Indulgence

back in the saddle

E.I. Doctorow
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Been busy and away from a computer as of late. Thursday found me extremely busy shooting a segment for TXTube. Our host forgot to take his ADHD medicine and was extremely hyper and perky. He's a great guy and all but he kind of took away my energy; aside from the heat of that day which was absolutely enervating. I got back to the office and was just killing time waiting for the traffic and the rush hour crowd to get home before I was going to make my way and was too drained to actually write a blog entry.

Friday found me away from the computer all day as we had a planning session for the show and that a bonding session right after. I have to say, while waiting for a free table at Super Bowl, we listened to the music that was playing. The front parking lot of Megamall was transformed into this concert for the final day of the San Miguel Summer Babad festival. I was thinking how cool it must've been to be part of the crowd, drinking beer and listening to good rock and reggae music. I miss my rocker days listening to rock, head-banging and just feeling all that energy. You have to admit, rock energy is so much different from the energy of a rave. It would be nice to go and participate again in a rock concert.

Saturday found me in another volleyball game, losing because the people in my team didn't seem to have their heart in the game. Funny, considering this was a team we had already previously beaten. We could've taken them on but they fought well and our team just weren't giving their all. They were like zombies on the court. I was trying my best to bring some energy but to no avail. We lost to a very disappointing 25-19, 25-19. We didn't even make it to the 3rd set.

Afterwards, I rushed off to Divisoria with friends and went bargain shopping. A little consumer therapy to help clear out the morning. I got myself 3 shirts and got to hang around with good friends Berna, Anne and Maik. Afterwards we ate in an old restaurant in Malate and then off to Greenbelt to watch Sin City which was a visual treat but disappointing. Why I expected it to have some level of depth, I'm not sure, Robert Rodriguez is not a very deep person. As a director, he's got great visuals but it's all form without substance, I feel. I went home and slept before 1 in the morning.

Wonderful that I've been sleeping well these days. I've been able to pump up my sleep time to 6 hours a day which is good. I am slowly starting to recover which is good. Soon, I'll be back to my old self and with the time that I've been able to free up, hopefully, I'll be able to get back to my wall-climbing and reclaim the mass that I lost.

Sunday, though, was frustrating. As promised, I went to my brother's house to try and clean out his computer that is filled with spyware and viruses (virii?). It took me 2 hours to download the programs and then 20 minutes to install them and then lo and behold! With the new programs I was able to delete 71 Trojan virii in the machine. I erased 92 spyware programs that found their way in. It was insane. It took me 3 hours to just erase and clean out all that crap. And then, I tried to test the spyware guard and opened the internet again to discover that 2 virii tried to get in and 8 spyware got through the spyware shield. I was so pissed.

Why do people do this? I can understand that if information is currency, you have to go out of your way to get it. But the cost? My God! It is the equivalent of stealing and aside from that, it's so malicious and harmful. It's also very time consuming for ordinary people with ordinary files. The whole idea of stealing files through the internet is just absolutely horrendous to me. Some of these are private, intimate things that have no business being in other people's possessions.

Damn these computer assholes! I wish a curse upon all those people who make computer viruses and all this spyware bullshit that plague the internet. I wish them a horrible, painful death for the proliferation of all this stupidity and malicious intent on the internet. I honestly do not see how any of what they do helps us.

I wish them the worse possible of fates. For all their intelligence, they are practically useless in the grander scheme of things...

posted by wanggo @ 12:24 PM