here is an interesting thought. why is it that we need to install drivers after we have installed the new hardware? when you install a piece of hardware that the computer doesn't know about, things can go wrong, getting in the way of a driver install. for example. say you get a new video card. you put the new card in. the computer is now whacked out, and the screen appears to be in some alien cryptography. now they expect you to run a CD by clicking through it? why not let us install the driver first, insert its files to the list of drivers it has built into the OS, then let us install the hardware?



2 things i eventually want to get to is the history of michael. i might seem like a kid born out of the subarbs with a pertty normal family. but that's not true at all. i came from a family that struggled in many ways. when i was young living in a city in korea where a massacre went on just 1 or 2 years ago, our family was hit with a major financial blow. we all moved to the US, years apart from one another. i grew up relatively poor in comparison to almost everyone i've known. i've had a step mom. my family was disfunctional. i went to school in gang infested neighborhoods and tried my hand in being a juvenile delinquent. my dad was sometimes physically and regularly emotionally abusive. my real mom somehow ended up nursing in saudi arabia. then the IRAQ war started. but somehow we did eventually move to the subarbs. my dad made a complete 180 degree turn in how he treated his family. and my parents did remarry eachother just a couple of years ago. not your usual life story eh? don't forget on top of all that, i still had all the struggles of a teenager of fitting in at junior high, and trying to find myself in high school.



another thing i want to get to, even though an abundance of them exist on the web is a Rubik's Cube solution page. i have been pretty obsessed with playing with the thing as i first learned to solve it this last week. there's a big misconception about Rubik's cubes. its not as hard as everyone makes it to be. i admit it is antimidating at first, but all it takes is a very minute amount of spatial skills and memorization skills. practice will help you solve it faster.



i'm planning to go visit where i grew up from when i was 8 to 14 yrs old. i lived about a half a block from my elementary school. i wanna get out, and walk around. even though its not the a great neighborhood. the LA riots happened 4 blocks away from where i lived. maybe i'll just drive through it slowly. i also want to visit my junior high. i took the city bus for 2 years to go to John Burroughs Junior high school. a pretty ghetto school. but about a mile or two away from beverly hills. yeah, LA is pretty crazy like that. i wanna go visit Beverly Center, where i watched most of my movies and hung out whenever i got the chance to.



yesterday, i went to go lift even though it was rather cold. and i was not feeling 100%. so i lifted. and somehow injured my knee doing the rowing machine...... i was supposed to meet up with ray and go to the mardi gras celebration. but it was cold and raining. as i felt my knee starting to pound at the thought of it being exposed to cold wet jeans, i had to make the right decision. plus, i was running late to meet the group and would have held up everyone. i am in the mood to get really wet and just let loose in the near future, but yesterday was definitely not the night to do so.



today, my knee still hurt. i missed my pilates class for the first time. after work, i met up with my small group at church, had tofu at the convoy tofu house, then headed to bible study. while running out the door, i realized i forgot to set the vcr to record american idol. damn. first show i missed this season. but i heard clay made it! yes! he gave an amazing performance last night. and there was no doubt that he wasn't going to make it.