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Jason's over here a lot these days, to get away from his nagging grandparents. Shit, wish I had a place to go hide out. He power leveled my FFX characters using the AP trick while I did some yard work. He offered to mow my lawn. Must be pretty bad at his place if he'd rather come to my house and do my yard work for me.
Didn't do much this week other than job hunting. No one around here is hiring, so I'm trying places around the college. CES wants another layout by Wednesday, threatening to kick me off the team if I don't do it. They can go fuck themselves.
In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been posting much lately. It's mainly because I just forget to do it. I might throw a few updates up on the site, and maybe even a new design, since this boxy gray one is getting old.
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I've been helping Jason paint some pool decks and he's been buying me a ton of stuff. He must feel sorry for me.
My dad's going out of his way to make sure I hate him. He's been calling multiple times each day, staying on the phone for longer than 10 minutes each time giving me his fucking empty lectures, and wanting me out as his house every goddamn day. He made me miss my math class Monday and now my grandma won't let me go anywhere on school days. He got me signed up at this day labor place where they send me to go work at some random, hard-labor place for a day and pay me at the end of the day. I'm not digging ditches for minimum wage. Fuck that. I'd have a job by now if I could go a day without being forced to go over to his place.
Today Jason came over with his computer and introduced me to Counter-Strike. I think I've found my new addiction.
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Yesterday (09/10) my dad called me around 8:00 again. He wanted me to help him load his riding mower on his truck. I did it by myself because it was easy. Wasted an entire day with that shit because he talks WAY TOO GODDAMN MUCH. I didn't get back until 4:30 and I had to leave at 5:30 for class. I was going to go do my homework for my 6:30 class, but my grandfather had me looking for something for half an hour. So I only got about 1/5 of my homework done. Oh well. I went to class and it was literally bored to tears.
Today the WTC thing was all over the TV and the radio. People were wearing ribbons and passing out "REMEMBER" pamphlets and shit. Am I an asshole for not caring?
I slept til 1:30 even though I went to bed at 12:00. Didn't do jack until time to go to class. I was about three mins late, teacher didn't care. Did a super easy test, left early, came home, played some D2. That's all. G'bye.
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My dad called me at 8 this morning and I don't even remember what is was about because I was damn tired. Went to class around 4 and it was boring as hell. The instructor gave me shit for working a problem out in my head and said I probably made a mistake somewhere. Yeah, that's why my answers are ALWAYS right because's it's freaking 6th grade math. Yay community college. Such a waste of time and money. Came home and messed around with some coding, and then played Starcraft with Jason and Josh. Not as fun as it used to be.
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Added a poem named Self-Portrait to the literature section.
Woke up at 8, got to my dad's house at 9, went to the big, sucky church in Leesburg instead of the one with the jailbait girl with the perfect ass. Bored to death. Left, went to a park (for younger half-siblings). Came home, did some yardwork, now on computer and about to go to bed.
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First Hardware class today. Woke up at 6:00 AM, arrived at college at 7:45 AM, got home at 2:25 PM. Yeah - long class. It was alright, though. The guy brought in his server from home. It's really nice. All top-shelf hardware. He took it apart and trusted us to put it back together. Including me, there are only three people in there that know what they're doing when working with hardware, so he was probably a little worried. He told this girl that can't pronounce 'R' sounds to put in the cpu. She started to pick it up, and then jumped backwards and starting whining and waving her hands around. She did it again and dropped it on the mobo, and then tried to put it in without lifting the latch. He made her do it three times so she wouldn't be afraid of it anymore. I had to put in the RAM. The guy that had to put on the heatsink had a little trouble. After that he had to restore all his cmos settings because he took the battery out. We didn't do much after that. Just went over a bunch of garbage I already know.
The instructor is like an older version of me - IQ in the 170s; less-than-charming wit; sarcastic and smart-assed. We'll get along well.
When I got home my grandfather told me my dad called and got pissed off because I was at school. Just as soon as he got done telling me, the phone rang, and it was my fucking dad. He started out with "Where the hell were you this morning?!?!" I asked him if I was supposed to be somewhere else, and he said something like, "I'm your father and you're supposed to be available when I need you" and blah blah blah. I tried to ask him what the fuck he needed me for but he didn't shut the fuck up long enough for me to get a word in. He just went on and on about irrelevant shit, and how I'm "failing as a son." Then he started about how school isn't everything, and that he didn't care about school when he was younger so neither should I. He rambled on for a good twenty minutes while I just held the phone up near my ear as I surfed the web. If I realize I've become like him when I get older, I blowing my fucking brains out.
After he finally shut up and hung up the phone, my grandfather talked my ear off like he does everyday about his stupid plants and his plans to trade them to the neighbors for trash bags or something. He doesn't like it when I turn my head while he's talking, so I have to stop whatever I'm doing and keep looking at him while he's talking or he'll start getting mad. He talked to me for 30 mins while my breakfast burned last week. I went to get the eggs out of the frying pan when they were ready and he started cussing at me and saying I never listen.
Jason came over for a while to escape his grandparents bitching at him. I could relate. We had some burritos and my grandfather argued with me that they're tacos because they have beef instead of refried beans.
My fucking dad called again around 9 and said he wanted my brother and I out at his house at 9 am tomorrow to go with him to church. I told him I didn't like that church because it was full of hypocrites and judgemental gossipists. After yelling for a while about that he told me that the reason my life isn't going right is that I don't regularly go to church.
People ask my why I'm bitter.
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Added a poem named "Anticipating the Light of Day" to the Literature section. Just thought it up when I woke for the second time today.
My grandma woke me up at 9 after going to bed at 5. I went back to sleep and woke up at 12, then I went to my old house to charge the mower battery. Came home and worked on some homework and Final Darkness Act 2 and managed my database of RAT victims. I got a few new CD keys in the process. At about 5 I picked Tim up and we went to KFC. After I dropped him off and went to the old house to turn the battery charger off, I played FFX for the rest of the day. Not a bad game once you get into it, but the dialog sucks. Plot isn't too promising, either.
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Went to pay my web hosting bill today but the only guy there who can take it was out to lunch. These wasted trips add up on the gas pump after a while. When I got home I just worked on some stuff for the clan site and worked on Final Darkness Act 2, just because I'm bored of working on the trainer. I don't have to release that piece of shit until the end of September, anyway, in accordance with CES' lax policies.
My brother finally got home from school about 40 minutes late. He missed the bus because he walks like old people fuck. Luckiy for him he got a ride with someone, otherwise with the way he walks it would have taken him at least five hours to get home.
Didn't really do anything the rest of the day. Just messed around in photoshop and chatted with some people I've never met in person. I talked to Krystal for the first time in about a year. I no longer find her interesting.
What's up with people not having time to hang out anymore?
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Here's a double-header for you today, since I forgot to upload yesteday.
Log for 09/03
Relaxed all day until it was time to go to school. This was my first class - Microcomputer Applications. When I signed up for it I didn't realize it was a class for complete beginners. I thought we'd be going over MS Office and spreadsheets and shit. I've missed two classes and tonight was a test night. The instructor said I could either take it now or make it up later, and asked me if I knew anything about computers. I told her I can program in three languages. The room got dead silent and people just stared at me like I was some kind of freak. "Here's your test." It was all super-simple Windows stuff - identify the task bar, title bar, menu bar, etc. After I breezed through that thing I read through the text book. Looks like the whole class will be this beginner shit, and they won't let me test out of it. Yay, community college.
On the positive side, the girl who sits next to me is kind of cute and was getting pretty flirty with me. Yeah, she wants my test answers.
When I got home I started adding my hundreds of lines of hacks to my FF7 trainer. Had a few ideas for more hacks, but as I started to fire up the debugger, I realized I didn't care anymore and just wanted to finish it. The only reason I'm doing it is to make something in TMK that doesn't look like shit. It shouldn't require this much effort.
Log for 09/04
It's only 12:50 so the day's not close to being over yet, but I figured I'd go ahead and post, anyways, and embellish on it in tomorrow's post. My grandma woke me up at 7:30 this morning, after I went to bed at 4:30. I was tired. I went to the college about two hours later to get my scholarship junk straightened out. They're going to send me a check for 75% of my tuition, but I don't know when. Hopefully soon, because I need money *now*. I'm really hungry but we don't have anything to eat and I need to save my money.
Tonight is my Algebra class. I hope I haven't missed too much (I've missed two days), but I'm not really worried because it's Elementary Algebra. Not like I'll be completely lost. My prediction for tonight: I'll go to class, it will be boring, I'll come home and work on the CD page and my FF7 trainer (seems like I'm putting too much work into a stupid TMK trainer, doesn't it?), and go to bed around 5 to wake up at about 2 pm. Then I'll go put a charge on the riding mower at my old house and go back around 7 to take it off and see if it runs. Or I might wait until that night and take it off the next morning.
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Yesterday (Sunday) I helped Jason paint a pool deck at some rich person's house down the road a ways from one of Shaquille O'neil's houses. He said he needed my help but there wasn't much to do. Probably just wanted an excuse to slip me a few bucks. "I don't need the Red Cross" is what I usually tell people.
I stayed up til 5 re-doing my FF7 trainer because somehow ALL the buttons and text boxes got resized and moved, and some deleted. It happened when I was trying out a new style for winxp. That's what I get for using TMK, I guess. What a pain in the ass. The number of buttons on this thing is becoming an issue for low resolutions. I'll probably end up coding it myself and using tabs.
This morning I woke up around 10 and my mom called me. She bought a riding mower and needed to borrow a truck from someone to haul it to her house, so I got Brandon to follow me to Lowe's and we loaded it onto his truck, drove it over there and unloaded it. Pretty cool of him to do. We went to Dairy Queen for lunch and then I went home and did a bunch of nothing for a while. Well, that was my day.
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