Computers in 89 are just like today arn't they. Seems like a good deal for the most powerful computer ever. 

Self Repair

I haven't been online much lately, and when I have been it has just been quick. I am getting rid of my DSL service to save some money considering it doesn't work too well in the apartment in the first place.
Now for the repairs. I have been trying to fix some of my issues lately in both my environment and myself. I had my sink fixed today. The person who did the repair is new and actually seems like a nice guy who actually wants to get the stuff repaired instead of just wanting to leave. They are doing construction to the front office here so it has been hard to get stuff done through the apartment. The mailboxes are completely blocked off so you can only get in there by going through the office with assistants from people who work there. The repair guy came in and made a comment about how the sink was put together really badly with the wrong parts. He also commented on how they didn't have much in the way of parts around left from the last person who had his job, and how he is going to have to stock up. He is coming by tomorrow to look further into what can be done about the oven before just getting a new one installed.
I have also been slowly cleaning up my environment section by section. I want to have less stuff lying around in the apartment. I want it to get more organized and to trash some of the stuff I don't have a need for anymore like old papers, receipts and other trash. It has been hard because I am kind of a pack rat.
That has been my environment...as for myself. I started working-out a little bit along with continuing playing basketball with my friend Andrew a few times a week. I have been having more back and body pain lately and decided to see if I could lessen the pain by getting more exercise. I also decided to start doing some of the things I have been putting off, so I started working on making my own movie and game database. I have been trying to learn new stuff for a while but without an actual use for what I'm learning or a project that uses it the information just doesn't stick and I end up not gaining much from it. I figured with this project I would actually be learning something to use it so the information would actually stick.
Another things I started working on was a little writing project. With my sleeping problems lately because of noise and other things I am dealing with I decide to make that time a little less of a waist by actually doing something semi-productive when I know I can't sleep. It is kind of like writing a script. I read somewhere that when writing you have to think as if everyone you know is dead...You can't worry about who you might offend or what people may think about it. Because of this I never intend to really let anyone read what I am writing. It is more like something for me to work on for myself and not for others.

My Apartment Hates Me

There is a lot wrong with my apartment and I look forward to some day being able to escape from its evil grasp. Nothing works here. The phone lines are crap so the internet hardly works, everything in the design is old and cheap quality and badly put together. Most everything that came in the apartment is broken or defective in one way or another. I open the window and it just comes off in my hands. Today it got even more fun. The oven has already been broken because the bake part of it didn't work so all I could do is use the top heating element and broil things. Kind of fun with pizza isn't it. Well today I decided to actually make myself a real meal. The day before I bought a few chicken breasts which I would cook with bread crumbs and I had everything needed to make some cheesy potato au Gratin stuff along with peas and bread. It wasn't super fancy in any sense, but it was good for me to do something different. Well in the end I learned my lesson and now know I am not meant to cook. Not because I do a bad job of it at all. I am quite willing to experiment and things turn out to be quite good. It is more the apartment. I prepared the chicken and had that in the oven which was going well, and I start with the potato stuff and got that going. That is when the partially working oven decides to explode and become and not working at all oven. The top element caught fire and started burning like one of those cheap Fourth of July snakes only it was more impressive because as it burned it was shooting sparks everywhere while making popping sounds. I turned it off and ended up trying to salvage everything by making it all on the stove top. I guess now I actually have to go talk to the manger and finally get that replaced. At least this time I should be able to be in the apartment when they come in so they will not go through my stuff like last time. Last time they were in here for something they didn't even try and hide that they looked through my stuff, and no one seemed to care that I wasn't happy with that. I hate how little you can trust some people. I really need to get out of this place. Maybe elsewhere I can regain some faith in humanity.

At 30 I Will Still Be 16

I just got my drivers license renewed. I just sent a renewal thing in the mail which all I had to do was sign. I haven't been to a DMV since I got my license. My new one now doesn't expire till I am 30. The interesting part about this is it still has my original crappy picture taken when I first got my license. The picture hardly looks like me at all. If it is strange for me to still have that picture now, how will it feel at 30.
I don't know if this is my 3rd or 4th license with the same picture on it. Does anyone know at what point you have to go in to the DMV and get a new picture taken?
How accurate are peoples drivers licenses? My picture is quite different, my height is about an inch or two off, and my weight is about 25 to 30 lbs off. I know of one person who now weighs at least double what is says on their license.

FIRE! part2 The Alarm

Oh the joys of living in a complex full of little kids at play... young ones surrounded by peer pressure with little to know consequences for there actions. I once watched one trying to break into my car with a rock (not breaking the window or anything, but actually thinking they could pick the lock with a rock) to get at either change or a stuffed animal I have in my car. I set the alarm off and watched him and his little sister go running. They have also scratched my car up and hit it with balls. It has also been either keyed or scraped with a stone which has been quite nice. A number of the kinds in the apartment I live in definitely don't live the greatest lives. I once when walking to my car over heard one kids who was about 10 happily showing off the new board with a nail in it yelling over and over "Who dares me to stick this in my eye!" luckily it seemed all the kinds around him were used to this type of thing and just ignored him as he continued to yell.
Well over the last half hour the fire alarm has been going off. It has been kind of annoying. More so because of the lack of a fire... or so it seems. My best guess is that the kinds since about 10 of them were playing outside at the time pulled one of the alarms. This isn't just an uneducated bias guess. When I looked out the window as soon as I heard the alarm I saw a number of them running away.
I have found it interesting seeing the number of these kids out playing around in the parking lot by my car during school hours.
I have other things to say, Kings, job search, people, life, game, blah blah blah, but I am not going to.

Paranoid Humanoid

Getting a decent amount of sleep has been overly impossible this week. I feel like a zombie but without even having the goal of eating brains. The usual has been continuing to give me problems sleeping. I have been going to be so late that I am not that tired earlier in the night. (Though that is changing since I am not just tired all the time) I live right by traffic which is just annoying since people are pealing out and drag racing right by my window at night. Every night this week I have stayed up to read for a little while. Like clockwork as soon as my book shuts, the light goes out, and I am starting my process of dozing off *CLICK!* the old woman’s TV goes on downstairs. In the past she has complained that I am what wakes her up because I am constantly moving furniture...yeah, I am such a loud person and I am sure my closing my book and turning out my light effects her. Before she knew I lived above her she was blaming it on "them Indians." because an Indian couple live next-door to me with a baby daughter who does cry every now and then. Last night I did feel she probably had a reason to wake up though because someone was walking buy on the street yelling how he was going to beat up some people and probably kill one of them. (Not in such kind works.)
Once that TV goes on it is often on till the next time she goes to sleep but the volume tends to vary a bit now. This provides an interesting constant vibration to the apartment throughout the night and day. As morning starts the amount of cars steadily increases and it can sometime take my mind of listening to her TV. These are usual things that keep me awake. The interesting thing about this week has been in the morning which is around the point when I have gotten from 2 -4 semi successful hours of sleep. Often in the morning there are people mowing the lawn or leaf blowers going that can be quite annoying. This week however there has been a Jackhammer (or whatever those big drills that are used to rip up the cement called) right outside my window. Now that is hard to sleep through. It is as if I am the character in an elaborate Sims game and to person playing has gotten board so they are now trying to destroy me. If only these were my only issues.
So, don’t think I mentioned having an interview last week. I put on my suit, went over there and spent most of the time nodding my head has the interviewer was talking. Now and then I would say “yes I am interested” and discuss how I am not as qualified as we would have liked but am a hard and fast learner. With the added time of him answering and talking on the phone during the interview for a while the whole process was from about 5 to 6:30. This was last Tuesday and he said he would probably contact me later that week or at the latest early next week. It is starting to look like, just like with every interview and lead I have taken so far, that I will continue to be ignored. I would normally at the very least expect maybe and email or something saying we are going in a different direction, but everyone who is doing hiring instead seems to choose the notification technique of ignoring the person until they call or get the clue. It is amazing how many people just refused to give bad news if they can avoid it, even if it is the proper thing to do. No one seems willing to give bad news.