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| Saturday, March 15th, 2003 | | 9:56 am |
Yatta!
I saw the greatest thing ever on TV the other night. The band who sings Yatta, happatai, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They got the entire audience to cheer to them singing Yatta, and they even translated it. Greatest. Show. Ever. | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2003 | | 9:18 am |
Hell is a broken internet connection
I think I had a record, until yesterday. You see, as an online sales agent, I don't get to talk on the phone much, and while ensconced in a sea of phone sales agents, I have a little bit of noteriety. I haven't made a cold call to a customer in almost a year, and that is good. Yesterday, the internet connection to the site I monitor was down. So, I got stuck on the phones for six freakin' hours. 150+ calls, and not a single sale. God that's frustrating. Thank god the internet is back up today, though. Going to go home and do some cleaning later, and hopefully get together with Dave to discuss or business arrangement. Perhaps I'll let you in on it once it's a little more established. Current Mood:  cheerful | | Saturday, March 1st, 2003 | | 7:51 am |
Well, my goal of making a post per day has pretty much failed. Thanks to Berry starting to monitor internet connections, I've been kind of wary about doing my normal online surfing, but it's gotten to the point where now, honestly, I don't give a flying fig if I get sent home. I could use the vacation. It's been nice and busy this week though. To recap: Heather came down on Wednesday night and ended up staying that night and Thursday, just to get out of her apartment. She tells me that she managed to get a lot done there, but I'm sure there's still plenty left for me to do when I get up there today about 4. I missed the Japanese meeting on Thursday, but kind of had to because I didn't want to abandon heather to my apartment. I think it was okay, though, because Heather cooked some Jambalaya (her first time) and I made some cheese bread, and we invited Tom, Janice and Annette over to eat. The rest of the crew were invited as well, but they went to an SFA basketball game. I'm also getting WAY too much anime from Rob, again. Finishing off Princess Nine and Love Hina, and getting things like ./hack and Chobits started. I'm an anime freak, but not to Rob levels. ;P Man, it's going to be a hell of a day. Up at 7, work till 2, then up to Tyler to work some more. I must be a glutton for punishement, or something. Still, I do get to get paid for the weekly use of my DDR machine, so that's worth the hour drive. Speaking of, Pocket Change in Tyler is probably going to lose it's 2 player machine. That means I'll have the only 7th mix in, oh, around 100 miles, and the only 7th mix (soon to be 8th) in Tyler. Can anyone say $$$$$$? Also, last night was the Elfquest Chat on Two Moons, the elfquest Mush that I play on. I managed to get in a few good questions about what's going on currently in the Elfquest world; mainly things about the new books coming out this year. Richard, as usual, was exceedingly vague about everything. Still, I did manage to ask about Bloodsongs, and they said that yes, they wanted to do it but didn't know when. Curses! Anyhow...I'm done. Lots of chats. Seeya. Current Mood: busy | | Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 | | 11:05 am |
What I want
Everyone has a list of things that they want, and here's mine. I want to get a house. A nice house with a few bedrooms, a big kitchen and a shower with two showerheads, so no matter which way I turn, I'm covered in hot water. I'm tired of my butt getting cold when I'm in the shower, and something like that would take care of the problem. And a garage. I want to graduate college. 44 hours to go...that's nearly two years worth of school. I'm really tired of going to SFA, but I need to graduate otherwise the last few years of my life will feel more like a waste than they already do. I want to get a new car. I've never had a new car before. Ever. All my cars have been used; Right now I'm driving a 91 Capri with nearly 80,000 miles on it. My previous car, a 91 Mustang LX had almost 300K when I was done with it. Realistically, I'd like to get a truck, but if I had my dream, I'd get a Nissan Skyline GT-R VspecII. Play Gran Turismo and look at it. It's wonderful. I want another job. Berry Direct is a soul-sucking life that makes me dread getting up for work every morning. The pay is the best one can get by not being a college student, but it takes some getting used to that your job is convincing stupid people to buy crap that they probably don't need. Which is why I want to graduate college. And marrage is in there too. So hush, MockingbirdQ and Goddess-Jessie. | | 10:43 am |
Long Update
I've got to get into the habit of coming and updating this thing at least once a day. I'm going to make it my mission to take 15 minutes out of my life at work and type out whatever I'm thinking or feeling. Mainly because people here with live journals keep pestering me to update. Fine, I'll update. Shut up. ;P Life's been quite entertaining for me the past few days. Last weekend (Feb 22nd) I got to move my girlfriend, a notorious pack-rat, from one apartment to another. On the plus side, I did get her washer and dryer, but on the negative, she's a pack-rat. We've been packing her for at least the last couple of months on the weekends she was home, but rarely made much of a dent. Last weekend I really buckled down after she left and packed most of her kitchen in preparation for the moving day. It was hard to prepare for that. There's nothing like helping someone move to convince you that you _don't_ want to move, ever. It's so jarring to pack everything up, load it into a truck, and then ship it to an entirely new place. I'm probably going to drive up on Thursday to help her some more. Luckily she took the week off to get settled; last time she had 3 days to move, and as a result was still partially packed from her first move. Still, with help from Rob we managed to get every huge chunk of furniture (including Fuck, the Cabinet of Doom) shipped over to her other apartment. All day sunday I spent setting up and re-positioning furniture into something resembling a living room. It looks good now, but I was exhausted after driving the 140 plus miles per day for 3 days in a row. My poor little car needs an oil change now. I also was an hour late for work because I managed to stumble out of bed and whack the alarm off the top of the dresser...so I slept late. I didn't get in trouble, thankfully, but it was still kind of annoying. I'm going to go home and do laundry. I'm amazed at how something that doesn't require much work can be so rewarding. I guess it's because I don't have to drive an hour to do it anymore. There's your update. More tomorrow. And I owe Rob a cookie. | | Thursday, February 13th, 2003 | | 10:11 am |
Valentine's Day
God, I'm posting a lot in a little period of time. I suppose I could have done one large post, but these things are coming as I come up with them, so nyah. Eat me. I'm trying to come up with something to do with Heather for Valentine's Day. She's moving next weekend, so this weekend we'll be packing up all of her stuff into boxes we've been accumulating from here and there, and then next weekend loading them into a truck for a 5 mile journey across town. I can already feel my legs trembling with anticipation. Or is that anticipation of pain? Probably a little of both. On the good side, I'm getting Heather's washer and dryer so they'll be coming to my apartment and fitting in the same closet where my Ferrets live now. So I'll have clean laundry on a constant basis. @woot. Just getting them down here will be the fun part. I have a friend at work who has a truck and he'll hopefully be giving me a hand with the washer and dryer. Current Mood:  okay | | 10:06 am |
| | 10:02 am |
I've been playing Grandia Xtreme for the past few nights, fighting my way to the bottom of a 100 level dungeon. I get to level 100, expecting to fight a kick ass monster and have a lot of fun doing it. Instead, I pick up a little chunk of "quanlee's heart" and then the game is over. That's it. 40+ hours of game play for that. Is it too much to ask that a game have a decent ending battle after 100 levels of randomly generated mazes? Apparently, for the creators of Grandia Xtreme, it is. ARRRRGH. I just hope Wild Arms 3 is better. Current Mood:  bitchy | | Saturday, February 8th, 2003 | | 11:00 am |
On a less depressing note, I'm nearly finished with one of the myriad of games I recieved for Christmas: Grandia Xtreme. The mis-spelling makes it that much cooler, I suppose. Let's see, when I'm done with that, I get to do GTA:Vice City, Jak and Daxter, Onimusha, Jade Cocoon, Wild Arms 3 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I have too many RPG's, and I'm getting more. Xenosaga and Suikoden 3 coming soon. Oh, and I'm probably going to ask Heather to marry me. Anyone breathes a word of this (you know who you are) I'm going to kill you. I'm not kidding. I will kill you. | | 10:44 am |
Saturday Morning. 10 am
Saturday morning, and here I sit, typing to people on-line about DSL. Heck, from 7 am until about 9:30, I didn't have any chats at all, which made my bed seem that much more appealing, if possible. Yes, folks, I'm bored. Sitting in an empty call center just after sunrise, one gets to ponder a lot of things; mainly how I got so lucky as to be sitting here when I could otherwise be asleep. Story time: Before I had this job I was a waiter at El Chico, a mexican restaurant in Lufkin (A small town 30 minutes south). My friends, Colin and Alan, managed to snag me the job after I was fired for insolence from my previous job. Yes, insolence. A bullshit reason, yeah, but from what I understood he was wanting to save money. Did I mention he was also my landlord? That's not the point. The point is, I was talking to Colin one day after taking him home from work. He was playing Everquest and casually said the following line: "I know I'm wasting my youth doing this crap, but hey, I'll come out okay in the end." I've been thinking of that for the longest time. He was 27 at that time. Now he's probably 29 or 30. He was a waiter at a mexican restaurant and spent his time getting high and playing Everquest, always complaining about his lack of money. I'm afraid I'm falling into the same trap. You see, I've been attending college since the spring of 1997, and I'm so dang sick of the whole thing, I've several times pondered quitting. I'm seeing a councilor at school to see if she can help me find direction so I can get away from this job and do something that matters. Suggestions are welcomed. Current Mood:  worried | | Thursday, February 6th, 2003 | | 7:45 pm |
God, I'm bored
Well, I just took my first quiz thanks to Janice, also known as mockingbirdq. I'm apparently a little chinese boy with an affinity for fire.  Syaoran Li-You're cute and you're secretly in love with one of your friends. You can be stubborn sometimes but you're very loyal. Which Anime Bishie Are You? brought to you by QuizillaI'm bishounen. Actually, for those who know me, no, I'm not. | | 7:34 pm |
No japanese tonight
Well, I showed up to the library, late, and discover that, hey, we're not doing the japanese meeting tonight. @yay. Also, my army was a failure thanks to the website going kaput, which kind of sucked. I was up to 4 officers and 17 soldiers, as well as an assload of money, which was neat, but now I can't use it. Went and bought an antenna today. The cable company, after 3 months, decided that they would finally shut my cable off, so I went and got an antenna for $30. I can pick up two channels, ABC and NBC I think, so at least I get to see news. I miss CNN, but it's not worth $42 per month. I miss my girlfriend. I'll see her on Saturday after going to work at 7. Well, off to do stuff. | | Tuesday, February 4th, 2003 | | 12:08 pm |
Well, after 10 hours on the road with 1500 pounds of DDR equipment, I have returned to Nacogdoches about $300 richer and more tired than I've been in a while. I'll have a full report later. Ushicon was fun, but that fun was alloyed by the space shuttle disaster. My first thought when I heard about the explosion was "great, something else to hear about for the next six months." The second thing I thought was "I hope it wasn't a surface to air missile." The third, and most important thing I thought was "I'm glad I'm not home this weekend." For those not aware, my little town is Nacogdoches, and my apartment is about four blocks from the parking lots where chunks of the shuttle landed. I really don't know what to think about the space shuttle being gone now. I was in grade school when the Challenger exploded, and I remember thinking that it was so unreal. Like a bad episode of Knight Rider or something. There are airline crashes a lot more frequently than this that affect a lot more people, but the space shuttle, when it has an accident, really hurts people on a more visceral, patriotic level. The space shuttle is supposed to be safe. It's not supposed to blow up. Every kid wants to be an astronaut when they grow up (or a truck driver, or a fairy princess) but now I wonder how common that dream will be. Anyway, I'm at work now, so I'll probably post again later tonight. Come join my army. http://www.kingsofchaos.com/page.php?id=242875 Current Mood:  tired | | Saturday, February 1st, 2003 | | 7:24 pm |
Anime Conventions and the Space Shuttle
Well, here I am in Austin, Texas at Ushicon, an animation convention. It's Saturday night around 7:30, and me, being a staff leutenant, I get to sit while the head goes out to dinner. That being said, I get a little bit of time to type. First off, since I'm in Austin, I'm no-where near Nacogdoches, where lots of the space shuttle debris landed. I'm sure it makes my parents feel a little better to know that I'm not in that area, but six hours south. My DDR machines are currently being used, and after a massive trek, I managed to locate a change machine to use in combination. It's costing me $75 for the weekend to use, but it's paid for itself by now at least. The reason I know this? Well, in the 24 hours since the machines started, I've made around $200+ Yay. More later. Nate | | Friday, January 24th, 2003 | | 10:28 am |
I want to go home.
My job sucks sometimes. For those of you who know, I'm an on-line sales guy. I monitor a website and help people order DSL. It's one of the easier jobs, but very unpredictable. You could be busy one day, and then bored the next. Today is one of those days. At least I get off at 3:00 pm. I get to go home and attempt lasagna, salad, and garlic bread for my girlfriend as well as make the apartment presentable. Oh, funny comic. http://www.reallifecomics.com/d/20030123.htmlThis has happened to me so many times, I don't want to count it. Current Mood: hungry | | Monday, January 20th, 2003 | | 3:37 pm |
My addiction is an arcade game called Dance Dance Revolution. I own two of them, a two player and a one player machine. All weekend I spent my time and hard earned money fixing the two player machine to make the marquee (the part on top with the sign) light up. It looks good now, but it took me a lot of time (and nervous snipping, and blown fuses) to get it to work. Still, I'm proud of myself. My machine is prettier and I did all the work myself. Current Mood: happy | | Thursday, January 16th, 2003 | | 4:46 pm |
Japanese tonight
Tonight I'm getting together with some people at the library and we're going to try and learn some Japanese. We have a couple of friends who are fluent, or semi-fluent in the language, and we've decided to get together regularly and see if we can't get some kind of passive conversational class going. We're just going to go over the basics for now; kana and phrases like "good morning" and "where's the bathroom," and then get dragged over to Janice's house to watch Yami no Matsuei, much to the chagrin of her husband Tom. She says it's not Yaoi, but I don't know. She was also the person who told me that Queer as Folk had very little penis in it. She was wrong. The episode I saw had a [u]LOT[/u] of penis. God, we're starting out on a classy note, aren't we? Current Mood:  anxious | | 4:34 pm |
Welcome to My Journal
Hello Everyone. Somehow you managed to stumble your way to this little livejournal of mine, just started the night before thanks to the benevolence of another LiveJournal denizen, Annathepiper. I originally started this thing as something to do during my days at work at my online sales job when the contacts get slow, but I'm hoping that with time it'll give me a reflection on my life and hopefully broaden my horizons and help me aspire to something more than I've been doing so far. I'm not going to say that my words here will be philisophical or even coherent at times, but it'll be the truth, and from the heart. About me; Well, I'm 25, almost 26, and live in a small east Texas town called Nacogdoches. When my grades allow, I attend Stephen F. Austin State University, and work at a local company, Berry Direct, as an online DSL salesperson in one of the more comfortable, but stressful, jobs available in this town. I have a girlfriend, Heather, who lives in Tyler and works at a wilderness camp for troubled teens, two ferrets; Keiichi and Belldandy, and several friends. |
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