I just found out that my contract with Insightful has been extended through November. I’m not sure whether to be happy that they’re keeping me around, or disgruntled that they did it without any warning.

Then again, apparently they had to do a new PO for me, since the old one would have run out about an hour ago.

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The power supply I ordered to replace my dead one that’s currently in RMA turned out to not work for me at all. Cables were too short and it didn’t have any of the power connectors I needed. Luckily I found someone to buy it off me so all was not lost on that one. I guess I’m stuck waiting for Newegg to ship that old one back to me :/

I’ve also decided that I’m not going to live at the house anymore. After Alexs’ series of fuck-ups, I don’t really want to know what else he can screw up. I’ve since begun looking for apartments (spent the past week looking at a couple). I found a couple really nice ones. Found a great place up in Ballard (I’m really hoping I get it). The main problem I’m having right now is that everyone keeps thinking I don’t make enough to be reliable, when I am >:(

It’s really irritating how landlords tend to assume that because I’m young I don’t know how to handle money. I guess they haven’t figured out that if I don’t pay up, I’m out? Well, I have always consistently paid my rent on time and never had any problems with any of my landlords. The only time Rent has ever been late was when I gave Alex the rent checks for the entire house, trusting him to give it to Keyvan. Of course Alex then went on and screwed that all up. I make enough to pay for a place, gas, and food. That’s all I seriously need. Helen will also be paying a small portion, but that’s not really a neccessity.

What pisses me off even more is when landlords will go with people who have parents that pay their rent, but when I come along saying that my parents would be paying a portion, they think I’m too poor to be independent. What the fuck? double standards?

Anyways, I’ve got basically two week to find a place, which should be enough to find a decent place I suppose.

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I’ve gotten a few calls from the craigslist ad. I had one girl come by on Sunday to look at it, she was pretty cool and from how it sounded, she was really interested in it. I guess that biggest thing that put her off was that utlities+cable was about 100 bucks, and went up a little during the winter. but she said she would think it over and call Wednesday.

Haze came by yesterday to look at the rooms, totally didn’t think I’d be seeing him Was pretty cool to talk to him for a bit, although I don’t think he’ll take either room, something tells me they’re a bit small for his taste.

another guy came by today, he was pretty cool about it all. He plays in a rock band and sells cars. That put me off a bit as he came off as a guy who likes to drink a lot, but from when I spoke to him about get togethers, he keeps it responsible, so I’m fine with that. He was practically a positive yes about it all, so He’s going to take either of the rooms, preferably the larger room

I sent the girl a text earlier (had to dig through my numbers and ended up sending her a text first saying “Is this ?” to which she replied “Yeah….who is this?”) giving her first dibs on the place, although I’m pretty sure she found a better place as she hasn’t replied. If she doesn’t give me a call tomorrow, then I’ll give the larger of the rooms to the guy who came today. He’s going to meet Alex tomorrow and he’s bringing his girlfriend with him to if he can (she works a lot).

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I bought $130 worth of cfl’s and tubes today, and installed them all. grabbed a hot bulb though

It got my clickin’ fingers D:

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I found out yesterday that Alex hasn’t found a single roommate. Two months ago he said he would start looking for people and for me not to worry about it. I was talking to him yesterday about rent stuff (oh yeah, he also chose not to send in the rent on time and didn’t tell anyone, not even the landlord) and he told me this. I asked him what the fuck is wrong with him and asked him where he was looking and how quickly he was responding; he said as soon as he read them, generally within 24 hours. Then has said he was using facebook and myspace.

Let me repeat, facebook and myspace.

Who the fuck completely skips over Craigslist, which is a reliable source of roommates proven time and time again? Oh yeah, someone who thinks that craigslist is useless and that myspace is better, e.g Alex.

Apparently that was his last resort. Which is utter and complete retardation. We now have two weeks to find two roommates, which is going to be a royal pain in the ass. Had he told me a month ago about the situation, I’d have happily helped out. Now I’m just pissed off, he’s doing an incredibly pathetic job and handling things. The damn idiot continues to play leader, blinded by the idea of being in charge while idiotically stumbling through the brush, having confused the map for toilet paper.

Oh, and to perk things up, the power supply in my desktop computer died on me, currently stuck with my laptop.

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PAX was pretty awesome, the reddit thing didn’t really happen, I’m not really all that surprised to be honest, it was pretty much thrown together at the last minute without any real organization. i’m thinking that next year I’ll plan it out a little more though

I got to play a whole bunch of games that I had sorta heard of but never really played, I got to check out Lost Planet, Tabula Rasa, and Stranglehold along with a few other games for the wii. I got Lost Planet and have been playing it, Tabula Rasa is currently in closed-beta and i got beta keys! I registered one, gave one to Chris, and I’m going to give the third one to my brother. The game is so far pretty awesome, the story is pretty strong and you can actually play it by yourself if you want to, most other mmorpg’s will force you to play with other people by making creatures rediculously powerful and what-not. I’ve had fun with it so far and I’m certain it will come out to be a great game when completed.

I got a new job too! I’m working at the Corporate headquarters of Tommy Bahama as their weekend Tech Support rep. I went in yesterday for paperwork and an overview of the systems, I start this coming weekend and there will be someone there for the first two weeks, then after that I go solo. My boss Glenn wants me to come in during the week so that I may familiarize myself with everyone and so that I can read up on docs before I really do start. There is a bunch of stuff to do so I’m going to do my best to learn the ropes and the system, this is an actual job too, not a contract position so I’m finally at a job That works for me with upward mobility!

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