What’s New in the Life of z

Haven’t posted as much as I orig­i­nally intended. I hon­estly don’t expect any­one to read this site; it is more for me than any­thing else.

So what’s new? Well I might be get­ting a job. Like a real one. Work­ing at a com­pany. That pays me on a reg­u­lar basis. That’d be nice. More details when/if it happens.

My eBay account was sus­pended. Iron­i­cally it wasn’t my fault. Another account that hasn’t been active for 5 years was sus­pended and for some rea­son that gave eBay jus­ti­fi­ca­tion to sus­pend my account, my dad’s account, and my mom’s account. Stu­pid. Over 350 list­ings (between Half.com and eBay) that I’ll have to relist. Hope­fully my account will be rein­stated soon. I faxed in the paper­work for it last Fri­day. Egh. Slow stu­pid eBay.

Got rid of my weight bench. It wasn’t exactly doing me much good… I didn’t use it very much, and when I did use it I ended up hurt­ing myself. See, I have this stu­pid thing where I can’t tell when I’m over­do­ing some­thing and so I end up tear­ing my mus­cles to shred and then it takes like a week to recover and so using a weight bench isn’t very effec­tive. Bet­ter just stretch­ing and doing pushups and situps and junk like that.

Got a cou­ple sites nearly done. Get­ting paid for it even. Sweet. Money is good.

Got a new com­puter a while back. A Dell Dimen­sion E510. It came with a beau­ti­ful LCD mon­i­tor. Widescreen. Big. Shiny. Even rotates so you can have it so it is taller than it is wide. Very handy.

Umm… What else… OH OH! I found a CD in some boxes that has a ton of old pic­tures on it. Like from before my mis­sion. I’ll have to put up a photo site even­tu­ally to store all this crap cause I’m always wor­ried about data loss. Also found in some boxes some crazy old crap, like a birth­day invi­ta­tion that I sent out for my 13^th birth­day, my 3^rd grade report card (hor­ri­ble grades), 3^rd grade stan­dard­ized test­ing scores (incred­i­ble scores), bank state­ment from when I was 9,  and some crazy old pic­tures. I’ll have to scan some of this stuff and put it up. Some of it is quite funny. Like you put the report card and the stan­dard­ized test­ing side by side… I was get­ting like C’s and D’s and my teach­ers all said I was putting forth min­i­mal effort, but the stan­dard­ized test said I was in the top 99% of stu­dents my age for nearly every category.

You know a song I haven’t heard in a while? Pos­sum King­dom by The Toad­ies. I used to lis­ten to that song all the time. The words are weird and dark, but the music is great.

Oh! I found this twisted lit­tle poem on that pic­ture CD (its actu­ally a graphic… I’d attach it but thats prob­a­bly copy­right infringe­ment or something…):

I wanna crack your skull and eat your thoughts
Break your back and make you walk
To suck the mar­row between your soul
Tear you apart to make me whole

No idea who wrote it… I think I found it on deviantART back in the day. I’ll have to try to find the author some­day. But isn’t it neat?
BTW, I have a few things up at deviantART if you want to see. Noth­ing ter­ri­bly amaz­ing, and not a ter­ri­bly lot of any­thing, but if you are bored…

So my mom bought some jelly a while back, and it had one of those lit­tle sticker things on it that you peel off and it says stuff on it. And this peel off thing hap­pened to have a code on it that you enter online and you might win a prize. Well guess what? I WON! Yay! Not mil­lions of dol­lars though unfor­tu­nately, but I did win Sec­ond Prize, which is a lim­ited edi­tion Dis­ney lith­o­graph. Only 5550 in exis­tance. Woohoo! $50 ARV! Too bad I don’t have an eBay account to sell it with…

Mix Tape by Brand New. Another awe­some song. What is with all that crap on the radio nowa­days? Total garbage. Dri­ves me crazy. Half the songs you can’t tell what the crap they are say­ing, or you wish you didn’t because its all about sex and drugs and mean­ing­less mur­der. What ever hap­pened to songs with mean­ing? Songs that make you feel GOOD, even if they are dark and twisted like Pos­sum King­dom? Oh well. Guess I’m just get­ting old.

So I have this hor­ri­ble headache of a job to do. I’m mak­ing a web­page for Ann King, a local RE/MAX real­tor. She wants up-to-date list­ing for the entire Pee Dee area (thats the region I live in) on her site. So I con­tact the local real estate board, and get the paper­work to get a live IDX feed (IDX = MLS for inter­net). Unfor­tu­nately what they offer isn’t a live feed. It is a hor­ri­ble com­pli­cated tab-delimmited text file. And not just one text file, but eight text files. And not just eight text files, but eight text files with dozens of fields for each text file. I finally got them to send me a key that says what each of the fields is sup­posed to rep­re­sent, but still haven’t decided how to han­dle the task of down­load­ing the daily update and inte­grat­ing it into the site. They also have a quirky way of doing the prop­erty pho­tos, but I won’t get into that. Need­less to say, it is going to be a pain. I don’t even want to think about the task of set­ting up the geocoder and Google Maps. Egh.

Have you ever seen About A Boy? That was a neat movie… One of those movies that doesn’t exactly have a pow­er­ful cli­max, but teaches life lessons in a way that doesn’t feel after-school spe­cial. Sort of like Break­fast Club. Except I know why About A Boy is called About A Boy, but I don’t have a clue why Break­fast Club is called Break­fast Club. They didn’t even eat break­fast. I think they had lunch. Maybe the Lunch Club? That sounds pretty gay though. Whatever.

So thats the life of z. I need a hair­cut. Note to self. Get a haircut.