Anyways, Friday came and it was my cousin U.S. Coast Guard boot camp graduation down at Cape May. We left at 5am, only to get stuck for an hour at Bayonne because of a really bad accident involving a truck, SUV and a car. Pretty bad, there was blood all over driver’s side of the SUV. Finally made it down to Cape May at about 9:30, just in time for the promotional videos they made us watch. Ceremony was pretty cool, however my cousin is stil the same, loud and a bit annoying, but not as much as before. Oh yeah, one thing did change she seems to be a bit more confident about herself, doesn’t have that shy attitude anymore. After the graduation we headed over to Atlantic City for some food and a little bit gambling.

YAY!!! Finally got my replacement transmitter from Clifford. Cool beans…. They gave me the newer remote with a carbon fiber look. Had a little problem having the system recognize the new remote. Instructions on the back didn’t really work. However, after a little detective work I was able to get it working. At least now when I go out or something I don’t have to worry about if I turned on the alarm or not.

More later.

Boring day today. Too windy to go out.

Saw Lost in Translation. Movie was ok, I was lost most of the time trying figure out the plot. Maybe I’ll sleep on it…

Made a mistake by accident and revoked my public key. Since you can’t really unrevoke a public key I had to create new keys and send them to the pgp keyserver. Well this time around used RSA instead of DSA.

Not much went on today, had some Pluck U. at Linette’s place and then dropped her off at a CPA’s place to get her taxes done.

Installed a new HD in Linette’s laptop and now re-installing all the software plus Windows Updates…. uggg.

That’s it for today.

Not so much of an interesting day today. Mostly rain, being the geek that I am, I spent most of the day configuring GnuPG, the open source implementation of PGP.

Why am I using GnuPG?

Well, with all these e-mail virus going around and such, I figured what better way to let my e-mail recpients know its me than by using a digital signature. I don’t feel like going into much detail about PGP, so I’ll just leave that to napiza.org v2. HAHA yes, there is a version 2 in works. Aren’t you all excited?

After creating new keys, installed FireFox, a Mozilla based web browser which is really a good browser, and Thunderbird, which is a Mozilla based Mail and Newsgroup reader. Another decent product.

What prompted all this? 1. Boredom, 2. Been using Outlook Express as my defaul news reader, I use a Newsbin Pro to download.

Anyway, Outlook and Outlook Express are highly vulnerable to viruses and security breeches. So that’s why I switched.

So far I’m quite content with FireFox and Thunderbird, each taking up 29MB and 24MB of memory, respectively. Funny how AIM takes up 31MB of mem and I’m not chatting with anyone.

Well time to get some sleep.

*yawn* Just woke up, wasn’t even my long day today. Anyways, my DSL line just came back up today, frickin MCI wouldn’t tell me what the actual problem was but it seemed to blanket most of NYC area. In other news, my remote for car alarm is screwed up. Went to Best Buy to have them check it out, they weren’t much help. Their solution was to either buy a new one for $100 or send it back to Directed. Well, I opted to send it back since it is still in warranty.

Other than boring gloomy day.

back to sleep…zzzzz

This has not happened in a long time. Waking up with a bad headache. Not gonna call ita hang over cuz it doesn’t hurt that bad. Anyway, the drinks they made are really strong. They don’t shaft you on the alcohol there. Well I’m off to sleep again. Just woke up to get some water and to throw up.

Thank goodness I have a PocketPC I would not be writing this entry in if I didn’t have one. So nice doing this from the comfort of my bed…

All I gotta say is goooooddddaaaaammmmnnn. Got back from Lucky Cheng’s for my girlfriend’s co-worker’s birthday. They weren’t kidding when they say drag queen capital of the world. Some of the “women” there really looked like women. I’m still in shock and awe at how… hmm.. different it was. Definitely a 10 on my holy shit-o-meter.

The lap dances that these women were giving where something else, actually pretty raunchy. All the girls at the table enjoyed, most of the guys at the table, including myself, were saying holy shit most of the time. Repeating every 5-10 minutes, “Is that a guy? Nahh… It can’t be” Sure enough, they were all men. yeesh.

If you have the stomach and a very open mind, I suggest that you go check it out. This is definitely NOT for the weak of heart or close minded people.

I must say though, it was very entertaining…. after a few drinks.

*yawn* ahhhh finally got to sleep in today. Well waking up at 10:30 isn’t exactly sleeping in. But waking up early everyday for class, 10:30 is sleeping in for me.

Not much went on yesterday, just help my brother change his fuel filter. Which was a bit of a pain in the ass because the bolts were kinda tough to loosen.

Linette came over and we saw The Rundown, not bad of a movie. The Rock is actually a pretty good actor. Sean William Scott, also a good actor but will always have that Stifler stigma with him everytime I see him.

Well it has been quite some time since I used this thing. A little ticked that my site is down, but that’s my fault. Well not exactly. The billing dept at 1and1.com work really slow. Gotta get that issue resolved, I feel like editing my site, rather update it.

I thought about creating my own blog space from scratch on my site, but i think that it would just take up A LOT of time right now. Don’t get me wrong I can do it, I just need to focus my time and energy on more important matters. So for the time being, or maybe even “permanently” I’ll just have this linked or something to my site.

Finally got my pre-cal exam back, 3 points away from having an A in that class. Meaning I’m 3 points away from having a 4.0GPA. I know I may sound like a dork or something but that’s something that I haven’t done in a long time.

In other news, I’m trying to get more active in the pocketpc community boards. Don’t ask me why, I guess I just have the need to help people with technical problems again. Plus eventually I’d like to be an MVP – Windows Mobile Devices.