DandimLee

So, last week I was at the TAPs class, for transitioning out of the military.  When I come back to 'work', I find that my database has been corrupted.  I was tasked several weeks ago to create a database for certain medical cases, so I did.  There are about 600 people on it right now, with their various designations and dates.  I come back today, and find that somebody has reverted back to the old way of doing things via spreadsheet.  I have no idea how many people they added, or who was added.  I had been working with the database for a couple of weeks, so there were about a hundred people on the database that are not on the spreadsheet, also.  And the person who updated the spreadsheet also went through about 200 entries and changed the format of on aspect of the data, so that's something else I have to sort out.  I spent the day trying to figure out how to remerge the two data sources without deleting either the people I added to the database, or the people added to the spreadsheet during my absence.  I also had to deal with the new format popping up at random places.  So I spent the day doing that.  Since most of the time, I just sit there and surf the internet, I felt kind of cheated.  And I haven't fully worked out how to merge the two documents together, so there are a lot of duplicates in the record right now.
Good news for me.  I loaned about 200 dollars to a guy I met while I was in the hospital, and he actually payed me back today.  That felt good.  My faith in humanity has, in a small way, been restored.  I was half-expecting to never see him again.  
I have this weird sort of insomnia where I can go to sleep for about two hours, and then I have to get up and do something for a couple of hours, and then I can go back to sleep for a few more hours.  I started taking naps after I get done with work.  When I take my sleep medication, I sleep for 15 hours, and, after I wake up, I'm drowsy for the entire day.
I watched some of a "Prank War" on collegehumor.com.  The last one was pretty mean.

Well, it seems that my computer was able to restart very quickly, so my fear of a complete and utter crash was unfounded.  It still shouldn't have happened.  I looked for another program to play DVDs, and I don't think I have one.  I looked at Quicktime, and couldn't find a DVD player option, although it was more of a cursory examination.  Miro, I found out, is just for television.  Rather than try to find a program to substitute for my DVD player, I decided to give the bundled player another chance.  Once mishap shouldn't disqualify an up to now very faithful application.  I might have overreacted.  

I thought that this was impossible.  My mac has an application that won't close.  It's sitting in my dock, taunting me with it's little black triangle, indicating that it's open, even though I can't make it come up.  It's my DVD player.  The one that came bundled with the mac.  I tried 'Force Quit', and it remains.  I clicked on the blue apple icon, and tried to 'Force Quit' it from there, and it disappears from the window, but it remains in the dock, and my DVD refuses to eject.  I don't know what to do!!  This is the first time that this has happened to me.  I opened Terminal, and established that I have no idea how to do anything really useful in there.  The only option is to try to restart the computer, but before it logs out, it quits all open applications, and if I can't force quit it from here, how can the computer quit it by itself?  The DVD player quit on it's own too, and I chose the option to reopen it, because I was in the middle of watching Bones.  Now, the program isn't responding to me.  I tried to quit it with Quicksilver.  I'm going to post this, that try to restart it.  I hope it works.  I'm going to use another program for watching DVDs now too.  DVD Player has served me faithfully for hundreds of hours of enjoyment, but I can't have this happen again.

Despite my conscience telling me to not re-buy a PS2, I went ahead and did it.  I 've only spent about $200 on it so far; the system, and 5 games.   I really should have saved money, but I suck at saving money, and I was bored.  I could have amused myself with various other enterprises, and it was more of an impulse buy than anything.  I don't even own my own television (not until I can get it from Connecticut somehow).
I'm playing Shin Megami Tensai's Persona 3.  It's a pretty good game so far.  The game mechanic of shooting yourself in the head to perform magic spells probably wouldn't go over very well for some people, but they're prudish.   There's a social game mechanic kind of like a dating sim in which you have to provide the correct response while conversing with various characters in order to make friends, which subsequently allows your 'persona', the thing that is performing the magic spells when you shoot yourself, to be have a higher initial level.  The story is a little awkward for me, although the plot of most games isn't great in my opinion.
I'm also playing FF12.  I was running around, minding my own business, when some big werewolf, not really indistinguishable from the other big animal like characters populating that particular area, killed me and my companion with one hit (each).  Why can't these obviously very high level characters (comparatively to my level 2) be marked in a special way, or maybe even be prohibited from the map adjacent to the starting city?  That annoyed me, so I stopped playing for a while.  I'm not very in to the battle mechanic for this game, although it's supposed to get better later on when you have more control of the 'programming' of your characters.
I bought GrimGrimoure but I haven't played it yet.  I should do so at some point.  I also bought some sports games, which I enjoy wasting time with.

I'm on my lunch break for TAPs.
TAPs is a program where we, people who are going to be separating from the military fairly soon, are lectured about all of the benefits that we may be entitled to, and how to get jobs.  This includes how to dress, how to write a resume, how to handle oneself while in an interview, etc.  This takes a week.  I'm going to use the benefits to go to school, because the kinds of jobs that are available to me from my experience in the Navy aren't the type of jobs I want to do for the rest of my life i.e. working in a power plant or testing water purity in a factory or working with radioactive crap.  I will be collecting unemployment in the meantime, though. 
I'm more than likely going back to school because I don't want to deal with life in the real world.  I don't care.  I'm used to being disgusted with myself based on self-assessment.  And having an edge over the college guys in terms of age and experience, and having served in the military might get me some co-ed ass, which would be nice.  This was a pretty hot topic on the boat; the whole concept of college girls being impressed with our prior sailortude.  I have my doubts, but I'm a pessimist.
I should have to sleep last night.  I don't want to fall asleep while in the lecture. 

I just made this post to replace the one that was automatically put in for me by Livejournal.