02-10 blar
I spent about 5 hours working on my car today. This whole door fiasco is enough to make me never wanna let other people near my car again. You PINCH the handle, and that's it.. the door friggin opens itself. But people can't take 2 seconds to use the handle, they just reach up and start pulling. ARGH. >:( Dave told me 'Wait till you've got kids'. Oi. Grant's married. He could have kids soon. That's really fuggin scary.. not in a like, wow it could me way, but in a 'Grant should never be near children, let alone raising them.' P.S. fuck Rumsfeld. Then I did the alignment on my car, it was -such- a pain, this one nut as tight as any I've dealt with, with the added joy of having to hang on to the tie rod with a pair of pliers.. real easy to keep that from twisting against the force of a wrench. And then I finally finish up, get out, and it pulls right. BLAR. So I gotta finish that tomorrow. P.S. Do you have a 3 day supply of food and water, as well as duct tape and plastic sheeting, in case of terrorist attack? We are at alert level orange.. that's the second highest.
I had a dream last night that, towards the end, was a lot like a memory, but enhanced, presumably for me reliving pleasure. I was in a cathedral, it was awesome in the true sense of the word, beautiful... and outside a big meadow of waist deep grass, the sunshine was so warm .. I laid in it for hours with the girl I wa swith, that had been walking around the church with me. I think it came in part because of a dream Jess G. had she told me about. The relevant portion being her running into a hallway to avoid someone, and seeing me there. She tried to get my attention, but I wouldn't raise my head or say anything. Then she saw that my head was bowed because I was carrying a casket, and Liz was at the other end of it, helpnig me carry it, on our shoulders. Weird.
I'm going to watch Return of the Dragon now, and actually do it this time. Here's to tomorrow going a bit better.
~red~

02-09 mud
It's weird... for all the thinking and writing and talking I do, it's completely retarted occurrences that give me a barometer on my well being. When meaningless representations of life set me off, bad drama or what have you. I spent most of today hunting on and off to get items to break down into salvage, to combine into bags of salvage to imbue a sword with to give Kakarot. It takes about 3 hours to make one bag of X type of salvage. Anyway, I finished the day with 2 bags of salvage and two swords to try and apply it to. For some asdlaksd reason, well it's for 'balance', Turbine put a 33% chance of success cap on imbuing weapons, so as you can see coming, they both blew up. That's right, if you fail to imbue the stuff, the weapon is destroyed. I did manage to get his breastplate's value way down so he'll stop dropping it on death, and found him some other cool stuff, but the swords blowing up bummed me out. I am 1 for 13 on imbues, which is a ridiculous amount of wealth blown up. It keeps the economy stable, but it's really frustrating when you just want one freakin weapon for a friend :| Blar. I think I'm more down about denying that it's Sunday night.. work is fairly fun, but I don't feel like the weekend should be over yet, cause I said so. So I'm not going to bed, but I'm not starting the movie I wanna watch cause then I'd be up too late... yeah it's assanine.
I'm impressed by my TV from 1983. Without an antennae I can get like 8 channels clearly.. it has the super old school tuners, where for each channel button you pick Vl, Vh, U, and then tune in stations with a little annoying dial. I think I'll see what's on PBS, and then either read or go ahead and watch Return of the Dragon. I found this great religion book I had started reading years ago, today in my room.
And a baa-ram-you to loneliness.
~red~

02-09 reconfigured
Well we lose all our furniture on Monday, as I think I mentioned, so today I had to move all my things so that they aren't on the same side of the room as those going out - don't want the movers steakin all my whatnot. Also means I lose the desk and chair, but I've actually got a really l33t setup. I brought over a coffee table kinda thing, and I have my keyboard/mouse on that. The monitor is on the tower behind it all. I also brought one of my old tires to use as a chair. Since they are big but low-profile and also very stiff tires, it's really nice, haha. I can sit in it, on it, cross-legged on it.. or like right now, I am sitting on a pillow with the tire standing up to support my back - just used a stuffed animal to keep it from rolling away. Even my seat is performance man, I'm so l33t. I also found the VCR box finally, so I have a VCR (Noah's mom said we could steak one) up here in my room, which means I can finally have the PS2 up here as well, on my ghetto old TV. I played Groove while I was in AC, it was a cool background. DJ Snaz is the man, hahaha.. and his real name is Bing Ching, how cool is that? I borrowed Return of the Dragon from Dave, so I'll watch that tonight before bed. I had a fun time at the mall last night too, with Justo, Aaron, Priti, and Dave. We went to Dave's house afterwards and played Guilty Gear X(X?)... that game is so hardcore sweet awesome, to make up some grammar. I need my own PS2. If I buy games for a system I don't own, Justo calls me 'Dusel' and that's no good. I made some happiness with my computer too. I was running it at 60 hz so that I could be at 1280 x 1024, but it hurt, heh. So I downloaded this neat program called Power Strip, that gives you more control over your display settings and such - it's popular with gamers because you can crank the shit out of the gamma to see down dark hallways and such. Anyway, it let me find some weird resolution and run it at 70 hz, which is a lot nicer on my eyes and brain. So, yay. I can't to have my own apartment though, so I can decorate.. if it's half as fun as decorating in AC is, it'll kick ass, and I think it will be better than doing it in AC, so -woo-. No no, woo WOO, lol. Monkey gets that joke :� .

I went to mom's house to get some furniture and cables I needed, and ended up finding my old literary magazine, that I had people sign instead of a yearbook in 10th grade. I've been looking for it for like 2 years, and I just randomly decided to look in this one bag... bam. Sweet deal. I love what people wrote in it too... one of the highlights being Corey Baxter's 'Eat children'. It has some of the poetry I wrote in 9th and 10th in it, about ellie... I plan to put it up on here, and maybe it won't be long until the stuff I'm writing now is good enough to be exposed to daylight too. I feel like my site is a copout right now, with it being just a weblog.. I want my art and poetry up here again. My brother registered a domain name though... www.maust.net, so once we convince mom to get DSL, we'll have a web and mailserver set up - shibby :) Won't have limits on transfer and webspace and all that, it'll be bomb. And that'll be a cool email to have too, not that I'm adverse to mine now. But something like [email protected] would be ridiculously easy to remember for other people. Welp, I'm off to find some food, as my stomach is starting to get a bit beligerent. Sniff you jerks later.
~red~

02-07 zwan
My CD finally came! And the DVD, and stickers, of course. I'm excited, and of course listening to it. I need to think of where to put my stickers. If I like the album enough, one may end up on my phone - I've had the craziest urges to customize it in some way. It just bothers me that it's stock, which sort of dissapoints me, heh, but oh well. The thing is I really like it as it is, it's shape and color and all that, so I'm not about to customize it for the sake of doing so, and likely end up making it less appealing to me anyway. Stickers! Such a great idea. The problem is the whole sticker conservation thing all humans suffer from. I shall try to overcome, though.
So tonight I went to the mall with Justo to meet Priti and Dave, before we went to see Shanghai Knights. I <3 them all, it was a lot of fun. After a few hours, making it about 9 oclock, a whole bunch of people came in at once, like 7 kids that Justin/Dave knew but I didn't. And the arcade was crowded then, with the usual Friday nighters there too, and I think I had an anxiety attack. I was thinking about how I didn't really feel socially self confident for whatever reason, and then I remembered one thing from Seattle and I couldn't get it out of my head. These are the times when I decidely don't care for my movie like memory, as it began to play in more and more detail, I finally couldn't take it and went outside to sit for a while. When I came back Justo and I went over to KB Toys to play with the guns, and I found this sweet Hello Kitty plush toy, it's the Safari series, she is in this alligator suit, it's so rockin. On the box I saw this elephant one and it's SO cool, but they didn't have it *tear* , so I must keep checkin back in. I got the little alligator one, so I wanna get the big elephant one, or the koala, that looked totally sweet too. There was a tiger as well, but that just seemed a little kinky or something. I got a free bracelet at Wizards too, I found it on the table. After the wallet war. It started when I sat down next to Priti and, placing a quarter tails up, told her my American Eagle was attacking her, noting it's +9 to patriotic bandwagon for all turns after 9-11-2001. It was randomly pulling things out of our pockets, but then it escalated as Dave and Justo joined, and became wallet war. A picture of Beck to smush you with mojo, library card to use knowledge as power, a picture of Dave's sister for the temptation of hot asians, etcetera. And lots of pictures of Priti's cats, which was kinda weird, but whatever. :�.
'and all I wanted, was to hold you close, a little sunshine to butter my toast'
... ew. Anyway.. sigh. My lungs hurt, more the harder I breathe, it's sort of disconcerting. I want like, a refund on my doctor's visit because it didn't do anything for me, even provide reassurance. But, thanks to an 8 years in school sort of monopoly on the deal, I don't think that kind of customer service is anything they give a rat's ass about in the least.
I don't have the energy (more will to take this stupid ass lung pain for any longer) to post about all that's in my head right now. I wish I had someone to play with my hair.
~red~

02-07 snooooooooow
To sum things up, here's a post I just made on the AC Vault.

I was out driving at 2 AM last night, when there was about 3 or 4 inches unplowed, and I could kinda get around.. barely got up the hill to get into my driveway. Work today, but I figured I'd be fine since the roads are plowed but lo, I forgot about the driveway silly.gif We don't even own a shovel since everything is packed for the move, and so I made it about ohhh 70 feet before the driveway started goin uphill and I was completely screwed.


Lesson 1: Own a snow shovel.


Then as I tried to work my way back I made... zlich progress. Rotating the tires only provided less traction so that my front end could more easily slide sideways. I can drift around corners, drive sideways, negotiate horrible conditions, but I got pwned by my driveway.


Lesson 2: Just leave the wheels with radials mounted on the car until May next time. Winter + Performance tires sucks.


If you look at the little quality chart for my tires, they score high 8 or higher in every category, treadwear, dry and wet traction, etcetera, save for one...

Snow. For which they are marked 'non-applicable'.


Hmmmm....


Eh well, I get to place AC all day :D

Lesson 3: forget other lessons learned ;)

So anyway, I'm off to play video games until Dave comes to pull me out with the Toyota, hehe. Have a good snow day, kids.
~red~

02-06 Manson's Bad Religion
I have a little playlist for once, instead of all of my mp3s. I bet you can't guess what's on it... damn you're good. I hit Broken by Bad Religion on shuffle so I nailed it down to my punk folder and Manson. Susan came online! I was like omfg no way, and logged out of AC. She's going to be back Wednesday too, which is cool. Interestin stuff too. She spent a week or something in New Orleans (she's in Georgia for a month) and went to Anne Rice's house, and it took her 3 days to realise it, but she was staying with Bo's sister. o_0. I don't remember why I decided to post. My head kinda hurts. Hmm.
You already know about the apartment, don't care about my lingering cough... yep, I'm boring. This here Fruit Punch is nasty. It's like drinking cough syrup mixed with windshield wiper fluid and a tinge of Kool-Aid. That being 1%, the other 99% corn syrup. I think Kakarot and I are gonna give AC2 a try.
I've been thinking about happiness a lot lately. No, not the stupid-ass movie, I haven't seen it and I think it'll stay that way. But, I feel grounded, because I've got a job where I'm needed and stuff, and I'm going to be signin a 6 month lease. And I think about what I want, and whether it's possible, and whether people are really happy where they are. I was just thinking about what it'd be for me to be happy. It'd involve moving a lot... like living out of my car and driving around all the time. I guess I really am a stickler for radical freedom. Maybe it's the cold... having my windows up and sunroof closed all the time, and being stuck inside... could be cabin fever. Well ... it needs to fucking get WARM in that case. I'm about to do a weekend trip to the south just so I can climb a tree. Aggggggh. I don't feel like thinking about this.
I'll be fine.
No, I don't think I need to move all the time. I think when I'm unhappy, or lonely, I'm restless... I wanna go out and find a solution, or a soulmate more appropriately. It just bugs me when I've got X problem and I'm not actively doing something about it, or atleast making plans to. And I'm lonely now.. maybe because I'm addicted to relationships, or maybe I'm in love withdrawl. No.. I suppose that wouldn't be it, I'm still in love with someone. Maybe I just need a goddamned hug. I think I'll visit Dub at work tonight. *sigh* It can't all be easy.
~red~

p.s.- A few weblogs have sprung up that aren't on my links page. Molly's, for example. Do you have a friend posting that you aren't reading? O_O! The end of the world, I know.. but look deep in their profile and maybe you'll get a surprise.

02-05 hello red!
God my Hello Kitty! stuff kicks ass. I was just looking at my calendar because I can (ok to get the date for the title), and it says 'hello red!', because it knows this is my month! It's so totally sweet. I was just talking to Kakarot about my birthday month, because his birthday is the 18th. I really have some weird pride thing with February - I figure it's because I didn't know anyone else who was born in February (besides Micheal Jordan) until 10th grade (Lindsay Golowski, Feb 14th), and most people don't really think about the month - just use it as a stepping stone into March and looking towards spring. I'm definitely ready for warmer weather, don't get me wrong... but I love that it's myyy month finally =] Oh yeah, my birthday is the 16th. If you wanna know what I want, ask me.
I was just playing video games for 3 hours or so straight, since Noah and I snatched Mike's PS2. Vice City, mmmmm. Half of Miami is covered in my skin, but I can't get enough motorcycle action. Then I popped in Gran Turismo 3 for awhile but it was kinda dissapointing. I drove this Indy type car Mike had for a bit but it was just wack, then I tried his Skyline, but it was on stock tires and the wear is on for all the races in this one, and Skylines seem to just drive me nuts in practice, as much as I <3 them. Then I bought a Type-R Sylvia, but it really just didn't do it for me. I think it may be the physics changes from GT2 to GT3, and I just need to adapt. Or find a car I like :� . I forgot how tiring video games can be, heh... I'm not in the same shape I was, in reference to constant mental stimulation. I am getting in better physical shape though, which I'm pleased with. Developing more of a bicep, and I just feel myself getting stronger. I'll do something at work like lift a full oil drum, or a truck tire or something, and I notice that it's easier than last time.
Oh yeah, and minor news, ;), Noah and I are moving into the apt above the shop at the beginning of March. w0ot! I was a bit bummed that we couldn't get it, because they wanted a year lease, but I told them I'd do it if it wasn't for that, and they talked about it and said it'd be cool if we did it monthly. We ended up sorta comprising though, with a 6 month lease. That means I get some l33t renter credit, but don't have to stay around here past this summer :) Since I'm thinking about going into school FT or moving next fall, it's an ideal situation. I'm so excited about having a place that cheap though - $600 everything but phone included, with washer/dryer. And it's a fantastic kitchen, I can't wait to cook in it, and good place over all. Has this l33t half bedroom too, ahh I can't wait. Takes a big load off me about finding another place, renting from a stranger, etcetera. And it's cheeaap but not sucky or on 9th street. *dance*
*long sigh* I'm so tired. I did a bunch of things today, the pride being a rear brake job on a 1991 GMC pickup. 370,000 miles on it, and it had sat for a year - the brake pads were sort of tearing away from themselves. Really wackass design on drum brakes that old, but I figgured it out and everything :) But, sleepy time. nini!
~red~

02-04 raindrops
It's raining! I'm so happy. It's probably freezing rain or some bullshit, but it can fuck off. Noah's house has a skylight in the one entryway, and I just sat on the stairs to eat my cereal so I could listen to it. It's too gentle to hear through the roof in the rest of the house though, so I wanted to find some music as nice as rain. Tough competition, and consequently I don't have any that fits the bill. I settled on some Brian Eno, which I downloaded while I was sick so I could have something gentle.
I'm caving today and going to the doctor. I'm still sick after a week +, and although my sinuses have cleared, as well as most headache-like symptoms, my cough is persistent and it hurts when I breathe. Yay, pneumonia/bronchitis/some word I don't remember. I told Brandon 'atleast the infection cleared up' and he laughed at me while pointing out that pneumonia is an infection. STFU, bio-chem major. Sheesh. Cheater. Ugh, I know he's going to put me on pills though, and I hate that. And I'm gonna have to pay the hosers!
Blah! Oh well though, I guess dropping whatever on a doctor's visit is better than missing a bajillion more days of work... wait, I'm already working. Well it's better than heart failure. Can't argue that.
Anyway, I'm going to go do something really super awesome while I wait for the doctor's to open so I can make the appointment.
*coughs*
~red~

02-02 to wild and shocked applause
I'm listening to 'Ophelia' by Natalie Merchant. I've been feeling a bit better this week. I'd like another couple of days off work but I don't have to the heart for it. My throat and cough are still around and not a whole lot of fun, but the sinuses are clear and most of the headache is done with. So I'll give work a shot - it's not like I can't come home for awhile if it's too bad or something. I'm mostly worried the smell and dust is going to get to me, and I know me.. once I'm there it will take hell and high water to convince myself I need to leave. I'm not particularly adept with taking care of myself. Coughity cough. But my absence means Dave stays up a lot later working, and I should probably be saving up money to move out, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
I had a wonderful ride in the car tonight.
Mmm, sleep is appealing. Goodnight you princes of websites, you kings of the weblogs.
~red~

01-31 p.m.
I feel a little better today. The coughing isn't as often, although it still isn't much fun, and my sinuses are a good bit clearer. What stinks is I keep thinking I'm better and then I go to talk, or move a bit, and get slapped back to reality.
Reality is fairly boring right now since I haven't been out of the house since Tuesday, and that was for graduation - since then, Sunday. Missy was here earlier but she and Noah went to the Post Office soon after, around 3ish, and are still long gone now (9:30). I bet they're doing it. Seriously though, wonder where they wandered off to. I am jealous because I wish I was doing something... but I'll prioritize the health of all of you above that. I was gonna get a Kung-Fu movie but I was too depressed-esque to leave the house. I'm really lonely (haha, mistyped that as lovely, *bats eyelashes*) tonight. I see plenty of RL friends online, and I have enough online friends, but I want someone here real. I remember one of the first few nights I was sick, I was thinking I wanted a wife. Someone there for you, that cares, that you can snuggle with.
Pandy is a damn good snuggler though; I suppose I'll be grateful for what I've got.
~red~
p.s. - Georgia, wtf.

01-28 um, cough?
Who knew being sick could be this suck? I really don't remember the last time I was this sick, or even moderately sick, but I'm sure this time it's the weather's fault. Sub 0 temperatures for weeks on end, save for maybe 2 days, not even in a row. Questioning the sub-zero? You're probably a hoser on the Fahrenheit scale. n0ob.
So how sick? I was too sick for Brandoi's sarcasm, I haven't listened to mp3's since Sunday, I've left the house twice (both necessary, graduation and running Justin home afterwards), and I'm so fucked up internal thermostat wise I'm wearing two pairs of pants and I'm still kind of chilly. It really feels like my ribs are a band of hispanics having a knife fight, except they all got distracted and went into that gay man pose, like mango, hand on hip, but still holding their knives, so every time my lungs move they get all stabbed up and whatnot. But my whole chest cavity is lined with broken glass. Oiiiiii. How can people smoke?
I didn't get to get myself the Zwan album today (*tear*) because the nearest Tower is in King of Prussia, and I wanted the DVD/CD combo for 5 dollars less, thank you very much, so I ordered it online. Luckily my Aunt gave me 'Building Something Out of Nothing' as a graduation gift (how cool is that?!) [and 50 blank CDs!!] so I have more than enough to bide the few days until it gets here. Like I said, I haven't really listened to music, so eh. I can't wait till it gets here though. I'd say more about the band, but well, that's what Maud's site has been doing for a month now so I won't bother. Nice that he has something to be excited about.

So I have a diploma, I have a diploma! I keep looking at it, it's so pretty and official looking and such <3 <3 The director gave us each a very pretty stone too - she said to remember that we are from the earth and should come back to it, something of the sort. Mine is purple with white in it, and it's pretty. Rounded too, which is important since my lungs are giving me all the jagged I'd like and more.
Well I'd write about my life but it's pretty much try to sleep but fail, waking up every half hour or so from a dream about being sick, to a conciousness of painful coughing and such. So, here are the sweet well wishes of my friends. I appreciate them a lot, actually :]

l33t n00b: feeling better?
Red Raevynn: Dear god no =(
l33t n00b: well what the fuck!
l33t n00b: tell your bitch ass body to suck it up and get over it

PhntsmgrcCat (10:19:53 PM): if you lived closer, i'd make you soup

TheLegendOfJacob (11:43:09 AM): Feel better Red. Or I'm going to be mad at you.
~red~

01-26 still ill
Blah quoting Morrissey, nightstick away, you Manchester nazi. I am so sick, it's absolutely horrible. According to my description both my mother and Brandon think it's a sinus infection. Horrible all over, headache headache headache. Ugggggh. And I'm supposed to/want to work tomorrow too. And I could be eating great food at the Walbert's. C'est la vie. I called my mom like a typical just moved out understocked late teenager and asked her to bring me soup and she's gonna, w0ot.
I couldn't swap that oil pan because the geniuses at Plymouth decided it was too easy to do, and threw an engine mount in front of one bolt. If they had made it a half inch further from the oil pan you could still take off the bolt and thus the pan, but no siree. I didn't really have the strength to do all that business alone in a driveway. I think I hurt my back trying. The mount was frame to engine and tranny, so it was fuckin nasty. It was cold too, really cold. That's kinda been a theme lately - things being really super fucking cold. I am tired of it.
I'm tired of being sick too, but I still feel like hell. Well, with any luck I'll survive.
~red~

01-24 fall
Had my last meeting with Upattinas today where I took in the stuff. My graduation ceremony is on Tuesday, w0ot w0ot. I have nooooo school to worry about. Ever. (until college of course). It's such an amazing feeling. Remember how you felt when you actually didn't have any homework or long term assignments due, and you were free? I know, it usually lasted a day if it ever happened, and my friends that are still in HS probably never get the feeling because they took enough AP courses to run the acronym man out of stock, but it's 50,000 times better than that. I never really got that feeling, because even when I was done my work for the day, I still felt like I should have done more, and that I hadn't gotten enough done, that I was going to fail, etcetera. So for 2 years this feeling has been hanging over me, and it's finally gone. Just work, that's all I've gotta worry about. Tangible responsibilities anyway, heh, there are always other things like 'be a decent person' and such. One bummer about the whole thing is that there was an outstanding balance from my first year there. The neat thing is, since Lee likes me, and knows I'm paying for it myself, she got it bumped from 350 to 150, then even got another 50 taken off because I gave back the books I had been using. *pose* I can't believe she let that go for 2 years. Very her though, I guess. I think I may have paid her back for her paying the full Upattinas bill though, in which case she'd owe me $350, which would be great. Anyway, the point to telling you about this financial hullabaloo is that I'm a little dissapointed because I don't think I'll be able to buy speakers this week. Oh well, life goes on, and I haven't really been able to research as much as I'd like to anyway.
And where will I live when we move out?
Maybe I'll dwell in the house of the Lord forever, I hear he has broadband. Amen.
Last night Justo called while I was at work to see if I wanted to go to the mall with he and Dub, so I went home and changed and Noah and I met them, then met Dave and Priti. (Gerk showed up later too) We were there for like 3.5 hours which doesn't seem like it could pass boring, but it was really fun. Remember my Pickachu pal I had in high school? I lost it, and then when I found it, it hated me, and after a time of dedication, it finally loved me again, with a big heart, and that same fucking day, the batteries died. GYAAAAAAA :| That sucked so much, well, we were in Wizards, and lo and behold, Pikachu 2's!! They have shiny silver outsides, and color screens, and thanks to Yu-Gi-Oh (wherever the fuck the dashes belong) they were dirt cheap. And thanks to knowing the employee, they were cheaper than dirt. So we got them, and I was kicking Justo's azzzz in steps, and then he asked to see it for a second at Friendly's. (I had 15,000+, he had 4,000). I hesitated, then trusting him, handed it over. When we left I got it and didn't look at... it until I got home.
Hey I just realised what happened! Justo isn't an evil step resetting bastage! The day just turned cause it hit midnight! Haha, <3 <3 <3 <3 for Justo again, lol. Not that I stopped, cause it's just a Pikachu, but I was saddened by the loss. I can't wait until it loves me! Right now it says 'Playmates' and so I think Pikachu is just using me.
There was a point to the mall story though - normally I wouldn't have gone and stayed that long and everything, but I was like hey, you just finished, make it a celebratory thing, and even independent of that.. well it was a hell of a lot of fun. Noah and I went to see if Val was working for the hell of it, but she wasn't there. Rachel looked up her schedule for us and told us she'd be next working Saturday, until 6:30, and her friend... um... um... Karen? Carrie? was too cool for us on the phone, but she engaged with me when I gave it a shot, agreeing with me that the name Craig sucks. And two g's on the end of my name sucks too. I think one g gets the idea across well enough, don't you? Noah thinks it's weird I can 'strike up a conversation with strangers', but I always have been able to, and I think it's a hella lot of fun. There was this Chocolatier later that looked so bored, but Justo didn't wanna stop walking, pssshaaaaa, hair flip, gum pop, eye roll. I waved to the people in most of the stores we went past though, and they smiled, I felt good about it. (And not that I see you and am obliged to acknowledge you, I mean smile). I was wondering outloud to Justin, whether people want to, think I'm crazy, or just think I'm hopped up on PCP or something. Well I'm just HIGH ON LIFE. ... psyche. *shudder* If I say that, kill me. I mean, say it seriously. Put down the knife. Jared, damnit, OW. 8-bit really is a bad influence on you. Hey, where'd all my stuff go? And why won't Monkey shut up about swords? Yes, I do know the best template for a sword wielding character in 3rd edition, Ian. AIIIIIIEEEEE

I downloaded Gish while I was at work yesterday. Yay :) it's the only one I don't own (yet), I think I'll get it on Tuesday. Mary Star of the Sea will be my graduation present to me, hehe :D

I don't think it would work, using a little to distract from a lot. It's fun though. Hardly adialore, but, it makes me smile in and out.

Off for work! Whenever you read this, I hope the rest of your day is decent.
~red~

01-23 mountaintops
Maud is such a lucky bastard. Le sigh, Zwan. That close. Etcetera. Sheesh. The sucky thing is I can't find anything of decent quality by them on KaZaA, and I guess I could go to their site but, it's been a long time since I was anxious waiting for an album (actually, since Machina.. wow, I'm a horrible person for the music industry... who I don't care about, right), and 5 more days! [damn, that's a big sentence] aasdal;asaargablarga!
My computer is being a pisser, AIM le haxxed it and everytime I want to switch to an IE or folder window (technically explorer as well but most of you don't know that), it starts blinking and I have to click it three times to bring it up. So annoying, but I don't feel like restarting. Shut up.
What am I doing? Trying to make myself late for work, I guess. I worked 5.5 last friday, 7 monday, 8 tuesday, 8.5 yesterday... atleast I'll get a lot of money (and I've been enjoying it and learning). I plan to buy some decent speakers for my car, so sick of my pos VW audio. Suggestions are so welcome. redraevyn(at)softhome.net .
Adialore, what are you doing? I should be better, I am better. I know I am. But Adialore, you bring me back down, adialore you bring me above. Ride on your wings, drown in your water, choke on your fumes. Can't leave me be, can't leave me be, won't let you go. I don't think distance is the answer, I thinkt that's running from you, adialore, adialore, adialore. Maybe that's the solution when you're wrong, but it stings when you feel right. Aches, nags, pulls. You're supposed to be infallible, but it's so hard to believe. Your choice hurts sometimes, even now! Now, now! Now? How, I'm past that, pushed that, understand and adapt that. No, I suppose not past that. I never passed it, left it, was without it. Locked inside, like caging a tiger with plastic straws, but I did it, I did it, and I still do, still can.. ('t ?). Maybe another, less true, not you, not your choice, could make me forget what you... no. Haven't tried it but I don't think it could, because you're what governs them all. I can't make it myself, pick, choose, find decide. Adialore, adialore, so tunnel vision in your choosing and so strong, determined, eternal.
Adialore.
~red~

01-21 Misinterpretation!
Hey kids, it's time for the Completely Out of Context Hour! (R) Tonight features Juuudomononoooooke!

judomononoke: we'd just writhe at fucking mel gibson for a good long time
judomononoke: YESAH!!
judomononoke: and don't tell me who to fuck
judomononoke: nobody tells me who to fuck

Scytal3: yes

Oh man that Scytal kills me! I know this wasn't about him, but well it was just so great I couldn't pass it up. WOOOOO! Some of you may be wondering why this wasn't an hour long. Well you probably mistook that (R) for some play on being a registered trademark... no, no, that was a Type-R, R. It makes anything go faster, and in this case my post had a 250 horsepower improvement, so it didn't take an entire hour. (by the way, those lines aren't in anywhere near the same order as when they were created, hell they were probably funnier the first time, but I dnot caer. plooooo.)

I ran into Jimmy Patton last night. Well, I didn't run into him, although it's surprising at the speed he was going. 10-15 under the limit, le SIGH, on route 10. So I waited until the hill (if I'm going to pass a riced out CRX I may as well humiliate it), and then blew him out of the water. The funny part was him trying to race me while I passed him... hehehe, silly Hondas. So once around him I go about 58 (55 mph speed limit, and I'm in that death if recieve ticket time), and lo and behold he gets on my butt... wth, you go 40-45 for 3 miles then once I pass, you speed up.. fine, be a fucker. Once traffic clears, he goes flying past me. Fine by me, get out of my night... but nooooooo, I come over a crest to see his brakelights, wttttfffffff. He's going 40 again. >:| I get close to his tail, and he stays around that speed until the turnpike overpass (you know, where cops sit... wtf?) and he floors it... again, good, go away. Come around the corner by the hill and again, he's... going 40.
asdlka;k;sdfk.
So I put on my turn signal and flashied my headlights, but he didn't really get the idea and went past McDonalds, so I tried it with a left... aha, he pulls onto North, and when he saw me go into the gas station, came in as well. I asked him wtf he was doing - that I smoked him on the hill and don't usually bother with Hondas, so I wasn't about to race him again, and he told me he was slowing down again because he knew where cops were. Riiiight, go past Carrs at 70-80, brake for the corner where they have no room to sit, and floor it for the overpass. Oookay. He imported a VTEC from Japan for it, but he got a 1.6L... (for reference, that's the same displacement as Dub's engine, hehe) Injen intake, Gatti haeders and gaskets, exhaust.. and says it does about 200 hp, 150 to the wheels. Suuuuuuure. I love telling people my car is just a 4 cylinder though, getting beat by a Jetta is a very humiliating experience for most people. :D
I've gotta finish typing this stuff up for school - drop all of it off tomorrow. I was going to have it done by last week, and I certainly could have, but I wanted to put a little more effort into it (even than was required).
Annnnnd I'm off!
~red~
DJ Kosmonova - Take Me Away . I love it when I'm listening to a techno song I downloaded, and not really paying attention since the beginning is just intro stuff, standard, whatever, and all of the sudden the good part comes in, and ahhh it's just wonderful. Woo techno!

01-20 ice
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Haha, Tupac. Well I just found out some not so great news -
HTE HIZZY HAS BEEN DEALT!!1!. Sheeit. So now me and me numero uno Noah gonna be out homeless style around March time. We'll get a place though, and it will be the bomb, and it will have broadband. w0rd!
"You a bad ass nigga!"
Ooh, that Tupac keeps it coming. ... until I hit stop. Eesh. Trance time. I was driving a car to emissions and another back today and I hit some half decent techno on Q102, another trip some good classic rock elsewhere, and I could have just driven all day. That says something when you're in a Ford Tempo, Pontiac Bonneville, whatever =P. Pickups too. And tigers oh my, la la la. Really gave me a bit more to get through the day. I love working with Dave. I realised part of it is because he's ADD, and it just cracks me up. He'll just completely drop something because he gets distracted, haha. And it's just fun anyway. But DEAR GOD THAT STATION MUST DIE. I challenge any of you to listen to Family Radio. Actually, don't... it isn't worth it. Spread the word! RARRRR maybe if by word he means acid and by spread he means replace his blood with, then yes.
Well this post isn't that interesting and I wanna go downstairs, so it's over. I'll try and add something worth reading later tonight, but MAEYBE I WNOT.
~red~

01-19 vaminos
Noah has been sick, poor kid. Shitty sick too, like just a fucked up throat and sniffles, so you feel like hell but you can't sleep or play computer or talk or do anything. Hopefully it'll be gone when he wakes up, for his sake.
I got some nice cars in Gran Turismo 2 the other day. Found a few other cars that are total crap, ugh. I hate it when I'm used to highly tuned powerful cars and you get in something with 100 hp that turns like a brick in a wall.
All in all.
Ophelia, Cornflake Girl, Northern Lad, Joyful Girl.
I wanna play guitar.
A lawsuit, a note, little white, a pack mammal - figure that one out and I'll give you $10.

Without intention someone gave me a great promise yesterday. Maybe not as solid as that, but something to look forward to and hope for.
*spreads arms and spins*
Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Oooh, I got to hang out with my sister a whole bunch yesterday, it was so crater jumping cool. I got my mom to let me take her with me when I went grocery shopping, and then she went somewhere with my mom so I came back to Noah's, then went back for dinner. Throughout the whole night she would sit next to me while I was online (I was getting Dance With Intensity working for her on my mom's computer), and laugh at my friends. I think Monkey was her favorite, haha, and my brother liked him too.. maybe we'll adopt Monkey. No, no.. red's family bad. lol. It was fun though, and after dinner we watched Waking Life. Man do I love that movie - listening to philosophy and watching art for a couple hours, essentially. And if you want, it's gotta a pretty cool plot too, and works as a movie. Wheee! You can take it on so many levels.
Man, my one Hello Kitty figure thing is kinda dirty.

Not the wash-mitten!
...
OR THE VIBRATOR!
... I hate my friends.
lol, naw, I hate you in a nice way. It would be really appropriate if I suffocated Jared with the wash mitt . . . exxxcellent.
Undevay! After that I had to DL the new DirectX (9.0 is out, btw) so she could run it, and then get it to work, but it was fun, I left around midnight. The last hour or so Erika was tired enough she was just chillin leanin onto my shoulder, hehe. Then I found this old tape of a Discovery Channel special, 30 years of National Geographic. Monkeys are so funny.
'How arrogant, to think that your mind knows better than love.'
(rough paraphrase.)
~red~

01-15 verges
Oh, dear, a post on the vault got me nearly crying. An AC friend's brother died, at only 14. I can't even imagine. One of my friend's siblings, let alone Sparika, or Brandoi, oh golly. Man I missed the trees while I was gone - I love the window in front of my desk because they're fairly close. Ahh trees. I wish it wasn't so damn cold, I'm aching to climb again. It really isn't the same without barefeet and being able to hug and get scraped by the bark and such though.
Trance isn't helping all this emotionality, but I like it anyway. Mmm, new word. emotionality... eh, shoulda been a word from the start.
You know what's nice? Not being broke all the time. It was okay but I'm looking forward to not being a mooch, for an extended period of time. There is a downside to work though, this hyper christian radio station - not even like Maud's mom either. oiiii vey, it makes me wanna hurt people. A) the music is bad and dear god (oh irony) is it ever repetitive! And the announcers are always spewing the most ridiculous propoganda... gaaaahh I can't believe people believe it, let alone spread it. At the end of the one show, they say all cheesy, 'Spread the word!'. Ooh, biblical pun! ERT.
...
Maybe I was right... oh brandon would beat me senseless (or the opposite, really maybe depends on your perspective) if he knew what wandered in this head of mine.. .
tra la la
~red~

01-14 tuxedo
It was kinda weird today, I felt so.. part of the community. *shudder* I was driving from Dave's (small mechanic) to what Dave calls 'the G-spot' (lol, that's Gary's, the guy who owns a machine to do emissions inspections with.. well, the machine), in Merl Stoltzfus' Cadillac, and I saw Molly's mom and brother, Liz's mom in her mail car, and probably 5 or 6 people from CEFC.. all in driving about a mile. Bleagh. I really like being part of helping a small business survive, especially a shop. I overheard someone or other that came in say the average age of mechanics in small shops is 40. :( Dealers are funneling more and more work to themselves, and chains like Jiffy Lube, Pep Boys, Meineke, take business because their size lets them offer ridiculously low prices. Yarr, we'll survive.
Sweet, it's dark. I aligned my headlights today and they were soooo off. My estimation that they were pointing about 10 feet in front of my car right on the road was right, I can't wait to see how bright they'll be. Need excuse to drive... maybe I'll pick up my guitar from mom's.
Sitting down makes everything run from my head - poo. Everything I think about writing for anyway. I should go to Goodwill too, and get some work clothes.
I like the new(est) colors here.

Why.. do I miss you so much?
.red-~

01-14 fishing
I feel like I haven't posted for days. I suppose I have, but I haven't had time to write what I've wanted, so I feel like the updates have been crap. I work at 9 every day, usually until 2 or 3 or 4 or you get the idea, and I've just been so tired! I suppose I did burn off the afternoon yesterday because I bumped into Cherie so we hung out, and then I had to go to dinner with my mom, followed by a run to Wal-Mart where I completely forgot the most important item because I'm a spaz. (socks). I guess I'll just go to Hane's in the Home Furnishing Outlet and hope they have them, and not just women's underwear like the signs say. So another day of wearing argyle socks to work as a mechanic, hehe. *shrug*
The latter part of my dream last night was pretty weird... lol. I was in Philly with Larry, Justo, Jacob, Ang, and a girl, can't remember who, and we were in this square. It was more like a square that would be in Russia, foggy, flat, brick, and the water was black, as it was night. We were all in trenchcoats or dusters and walking around, it was fairly dramatic. I tried to attack Ang, but he saw me coming because apparently I was wearing a coat like Vash the Stampede's!! (a la Trigun) Yeah it was hella cool. Next thing we're all staring at the water, which is like a port or something, and I think it was inspired by Noah's fish pond out front - the goldfish are just frozen in place, oh man it's worth a trip to see it. All of the sudden, Ang just fuckin dives in the shit, lol, and starts trying to catch a fish with his mouth, lol. That's my Ang. I went over to a place where the wall around it wasn't as high, and a fish came right up near the edge and I thought it was going to beach it's damn self.. it was blue, and about 4 feet long. While I was staring at it, another came up from behind and bit my ass - I have no idea how. Then, I took a boat out into the water. ? . I remember coming back in on it, it was as if it were in fast forward, maybe 8x speed. Then the guy navigating the boat had to put it away - he used this machine like a forklift, but with 6 tires like those old school ATVs. Drove and over cars, boats, other forklifts, freakin everything, while carrying the boat on the front end, lol. Then we went out to a Chinese restaurant I went to while I was in DC. It was really good but I don't think we were supposed to be there - had that 'We're letting you slide on complete ignorance' you're dining in a Triad bosses main place feel to it. But damn it had some mean miso.
Mmm, PBnJ for breakfast. It's more than a staple in Noah and I's diets, haha. Whoa - it's kinda eerie when people drive up, take a picture of the house, and take off. o_0. I haven't written all I'd like to, but I've gotta finish getting ready for work, oh well.
~red~
'Follow me to the planet of liquid skies!'

01-13 *arm in front of face*
*sneaks up on unsuspecting readers* Karaaaaaaaaaaaaaate chop!
WOO-PAH!
*ninja pose as you fall over*
GIDONK!
*Bruce Lee after-cry* Wooooaaaaahhhhhhhhoooooaoaoooaooooooooaoooooahhhhhhhhh...
~red~

01-12 sing to me, Ani
Sorry chief, you just did, by saying you weren't and wouldn't, hah. Nice to know you're above that sort of thing though.

It's hard to hear someone else tell you how you feel - but I really fucking hate it when they're wrong.

'And baby I just want you to understand, I'm not angry anymore, no I'm not angry anymore.'

Le sigh, police. I remember the time I was driving and all of the sudden speed limits struck me as a huge violation of my rights. I want to go that fast, fuckin A I should be allowed to. I see some of the reasoning behind it, but goddamn does going 35 suck. Bah to the poulet. Wish I could stop worrying, it's going to be fine. I guess I did, but not for good. I won't until it's all over and such.

Oi vey, the drama of late.

Well I'm tired as all getout, so I'ma go to bed. By go to bed I mean chill with Aaron for awhile, but I'll get to bed at sometime tonight. I have all of tomorrow to sleep, haha. *shoulders relax* Arr, if only: I need a freakin massage.

'Oh the drama.'
~red~

01-09 I am a patriot
- EDITED: (28 seconds to infamy) -
I suppose I have enough to update about, but it's all fairly good news. Dun dun dun. Not so much news as just a general feeling - happiness. Lo behold and be mystified, I know, it's a funny funny thing inside. Been a long time since I felt genuinely happy with nearly all facets of my life. (May I return a few of my mother's character traits and redeem them for others? Kthxbye?) I'm glad though. It's sort of like always having the perfect shirt for the occassion. The light t-shirt that whips around, in spring, the heavy one that even blocks wind, when it's cold in winter.
(Spontaneous mental image of Eric wearing a light t-shirt, standing in the middle of a road, at the top of a hill - moon is behind him. Looks good, even though the wind on his back whips the hair into his face.)
Or something like that, if I could describe the feeling I'd be making soma, or writing books more likely. mm, writing books. Books books, I love books. I'm going to Walter Amos tomorrow just to smell them. Man I LOVE that shop. I say books and I hear Susan saying it funny, like she says monsters funny. Tee hehehehe. Munsters. Munsters, lol. I work myself up into fits of laughter jut imagining her saying that. I so crazy.
We are two crazy guys!
Justo would get that joke, and his dad would too. Or some other person who has seen most of Steve Martin's SNL stuff. That's a grrreat skit though, it really is. Anyway, enough of this, I've got an email to finish. Tonight after coming home was like email, email + convos, convos, update, now convos and email. My brotha is on! Word to him!
~red~
P.S. - I'ma fuckin gradumacate SOON! SWEEET

01-06 drift
Ok, I really really really wanna be a rally driver, and that's all there is to it. And I'm really -good- at driving, I think. It's my main point of self esteem. I came back to these roads and all of the sudden I'm just faster in almost every way, sort of like the mountain roads in Seattle were some sort of training facility - like the super gravity place in Dragonball Z. It's very exciting to feel really skilled at something. (not that it's the only thing, but).
Today was ok, worked for a few hours, but went to leave and my alternator was totally locked up and toasted. Bad enough the actual bearings (read: little metal balls usually inside a housing) were rolling around inside - I'm guessing the piece of metal I pulled out when I replaced the brushes was one of the housings. Oh well, lol, I'll be more careful next time, since had I known I could have gotten an alternator then rather than buying brushes and getting a new one - but since I'm having it rebuilt I'm not actually losing any money, so w0ot. George was cool enough to pick me up from work and whisk over to the place before they closed, so I can pick it back up tomorrow. Then I went to Dub's house because he, being the man, let me borrow his car till tomorrow night, stopped at the Burke's to get my wallet, and went and picked up Molly. I was going to cancel because this alternator ordeal has me poor for awhile, and I didn't think I had a car, but lo and behold =) Figured we'd go to Reading and find something, or who knows what. We got on 176 and Dub's gas light came one - blast! Within a mile, there was a car on the side of the road. We decided to stop, because it'd be something exciting. I like helping people, hell this was like my billionth person I'd stopped and helped since I got back into PA (does noone else know how to drive in snow?). Anyway, it was a Fiero (RWD, strike one), and he had lost the front wheels and slid 100+ yards before going nice and off road at the ditch. Lucky in a sense though, another 10 ft and he would hae hit guardrail (and ruined his front end), another 100 feet and he was on the bridge, aka concrete sides. The d0od gave me 20 bucks! I wouldn't have taken it, and rejected twice, but he had a wad with about five 20s and a few 100s, so I didn't feel too bad, lol. We used that to get gas (Dub will have more gas when he gets it back than when he gave it to me, doesn't get better than that, right?), and rent Momento, since it was a little unhappy to go to Reading and we didn't have any plans for it anyway. It was fun, I like Molly. Hmm, then after I took her home I bought myself some french fries, because I was feeling good, and came home and had a bunch of conversations on line - I love it when that happens =) Pretty decent day, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think the apt above Dave's shop is going to turn out for me - but that's ok. I can live with Noah until his house sells, which could be as late as next year now, apparently (*Crosses fingers for that*) It's kind of better - I can actually save money (or put it into my car, w0o-oot speakers), don't have the lease tying me down, and working for Dave leaves me sooo flexible it's great. I can't wait to do some more travelling =).
Well, I'm off because I should have gone to bed a half an hour ago, once again. =P. Good friend is logged into AC as well, so I'll talk to him during my weekly 20 minutes I get to squeeze in, hehe. I love being busy though, I know if I wasn't I'd regret it when you were all back at schoo :P. I'ma end this Crab Meat style.

FUCK YOUs - Whiners.
FUCK MEs - Molly, cause she was my hot date ;)
FUCK YEAHs - #1 my brother because Seattle was a fantastic thing for me, as was living with him, as is he. All my friends because you guys are the bomb, Beth because she's a great drinker, Noah because he sticks to his guns, and the longer I've known him the more I've liked him, shit, I gotta stop now before I write another page.
nini2u!
~red~

01-05 nYc
Comparison is the mother of all fuck-ups and issues.

Without it, where would anyone be? They wouldn't know, and they'd probably be happier about it.

So I got home and in my weird habit (oh you all do it too) of reading people's away messages saw Maud updated, and he was in NY this weekend. And came home about the same time, the same route.. o_0 kinda weird. We caught the 6:54 from Penn station to Trenton, I guess he was the train before us, but still. ... So, we went in to see the Producers and an art exhibit that had stuff from Monkey's art class. It was a really kickass weekend, overall, and fairly significant. Well, I learned a lot anyway. There were about 6 other galleries on the same floor as the one with Monkey's stuff, and so I went to them all. There was a clay one, which had some really cool things in it, based on clashing eastern and western cultures, I think. One full of oils by this guy, all still life of random crap from the 1800's, I didn't like it much, one of some woman's reaction to 9-11 which I didn't like because of the style, another that just wasn't that great (artistically, conceptually, what have you), but but but, one last one had a very assorted collection, and one of the pieces was one of those oil deals where it looks like just a random collection of colors all smeared around, people usually make fun of. Well, I've never seen much talent in it either, whoop de doo, you smushed a lot of colors in a seemingly completely random pattern. I've seen Koko do that. Well, there was one there, the first time I'd seen one in real life. Primarily yellow, about 4 feet by five feet high, but it really drew me in. I think the reason they mean shit in copies and reprints and such is because the texture isn't there. I was staring at it for 5 maybe 10 minutes before I realised it. It sort of shifted, moved a little. I got the feeling in my stomach that.. (haha, I can just hear a couple cynic friends making fun of and also being elitist about, this post before it's written, but to hell with them, broken necks and car wrecks).. well it comes around when I'm.. feeling.. something a lot. Very good music, seeing things (horizons, leaves, whatever), people - feels like I'm about to cry and I'm being pulled by the stomach. It's my empathy feeling, I suppose, it's a very powerful thing, whatever it is. Anyway.
So that was neat. We walked almost 30 blocks from the train station to the hotel then as many down to the gallery and back to the hotel. Monkey and I spotted someone handing out little pieces of paper walking back from the gallery and we decided to see what they were. They were coupons to get into the Ha! comedy club for half price, so I got enough for the 6 of us. Back at the hotel I made 12:30 reservations for the aforementioned, and we crashed for a couple hours (I passed out, since I had hardly slept at all Friday night, maybe 2 hours) and then Beth picked us up and we were headed for going to a lounge with her and some friends. However because of the attire of some, I suppose, and the size of the group, we figured we were going to end up getting carded, and so we opted out. We went to a bar called 'Rodeo' (Hahaha, thought of you Liz) to burn time until the comedy show, then went to the funniest live performance I've ever seen. Dear god. It was so bleeding funny. Most if not all of us had sore stomachs when we left, oh it was killer. We were hella close to the stage, as close as anyone for that matter, aka Dub and I were each resting a leg on it. Interacting with the comics and the MC is so fun, heh. It was a small place too, probably, 50-70 people in there? Rectangular with the long walls bright red, and the ceiling/end walls black. The first comic referred to it as the devil's prostate, lol. Anyway, that was just fucking great. Got to laugh with one of the comic's after the show as well, outside. We went back to the room then, and things sort of went downhill but, eh. Eric drank way way way way too fucking much, and .. well ugh, just fuck that. Beth is the best drinker I've met, next to my brother. She's responsible about it, has never been sick, and isn't radically changed by it - she opens up a bit more than usual, but she's just hella fun to be around when she's tipsy. I didn't bother getting drunk at all - there was a 2 drink minimum at the club so I had some vodka at the comedy club because I like it so much, heh, but it was negligible. It was fun to be in an atmosphere where people drank but not to get hammered - I really don't like the drunk thing, or being around it. Granted, some drunks can be really fun - take for example the logic that someone saying 'don't touch me' means not that they (for some radical reason, I'm sure) don't want you to touch them, but that you are so hot they are worried they won't be able to keep their pants on around you. Lol. Ok so all in all it was a fun evening, but really, I think Noah may be right.
Today was the Producers, which was pretty cool, and we went into the Toys R Us there in Times Square, omfg. Didn't even see all of it but damn was it cool, especially the full sized full motion TRex, dear god it pwned. An employee was talking to me about it, apparently the first day they had it, it was on a much cooler program where it moved more, roared a lot louder, swung it's head down low and such, but old people clutched their chests, others ran, and children cried, so now it's on this wussy shit. *le sigh* Damn the pansies of the world! Lots more to write about, but I've hit the need to sleep point. About 30 hours ago. But now it's getting late and I work at 9 AM, so I'm really gone do it. Besides, my bed kicks ass.
love and peace!
~red~

01-03 it gets better.
So, I went in today to do the work on my car. Oil change, nice rims/tires back on, inspection. Cost: -$5 dollars. Hehe, I was expecting to pay a bit to Dave but it turned out I worked more than I cost. Haha. Sah-weet, as Maud would write it. I also got yet another happy surprise from my car - sort of like when I realised I had a $120 air filter, I was looking under my car and noticed some letters on my muffler. I always knew it wasn't stock (stock are dual tip) but hadn't thought much of it, but lo and behold it's a $400 exhaust system. Hahah. Again, sah-weet. Also that I have a 25mm (aka BEEFY) anti-sway bar in the front. Roar. Then, I was talking to Dave more about the apartment, and he's willing to hire me full time and rent me the apartment! Gasp! Sugar sugar, baby. I gotta find a roommate though, which will be more difficult. Dum dum de dum. Someone who can steadily make $300 a month and not drive me insane. I'm not sure which of the two are more important. HAH! bite me. So, now my plan is to wrap up HS (meeting on Tuesday at 16:00), then while working take a physics, maybe german, whatever else I can fit/interests me, courses at RACC/Berks, depending on my budget. o0h or maybe since I'll be living in Chester county I could milk DCCC or something - is that a good thing? *shrug*
I went to visit Molly while she was at work today, that was fun, because Molly is a good person. I want to learn guitar too, and I need to keep up with piano, as well as get half decent at Marvel - most things are coming along nicely. oOh I hope I do this, having my own place would be cool, because my mom is psychotic. :D Haha. ANNNNNYWAY I'm off for a burke-tastic evening, followed by a kickass time in NY for the weekend. Seeing the Producers, hoooorah Mel Brooks =) And spending time with r33t friends. Then work on Monday! Full time job, w0ah o_O.
Peace out, carebears!
~red~

01-03 Surprises
Blast, I lost an update apparently. I must have had it in preview and thought I had it saved and loaded, and just closed it. A point for the sped department, I suppose. I went out with Aaron, Dave, Priti, and Allyson. Dave and Tosh got Macho Nachos, and Allyson and I at the other end of the table had milkshakes, for which we got a cup of extra sprinkles, which was eventually dumped by Priti onto Aaron's macho nachos, making them kind of sissy. The mix of genders in his nachos was more than Aaron could handle, and so the next day he was sick, which sucks for his break, but not everything is bad - he made an incredible discovery, being that he likes the taste of Pepto Bismol and Coca-Cola coming back up. ... yeah, that's what I, and the rest of the world save for his father, said.
I keep thinking of all these material things I want. I mean to write them down so I can get them next time I have money or something, but it seems like if I can't remember it then, it's not that important. However, I may just be straight forgetting it, in which case it would suck to get something else instead. For instance a burner, and about a billion other things. I wanna be able to transfer my music from my computer to my car, that's not so bad or materialist =P.
So why title it surprises? Well I called Dave (the mechanic) because I had a lot of things I needed to do to my car, and he said that he was fairly busy until Monday. Ok, no problemo, but I let him know I was around if he needed me, if he got too busy. I went down to Frank Hauser's to pay for the alternator part they gave me on Tuesday, and by the time I got back there was a message essentially saying 'Hey, wanna work today?'. Haha, it was pretty sweet. I went in for three hours then, yesterday afternoon, and he's going to pay my 7.50 under the table - sweet deal. It's also all wrenching, actual work, instead of primarily sweeping and odd jobs like last time. =) And then they tell me the apartment above the shop is for rent, and it's 550/600 a month for 1 or 2 people respectively, with everything included. Heat, water, electricity, phone, trash, it's all in there. There isn't any cable up there but who gives a crap - I just need to add DSL or Cable anyway, and I'm freakin set, lol. I need a roommate though, I don't wanna swing 550 alone =P I'd rather live at home and go to school, but I don't know how that will work out with my mom (aka I don't see it happening) le sigh. We'll see how things work out. If I get Dave's and just work, I'll take some courses at RACC or Berks part time, and just go into skoo full time this fall. w0ot! :D. Well I've gotta split now, go do the work on my car before I go out with Aud today.
P.S. - Glad you made it back to Seattle brandoi, although I miss j0o
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