What is the meth post for?

Go away “Dude”.

Meant to post that to the person about 3 places above you.

Like now!

Ok, so maybe I’m just jealous; just a little.

…Sorry, couldn’t resist.

By the way, you think you have problems, I can’t install anything on my Ubuntu because I forgot the password I created at 3 am in the morning.

I was typing things like “go away” ; “leave me alone” ; “stop asking me”

when I somehow found myself being asked for a new password. Needless to say it was all fun and games until it accepted one of them and now I have no clue what I wrote.

All of the ones I was trying at first it simply rejected them saying “too simple”

Well, now it is not only too simple, it has locked me out of installing programs or using the Terminal! (Well I can use the terminal if I re-boot as the root).

So anyways I just installed Linux for the first time yesterday and already stuck.

Nixie Pixels videos turned me on, to Linux…

I am using the new 10.04 version of Ubuntu and I have the compiz cube going and could not get the flame to work on the new version… so maybe a new install will fix more than the password thing-y.

After staying up studying for long hours several days in a row, I find that I have lost all coordination and I wear my drinks.

The funniest part of Nixie’s video was the cereal bit.

I don’t, usually, talk to things or babble; but, I have done so in the past.

(The nuclear field is a highly undermanned field.)

Right before an ORSE Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination, which is where a nuclear testing crew comes onboard the air craft carrier to test the Reactor Department’s safe practices, I was working hard to get all equipment and crew ready for the ORSE.

After being up for over 48 hours I was headed for a shower and a nap before a required meeting.

Just then I checked the watchbill to find out it had changed and I was on it 3 times with 5 hour watches and only 5 hours off in between and less than an hour till my first watch started. Everyone else also had too much to do to get ready, so I stood the watches and attended meetings in between watches.

By the time I was standing my last of the series of watches, I was up for over 72 hours straight without lying down once.

I was struggling and slapping my numb face just to stay awake.

You have to be dedicated to work in nuclear power in the U.S. Navy. They are always the first ones onboard, the last ones off, and can never reduce their present crew to less than a skeleton crew (1/3 or more manning) even when the Reactors are shut down. Overseas Reactors are never shut down. And to go ashore overseas means sacrificing sleep.

When I got out of the Navy I drove from Virgina Beach, VA to Madera, CA in less than 3 days; only stopping for rest one time (at Red Rock Canyon in New Mexico).

Currently I am a college student at a University. I usually stay up till 3 or 4 am PST.
I found Nixie Pixels video on sleep deprivation very relavent as a college student.

I was also a truck driver for 3 years & would take a load from Paola, KS to around Nashville, TN. The load picked up every night at midnight. It was required that I drive top speed in that region (75mph) non-stop, even through snow. Believe it or not, this is doable if you know how to drive a semi-truck in snow. I did it for several years. Every night there were tons of new cars in the ditches from the day of driving. That was because cars are not as heavy as semi’s and car drivers do not drive as many hours in the snow as an experienced truck driver. So they only go out when they must. As a result they do not have the skills to drive in snow. Truck drivers who drive in snow are very skilled. This explains why there are more semi’s driving when the snow is bad and yet there are usually never any semi’s in the ditches but always cars.

So anyways done with that rabbit-trail. One weekend I drove back to KS on a Saturday night and arrived in KS in the morning. Then I went to church in Olathe, KS Sunday morning without going to sleep. And then went and visited with friends. That night I went to another service; because, there was a guest speaker and the church which is normally only 2/3′s full was so full there was literally no room left in the halls where you could hear but not see the speaker! That service went kind of late.

After this I had to pick up my load and head back to TN.

I was up for over 24 hours when I picked up. That night I started to get highway hypnotism quite severely. I drove it while standing with the cruise control on. I spend the entire 10 hr drive fighting the highway hypnotism. Even pulling over and getting out and walking around could not shake it.

My rule was, and will always be, if I nod to the point that I veer out of my lane even a little bit, it is time to shut it down. I managed to fight it all the way without veering, so I made it there on time.

The load was so important that if I could not make it there on time I was required to call the owner of the company at any hour of the night and wake him up to let him know about the problem so he could immediately call the customer. It was a multi-million dollar load and the top account for the company. I was given the account because of my due dilligence which was recognized right away, while other, highly qualified, & seasoned drivers wanted the account long before I arrived.

I did not even know the account existed when it was first offered to me. & I took it before I knew it would tick other dirvers off. They simply wanted the best driver on their top load and they determined that was me because I always delivered through thick and thin. I never wasted time getting places and I was very precise about load and trailer inspections and maintaining my vehicle. Also I had just purchased a brand new 2009 semi-truck. So the other drivers were given the next best accounts.