nearly as hot. I’ve been able to watch all the things on youtube I’ve missed out on! Hell i’m tempted to install iMovie and see how well it’ll create them.

While I am in the minority for people that own Airs, I still have to say its a wonderful everyday main machine for my uses, and I love it. Just now, I love it even more.

– Posted From My MacBook Air

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Home-wrecker!!!!

Kevin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:14:00 +0000

Ok, I seriously have a problem with this; and it really pissed me off. So I want to know if others feel the same as I do. This person sent me an instant message on aol, from the screen-name “rmburdett”. Now normally I wouldn’t call out people by their screen-names, but this person deserves the world to know the crap they are pulling.

So anyways, this person messaged me earlier that I have never talked to, nor have heard of or from before; and asked several odd and personal questions. He then proceeded to ask me if I had a boyfriend, and I replied, yes I do. He then asked well “it” says your single. I then responded, “what is ‘it’?” (apparently I didn’t change the relationship statues on my myspace to single in the ‘details’ field that isn’t even visible on my main profile page. Also my profile says explicitly on it I’m just looking to meet new friends. The dude then, now knowing I’m not looking for anyone, stops talking all together, so I of course turn into super bitch, and say “soo… since i’m not single and looking you don’t want to talk anymore?” and he then blocks me.

What is even better, is before messaging me this guy, fuck it hell his name is Rob from Lawrenceville, and he’s 23, requested to be my friend, and his profile says he’s in a relationship, with the most wonderful person in the world. So what the fuck was he even messaging me for in the first place!?

Oh and in asking what part of Lawrenceville I lived, I gave a reference point like I do when most people ask, I live by Discover Mills, this dude told me in reply the name of his freaking neighborhood, who does that? God people are so sick and sad when trolling for hookups; makes me sick.

So please everyone, feel free to message that screen name and tell him how much of a sleeze he is. And I hope his boyfriend finds this and learns what he’s up to. Unless they are trolling for a three-some, then they’re both just sick…

Bah.. People suck.

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Batter Up!

Kevin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:48:56 +0000

Life always seems to surprise you when you least expect it. Also at the most inconvenient of times it will throw you a curve-ball. This would have been the second year in a row that I would have gotten the holiday’s off from work, and I was really looking forward to it. Actually this year was going to be a bit nicer than last. We were supposed to work tonight (Monday night) and have the rest of the week off for Thanksgiving, and then like last year we were getting the weeks of Christmas and New Years off as well. I save up about two weeks of vacation time each year to use for Thanksgiving week, and Christmas week, The week of New Years is considered next year to payroll, so I just take it without pay, which isn’t a big deal. We always schedule an out of town week right before Christmas so that we will get a larger than norma mileage check to make up for the week without pay. This year we were doing both of the last two weeks before Christmas in Alabama, so it was going to be a really nice milage check for us.

Unfortunately things don’t always pan out the way they are planned. Corporate has decided in their infinite wisdom that they want to save as much money as they can during the holidays and over the last few weeks of the year. So they have decided to cancel all the scheduled inventories for Period 12 (basically the next three weeks). Which means that I now have 93 hours of vacation time to spread across four weeks of no work. I have the option to go and work in a store for extra hours, but since I haven’t worked in a store in over a year and a half I really don’t want to. Plus everyone has hired all of their seasonal employees and won’t have any labor hours to spend on me either.

I guess in a nut-shell I was laid off today.

Best of all, no one actually has any information about next year. So as far as we know we are employed with the company but have nothing to do (i.e. get paid to do) and might, or might not come the first week of January. So lucky me, no job for a month and I can’t even file unemployment. I got the best ‘severance package’ as we’re calling this cashing in our vacation time to cover as much as we can. My boss and co-worker only have 40 and 33 hours (respectively) of vacation time to spread across this coming month.

Needless today tonight at work we weren’t working at full speed. For two reasons actually; one in disbelief, and two we needed tonight to take as long as it could so we could get as many hours on the clock as possible.

So if anyone has any free time here in oh say the next month and wants to hang-out, let me know. I’ll be available and bored. I should probably start practicing doing naughty things on web-cam again for money incase I loose my job entirely. =)

It’s really sad that that’s as positive as I can be…

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Why is it…

Kevin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:14:17 +0000

…that I get some big thrill out of deleting people off my friends list? I need to find someones neck to suck the blood out of later…

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lilburn GA, United States

Need Ideas

Kevin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:18:07 +0000

I need birthday ideas for the Billy. His birthday is Monday, and I have no clue what to get him, and he does have a clue either. *perplexed*

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lilburn GA, United States

Deletion

Kevin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:35:52 +0000

So I deleted several people off of my friends list on myspace, and a lot more on facebook. Nothing personal or anything, mainly people that added me, and have never messaged me or anything at all. I don’t really have friends online that aren’t friends in person. So I don’t feel as though “friends lists” should be any different. Plus if they’ve never bothered to message me, they aren’t going to notice I’m missing. I was probably just another number on their way to a million friends or something. And If you’re reading this and were deleted, just add me back and say something!

On a related side note, there were two people (one myspace and one facebook) that got deleted purely for one reason. They post an excessive amount of useless and pointless bulletins. The facebook person being one who posts propaganda for every cause in the world, and I’m sorry I can only read about them saving the world so much before I start to hate seeing their posts. The myspace person just really pissed me off last weekend especially because they posted the same bulletin with different titles over and over again every five minutes boasting some party that night; and that was purely ridiculous.

Anyway I’ll stop ranting, just wanted to let everyone know what was “up”.

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Trying Something New

Kevin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:43:04 +0000

Last Monday I kicked off my week of vacation (not really a vacation, more like time away from work; YAY!) with lunch plans with Billy and Andy; followed by an afternoon of shopping and goofing off. After lunch and some of the mentioned shopping Andy and I went to the park and walked around and talked for a while. I brought my camera in hopes of getting a few good pictures. Andy wanted some newer shots for myspace, and hell I could use a few new ones myself. Turns out he had never used a real camera before, only the point-and-shoot variety; so I let him have some fun with mine. A good portion of his work came out… less than in-focus, but he did pretty well. I got in a few shots of him early on, one of which I took and did a little HDR mapping with, and came out with the above. It came out pretty neat if I do say so myself. I put it up on my deviant account, so If anyone has any interest in seeing my other work feel free to check out the link. If there is anything you like please comment, fav, or collect it. I could use the rating over there =).

On another note, I’ve noticed that since updating the blog more often, things get bumped off the main page rather quickly; so I’m going to up the post-per-page limit. Currently it’s set to two, and I don’t think three will be enough to notice so I’ll move to four. Anything more than that and it becomes a tad lengthy.

Speaking of blog related things, I wish someone would figure out a way to set MarsEdit to wrap text around pictures in posts. Having it separated is a big ugly, and doing it manually by hand is a pain in the butt. So if anyone knows a better way, speak up please.

I think I’ve taken up enough of your time, bye bye for now!

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lilburn GA, United States

Time passes, oh so slowly.

Kevin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:33:58 +0000

Each day that passes by, every sunrise and sunset brings us each one day closer to dying. I believe that our only subconscious way of dealing with this is by the uncertainty of how long our life span will be. Each year there are special days, holiday, and other marks upon our biological calendar that remind us that another year has passed. Sure I know my birthday is tomorrow, as do you. Myself, I am surprised I’ve lasted this long before getting depressed over it. Usually this will set in much sooner. What else would you expect though? I always get this way every year. I’m not terribly depressed over getting older, sure I’m not thrilled, but who is? Twenty-two is not an age that counts, or matters for anything. Actually come to think of it, I don’t think there are any from here on out that count for anything. I’m over twenty-one, I “can” drink, though I choose not to, I “can” go clubbing though I also rarely choose to. I guess eighteen was the last important birthday to me. Oh well… enough dwelling.

I’m sure everyone got an invite from Billy as to the birthday gathering. If you got missed on myspace, he has planned an outing at Piedmont Park, on Saturday April 26th all afternoon, for people to come by and say hello and such. So if you’d like to stop by feel free. This is the only party there will be, there is not going to be some house trashing, alcohol bingeing, sex party… I’m not like other people, none of those three interest me so, don’t bring alcohol, and don’t bring condoms, its a safe for the whole family event. Hope to see everyone there. If you want more details just ask someone.

– Posted From My MacBook

Location: Lilburn GA, United States