How to make up for the suckiness of MAC

Soz, I got my macbook on Christmas of 2009. I’ve been VERY happy with its performance, until now.

Some of you might remember that I had to go through this very longggg process of getting it fixed a few months back that can be viewed here .

Well, my mac has been acting up lately. Every so often (i’ve isolated the event to safari) The entire screen will freeze, a new screen will sort of scroll down, and i’ll get this message…

Kernel Panic Message

This is a Kernel Panic Message, basically saying that we fucked up… meaning the little guys inside of my computer. Kind of like the blue screen of death for windows.

Soz, I did what the apple people said… restarted my computer, that it should be an “isolated incident” that would not happen again. It started happening DAILY. And I went back to the forum. They said you needed to do a hardware check and update your software and repair and files you had with disk utility (under utilities in applications). I did that. It said it repaired something and I was VERY happy.

Next day….. yea…. you guessed it. So I turned to my hero… Disk warrior. Disk warrior saved me last time when they said the data on my laptop was “irretrievable.” Bull shit. disk warrior retrieved my data last time and…. it fixed my computer yet again!

No problems as of yet. Hope it will stay that way. I remember disk warrior cost about 100 bucks, but believe me it is well worth it. I would pay again for it and that’s saying a lot.

So, if you ever encounter disk errors on your mac that the people can’t fix, look into disk warrior! (no i’m not getting paid to advertise them)

-TK

How to stop feeling like your on autopilot (and other psychobabble stuff)

GOOD MORNING!!!!

Soz I’m a freshman in college… and a lot of people have ways to cope with being away from home and without friends…. hooking up, studying really hard, drinking, drugs, joining cults that will one day try to take over the world… ^.^…. etc.

I woke up early today (7 A.M…. early for me) cuz I needed to write more for my story (which is due in 4 hours eep). It is a BEAUTIFUL day outside. And a lot of times… it’s really sunny in the morning and can get cloudy towards the afternoon (when i wake up). If I hadn’t gotten up early, I may have never realized it was a beautiful day out! I mighta just seen the clouds and been like UGH FML and been in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

Moral of the story… I should listen to my beautiful, loving, caring, scheming, maniacal mother ^.^ and get up early more often. It sort of gives me time to myself too… where i’m not on autopilot, you know? If you get up at 12 you are rushing to get things done, don’t do everything you want, end up staying up late, and are a lot more numb. If you wake up early and see the sun and the trees and it’s all beautifullllllll … you might be a lot happier with your life.

On my other poast i was bitchin about how i’ve been thinking too much about careers lately. I woke up early and was like… it’s okay if I don’t know what I want to do, because the beautiful mornings, trees, earth, etc. will always be here (until 2012 :-P) no matter if i’m making $40,000 a year or $100,000 a year.

So, if you feel like your on autopilot, try waking up early and spending some quality time with trees and the sun. Believe me, you’ll be kicking yourself when your in bed, bein like “OMGGG why am I waking up this earlyyyyyyy,” but in an hour, you’ll feel great.

Side note before I poof: I’m gonna start writing a lot more on this blog. I left it for a bit, but now that college is going, I can return.

One of my favoriteeee youtubers aside from shay carl and philip defranco is Nat. Check out this vid it’s hilarious.

By the way, any good book recommendations?

See ya tomorrow,
-TK

The reason why life is long….

Hey peeps,

Life is long because humans are basically too stupid to know what they want. It takes time. I have no idea how those people who only lived into their 20’s did it. Maybe they weren’t happy. Who knows.

Recently, all that I have been thinking about is careers. What am I going to do after college? How am I going to make a living and not starve or end up on the streets? I want an immediate answer as to what will make me happy and what I want to do for the rest of my life. I’m finding that the hardest thing is coming to terms with the fact that it takes time to really know what you want and in the process of understand what you want, you will better understand who you really are.

I took a personality survey, and found these two questions… perplexing…

1. which is more important? risk and adventure or comfort and security
2. Would you rather be remembered for your ideas or actions?

I hadn’t realized it, but at the moment, comfort and security is what I’m looking for. That… kind of disgusted me. It’s so unlike me. I’m sooo not taking enough risks in life and that fact just sort of slipped by.

For number two, I answered ideas. Now that I come to think of it, I’m not sure. It’s something I will have to mull over more before decide. It’s a very good question though methinks.

I think I’ve said this before, but I think when we are born, we inherently have certain flaws. In another sense, there are distinct themes to each person’s life and that it is our job to understand those themes and correct those flaws. I find that I am constantly having to remind myself of lessons that I’ve already realized. For example…

I tend to look to the future and plan and think and ponder rather than concentrating on the moment. I keep thinking “oh when I have this and this and this, I will be happy” instead of looking for happiness in the moment. Happiness is an attitude, not something to be attained.

I think a big deal of the reason I am very indecisive about what I want to do with my life is I think of something that would be really cool… like going into the FBI…. and then shoot myself down because it is very competitive, but at the same time really want to do it.

It’s like shay carl says…. Everything that’s worth achieving is difficult to achieve. I keep looking for secure and easy to get into careers. It’s time for me to take a risk and do what I really want to even if it means I might not make money. You only get one life. Would you rather play it safe and die relatively not far from your starting point or say fuck it, put the chips on the table and have a wild ride?

Shay says that everything can be achieved but that in order to realize that, you need to trust yourself. After so many failures or half-assed attempts, you begin to lose trust in your ability to succeed. I think I need to re-realize that I can succeed. I need to realize that time and pressure will get me where I want to be and that though the pressure and time is difficult, it’s less pain than not having achieved my goal.

My big problem… is ego. I feel like not making at least 80,000 a year is despicable (for me). And just… thinking that other people I’ve gone to school with might be making 100,000 and that I might only be making 50,000 really gets on my nerves.
UGH! someone poke me with a cow prod.

Anyway, nanowrimo is going on. I’m not invested in a novel… i was planning on doing it, but school is really getting in the way, so i don’t think i’ll do it this year. No biggie.

MORE LATER!!!
-Still TK