This has begun to get irritating.

The Pudget Sound blood center just called me 3 times within an hour. I didn’t recognize the number so i ignored it the first two times, expecting them to leave a message. They didn’t so the third time I figured it was important and answered it.

I pick up the phone and they say they’re from the blood center. I do my usual answer and say that I’m not there and take their number.

I’m in class for fucks sake, Call once and leave a message! I’ve actually been turned off from donating because they constantly harass me with these phone calls. I like getting calls from them, but they are way too aggressive.

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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 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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Over on reddit, where I tend to spend a lot of my time, anonymgirl posted an article about the girls in the boston/cambridge area. People commented on it and one guy said he’d be interested in doing this everything, random reddit meetups. Well, I replied saying I’d help do this in seattle. Someone replied saying they would be at pax as an enforcer, and so we’re hoping to get a group of redditors to wear pins at PAX! We created an article on reddit about it, and I’m going to buy some buttons for PAX too. Oberon, the guy who’s the enforcer, posted on the enforcer boards to check on intrest in buttons. If you’re going to be at PAX and want a button, let me know! It’s a buck for each button, which is cheaper then buying them yourself.

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Finally got my new video card yesterday, it’s a 7800GT. Huge improvement over my 6600 that I had before. Went from player stalker at 20fps (which dropped to like 7 when I fired a gun) to 80-100, 80-90 when I raised the graphics. I grabbed the Bioshock game demo last night and played it, was pretty damn sweet; story is a bit messed up, but gameplay is pretty sweet.

Over the weekend me and Helen went up to B-ham to visit friends, we went and saw Ashley, then went to a party at the mint, wasn’t too interesting, we left after about 2 hours. We went back to Ashleys apartment where we were staying and played Mariokart. I got a hold of Mantis and he came over and hung out for a bit too, we had to go back to his house to grab some more controllers for the N64. Was pretty damn sweet (although I kept getting distracted while playing, and Ashleys tv is hella tiny).

As for the job search, I haven’t really given it much effort. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I shouldn’t work this coming quarter. I have to get Circle K off the ground, and the only jobs I can find are full-time and that wouldn’t work out since I’d have to have meetings during the day, a couple classes I’ll need to take are in the middle of the day 4 days a week, and I’ll have to take them eventually. Plus my current job ends in september, so I can just work till then and afterwards have my parents pay for everything (they’ve kinda been wanting to do that for awhile).

All the interviews I’ve gone to have gone fairly well, but I haven’t gotten a job offer yet (would be getting a lot if I change my monster profile to looking for full-time jobs, but I got tired of answering phone calls from recruiters about jobs in nebraska), had a couple interesting ones, one at a web host and another for a small vc. I suppose I should write up a new cover letter and send out my resume to ads on craigslist, but I don’t really have the motivation.

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Sarah is in Town and it is awesomness! Yay for hanging out bunches!

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I’ve decided to bite the bullet and work a help desk position. I really wanted to a job where I could get my hands dirty working with servers/networking/some sort of administrative work. However, it looks like everything that is that is full-time or in some oddly placed location.

Right now I just need to work through college and get my stupid AA. As soon as I have that out of the way I’ll be able to focus better on finding a job, for now I’ve begun applying to tier 1 jobs that are strictly help desk. Although I’m not going for the call center jobs, those just suck. The campuspoint site seems to have a few good IT jobs. I applied to a couple that were pretty appealing, although they show up as full-time (at the firststep interview one of the managers said I should still apply for it, since it was a position he was in charge of). Just applied to another that may just work, although it’s a short 2 month job :/

I guess I’ll poke at craigslist a little more and hope I get lucky. Another week and I’ll start looking for an apartment.

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I found out yesterday that the contract for my job is running out, and it probably won’t be renewed. My Contract will more or less end in October, so I’ve got a little less then 3 months left on my job. The chances of my contract being extended again are very slim, since the company has 3 or 4 people left to hire for the year, and they probably don’t think IT needs another one, and if they do, they’ll most likely get a Systems Engineer or something.

I’m also looking into moving to Seattle, since I currently work there and plan on going to UW next fall (however, I’m not so sure about moving to Seattle if my job ends in October and I have no idea where I’ll be working next). I’m hoping to spend no more then 700 on rent, from the looks of it I may get lucky with a place that includes utilities. There are a bunch of places available right now, but I’m currently broke after having had to pay a bunch of bills, rent, and ICON all in the same week (In other words, a little over 1,000 bucks, and I make about 1,200 a month). I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to continue going to events this pricey since they tend to screw with my budget quite a bit, plus Eric sucks at managing the bills, leaves them to pile up and then asks me to pay them all at once (I paid bills for may, then 2 weeks later I have to pay for june, he already has the one for July but is sitting on it). Richard is gone too, so the bills are even more right now. The gas bill should be a lot less though, since I shut off the heater last month as it would turn on every 15 minutes even when the house was plenty warm. But I’m looking at paying around 100 for gas, no idea what the other stuff will be yet.

I’ve started selling off stuff I don’t need, various computer parts I’ve collected over the past year I no longer use. Hopefully that’ll get me enough money to pay deposit on an apartment. I started looking last week, but I stopped since any place I would find I wouldn’t be able to have since I can’t pay for them. I’m going to wait until I have at least 800 on hand first, then I’ll start looking (probably next weekend I guess). As long as no surprise payments come up I should be able to make it though the month and have enough to move out in the end of August. Only problem with that is my current lease ends in September, so if I’m lucky, Alex will find someone to move in when I leave. I think he has  a friend who said he would move in when I left, so that should take care of things.

Classes start in September too, my dad wants me to meet with an advisor so I can make sure I’ll transfer to UW easily. I’m guessing I won’t since I’ve been working on a useless AA in Tech Support for the past year and a half that will just fulfill the stupid AA or 4 year requirement recruiters put on job listings. I’m still not 100% sure why I’m in college, BCC is total suck, starting a Circle K there sucks (gotta get time off to recruit for that damn club), hopefully I’ll get it rolling this fall.

I’m still a little clueless about what I’m doing right now, I’m working for an awesome company, I’ve got a few projects going there right now and I more or less control my schedule, when I leave it’s going to be a pain finding another job that will work for me, as I’m going to be going to college so I’ll need a part-time job.

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I’m a fucking idiot.

Was driving home on the highway, traffic jam and all, was on 520. I was behind an SUV, the guy in front of him hit the breaks hard, he hit the breaks, and I did too. My tires blow ass, so I basically slid straight into him. Lucky for me, car tipped forward so the end of the hood hit them. They took no damage so I don’t have to worry about police report or insurance, just about my car.

The Hood is bent out of shape, grill is fucked up (fasteners broke so it’s useless), passenger headlight vertical adjuster is stripped and so is part of the fastener near the grill, so it just wiggles around now. The big bar on the vehicle ( behind the fender, has the radiator connected to it) is slightly bent, to the point of when I bent the hood back into shape, it wouldn’t lock. Other then that everything else looks fine.

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