I've been hating my friends instead of enjoying them, for the past 6 months maybe.

no-thanks to that.

I find all that stuff incredibly confusing, it's just not how my mind works at all. I guess it does have its uses but damned if I understand them.

On a positive note, I got the preview I was complaining about to show up (I used the PRINT command to test it so I suppose that does have its uses) but I still have no idea how to make my actual PHP work.

I imagine SQL Server is better for enterprise apps as I've heard that Access doesn't scale that well. To be honest, small scale DBMS like MySQL and Firebird SQL have been sufficient for my uni/personal DB meanderings although I did do some DB unit-testing last year for a company that uses SQL Server.

I think there's a bit of developer elitism towards Access which is foolish as it's perfectly suitable for many situations.

My year started off so horribly. Seems my last 1 week stand left me a little parting present which I unknowingly passed on to a friend of mine because I was so far gone and putting on a condom was just too much work. So I wake up New Years Day stumble around a room full of people trying to find my pants then head to the bus stop (which is like 30 minutes late). When I get home I find that my roommate had not left his half of the rent and our landlord had already threatened to kick us out if we were late on rent again. So all morning I'm nursing a hangover, fearing that I'm going to be evicted, and having to listen to the Vietnamese family downstairs do karaoke. Finally my landlord comes over but lets us stay because I gave him my half of the rent, but he did give us a warning for throwing our cigarette butts out the window. So finally I decide to take a nap and just prepare myself for work the next day, I wake up at around 8 PM to 16 text messages on my phone from friends, all asking me if I wore a condom when I slept with my one week stand. Yes, my friend who I slept with the night before decided to tell everyone but me that she was experiencing symptoms of Chlamydia. So I'm freaking out, I decide to call up a friend of mine who works as an escort because if anyone knows what to do she will and she takes me to a clinic, buys me dinner, and takes a drive with me telling me it's OK that I'm freaking out. This event was pretty much the thing that ****ed my entire year up, why I moved back to Reno, why I quit my well paying albeit boring job, and so many other things.

I eventually got over the embarrassment when a friend of mine took me out to a bar and told me "I don't know why you're so upset about it man, chlamydia is so easy to treat it's almost cool to have because it proves you're having sex". This was probably the best thing I've had said to me this entire year because it put me in a very chirpy mood and helped me get over the embarrassment.

Wow dude, are you looking to get AIDS? Who the fuck has unprotected sex nowadays?

youngsters who are stupid and need a good scare like what happened to me.

Well count your blessings, you fucking bonehead. Jesus, 2009 and people are still dumb fucks when it comes to protection...

Believe me man I'm thankful it was something easy to fix, and believe me there's not a day that goes by that I don't regret it. If I hadn't have done it I'd still be living somewhere I like, working a job I enjoyed that paid well, and being surrounded by friends. I ****ed up royally, I acted like a stupid young kid and had to deal with the consequences of my actions.

Hmmm, at least I'm not the only one who shares this sentiment...

That makes, for the most part, 3 of us. I have a few friends I still enjoy hanging out with, but most of them are just pissing me off.