We’re having a LAN party tomorrow night.

This will be the first one in a couple years and will probobly be much smaller than they used to be (you can see the photos from the older ones here, click the “bring out your dead” links).

Because a lot of the people who are coming have never played before, and they have older machines, we’re probobly going to play classic UT for the most part (though we may break out the BattleField Vietnam with the POE mod if enough people have it).

Normally, I host these parties, but this time it’s being done at my neighbor’s house. He’s already wired his basement with CAT5 and we should be good to go (though we may have a table and chair shortage… we’ll see on that).

Other news:
OMG!! We got a req to hire a graveyard person!!! That means that we can hire someone who’s only shift is the 2am till 10am POS that we’ve had to work once a week each for the past year and a half.

<insert my dance of pure joy here>

Ok.. I try to be clever with the php, I study how you do it and make it as difficult as possible, yet you still figure out a way to spam my blog.

Why the hell is this blog so special? There’s no real content. Yeah, I get hits, but it’s all people looking for porn (the average stay is less than 30 seconds).

Why the fuck would you waste your time modifying your damn Load Dump program just to include all the special “one 0ff” bits of php I’ve written to keep you out?

Bejesus!

Of course, I’ll just keep tweaking on my end, and you’ll keep spamming on your end (a cosmic balance of sorts). But at the end of the day… I’ll still be a blogger, and you’ll still be a goat fucker.

It’s been a slow day. Damn slow.

To fill the void, I decided to make Officer Todd into a South Park character.

Here’s the end result:

Kind of hard to tell them apart, isn’t it.

We’re just 9 days away from fillet of me.

I spent most of the morning at the hospital going through the whole pre-surgical routine. They drew blood, made me pee in a jar, check my oxygen levels, drew blood, took my blood pressure, weighed me, measured me, drew blood, and asked me questions (on… and drew one last thing of blood).

Good times there!

On the website front:
I’ve been working on the whole “floating footer” issue I’ve been having. I can now get the CSS and xml to validate for the most part… it’s still pissy about the java script I have running… but I’ve tried removing it and that makes no difference. There was a suggestion to either A) shorten the sidebar (aka: the right side of the screen) or B) set a minimum height to the same.

I’m probably going to look at modifying the php to create a select box for archives (click the down arrow, pick a month of archives). That should shorten the sidebar enough that it will no longer be an issue.

I’m currently running on just a few hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, so if this comes out fuzzy, you’ll understand.

After getting off work this morning (I worked a full day yesterday and then the graveyard shift last night), I stopped by the motorcycle dealer to check the status on my wife’s bike.

For those who aren’t following along: we purchased a Suzuki Intruder 1400 (now known as the Boulevard S83) for her last July. During the winter, we’d start it and my motorcycle up once a week and let them run for about 10 minutes. At some point, her bike must have gotten very, VERY hot, because the first 6″ of her forward cylinder exhaust pipe turned the ugliest blue you’ve ever seen.

We took it to the dealer to see what they could do. The ran it through every test they could think of… checking the carbs, doing a compression test (to check for a stuck valve), checking oil pressure throughout the system, etc.. They couldn’t find anything wrong with it so they called Suzuki to see if they could warranty out the pipe.

Suzuki said “no”.

Suzuki did, however, suggest a product that would remove the bluing from the pipe (I didn’t catch the name) and the dealer went to the local Harley shop to get it (I guess this is a big Harley issue). They totally cleaned the pipe up and aren’t charging us a dime.

<insert love here>

I decided it would probably be a good idea to pick up the extended warranty and paid them the $630 for an additional 3 years (which kicks in when the factory 1 year warranty expires). This will keep the bike covered till July of ’08.

Other News:
There is no other news. My life is but a shallow puddle of viscous fluid. It smells bad too.