( This is what came down on me on Saturday; )

Yeah, that's hail. So on Saturday, hail, a tornado touching down, two black outs and a fire, yet I still have the balls to go out and play D&D in the dark. Definitely a session worth remembering. Although, I would like to see others get to RP, seeing how David seems to focus on Mike and no one else in session unless you make a big fuss about it. Perhaps that will look different next session.

Sunday was a lazy day, so I decided to bug Melissa, who was also having a lazy day. We didn't do a whole heck of a lot of anything really, but it was fun to go out and get ice cream (free at that!) and head for her bi-annually trip to Wendy's. We also managed to bust out a cribbage board as well, which surprised me that she even had. I didn't get to leave until 9:30pm, seeing how we didn't stop talking to each other, and I wasn't going to leave without doing what was needed.

So work has been weird I suppose. Yesterday was a good day, until I got to unloading Bud Light Lime. Every case on the bottom was just soaked or covered in mildew. A lot of them could be saved, but I really didn't have the patience at the end of the day to do such a thing. Today was even worse. It did get a bit better when my partner got moved over to another line. Then I got to have my line scanning every case that went up, so bar codes had to face the right way and because where I work is cheap, every third case comes off as a no read, so that means you have to walk out, reset it, then walk back in.

Today has been a weird day outside of that. First off, my mom took back all of my empties. SO every beer bottle, liquor bottle, win bottle, it disappeared. I'm sad because I planned on taking only two of them with me. One being a Heineken keg which I named Kegklok (we were on a huge amount of Metalocalypse that night...) and a vodka bottle that was shaped like a trumpet. I was unable to save those, meaning they are gone forever. I did, however, get $34 for all the empties taken back. Say hello to a case of beer on Friday. (I can't remember the last time I bought a case of beer for the weekend...)

The other big news is that I will be signing the lease to the place I was talking about tomorrow. I just have to get my ass in gear after work and I'll be good to go. So this means I'll be doing much more packing now. I figured I'd be doing it tonight, but I can not be bothered to get off my couch. Perhaps the rest of the week?

As for the rest of the week, I should really find out what's going on for Friday. I don't think there will be a party as their usually is, so that may be a bit of a change for me. Wait, I can actually watch wrestling on a Friday night? Go me! I should just tape it like I do for Monday's and watch it on Saturday. Maybe if the show is any good.

I will try to get the concert pictures up tomorrow. Sadly, I took over a hundred pictures, and only a third of that was any good (ie. they weren't blurry or hard to decipher). I may post some other random pictures as well, but we shall see.....

It is time. Time for me to finally look back at this long week that has passed. Time to finally place my thoughts down. Time to finally feel relived.

So if this entry is long, I'm sorry.

Work has really been hit or miss with me. Three of the days were nice to me, yet two of them just told me off like nobodies business. The two days, of course, made me work with someone we all hate, Super Temp. For those that aren't sure what that means, I believe Webster's Dictionary describes it like this.

Super Temp [Sue-pher-Temph]: One who works as if they'll die the next day. Also cares not if you are working with them.

So to show up this idiot, I decided to work extra slow for him. And when I mean extra slow, I mean at a pace that is mostly reserved for old people that drive on Sunday's. I'm pretty sure that got on his nerves too. I think the best was when he decided to help me out with my side, I'd just walk out of the trailer and let him do it on his own. It also didn't help he'd leave 20 minutes before the shift ended because he needed to catch the bus. Well, lot's of people have to catch the bus, but they wait until it shows up half an hour later, as they should.

Although, one of the days I worked with him, it also happened to be a day about a safety talk. So half an hour of doing nothing really. I also got moved out of the trailer at one point to another one, where I was on my own, so that made me quite happy, especially when I did next to nothing with half an hour to the end of that day. Bonus points for me accidentally breaking a case, then hiding the mess underneath at least 15 boxes.

The three days alone were pretty good, especially Friday, which I was super tired on. That was expected though, as I went to see Judas Priest the night before.

Speaking of which, the concert owned ass. I believe it ranks at #5 on my list of concerts I've been to, behind Symphony X, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth and Heaven and Hell/Megadeth. (Those are not in order for the record. In fact, that list could change...) I did take pictures of this concert, but I have yet to;

a)look at them
b)place them on my computer

I was disappointed I didn't get any of myself, which was the big plan, along with pictures of those I happened to meet. I did get a few of the people I was with, so Angie, Shades, Katie and Derrick, (the last two who I just met that night) but I wish I had more. Most of my pictures are of the actual bands. But speaking of which, here's what I thought;

Pop Evil was the first band. I hadn't heard anything about them, but from what I saw, they seemed like your good old hard rock band. Not complaining, they did a good job, despite being the opener.

Whitesnake was second. I was thinking they'd suck, but I was wrong. I wasn't huge on them, but I thought they were fairly good. They seemed to get a good response from the crowd, although, they couldn't get much from the crowd for singing along. Still decent enough.

Now, Priest starts off with this HUGE backdrop, which said something along the lines of "Welcome to the land of Judas Priest, home of British Steel". The show starts with just typical factory sounds, then lasers placing workers on this backdrop. An explosion later, and the first song is going, with the whole band there. Here's that list;

Rapid Fire
Metal Gods
Breaking the Law (huge sing-a-long here)
Grinder
United
Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
Living After Midnight (another huge sing-a-long)
The Rage
Steeler
Prophecy
Hell Patrol
Victim of Changes (I called this one)
Encore:
Freewheel Burning (complete with the motorcycle entrance, or is that re-entrance?)
Diamonds and Rust
-Rob Halford at this point makes the crowd sing with him-
You Got Another Thing Coming (intense amount of milking here)

For the record, the first nine songs was the entire British Steel album. But for disappointments, I guess Painkiller, but I was more disappointed there was no Nostradamus. I only say that because I did that entire album up before I left work that day. I would have done British Steel, but I was with Angie and Shades the entire time on the train.

There was also a party on Friday. It was fairly good all around, but there is two complaints. One, drinking/smoking should never have anyone getting into deep conversations, I just don't care. Second, the entire night was outside, so I couldn't get pictures. Also, we got eaten alive by the bugs. Oh well, price to pay.

Today I basically woke up real late, mostly because of my lack of sleep lately and the amount I smoked the previous night.

I had to run over to Andrew's place to hand off all the forms for the application of the new place we saw. He had family over, so I didn't want to stay long, but he offered me a Caesar, so I took it up, and I felt oh so much better after wards. I left not too soon after I basically came home. I did talk up Miranda a bit, but it was nothing big.

As for the house/houses, it was actually pretty nice. I do admit the actual bedrooms were a bit small, but the living room and kitchen were very large for what was needed. We also had a small basement, but nothing I'm going to complain about. Hopefully, we get into here, seeing how it's pretty close to everything.

But I guess I'll just have to fill my day with random things, that is until D&D starts.....

Just a quickie today.

Going to see another house with Andrew tonight, along with doing some gaming as well. Tomorrow will be the Judas Priest concert, so being home will be something that I won't be doing much of.

I'm going to try for a full update on Friday, so expect that. Hopefully I'll have pictures this time, if not, then Saturday. (For the record, I'll be doing the picture taking, not my friends, so I'll be owning the pictures)

And how long does it take someone to get you info that was from four days ago?

Taken away from rdyfrde

Pick your 5 current favorite bands/singers.
1. The first song of theirs that you heard
2. The song that made you love them / that you'll always love
3. Your current favorite

Gamma Ray
-Rebellion in Dreamland
-Condemned To Hell
-From The Ashes

Iced Earth
-Burning Times (technically I heard Creatures Of The Night first, but it's originally by KISS)
-When The Night Falls
-The Reckoning (Don't Tread On Me)

Iron Maiden
-The Trooper
-2 Minutes to Midnight
-Childhood's End

Symphony X
-The Divine Wings of Tragedy
-Inferno (Unleash the Fire)
-Through the Looking Glass (Part 1, 2, 3)

Stratovarius
-United
-Black Diamond
-The Kiss of Judas

Well, I suppose I should get right down to it for what I said I'd talk about this entry, how the concert was.

For the record, I was not exactly looking forward to this concert like I do most concerts, mostly because of my whole "I am tr00 metal \m/" stance on music, but the fact I'd see a band that many people would be willing to see made it worthwhile (and we had good seats).

The bands themselves were alright I suppose. The first band, if you want to call it that, was Frank Miller, which was basically him playing an acoustic guitar and singing. I don't mind that, but it got boring real fast. I thought it would have been one, maybe two songs, then I can see it being different, but it was literally him the whole time doing the entire show himself. No offense, but that's more of a bar thing if anything.

Pennywise was the next band. Now, from what I've heard, they were fairly good live. I hadn't heard much of them myself, but what I did hear was not terrible. Sadly, their show wasn't very good. The vocals came off very muddled as the instruments seemed too loud. I did like how they talked to the crowd quite a bit, but I felt some of it was a bit much, like when they were looking at shirts of people and checking out the bands. It took about eight tries to find The Misfits (which they would play a cover of) shirt. They also did another cover of another band, but it's escaping me at the moment.

As for the Offsprings, they were the main event, and they made sure to be it. Playing the classics like Keep 'Em Separated, Why Don't You Get a Job? and Pretty Fly. They played more of their songs that weren't radio hits, but I couldn't tell you them, seeing how I'm a fair weather fan at best.

Things to note of the concert was the song done with the piano. Their lead singer was going to do it, but he gave up on it in disgust. Then the guitarist came to do it and declared he was too drunk, so we got the lead singer back out. The intermission was sweet as well, as it was literally the most random thing ever. Beach balls got tossed out and a guy in a sombrero got the crowd to do a small wave. It only lasted about three minutes, but it was just so random. ///

The only thing weird about this concert was that I didn't walk away with swag like I usually do. Whether it's a CD< t-shirt or a poster, I usually have something. I was going to buy a poster, but $15 is a little steep for a poster. Even the shirts were fairly pricey at $35. That, and I'm not a big enough fan to get another shirt of a band that I'm not huge on.

As for other things that happened in my day, I almost came in late for work the next day. I actually slept through my alarm, which gave me another hour of sleep. Luckily, I ran out of my house in about ten minutes, getting to work on time. I was so glad I had that energy drink for the day, or I never would have survived.

The big thing that got me at work was that they were asking for overtime. I at first was going to take it, but then I phoned my temp agency to realize that you have to WORK forty hours before you get overtime pay. So, the stat holiday (Canada Day) would not have counted towards this. Now if I did work it, it would have been six days at normal pay. I wasn't very keen on that, so I passed up on it. Luckily, that let me party that night.

SO by doing so, I went out and got everyone's Achilles heel in gin. Combine with Sunny D, and you got one sassy old drink. The party was nothing huge, but there were some random lines, like me asking the question of whether or not women can have hair on their breasts and of course, calling Monz by his new name, Doctor Monz (it's the new hit comedy, we'll make sure of it). I then texted up Melissa, who forgot I had her number, but was happy to know I still wanted to hang out, so I did that up and once again, I stayed over there, where we went back and forth on Soul Calibur III (it'd be a LOOONG time for the both of us playing that game).

Today I finally left at about 1pm, because I figured there were things to do, and there hasn't been much to do. Now, I headed to the mall and I almost bought Guitar Hero; World Tour (since it was $25 brand new) but I couldn't find my interact card. Now I'm all worried, since it's probably at home on my table. I wish. I get home to realize that it's in my wallet, it's just in a different spot, switched up with my air miles card. So, that was just a little embarrassing to have things in my hand and not pay for them, and then find out it's in my wallet the whole time.

I also saw Melissa on my way back, which was a little random, since she was supposed to go shopping, and I just happen to be out. It was nothing big, since Tanya was there with her.

So I've been real lazy all today otherwise. I should get some things like food, or just clean up, it's looking pretty bad on my table. Perhaps I'll do that up before D&D gets started.....

For those of you that are Canadian, you obviously know what today is. For those that don't, it is indeed Canada Day. A few things make this day important to me.

-It is Canada's birthday, so I get a holiday for such an occasion.
-Free Agent Day starts today in the NHL (at noon, sadly...)
-It's the official halfway mark of the year

The last one kind of scares me, because when I look back at what I've done this year, it doesn't really look like a whole heck of a lot. Perhaps a mid-year resolution is in order. Or maybe just some good old determination to get things done.

Speaking of which, I do plan to get things done today that I haven't done since I've gotten them. Mostly, I'll be watching a bunch of DVD's that I collected along the way with my music. I really would like to watch them all, or at least find out what's on some of them, since it really has been THAT long since I picked some of these things up. Second thing I plan to do is play video games, seeing how I've been itching to do so lately. The last to do is clean up, since I can always use that, along with packing this place up.

When it comes to packing up, my mom tried to get me to stay here. Granted, I liked that plan, but she tried to use arguments on me that would have been effective two years ago. She claims we use too much energy, which would have been nice to know then, rather than two months ago. My mom then believes we can consume less with Miranda back in the house. Keep dreaming. I'm just sick of it all really. I made up my mind to move, and that's final. I'm sick and tired of having to deal with one person getting treated like a princess, while things like the bills get ignored. I've finally realized that I have to move on.

I can not believe I just typed that last sentence. Almost felt hard to do.

But if I am to move, I have to look for a place. That's yet another thing to do today, or even in the next few days. But today is literally the only day I'll be free until after work on Friday. Seeing how I have a concert on Thursday, and I have to work if I want the stat holiday, it'll be fairly hectic. Even if they offer overtime on Saturday, I'm tempted to take it this week, mostly because I could use the money. (where was this attitude last weekend?)

Something I wish I did yesterday was pick up rechargeable batteries for my camera. Seeing how Miranda can't find hers, I need to take the old clunker. It's not terrible, but there's better. And with Canada Day today, most anything and everything will be closed up till tomorrow. Granted, I could do it tomorrow, but I got to rush home so I can get back out to the train, so I may try it anyways, seeing how Zellers is on my way home. (and not too far to boot)

The only things bugging me at this moment are the fact it's crappy weather outside. Not that I plan to see fireworks tonight (because I'm not up for seeing the scum of Oshawa gathered in one spot) but if I felt like adventuring at all, it kind of ruins it. The second thing is how early it is right now. It' not even 10am here, and already, I feel I should have more done than I do. Maybe I should get onto that, placing a CD on and start doing some work. Sounds like a plan.

So I probably won't post till at least Friday night/Saturday. But I'm promising pictures! I know, pictures, possibly of me, think about it.....

I'm not sure if I should feel happy or sad right now. Usually, when it rains, I just want to curl up in my bed and sleep it away, yet I have the new Primal Fear album going, and it's been nothing but awesome to listen to.

Although, I should really avoid my bed, seeing how I've been very lazy in the last few days. Mostly because when I tend to drink a lot, I don't want to do anything the next day until I feel better. That was Friday. But let me back this up a little more.

Thursday night was the night I planned to go out, but I also wanted to finally get some ticket purchasing out of the way. I got the Queensryche ticket that I said I'd get for some time, and picked up two Motorhead tickets. But while at the mall with Mike (who's coming with me to Queensryche) we saw the new Primal Fear album. It was an obvious to buy, as long as Mike bought up the live Gamma Ray album (an instant 7/5 by me). So with new albums in our hands, we left back for home.

That night, I finally went to the bar that night to meet up with Luke, Tyler, Angie and Ben. Fun time there, until we decided to head to Groove. There was pretty chill as well, with us meeting Drunk Matt, Pirate Rob, Mark, Genevieve and a few others. It was pretty awesome to have Luke, Angie, Matt and myself playing out 2 Minutes to Midnight on the couches. But sadly, I had to leave at 1am, so I wouldn't be totally dead when I went to work.

Speaking of that, I was dead at work. Although that hour long fire alarm because a pipe broke was pretty sweet.

That night was another round of partying. Starting at Ben's place, we chilled for a bit, until we decided to head over to Genevieve's place. Although, at this point, I was given full rights to remember what happened this night by Andrew. For him, this is the point form version:

-I told him to finish the Sambuca he had (against heavy resentment)
-There was a walk to the next party where every guy (save myself and Ben) needed to "go"
-Andrew and I drank beer on the way (good old punking it...)
-Some random guy walked with us after we passed Le Skank
(Line of the night):
Random Guy: Hey, do you have beer in that cooler?
Me: Ummm....Noooo....
Random Guy: Oh, that sucks.
-We almost saw the guy get hit by a car because he apparently "knew" the person driving
-More random people showed up, one Andrew knew from work, the other had a name that escapes me, but he was a drug dealer or something (he said he could get 'shrooms and acid)

I would point form the party, but I was off doing so much, talking to Hell for the first time in a while. I then talked to Melissa for most of the night, and that's when I noticed Andrew passed out. Everyone asked if he was alright. I told anyone who asked "he usually does this if he drinks a lot". But anyways, I stayed till about four, where I got Melissa home, and stayed there till about 10am. I only left because of the heat, and because I like my own bed. It was so bad, that I got home and slept till 5pm.

Outside of D&D, which had a lot of bad sexual innuendos (surprisingly, not all by me...) and a battle that took forever because nobody could hit the broad side of a barn (damn high AC...) it was a fairly good session.

And now with rain today, I'm trying to find things to do. I'm thinking some good old gaming would be nice, along with some pop, but I have to go out in the rain for such a task to be done (the pop that is). I have to do some cleaning up as well, which I should be doing now, rather than posting here for no real reason. Heh.

I'll get there soon enough, just waiting for the CD to end.....

I think I'll be changing up my MP3 player soon. I just got the amount that would be needed to fix my other ipod. It would take somewhere around $320 to fix it. I could buy a new one with all the trimmings at that price, and still have money to spare. Too bad my sister erased the message, so I can't phone them back and tell them to kindly go suck a dick.

My other ipod (the one that ran through the wash) is literally a piece of junk. Sure, it plays, it keeps my music, but it keeps a terrible charge. The thing should last (and I'm quoting) "up to 24 hours on a full charge". That is garbage. I get maybe eight hours of play out of it before it tells me it needs to be changed up. I do have a warranty on it still, so I may go change it up, but knowing my luck, they'll tell me nothing is wrong with it.

So that brings up what my other options are. The Sansa Fuze looks the most tempting, but the only problem is that the largest size they make is 8GB. The ZEN looks interesting as well, but it comes with a lot of things I wasn't exactly needing, like a microphone, radio stations and photo storage. Also, I would like to get away from anything with an I in front of it, namely ipod's and iriver's. Both have failed me as MP3 players with something about them being hard to use (such as the not so friendly way of placing songs on the iriver) or with something that takes up unnecessary space (such as itunes for the ipod). That may wait a bit though with the concerts taking top spot at the moment.

SPeaking of which, as of today, it's 8 days until the Offsprings and 15 for Judas Priest.

And as if September couldn't be any more awesome, MOTORHEAD!!!!!!!! So Nicole, if you're reading, we're going, no ifs, and, or buts.

But a bit about this strike thing, it's apparently not happening. I guess they settled. That's good, because I like money and money is good. It's bad, because I was so looking forward to not having to go to work today. Oh well, can't win them all. Hopefully the contract works out to a good thing, but for some reason, I see something bad coming out of it.

I am thinking of doing up D&D tonight, mostly because I have nothing better to do tonight. It is starting soon too, so I best get moving on that.

I think I have everything done up, but for some reason, I feel like I'm missing something. Not too sure though. If I forgot, then I'll probably do it later knowing me.....

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

aleurier gave me the following:

Final Fantasy: It's quite possibly the best (in my unpopular opinion) RPG out there. It's also the series that got me into the whole RPG element. From all the characters, to the stories, to the gameplay, it's all been such an influence. The thing about it is that not all of them are completely amazing, yet they all have something different to offer.

Long Posts: This means that I have a lot on my mind. I never like posting little blurbs about my life at the moment. I'd rather go for more meat in my posts and have something good to look back at rather than a small little thing that seems pointless. Whether people like to read that or not, well, that's up to them...

Video Games: One of my favourite things to do in life. It lets me get away and escape from whatever it is I'm doing, or just pass time. Sadly, I don't seem to be doing this as much as I used to. I just need to find more time to do so.

Work: It's not my favourite place to be, but it's something I deal with for most of my week. I deal with it, and sometimes it turns into a good place, yet other times it's the pits.

Music: It is quite possibly a chosen way of life. I love my music through and through. I mean, I have too many CD's to my name, and yet I still go out and get more of it, because I'm always looking to expand my music collection.

Oh wow, am I ever wet.

I decided to go out and get snacks for later tonight, when it was slightly raining out. It basically stopped at one point, so I decided at that point to explore the mall. Even though I got tempted by a few CD's, I held my ground and did not buy anything. Although, when I left, it was pouring, so I had to get back home. Good thing for my music that I have.

SO with my clothes all wet, I made the conscious decision to do laundry. Although that was planned out beforehand, I just made sense to place what I was wearing in the dryer so I can place it back on later tonight.

Yesterday was my day to just game out. Andrew and I did it up till about 4am, when I noticed he was falling into dreamland (I wasn't far behind). It also didn't help that we decided to fight off Final Fantasy VI while we were at it. The two of us also got Super Mario 3 beaten (that was once again a tough game) and bit of Super Sonic Racing, and Mario Golf on the Gamecube, which of course we claimed never existed. We were doing up Kirby Superstars, but it just screwed up on us and reset all of the data, so we didn't bother going back to it. Overall, a fun night.

Work was brutal that day though. I had to work with a complete idiot. First off, he never shut up. He always seemed to have a question about anything and everything. Second, he didn't know how to work. It's like he never bothered to learn how to do it right, but instead just did it all however he felt like. I never had to say "no, that doesn't work" or "take that out" so many times in an eight hour span. Hopefully he gets placed away from me, or better yet, told not to come back (he's only been there for a week, so he'd be the first to get told that).

Packing up has been a slow process, but it has been getting done. I'm just trying to think of what needs to be taken down and placed away and what can stay out for the time being. I do have to go through the spare room and take out whatever is in there that I may need. I should also do the bedroom as well and pack away that. There's not much that I can think of that needs to be out right now, so I can see everything except clothes going in, but of course, I'll probably be too lazy to do it.

But for now, I need to find something to do till D&D tonight. Shouldn't be too hard, right?.....

So last I left off, I said I was looking at a place with Andrew. I'll give the run down of it:

-It has plenty of space
-Great spot to be (as in nearly everything is in walking distance)
-Enough room for us to stay out of the way

The only problem I had with it, height. But you have to remember, I live somewhere with roofs that are fifteen feet high. This placer is lucky top have them at seven at spots, but it is an old house. I'm liking it, but I'm keeping my eyes open.

Work is kind of been weird, seeing how I'm back on the hill. I'm alright with that, seeing how I get to relive all my bad references with Joe once more. It's all been weird as well with the strike talk as well. I don't want to believe anything that anyone is saying. I will only believe what will happen in the end. Hopefully, it will be before the strike, rather than having me sit at home, but you never know.

As for my CD purchasing, it has continued. First was three brand new CD's for $22. I mean I found Ram It Down, British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance by Judas Priest all in one box set. I mostly got that because I wanted to know what British Steel sounded like, since Priest will play that when the come to town. I also found the original version of Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 by Helloween (although it was used). I had to rush out and pick that bad boy up when I saw it.

But when it comes to packing, I have my major boxes and I'm pretty sure I know what I will be taking and what won't be coming with me. I even have a big box of "it's gotta go". I'm told there will be yard sales to get rid of this stuff, but I'll have to give it up to the family so they can do it. I refuse to sit in the sun all day while I burn to do up a yard sale.

Something else that's interesting for the weekend, Fiesta Week. I can't wait! Food from all around the world waiting to be tried and eaten. It even has a spot on Sunday that will basically have all the pavilions in one place. I just hope you don't have to go out of your way to get a pass like you did last year to get all the food. If so, that'll seem so sad and a waste of time. Although, I may be looking on the outside for this one, seeing how I won't have much money after Friday.

Perhaps the lack of money and the crappy weather will force me to stay inside more. Although my wanderlust tends to get a better hold of me from time to time, I must put a stop to it. Mostly because this is a great way to save money (by not going out) and to finally get rid of those damn video games that have been sitting in my collection. If I don't start now, I know for sure in the new house I will be doing so.

But for now, I believe I will be doing up another CD, and maybe clean up a bit. This is mostly because D&D was not going on tonight. Kind of sucks, I wanted some off the wall craziness.

And finally, Something that even I would have to say is insane to do...

I'm kind of glad I didn't post in the past few days, for I would have just went off on angry rants about anyone and anything that got in my way. Luckily, I'm feeling better about those stupid things, but they'll probably just get mentioned anyways.

Work has been weird for me. Mostly because we always seem to bring up the strike talks, but I try to tell people that I don't want to know anything until the time arrives. Apparently, for being part of the temp agency, we still get paid if they strike, but that seems really weird for it. I have to phone tomorrow, since they aren't open on the weekends, and I didn't have much of a chance on Friday to do so.

Thursday was such a bust. I thought everyone was going to Stag's Head, but then Ben pulled out, Angie couldn't show, and Luke had to work, so he pulled out. The worst part? Everyone did so at the last minute. Then, Ben and Luke decide to go on some camping thing, which then makes D&D a complete mystery, for half the people can't show. Once again, pretty much last minute for that mention as well. I was invited to another bar that night, but it was raining, so I thought it was a stupid idea.

Weird thing was, next night, I was out at that same bar. Julie was bored and had nothing to do. (well, when literally everyone went camping, kind of hard to find something to do with people) SO I met up with her. Andrew also made his way over and the three of us decided to hang out. I then get the idea to bar hop, mostly because there was a bar named Motion that we wanted to check out. SO we get there, and that place feels like a terrible bust. They tell me no hats, (apparently, they aren't Toronto Blue Jays fans...) then we get in and they want a five dollar cover. Had we not planned to go to more bars, it would have been alright, but why pay more for one drink? SO we left them in the dust.

The Thirsty Monk was the last stop, and they had a lot of good beer there, but I couldn't order, for I didn't have my I.D. Great, I lost it somewhere between Motions and Thirsty Monk. That is no small distance, so I just delcared it lost.

They also didn't serve Andrew with his I.D., so we told them to piss off and went to Andrew's. Luckily, he doesn't I.D. people, and he has booze. We then ordered a pizza, which must have taken at least five phone calls because nobody delivered at 1:30am. After eating the pizza, Julie wanted to go back to her place, and we reluctantly went back with her.

That was a fun time, for we had to be quiet, and when you get a N64 going and games like Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey going, nobody is quiet. Very fun times. We then got up at about noon, and Andrew and I walked back home.

Saturday was fairly lazy for me, but for some reason, I had a weird hankering to play Super Mario Bros. 2 out of nowhere. I did that one up, and I was surprised how hard that game can be at times. Something I also found odd, the ice level (a bane of my existence in any game) did not give me a lot of trouble. The level after it did a good number on me though, mostly the boss, but that was nothing new.

D&D, as I said, was a very short handed affair, so we made new characters for the session, as well as playing the ones we already had. We seriously came off as just a group that wants nothing but results. The best part, it's through any means necessary. That surprised me, mostly because Mike's original and my original didn't really work at all the first session, yet this one, we were more on key with each other near the end. Hopefully we get a real session next week, even if Luke isn't showing for that one.

Today is supposed to be a day that Andrew and I will be looking at a house to rent. The only thing is that he asked for his sister to move in. I really don't care as long as she can pay rent. He only asked because it's three bedrooms. If it's two, he won't consider it. I'm still looking around as well for places, but I haven't found anything of real interest as of late. We'll see how this is before looking some more.

Speaking of moving...my sister is indeed back with us, but it's ridiculous why. Her boyfriend she moved in with told her she did nothing (Well, duh! We knew that) and she had no money, so he kicked her out. SO she comes back into the house, which I don't mind, but the fact my mom bends over backwards to make her happy. Here's what my mom did for her:

-Bought her enough cheese to make sure she was "comforted" (and I mean the good kinds)
-Got her hair done in the ugliest style possible, which cost well over $100
-Took her out for food three times that week for food.

Yeah, if I knew that being sad got me a mother that bent over backwards, do you not think I'd be more sad more often? Even Haley is questioning these methods, because she has to see this more than I do. It's literally ridiculous that we have to put up with such a thing. Also, I'm not allowed to make fun of her at all for being dumped. Ummm, I'm the big brother, it's in my job description. There's a spot somewhere that says "Thou must make fun of your younger siblings whenever the right opportunity arises".

Although, Haley is telling me there's no point to move, but I don't believe her. She's telling me that she's trying to get mom and Miranda to stay here. That involves Miranda to get a job and pay the rent (which is a never) and then they'd all pay rent that way. I've made up my mind, I'm moving out. I'm just sick my mother's terrible money spending ideas. We're supposed to save money and she can barely keep this place afloat. That's the reason I'm scared to give her this months and next months rent all at once. I know she'll just blow it on something stupid, rather than say, the rent.

I should get ready, I'm waiting on Andrew to give me the word to come over and then we'll look at that new place. That, and I'll probably be doing more cleaning up around the house, such as placing a few more things into boxes, and vacuuming would be a great idea as well. Hopefully I get those things done.....

So my sister Miranda has moved back in.....

*wooo...* (spins finger with little to no energy)

Although there are four little words that work so perfectly here;

I Told You So

Oh wow, I just had quite the meal. It was only Macaroni and Cheese spirals, but for some reason now, I seem full. Hopefully I'll stay that way. I've been hungry not even two hours after eating over the weekend, which is weird, since I wasn't doing a great deal of activities to make myself hungry again.

As for doing activities, I'm basically trying to get a lot of things done tonight, seeing how I decided to have a good amount of sleep yesterday. I'm even taking down posters, placing books I don't need out away, basically getting things into boxes to be ready for the big move.

Again, speaking of...moving, I actually found someone to move with. Andrew is looking to get out of his current predicament, so I am willing to move in with him. We also mentioned Tyler moving in with us, but that is something that is still up in the air. So, with this, it will be much better on my situation to save money and even get a better deal with bills and whatnot. Still have to look around, but whenever the paper comes in, I'll be making sure to look up the places available.

Saturday was a good day for me. I went around and found a book that I figured I could use to full usefulness, that being Monster Manual III. This is mostly because of Warforged being in there, and it's something I've wanted to pick up for some time. It got me in the mood to make such a class for D&D, but of course, I stuck to my guns and kept my wizard, despite or magic-heavy team. And with us being evil, it's just us being jerks to each other. OK, maybe that's just me being a jerk to everyone, but I'm sure everyone will come around to my snobbish attitude.

I was not very happy when that day my big ipod basically bit the dust. I dropped it by accident on the ground and every time you skip ahead a song, it skips about seven. That, and when I restored it, it made bad crunching sounds. SO I went to get it repaired and I'm 20 days past the warranty. They estimate it at about $70, if they can repair it.

Although, the good news was that it another day of good CD purchasing. My order came in for Stratovarius, so I had to do that one up. (had I not left my house at 1pm on Saturday, I would have picked it up on Saturday) I also found yet another Blind Guardian CD, being Somewhere Far Beyond. Now before I continue, I have to make a small music rant:

I have noticed that the entire Blind Guardian back catalog has been re-released. I am actually quite happy for that, seeing how I am someone who was not able to find it the first time around without specially ordering it, or by getting it off of the internet. For that, I congratulate the record company. In fact, I'll go a step further and commend them on not releasing just a standard rehash, but rather with special tracks placed onto them. But my commending stops there, seeing how this is all from one (and only one) record company, Century Media.

This idiots are the biggest cash cows I know of. Maybe I'm biased, but think about this. They once handled Iced Earth in their ranks, and they basically screwed over Iced Earth. The album The Blessed and the Damned, a cheap way to call it a greatest hits, was placed out just in time to coincide with The Glorious Burden, their first album with SPV. They then place Written on the Walls, a song written by a singer long forgotten, instead of the redone Cast in Stone, which is just crying as a kick in the teeth. Further proof is found in the Slave to the Dark boxset, which again, Iced Earth does not promote at all, but rather, is another Century Media cash grab.

Another artist to feel the wrath of Century Media is After Forever. Although, not as great, the best of compilation Mea Culpa. Once again, after they left Century Media, a best of CD happens to appear on the shelves just in time to tell people that there is still yet another dollar to be made from this band, despite them not being with us.

OK, rant aside, I did listen to the albums, and yeah, Stratovarius is back, enough said. I'd give it a 9/5 review, but that would basically be like all the reviews for Death Magnetic by Metallica.

But not I feel I've wasted too much time doing this entry, seeing how I have quite a bit to do on the list that I set out for myself.....

Been having some busy days, but I finally have time to jot down what has come by me these past few days.

I think the first big thing I can mention out of anything is that anything I said bad about D&D last entry can be wiped away by three words: Flying Donkey Kong. Yes, in a random drop-in campaign, where we basically have off the wall adventures, I had a flying gorilla named Donkey Kong. Purely epic.

As for the session itself, it was as advertised, off the wall. Mostly because we don't take it terribly serious and you never know who will be there, like me for instance. Just pure fun was all it was. I laughed the whole way home from our bad references. It also helped that Mike was there to laugh at the stupidity as well.

I was going to get things done yesterday, but I couldn't even set myself down for anything. Literally, as I walked through the door, Haley was off downtown and took me along with her. SO after a stop to the post office and the bank, we went for subs, where I finally thought that after getting home I'd get to sit down, but Haley kept me around and chatted me up until about 6:30. Then I sat down for about half an hour before I got invited to D&D.

Tuesday wasn't anything special, but it made me realize that I really need to stop spending money on fast food. I know I keep saying to myself I shouldn't, but I kind of had to. It was 6pm by the time I got hungry, and the family went out for Thai, which I will never eat. I'm going to try as I said to stay away from it all, but I'll most likely succumb this weekend. Although, if I go one day at a time, you just never know.

I have been thinking about moving lately. There was a nice little place I could move into on my own, but I just feel I wouldn't be able to do anything with my time. All my money (a good portion of it) would be put towards bills and food, and I'd have little to none for just a fun trip somewhere. I'll be talking to a bunch of friends on Friday and see what others say before making any final decisions.

Although, I did do another cost cutting measure. I FINALLY got off my cell phone plan. They wanted me to pay a $50 migration fee, and I told them to shove it. They also told me my phone was still on a plan, in which I nearly flipped on them for saying that. Luckily they switched me over to some plan that has a lot less of a cost on it and they switched to how it's supposed to be, having Randi's plan still on contract, not mine. I swear I hate dealing with Rogers.

I should be doing other things like laundry and cleaning out the spare room for this yard sale that's happening on Saturday, but now that I'm sitting down, I don't want to worry about anything. I may do laundry, but the spare room can wait. Besides, I'm feeling an early bedtime tonight.

Here's hoping tomorrow isn't going to suck at work, especially after today was a fairly good day.....

I'm glad to be in a much better mood today. I was going to post yesterday, but I was feeling so lethargic and melancholy that it was just impossible to do so without getting terribly negative.

It was actually because of D&D if you can believe that. The session was so very boring that it was just a terrible disappointment. It took an hour to even start up, Ben basically re-hashed his old character with little to no reason, Luke's awesome character died, and it took us literally two hours to hunt for a dragon. Not a small one, one that destroyed a freaking city! So by the time we get to it, I try to convince it, because I know the team is basically inept at that. (they were proving that point in spades) Of course, with me at a point where I could have walked out and been happy, I turned on the team for something better to do. Needless to say, we got slaughtered. Of course, that ruined an amazing story, but when you throw something at us that wasn't giving an inch, how the hell were we supposed to know?

So that led to Sunday being so awful for me. This, coupled in with the fact I was so freaking pumped from the night prior, led to such a crash that was just terrible to deal with. Now, I know what you're thinking "It's just a game..." Well, yes, it is, but when the game makes you wonder what else you could have done that night, and then regret not doing those things, it gets to you. And yes, for the record, I verbally mentioned halfway through the session that I was indeed not enjoying the session in the slightest bit. After the session, I once again mentioned it was probably one of the worst sessions I've played in quite some time.

As for today, it was a complete 180 to what I felt on Sunday. I was working with Morgan, which led to us basically one-upping each other with Simpson's/Family Guy/Futurama/Robot Chicken/Trailer Park Boys liners. It was pretty close to call who was the winner, but to say the day passed by with little to no pain. (even the 22kg boxes seemed to be of less nuisance than usual) Hopefully, that's where I'll be tomorrow.

Right now though, I'm not really motivated to do anything other than sleep. There's not a whole heck of a lot to do around here anyways, so it wouldn't be bad to have an early bed time. I may stay up and watch Raw, but with the whole basketball thing last week, I don't think I'll be as excited to watch tonight. I'll probably tape it and watch it tomorrow.

I should get some cleaning up done around this place as well. It's getting to be as messy as ever. Nothing new around these parts though.

But before I forget, it has been confirmed that as of September 1st, I will be moving. So that would make three years at this house. I was really hoping to not have to move, but of course, my mom and her "I have no fucking clue how to save money" plan strikes again. Where I will end up is beyond me. I'm more or less thinking I need to get as much money as possible in the next little bit before I think about anything drastic. I would like to go somewhere where I don't need to pay much in the way of rent, but I highly doubt that is going to happen. A room mate is the only other option, but that's not exactly something I'd like to put up with. We'll just have to see. For now, I should be looking for places to live, preferably somewhere closer to work, so it's not a far distance. Here's hoping *fingers crossed*.....

I really have to stop going a week before updating the journal. It's not like I had nothing to do during these past few days, it's just that anytime I wanted to sit down and express my thoughts on here, I would suddenly become busy, or something would come up that would just take more priority over anything else.

The good news is that I have been reading all the entries I've been seeing. I've even been commenting a bit as well. So, to say I'm completely ignorant of journals is a lie.

But where do I begin? There has been a bit of things to comment on, or just go off on, but let me see, I'll just randomize it with however I feel like placing them down.

Sunday was a good day for me. I decided to do some adventuring for the elusive CD stand. The good news is that I found one at Wal-Mart for under $40, the bad news is that it's basically the CD stand from hell. I'm just stating right now, if you're going to buy a CD stand, a bookshelf, or something you need to build, pay a little more, it's worth it. This thing had screws that didn't want to fit anywhere, garbage instructions, and just an overall waste of my time. It took me quite a bit of the night to get the damn thing together. I'll admit, I suck with tools, but it doesn't take me half of a day to put something together. I have to admit, it does look nice, if not simple in design.

Monday was back to the old work schedule. This is where a continuing trend happened all week, me phoning it in. Not sure what I mean? They placed me with a partner that wanted to get work done as fast as possible, where as I wanted to get work done and be happy doing it. I took it as a marathon, while he's going at a sprint. I'm surprised he didn't flip on me by Thursday or on Friday about me being so freaking slow. It also didn't help he said maybe three whole sentences to me the whole week. Let's see if they place me with him next week.

Monday was also a day I went to the mall with Mike. He was up for Warhammer, but I was kind of bleh on it. We found something awesome in the way of Final Fantasy IV and V on the GBA. He had to pick them up, and if I had the money, I would have picked up the other copy of FFIV. We also checked out music, but nothing of great value was there. We also chilled at my place with some lemonade, but not much else.

Tuesday was the day to ad-hock more of anything. We really crapped out on RP, but that's to be expected with a new game. Hopefully we'll be able to get that moving for next session. Of course, we have to do a lot before session, which of course will be done at session, in true ad-hock fashion.

Wednesday and Thursday weren't much of anything for me, seeing how I was trying to catch up as much missed sleep as possible. Although I did order Polaris by Stratovarius (come on, it's new, I had to pick that one up) but the only problem with that, I had to order it. Oh well, it says it'll be 2-3 weeks, which is a good thing, seeing how I'm not exactly rolling in money at the moment.

Friday was fun as hell. Although, I have to admit, I have never done nothing in the day and just have someone say "Thank you Josh". Joe said this to me for knowing Jess and Ashley, which in turn let him know Vicky. Safe to say, the man was running on no sleep at work yesterday. I was also given an energy drink for my "reward". I have to say, Cran-Raspberry is not as bad as I thought it would be. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I would have another if the opportunity arose.

As for really bad references at work, there were too many. Such as our boss cracking the whip on us, dressed up in leather and spikes. (even though she's female, it would look awful on her) I made it awesome with two words: Jumper Cables. Then there was Edward Forty-hands, where you tape two 40's to your hands and you have to drink them to get them off your hands. The ways to go to the bathroom were the bad references. There were others, but they seem to escape me at this time.

The night though was Talisman the board game (anyone who knows what this is might as well be my best friend). It was just myself, Tyler and Andrew. Ben was supposed to show, but he's sugar in the rain. Luke had work, so he was busy. Peter is just so hard to get a hold of. Mike had work as well. Finally, Crazy Dave was just MIA. The night started off with bad youtube videos (they're taking the hobbits to Isengard, I swear!) followed by eight and a half freaking hours of this one game. Not multiple games of it, one straight game! No one died if you could believe that, and the fact we had a grim reaper expansion made the game so much better. He had only seven different things to say, but he had such a backstory:

-His name became Bonesy (pronounced Bone-zee) out of nowhere
-His scythe was a four-in-one tool (it was also a silly straw, a chainsaw and shovel, as well as a scythe)
-He ate followers in the most comical fashion
-He was on a space with the Solomon's Crown, so he became a king.
-He moved on more than just a one, but a one and a six.
-He killed the last surviving member of the game
-At one point, we had the full title of Emperor Bonesy, Super Space Pope King.

To say the game was epic would be about right. Especially with the amount of stats, screwing over, and spells we threw at each other. I'd do it up with the 4th edition rules again, but not for the 8½ hours we did it for. And for the record, I won, thanks to the Emperor.

So with that, I went to bed at 7am this morning, then stupidly got up at 12:30. So to say I'm tired as hell is true. I'm going to try and stay awake, or look for another energy drink. I wonder if I can find that cran-raspberry again, but green apple works. That, and I'll need it to live through D&D tonight. That'll be too much nerdiness in one weekend. Almost like overkill, but I'm not canceling now. Maybe a nap wouldn't be a bad idea either.....

I had possibly one of the more morbid dreams I could remember before getting up this morning. Where I was watching wrestling with a bunch of friends and yet the wrestlers were going out of their way to downright kill each other in steel cage matches. One guy basically had the wreckage of a car through his opponent, yet, he got caught too. Blood spewed from his mouth in a very possessed sort of way. The weird thing was that it all looked like it was a video game. After seeing this, I didn't want to go back to sleep and keep thinking of this.

I have no clue why I just wrote that, now it'll be in my head...

But on to more real issues, I am officially on mornings for good. I would have been told otherwise if I wasn't on Friday, but I haven't been told anything, so mornings seems to be the way to go for me. Good news, because I'm happy to see that I can get things done after the work day again, like maybe a small adventure somewhere with a friend.

As much as adventures sound like a good idea, I may have to cut back because now my mom is crying and complaining that "oh I have no money, we're moving in two months" which sounds like bullshit. Now, not completely, she does want to move, but not until the end of the year, in which I thought there would be more than enough time to save, but two months? Might as well just abandon the house at that rate. This place needs to be packed, cleaned, painted and re-plastered in parts. Unless we plan to do that in as fast of a time as possible, I don't see that happening. (Of course, my mom does shit like this, thinking she knows everything, but really, she is a TERRIBLE arguer, despite the fact myself and Haley seem to know what to do when it comes to arguments)

Of course, I have not been one to be caught flat footed (deny those rogues their sneak attack I will!) I have been somewhat looking. I wasn't really big on it, but with Joe basically wanting to get the hell out of his place, that gives me something I really need, a room mate. As much as I'm against it, I can't pay the bills myself. I was told of a place, and if it's ready, I'll be packing up with quite a mean streak. Which then means this place has to be spic and span, something I'm not exactly good at.

Something that was fun was nerdiness yesterday. Good old D&D, and it seems I have a revolving door of characters now. Having a character die because I was too stubborn to get out of dodge when I had the chance. Luckily, I had an idea for another character, which is always helpful. I also have to stop thinking of ideas for characters, that way I won't be so willing to lose a character and want to play the one I have in reserve. I want to actually keep a character to the end now, which is something that may not happen with what we were charged to do.

Something I was terrible for doing was spending a lot of money. Granted, Haley was pretty much pissed for yelling at mom. (the whole moving thing was the cause, and she wanted to go to the mall, but mom had no money) After literally an hour (I lost track of time) of calming her down and talking to her, we decided to adventure to the mall (I swear, adventuring is my weakness) where my whole goal was to let Haley get her stuff. My goal was to FINALLY get that Judas Priest ticket. I'm surprised I got a ticket so close to the stage. Of course, with those damn service charges, it came to $80. You think that was bad? I found a bunch of Blind Guardian's older material re-mastered, so I had to see what they had. Basically, Nightfall and back (with the exception of Somewhere Far Beyond) was there. So I picked up Follow in the Blind and Imaginations From the Other Side. Yeah, more CD's. I have to stop, but there's only two more I'd want now. One is Startovarius when it comes out (so July with the way North America gets music ON TIME) and a used CD I found. Other than that, no more for some time.

Speaking of.....CD's, I should get another CD stand. I have that many that I can't fit them all on the stand. I'll just have to dream about that. Perhaps I can look at Zellers for what they have and do some pricing from there.

I also told Mike that Queensryche would be coming to Toronto. He's looking at me going "Why did you tell me that?" I would go, but with already two concerts in July, I don't know if I can afford that one as well. Couldn't it be in August? Give me some breathing room, will ya?

I also got cut from someone's friend list. It's no big deal, but it's very rare I get told of it. Funny how they said "we don't connect". Well, when you don't post for a week and a half, then say "I don't feel like posting anything" how does one connect? Again, not a big deal, but I feel kind of special for being mentioned as a cut person. Usually I'm not near that cutting spot.

I should get some food, as well as some talking to from my mom. Hopefully she's home, but despite my requests of her, she's probably not going to be home all day.....

I seem to be updating this less and less as of late. Maybe it was because of my internet being all screwy. Turns out it was the modem that went out on us. I thought it'd be the wireless router, but I was lucky to find out it wasn't. So I should be back on at a more frequent pace.

As for my adventures, Monday was the one that had the most fun in it. With it being Victoria Day (a good old fashioned Canadian holiday) nothing happened to be opened. I already had plans with Mike to play Secret of Mana, but it turns out he wasn't up for that. He was, however up for being nerdy, like Warhammer nerdy. I was up for it, but we first decided to head to the flea market they had going at the mall. I was bad and bought more CD's, but ones I've seen little of. The CD's in question were Brave New World by Iron Maiden (OK, that one's a bit more common), Rage For Order by Queensryche and Dead Winter Dead by Savatage. The last one was a nice surprise, for I had heard good things of Savatage, but never enough to go out of my way to look for it. Besides, at $10, it was worth the risk.

The big nerdiness did happen, and let's just say, it was all Ad-Hocked. No preparations for this, we made everything on the fly. Our characters, the first town, the fights, even the story was somewhat ad-hocked, but there was a small basis. It was loads of fun, and we would have went on later if it weren't for the fact I had to work early the next day.

Speaking of...the morning shift, I'm noticing it's been going by at a nice pace. Not sure what it is, but it's quite enjoyable. Yesterday being upstairs on any line but the first two makes such a difference, and today downstairs really flew by with the return of music at work. Although, I'd like to know if I'll be just upstairs or just downstairs, rather than guessing and finding out as I get in there.

I haven't really been up to much else as of late. I'm trying to keep it to a minimum for activities for the next little bit, mostly because my days have been spent with long nights out and not enough sleep to compensate. Today feels like a start to that, with nothing really needed to be done. The only big thing needed to be done is laundry, and I don't need to go out to get that done. Oh, how it feels good to sit back and relax, especially with my music. Perhaps that's all I'll be up to today.....

I guess I should finally break my silence. Figures, when I have little to no connection, I have a fun-filled week and a half that actually has quite a bit to talk about. Yet, when I have an actual connection, I don't seem to have a whole heck of a lot to get off my chest.

First things first, I am somewhat happy at this moment. Mostly because I am indeed back on days for work. Not that I hate the afternoon shift, it's just that I like days because I can finally talk to people and do things with them after I get off work. It works nicely for me, and of course, I don't have to bargain with my mom about the car. If this keeps up, I may have to try and get Warhammer started up one last time, but I don't want to jump the gun until I know everything is for certain.

Speaking of...work, I have been on a somewhat screwy schedule as of late. I only worked two days this week, compared to the full week I had before it. Even then, the two days I had were one afternoon shift followed by a day shift (yeah, eight hours to sleep and get ready once again, real fun...) So with three days off, you would think I'd do things that would fill the void. I didn't really do anything of huge importance, but rather things that just got me through my day. Although, I did get to see the family a bit more, but it wasn't anything real special.

As for parties and whatnot, there has been two of importance. The first one would be the one that happened last night. I got to hang out with Angie, Tyler, Fiona, Drunk Matt (when you take half your 26'er down in 20 minutes, you get a title like this), Metal Dave, Ben and two other people who didn't bother to speak or say more than two words to me (yet the guy shook my hand at the end saying “it was nice partying with you”) Lo and behold, I actually got my sister Haley to show up. It was an alright party, but everyone wanted to watch movies, which is one thing I hate to do with a group of people. Even if it was Team America: World Police (we watched South Park just before it...) I couldn't stand to watch it fully for the umpteenth time. So all Dave and I wanted to do was get some video gaming done. We even had half the party in agreement, but then nobody fulfilled anything. So yeah, that was somewhat disappointing. Then of course, another movie was placed in, being Underworld: Rise of 300 (come on, the 300 guy is in it, and he's a type casted character for life) We placed it one mute for the first seven minutes and my over dubbing of every character made that movie eight million times better than it ever was. Seriously, there were so many silent parts in this movie, that it became unbearable. I only know, because I'm in the other room talking with other people and it just comes off silent for five minutes, then sound comes on. Sounded terrible. Of course, the rest of us talk (apparently so loud everyone can hear) that we get in trouble. Angie had that look of “Get out of my house” but I was told it was sleepiness. I think it was a combo of both. But as I said before, movies and parties don't work.

The second party (with a shorter description) was probably better. It was kind of alright, because I had to show up at 1am, rather than midnight. Of course, by the time I show up, everyone gets the feeling of leaving. The only person that didn't want to stop partying was Julie, so I decided to go to her place, along with Monz. We got there (with more booze I bought off of Ben) and Julie was awesome enough to wake her room mate up to party with us. Now, I haven't seen Sherry in about three and a half years, so I felt a little awkward talking to her, but that was washed away easily. Not a lot happened, but I remembered there was a point where I got my back shaved (don't know how it came up...) and the random UFC moment between Sherry and myself where I tied to tie her up with my body. Yes, for the record, I was able to do it easily.

The walk home though, that was brutal. Granted, I stayed the night (since it was 6am when we decided to sleep) but I got up to realize that Monz was gone, Julie was sleeping and Sherry had her parents over. I just let myself out and walked home. Now, I knew this was a bad ass walk home. I figured it'd take me about an hour, maybe a bit more, to get home. That part I got right, but the pain in my feet I never expected. I was stupid enough to have my work boots with me to walk in. If that wasn't enough, it decided to rain pretty hard on me as well after about fifteen minutes. S my feet were brutally destroyed, I was still tired, and I just wanted to sit. Luckily for me, my family wanted to go to the flea market, so if I wanted to get a ride anywhere that day (I had a CD to pick up) I would have to go with them.

The flea market was nothing special, although I almost wanted to pick up this Drow knife. It was shaped like a spider and each leg was a blade. I only knew this because of the books I have read recently. I passed and went with a ten dollar hat. Outside of that, the only awesome thing I did was when I picked up my CD. I asked for it (which was Kings of Metal by Manowar) and the guy behind the counter was pretty impressed I knew of them. Now, I'm always impressed when people listen to the music I do, because it tells me the world is not totally corrupt. (yet...)

As for CD's I also picked up Rhapsody; Live in Montreal. I know I've talked about it before, but when I saw it for sale, I had to get my own. Luckily for me, this one came with the DVD as well. Now, like most any DVD, I have yet to watch it. (you think that's bad? I have a DVD from After Forever's last CD that I have YET to watch, and I got that in October 2007) I would hope that I can stop my purchasing ways in the next little bit, seeing how I do have to save for a few concerts.

Speaking of which, I figured out Judas Priest is coming to Toronto again. I'm not missing it this time, that's for damn sure. The fact I missed them last year was a travesty. Sadly, they're playing with Whitesnake, which is just a head scratcher for me. The thing I don't like is that it's on July 9, which is Ben's birthday. That, and the Offsprings are the week before it (being the 2nd) so it'll be a little tough to manage. Hopefully, I can, but we'll see.

I think today and tomorrow (outside of D&D tonight) will probably be a lazy day for me. The biggest thing I can see myself doing is seeing if there are still Judas Priest tickets left, but other than that, I don't feel like I want to do anything, seeing how I drank last night, and I can never sleep for long periods of time for some odd reason.

Also, I have been reading your entries. I've even made comments on a few entries as well, so it's just to say I'm not completely dead, I'm just hiding.....