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[Dec. 23rd, 2010|09:18 pm] |
I finished writing a thing! I posted it on My Other Blog, the first entry in almost three years! That's really sad!
Anyway, please to be reading and letting me know what you are be thinking! |
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| I am back on the Internet |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|10:40 pm] |
After two and a half months, I finally, finally, FINALLY have Internet access at my apartment in Japan. So now I get to tell you about my life here! New job, new friends, new city/country/hemisphere, new tiny car, new food, new ways to dry clothing and clean sinks and flush toilets. And you will hear about it all!
Starting tomorrow.
For I am very tired.
Wait not tomorrow, I have plans.
Well soon, anyway. |
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| Insomniac travel |
[Aug. 3rd, 2009|06:09 am] |
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The best part about having a stupid messed-up sleep schedule is that when you travel to Japan, jet lag adjusts for a normal, human sleep pattern. Same as last time, going to bed at 9-10 pm and waking up at 5-6. MORE JET LAG PLZ |
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| Computers! |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|01:30 pm] |
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So I'm looking at new laptops. I'm going between two right now. One is a gaming laptop by Digital Storm - 17" monitor, 6 gig of RAM, Geforce 9800M GS graphics card. The other is an HP, 18.4" monitor with 4 gig of ram and a geforce 9600M GT graphics card, and is a couple hundred cheaper. They both have core 2 quad processors, blu-ray drives, etc. So basically I'm split between a smaller enthusiast/boutique company with better performance or a company that's guaranteed to be around in 3 years with a cheaper product (and a bigger, probably nicer screen). The HP's weaker card should be fine for the gaming I'd be doing since I won't be playing Crysis or anything, but the stronger card would also last longer as far as playing future games goes. Also, being overseas, tech support on the Digital Storm will be harder (i.e. impossible) although I don't know how much better HP's would be. I... I don't know what to do! SOMEONE MAKE MY HARD DECISIONS FOR ME |
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| more like lolitics am I right? |
[Sep. 27th, 2008|12:10 am] |
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So - anyone watch the debate? What'd you think? |
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| House update |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|02:53 am] |
Some pictures of our house, post-fire. Click on the picture to go to the album.
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| Annnnnd we're back. |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
Note: Just in case you missed it, my house burnt down the day after Christmas.
So the Internet is finally connected in the rental house, and life is back to normal. Relatively.
Turns out the house renovation is going to be pretty comprehensive. The entire upstairs is getting gutted and remodeled, and the kitchen is getting redone, new carpet and paint in the whole house, some new furniture... it's gonna be like a whole new house by the time we get back into it. But it might take longer than 4 months. Ah well?
I haven't been working, between the fire and vacation, and it's about time to find a new job because with the banquet season ending I definitely need more hours.
Been reading and working out a lot. Gotta keep it up even with the Internet here, now that it presents an obstacle. More or less. About time to recognize that it's not an excuse anymore and I gotta get back into my procedure. Insofar as I ever had one, I mean. Actually I've been back into schedule for a while now, come to think of it. :P
That's it! |
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[Jan. 3rd, 2008|07:03 pm] |
New Christmas entry over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) paulscheible. It's about religion and the miracle of Christmas - even after Jesus brought us a terrible house fire (see last two entries) for Christmas. Joy! |
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| My house burned down part 2: Electric(alfire) Boogaloo |
[Dec. 30th, 2007|02:02 pm] |
If you missed this, check out my last entry. My house burned down the day after Christmas.
So we're set up in a hotel across town. It's one of those suite hotels with rooms and a kitchen and multiple bathrooms and such so it's not so bad, but I still have to sleep on the fucking sofa bed in the main room. We did get to bring our dog though! Even though he goes a little crazy in the sort of cramped space. We'll only be here for another week, though, before we move into the rental house we picked out back in Strongsville. Which will be good, because I miss sleeping in a room where I can close and lock the door, or you know, a room at all. Thanks to our family dynamics (two sisters, parents, and me) I'm ALWAYS the one on the fucking sofa bed. D:
Been going around getting a bunch of new stuff to replace our old stuff. Picked out a new coat, hat, gloves, shoes, and so on. Instead of looking like an unwashed hobo in dirty clothes and a borrowed oversized coat, I sort of look better than I actually am what with my new garments. Though still generally unwashed, due to my current wardrobe of one pair jeans, two shirts. It's an odd transformation to undergo in so short a time, perhaps. Hooray for insurance!
Which, yes, is covering all the replacements and remodeling and so on. We're lucky actually, our homeowner's insurance actually got canceled by State Farm a while ago due to the city's shitty plumbing making our basement flood a couple times over, so we switched to Nationwide, and they've been really good about stuff. They had contractors and such over within a few hours of the fire to start clearing and cleaning and such, and have been working on pack-and-clean ever since the fire.
So anyway, we're doing all right, all things considered. I've got even more time to read and play DS games now, at least? And since it's the holidays, at least I've got a bunch of friends here at home so I'm not going insane from boredom and get to see some of my favorite people to keep my mind off of things.
So in short, merry fucking christmas 2007. Judging by the way my christmas seasons have been going for the past couple years, I'm likely to be stabbed to death over Christmas 2008. Woo! |
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| Merry Christmas! |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|06:18 pm] |
So, let's see what we did for Christmas.
Christmas Eve we went out to the Pomeroy House, a restaurant my mom loved, and had a really good dinner.
Christmas, I worked. For like ten hours. My back is killing me, and my knee, and I'm not sure I made as much money as I really would have liked. But family was at home when I got back, and I made myself a massive gin and tonic and had some nice dinner, and PECAN PIE. Score!
I got two Wii games - Metroid Prime 3 and Twilight Princess. Now I just have to get a Wii. EASIER SAID THAN DONE D:
The next morning, this morning, my house burnt down.
Seriously.
I wake up at 6 AM to pounding on my door and a shout. I go back to sleep because that's what I do. Another pound and I hear "FIRE" or something and I grab my robe and go. Smoke all up in our family room and all. We dash out the back (me in nothing but my bathrobe and no shoes. It was FUCKING COLD) with the dog. Coming around the back of the house, we can hear the roar, hear the awful popping, cracking sounds (imagine the popping of a firelog in your fireplace. That is a cap gun. Now imagine standing a block away from a MOAB detonating. The scale of the sound and the horror it instills are adequately analagous). We can see the orange light flickering awfully against the neighbor's house and against the sky itself.
Pounding on the neighbor's door, we watch it burn. The van is engulfed in flame. Any window it can reach, it already has, and fire reaches out from the portals as from Hell itself. Check out that simile. That's fucking original right there. We get inside as the police and fire arrive, and are there just long enough to sit down before we have to move again - both adjacent houses are being evacuated, as the car is an explosion risk. We go to the next house down, now numbering seven and two dogs, and there we wait.
The car does not explode, and the fire is put out. The garage is completely destroyed, along with everything in it. This includes dad's van, which is van-ish slag metal that looks as it belongs roadside in Iraq. The other three cars were in the driveway, and other than some trivial body trim melting on one (frightening in its implications of the heat and its power and reach more than in the effect), they are unharmed. The contents of our garage also including our rabbit's hutch. He is no more, and we can only hope that he was unconscious from the smoke long before any fire was able to harm him.
The front doors and their glass sides, the front bushes, and the windows in the garage, as well as a few on the front of the house, are destroyed. There is terrible burning in the laundry room(which is off the garage), and we are lucky that the fire was stopped there, because if it had reached into the family room just beyond that last door, all bets would indeed have been off.
The siding above the garage, exterior my sisters' rooms, are melted and stripped clean off. Their windows shattered. The heat in the upper floor cause all of the ceiling to collapse.
However, in all of this, we are extremely lucky. Myself in particular. My room shares a wall with the garage. If that firewall had not held up astonishingly well, I may well be dead. They say the fire may have been burning for as many as two hours judging by the warping, but it held. My room is actually one of the most intact in the entire house, the basement being the only one better off. There is smoke damage all throughout, not to mention ashes and cinders everywhere. But besides my room, the bathroom adjacent, the family room, living room, kitchen and dining room are remarkably well preserved. Smoke damage and aforementioned ash and cinder notwithstanding, they are in working order. Upstairs, very little of the fire made its way inside, if any at all. Besides the collapsed ceiling, and the exterior damage, those rooms too (especially the master bedroom at the back of the house) are in good shape. All things considered.
If we had not woken up sooner (my sister is awoken by "a smell" moments before the alarms go off, we could have been much worse off. If the fire had burned any longer, it stands a very good chance of having reached the interior of the house, and as I said before, we would be in a very different situation. The dog was not closed in the laundry room for the night; were he, he may have died. We all escaped safely, barring the rabbit; even the bird is unmolested by flame and smoke alike. We lost a lot, but it was all Stuff. Just Stuff. Replaceable. And we lost far less than we could have, including our selves. All told, we were extremely lucky in a number of ways.
The house is extremely unlivable. We are in a hotel for a night or two, and then will live in a rental in town for the four or more months that it will take to repair the house. I am using a friend's computer, and after this, I will not have reliable access to the Internet for some time.
I am all right. We are all right. Tired, fatigued, exhausted; downtrodden. It's been a fucking hell of a year. Merry Christmas. |
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