Rave: I had my undies all in a twist about having to move ten days before I leave California to head back to Michigan. Yes, it sucked, but it was a trial run to see if everything I own fits in my car (it does) and while it totally sucked, it wasn't THAT bad. Also got the security deposit back from the old place and it almost covered the checkup/new hoses and belts for my car. Rant: New house is across the street from a big grassy park that I am suuper allergic to. Rave: Leaving in 6 days on the GIANT roadtrip and it is going to be awesome. Bye bye Vallejo!
RAVE Had an absolute blast this weekend. I traveled to Myrtle Beach for a pool tournament and played really well, ended up playing in the semi-finals before getting knocked off. We made a really good run at it. Afterwards, a few of us ended up at the strip club next door. A less than high class establishment it was, but was scene for one of the most epic strip club experiences of my life...and I've had a few. Leaving the club and heading back to the pool room we ran across one of those light up boards, that needed a little rearrangement. This is the best that we could come up with at the time.
I smell an Israel thread in the wind. That should be fun to watch. Nothing quite like the Holy Triumvirate of Internet debate topics: Jews, the Middle East, and international relations. Shit's about to get all fucky, and I'm making popcorn.
RANT: Brand new car, less than 2 weeks old, and the fiance just took it down a dirt road to a friend's house. Why? Because she had to drop something off and "had no other choice." HOW ABOUT COMING THE FUCK HOME AND GETTING THE FUCKING TRUCK SINCE I SPENT MY SATURDAY CLEANING THE FUCKING NEW FUCKING CAR????? YOUR FRIEND WILL BE HOME ALL FUCKING NIGHT!! I'm so mad I'm seeing double right now. RANT part 2: I'm never touching the fucking thing again. If that's how she's going to treat it, then so be it. I'll ride in it, I'll drive it, but I'll never fucking clean it in any way again. I cosigned for the fucking thing, but I'm getting my name off of it as soon as I can. If she wants a dirty pile of shit, she can fucking have it. small rave: At least she's making the payments...on a car that will be ours. Fuck.
Rant: SHIT. FUCK. I lost my keys. The worst part is that I have my shop key on there and my boss is going to loose his shit when I tell him I need him to cut me a new key. I tore my house apart, my home shop, both my trucks, and went to every place I went after work on Friday [when I lost them]. The worst part is that I know I lost them within a span of like 6 hours. I could have sworn I took them from work (there not in the spot they should be). I went from work, to next door to buy tint for my new truck, then went on my way home where I stopped for a drink at a store. After a couple hours I left home and went over to my friends house, was there for an hour or so, then we went out to a bar for wings and beer to watch the Hockey game. After that I went to a party and was on the way there when I realized I had no keys. Im out of spots to look, and have no clue where they could be. FUCK.
Rave:I have a job that perfectly matches what I'm studying in school. This is the first time I'm actually applying what I've learned in the classroom to tasks I'm assigned. Rave: Having the confidence to hold out for a "real" job as opposed to shingling roofs and patching roads for another summer. The risk has paid off well. Rant: This is not an easy job.
RAVE: Bought super cheap airline tickets to go to Wilmington, NC for the Fourth of July. It's where I went to college, and I haven't been back since I graduated more than two years ago. Hell, I haven't been within 1,000 miles of North Carolina. Get to go to the beach, drink in some of my old haunts, and visit friends I haven't seen or even talked to in way too long. RANT: Wilmington is a shitfest on the Fourth of July. Fucking tourists. RANT: I'm now one of said tourists. RAVE: Bojangles.
RAVE: Just bought a new engine and transmission for my race car. Total cost, less than half of what it would take to build. Less than 10 hours on both. Comes with brand new headers and exhaust as well. It's about 100HP more than my current engine (350 total), and runs on pump gas (94 octane). It's a bizarre thought that I now have a complete drop in powertrain replacement. If I blow up an engine at the track, I can do the swap in about an hour, and I'm back out. RAVE: Taking Wednesday off of work to do the engine swap. It'll be a nice break from the BS.
Rave: Had 12 solid days off from work. Desperately needed because I was about 2 hours from going postal. Once we figured out that the cat was okay (he's doing great now, by the way) I felt myself slowly changing into a new person. Or an old person. I felt healthy, happy, and confident like I used to before this job sucked the life and soul out of me. I don't completely understand how a job can change me so drastically. It has to be some combination of the stress inherent with the position, the negative people I work with, and the lack of social life I've had. Rant: This all started in October of last year. The summer had ended and the workload gradually increased to the point where I was working 10 hours every day. The hours are back to normal, but the workload isn't and the department hasn't recovered. Therefore, I've decided that if I haven't found a new job within the company by the end of September, I'm gone. I'm too disappointed with the person I've become. I suppose I could seek counseling, but I feel like fitting that somewhere into an already bloated schedule would just add to the fire. I can always fall back to a lesser position and still make decent money, although I feel like that would fuck my future since I'm only 25 and shouldn't have work-related issues like this. If anyone wants to throw some advice at me, feel free.
Rant Thrill Seekers message board shut down. Like the RMMB, I wish I had saved some of my edits and posts. Drag.
Rave: Went to the races on the weekend and won enough money to cover a 14 hour drinking binge, including the purchase of a bottle of vodka, bottle of champagne and an awesome thai dinner. Rant: Lost my Serengetis (Expensive sunglasses) at some point during the evening, which I didn't realise till yesterday Rave: Apparently Drunk Me hid them in my friends car so I wouldn't lose them at the pub. Thanks Drunk Me!
RANT: Seminar this morning for a new federal law (Australia) that is a one stop shop dealing with taking security over basically anything that isn't land. They're bringing in a range of exemptions that will mean you can't take an enforceable security in certain circumstances where you have always been able to; and thereby eroding the business models of a ton of small concerns. Their answer why? "Well, you can take legal action against the party." Awesome, geniuses. The whole point of taking security is to avoid that in the first place, and you also want to clog up the court system. They don't see a problem with this.
Rant: Took the LSAT today. It was more nerve wracking than the first time I had sex. I'm worried about how I did. Rave: I would be worried if I wasn't worried. Which makes me less worried. Rave: I now have a life again and no longer have to live my life by 35 minute increments.
Rant: Looking for housing in another city is the biggest time suck ever. I'm moving from Mississippi to DC in August to attend grad school, and it's been remarkably difficult to find a place to live. I always assumed Craigslist would be easy, but it's been really hard to find both a house I feel is suitable AND roommates that have similar interests to mine (i.e. ones that wouldn't make me stab my ears with forks).
Rant: Left my glasses in my apartment. I'm not at my apartment, I'm home for the summer. Hopefully I'll get getting them back today, because I'm blind as fuck and my contacts are starting to hurt my eyes. Rave:I typed that well for not being able to see shit.
RAVE Got Monday off work, so now I shall be able to watch Australia's first match against Germany in Darling Harbour whilst getting extremely loose.
RANT: Fucking cold shower this morning. There is almost nothing worse. RANT: At first I thought my two roommates that get up before me had used it all, but they took cold showers too, so something is fucked up. I'm hoping that its just the pilot light or something on the water heater.
Rave: Heading out to a medical trade show in NYC tomorrow morning. Bigger Rave: I'm attending the show and conferences not exhibiting. Biggest Rave: Traveling with two friends that happen to work in related industries. We were all smart enough to book our meetings and conferences for tomorrow so that we won't necessarily go back to the show on Thursday. This means a side trip to Mystic CT to steal my uncle's boat for the afternoon. Rant: Living outside of Boston makes it a waste of time to drive in to take either the Acela or a flight. We're road tripping it instead.
RAVE: Could it be? A non shitty, insanely violent Mortal Kombat movie? http://kotaku.com/5558339/if-this-is-the-next-mortal-kombat-movie-sign-us-up video at the bottom