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I'm Josh, and I'm a sad, sad human. So what?

PurrCrabs, from Syboard, actually said this (look in title) in the shoutbox. I'm sad, yes, mostly because my life sucks, so I won't argue with him. I do manage to stay happy-looking everyday, and I rarely complain about anything, so you can't honestly say I'm a crybaby or even that I'm lazy.

Moving on, I was asked by several people, least of which, Sui, about my daily schedule, because I switch my regular internet habits constantly. Sometimes, I'm on AIM from 3am to 5pm, never idle. Other times, I'm not on AIM at all or idling from 9pm to 12pm, and I frequently log into AIM and back out.

All these frantic habits are causes by my lack of sleep, poor eating habits, bad hygiene, and common work-related problems. I'm out of school, and I tried being a night worker, but that wasn't working out, so I started a daytime job, which is still proving to be difficult (due to lack of work), and I'm definitely not a daytime person.

If I could be active at night, making all the noise I want, working whenever, I would be in bliss.

That is not the case, and I'm sure my schedule isn't even interesting, but you can look at it if you like...

12am - 3am: play games, work on website, do whatever, because I'm bored and absolutely cannot sleep. Never could sleep at these times, not even when I was in school.

4am - 6am: sleep

6 - 7am: wake up, drink something (usually just tap water) and go back to sleep

7 - 9am: sleep

9 - noon: breakfast (rarely), feed dog, shower (every other day), look for work, and if I have work, do it.

noon - 3pm: watch my little brother, study whatever I feel like reading (story or coding or even just a picture or song), write notes for small story ideas, lose most of the notes accidentally, feed the dog... all at random times.

3pm - 5pm: waste time, usually watching my little brother... yell at brother for making messes, be relieved when Dad gets here to take over, watch the clock.

5pm - 7pm: read stuff, take out trash, do laundry, eat dinner, discuss maybe watching a movie but never actually watch anything, snack on leftovers while cleaning the kitchen.

7pm - midnight: I call this my true free time. I'm never really bothers at this period of the day, and most chores are done. I usually feed the dog again at this point and sometimes take the trash to the curb. During this time, I post on my blogs and journals, play a few video games, and usually find creative projects to work on. Sometimes, however, I just play around with the computer and post on forums.

Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 5

I boldly upgraded to an upgrade only a few have upgraded to thus far. Okay, bad Star Trek rip-off, but I upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), and it fixed and improved so much!

PCSX finally works, but pSX still won't open. PCSX is my emulator of choice, anyway. I use PCSXbox on my Xbox, and it works great, so I may very well play PSX games on PCSX, as well. I already played Brave Fencer Musashi to check the performance level of PCSX, and I was wowwed.

The Windows driver for my wireless card is no longer necessary. The card was basically plug-and-play, so yay! This saved me a lot of time, because I have a lot of trouble getting Windows drivers installed. Well, I think the only proprietary driver I need is the one to make my ATI card work. I may try the open source alternative, though, because ATI has bad, very bad, customer support, especially for Linux users.

Current Ubuntu Hardy users may want to upgrade to Intrepid right now.
To do so, just open a terminal window and type "update-manager -d" without quotes. It will check for updates like it normally would, but it won't ignore anything. At the top of the updates list will be the newest version of Ubuntu.

The upgrade to Intrepid isn't perfect at the moment. I had to fix packages (redownload them) after installing, so I'm sure a clean installation (via CD/DVD) would be better for newcomers. Ubuntu Intrepid is scheduled to be released in October, so look forward to it, and don't give up hope for Linux!