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Jul. 22nd, 2006 @ 02:07 pm I'm back
Current Mood: chipperchipper
well, it's been a year and a month since my last real entry and what an interesting time it's been since then here's a quick recap in bullet point / chronological format

  • Got a new job July 6th working 8:30-5 in an actual office, no more struggling for freelance work. and barely scraping by.
  • My mom and Rick sold the house and moved to Ft. Meyers FL in August
  •  Went to Kings Island with Shane, Dyanna, Kevin, Traci, and Scott in September, never actually saw traci or scott at the park. Tomb Raider rocks, the beast sucks in the morning, but was significantly better in the evening. Son of the Beast Sucked my first ride, but was barely tolerable the second. It was a quaint park, and I'll have to go back eventually. We stayed at Dyanna's grandparent's farm, and had fun exploring their old barn late at night.
  • Dyanna and I went down to visit my parents with my grandmother in December for christmas. It was very relaxing, but my grandmother kind of limited us in what we could do.
  • Dyanna got me a terrarium full of carnivorous plants for christmas.
  • New Years Eve Party at my place. Andy brought Jones Soda's Holiday Gift pack. Turkey and Gravy soda is the most vile thing on the planet
  • Servers at work hacked by hippy ex-sys-admin. We loose over 500 websites, backup servers hit too. I put in 12+ hour days 7 days a week for a couple weeks hunting down and recovering everything. We're able to recover about 95% of lost websites.
  • I ask Dyanna to move out in February
  • Dyanna and I break up a couple weeks later
  • Go to Ft Meyers to visit mom for 4 days around easter. Spend lots of time on the beach drinking.
  • Meet 18 year old intern at work, and ask her out, she says yes . Date gets canceled due to her being sick, she moves to California a week later.
  • Went to see Spamalot, great musical, kind of disappointed that it didn't feature the original cast, but oh well.
  • Dad gets Married to Janet, huge wedding over Memorial day weekend, lots of booze, spend friday-sunday drinking and partying with family. Recovers all day monday.
  • Work sends me to Miami office for 3 days(Arrive monday, night return thursday AM). The first hurricane of the year expected to hit while I'm down there, I was kinda excited wanting to experience first hurricane, but Miami was too far south. Pulled an all nighter Wednesday night when the office went out drinking on the company's dime. Huyen gave me about 50 of her business cards, I told her I'd wall paper my room with them. Then had to catch early morning red-eye flight and get into the office at 9:00 am Thursday morning. Impresses the hell out of my boss that I was still alive, and came into work.
  • kinda got back together with Dyanna
  • broke up with Dyanna again, spent a week feeling depressed and miserable about it, completely over her now
  • wonders when carnivrous plant terrarium will actually grow carnivirous plants and stop being a black dirt terrarium.
That more or less brings me up date from last year till yesterday.
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Aug. 30th, 2005 @ 08:27 pm Because I had too
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Jun. 25th, 2005 @ 12:03 pm I feel like I'm back at IIT
The power went out last night again. This makes the second time in two weeks that we lost power. Stupid power company.
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May. 26th, 2005 @ 12:22 am because it's been a while
Is it wrong of me to get more enjoyment out of sniffing the tea bag than actually drinking the tea? BTW it's mint tea.
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Apr. 18th, 2005 @ 03:24 pm A stalker again or how do these mysterious packages keep appearing?
Current Mood: confusedconfused
About a month ago a package from amazon.com arrived. it was addressed to a D.F. and inside was a copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Ackbar or what ever the hell it's called. This is kindof strange since I'm really not a harry potter fan. There were a number of people who could have sent this to me since most of my friends have been insisting that they're going to get me to watch it one way or another.

Of course everyone denies sending it to me.

Jump forward to today when there is another similar package for DF. This time it included Kill Bill Volume 1. A much more appropriate choice in movie. I just need to find out who is sending me the videos. If you have any ideas who it could be leave me a message.
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Apr. 13th, 2005 @ 10:30 pm Work, work, work
well, it's been 3 dyas at work, and I'f finally gotten int the swing of things. This is really my first time working on a project with a team (there's me and a designer) so it took some adjusting picking up where the last guy left off, and finding out where my boundaries were. My first two days were quite stressful since I was under the impression that I had to do one thing, and the designer was under the impression that he was to do the same thing.

Thankfully we got that sorted out before it lasted too long and there's not much that needs to be re-done.

I also sold my car the other day for $200, which is going towards food, and bills right now. Once I get rent and bills straightened up I'll be looking around for something new.

list of things I need to save up for in order of importance
1) Car(~$2500+)
2) H2G2 tickets(~$10)
3) Six Flags Season pass(~$80)
4) TV(~$400)
5) Digital Camera(~$900)

I should be able to have everything by June Happiness!
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Apr. 7th, 2005 @ 09:33 pm A new job take 2
So for those of you who aren't in the loop, I had to quit my last job since I wasn't getting payed, and the one paycheck I did receive bounced. Needless to say I've been job hunting the pst two weeks.

But luck is on my side. I got another gig and start on Monday! I am now going to be a programmer for www.datebillboard.com. To make it even better I'm starting at $25/hr.
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Mar. 31st, 2005 @ 11:19 pm Strangers with candy
Current Mood: amusedamused
While I was waling home from the train station, I ran across this group of girls. One of them offered me apiece of candy(one of those "sour patch kidz" gummy type thing). Dyanna said that they were trying to hit on me, but they were on the illegal side of young. So my question to you is "should I eat the candy?" Everyone gets one vote, and voting ends on april 2nd. Make sure you vote, and tell all your friends to.
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Mar. 29th, 2005 @ 12:14 pm Illinios hates me too
Since my car had just been in the shop two weeks ago, and because having a tire blow out on me wasn't enough, my car decided to die on me today on my way into work. I was stopped at a gas light when all of a sudden... "pop, hisssss" and steam comes pouring out of my engine. Fortunately, I'm right near an intersection, so I push it into the lot with the help of an anynomous good deed doer. After letting the engine cool down and adding more antifreeze/coolant, I start it up only to make it two block before the temp gauge is in the red, so I pull into the nearst spot(in front of a firehydrant). A tow-truck guy comes along pretty quickly and offers to tow it for me, so they have the car and are taking a look at it. I'll know what's wrong later today. I have a feeling this is going to be another expensive repair. I'm sick and tired of pumping money into this beast. This will be the third time in a month it's needed to go in for repairs.

If anyone know where I can find a cheap reliable car let me know.
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Mar. 26th, 2005 @ 11:01 pm Wisconson hates me
Dyanna's mom came into town yesterday, so this next week will involve doing touristy-type activities in the city.

We started these activities today by visiting the Reiman Publishing headquarters/visitors center in Wisconson (for those of you who don't know they mainly publish cook books) and Dyanna's mom wanted to visit them to get cheap cookbooks, plus they have samples of teh recipies. So bright and early (8:30 am) we hopped in ole reliable(my car) and took off. Fortuantely we make it all the way there without any problems.

So we visit the visitors center, which was under-whelming, and strolled around the town, which was also under-whelming. Dyanna and her mom stock up on cook books, which I guess is a good thing, and then we climb into the car to head home.

We pull out of the parking space and .... thump-thump-thump. we pull out of the parking lot and thump-thump-thump. We come up to a stop sign, and .... oh my, silence, we start going again, and thump-thump-thump. So we pull into the first gas station only to find that the rear-drivers side wheel is flat. It turned out that we made an un-expected pickup somewhere along the way, and had quite a sizeable nail through the tire. This did not make me too happy. So I put on the spare tire and come home.

At least to make the troubles more worth while, Dyanna's mom is making chocolate as I type this.

Also, we were able to swing by Great America. I was expectimg more progress to have been made on the waterpark. It didn't appear that there was much done, there are only very few supports up for slides and buildings and such.
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