As the story continues, we are in a diffrent place for a change. Back to another world. Back to another time.

One word 'stick'

How can this be such an inportant thing? The answer is simple. People who have a clue drive them. It's more effecent. Do you want some piece of equipemt telling you what gear your transmission should be in? I didn't think so. For the most part, automatics do a pretty good job. But they still don't shift right all the time. It drives me nuts. Even if I'm just a pasanger in the car. I keep thinking 'shift, shift, shift, finaly!'. It's crazy.

I got a GPS unit today, a Magellan GPS 300. While lacking it most features, it does what I need it to. And most of all, it was quite cheap. It can direct me to places I've been, or places that I know the lat/lon for. Plus it shows current speed, lat/lon and altitude. These are the most basic features, but the most inportant. I realy don't need real time maps anyway. The roads change, and who says I'm going to take the roads? I have a truck )

Speaking of the truck. Today I got insurance, and plates. Then imidiatly disapeared in a cloud of dust. Only to return in the morning a much happyer man.

Does driving realy give me that much pleasure? Of course it does! I wouldn't spend so much time behind the wheel if it didn't. So much time just kina holding a steering wheel. Watching the road, listening to the tires on the pavement. It's truely an experence. I ponder if I realy need a stero system in my truck. I'll probably just hook up my tape deck or something. I've gotten pretty usto just listening to the natural sounds. I've come to enjoy/appriciate them. Am I realy getting that old? Next thing you know I'll be listening to clasical music. O, wait...you have to realy be depresed to enjoy that ;) Truthfully though, I love clasical music. I'm the type of guy that likes just about anything. As long as it's well done. Granted that's personal opinion...

Onto the issue of girls, I stayed up all night last night to wait for sarah to come online, and then she never showed up :'( Maby tonnite? I shure hope so.

I haven't heard from delphi since she sent me that one message, I'm woried. I don't know what to do. I hate situations where I just can't win. No matter what I do. Ususaly thier is a way, but in this situation I haven't found it yet. I ha ve spent way too much time thinking about this, it's bringing me down.

Haven't heard from donna for a while either, I wait with anticiapation for the next mail. It's nice to talk to her that way. A lot better than real time chat. We can both put more thought into what we say. Less stupid things said that way, but it helps to build on something that may not even be there. In real life would we have the chance to ponder the next statement? Nope, RL sucks.

I sit here waiting for a friend I haven't seen in quite a while, several months at least. Our conversation will proably turn to science/math, being one of the main things we have in common. Were both computer geeks of diffrent breeds. For the most part he's a Microsoft boy, and I'm ususaly just a lowly unix guy. But we see past our diffrences since they realy don't matter that much anyway.

Wait, that last person is a guy ;) Oh well...maby in the next life I'll actualy be a girl like I was supposo be this time.

Tommorow I'm going to try to setup a meeting with MrToad from #nebraska on effnet. That should prove to be fun if nothing else. He seems like great guy, and is a very good linstener. Ususaly I'm the person who listens. So this makes for a good time.

What's next? I have no idea. I'll probably end up getting some dumb job someplace. get pissed, and quit. The cycle continues. But thier are other options. I need to do some other things as well. Re-roof one of my houses, and do some repairs to where I'm living now. Repaint, refinish, plumbing. Stuff that mike doesn't have time, or wants to do. He screams and hollors when the need comes around. I've never heard so many foul words before in my life till I met him. And I've heard quite a few before that. Heh, not that I don't like the guy. I look at him as a sort of father figure of sorts. But also just one of the guys. Sorta a wierd mix of the two. It's realy hard to explain. Depends a lot on the mood. I think he looks at me kina like an adopted son. I know his wife does. She's realy good to me, just like a good mother. But diffrent. Probably since I haven't spent the first 18 years of my life annoying her :).

He should be here in a few, I'm going to read some manga...

As it happens, it's the next day. Or, more accuretly a few days later. Since I'm doing this on my pilot I might as well just add to the current file.

Life is still going, in some ways better than expected. My truck is running very well, but I still don't have a job. No job, no cash. Heh, at least I have my rental houses to fall back on.

But, I'm working on the job part. Put in an app at beatricene.com, deffinitly not my first choice of places to work, but it's cash. That is if they even decide to hire me. Since the way they kicked me off the ISP. I'm still realy pissed at them for that, but it will pass. I'm so much happyer with Internet Nebraska anyway. Offering shell accounts, and other such nice things. Plus the tech support actualy knows thier shit. Yep, you guessed it...this is a little add for them ;)

So, as the story goes, I go in to drop off my app, and get an interview. They take my app and don't even bother to interview me. WHA?! Yesterday they said they wanted an interview. Heh, stupid job service anyway. I've never had any sort of luck with them in the past. Never even a call back. They suck.

Chatted with delphi last night. That was odd, she's working on solutions to a problem I don't think I can help her with. Not unless it's solved properly anyway. Still, I miss her...How long will I have to wait yet? Too long no doubt.

Mmm, hot chicken soup, fresh from the brickery. One of the best little coffeeshops around (minus the no smokeing part).

Need to let that cool down for a bit before partakeing in it's pleasure. As to not burn my toung :)

Oh, my mac's monitor is still on the fritz. The red gun apparently not working. Makes pictures look like shit, unless I change to greyscale mode. Then it's still wierd. Kina an off white that after looking at for too long makes other things look bad. It makes blue look purple, most noticable with my comadore.

Yes, I have a comodore. A c128 none the less. The fucking best one ever made. Not that I use it much, other than the monitor for a TV :)

What am I? Some deranged maniac? Just a normal guy? A total louser? This is one question that I have been pondering as of late. Well, more than that. Quite a bit realy. I'm still pretty depressed about the whole drivers liscense thing. Even though I have it back, I dunno...it's still not right somehow.

The last few days, Brightsun has left his modem at work, leaving me full internet access in the evening. This pleases me quite a bit. It also suprizes me as to why he keeps forgiting it. I had thought he was as addicted as I. Heh, I can't go very long without checking my email ;) In contrast though, I will go for weeks without touching the mailbox outside the house. I never get anything good. Just junk mail. Spam. Spam in my mailbox. When I get spam in my email, I get pissed, send a nasty reply, hit delete, and get over it. Smail is a bit diffrent. I have to actualy walk around and thrown the shit away. Plus it builds up in the trash. Too bad I can't just hit a button to empty the trash like I can with my macintosh. Hehe.

One of my biggest soft spots, is my belly. Food. It's where quite a bit of my $$$ goes. It's barely 11:00am, and I've already eaten at a couple of resturants. Heh, it's a wonder I don't put on more weight.

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