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| Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 | | 12:24 pm |
| | Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 | | 11:51 am |
| | Thursday, March 31st, 2005 | | 11:47 am |
Ahh, back from vacation!
What a ***** FANTASTIC ***** vacation I've been on! 5 days of happy. Here's a breakdown of my week. Friday: I get off work, go to the bar, drink some Manhattans and hang out with the bartender & various other bar regulars. Come home to find the ex (which hadn't moved out yet, still) is out getting laid. Yay! More house for me. I go to sleep. Like a rock. Saturday: I go to my buddy Paul's place and bring boxes and boxes of high-end computer hardware. About 6 hours later, I have a HIGH end gaming PC put together from scratch, and now have the hands-on training for making more systems in the future. After some bizarre heat issues and FIVE heatsink re-seatings, everything is golden. Paul and I network Everquest II until about 4am, and I crash on the couch. Sunday: I come home to find my ex has finally moved the last of her stuff out, and is no longer there. Hoo-fucking-pla! I spend SEVEN HOURS cleaning my apartment. Oddly, I find this extremely entertaining and satisfying. By the end of the day my whole apartment is amazingly clean, except my office (computer room) which is an absolute train wreck. A girl from online that I got along with famously with meets up with me later in the evening, and she's even cuter than I had expected. We walk around in the rain for an hour (long story) and end up getting along even better in person. Monday: I tackle the office cleaning, and set up my new computer & old computer together in a freaking amazing workstation. It's SO nice to play games on supercomputer "A" while ripping CDs, surfing the net, and chatting, on supercomputer "B". I need to take a picture of it all, it looks so good. The girl from the internet comes over again, and we still hit it off excellently. Tuesday: I spend the whole day relaxing in my super-clean apartment, re-ripping my CD collection and playing Everquest II like a fanatic. Later that night, I head down to my regular bar and hang out for a few, but it's a slow night and kinda boring. Check out the casino, but it's a slow night and kinda boring. Ahh, tuesdays. So, it's back home for more gaming. Wednesday: Another day of enjoying my dual-computer room. Relaxed! Refreshed! I head back down to the usual bar again later in the evening, hoping it'll be more fun. My favorite bartender is there off-duty and we chat and hang out for an hour or so, that was nice to get to know her a bit better. She's got a new boyfriend and we gossipped about him for a while. I guess she's moving in a few months, I'll miss her :(. But, overall it was a fun evening. Back home for more Everquest II (because I'm geeky that way) and a nice night's sleep. Whew! That's a long update! So yeah, I'm in a fantastic freaking mood. I'm gonna break out the digital camera sometime soon and take a buncha pics of a buncha things and post 'em here. Current Mood:  refreshedCurrent Music: Eminem; Aphex Twin; Megadeth (no really) | | Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 | | 9:43 am |
So I was at my usual bar having my post-work Manhattan last night, and having an unpleasant phone conversation with my ex-girlfriend. Always fun at bars! Anyway, this guy Josh that I used to play cards with several years ago hangs out at this bar, but for some reason we haven't said hi or anything. So, having just got off the phone and feeling a little aggrivated and chatty, did the whole "long time no see" thing. It was cool to chat with him again, he was a swell fella. So the point of that whole last paragraph is that there's this casino opening downtown, and I'm thinking about applying there to deal cards part-time. "Where's the connection?" said the reader. Well, Josh apparently used to deal at various casinos, and I was talking to him about what it's like. He seemed to think that I would absolutely love it and make a fuckload of money. So, that got me thinking. Hmmmm... *thinking*... Maybe that WOULD be a damn good idea! I could apply for a part-time position dealing blackjack or holdem or something, still keep my main job, and make a bunch of extra money after work. Seems like it would be a lotta fun! So, I think I'm gonna go over there today on my lunch break and see what it entails. Also last night, I got to hang out with my friend Ryan. That was pretty cool, her and I have been online friends for like 2 years and have never really had a chance to hang out. She's pretty hardcore into tattoos and piercings, and is a very cool girl :). We had a few drinks and dinner, then hung out with a few friends of hers at another bar. Got home kinda late. So, that's my news for the day. Does anyone actually read this? Current Mood:  contemplative | | Monday, March 21st, 2005 | | 4:23 pm |
*sigh* Damn it.
It's official. The "work 10x harder and get paid about $300 less a month" season has begun at my work. I hate it I hate it I hate it! I mean, during the winter, I literally surf the net and play video games about 80% of the time while I'm here. I know, I'm a bastard. But, hey, that's what my job is like when it's cold outside. All the work I do, while sparse, is highly profitable and my commissions are insanely good. Then it gets warm and the rotten customers switch to doing things that make me next to NOTHING for commission, the calls take 5x longer, and the call volume is maddening. It's literally 5-20 calls on hold all day long. And it'll be that way till September. Argh. More bad news. That girl Larissa that I was so excited to have run into last weekend? Yeah, she never returned my call. Then, Saturday, I called her again (second attempt) and she answered with the "I'm watching a movie can I call you back" thing. And as you know, she never did. Write-off. *sigh* But, that's ok. I'm really OK with it! Overall I don't have much to complain about, I guess. Just because I'm in a funk today won't ruin my fun. How's that for PMA? Current Mood:  apathetic | | Saturday, March 19th, 2005 | | 2:47 pm |
I got my Pac-Man tattoo!
I finally got around to hitting up my favorite tattoo guy, got in the shop, and got my Pac-Man tattoo done today. I had the 'next in line' girl at the shop take a few pics of it, but she didn't stand still and they're just blurs of yellow and blue, with some red :). So, as soon as it heals a bit, I'll take some pics myself and post them for all the world to see. At least, the 3 or 4 people that may look at my journal. Or 2. Maybe 1. Anyway. Tonight's the Blanche Got Demoted party! Yay! Hopefully there will be some fun, some debauchery, and some Manhattans. Everyone cross your fingers. Current Mood:  geekyCurrent Music: Quoit: Properties | | Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 | | 3:44 pm |
OMG! OMG!
The most wonderful thing just happened. Refer to a post from a few days ago about Blanche. Yeah, heinous Blance. Well, guess what? Blanche just stepped down from the Lead position at my work. She is no longer a supervisor. Celebration invitations will go out tomorrow. What a fantastic week it's been. Current Mood:  ecstatic | | 9:11 am |
Who needs Tanks anyway?
Warning: Everquest II blabber ahead. So I made this Kerra Warrior a while ago, got him up to level 12. For some reason, I just didn't really care for playing a tank much. Seemed like soloing was overly tough, and downtimes were really long. I've been jonesing to make a Conjurer, and was gonna wait till those new slots come in at the end of the month... But I'm an impatient bastard. So, I 'shared' all my equipment and deleted him. So now I have a level 6 Mage. /eq2 So anyway, last night was fairly exciting... We had a house fire! Somehow, the popcorn in the microwave cought on fire and smoked up the entire apartment. Had to break out all the fans and blow them out onto the balcony for a few hours, and the place still smells like smoke. No idea how it happened. Must have been a defective bag or something. Shit! SHIT! I didn't even think about suing the popcorn company until just now, and I've already trashed it. DAMN! I <3 Frivolous Lawsuits. Current Mood: calmCurrent Music: Scorn: Whine | | Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 | | 9:31 am |
Back to work.
Hello again. After my Monday off, it's Tuesday and time for work. So I saw Constantine this weekend. Really, I just don't know who this movie is supposed to be aimed at. I am very non-religious. It would be quite impossible for me to care any less about what your particular culture's book says, especially my own culture, who's religion I find particularly revolting. As a result, I know very little about it. Now, despite this, I fully enjoy the whole angels vs demons thing. Usually when you watch a movie that's angels vs demons, it's all very abstractly religious, which is fine. Constantine, however, actually *requires* that you have at least a functional knowledge of catholicism and the bible. The first half of the movie I enjoyed, but then the plot really started to kick in and I had *no clue* what was happening. I don't know who Gabriel is, I don't know what's required for absolution in the catholic religion, and I don't know what verse X page Y says in your dumb book. When I go see an angels vs demons movie, I don't want to have to know this. On the flip side, someone that was in the group that went to see it is *fiercely religious* and she CRIED (yeah, really) because the movie was 'wrong' on a lot of things, and it offended her that they would twist the 'facts' (har har) of the religion. I just took her word for it, since I couldn't care less. Also, when Keanu fights one particular demon that was kinda built up to be a badass, and he defeats him by PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE, I thought that was mighty dumb. Then again, defeating the Merovingian by pointing a gun at him because he didn't think you would is pretty dumb too. What's up with that, Keanu? So, I'm not sure who this movie is supposed to cater to. /rant Anyway. Everquest II was fun this weekend, I completed my Shiny Brass Halberd quest, which took about 3 weeks, and made level 26 with my #1 alt. Other than that, I'm newsless. Back to work I go. | | Sunday, March 13th, 2005 | | 1:46 am |
Drunk again
So here, I am, typing at the computer, really drunk once again. I had 4 Manhattans and 3 beers of various types. That's what I remember anyway. There may have been others. I was sitting with 2 married girls, one hot single girl, my female boss, and my gay ex-co-worker. Everyone was on me like cinnamon on toast. Married girl one is whispering how she wants to get a room with me in one ear, while hot single girl is across the table giving me the eye and periodically holding my hand and flirting shamelessly. When we were walking here, I had one under each arm, knowing each of them wished they could take me home with them. Ahh, nothing tastes as good as thin feels, a wise person once said. I concur. Previously, at bar #1 (not bar #2 where part one of this story took place. Rather like a Tarentino movie, don't you think?), the girl that used to ask me out every day but moved to California, and I've regretted never taking up on her offer before she left, has moved back to Spokane and is there at the bar, and is definitely still interested. She's got some new tattoos, and is anxious to show them to me. She's looking fantastic, not a pound over 110, slim and short, hot as can be, with her midriff showing and everything just 100% attractive. She gives me her number, and makes it very clear she wants me to call her tomorrow. I add it to my phone, and then gaze at the number in my phone after she leaves, thinking about how years ago, I wished I was in a situation where I could get her number and actually call her. Ahh, Larissa, so beautiful, so charming. I can't wait for dinner with her. I've had a fantastic night. Current Mood: ecstaticCurrent Music: The sound of adrenaline in my veins | | Saturday, March 12th, 2005 | | 5:51 pm |
Let's see if this works...
Hello folks! So I got some pics taken of myself today, finally. The ones I had were all like 8 years old or so. Kinda silly for a technophile with a digital camera, huh? SO let's see if this link works. Here's me!  And, here's me again.  Sorry if these are tremendously huge. Enjoy! Current Mood: accomplished | | 7:19 am |
Sooooo tired.....
Ahh, Insomnia. How I love thee. Oh, wait. No I don't. Actually insomnia rather sucks. It seems that alcohol is like speed for me -- Whenever I go out drinking and come home to go to bed, I wake up after 2 or 3 hours and can't get back to sleep. It's the oddest thing. Rewind... So I got off work and went to Cyrus last night, the place I usually go to meet my friends that I'm embarassed to introduce to my other friends. They're kinda gangstery, although in a very caucasian way. But yeah, we all meet up on Fridays. So I showed up and waited for like 45 minutes by myself, gave up and checked out my tab, and was just putting my jacket on when one of them comes up and announces that they've been sitting 10 feet from me for the whole time. It was busy, and apparently we didn't notice eachother. Oops. So, I had another drink with them. Just as I was about to leave again, the other guy that's usually there shows up. So, now I can't leave again, and we end up going to The Boulevard. I've heard good things about this bar, and it's just a few blocks from my house. Yeah, that wasn't true. It sucked. I ordered a Manhattan. "What's in a Manhattan?" the bar wench asks me. I withhold my urge to say "isn't that one of the basic drinks that you should have learned in your Mixology class?" and instead just said "you know, a Manhattan!" Apparently she didn't know, because she gave me a Kamikaze instead, in a plastic cup just larger than a dixie cup, absolutely stuffed with ice so there was about 3 sips of actual drink in it. Yeah, that's pure drinking satisfaction there. Luckily, I left without paying for it. Oops! :) My bad. So that's my friday night drinking story. Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: Quoit: Properties | | Friday, March 11th, 2005 | | 12:58 pm |
Pondering...
Does it make me a bad person if obese, vile, hideous, heinously stinky people make me grumpy? Because they do. Every time I have to gaze upon said person's hideous visage, I get grumpy. It's the oddest thing. Since I'll likely post internet-hate at this individual in the future, let's make a nice fake name for her, shall we? Something unpleasant. How about Blanche? That's a fantastically unpleasant name, which fits this fantastically unpleasant mound quite perfectly. So, yes. Blanche. Good ol, stinky, lazy, stupid Blanche. She's been dicking around at work all day, as she does every day, getting paid slightly more than I do to sit on her enormous ass and offend the olfactory senses of everyone on her side of the room. Imagine my joy when she took a 30-minute personal call to what would seem to be another company doing job interviews by phone. This is probably the single most intelligent thing I have ever heard Blanche do, considering actually showing up to a job interview in person would immediately disqualify her from the job, on the grounds that she smells somewhat like a parasite-encrusted half of a cattle lying by a sewage treatment plant, upwind, on a slightly breezy day. I wish her GOOD LUCK in her endeavor. Current Mood:  nauseated | | 9:42 am |
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So it's my first official day of having a live journal account when I get to work. Whee! Actually I'm still feeling rather apathetic towards this whole thing, but since I'm so open minded these days, I'll give it a shot. I added my RL friends Sgrelethed & Mourirdefaim to my account today, either thanks for getting me into this wonderful passtime, or curse you both with pliers & blowtorches for wasting my time with this innane crap; time will tell. Anyway, work is kinda busy today. I hate customers. I'm sure I'll repeat that a million times by the end of the year. It always gets crazy busy when the weather warms up, and mostly stays that way until around October. *sigh* At least it's nice outside and I don't have to wear multiple jackets. I learned today that jeans go with everything. Since I'm wearing a dark green longsleeve, that's probably a good thing. OK that's enough typing. |
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