I just added a piece of my software to the software page. It’s a .net cf based heirarchical checklist application. It doesn’t do a whole lot…it’s just a lightweight checklist backed by an XML datafile. It does NOT touch your pocketpc’s task storage at all.

Anyway, enjoy.

So I was out to get a oil filter strap wrench (first oil change on this car, wrench i had was too big) and I get stopped in traffic on River just west of 1st. Turns out some bimbo jumped the curb and slammed into the corner of someone’s brick wall. Here’s a pic of the wreck I took from the car:

Anyway, notice a few things:

1. That’s the CORNER section of the wall.
2. The windshield has buckled (*that’s* why you wear your seatbelt) from driver-head impact.
3. I don’t know who the guy in the pic is, but he’s prolly involved somehow. Anyway, he has an eyepatch. Yaaaarrrrr.

Well, yesterday, I decided to get my oil/filter changed. The car is almost a year old, now has about 3800 miles on it (I didn’t used to drive too much, since I lived about a mile from work, and have virtually no reason to go anywhere alot). I call up Jim Click Dodge to schedule maintenance on it, and get finally so frustrated with them that I decided to do it myself.

Assuming Jim Click would change my oil for about 20 bucks…

Oil (4 QT): ~$7.96
New Fram filter: ~$3.99
Savings: ~$11.95

Not having a retard abuse my transmission at Jim Click: PRICELESS

Anyway, point here is, do the work yourself. Save a ton of money, and have some fun while you’re at it.

SUCKS.

I sent in a change of address on the 8th of August (that’s right, ten [10] days ago) and have since not been getting any mail at my apartment, thanks to the mailman putting a note in the box so that my mail doesn’t get delivered.

I’m not getting any mail at my house either. This is the weird part. I even asked my mom to send me a letter, 4 days ago (I assume she sent it, it really isn’t her style to lie about something this trivial) and still have not even received that.

I called 1-800-ASK-USPS 3 days ago and they tell me that there is no COA on file for me. So I tell the retard on the other end of the phone to put in another one. I stop by the post office in my old zip code (at 22nd and Pantano) to figure out where my fucking mail is being held. After 20 minutes of waiting in line, she tells me it’s in Phoenix at some “central forwarding center”, and forwarded mail takes an extra 7-10 days to get to me. I asked her about why I’m not getting any mail addressed to my house, even the usual 3rd class carrier sort junk mail. She has no answer.

So for the past 10 days, I have not received any mail at all. I’m getting more and more pissed off as they days go by on this one…

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the USPS at their 800 number. The dick on the other end of the phone basically said unless mail is 14 POSTAL business days late, they don’t care. He wouldn’t even look to see if there was a hold on the mail for that address. Then he promptly hung up on me.

UPDATE 2: My mail finally got delivered. Turns out, when someone moves out of a home, they hold all the mail for that address until they receive notice that someone moved back in to that house. Be nice if they’d have told someone that…

As of today, I’m completely moved out of that shitty, smoke-reeking, retard-proximate apartment complex!

Now that I’m not associated with them anymore, here are my thoughts on Posada del Rio Apartments in Tucson, at 7424 E Speedway Blvd, and why you do not want to live there, in no particular order:

• There are too many retards. Literally. This place is a fucking HAVEN for these mentally-absent walking bags of shit. And they’ll talk to you too…don’t be fooled, that’s 5 minutes you will *never* see again.
• When I moved in, I had to completely redo the wiring for the cable TV.
• There are tons of people that can only be described as poor, trailer park trash. They drive beat-up shitbox cars, and they can’t seem to park them. They also sit around and barbecue outside in their underpants. The apartment doesn’t care; they cater to that kind of crap anyway.
• The complex is a gated community, but the gate is broken so much it isn’t even funny. Moreover, people invite guests and don’t let them in the gate, causing the 6 car parking area outside the gate to fill up and back up traffic on speedway at times.
• There is a crime problem. Aside from my car getting broken into, and another car similar to mine, I have counted a total of 18 *obvious* vehicle breakins over the year. If you don’t have an alarm, and a katana/gun/big knife/big stick to back it up, don’t live here.
• There is always someone smoking pot (or crack, now that I’ve had some friends from work help me ID that smell) in the complex. The apartment manager *says* they evict people for crimes on rental property. Not one of them has been evicted.
• If you do have an alarm, kids will randomly set it off on purpose by whacking your car with newspapers. See the comment above about weaponry.
• The maintenance staff does not care about you. When I moved in, my back left burner on my range didn’t work, there were spots on the carpet, and the storage area on the balcony did not lock. As of moving out, not one of these items was ever fixed.
• The aforementioned trailer park trash will yell at each other at all hours of the night. I personally find this entertaining, but most people would rather be able to just sleep.
• Because the people below me smoke, my apartment always smelled like ass. I had to open the windows the minute I got home for at least 2 hours to be able to sleep.
• It’s just down the street from a fire station. You *will* hear sirens pretty much all night.
• The water pressure in the pipes is ridiculously low.
• If you’re lucky enough to get a unit with a washer/dryer in it, it’s terribly small and next to useless
• My refrigerator needs its coolant recharged, they can never seem to find the right maintenance man to help me.
• There are no attractive women living there.
• The units not well insulated. This has 2 problems: one, when your downstairs neighbor turns on his A/C, you hear it all through your apartment. Two, because of the shitty windows, you run your air ALOT. My new house, at over 2x the square footage of my apartment, will cost less per month in electricity.
• The hot water heater is tiny. Don’t count on being able to soak in a hot bath after a hard day. It ain’t gonna happen
• It’s on speedway. The ricers will keep you up all fucking night with their hotrodding antics.

So in closing, don’t live there. You’ll regret it.

So I just downloaded and installed this on my laptop. For once, it’s fast enough and featured enough to replace all the ghostscript-based PDF viewers I have on there.

In the past, it has been a hard sucking piece of crap with Motif statically compiled into it (at least judging by the look and feel of the app) but now it appears almost exactly like the Windows and Mac OSX versions of Acrobat Reader. It’s even linked with GTK+ now, so it looks workable for once.

Also, it looks like the PocketPC version has been updated. This doesn’t work any better than the previous versions in the sense that it pixel doubles, but with the right MUI hack, the program is incredibly useful.

At any rate, just thought everyone should know.