My mouse doesn't like me.

Earlier today, my mouse died. Well not the whole thing, but one of the most useful features of a mouse, one that makes me dislike Macs because of their lack of it, the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON, died... Out of the blue! Bam! Stopped working! But its ok. This mouse I have (that died) has been with me for 3+ years, I think. It had a good run. So ok, off to Radio Shack. They had few mice, and they all sucked, so I left. But, I did have a nice chat w/ my Elementary school principal, Mr Leewald (sp?) so that was cool. I then went to the over-priced Schat store, because, unfortunately, they are about the only place to go for that kinda stuff. Someone should make a competing electronics store! More computer store than electronics though, because Radioshack is pretty cool. But a competing store that has computer and console games. Anyway, I got this $40 mouse thats pretty nice, and its also from Microsoft (my old mouse was from MS) so I didn't have to install any more software. The mouse has 5 buttons total (right, middle, left, and 2 extra) so thats nice. I had some fun configuring my 2 extra buttons... One I set to do "instant view" which puts all of your windows on the screen, all paneled-like, and you can click on one to go to it. Pretty nifty I think. The other is a magnifier, useful for UT04 haha. EYESOCKET ACTION! *ahem* anyway I like this mouse. The only downside is that it is wired, while my old mouse was wireless. Also its a bit different than my old mouse in that it doesn't play nicely with my mousepad which has a wrist-rest. But I'll get over it :). By the way, the name of this mouse is the Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000. So there.

OK, instead of making another post... I'll talk about this book I got. Audio book, that is... I got it with an iTunes card that was a graduation present. Its about how Google was made, its pretty intersting. Google fascinates me. You could call me a "fanboy" but I admit I am, to a degree. I'm only a half hour into it, though I think I'll like it. Perhaps I'll review it here when I'm done, who knows.

Also, why the hell is my Internet going so slow? It's annoying :( I still have to finish updating and unpacking my backup from reformatting. I guess I should get to doin that now... Good bye.

Triple!

Yeah I feel like posting right now, leave me alone! Well anyway whats better than sitting around in a tshirt and shorts writing while listening to some good music? not much, thats for sure :D. Oh something thats interesting is while my English class was doing our poetry unit, I looked up some online poetry places. I'm not really too good at poetry (its really hit or miss - sometimes I make some really good poetry but usually its crap) and I don't really like to do it... but I was goin to post this poem about pirates (I was bored, and it sounded good imo) but they have a damn maximum word count or somethin... so I just made up a new one on the same subject that met the requirements and then for fun put it through one of those pirate translators, which adds all the piraty speak that you hear around. This was a couple months ago... and just 3 days ago I got a letter in the mail from the poetry place, saying my poem was selected to be in this big 'ole hardbound book, pretty cool I think... I could even win money. That'd be awesome! Winning up to 10k on a whim. But it probably wont happen. I don't even know how many people are going to be in this book ("Immortal Verses" I think is the name) but its all good. So that's that :D. I think thats that for the day here... though it probably wont be.

Rubber band balls and duct tape wallets

So I got a (my first) credit card a week or two ago and I've been looking to buy some things with it, and I was thinking about a duct tape wallet. Wouldn't that be great?! I forget the cost right now but probably about 10 bucks or somethin. Also yesterday my sister sent me this big box of stuff for graduation/b-day. Probably one of the most entertaining objects in there (not the most useful - the one that gave me the most instant gratification... or the butterscotch candy..) was this 4 in rubber band ball. I've never had a rubber band ball, theyre great! So much better than bouncy balls... though i guess it IS a bouncy ball in its own respect. But you know what I mean. Also a little dial to give you excuses to things... haha.

Reformatting

Ugh, reformatting! Often necessary, though I often do it when it isn't. If I'm lucky its easy, but thats kind of 50/50 so far. I just reofrmated in April, and then in mid May my browser went all screwy and started screwing up the rest of my system. So it had to go! Last night I reformatted and then the 'net didnt work... damn! Another reformat later, I had internet. Weird, but it worked. Then my iPod, which was storing all of my backup items, almost died on me. One struggle later, I had it working. So everythings back to normal, and I think I need some money and a hobby. Preferably a hobby that doesn't require too much $$$... Or how bout one that makes you money? YES! perfect! So I'm sorry for the ads here (if there aren't any now there will be by the end of the day, so enjoy it...) but I do need some money because I'm lazy (at least I'm honest eh?). So yeah. Tell your friends about this blog will ya? Haha, well good day to you all!