FuzzyUnicorn's Randomation Blog

Ok, so I'm really lazy and didn't write my halloween post for almost a month. But I'm going to back date it and pretend I wrote it the next morning like I wanted to.

Halloween was a hit. I wasn't feeling very into it this year, so I decided to re-use the Satyr/Fairy costumes from Ez's first halloween. I had to make a whole new suit for Ez, and I made improvements all the rest.

First we went to the mall, and every shop wanted to talk to us about where we got the costumes, and Am was always proud to tell them I made them. The mall was really dead this year, there were only like 10 other groups while we were there.

Then we went to uptown. It was much busier than the mall but still not as busy as it usually is. People kept stoppping us to take pictures. Ez really liked all the attention. Every shop owner said we got the prize for best costumes of the night. Some even gave Ez extra candy because of it.

There's a picture and more story on the halloween page. More pictures if I ever feel up to working on it.

After 3 1/2 years I finally saved up enough money to buy a new computer. My old computer was an Athlon XP 1700+ with 512megs of slow ram (pc2100 I think) The new beast is a dual core Athlon64 x2 4200+ with 1gig of OCZ overclocking ram. (pc3200 aka ddr400)
Windows boots a little faster, but not much, and internet browsing doesn't seem any different. But ripping dvd's is way faster. It used to take me over 2 hours to rip and recompress a dvd with dvd shrink. It only took me 23 minutes to rip and re-encode the Dark Crystal with this thing. I was also able to watch 9 videos at the same time without slowdown, whereas the old system could barely handle 2.
I installed Ubuntu x64 on a spare 10 gig hard drive because I didn't have any room on my 250gig primary drive to re-partition. If I can save up any more money, I think I'll buy a 300 gig SATA II drive. 3.0 GB/s.
I wish software vendors would get with the program and start offering 64 bit linux versions of their programs (mainly adobe/macromedia with flash) Who am I kidding, just regular 32bit linux programs would be nice, but it won't happen. At least not til linux has a larger user base. Which won't happen until there is more software support. Damn paradoxes. At least flash 9 is supposed to be out for linux early next year. Only 6 months behind the windows version. Until then I'm just running windows firefox under wine for sites that require flash. (Like Ezzie's favorite: newgrounds) It seems to work fine. I wish someone would come up with an open-source format like flash, and then market the hell out of it until it became the standard. Then no-one would have to worry that a viewer wasn't available for their operating system. They could just build it themselves. Or leech off of others who actually know how to program.

OK, back to the new machine. Super Fast. Great for video editing. Gotta start making movies...

what to write?
fuzzy set this up for me, both of us hoping it will help jog my fight with writers block.
Have you ever wondered what could cause insparation?
I have found that the simplest things do but mostly its taking a drive, well having someone else drive as I do not have a license (eeck 26 and does not have a drivers license!)Ive been trying to think as to what I should write here, and as I stare at the screen I have no idea, It has to be quick as both the boys are down for a nap and any minute one could wake and chaos could ensue, but as to what I want to say or express who can tell, any hands? no well then.
Should I talk about me? Sure why not.
I am fuzzy wife of 8 years,mother of his two children. Ezra three, and Sebastian(also known as Mr.chubbersons)who is nine weeks old.
I am eccletic witch, which means I chose to believe and practice what ever I please, defenitly goddessism and that anything is possible, even that ezzie can take dragon rides or that there are a band of fairies living in the back yard (and maybe a gnome who likes house work?)I have been a witch since I was thirteen and the goddess saved my life, and I am in search for a coven in the area, but right now I'm a solitary practitioner(which means i do nothing!)
I work full time in a upscale women's clothing store, and on most occasions I like my job.
I have obsession with vampires and were creatures and anything that goes bump in the night,I love the idea of them,the lust they inspire, the fear, and the pain as they rip out you're throat.
also weirdly enough I love trashy romance, I have hundreds of Ideas for them, and I hope that some day I will have time to write all my books and have someone publish them.
well I guess that's good enough of a first entry
ta ta for now
motherwitch

I've been meaning to post on here for a while, but I'm just too damn lazy. Ez got some funny toys for christmas I wanted to post about. Sebs is getting huge, I think he'll pass his brother by the time he's 1. Work is going crazy. I set up a blog for Am, though she has yet to post in it. Click the link at the top of the page to see if she ever does.

Dave gave me his old laptop, and after some soldering and re-wiring, I got it working again. Then I imediately formatted and installed Ubuntu. Took me a couple of days to get all the hardware working, but it's good now. Then I found out that you couldn't adjust the shared video memory without the windows tool that comes with it. Stupid Insyde bios. Never buy a computer that doesn't have an Award bios. even Phoenix and AMI are better than this Insyde one though. The ONLY think it lets you change is the boot order. So I had to use the recovery disk to install XP again, just to adjust the video memory. Unfortunately the recovery disk only has the option to wipe all partitions from the hard drive and restore their disk image. No nice "install XP to selected partition" option. And I couldn't get the video utility off of the disk because everything is in an unknown archive format. So I wiped Ubuntu, restored xp, changed the video ram to Max, and then reinstalled Ubuntu. I decided to keep the XP partition, and just resize it to the smallest I could get it, so that if there were any other utilities that only work in windows, I wouldn't lose my Ubuntu again.

Wow, this was just going to be a teaser post about all of the things I haven't posted. But you get me onto the subject of computers, and I just can't stop talking. Ok, I guess this is enough for now.

He's finally here!!! Sebastian Osiris Fox was born on Jan 26th 2006 at 11:49pm. He weighed 8lbs 14oz, and was 21" long. It was a long tiring labor. Amber decided to try incucing by taking 2oz of castor oil mixed with orange juice. But one sip and she threw up. Luckily that started her contractions. Neither of us could get back to sleep after that.

It took 21.5 hours of irregular contactions for this kid to come out. The contractions never did get regular. The midwife had to break Am's water to help speed things up. My mom, her mom, and my brother Kevin's girlfriend Tina were all there to help out. Kevin stayed in the computer room with Ezra the whole time.

I'm sure everyone wants to see pics of the new little guy, so we put some up on his brother's site. http://www.just2ez.com/sebastian/ Let us know what you think of our new little pudge-ball.