I think I've settled on a desktop.

Completing my Boring Post Trifecta, here's what my desktop will look like for the foreseeable future:

Windowblinds theme is Rapture XP, Rainmeter configs are MKG Plus and Black and Red, and the wallpaper, I found on Deviantart. "Darkness" by Amystikal.

Anyway, Jenny just got home from school. We're watching NCIS. Or at least she is, as I'm headed off to bed. End of post starts.... now.

Roll-style updated.

Okay, so now this is how I roll:

I found that wallpaper on DeviantArt months ago, but I replaced a Deftones album cover with a pic of Jenny. I changed the Rainmeter fonts. Running WinAmp instead of Xion. Moved the two quicklaunch areas a bit. Oh, and the weather changed, apparently. It's "fair" now. Yeah, I'm bored.

Still, looks decent, no?

This is how I roll.

Now that I have a 21-inch CRT, I have acres of desktop space to play with, and numerous resolutions to choose from. So I've been playing around with some relatively advanced desktop customization to take advantage of my hardware. As of ten minutes ago, my workspace looks like this:

It's a combination of Windowblinds 5.51, Rainmeter, and Xion. An hour ago, it looked completely different; as I said, I'm still trying to settle on something I'm comfortable using all the time. I tend to waver between an austere, minimalist feel (as shown) and a much more organic, stylish, natural look (like the one I had set up a few minutes ago). I'll probably end up with a couple of configurations that I can quickly switch between.

By the way, if you're still reading this self-indulgent pointlessness, congratulations, you're me.

Chrome and PvZ are cool. I HAVE SPOKEN.

I have a new obsession, and it's called Plants vs. Zombies.

I don't know why this game is so addictive. It just is. I dare you to play the 1-hour demo and not end up with the full game. It's like Peggle for people who enjoy using anthropomorphic plants to murder strangely-dressed zombies. Which is really everyone, isn't it?

Moving on. I'm using Google's Chrome browser almost exclusively now. I'm not saying it's better, in general, than Firefox, but it suits my needs better. This is partly because I still haven't gotten the latest Flash plugin to work correctly with Firefox, forcing me to use the TabSwitch extension too often; using IE8 in any way whatsoever is unacceptible to me. Because it's fucking awful.

The only advantages Firefox still has over Chrome, at least for me, are two extensions: Sage for RSS feeds and Adblock for making the web not suck as much. Chrome is so fast, however, and has such a good blank tab page, that it doesn't really bother me that these features are missing. I still haven't tried the new Safari release, and I'm not planning to. The last version was terrible, and I don't see how it can possibly be better than Chrome anyway.

Wish I was home.

So I'm at my mom's house, watching the NBA finals while watching the dogs. My mom's in Birmingham helping out with my granddad, who had a brain tumor removed a couple weeks ago. He's doing really well, but his kids are keeping an eye on him until he fully recovers. They're taking it in turns, and unfortunately my mom's turn came up when one of her dogs, Lucy, is really sick. I don't know what's wrong with her, but just checking in on them and letting them out and feeding them and whatever has turned into a full-on dogsitting gig. I'm spending my second night here, and apparently my dog YaYa isn't taking it so well. I knew she liked me, but I didn't think she'd, you know, miss me. I love that dog.

Anyway, Lucy here has been sick for a while, but with my granddad ill and with my step-grandfather dying last week, my mom hasn't done anything about it, and now Lucy's getting worse by the day. In a sense, I don't blame my mom, but in another, more accurate sense, I really do. But there's no point in assigning blame, it's just important that she's coming back a day early (tomorrow) to take her to the vet.


Meanwhile, I'm finding it hard to sleep. I miss Jenny terribly, and I'm not used to sleeping on that little twin bed in the guest room. I slept on it last night, and all afternoon at work today my spine felt like it was going to wrench itself out of my body and strangle me for making it bend down so I could acid-adjust forklift batteries all goddamn day. So I'm wide awake at 10:30 and I think I'm going to be late to work tomorrow. If I work the full 8 hours I'm pushing overtime anyway, and god knows they don't want that to happen. Anyway the manager isn't going to be there tomorrow, so fuck it. All I have to do is make a few trips out to West Memphis to pick up some batteries.


Anyhow. I gotta try to feed Lucy again and take them out once more before I sack out. If you're reading this, Jenny, love you! See you tomorrow afternoon.