2009 Movie List

So I saw this on a few other journals and I thought I would do it too. I think the point is to watch 100 movies between January 1st and December 31st. Keep the list public and rate the movies. Have I got it right?

* Crap
** Not so great
*** Decent, but rental only
**** Pretty good
***** I've already ordered the DVD

( The Movie List )

Wow, so I guess people understood where I was going with my long winded post yesterday. Thanks <3 It's those people who allow me to say without a doubt that I really enjoy Scribbld and the work I put into it.

That said...today was nice. I just spent the day up at the Davis Center on campus. I mainly worked on everything that I wasn't supposed to but whatever. I had planned to work a lot on that DVD Rental script, but I kept finding other things to work on. I actually looked for a couple new jobs and applied to a couple places. We'll see how that all turns out. I actually already have an interview setup for tomorrow so I am pretty psyched about that!

This evening I didn't do anything to special, played a little Xbox, and by little I mean maybe 15 minutes if that. I studied some Japanese, OH we upgraded our Internet line to 12Mbit down which is awesome, I've been able to hit about 9Mbits so far...I do wish the up was a lot better, I might email them and be like, I know you guys can handle at least 5/5 so comon! Sure would help me out a lot. I have a feeling if it doesn't go faster I'll be going back to what we originally had. Not worth the extra $15 a month to me at least, especially if the upload speed is staying the same.

In the last 24 hours our new SQL server has handle 100+ million queries without ANY issues so I am VERY happy with it.

Tomorrow Abby is coming over in the morning and we're going to make/have breakfast together, I'm quite psyched about that. I then plan to work on that DVD Rental application during the day, and then I've got that phone interview in the afternoon. I would like to get to the barn to do a little riding if possible. Then Abby is coming over for the night so that'll be awesome.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th of July! I would like personally take a second to thank the troops overseas who aren't able to be with us stateside at the moment. Thanks guys, your efforts and your jobs are appreciated. I won't say anymore then that for the moment, but seriously thanks!

Is anyone else noticing Last.fm oddities?!

 I won't say everything in this entry because there's some details I don't want the public knowing, so if you're friends with me on DeathNote, you'll be able to read the crazy shit happening in my life.

Been spending tons of time with Abby, having a great time. I've been working a lot on my DVD Rental application, which is actually coming along quite well. I showed it Abby today, she thought it was pretty cool! :)

I signed up for a GDGT account today - http://user.gdgt.com/jimmyb/. It's a pretty neat website!

haven't been up to much else. I've been wanting to go riding, but I've just been so busy as of late, I haven't had time. I am going to ask Abby if she wants to go for a ride on Friday or something, pending that Cub is in an okay condition to be ridden.

Today, I hung out with Bethany a little at the barn while we both did chores. She's a pleasure to be with, quite the fun/funny girl. After that I went to the store and hung with Abby. Sara, Scott and Abby's Mom were there so it was nice to see them all. Poor Abby was all stressed out about everything going on :( I'm sure she'll be fine though. Came home, had a nice dinner...Kat helped me with my resume and now it's ready for pimpin'! I am psyched. I've gotta do something nice for her, cause she really helped me out big time on this.

Tomorrow, I'll just be working on the DVD Rental application. Nothing is else is really planned.

That said, I would like to talk about Scribbld a little bit. I did talk about it in the latest news posting, but I feel like I need to say stuff about it here too. Scribbld was originally designed with 2 people in mind, myself and my now ex-girlfriend. I never planned on having other people sign up and use this site, server, resources at all! It was crazy because in like 3 days, it exploded and I was running around like crazy, purchasing new servers, multiple IPs, and redesigning my entire network to make sure that things were relatively stable. Mind you, I'm learning an insane amount of things about Perl, PHP, web development, server and network administration so this is totally awesome. Unfortunately, totally awesome doesn't pay all the bills, but, there were some EXTREMELY generous users out there, and we collected tons of money which of course went all back into Scribbld! Now, that's cool with me, but at the same time, this has become almost like a job to me, and as a college student we all know most of them are pretty poor. Now, I wouldn't say I am, poor and broke, but having an extra couple dollars in your pocket to hit up a movie or whatever, yeah it's nice, and feels well earned after dropping thousands of dollars and countless hours into a website, not only by coding it but by supporting the users using it. Correct me if I'm wrong! I mean, if I am going to put this much time and effort into something, I feel like I deserve some sort of compensation, and I have gotten some, but not as much as like at this point.

So as I mentioned, I'll be laying off of Scribbld for a bit. We'll be cutting back on some account features, to ensure that we can properly scale with the amount of users we have, what those features will be I am not sure, but for people with free accounts, you can expect something to change. Maybe this is incentive for people to pay for a service they think is worth it, and if you do, then toss us a couple dollars. I know when I find a really awesome application or a wonder web service, I have no issues tossing them $10, because I know, it'll be supporting the people behind it and that's a really great thing.

Either way, the bottom line is I can't afford to really spend so much time on Scribbld, and it's definitely shown as of late. Both morgan  and I try to get to support questions as soon as we can, but we have real lives (paying jobs) that take priority over Scribbld. We try to keep the code base current (without breaking to many things) and try to stay on top of things happening on the site, but sometimes, it just takes a while. We appreciate every single member here, and every single Paid Account user, and we thank you very much for even using this site at all. It's an awesome learning experience, one that will surely benefit us.

I don't even know if this post makes sense, it's just all the thoughts about Scribbld and all this running around in my head and now on "paper". Take it for what you will :) Scribbld's not going anyways for sure though! xoxoxo

 Been getting some really unusual music lately. Oddly I can stand it too haha. Brokencyde's new album is pretty hilarious. I made myself a ringtone from the Freaxxx song lol. I told Abby she could pick any one song and I'd make it into a ringtone for her when she calls me.

Friday I hung out with her. We went to her house, just chilled out, watched some movies, went for a walk. Saturday I finished up my final for Nutrition class, ended up getting a 94 on it and an A in the class overall. Quite happy with that. Then I met up with her around 12 and we went to her house, did some things to get ready for her party, took a nap, took a walk, watched some movies, then people started showing up around 5 or so...had a ton of fun at the party. I beat Bethany 21 to 4 in badminton. We did some four-wheeling which was badass, but we didn't get as dirty and muddy as I had wanted too lol. Bonfire was awesome, Abby and I laid out a tarp and watched the stars for a bit after everyone left, then we huddled close to the fire since it was kind of cold.

Sunday, we went and saw Transformers 2 which was pretty badass. That was too be expected though. Storyline, was eh...nothing to awesome...at least the movie was badass...after that we did chores at the barn and then went out to get some ice cream.

Today I spent finishing the add new customer bit on the DVD Rental script I'm working on. Also started in on the search feature which is pretty much complete. This week I'd like to accomplish finishing the edit customer part.

After I finished coding, I went to the barn to get my chores done. Then I went and Abby made me some pizza which ended up awesome. Definitely hit the spot and of course seeing her was awesome. Then I came home, and I've been playing a little Xbox since. I got a new free costume for LittleBigPlanet. It's the summer solstice one. I really want to get Killzone 2 for my PS3. We'll see, there's so many other things on the list. Haha.

Tomorrow, it's back to UVM. Ick. But whatever, it's money. I start my Japanese class in a couple weeks, I am pretty psyched for that. I need to write a letter to HR telling them what a fuck up my boss is. It's fucking ridiculous. :) Maybe I'll just move to Boston and work at the Apple Store. Who knows...Apparently Steve Jobs is back at Apple, he looks decent. Maybe he was secretly working on that tablet I so desperately want :)

I found out tonight that you can make ringtones in Garageband and since GarageBand can import songs I just used that instead of purchasing the song over again. So I made one from Brokencyde, Attack Attack! and This Romantic Tragedy. I'm loving it!

Haven't been riding as much because it's either been raining, or I've just wanted to come home and work on some web projects and things...or because Cub is lame which means Abby and I can't ride together...which has been quite fun the 4-5 times we've done so.

Only have to work tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday! Yay for Friday off, I am hoping Abby can spend the night on Friday, that would be most excellent. If not, I am sure she'll stay pretty late into the morning hours :)

Hope everyone has an awesome week!

• 10:45 is updating some Airport base stations firmwares. #
• 10:49 was unaware of this game, Interstellar Marines, looks kind of cool actually -- tinyurl.com/nn395n #
• 22:46 just realized he has this coming Friday off, that made my day! :) #
• 23:31 is looking for a game to play... #
• 00:23 is probably going to be cutting back a bunch of features on Scribbld account types. #

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• 09:25 is finishing up my homework, and taking my Nutritional final. Can't wait to go be with Abby. #
• 10:44 finally done with this course!! Did pretty well too! Shower and then Abby! #

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• 08:29 is going to start using MobileMe a lot more since I'm going to be paying for it, changing my main personal email to it. #
• 08:56 is wiping his MacBook Pro and re-installing OS X. Hopefully that clears up some issues. #
• 09:05 is hoping going to get Leopard Server installed this afternoon on his little QuickSilver PowerMac G4. #
• 09:38 fixed some CSS display issues on my DeathNote. jimmy.deathnote.me #
• 10:25 is still getting that 'o' icon (GPRS) on his iPhone, blaaah!! #
• 10:26 @disneyeggs Thanks my dear! Your icon makes me hungry haha #
• 11:05 fixed another little display issue on my DeathNote. Working on my todo lists now. #
• 11:25 imaging MacBook Pro (~80GBs) took a lot less longer then I thought it would, awesomeness! #
• 12:20 is going through hell just trying to get a basic LAMP box, this shouldn't be _this_ difficult!! #
• 12:29 just realized that I don't really need this type of authentication on my DVD Rental script...dammit. #
• 14:23 thinks people his age should not be squeezing kids out...it makes me want to vomit. #
• 14:58 updating MacBook Pro via Software update. 700MB system update in 45 seconds. Then installing all my apps again! #
• 15:20 copying applications, documents, etc back over to my freshly OS X-installed MacBook Pro. #
• 16:27 finally the weekend and fun!! ROLL OUT! #

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• 08:12 thinks the weather in Vermont is perfect right now. Nice and cool, not blindingly sunny and the air is fresh and delicious! #
• 09:08 is relatively close on blocking my boss from emailing me... #
• 10:47 this is awesome - www.cattreeplans.com/ - my new summer project with a friend?! #
• 14:06 is looking into setting up some dual 8Mbit links for servers...this could be costly! #
• 14:45 is about to flip shit on Moodle. It's not showing changes I've made to the language files. Getting very annoyed. #
• 15:32 is seriously considering a Bushmaster A3 by the end of the summer, I've just got to have one, or a Springfield Armory XD Tactical model <3 #
• 16:44 rolling out, dinner with Abby and the family in Winooski and then probably home to finish a butt ton of homework! #
• 22:16 daggers through the heart of st. angeles. xo #

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• 09:23 is annoyed with the stupidity of some people, although I suppose you'll always have that no matter what! #
• 09:45 @Cryo Unfortunately no, I guess since I carry my iPod touch around it'll be okay if I need phone #'s. Or I just go back to using my iPhone. #
• 09:55 EDU discounts for the win - Adobe Photoshop CS4 for $160 :) #
• 15:14 just hanging out with one of my managers (the cool one) and writing some PHP code. #
• 15:44 is probably going to switch back to iPhone 3G. I need my contacts and calendars and todos, sorry LG Neon. #
• 15:44 @disneyeggs LOL Nice link :) #
• 15:56 @morgant Oh, I did...$250 hahaha. I can resell it to another AT&T customer...hopefully. If not, then it's just me eating it...which sucks. #
• 18:45 @lexylayne I dunno, it's cool, but not as cool as my iPhone. It was $250. :/ PS. I miss you <3 #
• 19:25 just had to cancel weekend plans with @clev cause I spaced/over-booked. Car needs to be in the shop on Monday, FML. #
• 20:06 @lexylayne Hehe, it's locked to ATT, so I dunno if you have them. I'll definitely txt you! $200 for you. #
• 20:07 is appreciative of Apple's decision to not have tabs at the top of Safari, but rather where they are normally in Safari 3. Win. #
• 20:18 just figured out that you can move favorites around (up/down) on the iPhone...I'm such a newb! #
• 20:23 @lexylayne Hehe cool, well it's all yours. I'm to lazy to list it on eBay or CraigsList :P #
• 20:29 enjoys txting in landscape mode on iPhone :) Thinks Apple should include user icons/pics in the interface. That'd be awesome/sexy! #
• 22:05 is a bit overloaded from reading about minerals, loading up an iPod I found with some relaxing tunes and passing out! #

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• 07:50 waiting for offsite backups to copy over to the offsite drive...I need to get FW800 or eSata. This is ridiculous! #
• 09:16 hates how FedEx won't deliver something even though they've got it. Super lame. #
• 10:07 My LG Neon is the KS360 which doesn't work in the USA. FML. Might go get the new iPhone during lunch. #
• 10:21 @disneyeggs LOL. Well I'll be reselling this Neon likely. iPhone isn't too expensive, $200 USD. #
• 14:46 figured out my LG Neon, haha. It's pretty slick, trying to rig up some contact/calendar synching, which means I need to use Windows. Ew. #
• 15:32 is about to flip the shit out and throw this MacBook Pro out the window. #
• 15:35 the iTunes installer for Windows doesn't seem to understand the concept of me clicking the cancel button, POS. #
• 15:43 No I won't follow you if your entire page consists of RTs and @ replies. Do not want! #
• 16:15 wonders why it is ridiculously slow to copy files to a brand new 8GB flash key from a MacBook Pro. I'm starting to dislike technology a lot. #

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• 08:35 New 500GB Lacie drive and my new phone are in Burlington!! Tomorrow will be like Christmas! #
• 18:01 catching up on emails since I was out all day. Was really nice to see Troy and I saw the Bushmaster A3 I want so very badly! #
• 18:50 just ordered one of Abby's birthday presents, she's going to love it! <3 #
• 21:37 compressing some email server backups, and figuring out what I could do with my night... #
• 21:53 is updating his JLIST.COM wish-list! #
• 22:43 updated my iPod touch to 3.0. Yayz. #

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Today was unusually amazing for a Monday. Woke up kind of late, sleeping in is nice :) Just wake up when I am done sleeping, took a shower, got ready for the day. I went out to my first consulting appointment. It was for a slow computer which is one of the worst to go out on because that really doesn't tell me anything, there's a million and one reasons as to why a computer could be slow. I ran my usual checks and applications to look for what could be causing the problem. I ended up telling them to purchase some new RAM for not only the machine that was having an issue but for most of their machines. One guy was running 512MBs of RAM, now mind you, these guys are graphics/print designers and sit and play in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign all day...and for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters nonetheless haha. I hope some people have heard of them :P So yeah, we're jacking them up to like 6-8GBs. 512MBs is ridiculous!

After that, I went out and had lunch with my mom, but not before I stopped off at my local gun shop and got my stock replaced...it's kind of ghetto, but whatever haha, it works. I saw the Bushmaster A3 that I really really want, so I am definitely going to be saving up for that. Maybe by the end of the summer I'll have enough money to drop on that (only $1200 haha). After that I found out my car needs like $900 in repairs, I hate cars. Haha. I wish I could just ride my horse everywhere. I'd definitely be down with that.

After lunch I hung out with Abby, we watched a couple episodes of Wildboyz and then I went to my second appointment. It was a good one though, cause it was for one of my old managers from Small Dog. He's looking to do some DVD rentals and needs an application to not only inventory the DVDs, but to handle rentals, returns and customer information. So it's definitely going to be a good learning experience. We'll be writing it in PHP & MySQL and there's a big possibility that he won't be the only people using it, considering I've seen little nothing else out there in the market. So it's going to be a really crazy ride this one!!

After that, I headed out to the barn, met back up with Abby and Bethany. Had some good times there. Abby made me a whole thing of rice crispy treats for me, which I "shared" hahaha. She's so wonderful to me, it's really nice to know there's someone out there who really cares about you...a lot. I believe she's coming over when I get home from work, we're just going to relax, maybe watch a movie or build our Sims a house hahaha.

Tonight, I've got a buncha homework to do. I might start working on an outline for the DVD project. Who knows...maybe I'll do neither and just watch a movie and relax :) Did I mention how amazing Ponyo on a Cliff By The Sea was!? Yeah, it was great, Miyazaki for the win...Did I mention how badly I want that A3...oh, cause I do ;) Thursday is Abby's birthday. I am going to order her some flowers right now...she loves lillys. <3

 Sorry for not updating very much lately haha. Twitter is so much easier to use then having to find time to sit down and actually write something.

I've been riding a lot lately. Trying to get my horse into decent shape. At my departments retreat a couple weeks ago, I caught up with one of the ladies who works with us and she was talking about this like 3-4 day long trail ride that happens and said I should come, but that my horse would need to be in pretty good shape since it's all kinds of crazy terrain...so I don't know if I'll go but I know that both my horse and I need to be in good shape overall :) So I've been trying to ride as often as I can when I'm not completely dead from work and such. Abby and I have been going together a lot which is really nice. It's really great to have someone to just ride around with. We've been doing ring-work, and just riding out on the roads and in the fields. Tons of fun.

I guess we're dating now? Boyfriend/girlfriend, I don't know, maybe?! Hahaha. It really makes no difference to me, I guess it matters to her though, a girl thing? Who knows...

We went out to dinner with her sister and husband the other night which was really nice. I like them both, great people. We've been spending a lot of time together haha. I can't believe she hasn't gotten sick of me yet. She made me these amazingly delicious rice crispy treats too, love love love!! She totally doesn't seem to care that I have assault rifles either, I think this could be the beginning of an amazing relationship haha

Well, I've got at least 1 consulting appointment this morning, then probably getting lunch with my mom, need to get some pricing and set an appointment to get a fuck ton of things fixed on my car. Then I might have another appointment. We just put together a proposal to write an application for renting DVDs. It should be a fun learning experience.

Anyways, have a lovely day everyone! xoxo

• 08:59 working on an exam for class today...ick. #
• 12:26 working on exam for class...can't wait to have some of Abby's rice crispy treats hehe #
• 15:39 is heading out to the barn, this should be fun, even though I am quite sore from yesterday. #

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• 10:34 is just hanging out and relaxing today. #

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