and i know there'll be nights filled with tears

ok, i ended up doing a system restore on my computer yesterday, and fixed my antivirus and spyware. they are seemingly functioning well for the time being. i also managed to finally get my zune to sync. after a couple of false starts, i decided to wipe its memory. in the end i wound up losing about 350 or so songs. technically they are still on my pc, but it giving me one of two error messages for the songs that it is not capable of syncing with. either the song has some bizarre licensing issue, where it says i no long have the rights to the songs. the reason this is "weird" is becuase those very songs were just on my on my zune a scant twenty-four hours before. the other half of the list falls under a mysterious unknown error, so i am not even sure where to begin there. for now it is more important the device is working again properly, and no longer seizing up whenever it supposed to play sarah mclachlin. not that i really was worried about my inability to hear her anymore.

so i had some tummy trouble while i was waiting on the bus this morning. after a quick jaunt to the house i went back to the busstop to wait on the next go round. then the bus was late. which resulted in me missing the bus connection after it. so needless to say i am little peeved because instead of showing up fifteen minutes early, i am going to be at least fifteen minutes late. what really pisses me off is that when i was originally standing at the busstop, i did not catch a bus, leading me to believe that it was running early. the bus i take is near a turn around point. so essentially, if i miss the bus, i can wait about twenty minutes, and the same bus will be passing by in opposite direction. so how is it the same bust goes from running ahead of schedule to running about six minutes late. that is what is really pissing me off about the whole situation. if the bus was running on schedule, then, in theory, the two busses should have arrived at the same time, or at least fairly close one another. i cannot wait until i transfer to grafton, and i have a car again. also, i will be able to carpool with my roommate. either way, i am only going to use the bus for things outside of work.

i'm just a regular everyday normal mutha fucker

ok, yesterday i was having some huge issues with my zune refusing to sync with my computer despite several reboots of both items. my computer is also having its own unique issues. none of which i can describe because i do not know what they are exactly. it is kind of the same for the zune. i am not sure whether it is the software, or the device itself. it could even be an outage of the service altogether, but everything else with the downloads remains intact. i am not able to check my account status however, so i find that to be a bit strange. if it is in fact my zune device, that is not such a huge issue because it can still be replaced or fixed. i have minore problems with it here and there up until now, but nothing this problematic. if it is something else, then i guess i will just have to wait it out.

the other issues involving my computer involve at least freezing. i have no idea what is causing it to freeze either. the entire system does not freeze up at once either. it just seems to freeze one thing at a time. plus, my malware software is also malfunctioning due to some yet unknown anomally. to top it all off, it was not allowing my to shut the system down properly. that is never a good sign.

i went in early yesterday, because the day before the bus was either running early and i missed my connection, or it was just running extremely late. i suppose a third scenario was that the bus route had changed, but that would strange that it would just shift scheduled times in the middle of the week. of course, stranger things have happenned. i was once told by a bus driver that if i was ever late because of the bus, that i could call the bus line and report and they would send an excuse of sorts to my employer. although i cannot think of one instance in which the busses have ever admitted to being late or being at fault for anyone else being late either. even when the bus never even showed up. in fact, i remember once when i called to complain about a bus not making a scheduled appearance. i was told that the bus had to have gone by because i was the only person who called to complain. that is not even logical reasoning, or if it is, then exactly how many people have to call and complain before it is actually an issue? is it like a missing persons report where i have to wait a suggested number of hours before i can report its absense?

i'll do whatever it takes

so i am guessing the new bus schedules have gone in to effect. at some point (four weeks from now) i really will not have to care about that anymore. for one thing, i will be driving again, and occasionally car-pooling to work. i also will be at a location that i cannot get to via the bus system. even if i could, i do not think i would be interested the unholy amount of time i can only imagine it would require to get there.

after speaking to my mom about my upcoming travel plans, she apparently wants to come here again because she has the time off. i guess she will be visiting my aunt pam as well. still no word of her actually moving. not neccessarily here, but at this point she just has not moved anywhere after selling her house in evansville. so i do not know what she is planning to do with that.

i need to get into my online courses asap. i am pretty much just tired of not being able to have option of doing things that i want to do because i do not have a bachelor's degree. granted, when i actually have a bachelor's i do not plan on using it for whatever studies i achieved. that would be cool too, but honestly i still just want to travel overseas. i would like to do that without actually being deployed. so step one is to get a copy of my transcript.

shouldn't a girl who's so good inside have a matching exterior

so some updates, i still do not have a check from the irs. i have not recovered my binder from the milwaukee county transit system. in fact, the busses are eating my stuff. i still cannot figure out how to send an mms from my phone to youtube succesfully. although, i have managed to get the video to record sound. most importantly, i only have four weeks left before i go on vacation and transfer stores. of course that means that our inventory deadline is also fast approaching.

i had a fun weekend, i just barely watched the first season of heroes. to all the people who assured me that i would like the show. your assessment was fairly accurate. i can see how people could become enamored with the characters and storyline of the show. i only made it to episode ten, which is impressive in one sitting considering how long the episiodes are. there is also a parody on youtube from the show madtv mostly mocking hiro over exuberence and clare's main role is to see how many ways they can maim her in the episode.

i think my favorite part of riding the bus are the intoxicated morning crew. and holy shit, does this guy have beads in his fucking beard?! who the hell even does that?! i mean honestly, a scuncii in his ponytail, and beads dangling from his chin. he cannot possibly have a job. at any rate, i think it is great that people riding the bus in the morning on their way to work still reeking of booze are the best in the world. what i cannot figure out is how they manage to go through the work day without someone pointing out they smell like a distillery. but i suppose that most employers at just greatful they came in at all. although, it is odd that they are kind of rewarding their negative behavior. then again, i suppose that is easier than finding someone to actually replace them at their job.