12:23 AM | 01.09.14

Well, what an uneventful day. I kind of wish the days off of work that I have are used more efficiently. However, I did get some... some sort of something done!

I decided to buy a digital camera. Why? Because. Back last November, when Ryan and myself co-bought that guitar amp, we both payed $300 for it. Well, I haven't seen that amp for a few months now, much less played on it or whatever, so I just figure I'd get my $300 investment back. NOW, the smart man would probably put that straight into his Go-To-Japan-Next-Summer fund, right? I guess, but I'd rather have a digital camera! That means, I probably won't take my video camera to Japan, but just my camera and computer! Sweet.

I also lost my real $40 camera I bought last summer for Japan. The last picture that it took was the rarest photo of Ryan Meier ever, the photo of him with a Chris Cass haircut. No kidding!

So, I guess I'll spend about $300 on that, maybe. I mean, I work every week, and get about $150-200, so I guess that'll be enough to compensate. I have a hefty ~$500 in my account right now (with a $200 credit card bill yet to be deducted). That leaves me with about $300. I'll put in about $150-200 this friday, which takes care of that credit card bill.

Err, why am I doing my accounting on here? I don't know. I think I'll delete that part... oh well. In other news, I talked to Pam again today for the first time in years and years! Well, actually probably weeks and weeks, but still... it seems like too long!

Oh yeah, a nice Japanese girl might move in with me. =P Later!

09:11 AM | 01.09.12

Man... I could have gotten at least 3 hours more/better sleep if it wasn't for this stupid cricket outside my window, chirping away since 3 or 4 AM this morning. Grr... I hate crickets!

October looks to be a cool cool month, we got Tony Hawk 3 and Grand Theft Auto 3 for PS2, and... um... that's about it. Man, I need to start playing videogames more. I still haven't finished Chrono Trigger, and I have hardly started FFII. I guess I can save that for some other day, when I'm bored as heck.

Why am I updating? Bored. Plus, I hate crickets! That's all for now. I work from 3pm-12am tonight, so don't expect me to be on or anything... but leave a nice message in the guestbook for me to read when I come home! Ciao!

06:01 PM | 01.09.11

What can I say... my generation, and even the generation before me (I think) has never experienced anything like this. This is like Pearl Harbor, only much worse. A gaping hole in our safety and now confidence in our own country has been left wide open, and taken advantage of.

I don't know what to say yet. Some people are talking about World War III. I don't know about that. Reinstating the draft, etc. I don't know about that either.

I'll just let this play out a little longer, and see where it takes us.

In other news: I bought a pink wig from the almost totally closed Valley West Mall today. I also slept through my classes. *sigh* Pink wigs are awesome! Chu!

12:16 AM | 01.09.11

I said I wouldn't be updating much until I got another, ad-free URL. Well, I got one. I think this one will be the one, so I can settle down and start using it. The URL is:

01:42 PM | 01.08.31

Ahh, the last day of August. The end of an era, and one of the most boring summers ever.

Sorry I haven't been updating much lately. Been busy, kinda. School and all, ya know. Oh, on a related note, check out the college section for my new class schedule. For some reason, it looks all funny. I should figure out a way to fix it.

As this semester gets more into swing, I get more excited about... well... anything. I want school to be over. I can't stress enough how much I've been thinking about dropping all my classes this semseter and just running away.

Sigh... but, I don't have the guts to do it.

I don't know. Looks like another boring semester of sitting in classes and not learning much. Looks like another four wasted months of my life, when I could be doing something like learning Japanese or Korean or something.

Oh well. Only two more semesters.

Sorry about all the ads... I'm trying to fix that. Later!

06:11 AM | 01.08.26

I've figured it out. The whole thing is somebody's joke.

Work, that is. I'm just somebody's joke at work. See, the last week that my old manager works, she manages to schedule me for some stupid shifts. The new manager thinks that I love working those shifts and now I work them all the god damn time. Like the 7PM-3AM shift on Friday nights. And the 7AM-3PM shift on Sundays. Where is the sense in that? So, I get home late on Saturday morning, sleep Saturday afternoon, and can't go out late on Saturday night. Starting to see what I say?

It took forever for me to talk to my old manager about scheduling. I want to work ONLY three shifts a week. I want to work 20-25 hours. That's IT! But, this coming week I am working four shifts and a total of 31.5 hours. See? See? Somebody out there has got to be laughing! I can assure you it's not me.

I don't see how it could not be a joke. I don't see how all of this could not be all thought out by an evil genius just for a few kicks. It's all too... perfect. Perfectly stupid. It all worked out just right for the manager. I just happened to work a few midnight shifts. Now, I'm apparently the only person who can work them. Oh, and get this, last week he was asking me if I could work until midnight this week. I was pretty sure he meant every night, but he WAS AVOIDING MY QUESTIONS!!! What kind of manager is that?! I would ask "so how many shifts would I work next week?" and he would say something like, "yes" or "you work until midnight." I HATE THAT!!!!!!!!!

Sure, this rant is brought to you by ~3 hours of sleep, but I don't think it makes any difference. I hate working so much. I try to tell people, but they just don't listen. That is my most despised feeling: the feeling that nobody is listening and that nobody cares. That's why I hated my old manager so much, because she just blatently didn't listen and didn't pay attention to me. As if I wasn't important. I try to talk to my mom about my work problems, but she is always like "I don't care." Aren't moms supposed to care? My new manager is on the same road, being like "I know you asked me for this many shifts a week and this many hours, but could you work this many? I know what you just said and what you want, but I don't really care, you are MY employee and you will do what I say." Argh. Damn. I hate work. Sometimes, I hate these stupid predicaments in life. This is the kind of shit that makes me want to pack up and go away forever.

02:51 AM | 01.08.26

The computer's back. All's well in the world.

I have been re-getting all of the essentials back, getting some new stuff to replace the old, and all that fun stuff lately. I still have a few more programs to download and install, but other than those, everything seems to be going well. I have downloaded a few videogame remix mp3s, but other than that I don't have much of a collection yet. As for my Morning Musume video collection...

I made a deal with a guy online to trade ~10 gigs of Musume junk for a few copies of tapes that I have and some magazines. I figure I'm not losing much, except the magazines. I'm going to go to Kinko's one of these days and just photocopy the Musume pages, so that I still have them. I think I'm going to spend a majority of tomorrow (after work and band practice) doing the videotape copying.

Oh yeah, work and band practice. I have work at 7 AM. That means I have to be up by 6, and leave by 6:30. I probably won't get to sleep until 3 or 3:30. Will I make it? Heck yeah! I'm the master of no sleep! Remember the first day of Environmental Conservation class, fellas? I got by on 0 hours of sleep! Hooray! I was acting a bit strange that day, though.

Oh yeah, you probably want to hear about today. It was all messed up! I'm not complaining, because I know there's not much that I can do about it, but still, it was pretty crappy. The plan was to go to see Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, eat at Ohana, and go see Argos (you know, the one with Greg and Ryan that I saw on Tuesday) at Hairy Marys. Well, we only got to do 1/3 of our plan. Where should I begin?

Ohana was pretty much doomed from the moment I realized that we didn't have reservations or anything. It was supposed to be on Wednesday, but work and the movie being pushed back kind of nulled that idea. It was moved to Saturday, but nobody ever made reservations (a party of 9!). Oh well. So, we ended up eating at Godfather's. I got some pizza with Eric and Casey, who managed to order $40 worth of food. Don't ask me.

After the movie and the pizza, we went to Hairy Mary's. I have been kind of iffy on the whole show thing since I found out it was 21-and-over. Since our party was so big, I was pretty certain we wouldn't be able to get in. We weren't. We got there, helped carry stuff in, and were promptly kicked out. It kinda sucked, but I wasn't really into seeing the show anyways, since I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be able to in the first place. We went back to Casey's house, played some videogames, and went home. Pretty uneventful in comparison to the plans.

But, all in all it was alright. Looking past the plans we had and just concentrating on what we actually did, I would say it was pretty eventful. This was our kind of "end of summer" party thing. Sad.

Tomorrow is our band's second practice. Oops, I forgot to tell Scott. Anyways, Eric and I should probably work on some stuff. Scott is probably busy with his 100 other bands. =P

Not much else going on. School starts this week, but more on that later. I need some sleep!

PS - Why do I feel so fat now? Crap. I need to start a diet when school starts.

02:18 AM | 01.08.23

Well, it's been five days. Five fun days.

On Saturday we (Greg, Ryan, Josh, myself) went to Adventureland. Man, I hadn't been there in years. They had a bunch of new rides. I got to ride everything that I wanted to, so it was not a wasted day. It was a fun fun day. After that, we picked up Eric and went to El Rey (home of the Rey Rey, a 2-ft long burrito). Needless to say, Josh ate a whole Rey Rey by himself! Oh my god.

Sunday was a fun day, as well. Masaki (now referred to as Shoki) wanted to go to Omaha to get out of boring ol' Des Moines (he's learning quick!). Ryan and Josh were preoccupied, but Greg and Eric were still able to make it out with Shoki and myself. Omaha was pretty fun, as well. We went to record stores, I bought some cool stuff (Evangelion Kubricks [a toy], Buffalo Daughter 2xLP for $5, some food, etc.), as did everyone else. We finished the day with a meal at an alright Japanese restraunt (tempura!!!) and a movie at an art-house. The movie was Ghost World, and it was really cool. I liked it a lot, even though I haven't read the comic. Steve Buschemi is awesome in it.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were not nearly as eventful. Monday... well, I forget what I did. Tuesday night was the Spaghetti Works show, so I went to that to see Argos (post-Badgemen/new stuff band) play. Unfortunately, I'm not in it. Upon seeing all the cool bands, I wanted to be in a band again. So, Wednesday, Eric, Scott and myself had our first practice as a band. It was pretty crappy, we ended up not getting much done, but it still felt like *something*. We have two covers now, NOFX - Leave it Alone and Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue. Yeah, that song is covered already, but it's a cool song! And we do it FAST.

So, what now? (my infamous quote) Well, I work Thursday and Friday, but Saturday seems like it's going to be pretty cool. Ohana and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are just a few things on the agenda.

School starts for the kiddies tomorrow. Sorry, kiddies. I am almost ready for school to start. It gives my life some sort of structure. Right now it's 'stay-up-till-4-wake-up-at-2', and I don't necessarily hate it, but I really hate wasting all of my time like that. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up early. I know I work at 3 PM (until 12 PM =\) and I know that I said before I'd rather have 100% crappy days and blah blah blah, but I want to wake up tomorrow. And, I have to buy some concert tickets online. Teehee. Weezer.

I need a shower.

Ryan goes off to Iowa State tomorrow. Josh went off to UNI today. Everyone's leaving. I know it's weird, but I have to learn to live with it, ya know? It's not like I'm gonna be here forever. Heck, maybe one day *I'll* be the one leaving. Hopefully!

Other than that, nothing much has been going on. One more week until school starts. As much as I'm ready for it to get here, I'm ready to stay in Summer. I just want a week off. Well, I've had 5 days off, but it's not a week! Man, I wish I could get another job, but no place is hiring! Does anybody know of any cool jobs?

I am so indifferent right now, I am so apathetic right now. I have no feelings. I don't have anything to look forward to (except another frickin' 3 years of college). I am so lost in life. *sigh* I just want something concrete for now. I want something *to do*. Maybe that's what the band is. Maybe that's what I need.

It's late now. Hope that's enough reading material for all the 2 people who read this.

Night!

03:37 AM | 01.08.18

I have the next five days off of work. Until the 23rd. Expect something.

Tomorrow: Adventureland.

05:58 PM | 01.08.17

Wow, an update not in the wee hours of the morning for once!

Anyways, I'm tired of sleeping all day. I hate not doing anything and just getting up at 4 or 5. What about that whole time from, say, 10 AM until 4 or 5 PM in which I could be doing fun stuff?

On the other hand, sleeping all day prevents me from spending money I shouldn't be spending, wasting gas I shouldn't be wasting (heck, I waste enough already), and on the days that I work it doesn't give me any contrast to the crappy work day. Hrm, let me explain:

See, on days that I have to work, I think I'd rather *not* do something fun beforehand, because it will make work seem all more crappy and boring and stupid and useless. Get it? I'd rather have 100% fun days and 100% boring days instead of a few 56.7% fun/43.3% boring days. Is that math right?

I start DMACC soon, but not as soon as most of the University kids do. Hooray for me. This semester is going to be kind of hard (I'm taking a lot more classes than last time), but I think it'll be fun.

I guess that's all for now. I have to get ready for work, ya know. Hope to hear some more in the guestbook, it seems that it was busier when I *wasn't* reading and posting regularly. Hrmm... Later!

01:04 AM | 01.08.16

Updated: present, past, about, me (alot) sections.
Need to update: everything else.

01:26 PM | 01.08.15

Welcome to limbo.

If you are reading this, then Congratulations! You have found the new URL. I don't know if I'll keep this one (because of the popup), but it seems fast and has FTP! And, it allows me to upload!

Now, if you haven't been reading the guestbook lately, then you have been missing out on the only sort of update this page has had since nbci shut me down. So, if you are bored, check there!

I guess the popup isn't as annoying as the Geocities box ad, and as isn't as intrusive as the Tripod ad...

Well, that's it for this update. The links over on the side there work, but anything any further down into the belly of the page probably doesn't. I haven't updated the links and probably haven't even uploaded the page yet.

Welcome back.