Sunday, August 28 2005, 9:21 AM

Good news. I picked up a new car on wednesday. I turned in my Grand Am and upgraded to a 2005 Grand Prix. It's got all sorts of fun stuff like heated leather seats, remote start, heads-up display, dual-zone climate control, and a 9 speaker Monsoon speaker system with 6 disc CD changer. It's a sweet ride. It costs a bit more per month than the Grand Am did, but my yearly insurance bill is about $700 less than it was with the Grand Am, so it will balance out somewhat.

Good news. My midnight shifts are over. It wasn't a bad tour of duty for the most part, but it did seem that things always got pretty busy once Gregg left every night. It was like he pressed a button as he left that alerted everyone to call or put in tickets. Oh well. It's looking like getting reacclimated to days might not be so tough this time around. I slept from about noon to 7pm yesterday, and then went back to sleep around midnight and slept until 6am. Hopefully the batteries are charged enough to keep me awake all day.

No-so-good news. My eye is still bothering me pretty regularly. I had a checkup the week before last, and Dr. Saxe said that things are still stable and not getting worse, but I'm noticing my inability to focus more and more each day it seems. It's really been bothering me lately. All of the muscles connected to it just seemed to be strained, enough so that it gives me mild headaches on occasion. This might be caused by being at work for 13 days straight staring at computer screens though. I'm considering picking up some reading glasses to try to bring things into better focus, but who knows if it'll work. Pretty soon I might remind you of that old person you know that has their display settings on their monitor set to 640x480 because they can't see any finer resolution than that... Lets hope not.

Not-so-good news. It would seem that I've fucked up somehow. The girl I met at Annie's wedding won't return my calls. The thing is that I don't know what I did (or didn't do) to bring this about. She is quite attractive, and I was looking forward to getting to know her better, but now she won't talk to me. I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm cursed, and that I'm going to be single for the rest of my life. When I combine that with my eye difficulties, moving to Tibet and becoming a monk doesn't seem like that bad of an idea...

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Sunday, August 07 2005, 11:37 PM

I guess it's been a while since I've posted something meaningful. I've recieved some questions on the nature of the last post, but if I haven't told you, you're not destined to know. Let it rest. I was pretty much drunk when I posted it, but that doesn't take away from the meaning.

I guess I've been keeping myself busy for the most part. I've been slowly infiltrating my new residence. My room is mostly squared away, and it's quite different for me not to have a computer in my room. There's been a computer of some form in my bedroom for like, 8 years now. It's actually quiet and cool in my bedroom now. It's rather hard to believe. Who knows... now that I've forced the computers out of my room, a female might enter! Well, with my luck, probably not. But I guess I can hope. I've got a few more boxes worth of stuff to make homes for, but it's mostly stuff like spare bedding, so it's nothing critical at this point.

Last weekend was the annual LaRouche-land canoe trip up on the Rifle River. As usual, it was a great time. There was a much smaller contingent of people there this year, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. There were a lot less of the peripheral folk that come up with the family, which is good in my eyes. Some of the people that came up in the past were no good. Most of the crew was there - Jon + Michelle, Chris + Lana, Andre, Thomann, Guy + Ana... The Phils were strong in attendance. We all got pretty ripped the first night, Andre and Jonny T. especially. They didn't sleep at all, and kept most of the camp up all night. I slept in the van, so I didn't hear a thing, but there was quite a lot of negative feelings towards those two when I woke up. It passed, and everybody had a good time canoeing. The weather couldn't have been better, but the river could have been a little warmer. We didn't really do much of anything except pass out from exhaustion after the trip down the river. All in all, it was a good time.

I put together a decent-sized list of things to get done this weekend, and I made a pretty good dent in them. I've still gotta get out to the Pontiac dealership sometime this week. There are a couple dealerships in my parents area that are offering pull-aheads on any GMAC lease, so I can get out of my current lease without any penalty if I get a new lease. This is quite good, since I've got around 500 miles left on my current lease, and it expires in February. The math isn't too good on that one. I'll definitely be taking advantage of that offer and get myself into a new ride. I'm looking pretty hard at a G6, perhaps a G6 GT(P) if I can afford it. We'll see within the next week or two, after I take a test drive or two.

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Friday, February 14 2003, 12:37 AM

I must say that today was much cooler than the last. Instead of wrecking a car today, I got a lease on a new one! I wasn't really expecting to do the deal today, but things came together, and I got to drive it home! A brand new 2003 Pontiac Grand Am GT. I'm pumped.

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