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Dec. 8th, 2005 @ 02:44 pm
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work sucks... hope I get out early.
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In May I gave ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) abigdork a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). Last Sunday I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In January I ruled Duluth, Minnesota as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). In February I pulled sweetweasle's hair (-5 points). Last month I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points).
Overall, I've been nice (1072 points). For Christmas I deserve a mysterious blue ball, but I can't tell you why!
Sincerely,
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Nov. 29th, 2005 @ 07:31 am
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This will be severely dissjointed I promice, but whatever.
%%%%%DAVE%%%%% SEE BOTTOM FOR GREAT DS BUY
Well, been forever. Probably won't update for a while again as I suck at this. It's funny right before I got ready to post this I read Dave's latest entry and it says exactly what I was going to say, jobs take up to much time.
I've been working way too much lately. I'm now a manager at Papa Johns which isn't as bad as I thought it would be, I just need to take a moment every once in a while and cool down about stupid shit, and moron employees. We have a new GM so things are much nicer. He's young and this is his first time running a store so he's having a few problems but he's very nice and insanely good with people so things are comfortable. He's the only reason I even considered being a manager. I worked a 53 hour week last week... it sucked, not trying that again, although most my weeks are looking to end at around 45 hours, which with 6 credit hours at school makes for a hecktic week. Basicly I come home, watch a show or 2 with Christina, maybe get an hour to play video games then start back again. I'm not sure how much more I can hadle as this is getting really shitty.
The reason I'm even posting is because I was smoking a cigar my mom got me for my birthday and listening to some music and all I could think about was how great it was when I was living with mike just hanging out with friends everyday, enjoying so much. I really miss hanging out with you guys. If you're readding this, sorry Ed, Dave, Mike, Alia, Rob, Kim, James... I really want to hang out but my schedule is fucking impractical as hell.
On to better things. My scooter is working out great. Very nice not having to rely on the bus/ other people for transportation. School is great. I love learning about all these circuits. It's so intressting to me. I just wish I could go full time and drop work. I filled out my FAFSA and didn't get shit. But the school set me up with a loan for next semester, 2,600 for spring and summer. Not quite enough to quit my job, but enough to maybe cut a few hours and go for more than 6 hours a semester. Next fall should be great though, I'll have 31 hours and be independant finally. So even if I don't get aid I can still appliy for a 7,700 loan.
I started playing FF7. It took almost 13 hours for me to really get into it. It's great so far, I see why so many people like it. don't really have a lot more to say about it other than naming your characters the names of your friends is definetly the way to go with any RPG, makes for some good times.
I quit drinking, today is day 3 and I plan on keeping track of it. It's just gotten to the point where it pisses me off more than I enjoy it. So I'm quitting. I've been pretty tenatious about my goals lately so I don't see it being a problem. I started a lifestyle change (not calling it a diet as I'm doing this for the rest of my life.) about 6 months ago, sense then I've lost 27 pounds and insanely happy with my body. I eat 5 meals a day and I feel like I eat more then ever. I don't exercize or anything I just eat less calories and more often. I will NEVER go back to how I used to eat.
I got a Full faced helmet for my scooter, MAN WAS IT WORTH IT! I can wear sunglasses now no problem, and it's very warm on the cold morning rides. I decided driving without music fucking sucks. So I looked up the laws on it, you can have speakers on 1 ear if it's covering your ear. But if they arn't touching/covering your ears it's fine. So I pulled apart some headphones and put them in there, they sounded like shit.. well I couldn't really hear them when I was riding either. So I went to Radio Shack and grabed a cheap set of battery amped speakers, pulled them apart, resoldered wires to run to my helmet along with a jack I can unplug from my helmet for non-music riding, and wa-la, MUSIC! It's awsome, I'm so much happier riding now.
I also picked up a M3 for my DS. It lets you play downloaded games using a CF card. It works awsome, there's only a couple games that don't work great on it. But overall I'm VERY happy with my purchase. By the way I played the Japanese Animal Crossing a little, as I couldn't understand shit, and it's great so far. I wish the town was expanded but oh well. It's really neat the way they made the world move, really looking forward to playing that next week. I got into a game called Pictocross as well from the DS homebrew. It has a windows version, but seeing as I'm always at work or school the DS is getting handled like a cheap whore. http://www.yarivh.com/cryptopics/index.htm is the link for it, once you play a few you're dead hooked so wach out I was on one for 4 hours one day.
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"Nintendo DS for only $99
How many times have we typo'ed the wrong keys and landed at the wrong place! Often we typo the wrong numbers on the cell phone and end up calling someone who we do not even know! Well thats not the case today.
Today, we are going to take advantage of someone else's typo! Target, by mistake, had Nintendo DS listed on their catalog for $99. After further investigation Target admitted that the DS was supposed to be listed for $129. But they will still honor the typo mistake of $99."
http://rvision.mihopa.com/site/index.php
Has all the info on how to get it for 99. Many people already confimed they are very happy to honor it. If you need a screenshot of the catalog online if they changed it or anything, I have it so let me know. Obviously anyone else this helps get a DS hope you enjoy this link aswell
Now off to school!Current Mood:  content |
Well, been a while since I updated. On my third week of not purchasing alcohol. (I've made a promise to myself to not put out any more money on it till I get Lasik paid off.) Yes this is a future purchase, but I need a $600 down payment.
Kim came over and showed me Donkey Konga, I apparently upset her, guess being my usual self, cocky. Sorry once again. It's not really my thing. But I am getting better at Beatmania! 4 stars woo!
Leaving in 4 hours for my week long trip to Tennessee. Fun times. Plan on going to Gatlinburg, and stopping by Six Flags in Atlanta on the way back. If anyone hasn't checked out the Mr. Six commercials, I advise it. Just go to the Six Flags web site and look for a link to them, so dumb they're great.
Me and my insecurity of my things getting stolen have purchased a 7 piece Security System from X10, it's great because I got a great deal on it two weeks ago for $60. Flashes lights and sounds an alarm (loud as fuck) and if I had a phone line, would dial the place directly. Although I just informed my neighbor if he heard anything to call the cops as no one should be entering anyway... Hope the fish will survive... Well should be back Monday night if all goes well. Bye till then. |
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Jun. 3rd, 2004 @ 11:59 pm
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| drgizmo's LJ stalker is disabled! | | disabled is stalking you because they have nothing better to do with their time. They are also in jail for murder! |
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So I've been playing so much Dark Cloud 2 I'm amazing myself. I've put about 50+ hours on it, and it just keeps giving. Every time I think I'm going to get bored, some other side mission comes up, great game. The last time I played any games like this was when me and mike played countless hours of DDR last summer... god those were good times, meet lots of people through that.
Work aggravates me every time I realize I would rather be the person on the bike, by the pool, or even just driving somewhere other than a delivery. It's at these times I think to myself, "I'm GOING to get on a sleeping schedule!" Does it happen, hell no. Hence the reason I'm writing this right now. stayed up all night... have to be at work at 4 till close (1am). But I did take a nice walk, smoke a cigar, and enjoy the sunrise, quite tranquil. I miss walking along the beach at night smoking...
I ordered a chip for my PS2 of which I lucked out on getting the $150 deal as I was just going to buy one the week before hand. not sure how easy it's going to be to solder all up, but it should be fun. Might wait till I finish DC2 to do it as I don't want to get pissed at myself for fucking it up.
Jeff recently informed me of his plans to get married this next year. We had an argument, based on me not being in favor of it. Basically he asked me if I wanted to be in the wedding, and this was quite a shock as he had told me a number of times he was going to wait till he finished school... So I was taken aback, and could only respond with, "I need to think about it." He asked why, and I told him, "reasons". He insisted, so I told him that I didn't really think it was a great idea at this time. He didn't take that too well. Oh well. Called back a few times with no answers the preceding days. Finally he called me yesterday, and we finally got back on the subject when I apologized for being an ass. (not as to my decision, but something else that happened) And asked whether he wanted me to be in or not, he said with my feelings that he wouldn't feel right with me being in the wedding. Works for me. Not going to get into my ideas on why this is a bad idea, I've been told already a couple times I should shut up and just give him support. But I don't feel that way; although I will stay silent.
I was driving Monday, and the fuck heads from this mobile home park called up and complained I was speeding to my general manager, of which I was, but the fucking limit is 15mph in there. So he decided to inform me that if he gets another complaint, I'm fired. YAY FOR THAT! fucking hate my GM. =( You don't realize how hard it is to go the speed limit on back streets until you really have to. It sucks. =( I figure to fight back, my next car will be a convertible, no topper = no calls. Oh yea, fun fact about our store, we have tons of cockroaches running around, and all our GM is doing about it is spraying behind stuff. He's even laughing at the fact that after he was spraying they were coming out from everywhere, including falling out of the ceiling.
Our system is built by retards, we have a ton of security leaks all over because we have bad programmers. The only thing I can say for it is it's Unix based, Redhat to be specific. So when I get bored, I fuck with the computers... I have sense found a problem that lets me take control of the main system, letting me control the startup and shutdown of all users/stations, and figured out a huge flaw that lets you get ANY ORDER for no price. This type of thing requires a password from a manager normally, and some things like a 10,000 order can't be "freed out". Well I figured out that too. I told my GM about both of these, what happens... I GET FUCKING YELLED AT "Why are you fucking with the computers?!" That's the fucking gratitude I get. =( I should be rewarded. So fuck Papa Johns, I should call corporate... I dunno, might get fired.
Mike and Alia introduced me to MC Chris, and boy am I diggin him. He kicks ass is so many ways. I think the main reason I like him is because the fact that he sounds 10 makes all his raps just that much funnier. Not to mention he's a 30 year old white guy who's a geek, so he throws in stuff like OMG in his lyrics. Some of the most amusing lyrics I've been witness to.
**what's my name? mc. and what do I do? roll. I'm all up in that shit like it's fuckin camel toe. olsen twins on my dick like it's a stripper pole. if you're hooked on the shit, my middle name is methadone. so, let's do this quick so no one will ever know. mc nice got more ice than a fuckin' eskimo. he's not whack nickleback singing songs for michelobe.**
I'll end with my extreme praise for the new Mach razor, the one with the battery. One of the easiest shaves I've ever had! I will recommend this to everyone. It's not only glided easy, it also got very close. A $15 drop, and worth every penny.Current Mood:  mellow Current Music: TV in background |
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May. 27th, 2004 @ 04:04 am
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What can I say about Depp, I like to keep it in the family. |
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May. 9th, 2004 @ 06:17 am
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Well, been a while sense my last entry. I'm a lazy shit at typing these things out, but this post will make up for it. This will probably be disjointed but who cares, I'm not a writer. =)
To start off on current events: I modded my second box last night, that being Mike's. Much MUCH easier the second time through. I did have to refresh my mind on a few things but I'm confident the next one I mod will be in under an hour. I threw in his hard drive, incidentally the same model as mine, a WD 250gig. Soldering was quite easy this time as well, took me about five minuets. We spent another hour after everything was on the hard drive talking about the setup and me changing some configurations so he could access all his hard drive space and ftp in. Not once have I thought my money spent on my box was a bad decision, in fact it's one of my most valued possessions. The convenance of having every video file export to your TV in perfect aspect ratio with 5.1 DTS surround is so nice. I also plan very soon to start my first RPG... well it's not the first, but the first I have promised myself to play through. Said RPG being Chrono Trigger, and after that, maybe on to FFX and FFX2. (hopefully I'll have my PS2 by then)
I hung out with Rob and Kim tonight. Rob suggested FF3 as another great RPG, as it is his favorite game. He's getting back into shape, if he's not already where he wants to be, but then again who ever is? He's looking great from the few times I was able to check him out.. wait, not gay. Kim appears to be getting into Buddhisim. Sounds like a great idea for her; sometimes she gets a little too upset over people. She was being a little smart tonight, but I expect nothin less from ya Kim. =P
Christina and I bought some fishies about four days ago... sense then one has chosen to end his/her life by throwing their self onto the filter intake. But the rest of them seem to be doing great. It's comforting having the light on in the tank and seeing little things moving around. We're Christina is making a... I want to say mural? above the tank on the wall that we decided would look neat, plus it's all in UV colors; Yay black light!
Christina. Christina is so fucking great. I think very seldom about the fact that we live together, because it doesn't really feel like an inconvenience whatsoever. It's just happy fun time all the time. God it's a good feeling to be in love.
Christina's mom is going to be marrying again very soon. Sean, Christina's step dad and Lori, mom, have invited me to their wedding. It's going to be on a ship they're renting, hella cool. I'm not really one for gatherings of family, as I despise being around my family because they are all idiots save maybe four members, one being my Mom. But as for family functions that are of other peoples families, I'm usually pretty comfortable; my confidence and social skills are much improved sense my school days. Plus I'm sure I'll be indulging in some alcohol to help with the social setting. All in all I'm sure it will be a fun experience, and I believe life to be about the experiences.
Life, death... Jeff and I recently had a conversation about religion, life, and death, which all go hand in hand. I was a little drunk, and I'm not sure how the topic started, but we talked for about an hour. A little back story about Jeff and I: All through high school and probably middle school to, we were Atheist, through and through. There was no way you could convince us of a God or that anything in the Bible was little more than a story used to control people into being good on the stories terms. We would have discussions, or arguments more so, almost daily at school, as there were many religious people at Plant. Funny how most my friends now seem to not believe in a god. Move forward to about 2 years ago, I was laying in bed trying to get to sleep, then it just really hit me, death. Death to an Atheist means as we all know... nothing left, an endless sleep that you don't even know happened. I was the most frightened I'd ever been, not because it hadn't crossed my mind before, but that at that point I hadn't felt I did much in my life, and that I wanted to experience millions of things that I'm still not going to be able to experience. It felt awful. I quickly changed my line of thought with a movie, but it dwelled in my subconscious. Now back to Jeff and I's recent discussion, I told for the second time to the second and third people ever, my strange line of thinking that evolved from that night, a little from Matrix and general ideas of belief. Now I share it to you. I'm not so comfortable with it, and I try not to think about it, but I wouldn't mind some feedback. Also good to mention is that I don't really think about this per-say, it's more of a "it's just there" thing, the reason you will understand. I have an idea that we could be in a either self contained, or energy connected universe. The self contained part is why it scares me, no one wants to be alone, and I certainly don't want to think I'm the only energy. If you didn't understand, let me pose an example, think about each life as a piece of energy. Now think about all that energy creating a reality that lets it cope with existing. As if we make our reality. It's unanswerable, because answering it would lead to non-existence. The idea of us creating our reality is just an idea, not a belief, but it comforts me; because to me (subconsciously), I'm going to live forever. If my energy decides to create a death for me, maybe the idea of this energy will make me create something else. I'm talking about the idea of if you think you're going to die, and whatever you believe will happen, might. I don't know what kind of energy we have, but I certainly don't plan on dying and blinking out of existence just because I choose to believe in nothing. It's a safety blanket for me not to think about death.
Now on the upside, been watching 24. The show is excellent, pulls me in again and again. I feel like I'm watching a movie, only it's 10 times longer, adding that much more story goodness. It's funny everytime someone says they're going to do something in five minuets, then you look at the clock five minuets later, and bam. =P Good stuff. If you decide to try watching it, I suggest you watch at least the first three episodes before judging. We're at 1pm of the first series right now, and I went ahead and grabbed the second season.
Last, I beat Beyond Good and Evil finally! It's not that it's that challenging of a game, it's just that I have much less time for games now. I really value my social time with Christina and other friends more than video games now. Although, mixing the two work very well. Anyway, the story was decent, and I love the camera deal, as anyone knows from Dark Cloud 2. The ending was great, except it ended very sudden, uncomfortably. Oh well, still a great game.Current Mood: satisfied Current Music: (D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - Vocal Trance - a fusion of trance, dance, and chilling vocals |
Posting with Semagic upon Dave's recommendation.
Sunday I was bored so I just started driving around. Found myself at Tampa Bay Mall. It's been closed for some time now, I think about 5 years or so, maybe a little longer. So I was driving around inside the lots, and I realized I never had a license when it had been open. Got this very surreal feeling, something that happens to me when I visit a place I haven't been in years. The mall isn't really what I remembered it being like, in fact it's one of the most intricate parking lots for a mall I've seen. Oh well, enough architecture... I saw some dirt on the ground and decided I should do a little drifting. Now as most of you know I have a front wheel drive (cause I talk about this shit all the time), so that doesn't really let me "drift" per se, but I can slide the bitch like hell! =P A half hour and some rubber later I decided to leave. From there went to dinner with mom and Christina at Carabas. Pretty good except for the salad. Had a couple margarita to lighten the load of the bill, a nice fat $80. It was good times though, I never get to treat my mom and it felt great.
Christina is the most enjoyable, smartest female I've even known and been attracted to, let alone dated. Everyday she makes me happy. I just never figured I'd really find someone who compliments me so well and, as I've told her already, I feel myself falling in love with her. We've talked about our feelings on moving in with each other, which have both been in agreement of no... until last night. We spend almost everyday together, why not just remove the almost? I'm very willing to give it a try. =) here's hoping
Last but not least!: Irish car bombs kick ass! You take a shot of Irish Cream and drop it in a glass of Guinness, then CHUG! It's great because it tastes like chocolate milk at the end because of the Irish Cream. Jeff and I had one of these, he did great, also loved it. He's become my little alcoholic prodigy. Jeff's a great guy, when he lets lose he has a lot of fun. Greg also joined me in this drink, he almost finished, but still looked as if he enjoyed it. It's gonna suck a lot when he goes back because i think it's going to sink in that I believe he's not ever coming back, at least not soon. Also tried some 151, I love that it really lights on fire. =P I can be a pyro and a drunk, what more could a person ask for? Took a shot last night... burns ALL the way down and doesn't stop, but still overall wasn't a bad shot.
I'll finish this post off asking for your favorite of each: Beer, Shot, Mixed Drink, and plain Alcohol.Current Mood:  energetic Current Music: Run Lola Run Soundtrack |
I got my interweb connection fixed finally. Thanks to Ed and a couple other people, figured out it was my cable modem itself that was fucking up all my downloads. I've downloaded 6 gigs overnight, I'm guessing that means it's fixed
Hung out with Kim for a while the other night. Been a while sense we both just hung out together... It's good to be able to hang out with a friend of the opposite sex and be comfortable talking with them. Not that I don't talk with Christina, witch I do quite often. Kim and I have been friends off and on for about 7 years now. It's funny really, neither one of us can stand each other for too long.
Christina quit Busch Gardens; she seems very happy about her choice. I'm happy for her. Holding up two jobs had to be a real sonofabitch. We've got more time to spend together too, witch is great. We went to Walmart last night; god I fuckin love Walmart, only place you can go and kill 2 hours doing nothing. She actually got me to buy FOOD! So I'm not just eating pizza leftovers. =P
Also at this point in time I'm watching Kill Bill Vol 1 in my left monitor, that of witch I'll talk about later. I've realized over the last 5 times I've watched this movie that it is indeed one of my favorites. I didn't notice until the second time I watched the movie how much I really enjoy the soundtrack, it's so fucking off the wall crazy yet every song works perfectly in their each individual scene. The cinematography is also amazing at points. Like the bathroom scene where the camera flies in over the top and down into making use of the entire room, of witch is beautiful, and comes to a stall that changes to see threw, impressive. The story is entertaining and I can't wait for the second volume. As far as the gore gos, it just feels like a live action Anime, and that also pleases me. (side note: I didn't really care for Pulp Fiction)
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Well I'm keeping this kinda as what it's meant to be, a journal. I sometimes like looking back on shit I've done and reflecting.
So far the last two weeks have included in no order:
(hmmm... you can't use the tab button... that sucks.)
Modding my box, has an X on it.
Hanging out with Dan the Integra guy. (going to be hanging out with him more as we're both into Cigars. He's also pretty big into wine, of witch I know nothing about and wouldn't mind learning.
Got Mike a job at PJ's
Got word of Greg leaving, sucks really fucking bad... maybe I'll write about that later
Went to Ed's place with Christina and chilled with him and his brother. Good to see both of them again. Sorting out time between friends gets harder all the time. We watched a movie called Forbidden Zone. I can't really say anything about the movie itself, it's just fucking crazy. Not sure if either liked it, but still a movie to see once in your life I think. Smoked a clove with Dave that he offered me; much better than I remembered them being. First thing I've smoked in quite a while due to being sick.
Also went to Seaword with Christina. haven't been there in so many years. Digital camera + free beer + Christina + Me = fun + chaos. Will be sure to post pics.
Well I think that about rounds it up.
On a side note, me and Dan talked about setting up a big barbecue / hangout / game deal with a bunch of friends. Going to try to find out most people's USUAL schedules, feel welcome to post them.
Mar. 14th, 2004 @ 06:19 pm
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