Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Like new!!!

I texted The Guy about 8:30p.m. last night and told him I'd be over in his area because of work. He sent a text back saying that sounded good and a smiley. I asked him how he was doing, what he was up to, and stuff like that. I told him I had just got back from dinner and aerobics with friends. I called him during my prep at work and he told me to head on over when school lets out, and we'd do lunch.

I get over to his place at 11:45 and Jeff is there, as well as a windshield repair guy repairing The Guy's windshield on his car. It shattered somehow, so that was being repaired. I walked in and Jeff seemed really surprised to see me. He was sitting on the couch playing WOW and greeted me and said "oh hey!" I go in to see The Guy who is searching facebook and myspace looking for his new trainer. He has a new trainer at a new gym. This personal trainer is "worth it" at $250 an hour (as opposed to Josh at $50). He feels this trainer will certainly change him- already he is eating almost nothing because he is on some really high fiber vegetable supplement shake thing. We search on facebook and myspace, and finally find him on myspace. We see his trainer, his trainer's tattoos, and sees how straight he is. Jeff comes running in to see. We joke around about how we need tattoos of our last names going down our sides. The Guy and I don't have really cool names like Jeff does that would look cool on our sides. Then we decide against that saying his tattoo was not well done, although better than Josh's The Guy decides.

We go in the living room soon after because The Guy gave Jeff a Macbook and was installing everything on it. I talk to The Guy and tell him about how my computer only has 15GB left on it. It had 20 a few weeks back, but even after I took off all of my porn and family photos, it had less space. I bring that up and The Guy told me to bring my computer in and we'd do a reinstall. He said we'd back it up on his external hard drive. He questioned me asking how many songs I have, how many photos, and documents. I had 7GB of songs, 2GB of documents, and 900MB of photos. He was shocked I had so little space. We realized my Windows partition was 40GB instead of 25 like I thought. The Guy asks me about my computer case and if it still has the damage from when I dropped it. It did, but it isn't as noticeable since The Guy fixed it. Jeff gasped.

The Guy asked me to get the hard drive, then decided he would do it to throw all of my stuff on. He decided I should just stand around and look pretty. I told him I would. I could do that. I get lots of experience doing that. I said I just spent the past 4 hours doing that. Jeff smiled, let out the biggest laugh, then smiled at me. I let them joke around with that how I took it so in stride that I do standing around and looking pretty well. I later explained at work I spent 4 hours standing around looking pretty. I subbed for PE and we had 22 minute classes today because there was a 90 minute testing block for 7th graders causing the whole school to be on a modified schedule. With 22 minute classes the first 5 minutes or so was spent taking roll, then the kids got to play basketball. I stood on the field looking pretty, talking with Mrs. S.

Jeff, The Guy, and I joked, spending a lot of time talking about WOW, computers, and made fun of Jeff for being so into the game. We laughed at my computer misfortunes, as well as Jeff's. I actually had a lot of fun with Jeff. He is a nice guy, but I just sometimes get that vibe he doesn't like me. Today that wasn't there and we were having a good time talking and other stuff.

The Guy says he wants our salmon and chicken place for lunch. He said he couldn't go because he couldn't drive his car for an hour because of the glass being repaired. Very sad. Jeff couldn't go because Jeff was WOWing. I volunteered. The Guy took a quick nap while I was gone. I ran to the bank and then got our food. When I came home with the food The Guy and I ate, but Jeff was too busy WOWing. We laughed at him for that.

The Guy puts iWork 2009 on my computer because he had a disk of it, as well as Leopard, and Microsoft Office just sitting on his coffee table. He does all of the installs, then puts everything back on the computer. I notice that there are only 700 songs in my library or so when he adds my music back on. I ask him about that. He assured me it was all there. I said no, I don't think so. He said it was. I again didn't believe it. When he was doing something to Jeff's computer I look and said "no, these are not my songs." He said oh, oops. He laughed. Then he went to my iTunes songs, gave me tips about how to put iTunes songs back on the computer (ALWAYS GO TO THE SOURCE AND IMPORT). So now I have 2,000 songs in iTunes. About 100 classical songs, 100 country, 300 alternative (Drive By Truckers, Feist, Alanis Morisette, and many more). I got all of the Band of Horses CDs The Guy kept telling me I needed.

Jeff runs around like a little kid going between computers playing WOW. The Guy and I just sit next to each other on the couch as he installs stuff. I ask him why my contacts never imported on Mobile Me, but my calendar did. He lets out a gasp. I do too. He thinks something is really up. We decide to just plug my phone in the computer, then he hits a few buttons, brings my contacts online, and then fixes my iPhone. I don't have the sync contacts option marked in my iPhone. He makes fun of me for finally getting it fixed after a year. I laugh and said yes. I thanked him for that.

He made jokes about how Josh will probably call him for a tech support call because something of his that The Guy gave him will break. He said he is going to laugh in his face and tell him off. He then said how we're so lucky because he keeps our computers up to date, keeps us up on the newest electronics, and does anything our computers need. See why I love him as a friend?!?!?!

The Guy told us he was kicking both of us out at 3:30 because he wanted to hit the gym, then had a dinner date with a 19 year old friend of Jeff's tonight at 5:30 named Navar. So we hugged and I thanked him for lunch and installing everything on my computer. I texted him about 30 minutes later thanking him for everything he did, to which he replied "MY PLEASURE!"

So I'm here at home blogging, setting up my bookmarks again (which were the only thing lost because of a synchronization error on my end), and am going to go through my new music later, set up my iTunes, and stuff like that. Even with 800 new songs, Warcraft installed, my documents, and photos back on my computer I'm cranking along with 65.9GB of free space- less than half of my 120GB hard drive being used.

WOOT WOOT!!!

5 comments:

Aek said...

Wow, that's a lot of free space. I'm at less than 2Gb free space. T.T I think I need to delete a TON of stuff . . . but don't really have time to do so. Sigh.

Anonymous said...

By accepting things of value from another person (The Guy), you give that person power over you, and you severely limit the amount of respect they will give you. Do you think The Guy respects you when you don’t agree with him?

Notice how most of the people hanging out with The Guy are younger and\or have less disposable income than he does. That is by design. His “joke” about you standing around and looking pretty is not entirely light hearted fun. The things he gives you are not really free. Sometimes you have to be the butt of a joke, the cheerleader, or the mascot to earn your free gifts. You should be careful not to become comfortable taking things of value, there is always a price, namely your independence, maturity, and self esteem.

Anonymous said...

I only have 14.9 gb left on my macbook. and I don't even have windows on it partitioned.

And I love taking things of value!!!! Woohoo, I love things of value!!!!!!! I have independence, maturity and self esteem, naner, naner, in anonymous Face!!!!!

Anonymous said...

If your still in the closet it doesn't say good things about your independence, maturity, and self esteem!

Mike said...

Anonymous 1 and 2: Thanks for your comments. I am 100% capable- I have the Leopard disk and can buy the others. He is very willing to give the disks and enjoys helping, he says. I wasn't planning to have him do anything. I don't want to appear reliant on him because I'm not. As a thank you, I do plan to grab lunch or dinner for us when we hang out. We have talked about this a lot about taking advantage of each other and doing things for each other. He would call me out and I call him out, as I have done before.