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01.29.2002 (Night)	Ugly sleet... I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Even more so after the almost hour-long drive home from work today in the freezing rain. I haven't unpacked enough boxes to park my car in the garage yet... I'm close, but I still need another day's worth of unpacking before I get there. Nevertheless, I do have to go to work tomorrow, so I guess it's bedtime.
01.29.2002 (Evening)	He goes on in a couple of minutes, but it's not too late to play the State Of The Union Drinking Game.
01.28.2002 (Night)	The website was reviewed by The Weblog Review today. I got a 3.5 out of 5, and so far readers have rated me a 2.25 out of 5. I'm sad. You can read the review here. The items they knocked me for are problems that I know of already... I've been saying I was going to go to a database driven system someday, but I never seem to get around to doing it. Therefore, I end up with a months worth of posts on each page, and it isn't too easy to navigate. Pictures are another problem... I used to not have access to a scanner or digital camera, so I used to have an excuse. Now I carry a digital camera around with me everywhere I go, and I have a scanner, so I really ought to get more pics up here. I also need to revamp the layout, but I really don't know what I'm doing there... I just don't have an artistic eye... Anyway, I'm tired from racquetball and doing home repair and moving last weekend. I'm going to eat some dinner before Dave... Then it's sleepy time for me.
01.28.2002 (Morning)	Cracker is on Letterman tonight. Check your local listings...
01.27.2002 (Night)	Observations so far about the house: Since the computers are now right underneath the living room, the reception is much, much better on my little wireless audio connection to the living room stereo. My internet connection is about three times faster than it was in that apartment complex. Damn, I own this bitch. Shit to fix your house is expensive. I think I spent around $650 this weekend on stuff to fix up the house. Granted, I bought a lot of tools that I probably should have had by now, but I don't even have blinds on all the windows yet. As a matter of fact, when I was buying blinds for my bedroom ($35/window x 2 windows) the salesperson found it necessary to point out that the same blinds were on sale for two dollars ($2.00) each last week. Why, thank you for pointing that out to me. You should measure spaces before purchasing appliances. They came to deliver my fridge, and the cabinet above the nook hangs down about 1/2" too low for the refrigerator. I'm going to remedy the situation this weekend. I don't know if the solution will be to try to make the cabinets 1/2" shorter, or to just remove them entirely. I guess that depends on how I feel this weekend. I bought a nice power saw solely for the purpose of fixing those cabinets. It should be fun. Cable is rather low tech. There is a cable coming out of the ground which runs into a splitter. This splitter is the same one you would buy at Radio Shack. Out of the splitter, cables are run around the house and punched into all the rooms. The wiring is horrible. In spots, it's just hanging loose around portions of the house. They could have at least stapled them into place. Home maintenance is key. This place has not been taken care of. I was cheap buying a place, so this is certainly a fixer-upper. But I think I got a great deal. I think that what happened is this is a nice place that the previous owners just let go to shit. For example, about an hour ago I noticed some cobwebs above a window. I reached up and pulled them down. They seemed stiffer than normal cobwebs. On close inspection, I noticed that the stiffness was due to paint caught in the web. Apparently, they got up there to paint the walls, and didn't bother to pull down the visible webs while painting. That's only one example of repairs made in a half-ass fashion. As we start to get stuff fixed and updated, I think this is going to turn into a nice place in a decent part of town. You know how you say you want to do stuff like put a beer tap in the wall? Well, I've actually figured out where I can run the lines, located a power source for the cooler, and priced the hardware I'd need to do it. And I don't have to ask anyone if I can do it or not. All that cool shit you want to do costs money. There's plenty of shit that needs to be done to this place before I can do any sort of that cool stuff that I want to do. Blinds downstairs are a priority, and the hot water heater needs to be replaced as well. Guess I should get to sleep now so I can get in to work tomorrow and pay for all this stuff. Anyway, exciting times. I'll see you all at Mardi Gras in a couple of weeks, and at the Gimpysoft.com President's Day Bacchanalia a week after that. I'll post directions sometime this week... Look on the left for those. It'll probably be labeled GPDB Directions or something equally silly. Time for me to go to sleep now... I've had a full weekend of moving and repairs... Night all...
01.26.2002 (Night)	I am now moved in, and this page is in fact being served from Gimpysoft.com's new corporate headquarters in Shawnee, KS. There's a problem with the cable in the room I was planning on keeping the computers in, so I had to move the computers down to the downstairs family room. That's cool, anyway. I hadn't decided what I wanted to do with this room anyway, and it's where I'm planning on putting the Shiner Bock tap anyway. But the status so far is I'm moved in, and the place is pretty well cleaned up. The computers are hooked up, and I'm back on the internet. I haven't hooked up everything in the family room yet, and I don't think I'll get to that tonight. I've ordered ten X10 switches, so the home control section of this site should start to work again soon and be greatly expanded. I'll have to see what I can do about getting some cameras in here, but that's going to have to wait for a bit. I still need to pay off appliances and after those are paid off, I think I'm going to need to buy myself a bedroom set. I badly need a nightstand. But enough of this... I have company.
01.23.2002 (Evening)	And just like that, I own a house. I enjoy looking at my Quicken Net Worth Graph. I'd post that on here if I wasn't so damned embarrassed. Basically, I thought I had a lot of debt before, but now the graph kind of makes it look like my entire financial life before today is insignificant. I now have debts totaling $140,359.89. That's a nice number to see. As a matter of fact, when I finally did get a number out of the title people, it turned out to be about $900 less than I had been told previously. So that's kind of cool. I'm debating paying off my appliances, but since I bought those with a one year same as cash type of deal, I think it makes more sense to hang on to that cash and make payments on the appliances. Hell, maybe I'll start investing. I would think that now would be the time to be buying stock. It did feel kind of cool to drive over to the place... I actually have my very own garage door opener to clip onto my visor. I already have a list of stuff I need to buy for the new place, and I'll probably start making some of these purchases soon. The list includes: X10 Switches and Outlets Blinds New wall plates to replace the antique brass floral type ones that are on there now. New guts for the downstairs toilet. It leaks a bit, and that needs to be fixed pronto. Lamps. There just isn't enough overhead lighting in the place. New bedroom furniture. I've been shopping a bit, and I think I'll probably break down and buy myself a new bedroom set very soon. A Ladder, very tall. Paint. There is some horrible wallpaper in a room or two, and it's going to have to come down. I am looking forward to getting moved in. It should be fun...
01.23.2002 (Morning)	I close on my house in six hours. I haven't yet been told how much money I'm supposed to bring to closing, but from talking to my few homeowner friends, I guess that isn't too rare. I should have the keys to the place this evening, and I'll probably start moving over a couple boxes and such.
01.22.2002 (Evening)	More fun upcoming programs at MIT. "An Economic Theory of Clutter with Application to Internet Pornography" (Unfortunately, that one is canceled...) "Fun With Euclidean Geometry" "Chainmail Workshop" I wish I had gone to MIT. I couldn't even get them to send me an application when I was in high school... I'm actually serious about that. I called and requested applications twice and mailed a request for an application once, and they never sent it. Bastards.
01.22.2002 (Evening)	Well, the academic establishment has finally caved to intense pressure by the proponents of Time Cube debate. January 30, 2002 MIT is hosting the first ever Time Cube Lecture / Debate. No, I'm not kidding. I've already contacted the organizer about getting video.
01.22.2002 (Morning)	Indy IV is indeed going to happen.
01.22.2002 (Morning)	Here we go... This could get real, real ugly. We'll see how this plays out.
01.21.2002 (Night)	OK, one more quick, funny one from InstaPundit before I go to bed...
01.21.2002 (Night)	Via InstaPundit: Who's the white ex-president who's a sex machine with all the chicks? Damn right...
01.21.2002 (Night)	Well, the little Weblog Land furor over Tim Cavanaugh's Online Journalism Review article on war bloggers seems to have died down. I guess all the big guys got their shots in, and I was starting to feel somewhat bad about all the bad vibes circulating over that story... I was glad to see Ken Layne's recent post about Suck.com. There is bad blood there, but I guess it's directed mostly at the folks at Online Journalism Review. Bah... I just need to shut up about all this... Fanboy, Fanboy, look at the old Suck.com fanboy... Speaking of old fanboy stuff, let me just go down the list... Heather Havrilesky's Rabbit Blog has had some rather poignant stuff lately. She's back from Christmas Vacation, still unemployed, but has gone through a recent breakup. As a result, she's been posting more lately, and it's been good stuff. OK, I've hit Suck, and the Rabbit Blog spinoff... Space Ghost! For some reason, Space Ghost's website has all but gone away. It used to have more content, including Brak, Zorak, Moltar and the Legion of Doom's web pages, and Prancing Ponies. Now all it has is the episode guides, and even that is now out of date. It's missing the five or so new episodes at the end of last year. I can rarely find information about that show, so I don't know if this means that they are now officially done, or if it means that they're going to be making new episodes for this year, and the website is currently being redesigned. Oh well, maybe it's time for that show to die too. I really hate to say it, but I'm starting to jump on the Kill The Simpsons bandwagon myself. New episodes have been up against repeats of The Sopranos, and I've been opting for The Sopranos lately. When I do catch the new episodes of Simpsons, I often find myself not laughing much. All the ones I've seen lately seem to be weird Lisa episodes with too much preachy vegetarianism and environmentalism. But maybe those are just the episodes I've seen... Hmm... What else have I been obsessed with lately... I was looking forward to the launch of the DavidLynch.com website, but its launch date came, and the store still isn't open. Doesn't look like it's going to be all that great anyway... That's too bad. Well, let me take that back. Poking around the site, it looks like the membership form is indeed there. Maybe I should drop the $10 just to see what's there and write a review... Nah, I think I'll just go to bed. Good night all...
01.21.2002 (Night)	Well, as I approach my Major Life Change, this site will go through a bit of a change as well. It's finally time that I need to get myself some real DNS service, and perhaps actually pay for a static IP address from my ISP. I'm going to have to make some phone calls to get those things set up, but I assume that the domain transfer and the static IP are going to take some time to take care of. As a result, there will more than likely be an extended period of downtime for this site starting when I move on Saturday. The sheer volume of mindless text that I've posted to this silly little site has allowed traffic to this site to steadily increase over the last year and a half or so. I still don't think I have any regular visitors that don't know me personally, but I do get around 400-500 people stumbling in here every month. Folks are actually watching the Young Pups episodes, occasionally. I expect to buy a new video card for this machine sometime in the next month or so. With the new video editing software that comes with Windows XP, I hope to try to re-capture the shows and actually burn them to some Video CDs that you'll actually be able to play in a normal DVD player. Then, at least the tapes won't degrade any further. Now, for lack of anything better to talk about, I will proceed to list some of my favorite search engine strings that have been used to locate Gimpysoft.com: Minnesota Vikings Haters Sketch Comedy Houston my hair and (grow or growing) and long and longer and before and after shredded foam companies falcor luck dragon if you walk without rhythm you won't attract the worm snow sluts car stuck in a ditch fat guy with no shirt altered beast power up velma naked scooby my fake job gay porn for palm os new braunfels girls naked should i visit my friend again when he lied to me and also he lost his temper sometimes? go pack go mp3 steve kimock guitars space ghost fire ant download mardi gras stories little ninja download duke of house atreides If those phrases don't more or less sum up my life for the last year and a half or so, I don't know which ones do.
01.21.2002 (Morning)	Happy Birthday, Hakeem.
01.21.2002 (Morning)	Ouch.
01.20.2002 (Night)	I bought myself a copy of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison yesterday. Damn, now that is a good album. I was also listening to one of those cable music channels that I'm going to miss when I move, and I heard a song off of Gillian Welch's latest album, Time (The Revelator). That's a pretty good one too... I think I'll be listening to those albums for the next several hours until football starts. Go Pack! Bring on those St. Louis Bastards...
01.19.2002 (Morning)	Yup, the olympics are being held in Utah.
01.18.2002 (Night)	Where I'm from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air.
01.18.2002 (Night)	I had never looked too closely, but apparently, Paul Atreides was Kyle MacLachlan's first film role. Who knew?
01.17.2002 (Night)	I'm about over being sick. I took to opportunity of being sick as a fucking dog to go ahead and quit smoking. I've had moderate success with this technique in the past. First of all, when sick with any sort of respiratory distress, smoking just hurts. So you really have to be a dedicated smoker to get through this period with your habit intact. Secondly, having a nice flu overpowers any nicotine withdrawal symptoms, and you generally just sleep through them. Lastly, you get around that quitting smoking weight gain thing. Hell, I've even lost weight over the last couple of days. I had grand plans to have two dates this weekend. I was going to ask the girl I went out with last weekend out again, and ask one of the girls I play trivia with as well. This flu gives me a good excuse to back out of those. I still may give Big Smith girl a call, but it's a bit late for that for this weekend, and I'm moving next weekend. I was sick on my normal trivia night, so I didn't get to ask out the cool, smart trivia chick. You see, the thing is... My roommate's girlfriend is going to be coming to town this weekend. When she's come in the past, it's been at a convenient time. I've usually been out of town at a Big Smith show, or in Chicago for some reason, or just visiting Fayetteville. But this weekend, I've got nothing. I feel I should give them some space, but can think of little to do. I'm still getting over this sick thing, so I don't really feel like going out... I think I'll just go to the club that I went to see Big Smith at last weekend. It seems like a cool place that has plenty of good music. Either that, or I'll go see The Grand Fiasco tomorrow night. That could be cool. Tim Cavanaugh, former editor of Suck, wrote a column about the warbloggers today. Matt Welch seems to think that this is part of "the backlash". Lighten up, Matt... I don't think he was overly harsh. You've read enough Suck to know that he can be snarky without being insulting... God knows you guys can take yourselves a bit too seriously now and then. Nevertheless, I'd have to disagree with Tim's parting comment, "But as long as courage lives and liberty endures, every American will be proud to have you out there, blogging for an audience of none." Hell, I'm reading, and I'm certainly no warblogger...
01.16.2002 (Afternoon)	Not a good omen for this coming Sunday's game.
01.16.2002 (Morning)	Well, by noon yesterday it became clear to me that I had caught whatever plague has been going around the office for the last couple of weeks. I left work at around 1:30, came home and went to sleep. I didn't wake up until 7:30 this morning. Impressive. I still don't feel quite right... My nose and ears are stuffed up, and my throat is still a bit sore. I think I'm going to stay home another day, maybe get another couple of boxes packed up. I do move next Friday... Ugh... Back to sleep for now, though...
01.15.2002 (Morning)	Yesterday, I picked up my poster, which after over a year I finally got around to getting framed. The girl who worked at the framing shop was one of those cool pierced alternative types that I always dig... She told me that when I first dropped off the poster, she said to herself, "Oh god, not another one of these..." She said that when they read it, they got a good laugh out of it and asked where I got the poster. I felt cool for a moment, then I went home. I no longer feel cool. Time to head to work!
01.14.2002 (Night)	As much as I may not like to admit it, I guess I only update the weight chart when there's been some progress. Well, there's been some progress. I really need to finalize the design on the tattoo, or I'm going to hit that barrier before I have it done, and I'll end up having to leave it to the tattoo artist.
01.13.2002 (Evening)	It is now official. I don't know jack about football...
01.13.2002 (Afternoon)	Well, I'm now 1-2 on my playoff picks. Miami is currently down, but it's early. I bought all my major appliances. I shopped at Best Buy, Sears, and Home Depot. Home Depot only carried GE and I think Maytag, and only had higher-end stuff. I'm cheap. Sears and Best Buy had comparable selections, but Best Buy had Sears beat for price by $200 on the refrigerator, and about $100 each on the washer and dryer. Plus, I got a one year same as cash deal, so it should come out OK. Hooray for more monthly payments. I spent a bit more on the refrigerator than on the washer and dryer. I went somewhat low-end on the washer and dryer, but I got a decent side-by-side fridge with and icemaker, and crushed ice at the door. All the better to help me increase my scotch intake. I'm about to shower and get ready for a show tonight at the Grand Emporium. I'm going to see a rockabilly act that I haven't heard of. A girl I met at the Big Smith show last weekend says they're pretty good, so I'm escorting her out there for the show. But I guess I ought to take a short nap now. I was out too late last night, and I had to wake up in time to see The Packers beat San Francisco. Hey you losers, send me your football picks...
01.12.2002 (Morning)	Good Big Smith last night. Playoff games don't start until 3:30 today so I'm about to head out to do some appliance shopping. I was talking to some girls in my apartment complex, and they only have to give thirty days notice rather than the sixty that I have to give. I'm really curious as to why that is, but I guess the owners can do pretty much whatever they want... When you have a dispute with another party, don't take the law into your own hands. You take 'em to court. Well, I finished up reading that copy of Reason last night. I subscribe to a lot of magazines, but that issue of Reason is probably the first in a long time that I've actually read cover to cover. Admittedly, it is somewhat short, only fifty pages or so. Since Reason got me on an "old Suck writers" kick, I went out to a comic shop yesterday and grabbed a copy of Peter Bagge's Hate Annual #2. A couple of stories in the comic were direct reprints of stories and art that had run previously in Suck, but several were new. Peter Bagge is cool. If there's anything I've learned from Dr. Thompson, it's the danger of betting with your heart rather than your head. Nevertheless, I've made my NFL Playoff Picks.
01.11.2002 (Morning)	It's Friday, I've got a job, and I've got shit to do... Fuck...
01.10.2002 (Night)	The sit-up/push-up workout seems to be getting me on a downward track again. Actually, it's not really a downward track. Two days after I started it, I dropped five pounds below where I had been, and I've been exactly there for about a week now. Maybe I can drop a bit more this weekend. We're running out of food in the apartment and I'm determined not to go grocery shopping until after I move.
01.10.2002 (Night)	While forlornly searching for information about what has happenned to all the old Sucksters, I found this old article praising Suck by warblogger Matt Welch. I guess he'll be back and posting again tomorrow...
01.10.2002 (Night)	I always wondered what would happen if you filled little baggies with powdered sugar and sold them to an undercover cop claiming they were cocaine. Well, via Virginia Postrel, I finally know. (Unfortunately, you have to jump through some silly registration hoops to read the story... Just read Virginia's comments.
01.09.2002 (Night)	Well crap... I went out to my weekly trivia night. It's wednesdays now, since my roommate introduced me to a girl at his work and all her friends... My roommate doesn't go any more for some reason, but I actually keep in touch with several of the girls... Big Smith is playing in town this weekend. I had planned on asking the crowd if anybody wanted to go to the show. I did so, and nobody bit. The cool, smart single girl with the literature degree showed up late, so I asked her separately from the crowd... It actually looked like she was considering it when her friend said, "I said no because I don't like bluegrass." Maybe just my imagination... Anyway, the insult to injury came when the cool, smart single girl with the literature degree spent most of the next hour or so bitching about how she never gets dates, and the dates she has never go well. I'm going to bed now, but I get to see Big Smith this Friday. Also, god willing, I move into my house the Saturday after next, and Mardi Gras is two weeks after that... I'm going to bed now.
01.09.2002 (Morning)	Goodbye weight loss... My boss just showed up with the Girl Scout Cookies.
01.08.2002 (Night)	And I missed even one more... I remember when Ambrose Beers joined the Army back in 1999. Well, he's published in Reason this month as well, with an article on how the media misunderstands the military. Is this just Suck month in Reason, or can I look forward to this every month? Now if only they'd get Terry and Heather to team up for some more Filler... How bout it Nick? And what is this? I do some more poking around in the old Suck archives and find out that Reason Editor in Cheif Nick Gillespie also wrote for Suck as Mr. Mxyzptlk? I swear, I will never let your subscription lapse again...
01.08.2002 (Night)	I used to subscribe to Reason magazine. I let the subscription lapse when I was on a money saving kick a couple of years ago. I've been reading all the kick ass warbloggers like Steven Den Beste's USS Clueless, InstaPundit, and the first one I found, Matt Welch. Well, about a month ago, Mr. Welch mentioned on his page that he had an article published in Reason, and that inspired me to renew my subscription. I just got my first issue a couple of weeks ago, and am impressed. There's a nice cartoon by Peter Bagge about attending a Christian Youth Talent Contest. I guess he's known for a comic called Hate that I never read, but I do remember seeing several of his contributions to Suck. There's also an article by Suck contributor Tim Cavanaugh. I think I'll keep the subscription to Reason this time... At least I'll have something good to read now that I'm having my Digital Cable disconnected when I move into the house...
01.08.2002 (Night)	Wow, maybe I should go to this... Apparently they've almost picked a date and a hotel for BlogCon 2002. It would probably be more interesting if my blog had a following... But maybe this will be a good excuse to go to Vegas.
01.08.2002 (Evening)	I know that this is going to happen to me.
01.07.2002 (Morning)	Wow. I was on the Republican National Committee's website just now, and I noticed their logo. That's one angry eagle.
01.06.2002 (Night)	OK, all the games are done except for the meaningless Tampa Bay/Philadelphia matchup. Why can't I find an NFL playoff bracket anywhere? I need to see who The Packers will be playing the week after next once they get done with San Francisco next week...
01.06.2002 (Night)	While cleaning my room this weekend, I needed to find some music to listen to. Since I have a nice quick internet connection these days, I tend to listen to a lot of Shoutcast music. Generally when I pick a Shoutcast stream, I end up listening to some sort of Techno or Acid-Jazz stream, but this Saturday I decided to check out Radio Paradise. It is by far the best radio station I've heard, ever. They play music by many bands I like including Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead, REM, and lots of older stuff by Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. Plus they play a bunch of stuff by bands I've never heard of, and it's all good. Check out their recent playlist and give them a listen sometime... In the meantime, I've been downloading some mp3s and ripping some of my CDs, trying to come up with a good party mix. Does anybody have any suggestions for good party music? I'm always bad in that I assume that everybody has the same taste in music as me...
01.06.2002 (Night)	Good Lord. I just went running with my roommate. Just a quick lap around the apartment complex. I've decided that I don't like running. I've been back for almost fifteen minutes, and I still haven't caught my breath. Maybe I should quit smoking. Nah...
01.06.2002 (Post-Game)	Well, The Pack looked good from what I saw. Once the game got out of hand, I switched to watching the Bears. Unfortunately, I Jacksonville couldn't hook us up. My mom got her request for Packers playoff tickets in a day too late, so my mom and dad won't be going to the game next week. She's kind of upset about that... But I'll get to watch Green Bay vs. San Francisco at Lambeau next Sunday. It should be on TV here, but I'll probably head out to a bar anyway. Ugh... I guess it's time to finish up cleaning the apartment. Appliance shopping happens sometime this week.
01.05.2002 (Night)	I spent all day today packing and cleaning my apartment. Damn, my room can actually look very nice when it's clean. I threw away about four boxes of crap that I've been carrying around with me for the last several years. I still can't quite bring myself to throw away my old notes from college. God only knows why I'm keeping them. I finished my room at around eight this evening. I decided that I deserved a beer, so I hopped in the car and started to drive out. It was snowing when I woke up this morning, but it turned to rain later in the day. Well, now it's night and the rain on the ground has turned to ice. I had a hard enough time just getting my car turned around and back in its parking spot. I'm not sure if all the roads are that icy, but I decided not to take any chances. I'll be heading out tomorrow to watch football anyway. Does anybody know what exactly our local Fox affiliate is thinking not carrying a football game about half the time? I mean, I could understand if they decided to carry the St. Louis game instead of The Packers, but no game at all? They carry the pre-game show, then when the game is supposed to come on, infomercials or that god-awful VIP show. I know it's not blackout rules, because Kansas City's football games always sell out, and CBS carrys those games anyway. I don't know, it just doesn't make any sense to me. So off I am to a bar again to watch the game. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying... My roommate has me on his new exercise program. In addition to the semiweekly racquetball, we are now doing 300 sit-ups a day and 100 push-ups. I am week, and can't do the 100 pushups. I'm lucky if I can get in a good forty in a day. The sit-ups I'm starting to catch up on, though. I managed to put in 250 yesterday. Unfortunately, I'm so sore I've only been able to do 100 today. Maybe this will finally help me break through that 240 pound barrier that's been plaguing me since October. Maybe I should start drinking less beer, too. Nah...
01.04.2002 (Morning)	The more I hear about Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the less interested I am in going to see it. I think what's going to end up happening is that I'm going to very reluctantly go to see it, but when it sucks as bad as I expect it will, I'll skip Episode III. Anyway, for the less geekified readers of this site, I'll mention the latest fiasco. Apparently, N*Sync is going to appear in Episode II. At least it's cameos in a large battle, and we can always hope they're chopped into bits, but I nevertheless am disappointed. Maybe Sam Jackson can personally dispatch them. And you will know my power comes from THE FORCE... When I lay my vengance upon you...
01.03.2002 (Night)	Finally played some racquetball tonight... That's the first time since I twisted my ankle. I came out of it unscathed, but all three of us are out of shape after the holidays. It was somewhat ugly. I still feel like an idiot about the sixty day notice thing, but not quite as much... I talked to a couple of girls in the exercise room, and they were unaware of that clause in the lease as well. As a matter of fact they're planning on moving out in March, so they thanked me for the heads up... Fuck The Trails apartment complex in Lenexa. (Maybe, just maybe, somebody will do a google search on this apartment complex and decide not to live here. I can only hope.)
01.03.2002 (Morning)	I had very vivid dreams last night. In one, I was out stargazing and saw an amazing meteor shower. I was in Arkansas when that last cool meteor shower hit, but there was complete cloud cover so I missed it. The other dream involved me and my two female roommates. One was interested in me, but I was interested in the other. The one I was interested in was about six inches taller than me. She was taking a shower in the shower in my room, and asked me to join her. Luckily (?) my alarm clock went off at that point, so it didn't become one of those "special" dreams. Ugh... Too much information. I apologize for that. Multiple credit problems mounting here just as I'm attempting to close my loan. A credit card I paid off and closed two months ago just sent me a bill saying I'm delinquent, and owe them a lot of money. In November, I sent them a check for $200 and balance transfered a bit off the card. It left me with a credit balance of $192 or so. So after the check cleared, I called the company and told them that I'd like to close the account. I asked them if any further finance charges would be applied to the account and they said no, if I closed it then. I did so, and they sent me a check for the amount of $192. Yesterday, I got a bill for $62, for interest for December, and a late fee for not paying December's bill. I never received a bill in December, so I called them up. They said that it didn't look like a statement had been sent, and that my account was closed. After finally getting in touch with a supervisor, she said that it was their mistake in issuing the check for too much, so she zeroed out the balance in the account, submitted it to the credit bureau, and sent me a letter explaining the situation in case it comes up while I'm closing the mortgage. Then there's the situation with the rent on this apartment. Long story short (too late), they wanted sixty days notice before I left instead of the 30 that I gave them. I may end up owing this apartment complex $1090 (good god!) for a month that I won't be living here. I think I might fight it in court, but I might lose. A question for anybody... When you apply for loans and such, one of the questions that they ask you is if you have any judgements against you. If I were to fight this in court and lose, owing the money, is that considered a judgement against me and will it fuck up my credit? I don't know. I guess that's something I'll have to ask a lawyer. Hell, I'd pay a lawyer the full amount that I owe this apartment complex if they could just keep any more of my money from going to these fucks. I guess it is my fault for not reading the lease closely enough to see that I had to give the 60 day notice, but that seems a bit excessive to me. I certainly have never had to give that long to any other place I've lived. But I'll quit my bitching... For now...
01.02.2002 (Night)	Push-ups and sit-ups are hard. I'm tired, so I won't write much. The Big Smith show was great, as always. I'm recovered now. Heather Havrielsky's Rabbit Blog had one of it's funniest posts recently. At least, I found it funny. Read the Rabbit Blog FAQ. OK, I'm going to sleep now... Happy new year.