music

I like to listen to music when i walk around campus or ride the bus and stuff. It makes me feel like i'm in a movie and that's the soundtrack. Man, my movie would have the best soundtrack, mostly because I only listen to songs I like. For the past week i've been listening to Postal Service (my favorite), Death Cab for Cutie, and Jay-z mixed with Lincoln park. Death Cab for Cutie is good for riding the bus in the mornings. Postal Service is good for walking around. Collision Course is good for working out at the Rec with, it goes faster and makes you want to work out harder.

mouse

So i was at fry's today. Yeah, today seemed like a weird day to be at fry's but I had to go home and get my glasses so i can see without my contacts in again. I was all the way up by Green Oaks so i just decided to drive the extra mile and go to frys. I needed a surge protector, so i justified it. I decided on the Logitech Mx310. It was the cheapest mouse with extra buttons that was either a microsoft or a logitech, which are the only trusted brands in mice technology after that last mishap. Anyway, the logitech had one more button than the microsoft mouse and it looked prettier and matches my keyboard better, so i picked it. This keyboard isnt really mine. It's greg's, but i think i'll keep it forever, I like it better than mine. But, i think my keyboard is also a logitech, so it would match either way. And it's all about matching accessories.

I needed a DVD player for my tv, and there was an extra one in the closet at home and I was going to take it. It was silvery like my tv and it would have matched better. But dad decided that he wanted that one cause it would work better if he ever got a wide screen tv and he gave me the black DVD player, even though all his TV accessories and his TV are black, and my TV is silver. I guess dad's don't care as much about matching accessories. The black one works well anyway though, so i'm happy.

I'm tired now.

my new apartment

So, i got a new apartment for those of you who didn't know. I'm living with cassie now because her roommate graduated and she needed someone to live with her and i was tired of the roaches in Hart. Just a warning to all of you thinking about moving to Hart, if you aren't a big fan of roaches or lizards in your shower then you should think twice.

Anyway, my apartment is supposed to have free wireless internet except they've got 2 routers for the entire apartment complex. I can almost never pick up their signal unless i'm in just the right place, and then sometimes it's not even strong enough to connect to. So i found a nice place next to the window where i can pick up about 3 or 4 unsecured wireless networks and i've been using those for the past couple days. I went to the apartment office to tell them they need more routers and the girl there said they were talking about putting a new one near my building. So she was going to call the owner and then call me back and let me know what's up. But she assured me they would get it figured out. I sure hope they do because i really want to play counter strike but where my desktop is right now doesnt have any internet.

Anyway, other than that my apartment is cool. Last night we had caleb, dimitri, and jacob over and we played cranium and watched harold and kumar go to white castle. It was fun.

So this is the last day of christmas break. I think i did everything i set out to do. I visited relatives, i had a good christmas, i moved into an apartment, and I played enough sims 2 to get sick of it.

Ok, i'm done typing now.

my mouse continued

So anyway i took the mouse back to target. At first they said they dont do returns for Aggies, but i said please and the guy gave me my money back. I havent bought a new mouse yet. I went to best buy today to buy a wireless pci adapter card and i looked at mice. They are kinda expensive. So i decided to buy Garden State instead. I watched all the special features and the commentary with zack braff and natalie portman today. It was fun.

my mouse troubles

I dont know what all those comments were about on my last post, so here is a new post.

I bought a new mouse today. I've been looking for a new mouse all over... well, i only really looked in the attic and at walmart. See the problem with my old mouse is that it's a laptop mouse and it's chord isnt very long and it didnt reach to my computer. And the mouse in the attic had a ball in it. And all I want is an optical mouse with the forward and back buttons on it, but none of the mice at walmart had forward and back buttons. So I looked at target today, and they had a mouse like I wanted, but it was chordless, and I want mine to have a chord so I dont have to worry about batteries. And then i found a mouse that had everything I wanted, but then it had an extra scrolly thing for scrolling sideways. It was only 12 bucks so i bought it.

Well, i brought it home, plugged it in and it worked fine, but then i tried to install the software that came with it because the sideways scrolling button didnt scroll sideways, it just scrolled up and down only backwards, and the forward and back buttons were switched from how i think they should be. I guess i dont have a very long thumb so i can reach their forward button really well, but whoever goes forward when serfing?

So the software crashed my computer while installing. Like it just flat out turned off. I came back and windows did one of those fatal error things and then it told me that their mouse driver had conflicts with service pack 2. So i went to their website and found a driver, and this one installed, but then after i restarted the freakin mouse didnt work. It was a freakin piece of crap, so i sent them an angry comment on their customer service form so maybe someone will get back to me.

So i admitted defeat and decided to turn on some music, and music wouldnt play. I was so mad, cause it had worked before the stupid mouse drivers had messed up my computer. So after messing with it a couple minutes i was about ready to... i dunno, cry or something.

But, fortunatly windows has that built in system restore feature that i've never heard of anyone actually using before. But It was super easy, and I restored my computer back to how it was yesterday at 2:30 pm and now my audio works.

So who thinks i'll be able to stuff that mouse back into it's stupid plastic packaging and take it back to Target? I looked at their return policy and only things that are like software, dvd's, and cd's cant be returned if they have been opened. It doesnt say anything about mice. So maybe if it's warm enough to go outside tomorrow i'll try it.

Anyway, sorry for the boring post. I dont really do much other than play sims and counter strike and watch scrubs. That's ok though, that's what Christmas break is for.

When are all of you going back to school? I have a friend who needs somewhere to stay in college station the 9th and 10th for his new student orientation. Let me know if you can take him in.

Bawls

So here is an interresting story...

Today my brother and I were out doing stuff and we stopped at 7/11 because they now sell bawls, and bawls is good. So if any of you dont know bawls is an energy drink that is sold in a pretty blue bottle.

So we are driving around drinking our bawls and I'm on my way home. I am coming from target so i'm on the 287 access road. Right when i pass Taco Bell i see a cop turning out of there. I saw him turn into my lane, go straight through the light, like me, and get on the freeway, like me, so i made sure to follow all the rules. But he got right up behind me, but i was going the speed limit so i didnt understand what was up. So I get off the freeway and there go his lights. I hadnt done a thing. So i turn into that gas station parking lot there.

He comes over to me, asks for my licence and insurance and all that, and I give it to him. And then he tells me that licence plate covers are now illegal. And i just so happen to have an A&M one that ricky gave me once a long time ago. I kinda already knew they were illegal but i just neglected to take mine off because i like it. So anyway, he told me to get out of the car so he could show me what he's talking about. And he showed me how my licence plate cover was halfway covering up "Texas" so someone might not know what state it is.

Anyway, then he tells me he saw my brother drinking a beer when we drove past him earlier. I assured him that it was a Bawls and that Bawls is an energy drink. He didnt really believe me, and he told me to stay there standing behind the car so he could go talk to my brother. So he asks my brother what he was drinking, and he shows him the pretty blue bottle and tells him it's a caffine drink.

So this cop looked pretty disappoined that we werent drinking and driving. And he only told me that stuff about the licence plate cover so that he could get me out of the car and ask me about the bottle and then go ask my brother about it and see if our stories checked out.

But come on seriously, my licence plate cover says "Dwight Look College of Engineering", which means if I can handle engineering i'm probably smart enough to know not to drink and drive. And my brother is 14, he's way too young to be drinking.

So, anyway, just a warning to all you bawls drinkers out there, if you are going to drink and drive, be sure to remove those illegal licence plate covers.