Circumstanital Idiotic Success

I often will envy and criticise celebrities for their unskilled achievements that bring them fame and fortune through circumstances. For example, I don't think football players deserve the pay they receive. I think some teachers deserve higher pay and value. I don't think "Lady Gaga" deserves the praise she gets for making idiotic music videos, bad lyrics and being a shock artist. I think the struggling artist deserves the recognition for highlighting social issues or at least making music that has lyrics that make some kind of goddamn sense.

However, I will be a hypocrite and say that I would totally take advantage of the circumstances too and grasp all that fame and money. I would do one thing differently. I would give back to the community. Not to say that some athletes don't do this, they do, but I think one responsibility that people who are grossly overpaid should be burdened with whether they agree or not is to give back to the community INSIDE THE USA. Fuck other countries, we need to help our own.

If I ever get to the pay grade that I want to be at, I would love to reform education in south Florida and I would lobby to have Florida split into two different states. Fuck north Floridians. They steal all of our taxes and don't give back. Fuck you white republican bastards.

Money and Marraige

To avoid arguments, people who want to engage in a relationship, especially a long one should have a big easy line of communication. One thing though that I think people should not do is have a joint account that they pool their every penny into. I think the two parties should keep personal earnings personal and have one joint account for joint bills, such as food, electricity, cable, water etc...

Is there really any need for one person in the relationship to constantly be nagging the other to not over spend? I don't really think so, don't enable this person by giving them more money, that is just foolish. If they reach a hard limit what else can they do? They can ruin their own credit. If they don't want to listen, that is their problem, just don't get caught up in their mess by entering jointly with them in anything you can't handle yourself.

Slayer Megadeth Anthrax

Bafront park, miami florida, Sunday October 3rd I'm going, platinum seats, which are a step below box seats.

Nuff said.

Fears of Success

I typically will start a project and sometimes never finish it. It isn't usually because I lost interest or something, it is because I am usually afraid of failing to succeed. Which is unfounded because I am not doing the project for anyone except myself. That is the sad part. So I don't know why it happens, but I will make sure to work on it, as it is a big problem.

Relearning

I have finally setup my office for working on electronics and I am very determined to jump in and learn everything well this time around.

I am revisiting some old problems of mine. Understanding how and why to bias a BJT specifically for small signal. For example, why wont a BJT in common emitter configuration without any supporting components, amplify a small signal? It isn't even good enough for unity. I want to understand this.

My approach for learning this stuff is to leave no stone unturned, I need to ask every question so I can learn all theory behind all these passive and transient parts.
I'm curious are memsistors available to play with yet?

Broken Thoughts

I sometimes think I am slightly autistic. I love looking for patterns, I like numbers and organization. I have trouble with large groups of people sometimes and I am for the most part antisocial. I also fall in and out of depression rapidly. Anything can set off my depression because I dwell on things until they are fixed.

I have a very horrible problem with embarrassment. Where if I get into an embarrassing situation, it is burned into my mind and I don't know how to control it, but it makes me anxious and sometimes depressed. No one else can remember, but I do and I remember every aspect. I refer to these memories as huntings because they haunt me daily. Sometimes the memories go away, sometimes they don't and they linger and I feel as if my brain is attacking itself because I get overwhelmed with anxiety. I think of how people think of me, but I try to remind myself that it partially doesn't matter.

Sometimes my brain hangs and I get fixated on something and will do or say things to other people that make no sense.

I have trouble not double checking or triple checking statements, constants or facts that one person will tell me. People take offense to this info.

Sometimes my brain will start thinking about something and I can't focus or pay attention to other people no matter how hard I try.
I am pretty sure I am dyslexic.

Supreme Ruler and Rectifier

I often wonder how could we fix this great country of ours. I'm tired of seeing this great country (USA) being used as a medium for dishonest money making schemes. I really wish however, that there was a way to script something and make it 99% infallible and fair for everyone on how to fix this country.

I would be the single worst person for the job, but I think I could clean up this country. The only problem is, everyone would lose their freedom and I would start killing a lot of people, starting with the racists all the way to the overly rich fucks that currently have all power because of their money. Essentially all people who think irrationally and are incredibly self involved and racist would either be expelled or destroyed.

I would make sure to instill logic and truth into people, but they would have to do it willingly. The people who oppose this change will be expelled or will die if they choose to resist. There will be no hidden messages or euphemisms, only honest truth. Only after these fundamental building blocks are laid down, will the country get its freedom back. However, I know, that if these building blocks are forgotten, it will all be done for naught and history will inevitably repeat itself as it so often does.

Humans are the cancer of the earth.

Two Types of People...

I don't like when people do not plan ahead for certain issues. I am not the type that is "spontaneous", my extent of being spontaneous is seeing a movie on a week night. The reason I don't care for being spontaneous or not planning ahead is it normally ends in some sort of disaster or disappointment either immediately or in the future, usually financially. What especially makes me agitated is when I have friends who are "spontaneous" and want to all of a sudden drive up to Orlando and go to a theme park. Which my brain automatically calculates the cost involved, in time, effort, money and stress.
This can all be summed up into one word, I am a boring person. You know what, I like being boring and I love that my g/f is as boring as me. I love nothing more than waking up on a weekend and just laying in bed all day with my g/f and playing video games or watching movies or TV.

I also like planning ahead especially when it comes to projects. I like to write down or draw out an idea before attempting it. I don't like it when people just want to brute force their way into a big over the top project of any kind.

Royalty Can Suck It

I think that royal families and royalty in general suck. I don't think they have much useful function in general. They are like the first wife of the President of the US. Either they are useless like Barbara Bush or other bush's wife or they try to do good in the world like Jackie-o or Obama's wife.

The part I dislike the most is the incredible amount of waste involved due to greed. Such as ridiculous amounts of jewelry, such as giant necklaces or gold whatever.

Micro controller woes

I am nervous to try to use my micro controller again because I am afraid to mess anything up, but I need to keep reminding myself that it isn't a big deal. I want to start working on some of the physical ideas that I have, but it is kind of like I need a hump to get over. I think I am going to look for a far more reliable way to use these damn things.

I just want to do something fun, like the leave me alone box.ultimately I want to be able to do something bigger without so many goddamn problems that the Mikrochip brand provides.

God of War 3

Fucking awesome game. Make sure to watch the "Making of GOW3" and "Voice Acting" videos they have on the disc. Freaking awesome to find out who did the voices for some of the characters.

I finished the game last night and the ending depressed me.

I am also incredibly disgusted by how complicated it is to make these games. I am in fear of even attempting to work with making a game for the PS3.

Oops

I hate it when I end up talking to a coworker for way too long during work hours about something that is not work related. It is a lot of fun at the time, but it can be incredibly damning and somewhat damaging to both sides involved. I think I have been getting enough work done, but I also talk too much to too many people in the same day. I am trying to minimize the interruptions but sometimes it is unavoidable especially when someone is likable or fun to talk to.

So I need to really work on being quiet. Or stop chatting too much.

Doesn't happen all the time.

Verbal Assault

I went to the movies the other day to see the movie: "Inception" it was an excellent film for the half that I saw. I only really saw half of the film because I was verbally assaulted by some bitch in the theatre. I for one don't give a flying fuck about anything else but the movie that is going to show, so I chat and make jokes until the actual movie begins. It is a good way to pass the commericals until you get to the actual movie you paid to watch.

So while I was bullshitting with a friend, the bitch next to him, some complete stranger, leans over and says with a stern look on her face, "are you going to be talking through the whole movie or are you going to stop when it starts." My buddy answered for me, "We are going to stop when it starts." He answered for me because I think he realized that I was so taken back by how and what this rude bitch said to me, that I pretty much froze as I gave her the death stare. I'm not afraid to admit that if there were no jail consequences I would have beat her to a bloody pulp and possibly killed her, I was that mad. My blood pressure rose to the point where my whole body was throbbing and I was sweating from the heat I was generating. I couldn't calm down or even think straight because all I could think about is choking and killing the bitch that disrespected me like that.

So I missed the first half of the movie because of my anger and hatred of a stranger. What kept me mad is the fact that I couldn't say anything back without getting on her level or without her claiming that I was attacking her since women are always the victims.

Why don't I have a device or the right to combat these people? Simply put it isn't fair that she could say what she said to me and I am not allowed to react. I was only allowed to shut up and deal with it. If I punched her in the fucking face like she deserved, I would be the bad guy and obviously get hauled off to jail for battery.

That's not fair. She can verbally abuse me and make me waste 10 bucks on a movie ticket, but I can't hurt her back.

I guess the underlying idea here is I cannot let people like that ruin my mood and it would be wrong to hurt someone physically because of something they said that hurt my ego/feelings. This is very hard for me to get used to because people like that are allowed to get away with shit like that, its not fair.

Title

So I got the engagement ring, which is about 1/5 of my savings (yay?), at an incredible deal. I can now go back to focusing on savings, loans, new computer and oscilloscope.

I need to come up with a better savings plan. I need to pay down my loans a bit faster and more aggressively. I want a new, more powerful computer for development. And I want an oscilloscope for electronics work.

Efficiency

I just took a process that normally would take an excess of 10 minutes to run and I got it to run in 30 seconds. Talk about efficiency.

Dear noobs and programing fucktards, do not declare variables inside of a loop, especially one that is going to run 11K times. This poor programming and poor for performance since it kills memory in the process.

Think and plan before you write shitty code that will cripple a process.
Noobs have the excuse of being noobs, they don't know any better, but the fucktards do know better and do dumb shit anyhow. People who don't respect the physical process behind programming, the theory or math. They just shrug off or validate their actions with, "ahhh, it doesn't matter"

Yes it does, it matter.

People should train themselves to think in terms of infinity. It works okay for 0 through 10, but how will it react to 0 through 10000? The same with string concatenation, use a fucking string builder goddamn it, is that so hard? If you are concatenating 7 strings or more, your ass needs to use a string builder.

Software

I think it really fucking sucks that I have to bust my ass to upgrade my software. It is going to cost me a small fortune to do it. I need to upgrade my copy of Visual Studio 2008 to version 2010. I need a new copy of windows. Then there is all the shit that comes with that. I need to make sure my copy of Nod Antivirus will work and everything else I have. I think I am going to stick with office 2007 for now, especially since that would cost a mint by itself.

Visual Studio is about 600 bucks, I might just use the express edition.

Windows 7 is about 100 to 135 bucks. However I might have a key that works already, so I would just need to get a copy of it.

Anything that doesn't work with windows 7 will live on Virtual PC 2007. Hopefully 2010 comes out soon.

I need to find the time to plan an upgrade for this. It would be a big pain in the ass to do, but Vista sucks hardcore and is driving me mad with the insane amount of memory it uses for no reason.

Legalized Nose Crack

I have been going to all the different doctors that I have needed to go to now for the last 10-14 years. One of which is an ENT/Allergist. I am very happy I went because he fixed me up well. I now have a happy little bottle of nose crack, which is really a bottle of saline spray with aloe, 3cc of astelin and 3cc of nasal steroid. I am usually opposed to this kind of stuff, but I am desperate to be able to breath again. This spray has changed my life in a way, I have more energy, more alertness, I don't get mega sleepy in the afternoon like I usually do. I feel fucking great. I don't get home and want to fall on to bed.

I knew I was right, that my lack of breathing is a big factor and role in my weight loss, lack of breath and energy.

I owned up to the fact that my thyroid is fucked up and I need to start taking synthroid to correct it. I think my blood sugar, cholesterol and weight will all lower once my thyroid works again. I hate my genetics, but at least I have an out.

Coding Games

I don't understand how people make video games. I can do many complicated things in application form or for web apps. I can write my own ETL code to mess with file imports, but when it comes to video games, I love them, I play them, but I don't understand how the hell people make them.

I am now going to try my best to figure it out using the UDK or the Unreal Developer Kit. This seems like the most promising way to figure it out.

Allergies

I am apparently allergic to dust mites. I looked this up and it seems thought that no one is really allergic to the dust mite itself or dust, but allergic to the dung produced by dust mites. So I now have to get a mattress cover, pillow covers and do a lot of vacuuming whether I like it or not in order to feel a little better. Dust mites hate the sun and dust mites really love dark humid places. I always feel my best when it is cold weather or just cool temperature in my dwelling.

I have a feeling that the nasal spray I am using won't be enough to keep me happy. People always argue that the nasal sprays are addicting and by using them you won't be able to breath without them. My response to that is, I can't breath as is now, making me dependent on a spray wont change what is already for me.

Here is what it feels like to be me, take your hand and close one of your nostrils, stay like that for an hour. You will then see the hell I endure on a daily basis.

Bad Company 2: Techniques

I love this game and I am posting about how to get an upper hand on your opponents by doing a few things a different way:

Sniping

All of the sniper rifles pretty much suck except for the following models, which are all bolt action rifles:

1. M24 - the first gun you get is pretty good

2. GOL - this is the 2nd to last gun, awesome gun

3. M95 - this is the last gun you get and the most powerful

Tips:

Don't fire unless it is a sure thing, this needlessly alerts the enemy and can blow your cover.

Every shot should be a head shot. Firing a second or third time can really blow your cover.

Do your best to calculate and factor in gravity, your bullets will indeed arc down to the ground.

Use the cross hair properly, if you can't spot them (pressing select) they are too far away, this means aim above their head and compensate for gravity.

No shot is too far away to make, just try.

If you can't shoot them, bomb them with mortars.

Always use your motion sensors.

Explosives Techniques

You can put C4 on just about anything, this being the case take out rush objectives or tanks with C4.

You can strap C4 to a UAV and fly it over to the objective, plop the UAV onto the objective and blow it up.

You can strap 2 C4 minimum to any tank and blow it up.

You can strap C4 to an ATV, drive it into anything (like a tank) and blow it when ready.

Tanks are more useful than just blowing shit up, depending on the tank usually you have two types of fire if you are the driver. You can destroy objectives with the tank, you can run people over such as engineers or sneaky snipers.

Always clear away things that block your sight, as stupid as it sounds, clear away trees, they are just another place for the enemy to hide.

Standing shielded machine guns are your friend. You can really mow down enemies with this thing. Clear trees from your view and take far shots, chances are you will kill them.

IIS7 Machine.config Windows Vista

Steps on what to do if IIS7 does not work on Windows Vista, or you get an error about your machine config not working properly.

1. Backup your computer

2. Obtain Windows 7

3. Reformat your primary drive

4. Install Windows 7

5. Restore your files from the backup

6. Use IIS7, it will work now, I promise.

Vista sucks, that is the problem. I could not get a simple hello world web app to run on IIS7 on a Vista machine. I followed the same damn steps with a Windows 7 Machine and it worked just fine. Don't waste your time with IIS7 on Vista.

Title

Sometimes I wish I could just go home and do nothing. I have a number of side projects that are following me around though, which I wish I had more time to focus on, but I haven't been that lucky. What bothers me about growing up is you end up getting out of school which I know for most of us wasn't very desirable anyhow, you start working, making money, but you end up being a slave to your job because you need to pay bills.

The only good news I have is, I have 34K left in loans to pay. I just need to buy an engagement ring for my g/f first which can be close to 2K. Then I will save money a little longer until I have the right amount, then I will start viciously attacking those loans with everything I have. I will pay off 5K of one of my loans, hopefully that will lower my damn payments so that my principle will paid off quicker. Right now I am getting hammered with interest because the federal rates are up there. My private loan has a lower rate, but it is variable which works out well for now until it goes up.

I just can't wait for the day where my loans are paid off and I will have 300+ more dollars of disposable income (or more hopefully).

What would solve all of my problems right now is if I was making 100K+ a year or more. I would definitely have more than enough money to cover all of my expenses, savings and aggressively pay off my loans. I wouldn't have to worry about anything except job loss.

Fuck irrisponsible dog owners

One the number one things to set me off is stepping in dog shit. Out doors is one thing and almost understandable. Inside of a fucking Petco is just goddamn irresponsible and nearly unreasonable. I am searching for cat food (no I don't think cats are perfect) and in my search I step in some dog shit that is all over the floor. Fuck you people with dogs who don't pick up after them.

Dreams

I had a dream about a man bursting into my home and walking into my room. Me sleepy, no glasses, I demand, "who are you, who do you think you are?" That was all...

1997 Kia Sportage

I hate this car. I don't hate it as much as any Ford I have ever worked on, but I hate it anyhow. Changing the fucking spark plugs on this machine was a nightmare to never forget. The asshole who designed the car thought it was a good idea to put an air manifold right over the spark plugs. This forced me to disassemble the manifold, unplug 2 sensors, 4 air hoses, 1 spark plug cover, the throttle cables and the ignition coils. By doing so I found 1 broken hose, messed up air manifold gasket, 1 busted ignition coil and the pcv valve was gunked up to hell. This car was a bastard to work on. Took me 7 hours to work on this, after disassembly, care and cleanup, installation and reassembly. This car is a nightmare.

I plan on doing the alternator and starter next.

Each time I change, clean or upgrade this machine it runs better. However this car sucks.

Hate Kia.

Only thing that is awesome about kia, is they offer their repair manuals for free on their website.

Overwhelmed

I am overwhelmed again, I have too much going on in such a short time and it is really getting to me. I have things I need to take care of for my mother, my putts of a "friend" is getting married so he made me one of his best men. Which now I am thinking he is doing only so I can be a financier for his bachelor party.

My Genes Suck

So lucky me (trust me I know it can be worse), my genes dictate that my cholesterol, blood sugar, weight and blood pressure will all be elevated just because of my parents.

Currently I have the following official problems:

-High cholesterol by 16 points

-I am 1 point away from being diabetic

-I have a broken thyroid that can't seem to behave, my TSH levels are acting like a bipolar person. (hypothyroidism)

-I am allergic to dust mites

So overall I am screwed over because that is just the official stuff. I don't know what other problems I might have.

I need to lose weight and the moment I can breath, I'm sure that will make life a lot easier. I literally only breath out of one nostril. Try that for a moment, close one nostril and breath for 5 minutes. Its horrible, it makes you sleepy and tired for no good reason.

I do not have high blood pressure and I have my triglycerides under control. I lowered my triglycerides by 100 points.

I will lose weight, that will fend off the diabetes. The cholesterol will go down with it.

Lab Corp Sucks

I don't like Lab Corp or other firms like it. I think it is bullshit that doctors offices are outsourcing their phlebotomist work to the companies. There is no personal touch to it when you go to these places. The employees are usually in a bad mood because the patients put them in that state. I don't like how they push you around when you go to these places. Their results are usually inaccurate because they don't calibrate their goddamn analysis machines. They use a different metric than other places to measure how high or low something is in your results.

So apparently the Lab Corp that I go to only when needed (I hate going) changed the software they were using and now their speed dropped below zero. They used to be pretty fast about walk ins and now you pretty much require an appointment or you will sit around for ever. Ridiculous.

Hate lab corp.

Lies for Children

On my own I came to realize something during my silent walk home from school (high school). That thing was it only makes sense in this world, to tell the truth about everything. In order to solve all problems people have with one another on a day to day basis. No lying, except for little white lies (no that dress doesn't make you look fat honey...). I started to realize that the "level and equal playing grounds" or "equal opportunities" were not as available as my parents or teachers would preach and brag about.

I didn't like hearing the lies about how everyone is equal, that is blatantly false. Then there are the "freedoms" we have in the US that are not real. I don't like how children are fed bullshit about being able to do what ever they want in life. It simply isn't true, no one is equal. It is about who you know and how high up they can take you, or the color of your skin, your religion, sexual preferences etc...

The people who would tell me not to judge a book by its cover were wrong, they preach it, but in life this is a major practice by all people. Professionally or unprofessionally these things happen around us. You can't stop peoples' interpretation of you and you can't make everyone happy either. The current truth is, this is a white rich man's world. The people with the money make the decisions and everyone else fights over the scraps.

I never liked hearing, what other people think doesn't matter. Bullshit, it matters because other people's perception of you mainly determines your success. Lets not lie to ourselves. I can give some real simple and basic examples, black people still get a bad wrap because of the color of their skin. They might look intimidating. It isn't fair that people ID black people and fear them immediately. Everyone does that to me too, they look at me and think I am a terrorist when I don't shave for two weeks. To perpetuate the issues, my girlfriend of 6 years is black (I am not black) and people see her with me and think we are a muslim couple (I am not muslim, I was raised jewish, now I am athiest). So from the examples I just gave, you can already see that no one is equal. Those are examples of other people dreaming shit up and judging books by their covers.

In life there are some winners and a whole lotta losers. -GC

Here is a simple lie, this is not harmless, telling children about santa or jesus. They aren't real, they are mechanisms used to discipline children.

Human Relations

What makes two people want to hang out with one another?

What constitutes "Hanging Out"?

From what I have gathered, it has to be more than just similar interests. It usually stems from comfort. If I am hanging out with them and they are too abrasive, then I don't want to hang out with them. I like people who are polite, but fun to be with. I don't particularly enjoy loud noisy clubs where I can't hear the person next to me (sometimes yes). I have been wondering though, what makes people want to hang out?

Honestly speaking, what is there to do as a unit? Not much...

1. You can watch something together. This is the least threatening thing to do.

2. Play something together. Which can be slightly threatening when someone takes the game too seriously.

3. You can sit and talk. This can usually end up in arguments over religion or politics.

4. You can be silent together. One person reads and another can play a game etc in the same room...

5. You can engage in a team sport. Again this can end in a disaster if there is too much arrogance.

I am not sure if I nailed them all, but that is what I have found most of the time. So in reallity, there isn't much.

If I Had a lot of Money

This is actually my favorite thing to think about when I am down, depressed or demotivated. I love thinking about what I would do if I had lots more money than I have now. It doesn't necessarily have to be millions of dollars, but if I made at least 100K a year, which isn't unattainable, I would be tremendously happy. I currently make okay money, but I still pretty much live pay check to pay check. I have student loans, that aren't nearly as bad as other peoples', I only have about 40K of debt, which I already gracefully brought down to about 37-38K. I think about being able to pay all that debt off in one day and it makes me giddy. It would be great cause the 330 dollars I pay to the lenders each month will be money in my pocket. If I could pay off my mother's mortgage, that too would be awesome, she still owes about 100K and her low paying dead end job doesn't help much. I give her about $300 a month for those bills, which sucks for me because after I am finished paying all those debts I hardly have money for savings or disposable income. I don't even spend that much on myself, but when I do it is usually expensive because I like building things or any electronic devices which always translates into either more than $20 or $100 easy.

If I had good money to play with I would save for an endless retirement fund. Its not the best idea but I would put a good chunk of cash in a CD that would guarantee me a salary each year. If I could generate 50K per year in just interest that would be awesome. I know that this requires a serious volume of cash, but I think it is the safest thing I can do. I am incredibly intimidated of getting older for the following reasons:

1. At one point I will have children, even if I don't want any. Children regardless of what anyone says are little bastards, not the wedlock kind, the ungrateful, arrogant, selfish kind. They are dream killers and money suckers. To top it off, when you can semi-carry a conversation with them, they want nothing to do with you... yay children...

2. I know as I get older, if I lose my job during the next economic depression, I will not be able to get another job easily because of age discrimination.

3. I will more than likely get cancer (stop clapping) and I won't be able to recover from the financial burden it will enslave me in. Thanks democrats, republicans, stingy heartless insurance companies and doctors. Capitalism will kill us all one way or another.

4. People tend to die as they get older. This is an inconvenience for me because I have a lot to do. I am not afraid of death, I just like living better.

5. My fuck stick is going to stop working :(

So yeah, getting older...not so much.

I would bring my mother's family over to the US so that they could live comfortably for the rest of their days. They live in Venezuela, nuff said. I would have one condition though, they have to work, learn & speak English and make it on their own. No free rides with me. I will support them to get off there feet, but that is all.

For the record, I am not Hispanic, but I do speak broken Spanish very well. If I had to identify with a group of people it would be the Hispanic population minus the Cubans because Cubans can really suck sometimes (I will explain my positions on Cubans later). If you are Cuban, then understand me when I say I am talking about the stereotypical Cuban, not the normal civilized ones.

I would continue to work even if I had the money to retire care free. It would feel great to know that if I got laid off or fired it wouldn't damage me in the least. At one point I would go back to school and get a degree in math, then move on to a masters in whatever and possibly be a PHD in my field.

One thing that is undeniable is that if you have money you have the power to influence anything you want really... Money and knowledge are power. I would use my money to reform our stupid ass education system starting with the earliest grade of children moving forward. I think the American public education system is a goddamn mess. I cannot speak for all states, but South Florida's system sucks. This is mostly because it is a republican run state with stupid ass republican laws and ideals. I will rant about it later, but it is because of North Florida stealing all of the goddamn tax revenue and using it for their white hick schools, that South Florida suffers. Anyhow, I want everyone to have an equal opportunity.

I would make it a point to have teachers pay increase and to get them the goddamn recognition and respect they fucking deserve. Not these brainless (some aren't) athletes who hardly do anything useful, they are good at sports, but children view them as heros. Talk about having our priorities mixed up.