Eriq’s Blag

I have two one-day tournaments this weekend. I really don’t want to go.

I was hoping that my computer would come today, but my dad’s credit card company thought that it might be a fraudulent charge so they denied it the first time, now it probably won’t be here till Monday. [EDIT: Holy shit! I didn't realize wordpress did auto emoticons!]

Well, I just spent all of the money I had and $123 that I will have. I hope I didn’t make a mistake.

Nope, still sucks…

In 5 minutes I’ll be 17. Well, probably not exactly, but it’s easier this way. I’m betting that 17 will suck just as much as 16.

Ok, holy shit. Today there was a comment in moderation and so I looked at it and it looked ok. Then, I noticed that Askimet apparently had caught 72 spam comments, but these aren’t the normal viagra shit. Here’s an example:

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. TENCH COXE, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Room service? Send up a larger room — Groucho Marx

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost — Russell Baker
A militia, when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms. RICHARD HENRY (LIGHT HORSE HARRY) LEE, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169.

They’re all similar to that, just a bunch of random quotes. I went to write this post, but then thought I’d see when they were posted. In doing so, I noticed that the askimet spam counter was not at 72, but 719…holy shit. This, I think, makes more sense. I guess I never noticed because the spam had been way down as of late, but it looks like they were all posted on the 20th, so I’m thinking that someone was trying to take down my site by using up my bandwidth (I’ll check now to see how much they used)…hmm, maybe not, my bandwidth usage is only at 128 megs, which is nothing. Maybe they were trying to use up my cpu quota, whatever it was, it looks like they failed. Odd.

So, today didn’t exactly go well. It was fun, but…we didn’t exactly win any games. We put up a good fight, but not good enough. Midway through the second game, my left calf cramped up and took me out for the rest of the day (2 more games). It was weird, it’s never happened to me, I was running and I felt some pain that went away quickly, but then a few seconds later my calf locked up completely and I couldn’t stand. It was less than fun. I’m still limping. Plus it was raining, so I was sitting on the sideline freezing my ass off. And that’s just day one…

Fuck, I have to get up at 5:15 tomorrow to go to an Ultimate tournament…fuck.

[EDIT] 5:30

Why isn’t it longer?

We had to make a video for bio. I’m the only one in my group that knows how to use video editing software. I probably spent between 9 and 11 hours editing it…maybe more. However, it’s done!!!