Just Like (a) Human

Ok. I twisted my knee Tuesday at work.
Had to go get it looked at, and take the Target drug test to do so.

They prescribed Light Duty and 800mg Ibuprofen.
I’ll be damned if Target gave me anything that’s truly light duty.
Twisted the knee AGAIN today, but it was accompanied by popping noises and sparklies in my vision as I tried to fight the pain.
Went back to their doctor.
Different guy this time…
Told him how I had been taking Ibuprofen like candy…
And he prescribed Lodine and Vicodin ES.
Hooray for drugs!

Vicodin leaves me burned out and dizzy.
I go lay down… now.

Updating a lot lately from WordPress CVS and nightly dumps;
Got an LJ importer that’s far from complete;
Need to hack on said importer and expand it;
BUSTED RSS FEEDS with an entry somewhere – Went and butchered the ones Livejournal complained about (for once, their aggregator wants to be strict…);

Had 400 mg of Guarana on the way to work today;
Have yet to watch Junkman;
Need to update this template and the Amazon Media Manager hack;
Gotta talk to photomatt about plugins system for WordPress.

The end.

Okay, now that WordPress has a native Livejournal entry importer (which uses the exported files from lj-dot-com) in beta, I’ve gone back, and started importing all my old entries.

The question is, will this flood the hell out of you all, or will LiveJournal reject the incoming flood of posts that are from the past?

If it floods you, I apologize now, but it’s the only way I can import the entries, short of learning how to manipulate the database by hand, then shutting off my feed for a week or three.

I never mentioned my awe-inspiring birthday loot in any detail.
Check page 2 for what SiSoft Sandra says I have at the moment.

Wow. I just watched H. B. Halicki’s Gone in 60 Seconds.
I have got to say I’m a sucker for a good car chase, and this one was definitely way the hell up there in the ranks. 40 minutes of no-stunt-doubles-with-cars-crashing-everywhere-and-people-running-for-their-lives action makes this vixen HAPPY. :3~~~

I, uh, need to go clean up now. o.o;

Well, I’m still buying music legally (The RIAA would be proud if I paid for music from them, but keep reading).
I just paid for my second album from Magnatune.com – spent $9, and picked up Emma’s Mini: beat generation mad trick.

I can truthfully say that for the most part, I’ve enjoyed this soundtrack (I’m currently on track 7 of 13 tracks).
It’s very smooth to listen to, and the lyrics are tasteful and well-used compared to the music that accompanies them.
From track 4 – “Highway 99″

Driving in the pouring rain,
Trying to think of who’s to blame;
Why do I always feel this pain,
When there’s nothing left for me to gain?
Stop right now, and tell me,
What am I supposed to do about you?
Stop right now and tell me,
How am I supposed to [breathe | be*] without you?
Stop right now and tell me,
What am I supposed to do about you,
Right now, Right now, Right now, Right now, Right now.

(*: I can’t tell if that’s ‘breathe’ or ‘be’, though both fit.)
Track 4 also gained my slot for “Absolute Favorite Track”, as well.

So, go check ‘em out. You can listen for free, and choose to buy if you like it.
Emma’s Mini, on Magnatune.com, or at their website, emmasmini.com

Okay. I have one hell of a pet peeve, and it starts with eBay users.

In general, a lot of them are good, honest people.
But you have some who’re naught more than the scum of the earth.
The ones who charge you $10 or even $15 shipping via USPS on a Gamecube game.

They’re nothing but SCUM.
I can ship a fully packaged Gamecube for ~$5.
It costs me $1 for the envelopes I use, which come pre-padded with bubble sheets, and are water resistant (unlike most of theirs). It costs less than $2 for postage. It costs me… 50 cents for delivery confirmation.
And what do I charge the person buying from me?
The cost of postage + 75 cents or the cost of postage +$1.

I let eBay use their shipping calculator, so that if I get a bidder from across a border, I don’t find out when I go to deliver that the package costs me $5 to put in the mail.

I think that from now on, I will use a revised shipping costs setup:
It’ll be: whatever eBay says postage is, +$1.60.
It’ll cover the Gamecube game auctions without much issue, and should be high by only a few cents at most.

For auctions that require a larger envelope, then it’s +$2.10 — the envelopes I buy are $0.99 and $1.59, respectively. In both cases, it also nets a Delivery Confirmation if the envelope is thick enough (and they usually are).