For fuck's sake. Honestly.
I just spent 8+ hours hacking Broadcom's WIDCOMM bluetooth drivers/stack. ("Aww, widdle biddy comm!") Just so I could listen to what ended up (by the time I was finished) an hour's worth of music before I leave work for the day.
For whatever reason, my bluetooth adapter (Targus ACB10US) and headphones (Motorola HT820) were working in perfect harmony last night at work. So, I decided to fuck around with it a little. And of course I completely fucked up the bluetooth stack in the process. So I spent most of the night searching for and downloading various versions of WIDCOMM, trying various hacks, and finally getting the right version, a working crack, and a valid license for it. And it is now working. Go me.
For future reference, this site was a big help.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
I got a call from my 23-year-old sister today. She's apparently getting married in one month. At age 23. I can't even begin to describe how wrong that is for a person like her; she's voraciously slutty (and I don't mean that in an insulting way, because she honestly, actively persues one-night stands and the like), she's cheated on past partners (at least three that I know of, and that was just during the single year I shared an apartment with her!), she had an abortion after getting careless with one of her greaseball boyfriends (all of her boyfriends, that I've met anyway, are inherently greasy, though I haven't met her current one), and she's almost completely dependant on my parents (who, as far as I know, still pay for her mobile phone bill; a classic case of "youngest child syndrome"), despite the fact that she considers my mother her mortal enemy. She works a menial job (she's a manager at GameStop) and to the best of my memory never had any money to spend on useful things like groceries; instead she'd order pizza three times a week or spend $50 on a bag of pot. I don't know what her boyfriend does for money, though, so I can't/won't pass judgement on him.
The worst part is that she wants me to attend the wedding, which she says will be in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Great idea, eh? Invite an agoraphobe to an event full of a 50/50% mix of rarely-seen relatives and people I don't know. In Kentucky.
I dunno. I just can't help but think of this as anything other than a colossal mistake, probably due to my own brief and ill-advised marriage five years ago. Then again, that was my colossal mistake, so I can't really get all preachy on her without seeming like an enormous hypocrite.
If I do end up going, I'll be flying into Nashville and probably staying only for the weekend of May 13-14. I'm not really counting on finding sufficiently cheap enough airfare, though. Indeed, when I checked Orbitz last night, the cheapest MSY-to-BNA flight was $296!
P.S. I've been feeling very unwilling to do my laundry over the past three weeks or so. In true "me" fashion, I went to Target yesterday and bought new socks and undies, just to put off doing the laundry for a few more days. Pathetic, eh?
Now playing:: "Shards of glass" by Malign (ooh! I am so second-wave old school goth!)
Mood: bitchy
Location: New Orleans, central business district (at work)
I just spent 8+ hours hacking Broadcom's WIDCOMM bluetooth drivers/stack. ("Aww, widdle biddy comm!") Just so I could listen to what ended up (by the time I was finished) an hour's worth of music before I leave work for the day.
For whatever reason, my bluetooth adapter (Targus ACB10US) and headphones (Motorola HT820) were working in perfect harmony last night at work. So, I decided to fuck around with it a little. And of course I completely fucked up the bluetooth stack in the process. So I spent most of the night searching for and downloading various versions of WIDCOMM, trying various hacks, and finally getting the right version, a working crack, and a valid license for it. And it is now working. Go me.
For future reference, this site was a big help.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
I got a call from my 23-year-old sister today. She's apparently getting married in one month. At age 23. I can't even begin to describe how wrong that is for a person like her; she's voraciously slutty (and I don't mean that in an insulting way, because she honestly, actively persues one-night stands and the like), she's cheated on past partners (at least three that I know of, and that was just during the single year I shared an apartment with her!), she had an abortion after getting careless with one of her greaseball boyfriends (all of her boyfriends, that I've met anyway, are inherently greasy, though I haven't met her current one), and she's almost completely dependant on my parents (who, as far as I know, still pay for her mobile phone bill; a classic case of "youngest child syndrome"), despite the fact that she considers my mother her mortal enemy. She works a menial job (she's a manager at GameStop) and to the best of my memory never had any money to spend on useful things like groceries; instead she'd order pizza three times a week or spend $50 on a bag of pot. I don't know what her boyfriend does for money, though, so I can't/won't pass judgement on him.
The worst part is that she wants me to attend the wedding, which she says will be in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Great idea, eh? Invite an agoraphobe to an event full of a 50/50% mix of rarely-seen relatives and people I don't know. In Kentucky.
I dunno. I just can't help but think of this as anything other than a colossal mistake, probably due to my own brief and ill-advised marriage five years ago. Then again, that was my colossal mistake, so I can't really get all preachy on her without seeming like an enormous hypocrite.
If I do end up going, I'll be flying into Nashville and probably staying only for the weekend of May 13-14. I'm not really counting on finding sufficiently cheap enough airfare, though. Indeed, when I checked Orbitz last night, the cheapest MSY-to-BNA flight was $296!
P.S. I've been feeling very unwilling to do my laundry over the past three weeks or so. In true "me" fashion, I went to Target yesterday and bought new socks and undies, just to put off doing the laundry for a few more days. Pathetic, eh?
Now playing:: "Shards of glass" by Malign (ooh! I am so second-wave old school goth!)
Mood: bitchy
Location: New Orleans, central business district (at work)