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Come back Koshi, We miss you.

Saturday, I had a lot of people over to my house. Ken, Christin, Candice, Andy, Lindsay, and Ben were all here. It’s hard to get people out here, so it’s cool when I can get people to come over. I made Lindsay do a shot of 151 with me, but I neglected to tell her until afterward that 151 stood for 151 Proof. We were going to go to the first movie that we could, but we had to wait for Ken and Christin to get here. We ended up going to the midnight movie.

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It would make very much sense that if desiring to attack us, the Martians would use this proximity as the perfect opportunity to launch an attack. So, watch the skies.

Help spread the panic please.

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A good weekend was had. At least a weekend in my sense of the term. I started off my day on Tuesday writing a long catch up post. I complained about a few things, and those things needed to turn around on me and prove that things aren’t that bad after all.

I had my first real meeting with my

manager at work to go over my productivity stats. In almost everything that matters I’m at either a TSS 2 or Senior TSS level. So that is really good. Now that doesn’t mean grand prizes, huge promotions and a pat on the back. That just means I’m not as likely to be let go when my 90 day period is up. The stats I did really good on were the easy ones to get anyway. My worst stat is my

RTO. We’re supposed to document the calls we get and record what we had the customer do. They want a Remedy ticket for at least half of your calls. I’ve opened less than 30%. I really need to get better on that. I’ll go some days and just not open a ticket all day.

After work I went over to Melissa’s house. It has been a really long time since I had seen her and I was starting to get one of those paranoid feelings about it. I knew I was just being stupid, but the mind does have a tendency to wander at times. They have furniture in their apartment now. The last time I saw it, it was pretty bare. They have couches now. We went down to her laundry room and I helped her wash their clothes. It doesn’t matter how many times we joke about it, and say how horrible it would be if she forgot her keys, she’ll still almost forget them.

We went back to her

apartment while we were waiting and watched a few episodes of Titus. We also took a walk around her

apartment building. It was a beautiful night out. They have a pond/lake behind their building, but the water isn’t very clean. For some reason I’m very negative about her

place. “Yeah, that’s nice, but my

place is better” Di-Di came over after work. Melissa had fallen asleep on the couch, so we talked until the clothes were done. I helped them carry all the clothes back and then I left. It was getting really late.

The next day I sat at home and waited for UPS to arrive. I had ordered an Emperor Norton T-shirt, but I had missed it the past few days due to the fact that I am always working when they tried to deliver it. I ran downstairs when I heard the doorbell ring. He was almost about to turn around and go.

Next, I went and picked up my

brother. We came back to my

place and watched the 5th Element. We also hooked his computer into our network so that he could fill his hard drive with our movies. Ben messaged me and told me about going to the club, but I misunderstood his message and thought that he just wanted me to meet him

there.

My

brother had to call our mom, so we went and found a payphone. He got permission to go back to GC to hang out for a bit. I dropped him off at Brad’s and then I went over to Ryan’s house. I don’t get to hang out there all too often anymore. Living in a different city makes it hard to be there for the day to day occurrences. I was glad I showed up there. I learned a bit of the gossip that I had been missing, found out about the big upcoming parties and shows. I even got a copy of the new song that The Wary May recorded in studio. (Let me know if you want a copy) I need to get the rest of the songs that they recorded, but they’re not ready yet.

Next, I had to drive out to Royal Oak to go to Luna. There was no cover before 10, so I planned on getting there about 9:45. I misjudged my timing and got there almost exactly at 10. They didn’t charge me cover anyway. I think I really like that place. It reminds me of a smaller, cleaner City Club. (Why is it that whenever anyone compares a club to City Club, they always mention that the other place is cleaner?) Andy showed up about 20 minutes later. We were waiting for Ben, but it turns out that he was planning on car-pooling, so he never showed up.

I got really drunk. Andy got really drunk. He was drinking Zombies all night. I found out that one of my

co-worker’s is a discordian. I talked to this girl that I had been wanting to talk to for most of the night. We seemed to get along pretty well, but I think I waited too long and had to leave shortly afterwards. I wish I wasn’t so (shy). I’m pretty much of an outgoing person, but I sometimes have trouble going up to people and talking to them at random.

Afterwards, we sat out in Andy’s car with some guy that we met there, and then Andy and I went across the street to the diner. We were having a really good discussion about reality, but Andy was a little drunk, and that can make it hard to talk. He almost lost his phone, but we called it and found it in his car.

The next day, I was expecting my

phone to come in. I was sitting around the house when I checked the FedEx tracking page. Lo and behold, it said that they had been there not 5 minutes ago. I’ve been home all day. I run out to the door, see the tag, go down to my

apartment’s office and use their phone to call them up. I am so mad I’m shaking. It’s been 3 weeks and they’re going to fuck me like this. Furthermore, I see the note that they need a COD of $712.50. I want to scream. They’ve taken that money so many times from me already. There is no way that I’m going to wait another 3 weeks while I try to straiten this out.

I get a hold of the guy at Wireless Toys, he tells me that he still has my Money Orders and that I need to pick them up. Ben and I go to the Coney right next door. We needed to kill some time. I am so incredibly anxious for my

phone to get here. That way I can relax.

A little bit later I go to FedEx to pick it up. The lady that was working there didn’t seem really all that happy. I get my box and go out to my

car. I notice that it’s been taped, but the inner box was opened. I think that’s odd, but not overly so. I put in the battery and it tells me “Insert SIM.” Someone from FedEx stole my SIM card. How much worse luck can I have? I go back to Wireless Toys and the guy hooks me up with one of his cards until mine comes in. My

phone is now working, but I can’t get some of my extra features until I get my own card. That, and there is no point programming all my numbers in yet.

Next order of business. We go to The Necto. There are at least 3 tornados in my area, and we decide to go driving. My

car was so hot. I couldn’t open the windows because it was pouring out. We get to the parking lot, and it’s flooding because there was so much rain. We got soaked in the time it took us to run to the door. (a little longer considering we went the wrong way)

The Necto had $1 Long Island Iced Teas till 11. How can I pass that up? I had to drink 3 of them in 45 minutes just to make it worth my while. After that I had to switch to the expensive drinks. I’ve actually been to that club before. It was the first club I had ever been to. I went with Mark and a few of his friends, back when it was primarily a gay club. (One of his friends is gay) We went on the only straight night, unfortunately that night was Asian Invasion night. It was one of my worst experiences at a club. It was much, much better this time. Afterwards we went for a slice of pizza. That’s why I love Ann Arbor. Pizza places that are open till 4:00.

Next day I had to go back to work. That sucked, but it was a relatively normal day and I have to expect that no matter how much fun I may be having on my days off, I must eventually return to work. After work, I stopped by the bank and took out some money and then went to my

mom’s house. I had a lot to talk to her about. I’ve had a pretty interesting week and it makes a good story. I’ve been doing pretty good at paying her back. They said they wanted at least $250 every 2 weeks till it’s paid off. I’ve been giving them between $300 - $400. One day I’ll be out of debt. And oh what a day that’ll be.

Next, I went to Julie’s birthday party. (Her birthday is the same day as Melissa and Nick’s) There were a lot of people there. Most of them I knew, but there were a few people that just left me wondering “How did these people get invited” Not that I’m complaining. I’m always up for new people, I’m just wondering how the web of who knows who.

There was some pit fighting. It was fun to watch. I wanted to see Lance and Massey go at it, but nobody could find them right then. I hung out with Ryan and Julie’s mom for a little bit. Talked about how hard it is to get a good Shadowrun campaign going. Talked to some little girl (that Bridges was flirting with btw) about my

brother. She was his age, I wanted to see if she knew him.

I explained about Emperor Norton to a few people. I was in the kitchen and Julie’s mom said to this girl “Hey, If you’re under 21 you can’t be drinking here. You have to give us your beer” At first I thought she was joking and I went along with it. “Yeah, I’ll take it” Well, she left her beer. I don’t know if I should feel bad about that or not? As I was leaving this one girl decided to feel my chest. I have nice breasts apparently. (I’m still not quite sure why she was doing that)

I took Ryan

home, we stopped at Taco Bell. I could have sworn that the McDonald’s on Ford and Middlebelt was open 24 hours on Friday, but it was closed. I drove home and got to bed really late. There is more adventure to be had, but unfortunately it must be lived before it can be written about.

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Let me see. It’s been a really long time since I’ve done a really good journal entry. I finally am beginning to feel at home in my new apartment

here. I’ve pretty much stopped going to Garden City every other day. This is for a number of reasons. For one, it takes up so much gas; two, I can’t think of anything to do.

Last Wednesday, I was in town. Candice’s uncle helped me get the washer and dryer from Mrs. D’s house. I got so lucky with that. I needed a washer and dryer. My

mom had just bought a new set a couple months ago. I was going to get them, but she said that she thought that they were gas. (I have electric hook-up’s) I got the money off of my

grandpa and was going to use it to buy them, but found out that my

mom’s set was electric after all.

We got back after dropping them off at my

place and I planned on staying around in town for a little bit. I couldn’t think of a damn thing to do. It seems like all of the fall back things that I used to have going for me in Garden City have vanished. I used to have a home

there, can’t go there anymore. I used to spend a lot of my free idle time hanging out with John. John has a job now. I used to hang out with Dave. He also has a job. (working with Dave Block and James) I haven’t even seen him since he started there.

I still don’t have a phone. I put in the application for a Nextel like 3 weeks ago. We went through a lot of crap trying to get it. I get a discount because I work at Comcast. That meant that he couldn’t just give me a phone, it has to be mailed to me. I was kinda mad, but willing to wait. A week and a half goes by. Still no phone. I never bothered to recharge my other phone. It seems foolish to put money into a pre-paid phone when I’ll be getting a fully featured phone in 2-3 days. (like the guy told me)

So I stopped back in to the store to find out what the fuck was going on. He called Nextel, they said that my credit card didn’t go through the first time and they would need to try it again. I gave them my number, they tried it, it came back rejected. They tried it again, same thing. I was told that I needed to go get a money order. Okay, this is now turning to a major bitch, but I need a phone, so I’ll go do it.

I went to my

bank and tried to take out the money. I couldn’t. My balance was -$380! Now I know that I had roughly a thousand dollars in there. I got a printout of my statement. It seems that when they tried to charge my account, it came back rejected, but took the money anyway. They withdrew $712 twice, about a minute apart. I got them on the phone and we straightened it out. They were going to put the money back.

So I wait. And wait. And wait. The girl at Standard Federal now knows me really well. I happened to get her every time I went in there. This was the same girl that had to process my 22 savings bonds. I haven’t talked to her in a few days. The day that I found out my money was back, they were already closed. I tried to get the money out of the ATM, but it restricted me to $500. I needed $721. I had to wait till Monday to get the rest. I finally got the money orders and paid them, so now hopefully I should be getting a phone soon. (fingers crossed)

Other annoyances. The Internet community at large was hit by a particularly nasty internet worm. MSBlaster. I work in tech support. This means I had to deal with customers complaining that their computer keeps rebooting every 5 minutes. Well gee, if you applied your security patches over a month ago… you wouldn’t have this problem.

Apperently, Comcast doesn’t apply patches or something because on Tuesday, my

computer was completely fucked up. Half of the tools I use wouldn’t load. I left work and said to myself “Okay, I have 2 days off.” I’ll come back and they’ll have everything fixed and I won’t have to worry about all this shit” (yeah right!)

On Thursday, I was planning on going to my

Dad’s. I was going to visit with my family, and pick up my

brother. I was procrastinating getting going and then I had to fuck around with the bank and Nextel. (see above) It was about 4:00 when I was ready to leave. My tank was, and had been for a while on empty. I went to the gas station to fill up before I left. The power was out, no gas. Very well. I’ll just go to a different gas station. Same thing. I’ll try 3 other stations. That’s when I found out it wasn’t just my area, but half the country.

I had barely enough gas to make it home, and praying that I’ll have enough to make it to the nearest gas station once the power comes back on. So then I’m stranded at my

house. I have no phone, I have no car, and most importantly, I have no internet. Since I am without a phone, the best and pretty much only way to get a hold of me is to contact me online. I was completely blocked off. Ben was at work, so I didn’t even have the possibility of borrowing his phone. (his Nextel went out anyway.)

Thursday night was so completely boring. I never realized before how much we depend on electricity. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I had a working car. I could have at least gone out and done something. I am so grateful that Melissa was a candle nut, and that I’m a pack rat. I still have a lot of her candles from the old apartment. Nothing to do but sit there and fall asleep. It was hot in my

apartment, so I was laying out on my back porch. We also set up Ben’s dart board. But that can only capture your attention for so long when you can’t see it very well because it’s dark.

Friday, I go back to work and realize that there is no chance of my wish on Tuesday of being true. Call after call of “My power came on 5 minutes ago and I don’t have cable. What gives?” For real people! We just had a nationwide power emergency. You have to expect some essential services to be out as a result.

I still didn’t have any gas in my

car. I took this as a prime opportunity to do what I had been talking about since I moved in here and rollerbladed to work. It only took me 20 minutes. It’s pretty much all downhill from here to my

work. That was cool, but it would suck going back. A accidentally left my passenger window down in my

car. It rained.

Boy did it rain! As a result of there being no power, the pumps pumping the water out of the drain behind my

work wasn’t working. The swamp behind my

building overflowed, ran down the hill, and into the building. Lake Comcast was now installed. Right there in the office! They sent us home early. They say it’s going to take 2-6 weeks to repair all the damage.

Because of this, we all had to move upstairs into the training rooms on Saturday. So here we are, we’ve packed 30-some people into a small room that wasn’t intended for what it was being used for. Have you ever had 30 people in a room? You’ll notice that the volume level will steadily increase as every one tries to talk over one another. Making it even harder to hear. And I didn’t even have a C-Station. I know, I can live one day without a Remote Desktop connection to my

home

computer, but it was still annoying.

My

cat is gone. I don’t know how he got out, but I can’t find Koshi anywhere. I didn’t really notice at first. He likes to hide on us, so if I don’t see him for a while it just means that he’s under the bed or something. I still haven’t found him. I should put up lost cat flyers around the area. See if I can get him back. I still have Gizmo though.

I haven’t seen Melissa in a while. Neither of us has a phone right now, so we have no way of getting a hold of each other. I’ve stopped by her

apartment twice, but she didn’t answer the door. Her

car was there both times, but nobody answered. She may have been sleeping, or out with Di-Di or just ignoring my knocks. (unlikely) I don’t really know. I’d like to talk to her, but it’s probably a good idea if we spend some time apart right now. She needs some time to get adjusted to her new life living with Dave and James, and I really can’t afford to be driving out there to spend time with her all the time.

We have shift bids coming up pretty soon. I just got used to this schedule and now it’s going to change on me. Wed-Thurs isn’t even available. No matter what my schedule is changing. That’s a bitch, but at least I don’t have any thing set where I need those days. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a better shift. Anybody have any suggestions on what I should request off?

Cindel is crawling now! I was so amazed to see that. She is getting so big. I don’t get to hang out with Christin all that much anymore, so I don’t spend as much time with the baby. It’s going to be insane once she starts walking. Children grow up so fast.

I was really bored on Thursday, so I dug out a bunch of my old notes and went through them. I kept almost every note that I received in High School. One of the interesting things about the way my memory works is, I can read an old note and get glimpses of what was going on. I usually remember where I was when I first read it, or I’ll get flashes of what is mentioned in the note. Often times I’ll remember a bunch of things that weren’t in the note, but I know happened that day. Some of the notes really hurt to read. I read a lot of the notes from Melissa. I had prepared myself against a lot of it. I knew what they said, but still, some of the things got to me.

I have a new Domain name. KronkLtd.net, I’ve been doing some work on my

website. If only I didn’t have such large dreams and no drive to complete them. I’m trying to convert my “Dictionary of Duck” project over into php. I’m still missing a lot of information. If you have any information to contribute about any of the subjects listed, or suggestions on what I’m missing, please let me know. Also, don’t get offended if there is a section devoted to you, and it’s incomplete. If it’s offensive, that’s another thing, but I don’t think I put anything downright offensive in there. At least I tried not to.

I need to make some new friends out here. Does anyone have any suggestion on what can be done in Ann Arbor, relatively cheaply, alone, and affording me the chance to make new friends? Nope? Me either. I’ve gotten a few people to come visit me, but I realize that most people don’t want to drive 40 minutes to come hang out with me and Ben. If you do, let me know. I’d love the company. But I know that if I ever want to be at home

here then I need to go out and make it happen. I can’t sit around and wait for good things to happen to me.

Well, that just about covers a lot of the things that have been going on in my life. Till later.

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This fits. I have a pinched nerve in my back and it hurts like a bitch.

Okay, so far it’s been a pretty crappy day. At the time I am writing this it is now 4:45. I was supposed to go to Jackson to pick up my brother right now, but I can’t. My car is out of gas. I tried to get gas, but the power is out everywhere. I just drove to at least 5 different gas stations.

When I found out that this was a major thing, I turned on 97.1. The way they were spinning it, this is looking like an attack. Unfortunately, I don’t have a battery powered radio in the house, and the one I do, doesn’t have any of the right type of batteries.

Wow, so what if this was an attack? I’m sure by the time the power is restored, the truth will be out about all of this, and I look incredibly stupid, but there is a possibility that this could be really happening.

I know I’m about to make several enemies by saying this, but it’s about time. When I first heard about 9/11, I thought to myself “Wow, what an exciting time to be alive.” I stand the possibility of living to see a major war. Possibly one on American soil. Look at the first attack. That’s an impressive military strike. I know I should be against this. I’m an American, and as such I should be angered such an attack on us. I however prefer to look at this objectively.

Assuming that both sides are equal. If I were to neither root for the Americans or the “Terrorists”, I have to give their side credit for conducting a major successful surprise attack. That’s the sort of thing that goes down in infamy. (Assuming they win this war, thus writing history)

I don’t really want to see bad things happen to this country. I don’t want to see myself and the people around me subjected to hardships. But I acknowledge that it needs to happen. We, as humans, are bound by all the same rules of balance as the rest of nature. Empires must fall to make way for the birth of new countries.

We have this imbrued desire to war with one another. “Enlightened’ minds would tell you that war is a barbaric part of ourselves and it is something that we should work to exterminate. I disagree. War is part of the Survival of the Fittest, and is a natural balancing agent.

We do not have any natural predators anymore. We are quite safely the masters of the food chain on this planet. There are creatures that can kill a single human, but we have the advantage of being pack hunters. Furthermore, we make an effective use of tools. There are even people out there who make it a sport of killing those animals that would prey on humans. Lions, Tigers, Bears (oh my), Sharks, Giant Snakes, even the tiny creatures like viruses. We’ve conquered them all. Or at least done what we can to reduce their threat.

So what remains to stop humans from overcrowding? We’ve encountered the problems with food ratios. In areas where there are more people than food, the large majority of the population starves and dies. We just simply push the soil harder; kill all the food supply, and even ship in food from less dense areas. Are we still trying to defy the laws of nature?

Then I say take a lesson from those that support deer hunting. If you go in and kill a bunch of them at random, it’ll mean more food for the rest of them. Now I’m not suggesting that we actually go out to third world countries and kill indiscriminately. We let nature do that. A good bit of Armageddon should do the trick.

I embrace the possibility of a time of total chaos. Perhaps a dark age would be just what we need to get to some of the really cool tech. After every Dark Age there comes the renaissance. And from there, the time of enlightenment.

Can you imagine what the world would be like today, if instead of saying Italy, you said Rome? If there was this big huge country taking up the lower half of Europe. How would the formations of countries and the course of history continue with the influence of a nation like that? All great empires must fall one day to make way for a new wave of nations.

When and If this great Armageddon that I preach about ever does come, I will support my country. I am not against America. I hope America wins. I just think society as a whole would be a lot better off if the wheel was allowed to continue. The tapestry of the balance of the forces must be allowed to run their course.

I wonder how it must have felt to be a “patriotic” citizen living in the times just before the civil war. You love your country, but there are certain states out there that are pissing you off. Texas is bitching about being its own country again. Tensions have been very high. You’ve been going back and forth on the whole slavery issue. How did it feel to them when they thought about the state of their union?

That’s the thing. They didn’t think of themselves as a country back then. They were a union of independent states. The nationalism concept didn’t come till later. I think our country has become too big for its own good. It’s the whole limitation on cell size. We’ve done what we can to implement a cell structure. Mayor- Governor – President. But the top level tier is bogged down by so many requests for a response that it takes forever to get anything done. Also, the federal government places too many restrictions on how the individual states run things. Ohio can’t go communist and attack Kentucky. California can’t legalize pot. The Mormons can’t even get Utah to allow polygamy.

Is this conductive to a pure exploration of our lives on this planet through the governments we create? If we want to explore who we can be, we can’t be restricted like that. Too much order (as with too much chaos) is a bad thing. When there is too strict of a control, weaknesses emerge. When the entropic stress becomes too great, it snaps and thrusts us in to total opposite. Fortunately, I do not believe that we are in the 2nd stage. (All order into all chaos), but rather the major course of events in America today is in the fourth stage. (2/3 Order 1/3 Chaos into 2/3 Chaos 1/3 Order) So don’t worry. The transition won’t be that bad. And think about it, after that is harmony again. (1/2 Order ¬Ω Chaos) so that’s something to look forward to.

In my opinion, I don’t care where I’m at. I love being there to witness change. How cool would it be to live through world war 3? Some people live their whole lives and miss the really cool stuff. I’m 22. I’m now at the age where I can really appreciate what it would be like to witness history.

That is why I’m so totally disappointed that nothing cool has happened yet. Maybe this will be good. One can only hope. Hail Eris!

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