It’s been a pretty messed up couple of days for me. The drive down on Friday was nice. My tooth was a little sore but that was expected considering I chipped it recently. By Saturday I was basically drowning it in Ambesol, and by Saturday night I was in the emergency room because it looked as though I had a golf ball tucked in my cheek.

After Antibiotics, being shot with a pain killer and downing two Percocets – they sent me home. Supposedly I walked into a door and then passed out a few minutes after my head hit the bed. Before that, I guess I was amusing the boyfriend because he had quite a bit to laugh about the next morning.

He went to the store for me and picked up my prescriptions. I’m on 500 MG of Penicillin, which I have to take four times a day. I’m also on Hydrocodone/APAP at a 5MG/500MG dosage. I can only take one to two every 4-6 hours as needed. So far, thanks to the antibiotics, I haven’t really had to take the Hydrocodone, so at least I’m not fucked up on pain killers. Hydrocodone is the generic version of Vicodin. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s the same dosage but cheaper, as most generics usually are.

I spent most of Sunday being knocked out. I spent Monday with the boyfriends entire family but was a little woozy during it so by the time we got back to the house I was ready to knock out. I guess it takes prescription in order to get me to sleep for more than five hours a night. It’s strange waking up and feeling over-rested…if that’s even possible.

Today I was feeling a little bit better so I did some email checks (I’m still going through them) and then I did some cleaning. I figure if I’m going to be here for a while then the least I can do is straighten up around me so I can be comfortable. Things look pretty good in-house, I also raked some leaves and cleaned out the boyfriends car. Now I’m exhausted and figured I’d update the blog considering a few emails that I read today noted that they thought I was dead until they saw my comment on the previous entry.

I’m going to head back to work and get this client out of the way so I can handle all of the hosting based things. I know I’m very behind there, so much so that a few domain expired and I’ve got people screaming at me.

Heaven forbid I get sick…right?

I think Bella realizes that I’m going to be leaving soon. I don’t know if it’s because I was chasing her out of my suitcases or if it’s because I keep cuddling up with her when I’m feeling bad about leaving…but she definitely knows what’s going on.

For the past couple of days she’s been a little terror. Normally she’s really good when it comes to going outside to do all of her business. She hasn’t really had an ‘accident’ in the house for quite some time. The one time that she did was because she was sick so she was only mildly scolded for it, so there’s no big deal there. Her new thing is she’s been going on the carpets which has me pulling out the stain remover every few hours. She’s also gone as far as doing some of her business on the couch, which has me more than pissed off.

I realize that this is a temperament issue but she doesn’t ever act like this so I believe my recent absence from the house has quite a bit to do with this. For the past few weeks I’ve been in and out and even for me it’s growing to be a hassle. At this point I’ve basically been gone a week, home two weeks, gone one week, home two weeks, gone one week (leaving tomorrow) and then on the 13th of December I’m going to be gone for three days. I’m not normally like this, I have my comfort zone in the house and never really go away. I hang out with Alicia from time to time and do some shopping here and there to keep myself sane but I’m not usually going from place to place for vacations…you know?

I guess before I leave tomorrow I should throw some stain remover on the carpet for one final cleaning and then let my sister deal with it over the week. Maybe she’ll actually grow out of it because I won’t be around for her to grab my attention in such a cruel way…I don’t know. I’m sure it’ll fix itself.

I believe I landed a big account that I was bidding on. It’s a quick $1600, so that’s something to look forward to. That should solve quite a few of my money issues right now. I told the client there’s a 5 day max work period so once I settle in I’ll be able to get myself setup computer-wise and get cracking. :crosses fingers:

Thanksgiving was ok. I went to my grandmothers house and kept my mouth shut for the bulk of the time because the baby, as usual, had all of the attention. It’s strange though…I’ve seen her go from a 3 day old baby to a now 5 year old chatter box. She’s a very tall kid who’s into like…everything. She’s a pisser though, that’s for sure. My grandmother pulled out a bag of candy for after dinner and my aunt (her mother) was like “What, are you crazy?” my grandmother is looking at her like “Why?” and the baby then said “What are you crazy? I’ll eat the whole bag!” So that turned into the running theme of the night (annoying as usual) but she’s quick with zingers so it’s obvious that she’s a member of this family…no question about that. Either way dinner was good, my other aunt doesn’t really know the concept of “little bit of gravy” because she emptied like two cups worth onto my food I could barely eat it. So I didn’t really get to enjoy it the way I usually would…but whatever.

For now, I’m going to head off. I’m waiting on my laundry to finish drying and the boyfriend is behind me on his laptop working on his own shit. I guess it’s safe to say I’m done with the ‘net for the night considering I have nothing to really do right now…heh.

I need to come up with about $600 in three weeks. This is my random “push” entry for some business. I’m also bidding on quite a few projects on GAF and asking around to friends and family to put my name out there for some work. This is my way of putting it out here. I know I’m going on vacation next week but at this point that’s irrelevant considering I’d spend maybe $50 a most while I’m away because I have no intent of really spending a lot of time out of the house.

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A few weeks ago I accidentally dropped my clip board onto my laptop screen. Because of this, I have a scratch in the monitor. Now, when I purchased my laptop I thought that with my warranty I’d be covered for all screen issues. I could care less that there’s a small scratch on my laptop keyboard because #1 – That was my fault, #2 it’s not noticeable to anyone unless you really look.

I called up HP a few moments ago and after dealing with one of those useless yes/no phone bots, I was finally connected to a representative that doesn’t speak a word of English but insists her name is “Donna”. After straining to understand her I was finally giving her my serial number, product number and phone number so she could bring up my account.

I told her that there is a scratch on the screen. It has not effected anything mechanically, I can still see everything behind it. It’s just the protective layer. I figured this would be an easy fix…but I was wrong.

It took her three times of repeating herself for me to understand the cost for this fix. A whopping $290. I blinked and said “Pardon? I thought this was under the warranty.” She went on to say “No, you have no accidental damage coverage.”

So I sat there for a second and went on to say that about 5 months ago my laptop was shipped back to HP (with no problems) when there was a bug floating around my screen. The lady went on to tell me that a bug in the screen isn’t really accidental damage. So I’m confused. It’s not like I intentionally put the bug in my screen. And it’s not like I intentionally dropped my clipboard on the monitor either.

She went on to tell me that it’s $290 and I’ll have to pay that in order for the laptop to even be returned to me. So this means when it shows up there they’ll fix it and hold it captive until I pay up. Sorry, that’s not going to happen. I’m not even going to bother sending it in now.

I’ve gotten used to the scratch, so it isn’t effecting me as much as one with huge line in their monitor would think. I can still see everything I need to see and there are no ‘dead zones’ on the monitor anyway. I want to assume that if there are dead pixels on the monitor that would be covered under the warranty, I have about 6 of them now. I figure if I can get myself up to 10 of them than I can just send it back to HP and it will resolve the scratch as well.

See…there’s always ways to get around things.

I am a bit disappointed in HP though. For a company that’s held in such high regard by many computer savvy nerds, they sure do cut cost by out sourcing all of their support to another country. If they could be smart and just move the support during normal business hours back to the states, I think it would work out better for everyone. It would be nice, for a damn change, to speak to someone who knows more English than what’s put onto a post-it note on the monitor in front of them.

It was my goal to send out my laptop this week because I’m leaving on Friday to spend a week (maybe more) with the boyfriend. Because of this, I have no real need for my laptop to be with me. He has a few computers and he’s nice enough to let me use one of them whenever I need it. I figured that while he’s doing his own thing on one computer during the day, I can just do some quick email based shit on the other and go from there. I wasn’t expecting to have my laptop with me full time next week so I guess I’ll just have to set myself up and leave it there while I work.

I’m finally on top of all of my emails. I’m in the process of emailing the final person now. It’s hard to get ahead when I keep going away for weeks at a time and have limited ‘net access or computer access in general. There’s also my issue of getting lazy, to be honest. If I’m sitting in the living room at my aunts house it’s hard to stay awake. While the couch is broken and very uncomfortable…you’re basically stuck in a hole that you can easily drift off to sleep in. When you’ve got that going on, plus Figgie sitting on top of you falling asleep himself…it’s just not easy to get anything done.

My new luggage is here, I’m slowly packing things up. I figure since I’m leaving on Friday I can easily pack up a few clothes and other items here and there. All of my hair care and other are usually in one place anyway so I just threw them into the bag and when it comes to my hair I’m basically living out of a suitcase LOL.

It’s about 5:40 and I guess I should go start dinner. Not sure what I’m in the mood to make but I’m sure I’ll be able to find something somewhere.

Later gators.

Ever since my trip to the casino for my birthday, I’ve kind of been itching to get myself back to a slot machine so I can brush up on my poker skills. I’ve been looking around for sites that will help me improve on my poker strategy so that the next time I go to Mohegan Sun or even Atlantic City, I’ll have a better grasp on the uber nifty game of Texas Hold’em. The last time I played I did pretty well but as usual when playing I found myself losing more money than it was worth.

So now, I’m looking for ways to help me improve on my skills. I came across this site that offers free poker information on how to play the game. I think it’s a good idea for anyone looking to pick up a card game or two when they’re floating around a casino. Don’t get me wrong, I love my slot machines – star, star, cherry – but this doesn’t mean I’m not addicted to cards either.

I recently purchased a hand-held Texas Hold’em player so that I can figure out what-beats-what without my having to lose any real money. I think that it’ll be a good thing for me considering I intend to get myself up to a casino sometime within the next couple of months. I believe Christie is going to be meeting up with me and the boyfriend, we’re ‘talking’ about heading up there for our six month anniversary. Who knows what’ll happen. Loads of fun to be had at Mohegan Sun.