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Sunday, November 03, 2002

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I had no need to fear... fun came to me. I got home Halloween night to find a kegger already in progress. I called a few friends and we hung out till the wee hours of the morning. A few of them weren't all that well for the morning, but... comes with the territory. I was surprised at the number of people that came... many left early, but it was a Thursday - after all.

Friday was a good night at home, hung out with the house-mates, got Unreal 2003 going... nothing too exciting, but a good night none-the-less. Saturday I went to go see The Ring - whew. I recommend it, highly -- watch it, live it, love it!
I was glad because it wasn't one of those "ooooh! I'm scary!" or one of those "self-aware horror movies" (ex: Scream) It was a lot of psychological stuff, very real, surreal -- in a NIN video sort of way. It certainly wasn't what I expected, and a few images have been burned into my head.

Here I am on Sunday somewhat pondering what I'm doing with the whole relationship thing... there's some hurdles, and I wonder if it's really worth all the trouble. Not because it's not worth it in the end, but because there's plenty of opportunities at my age. I have been through a similar situation before and it took a lot out of my life. I think I was too involved in that case and I wonder about this one. I want to be able to give my all, say that I'll do anything... but sometimes there's just nothing that one person can do beyond being there for someone. If that's not enough -- then what? I'm glad they've remained nameless at this point because it makes it easier. I really want things to work out for the best, keep hoping, but then something happens and I'm at a loss as to what to do.

My laptop has made me mad. I have yet to investigate it fully... might be Windows Media Player, I don't believe it's version 9 - as I've heard some tricky things about that version... but it seems to do video in an "overlay" fashion. I was playing an AVI and it was acting like I was playing a DVD. The output to TV showed up fine, all my windows... media player, etc... and then the actual AVI that was playing showed on the laptop screen... but didn't make it onto the TV. The sound was there but the video was just a black square. I tried so hard to get it all to work, had people waiting on it... queued up the videos to watch and... nada. I am calling to complain, I'll return it... I'll do it, especially since I've seen Vaio's with DVD-RW drives for $200 less then I paid for this one, same speed and generally the same features with a few other bonuses. It's just too much to pay if it doesn't do what I want.

Sidenote:: bought a DVD-R/RW/+R/CDRW/CD-R Sony drive, overnight shipping - should be here on Tuesday. =] This might get around my video problems, but I still want my videos to be able to be displayed on a TV, it's just the principle of the thing.

Labels: 2002