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08-06-2004Ok hello people, I know I've been here a week or so already, but in true Darren fashion anything that could go wrong has gone wrong. Ok to start off I'd just like to immortalise the librarian here on the net, Thanks for being the most irritating unhelpful ..... you can. Now where the hell do I start , I got tonnes to say and I know I wont remember it all.*Edit Aug 14th* Suppose I have to say in the following months she turned out to be the most helpful person in town :) Ok so I got on the plane and first thing that hit me was wow someone tipped em off I was coming, I had a bag with spare socks and a toothbrush, I was a little miffed then I noticed everyone had em :) Plane journey was quite uneventful landed and made my way to where I am supposed to be staying, 107 12th Avenue, Belmar, NJ, 07719. For those of you who still like snail mail. I arrived at the house absolutely shattered to find not quite what I was told but exactly what I expected. A huge house ( the houses over here are mental ) With a bunch of irish drinking on the porch, Inside I was to find 50 more people crammed into rooms everywhere, from 12 different countries, great craic!:) We have Ireland, Russia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Hungary, Romania and a few others I cant remember. So far I havent started work yet I had an interview yesterday which I wisely prepared myself for by sitting in the kitchen till 3am doin vodka shots with the russians, Crazy bunch. I got the job ( Kind Of ) but havent got any hours yet , which suits me cos it's 27 degrees here atm and We are right beside the beach. I'll post later whether or not I actually did it or not, I'm trying to get my bus license over here so I can drive buses in the Safari Park. My net access is very restricted compared to what I was expecting so my updates might be very sporadic and dont expect any pictures till I find somewhere that will take them, I'm updating on dinosaurs of computers in the local library. I'll update maybe once a week or so and I'll try get up to some crazy shit to keep you entertained :) Till then feel free to email me and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, Hope everyones ok back home and miss some of you ;) but not that much :D I'm out for now folks, talk again soon. 16-06-2004Sorry about the sporadic updates it's just net access over here is hard to get, I found a place which will let me upload photo's so I'll post some in a few days, it's just its miles away and I'm a lazy bastard. Ok on to news, well I finally got a start date for work, I'm starting on Saturday in Hurricane Harbor, which is the Water Park section of Six Flags, working as Security which is grand for me, I couldnt get the Safari Park job because it was "Skilled" labour and seemingly if your skilled immigrant your discriminated against, pah! In the house things are setlling in we've settled on 43 people in the house and we are all getting used to each other. I have been given the job of house manager, It's good in some ways, ( room of my own, rent free, my own TV ) and bad in some ways, ( I have to be the fucker who tells everyone to shut up and stop smoking inside, people actually run when they see me coming, which doesnt lend to me making good friends ) , but I get on grand with everyone in the house , well 95%, there's always one or two. Unfortunately all the best looking women brought boyfriends :( Ok one of the annoying things about this place has to be the cops, Sgt T. Cox! Ok as you'd expect in a house with 43 19-26 year olds, mostly students, mostly Irish, there are quite a few sessions, well actually every night so far..... well you'd expect a little noise, aye? Over here they HATE noise, we have had about 40 complaints so far and 3 noise pollution fines at $350 a pop, and this is the first frickin week! They fine you for anything over here, we live by the beach but gotta pay $6-$9 to get onto the damn thing $150 fine if your caught without a beach badge. Oh man this place is whack! I'll detail more fines as we recieve them lol! Ack I have to go now and I havent got half the stuff I wanted to say down, Library is closing, I'll try get over to the picture one tomoro and add mroe update and some photo's, till then you all take care, feel free to mail me you muppets, show me some love!!! 16-06-2004 / Part 2Hello again, I borrowed a bike and came back to add some more waffle, library reopened at 7pm. Ok some wierd titbits, I've resorted to drinking beer over here!!!! Wierd huh? It's 50c a beer in bars in someplaces and 50c a can, while I have to pay $5 for a short, so last night after getting a bit sozzled in the house we went out to a bar, and someone said just drink beer so I tried it and , yup it's shit but hey when your drunk and it's cheap and cold, it goes down easy. I dunno what it is about the girls in our house either but we had an NYPD and a Belmar PD cop in the house last night, considering our luck with the law lately it's a tad frustrating but hey those badges seem to work, cant wait till I get my shiny security badge :) , I was in the local Marine Corps recruitment center the other day too, that was wierd, one of the guys from cork wants to join so I tagged along and managed to keep my mouth shut the whole time, I got a pic of that too. I've managed to not insult too many people so far but have had some very heated erm discussions with some guys. I joined a Gym!!!, $40 a month and 3 stories and open 24 hours a day, I even have 5 gym buddies in the house who will make me go! So maybe I wont come back a fat slob........ nah! It's good here, we use bike's to get around, you can get a real good bike for $80 in K-Mart. The women around here are amazingly beautiful, not just one or 2 but 90% of them, it's a tad frustrating, cos they are also uppity snobby bitches, even with the irish. Ah well we'll work on em. Alot of real nice folks here, yes I said folks :) Last night this guy who runs a free shuttle to the Bar we were at dropped us home and I said drop in anytime we have a session almost everynight, so he dropped in like 10 mins later with 2 12 packs of beer, cheers Cooper!! Real nice guy big black guy with real deep voice, one of those gentle giants. Emma one of the caricature girls from the park, this girl is just one happy person, just so much fun to be around. I havent gotten to know too many yet but it's a promising start. Not many people get my humour over here but I'm getting thru to them slowly :) Ok I think I've left enough for you to peruse for now if anyone gets to the bottom of that in one sitting, good job! i'll try throw up some photos tomoro when I get to the Gym and Library. Till then Take Care back home. 18-06-04Ok news, when I was leaving the Library the other day I got invited to a meeting of a local irish club, so being the adventurou sod I am tee hee I went along last night to the monthly meeting of the AOH or "Ancient Order of Hibernians", held in the private bar of "The ancient order of the Friendly sons of the Shilellagh of the North Jersey Shore" Yea I know! The meeting started off with alot of praying which made me cringe immediately but I stuck it out long enough and got rewarded with free beers all night and some cute chicks to talk to. Also ended up drinking with the local Zoning Officer who tried to shut our house down a week ago, great guy hehe. Ok won't be getting pictures up till tues now, I'm looking into buying a laptop so if that happens I might be on a bit more often but till then I wont. So both you people that checked the website just hang tight :) If anyone wants to contact me Mobile is 001-848-459-8537 Landline is 001-732-280-0072 or Mail is Darren Doyle 107 12th Avenue, Belmar, New Jersey, 07719. USA 23-06-04Well I told Some of you that if I didnt update much it would be either because I was having too much fun or was just too lazy, well it's a bit of both. As you might guess the only chance I can get ( till I get my Laptop ) is on my days off, Yes I started work :(. But also on my days off are the best nights to go out and get rat-arsed, so the two dont combine to help me update. saying this your pics are still pending but I do have some good ones I swear! Well As I said I started work on Saturday, I actually had a ball on the main gate of the Great adventure working the metal detectors and taking the piss out of the hundreds of people who came thru my gate. It's like a big game, it beeps and it's find the metal time! I also get to root thru everyones bags in search of knives guns etc, this is fun sometimes too tee hee, It's like trying to guess what you got for xmas by squeezing the bag sometimes. The last two nights have been crazy I completely lost control of the house, but hey I was hammered so I wasnt too worried, Tues night in our local Club, Bar Anticipation or Bar A, is beat the clock night, get in free before 9pm and beers are 50c each, at the stroke of the hour it goes up 25c till 12 midnight, our table was full of beers all night, everytime it got close to the hour we all got another 8, the yanks gave us some very funy looks, after 26 of these beers I was in fine form as you might guess, was wandering around yapping to the yanks, got dropped home in a cop car........... hehe nah he just gave us a lift, nice guy :) should have seen the looks on everyones faces tho when we got out. Met some lovely girls last night who thought they had met me before, we managed to keep it up all night, and they said they are gonna call down and take me to see the cities, i've heard that before but one of these days one of them will actually do it... so here's hoping. I'm gonna start doing some intro's to some of the people I live with, so you know who i'm talkin about in my stories. If anyone from the house reads this, if I forget you just tell me. OK, First mention has to go to Stoney or Eoin, you'll probably be seeing alot of pics of him as I've started taking pics every night of the places he manages to fall asleep in and the messes he makes. he's a good guy , likes his drink and passes out unconcious wherever he falls. I know how short an attention span most of you have so I wont go too far today I'll try ease you in a few at a time. I'll try get an update in next week with some photo's but i'll hold off on the main ones till I get my laptop sorted. Feel free to drop me a line text or email. Happy Fathers Day, Talk soon ya'll! 07-07-04AIE! So much has happened where the hell do I start, I will probably forget a tonne of stuff, but this will still be a long entry so get comfy make a mug of tea and get matchsticks ready for your eyes..... Ok well last week I did my security training, got "Top of the class" both with a score of 211/212 and by winning the vote for ToTC, wow I won a popularity contest, who'd have frickin thought! From the first minute the sargeant had me pegged as the class clown, but I managed to change her opinion of me by being intellegent and funny :) I got on really well with her getting high fives, elbows and other mental american handshakes. We had to do these Scenarios to test our reactions to situations and my sargeant had me be the vilain :) cos I was a clown, and I rose to the occasion by being a complete dick, and got a standing ovation off the class for my acting , everyone kept telling me i should be an actor, so I might look into it more when I get back, or just go straight to hollywood from here. Went back to work in Hurricane Harbor after the training, I get burnt alot, and it's tedious hot sweaty wok, great when you finish and jump into the wave pool after work tho :) Went thru the whole park yesterday, down every waterslide, was alot of fun. Gonna try change to 4 long days 9-9 and 3 days off, instead of 5 days 9 - 5.30. It's amazing how stupid some people can be going into the park but I'll go into that in more detail in another update. Went up to New York on friday last, saw "The Frames" playing a free gig on Pier 17, got a pic with Glenn Hanson, will post later :) Gig was awesome, really enjoyed myself, and two of the people with me were huge Frames fans, and they were almost in tears. NY itself is a tad overwhelming, I was only in Manhatten area, was in Madison Square Gardens and went to Ground Zero. I'll do more later, cos it's only $15 return on the train and it's only 1 1/2 hours away so it's like Ferns to Dublin. The subway is a bit mental, literally, got accosted by this crazy guy coming out of the Garden, got a pic of him hehe, also there was a guy drumming in between platforms on a full drum kit, now thats busking. Speaking of drumming, I went and bought myself a set of bongos, on Monday nights in the bar behind our house we have a kind of Irish night, and one of the guys from the house plays guitar, so last monday night I was a bit sozzled, and they tell me to bring the bongo's, me not being one to play in public, immediately grabbed em and toddled over ( sozzled remember ), well instead of getting laughed off stage I actually got alot of compliments, and enjoyed myself alot, so I might even make it a regular slot. Ok this weeks house guest is going to be Javi, Javi (Hah-Vee) is the house mascot, hailing from the Basque Country this guy is just the shit, his humour accompanied with his english and his pronunciations is just hilarious, he's a real kewl guy and I'm taking him home with me, Nah not really. We have planned a few road trips tho, we both have Tues and Wedns off so we're gonna rent a car every second or 3rd week and piss off somewhere different, gonne head to Toronto with Sarah towards the end of the trip too. Mad over here that two of my best friends are John and Sarah, a Couple. Wierd huh? New slot, Lists! List 1. Things I miss about home, 1. Kerrygold! 2. Ryans Bread! 3. My car 4. Internet! 5. Crackers and Cheese. 6. WKD. Bah times up more lists later!! Stay Safe Everyone! 28-07-04Wow time flies, just realised it's been like over 3 weeks since I last updated, sorry about that, now the pain in the ass is trying to remember what the hell I did for the last 3 weeks :) Ok lets see, Well the main thing would be my trip to Washington D.C, photo's in the gallery when I get a chance, nice enough city, but very tourist oriented or patriotic, which of course didnt suit me as you'll notice from the picture of me at the white house. I drove down in a mini bus full of 107er's the drive was uneventful enough, 5 hours or so with a stop halfway. While in DC we went to the aforementioned white house and had arguements with cops, as you do! Then we moved onto the big spire thing, and then to the Lincoln Memorial, and the reflecting pool, which some will remember from the movie Forest Gump. Only today they had the water drained out for some stupid reason and all our pictures look shit. Got a nice picture of a squirrel tho. On day 2 after staying in some grotty hostel the night before and hitting a few Jazz clubs, yes Jazz, we all went to the Zoo, which was interesting and not nearly as bad as the zoo in amsterdam where I went for my first ever Zoo trip at 24 with Kiz. I'll post some kewl pics from there too, I wandered around there with a German Guy, South African, Canadian and English Girls I met in the Hostel the previous night. Stacey, Amanda, Melissa and erm Gunther? Well thats what we called him anyway I think he was called Jeremias. After the Zoo we decided to get lost, as you do, jumping on random bus's and walking for miles and ending up in Georgetown. In georgetown they decided to shop, (thats what I get for going with women), meanwhile me and Gunther propped up a bar, where i sipped Soda , cos I had forgot my passport and Gunther Drank Cider, Damn him. On the passport note, Yanks are so frickin rigid over here, for the so called land of the free they have more frickin stupid rules and regulations and no such things as letting it slide. if you look under 30 you have to be ID'd even if you are almost bald and walking stooped over as I was that day, I still couldnt get a frickin beer. Among the manyh stupid things you can get fined for here is parking facing the wrong way on a street?? Yup!! If you park facing oncoming traffic you get a fine no matter how damned good my parking is. Oh and put a yank behind a window in an office and they turn into power mad obnoxious incompetent pricks as is displayed by the embassy crew in Eire and now by the lovely cow in the Social security office. Grrrr Racking my brains for on a brighter note............hrm......... OOOh OOh! On brighter note, I'm off to see Staind in concert tonight along with support Tantric? Should be a good gig, and on friday I'll be erm Sick again and I'm going to a day long festival with Linkin Park , Korn and Snoop Dogg headlining. I've decided to put my free rent to work for me and go see a fuckload of live Gig's. Also on monday night we had a surprise party for one of the girls here Denise, Photo's are up so you can finally see whats going on here. In case you havent figured it out I have my laptop now and I'm able to upload photo's, I "should" I mean "should" be updating alot more often now and adding little sections to the website like an into to all the people and more top ten's or lists of things I like/ don't like and some random Rants. SO if your an avid follower of Darrens US adventures Tune in more often for many more updates. I'll have photo's from the Staind Gig and the Projekt Revolution Festival online ASAP. Till then talk later and feel free to amil me you wankers. Sheesh! 03-08-04Well hello again people, the first thing I have to do is retract my promise from end of last post, Due to some stupid frickin restrictions on concerts over here I was unable to take ANY pictures of EITHER concert. In other words I couldnt bring my camera in but I did get some random other photo's. I arrived all happy and humming showtunes as I do, then I saw the line, going off around the corner and thru the fields over the hill accross the river and ... wait well not quite that far but a long ass queue. I arrived at the back and a bouncer came down teling people to have tickets and bags ready and that no cameras were allowed in the venue and to put em back in the cars, Being the honest idiot I am, I walked over and said I have a camera but no car, what do I do, he scratched his head farted grunted and walked off, I took the grunt as a follow me, but it turns out that it was just a grunt, and the fart meant follow me. We arrived at his superviser and the farted at each other for a while and finally took my battery from my camera so it was effectively useless. Then the first guy walked off and I got a whiff so I followed him assumeing I had missed his beckon call. Up thru the crowd he takes me right to the front takes me thru security and into the gig bypassing the whole queue, then he turn's to me and says thats for being honest. Works for me I hate queues. The Staind gig was great, the venue looked like a barn from the outside but once I got in it was like a barn inside, nah not too bad but it was just a big bar with a stage, holding maybe 1500-2000 which was perfect for me. The band absolutely kicked ass for a two hour set playing alot of my favorite songs and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. After the gig I set off in search of a taxi to the train and then back to Belmar, I got to the parking lot and ran into "The Rat Rocks" van, the local rock radio station in belmar, after some smooth talking I managed to bum a lift off one of their top DJ's and their promotional manager and spent the time chatting about music instead of waiting in cold train stations... go me! The next concert I managed to convince one of my Costa Rican buddies to come with me , so me and Nikolas head off on friday, and rent a car for the weekend to drive to the concert, I used it to goto work and random other crap the other days. The Projekt Revolution gig was being played about 20 minutes from us and it in short order, then as is my new usual, I managed to somehow miss the turnoff, it was right there, but I just didnt take it, dont ask me why. Not being like Ireland where if you miss a turn you just swing round on the roundabout on the next exit, over here you are screwed!,it took us 2 1/2 hours to find our way back, we just chalked it down as a road trip, and we did see quite a bit on the journey so not too bad, plus we arrived just as the headliners were coming on so it was all good. Snoop Dogg was on first after missing the two support bands, and only catching one song of Funeral for a Friend as we walked to the gate. The stage looked great with a big kennel and shit on it and I was expecting some good stuff, but I was sorely dissapointed. It was like a huge game of simple simon says, with a load of simple yanks playing along, and alot of swearing thrown in. It was funny to watch 20-30,000 people do whatever the hell he said but it was very sad to watch aswell. Korn were up next and they were the main reason I was there, they absolutely rocked, they played some great set's, unfortunately the shitty seats I got were right at the back and the sound sucked a bit back there, that and the jocks and rednecks were out in force, and I kept having people bouncing off me with the excuse of "moshing". After Korn, Linkin Park, headlining came on, they were excellent too, but once again the sound sucked for alot of their stuff but in general the atmosphere was very good. The usual mad antics then over the weekend, including alot of work, where tey tried to bring in a manditory six day week for Security officer's and that was nipped in the bud very very quickly, then we had a coconut radio system running thru the house courtesy of Denise and Cheryl for a while, leading up to last night and the last night of Rob's sessions as he returns to the embrace of the homeland at the weekend and i don't think the void can be filled. Rob was both one of the best characters in the house and one of my biggest headache's, being an insomniac ( I presume ) everytime I had to get up because of noise in the house Rob would be in the middle of it..Everytime. All that said I'm gonna miss the big goober when he goes and hope we can get some 107 reunion organised later in the year.
After the session last night we went thru the usual crap and drunken revelries which is making me balder and greyer by the minute, I really enjoy living here and I get on with 95% of the people but it has to be said, this house is Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde, during the day everyone's great but at night with beer in them they turn into a bunch of antagonistic, arguementative, irritating jackass's, but they are my jackass's and i'll keep them for now............. 08-08-04Rob left today.... Rob was both the best crack in the hoe and my biggest headache, a great guy always up for a laugh always good for a laugh no matter what time of night it was. Which brings me to my headache part of it, no matter what time of night it was or what was going on Rob was in the middle of it, and in my role as house manager he caused me lots of headaches but hey thats past now and it's all good :0). On another note, this marks the beginning of the end as people, mainly students start bailing out to return to college and over the next 2-3 weeks 107 is going to start emptying till there is maybe 15/20 of us left. What effect this is going to have on the mood in the house or people's plans is yet to be seen and I am not making any plans yet anyway. I'm gonna miss alot of the people i've met here and i'm gathering everyone's emails so we can at least try stay in touch and maybe organise a reunion sometime in the future. It's a nice thought although my other experiences in this have been dismal failures i'm not gonna be too negative hehe. Christ it's only Ireland, no-one's THAT far away. On a completely different topic, work is really starting to get on my nerves, it's amazing how goddamn stupid people can be and how many you can fit in one theme park, I can only give examples from my own experiences on main gate, metal detectors and bag searches, but I sit there in the evenings and at lunch and hear the stories from other departments and the stereotype we have in Ireland for americans isn't far wrong in alot of cases. I've been meaning to get around to putting all the stupid things people do down on one page but as you've probably noticed I don't get much time and what time I do get is spent exhausted, maybe after september when the park closes down to a 3 day week i'll have more time to spend on this thing but hey it's not exactly like alot of people read this anyway so i'm not overly pushed :) On that note i'll leave you for another installment of Darrens kind of adventures in the USA, I'll get back to ya when something fun happens or I get time to add more pics or stories. 14-08-04Well got sent home early today by security management because I finally lost it and told one of the idiot yanks where to go... lol if I knew abusing guests got me a half-day before now I'd have been doing it all season. It wasn't a particularly bad day today, and i've had alot more deserving recipients in the past but today it just slipped out. Well this is how it goes, she comes up to my line with her 3 kids and starts bitching at my ticket taker about something, now my ticket taker at the time was this old russian women who well lets face it is a bit senile and DOES make alot of mistakes and doesnt know where she is half the time, so I stepped out to see if I could help, she starts bitching and whining so much that I eventually say, Fuck It! just let her in ( to shut her up ) but nooooooo she keeps on bitching and whining except this time i'm in her direct line of fire , I stop her to search her bags and she's going on about how this is a fine way to welcome her to the park, so when I hand her back her bags I put on my best fake smile and smarmy voice and say, "Welcome to Six Flags, Have a nice day!", amazingly for a yank she sensed my sarcasm and starts going "look Darren I dont need you talking to me, We're in America now, your not back in Ireland" to which I replied, "yea I've noticed and it's full of fucking assholes like you" which she wasnt really expecting, she was one of those people who just try and push you so far that they get to complain, well I gave her her power trip. She kept asking for an apology and I just ignored her, then as these dick's do she takes my name and runs off to spend the next hour of her extremely sad life complaining to anyone who will listen. The first person she reached was Dan Anderson, one of the Corporals, who listened and came up to me shaking his head and smiling and asked what I'd gone and done now, ( after he shook my hand and patted my back hehe ) but for now he had to do the job, after an hour and twenty minutes when she was satisfied she had spoken to someone high enough, Dave Julian , Seargeant. She pissed off into the park no doubt hoping I got sacked, silly bitch, just proves I was right all along and she's an asshole, saying that, I dont know what's gonna happen tomoro, but Dave just said that he was told to tell me to go home for the day and come in tomoro. It's strange all the security guards and even most of the white shirt's were shaking my hand and saying Fair Play, every one of them wants to do the exact same thing, the fucking shite we have to put up with in this place is just amazing, I'm surprised I've lasted this long without lashing out at someone. I know I keep promising it but I have a long overdue list of the stupid shit we have to put up with that would make any sane person just scream with frustration, I will get it up at some stage, i'm gonna sit down with the other security guys and list them out, If I had my laptop with me at the gate it would be perfect but the moment is gone by the time I get back, and I just don't have the inpiration. I'll get it up sometime soon. 16-08-04Well we went to Patricks pub tonight, was quite eventful, after an evening spent teabagging a comatose Fernando and doing awful things to him we upped the pace at karaoke night. Declan W already in a bad state after hours drinking came along and after some altercations with the barman decides to swing for him in a not so friendly fashion. Unfortunately not due to any spritelyness on the poor barmans side Declan managed to clock bronagh instead. seconds later I was on the scene, my spidey sense having tingled beforehand and managed to stop any more crap, Deccie was still chucked out tho. Stoney hammered entertained us for a while after that... .... then 107 vs 107 round two, Denise decides to swing for Niamh in the toilets over some matters which have yet to be resolved, my spidey sense caught that one too but unfortunately it retired to the ladies where spidey is not allowed :(... I'm writing this still half cocked myself after getting home which is the best time when it's still fresh but most of the time I couldnt be arsed so hah! Wow little did I know but round three was on the way, when I got home, Denise and Cheryl were em disagreeing strongly with each other, the result being pretty obvious for everyone else. Wow what did they put in the beer tonight? 28-08-04Well it's quietened down a hell of alot here in the last week, there's only 9 Irish left and more to go next week, soon it will only be me and Tiernan Left flying the flag so to say, Poor Tiernan eh?? Well any of my old friends will be delighted to know I'm back playing Asherons Call again, I know I know..... But I'm having fun and hey there's not a whole lot to do here, Just got word that they want another $500 thats $750 for the damage to the car.............. HAHA they'll be fucking waiting, you should see some of the charges they are trying to make me pay! Admin charges $100, whats that a $50 envelope and $25 stamp oh and $25 worth of spit to seal it? idiots. Oh well guess i'm not comin back to the usa then! Off to Bar A again tonight, lookin forward to the Sept 3rd, Deccie Walsh won one hours worth of free drink, anything we want in Bar A, can you imagine how much damage we could do in one hour, we're all gonna be in hospital getting our stomachs pumped, but damnit it will be FREE!! ** *note* Went to Bar A , got absolutely fucked, did many many stupid things, almost got arrested, fell over bins into peoples gardens and had a head on me like nothing before the next day... Damn!!!** Park closes down to weekends only after next weekend, Labor Day weekend so I'll have alot more time to do nothing, come October tho the park becomes a holloween park for Fright Fest and i've applied to be a Ghoul at night's, so at weekends i'll work security during the day then scare people at night for 2 days then doss. At the minute I managed to get off the metal detectors by training in the Security lost and found, it's alot easier but jesus christ, I go from idiots and metal detectors to gobshits who dont realise if you go upside down on a rollercoaster , STUFF FALLS OUT!!!!!, and they expect you to stop the ride and check there and then, or if not I have to magic it out of my ass for them, I swear to god if I had my laptop with me for a day in 6 flags to write down all the absolute idiocy I come accross, I'd have a frickin book!! 13-9-04Well you may have noticed the wider and wider gaps in my updates and also the lack of frickin content also being the reason for the wider gaps :) Ok since last update we have had Labor day which is celebrated by americans as a day for the working man/woman, most working men/women had to work it tho which makes no frickin sense to me?? It was a quiet enough day and marked the end of the summer here in the USA all the "bennys" have gone home and NJ is back in the hands of the locals, in other words all the New Yorkers have gone home and NJ is dead. A good thing for me is after labor day the park closes down to weekends only giving me 4/5 days off a week which is bliss, I work 28 hours over the weekend tho which sucks ass. All this leaves me loads of time to do stuff now but unfortunately the motivation to get off my ass just isn't there! I just sit in my room all day playing computer games now, while this is fun isn't really what I had planned, gonna have to hit NYC again and Atlantic City and Philadelphia and all the other places I promised myself I'd see. As there is only going to be 5 people left here after next week i'm fearing for my comfie home, I've settled in here now and grown roots, my room while smelly and dirty is MY room, I have everything I want or need here while paying 0 rent. I have no idea what will happen now whether we'll be unceremoniously evicted or more strangers will move in to shatter my peace ot what? This is causing me some concern but not that much, If it all goes to shit I can still come home....... No Going Back-----> I'm coming Home!! 24-9-04Ok the situation as it stands in 107 right now is ...... the polish are gone, cya courva!!, Vivienne and Roberto leave tomoro, which leaves the hardcore element of Tiernan, Javi, Lili, Ronald and myself. Doreen dropped by on wednsday morning after almost a months abscence and told us we'd all be moving to Ocean Grove today, we all kind of grumbled and snorted and she fucked off. After of course we decided not to go to ocean grove so began the big mission of trying to screw over Doreen. Ok first objective, Tiernan and javi of course don't want to pay out their months rent they have hoarded, so we started looking for places to run to and we decided to try roadtrip accross america, of course the idea is as far as they get and i'm left to organise everything, I hit this rideshare website where people offer lifts and beg rides all over, check it out it's a great website if your truckin america, I found some for Europe aswell and I'm sure as hell gonna start hitchhiking europe if I go back too, or maybe offer my own car and see if people want to trek with me, some nice hot chick preferably :) We had a few replies from people, one guy charlie obviously wasn't happy when I told him we were all males, too many sausages, dirty old perv. But we have had an offer from one girl to drive her car from NYC to LA, all we have to do is put in the petrol and get it there in one piece. Course we're gonna hit the sites along the way. It's not definate yet whether she will or not she's to call me later but I'm putting up this update now for reasons i'll explain now. Well apart from the fact we might be on the road for sometime after this we got a little note on our doorknob today saying the electricity is being cut off at 7pm tonight :) We were all set for a showdown with Doreen, we had all our arguements for not going to Ocean Grove and all our blackmail ready aswell if she threatened us. We lock all the doors every night now and someone, I think it was Doreen was bangin on the door at 8:30 am, in hindsight it could have been the electricity guy telling us we're being shut off. So we are off to the shop to buy candles and shit and we're all set to squat here for the next week or so till we hitch a ride the hell outta Dodge! Should be either a very interesting next week or an extremely boring one, no light, no tunes, no net, no microwave, shit.... If we do manage to get out of here and on the road I'll of course update you when I can but might not get a chance to upload for a while maybe even till I get back home. Keep an eye out, No Going Back is either going on the road or erm coming back :P 29-09-04Well the power was never cut-off after but when we got home sunday night Tiernan was sitting deolate and the TV was gone, Doreen and Pete had been there seemingly and hit T for some cash then told him they would be back at 12pm next day to move everyone out, but seemingly I was to become homeless as I was not welcome in the new house in Ocean Grove. Pete had left a note on my door saying I owed them $700 in back rent because I didnt do any work all summer, while this is mostly true, he has two hopes, nah who am I kidding he has no hope. Needless to say their followed a flurry of packing while we all planned to leave early the next day before she arrived, unfortunately after almost everyone previously running out without paying rent she finally copped on and arrived at 10am, DAMN. Well the other four all told her they were on the way over to Ocean Grove and they would sort her out there ( moron ), while she bore down on me and asked me what my plans were, I was surprisingly calm and cool, told her I'd find somewhere to go, didnt give her the satisfaction of begging, also she didnt know we already had a place to go. Then she asked me if i was going to give her any money toards rent and I just said "No". She called me the biggest asshole of them all and stormed off, giving us time to load up and head for the train station. After leaving a few surprises for Doreen when she came back, Johnny K's huge Snake falling on her head, I padlocked my door shut with my radio blaring and all the lights and Fan on, I also left my last bank statement on top of the radio for when she does get in, just to annoy her knowing I had the money and she wasn't getting it, T and I played baseball with a few items before we left then we loaded up, me trundling behing Javi and his shopping trolley and T and his bike. We're living in a place in Point Pleasant for a few days now till we get the car on sunday for the roadtrip. I'll be bringing my laptop with me and taking tonnes of pic's and updating each leg of the trip, I'll be putting it on the main page so you lazy sod's can find it, not sure when I'll be able to upload again, I have to break back into 107 to upload this tomoro and liberate some more things for the trip. Javi and T will be heading home around the 16th of Oct, I haven't decided yet what to do but it will be around that time or close to it. From now on updates will be on the main page under the ROADTRIP section. |
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