Chat log time. This time it’s how I learned to like House M.D. after rejecting the idea of watching it many times.

Session Start: Sun Dec 07 2008
[12:38] Gawain: man this chick in House is crazy hot.
[12:39] Turk: who?
[12:39] Turk: I can’t watch that show
[12:39] Turk: seeing the dumb prince from Blackadder acting smart gives me limpdick
[12:40] Gawain: this chick.
[12:41] Turk: yum I would eat her on a cracker
[12:41] Gawain: yeah.
[12:42] Gawain: all the chicks on the show are crazy hot really.

Session Start: Sat Jan 24 2009
[04:17] Gawain: woo! new house MD!
[04:17] Turk: bah

Session Start: Sat Jun 13 2009
[06:27] Gawain: yeah. Initially I used to hate medical shows too. The guys on SA kept talking abotu how awesome house was, but it took me until like season 4 to download ep1 of season 1 and give it a shot. I used to HATE er.
[06:28] Turk: can’t do house
[06:28] Turk: dude is too good as a bumbling idiot in Blackadder
[06:28] Turk: and I refuse to watch him as anything else
[06:28] Gawain: I really like it. im not sure if its my favorite show, but its probably in the top 3.
[06:28] Gawain: have you ever watched it?
[06:28] Turk: no
[06:28] Turk: can’t
[06:29] Turk: dude isn’t a complete fucking moron
[06:29] Turk: you’ve seen him in Blackadder?
[06:29] Gawain: you should give ep1 a shot, honestly. the humor is so black. yeah hes a super genius sort of in this one. hes also addicted to pain killers and a complete asshole.
[06:29] Gawain: yeah.
[06:29] Turk: just can’t

Session Start: Thu Jun 18 2009
[05:20] Gawain: lets see. The only other show I can recommend is House, which I have recommended before. before you go crazy, please remember that I am 2 for 2 or 3 for 3 now.
[05:20] Turk: no house

Session Start: Thu Jun 18 2009
[05:26] Gawain: my plan once I get laid off is to drive over there, pick up some booze, and force you to watch house. I didn’t like that one. it was too corny for me. especially the mid air fight.
[05:27] Turk: eh
[05:27] Turk: not watched it yet
[05:27] Turk: fuck house
[05:27] Gawain: see I think you would really like it if you watched it.
[05:27] Turk: I’ll get you even more booze and make you watch Blackadder till you can’t watch house anymore
[05:27] Gawain: I liked black adder. I like house more.
[05:28] Turk: you know what fine
[05:29] Gawain: hahahah
[05:30] Gawain: Demonoid link
[05:31] Turk: 7 in the first season?
[05:31] Gawain: if you hurry you can catch up to season 6 before it starts.
[05:31] Gawain: 22
[05:31] Turk: I stand committed to my not going to like it
[05:31] Turk: eh
[05:31] Gawain: ok, but you have to watch at least 3-5 episodes before you quit.
[05:31] Turk: oh fine
[05:32] Turk: there’s 7 of the first season on pirates bay
[05:33] Turk: first 5 queued up
[05:33] Gawain: ok
[05:33] Gawain: I was hooked in season 1 but I can’t honestly remember if it was from the pilot or not. i think it was.

Session Start: Thu Jun 18 2009
[05:59] Gawain: wow im getting almost 600kbs to download season 1 of house.
[06:00] Turk: the whole season?
[06:00] Turk: where you get it?
[06:00] Gawain: demonoid.
[06:01] Turk: well if Iike these I’ll find it there
[06:01] Turk: first one down
[06:04] Gawain: im gonna watch season 1 again I don’
[06:04] Gawain: dont remember it.

Session Start: Thu Jun 18 2009
[07:44] Turk: I just don’t like it
[07:44] Turk: he’s not a fucking moron
[07:45] Gawain: eh, im not going to make you watch it. Still, the season finale of season 5 was the best finale ive ever seen on tv. and if you don’t watch all the previous seasons you can’t enjoy how awesome it is. But if you don’t like the show you wouldn’t like it anyway so no big.
[07:45] Turk: I’m watching it
[07:46] Turk: just not right him being smart and sarcastic
[07:46] Turk: it’s not bad
[07:46] Turk: its just got to much stacked against it for me to like it
[07:46] Turk: one its a medical show
[07:46] Gawain: dude, if you make it through to the end of season five, it will blow your damn mind.
[07:46] Turk: dude is a damn good actor
[07:46] Turk: ok
[07:46] Turk: I’m watching
[07:47] Turk: I miss his brit accent
[07:47] Turk: but…
[07:47] Turk: the dude is growing on me
[07:47] Gawain: I actually had to watch the finale AGAIN after I watched it the first time, because once you find out whats going on, there are clues throughout the whole episode.
[07:49] Turk: ok ok I fucking like it
[07:50] Gawain: lol really.
[07:50] Turk: gimmie a link the that first season torrent
[07:50] Turk: yes fucker
[07:50] Turk: I like that he doesn’t like dealing with people
[07:54] Turk: loved his first patient interaction
[07:55] Gawain: yeah its always great when he actually has to deal with patients. it never fails to entertain.
[08:01] Turk: fuck you really
[08:01] Turk: now I can’t watch blackadder again
[08:01] Turk: really this is good
[08:03] Gawain: heh. whats my score now?
[08:03] Gawain: or as I like to call it. my awesome quota
[08:03] Turk: fuck who’s counting
[08:03] Turk: yeah yeah

So I’m back to work. The vacation was nice. Nine days away from the workplace is always a good thing. It’s also nice knowing I still have another week of paid vacation left. I look forward to taking another nine days off.

It is once again time for vacation. I’m taking one week of paid vacation. With my usual days off the total time away from work is nine wonderful days off. I’m going to take two days and go again with the Newbs to Wisconsin Dells. I had a lot of fun when we went last time.

It seems the good hotel has a few “less than computer savvy” employees. I’m not the most follow the rules type of guy at a workplace. But if your going to be stupid enough to download a torrent of the movie Boondock Saints at work you may want to stop the torrent from seeding when its quitting time.

Minor update that has continuity with the last few posts. Here is my speed test for the damn near 90 buck a month charter internet I’m paying for:

Just for comparison this is the Charter internet I’m paying for below.

Charter High-Speed® Internet Max

1. Get the fastest speeds available – Get speeds up to 20Mbps to surf 13X as fast as 1.5Mbps DSL!
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3. Download in seconds, not minutes – plus a reliable always-on, always-fast connection.
4. 10 e-mail accounts – enough for the whole family plus 20MB of Web space.
5. Exclusive content on charter.net – get your local news, weather, movie listings and more!

Plan price: 79.99/mo

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The Charter repair guy fixed my net. It turns out the actual cable was bad and dude had to replace it. You can’t imagine how happy I am right now. I can surf for porn and torrents again.

So my internet at home went out sometime late yesterday night. When I got home in the morning I called the Charter help line. Some chick in india walked me through unplugging my modem and waiting a minute before plugging it back in. It did not work. She then tried getting in to the modem. That failed as well. Me and india support lady decided the modem was dead. Before letting me go the india support lady tries to sell me Charter cable tv. I tried to explain to her that I had high speed internet and I did not need Charter cable. But she would have none of it and followed her script. I followed my script and hung on the support lady from india.

I then drive to the Charter home base in my area and get a new modem. I shutdown my pc. I plugin in the new modem. I hook it all up to the pc and reboot my computer. I did not hook it up to my router. When Windows boots to my surprise the internet is still no where to be found. I call Charter again and get another lady from india. We go through the same shit. Unplug and plug back in. She tries to access the modem on her end and fails. So she arranges for someone to come to my today between one and five. Hopefully it’s not someone from india.

To top off my irritation the this second support lady tries to sell me Charter tv. I again explain that I don’t need their tv I have high speed internet. This one tries to out do the first india support lady and when selling me tv fails she trys to sell me the Charter phone service. I look at the cell phone I’m talking into and ask the india support lady how is I’m communicating with her right now. At this point I’m kinda getting pissed off. I say to her I’m pretty sure we are communicating not by telegraph, morse code, or smoke signals but by phone already. I decline her offer. She of course continues to follow her script. Which at this point I give up and just hang up on the support lady from india. I hate people from india almost as much as I hate Charter’s stupid automated answering machine robot. I always end up cursing before I find the right keyword to get a real person to talk to. Agent is the magic word.

So I’m writing this at work. I hope to be back on the net shortly after the times between one and five.