YOU ARE A BUNGHOLE. And so am I.

I am consistent in my policy of getting into things long, long after people have already gotten sick of them.

That being said, Portal is the best game I've ever fucking played.

I forgot to wish my dad a happy father's day yesterday.

In contrast, however, he didn't call me either.

I think everything worked out just fine in a "pretend you don't exist" kind of way.

June 12th, 2007



June 10th, 2008



...Jesus Christ.

HEY GUESS WHAT MY BATTERY DIED IN MY GODDAMN CAR

So the interior lights on my '94 Ford Taurus refuse to turn off.

Solution: Pull the fuse, which also knocked out my radio.

I hate my car and I think I need a new one.

...wait, apparently I already posted about this.

THIS MAKES ME ANGRY ENOUGH TO POST TWICE.

For some unknown reason, my car's interior lights refused to turn off today. With my stepfather and wife's help, we ended up ripping out the fuse because what the hell else could we do? Why does this only happen on 12-hour days?

Thank God this radio station is here for whenever I want to feel like I'm standing in line for an hour or two at Space Mountain.

Why can't I stop listening to it >:|

I really, really love A Touch of Class's second album. It really brings me back about eight years.

In a good way.

Nothing else to really talk about. :3

Oh my God, I just ordered a DSTT kit from memorysuppliers.com. They're awesome, they have an easy menu, free shipping for that order and prompt service. Even saved 15% using a coupon. Totally going back there if I need anything else.

So yeah. I guess I'll update since I've got a little time on my hands before I go swimming.

Vix is turning one on Valentines Day, like I mentioned earlier. She's almost walking now, and she's mimicking certain sounds when we say words (Chick = "ch!" Kitty = "Ka!") She's a handful at times (little brat was hungry at 5:30 this morning), but she's not too bad the rest of the time (she slept until 9 after that).

Been on and off thinking about my ideas for a new book since Jacob's Ladder is driven so far into the ground that a fucking snort couldn't pull that shit out. Not gonna mention anything here yet since it's all still in imagineering stages, but it's something at least.

Going to School. Got A+ Software, A+ Hardware and Introduction to Operating Systems this symester, all taken on Mondays. So around 1:30 I'm gonna head out to Valencia and do that jazz.

Nothing else to really mention. Lisa's fine, we're all just workin' and doin' our thing.

I want to go on a Disney cruise. :(

That's pretty much it. If you're curious where I've disappeared to over the last five months, here you go (Not really work-safe, just FYI).

I'm really kind of sad that I don't update this stupid thing anymore, but since Lisa can't read it at work and the vast majority of the people I know don't post here anymore, I just can't seem to muster up the energy. It's a shame, too, because I know how important it is to keep records of the things going on in life.

Vix turns 1 in three days.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?

Had a kid...um. hmm. Not a whole lot else. Made sure the kid didn't die.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Didn't make one, as usual.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

lol

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Nope.

5. What countries did you visit?

The Bahamas. That's all.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

A goal, more money, more time with family, and a published book.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

February 14th, the day my free time died.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Not letting the kid die? Deciding to go back to school again?

9. What was your biggest failure?

A real lot of wasted money and time. I don't know. Same as usual.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

I got sick a couple of times, but nothing serious.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Um. Hmm. I don't know, I don't really buy a lot. My headphones are neat. Everything else went to Vix so it's not really my things.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

As usual, Mom and Ben for taking us up when things are rough. Lisa, too, for supporting us both.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

My own.

14. Where did most of your money go?

It's hard for money to go places when it's few and far between to have any. Also, Chilis.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Christmas was fun. I'm not going to lie and say February 14th, but that was cool in a really crazy and uncool way.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?

Portal - Stay Alive

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

I. happier or sadder? About the same.
II. thinner or fatter? About 12 pounds more.
III. richer or poorer? More, probably.

(I'll finish this later)

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?

Writing. A lot more writing.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?

Fucking around.

20. How will you be spending New Year?

No fucking idea. Probably a whole lot of nothing.

22. Did you fall in love in 2006?

I was already in love in 2005 2006. :)

23. How many one-night stands?

None of them.

24. What was your favorite TV program?

Star Trek: Voyager, Who's Line is it Anyways, Good Eats. Roseanne's pretty cool too.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

Not that I can think of. I don't like some people, but I wouldn't say I hate them.

26. What was the best book you read?

The Time Traveler's Wife.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Aselin Debison.

28. What did you want and get?

Um. A job at Disney? Yeah, I'll go with that.

29. What did you want and not get?

A high paying job. That any money.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Snake's on a Plane was pretty hilarious. So was Jackass 2. Um.. I can't really think of much else.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

All I remember is being on the porch and getting an ipod, which was subsequently stolen.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

Money.!!!!!!!! That and a published book.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?

The same thing that I wear every year; stuff I've gotten from people.

34. What kept you sane?

Writing. The internet. Video games.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Gary Sinise.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Political shit sucks and is stupid.

37. Who did you miss?

I don't really miss anyone.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

I pretty much have the same friends. Some people at Disney are cool.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.

Be prepared for anything.

Almost five years ago, I had an idea. (ws)

Today, that idea is complete. Strap yourselves in. (also ws)

[I think it's a sad state of affairs that I'm still obsessed with something most of the world has forgotten about.] (ws)

I have found a 50-chapter fanfic involving romance between Captain Janeway and 7 of 9.

http://www.northco.net/~janeway/fanfic.htm

I find myself obligated to read all of it.

So, apparently Judy Dench is going to be narrating Spaceship Earth after the renovation. While I'm still sad that the Jeremy Irons narration is going the way of Horizons, this is still pretty good news. I mean, come on. It's M. How can you beat that?

Anyways, I'm going back to SCHOOL next semester! Details as they come.

This rivals "Who is Barry Bostwick" on my list of favorite TV commercials. I cannot stop laughing at this.

I haven't updated in a while, but since I'm at a meeting at church and there is internet connection and I have been drafted to run the powerpoint, I guess I'll do so.

Big changes possibly coming in my work schedule. Since my job only pays for daycare and Vix and my insurance's, there's really no point in me wasting gas and whatever driving there if I'm not bringing in any extra income. After talks with Lis' and mom, it's technically feasible for me to stay home and take care of Vix, though it seems kind of daunting right now. :| Details as they come about. As of now, business as usual.

God willing and knock on wood, I have finished the final draft of my book. It's gone from 84,000 words to 72,000 words without any dramatic changes besides a new ending, which I love by the way. I'm going to spend some time looking for an agent/editor/publisher without me fucking up like I did in March. With luck, this might come through to completion.

As for the rest of life? Go check any other month I've updated this and just substitute the dates. The kid's almost crawling. My job is still eh and I'm looking for a new one. Still no $. Family is mostly well and I want a shower.

I've pretty much fallen off of the face of the internet, besides Let's Play! If on the side chance anyone wants to say 'sup, hit me up thorugh a comment here and I'll get back to you.

What have I been up to? Work. Work and baby and Kingdom Hearts II and Rocket Slime and - thank God - my stupid novel.

I'm working on major, major cuts to my novel. Right now, I think I've cut about 7000-8000 words out of the thing, and I'm only halfway done. I don't want to cut it TOO much, otherwise I'll be dipping under normal book size, but I've also got a shitload of fat that needs to go. The problem is the amount of work that's going into it...I've practically got to reread the thing - again - make edits, and then edit again on the computer. This is necessary thanks to my convoluted schedule but it's annoying and ultimately slow-going because I so do not have the ambition to do this shit anymore tonight.

Needing a new job. Any thoughts for someone with apparently no real experience to make somewhere around $9? Yeah right lol me.

In closing:



CUTE. And Andrea Bocelli. If I was a woman I would totally nail him.

Man. Plus+ accounts are annoying. Ads everywhere. It beats shelling out $20 for something I hardly use anymore.

Life has been a blur lately. Baby, work, wife, family, KH, sleep, atkins. I've been putting a lot of effort into atkins lately...I've lost about 20 of the pounds I gained back. It's a wonderful diet that which hot dogs and whipped cream are dinner.

Nothing much else to add. My life is dull lately.

My laptop crapped out. I don't really know why; it froze, I restarted it, and it decided that it couldn't find windows anymore. I don't really know whether or not it's repairable.

I've started south beach again, along with a most-likely overvigorous workout schedule. My whole body is sore and I'm exhausted from DDR. I feel nausous for some reason or another. Probably because I haven't been taking my vitamins.

Have an appointment with a pediatrist on Thursday. They're going to remove the toenail on my left foot permanently. It's probably not going to be very fun.

For the first time in two-three years, I'm not going to be paying for Livejournal.

Mainly, just spending time on the SA Let's Play subforum and working. Nothing else really going on.

Lisa and Vix are both fine. Vix had a crying fit to the brink of hell last night. I'm marking one!!!! on this post for that reason.

Other stuff, but I don't really feel good right now.

Really, really hoping I'm speaking too soon, but I think my laptop drive just fucking died.

My wife and daughter are sick.

It is obvious that I am protected from this illness because I have a shlong.

I have the most awesome* wireless internet adapter ever.

It periodically works normally, but sometimes I have to like, bend it, for it to work. You know, because that's normal.

Yeah. A new one is coming soon.

*and by awesome I mean I'm going to hit it with a fucking hammer

6 August 2007: Signs and icon removed from Wonders of Life

All of the exterior signage at the Wonders of Life Pavilion [at EPCOT] has just been removed. Even the pavilions iconic large double-helix has been taken down. There is still no reliable information about the future of this pavilion.

...I feel fucking sick to my stomach now. I was going to post about shit, but this just hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm going to go play Crystalis now and try to forget that I just read that.

This update is brought to you by Clermont Ford, who will go out of their way to make sure you get a lemon with alternator issues, brake problems, faulty water pipes, worn, unmatching tires and a rusty donut and jack. Isn't business wonderful?

Damn tire got shredded today. I figured it would happen, my car's been shaking like shit for the last few weeks and it was really bad today. Had to call out - I'll probably end up getting a reprimand. That sucks, I didn't really want one. ): Meh.

I've been meaning to update this for a while, but eh. Lot of effort.

I'm in Michigan right now. Lis, Vix and I are up here to attend one of her aunts wedding, and it's been pretty entertaining so far. Vix was good on the plane all the way up here, and she'll keep up the trend tomorrow on the way home. Right now she's lying on a blanket on the ground next to me, thankfully quiet as long as I whistle The Battle Hymn of the Old Republic, which for some reason quiets her up. During the forty or so minutes that she napped, we listened to a midi of it on repeat the whole damn time. It's starting to get annoying whistling this, but anything beats screaming, which is what she'll do if I stop, go figure.

Back to Michigan. Two days ago, we spent our time driving from Flint to [michigan place] to [michigan place] to Howard City, which is where we're at now. We ate at the most bitching place ever for lunch, which I forgot the name of. Maybe kyoko24 will enlighten me later. We got served by Prince William, who's the best waiter ever.

Someone's home. Thank God.

Yesterday, we went to go see Lis's mom and her horse, then we spent the afternoon with her friend and their cute kids. I also ate at Big Boy for the first time, and it wasn't half bad.

Well apparently we need to leave now. So I'm leaving now.

edit: Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.

[The Vatican on Tuesday said Christian denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church were not full churches of Jesus Christ.]

Would a catholic/person who understands catholicism explain this to me? Am I honestly reading that my church is not a real church because Emperor Palpatine says it's not?

If so, lol.

Me and Lisa have been playing Super Mario Kart.

[Flower Cup, 50cc]
[Star Cup, 50cc]

Work has been blah lately and I simply don't have the ambition to go into details. Life is like, phfew lately.

Mickey Mouse arm, wand coming down from Epcot sphere at Disney World

Scott Powers | Sentinel Staff Writer
July 5, 2007

The 257-foot-tall Mickey Mouse arm, glove and wand logo structure at Epcot is coming down.

Epcot Vice President Jim MacPhee announced this morning that the time has come to remove the structure, which has served both as a colorful, lighted Epcot sign since 2000, and as a lightning rod for criticism from Epcot purists who contended the image was out of character for Epcot's architecture.

The structure leans on Epcot's previous and future iconic figure, the Spaceship Earth Pavilion, a 180-foot geodesic sphere that can be seen for miles.



FUCK YOU WAND
FUCK YOUR MOTHER
DIE DIE DIE HAHAHAHAHAHA

Today is one of those days that just feels like an exercise in futility. Nothing I end up doing makes people happy. Most everything I do ends up pissing people off. Finally, everyone else's happiness ranks just a little bit above mine, apparently.

I applied for a DCL position at Disney, but apparently I'm not qualified.

Now I'm going to go to my job which, in the grand scheme of things, benefits no one and makes no impact on the world.

It took until 2 in the morning to get so evil, so I guess it's only natural that it takes until 2 in the morning to become good again.

[Work-safe 2-meg 8-frame screenshot montage of the amazing journey]

Yeah, I know this probably isn't very interesting. Bear with me, I'll lose interest in B&W after I get bored/beat the game.

I just got a shitload of aggression out in Black and White.

I'm at the third island, where they take your creature hostage and basically tortures it for weeks. That really pissed me off. I've been trying to be a good good for the whole game but damn it to hell that's just sick. My poor horse was electrocuted to death thousands of times over and I would no longer stand for it.

I took three of his villages using semi-good methods (ie miracles with a dash of big fucking rock when all else fails) but the forth one was stubborn as holy hell. So I literally razed the entire goddamn thing to the ground. Only a couple of empty houses were left by the time I torched that bitch. I channeled a whole lot of anger into that one.

Sure, now my tower looks like the fortress of doom and my god hand is practically oozing with evil now, but it's worth it to get my horse back. Besides, I don't think it was evil at all. An eye for an eye you know.

Nothing to report. Been playing Black and White, and I'm going to do some more right now.

However, I just wanted to throw this out there.



If you have 26 seconds to waste, I suggest you watch it. It's cute as balls.

Jesus. Disney makes things stupid difficult.

I need off next month through 7/19-7/22 to go to Michigan w/ Lisa and Vix. I'm already off 7/21 and 7/22, so I don't bother asking for those days off. After no fewer than 3 schedule requests to get those two days off, they finally send me some sort of progress: "Congratulations we have approved your request to switch your days off so that you can have the 19th and 20th off thank you for using castlink ♥".

Damn it all. Screw it, I'm calling out those days.

In other news, I've been seriously considering going back to get my Bachelor's degree. Because my current degree isn't going to do anything for me. The only question is: what to get the degree in?????? Suggestions. Give. I have no idea what I want to do the rest of my life so play God and mold me.

I wrote 1000 words of a new book idea. Shrug. It's something, anyways.

Behold. The Greatest Hits 3-CD set. Hits from CDs 1-50.

1. Bon Jon Jovi - It's My Life
2. Eminem and Britney Spears - Oops. The Real Slim Shady Did It Again
3. Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog [EXPLICIT]
4. Peter, Paul and Mary - Stewball
5. Michael Crawford - Music of the Night
6. Green Day - Minority [EXPLICIT]
7. Mouse House - Kiss The Girl (Remix)
9. James Kochalka - Monkey Vs. Robot
10. Dynamite Hack - Boys In The Hood [EXPLICIT]
11. Unknown - AOL Song
12. Faye Wong - Eyes on Me (Remix)
13. Brak's School Daze - Never Trust a Monkey
14. JPop (Unknown artist) - Shopping!
15. Sailor Moon - Colors of Love (Remix)
16. The Odds - Heterosexual Man
17. Vengaboys - Megamix
18. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman (Edited)
19. Linkin Park - Papercut
20. 69 Boyz - Woof Woof
21. The Eagles - Hotel California (Life)
22. Unknown Cover - Montego Bay
23. Homer Simpson - When I was 17
24. Nelly - Hot In Here (AOL Preview)
25. Rayvon - My Bad
26. Monsters of the Midday - The Beer Song
27. ATC - I'm In Heaven
28. Children's Songs - The Cat Came Back
29. Roger Miller - Ooh De Lally.
30. Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean (Remix)
31. A New Found Glory - My Friends Over You
32. Golden Shower - New York Groove
33. Unknown Artist - Final Fantasy Song (Chocobo Remix)
34. Eminem - My Dad's Gone Crazy [EXPLICIT]
35. Jimmy Eat World - Praise Chorus
36. Star Salzman - The Incredible Singing Robot
37. Good Charlotte - Screamer
38. Spekkosaurus - Spekkio The Brave
39. Wierd Al - Angry White Boy Polka
40. Lustra - Scotty Doesn't Know [EXPLICIT]
41. Bad Religion - Live Again
42. Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
43. Electric Six - Synthesizer
44. Captain Jack - In The Navy
45. The Mountain Goats - Golden Boy
46. Bloodhound Gang - Ralph Wiggum
47. Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
48. Studged - Dr. Dre Ft. Cosby
49. Jenny Rom vs Zippers - Waka Laka.wma
50. The Navigators - What Do You Think Of Me Now?

Today I worked for an astonishing one hour today. They were 90 hours overbudget at Soarin' and I didn't feel like working today since Lis' had the day off and it's father's day. This turned out to be a mixed blessing, because today is the day that Vix decided that being batshit for an hour or so wasn't good enough, so she expanded her services to include the entire damned day. She took a couple of small naps, but nothing substantial. She's finally asleep as of thirty minutes ago and I really fucking pray that she'll stay asleep until at least 5 but preferably until I wake up to take her to daycare. This shit is killing me.

Speaking of Father's day, I got some shit. I got the original (and only good version of) Land Before Time, O Brother where art thou?, a Whose Line collection and Robot Chicken v1. Pretty good haul. I deserve it. Damn it all. Sigh.

Life has been really weird lately. Really, really weird. I couldn't explain it if I tried, but things are so different right now.

I officially have lost the ability to speak. I am utterly humbled.

(note: god ok)

So little Vix has been an absolute terror over the last hour and a half. About the time from right before I fed her, actually. She's been screaming bloody murder, and no matter what I did, from toys to pacifiers to attempts to sleep to swinging in her swingie thing to putting her on the floor for floor time, nothing worked.

For anyone who's known me for more than eight seconds, you already know how this turn of events made me feel. In the beginning, I was trying everything in my power to make her stop with a soothing calm voice. About an hour later I was practically screaming along with her with such charms as "WHAT OH MY GOD WHAT JUST PLEASE SHUT UP". I know it doesn't help to do that, but it made me feel better.

About this time, as is usual when something overwhelms me, I turned to blame God for giving me this burden with no way of controlling it. I sat on the back porch (which has a table, which is pretty much the only thing I can hit without breaking it) and let her cry in her room while letting God have it from everything I can think of, from giving me a shrieking baby during the only time that her mother's not around to the fact that I was really pissed off that he never actually talks to any of us like he did in the bible. That one comes up pretty often actually.

About twenty minutes of attempts to calm her down failed, I put her in her crib again and walked across the house to the guest bedroom. I told God that I didn't mean to be angry at the baby or at her and that I was sorry for being so furious with life, but that I did not have the ability to help her and that frustrated the fool out of me. I told Him that I couldn't do it alone and I needed help, just a little bit of help.

As soon as I said that I needed help the second time, she stopped crying.
I am not kidding or being facetious or elaborating. She stopped crying the second after I said help.

As a member of the "God rarely answers any of my prayers so I am skeptical" club, I was hesitant to trust it. I was sure it was just a lapse in her crying and she'd start again immediately. So I crossed the heart, waiting for her to start shrieking again.

She had fallen asleep.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't of seen it, but she did. She actually fell asleep.

At risk of sounding like your everyday God-thumper, I find it incredibly hard to believe that it was coincidence. I'm sure most of you reading this (assuming you are still, god lol) assume the same thing, and that's your perogative. But that baby was soothed when I asked for help, I swear it on my own life.

I can't believe I ever doubted him. Amazing.

Hey kids,

If you like having time to yourselves, wait on having kids.

Just a friendly note.

Edit: She went to sleep. She was just tired. I would just delete this entry, but I don't want to forget that yes, she does have times that piss me off.

Mere moments before she started freaking the almighty fuck out.

Most confusing damn thing ever, this morning.

I got up, took a shower, put in my contacts and brushed my teeth. Normal morning. I get to the kitchen, clad only in a towel, and casually glance at the clock.

It was 12:15. I actually got halfway ready for work at 12 fucking 15.

Needless to say, I went back to sleep.

I feel bad for the residents of my Harvest Moon town. Thanks to savestates, it's been raining for almost five weeks straight.