Upgrading to Vista

Well, I finally reached the point where it's a day before RC1 expires and I'm still using it. The thing is, you can still run RC1 after it expires, but it'll restart after two hours. You can then sign back in, but It will keep restarting after two hours. I'd prefer to get out of that.  So, I got the upgrade version, and, oddly enough, RC1 activation codes qualify for that. At least they cut us some slack... Anyway, I'm moving the 8.8 GB of photographs I have to my external hard drive, so Vista Ultimate will have a little wiggle room.  At the end of the week, I'm planning on getting a 160 GB HDD, so I'll back everything up like I did before, install the new HDD, put Ultimate on that, and put everything back. Just like I did with Beta 2 to RC1. But that kinda has to be done over the weekend, so this upgrade is just going to be a temporary fix. I've got about 20 minutes to kill before my pictures transfer, and it's time for dinner, so I'll post this now, eat, then start the upgrade, and wait.

I've done 54 out of 144 silly things... heh

Level 1
(  ) smoked a cigarette
(  )smoked a cigar
(  ) smoked weed
(  ) kissed a member of the same sex
(x) drank alcohol
SO FAR: 1
Level 2
(  ) said "i love you" to someone
(x) had a pet die
(  ) shoplifted
(  ) been fired
(  ) been in a fist fight
(  ) fell down a mountain
SO FAR: 2
Level 3
(  ) snuck out of a parent's house
(  ) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
(  ) been arrested
(  ) made out with a stranger
(  ) gone out on a blind date
(x) lied
SO FAR: 3
Level 4
(  ) had a crush on an older person
(  ) skipped school
(  ) slept with a co-worker
(  ) seen someone/something die
SO FAR: 3
Level 5
(  ) had/have a crush on one of your Facebook friends
(  ) been to Paris
(  ) been to Spain
(x) been on a plane
(  ) thrown up from drinking
SO FAR: 4
Level 6
(  ) eaten Sushi
(x) been snowboarding
(  ) met someone BECAUSE of facebook
(  ) been mosh pitting
SO FAR: 5
Level 7
(  ) been in an abusive relationship
(x) taken pain killers
(  ) love/like someone who you cant have
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
SO FAR: 8
Level 8
(  ) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping (skating too)
(  ) played dress up
SO FAR: 11
Level 9
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
SO FAR: 15
Level 10
(  ) used a fake/someone else's ID
(x) watched the sunset
(x) felt an earthquake
(  ) killed a snake
SO FAR: 17
Level 11
(x) been tickled
(  ) been robbed/vandalized
(  ) robbed someone/vandalized
(x) been misunderstood
(  ) pet a deer
SO FAR: 19
Level 12
(x) won a contest
(  ) been suspended from school
(x) had detention
(  ) been in a car/motorcycle accident
SO FAR: 21
Level 13
(x) had/have braces
(  ) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had de ja vu
(  ) danced in the moonlight
SO FAR: 23
Level 14
(  ) hated the way you look
(x) witnessed a crime
(  ) pole danced
(X) questioned your heart
(  ) Been obsessed with post-it notes
SO FAR: 25
Level 15
(x) squished barefoot through the mud
(x) been lost
(  ) been to the opposite side of the world
(x) swam in the ocean/gulf/lake
(x) felt like you were dying
SO FAR: 29
Level 16
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(  ) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
(x) sang karaoke.
(x) paid with only coins
SO FAR: 33
Level 17
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
(  ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(  ) kissed in the rain
SO FAR: 35
Level 18
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus
(  ) been kissed under a mistletoe
(  ) watched the sun set with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
(X) made a bonfire on the beach
SO FAR: 38
Level 19
(  ) crashed a party
(x) have traveled more than 5 hours with a car/bus full of people
(x) gone rollerskating/blading
(  ) had a wish come true
SO FAR: 40
Level 20
(  ) worn pearls
(  ) jumped off a bridge
(  ) Screamed 'PENIS' in class
(x) gone swimming with dolphins
SO FAR: 41
Level 22
(  ) got your tongue stuck to a pole/freezer (does and ice cube count?)
(  ) kissed a fish
(  ) worn the opposite sex's clothes
(x) sat on a roof top
SO FAR: 42

o.O what happened to 21?

Level 23
(  ) screamed at the top of your lungs
(  ) done/attempted a one-handed cartwheel
(x) talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
(X) stayed up all night
SO FAR: 44
Level 24
(  ) picked and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
(x) had/been in a tree house
(  ) are scared to watch scary movies alone
SO FAR: 46
Level 25
(  ) believe in ghosts (not necessarily ghosts, but odd occurrences)
(  ) have/had more then 30 pairs of shoes
(  ) gone streaking
(  ) been in jail/visit
SO FAR: 46
Level 26
(  ) played chicken
(  ) been pushed/jumped into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) been told you're hot by a complete stranger
(  ) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
SO FAR: 48
Level 27
(  ) caught a fish then ate it later
(X) made or been in a video
(  ) caught a butterfly
(  ) laughed so hard you cried
(o.O) cried so hard you laughed
SO FAR: 49
Level 28
(  ) mooned/flashed someone
(  ) had someone moon/flash you
(x) cheated on a test
(x) forgotten someone's name
(  ) slept naked
(  ) French braided someones hair
(  ) gone skinny dipping in a pool
(  ) been kicked out of your house
SO FAR: 51
Level 29
(x) Rode a rollercoaster
(x) went scuba-diving/snorkeling
(x) had a cavity
(  ) Black-mailed someone
(  ) been black mailed
SO FAR: 54
Level 30
(  ) fell going up the stairs
(  ) licked a cat/dog
(  ) played hide and seek within the last 3 years
(  ) bitten someone
(  ) licked someone
SO FAR: 54

 

repost this with...
I've done ___ out of 144 silly things

Post catch-up

I'm posting everything I've written since I somehow could no longer connect to blogger (still don't know why that was). so yea, there'll be a few more posts than normal in a 20 minute period :D.

ka-BOOM

was amazing. Afterwards, we were discussing how, in some parts of the world, they have like... 5 minute firework shows. Yet we were complaining about how it was only twenty minutes this time... welcome to the Bay Area, I guess xD. I'll put up some videos when I manage to get them off my brother's cell phone...

huh...

so, I was having a bit of trouble with the email-to-xanga thing. I figured out that it seemed like you needed to send it directly to the posting email (mailing lists wouldn't work). So, I sent Xanga an email, basically checking if this was the case. I didn't get a response after the first day, so I just switched to sending it directly to xanga, cause people seemed to prefer that anyway. I finally got a response from a "Chris at Xanga." I didn't really think much of that... anyway, it basically said "Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we're really sorry (he actually said "terribly"), we've patched the problem and are working on a perminite solution. try it again, and tell us if you have any problems." Ok... I never really intended to point that out to them, but I guess I did... I wrote back that it seemed to work fine now, except for the formatting problems (no bold, links, line breaks were a bit funky...). I started to wonder why it had taken so long to reply, when I saw this:

"Most Starred
Starting now, if enough people give a lot of stars to a weblog, photo, or video, it will be automatically submitted to http://star.xanga.com. more from chris" (more from chris is a link).

That was when it clicked. maybe chris was a bit... busy? upgrading and maintaining an enormous, high traffic web site? it's pretty impressive that he found time to reply to help emails at all... so... yea... whoops... my bad >.>.

 

Hmmm... Chris would be the one to ask, I'm guessing, about any future plans for an interface that would, maybe, allow for Windows Live Writer posting... but, now, asking something like that seems a bit rude... and pushy...

 

my plans of posting to blogger, which would forward the post to an email address, which would be received by a wordpress site on my computer, which would publish those emails to the wordpress site, which would crosspost the posts to my xanga got a bit complicated... so... not doing it xD.

 

Anyway, sorry I've been so emo lately... i've just been getting really pissed off at an increasing number of people...