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Yeah it's 1337 up there. :p Any ways. I think I'm starting to get some feelings for Stephanie. In Jr. High we kind of liked each other and that was Jr. High where kids get into stupid relationships and they are just stupid. So....... she's come down to see me twice now from Georgia if that says anything about her liking me. I wasn't sure if I still liked her but after hanging out with her more I am starting to get the feelings back. We've been talking a lot lately too. It just really sucks that she's going out to Iraq on the 9th. :( I might try and visit her this weekend if my car problems ever get worked out, which they probably won't. I don't know if it's just the sexual/physical attraction that's sparking feelings or if it's just us getting to know each other again. I'm really not sure right now but I enjoy talking to her a lot. She's also really "active" and into the things I am. :p

Car stuffs.... going from good feelings to bad feelings. I want to blow my fucking car up into a million pieces. It's hating me and I'm hating it back just as much except I have to deal with it while it sits there like a little bitch. I went to Orlando but when I got there and started my car up some wires decided they wanted to commit suicide by way of massive heat/smoke/fire. So... a ground wire under the dash pluffed out tons of smoke and died. I haven't noticed anything not working except for the lack of power in the car of course. I did some digging into the car today. I did a charge pipe leak test and there are no leaks at all in the charge pipes. I replaced all of the old vacuum lines with new ones and that's all good. I also took a look into the whole wiring issue. I took some pics of the wire that got burned and those are being uploaded to Flickr right now. I also pulled the gauge cluster out and replaced the check engine light (CEL) to make sure that it was functioning. It wasn't. I turned over the car and it popped up right away. I'm guessing the previous owner killed the CEL so that they could sell the car easier. So much BS. This car is beginning to have a lot of issues that I did not sign up to have.

My friend Dan is going away to Canada forever and he left me with a lot of his stuff. I <3 him. He gave me a Modded XBox, his old semi-broken projecto which I think i can fix, two surround sound system, one amp+2 speakers, a printer, his server machine, and two other really crappy old computers. I owe him 400 bucks actually for some of the stuff. 250 for the server, 100 for the Klipsche Surround Sound System, and 50 for the modded xbox. It's all a really good price for it all. I'm probably going to go and sell my XBox 360 now because I can use the xbox for a media machine. I don't really care about the games much at all. I also got a set of two 12" subs from Tim's neighbor since they just moved out. Last thing are some old clothes of Jeannie's I think. not really sure but Chas said there were some clothes in Tim's car if I wanted to check them out. most don't fit but it was worth a look. Got a few things.

Getting Better....

Over the past few days a few things have been getting taken care of and a few things are going better and better. :) Woohoo. Any ways. I talked to Vanessa and she said that she agreed on keeping it on the dating level until she gets back and we are able to hang out with each other which is awesome. :) It just sucks that it won't be for two more semesters probably.

Schooling.... I tried to get my Object Oriented class taken care of by the Intro class I took at BCC but it got turned down. :( Oh well. At least this should be a easier A. As far as payment, my dad agreed to pay for the classes until my student loan gets in so that's a big relief. I think I'll be able to get one of my books cheaper from somebody that I know from the Techrangers. Wewt. Totally different but kind of the same topic, I met one of my old classmates from BCC and she's in my Network Securities class. We are going to start car pooling... once I resolve my car issues. That'll save a ton of gas money. One a really good note, it's a chick and she's cute and obviously into tech stuff somewhat since she's in the IT program. We'll see what happens if anything. ON TO CAR ISSUES!!!

Tonight we worked on the car. The parts came in yesterday and tonight we replaced the head gasket and put in stronger ARP head studs. I drove it home and guess what... NO LEAKING!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOO. Now for the bad news. The car lost all of it's turbo power so now it doesn't go. It goes so slowly now that it can't even really accellerate up a hill. It lost all of it's power so now I have a problem that's messing it up. It's either a vacuum line problem, boost leak, ECU reset problem, or something that's really bad. I get to try and test it tomorrow, Friday morning, before class. It's now 4:45am and I just got home about 30 minutes ago. So... I gotta wake up in about 3 hours so I can work on the car, then try to fix it so I can get to class with a fully working car. If not it's going to take extra gas/time to get to Orlando I think. Either I go slower, which I may not have a choice, or else I use tons more diesel.

Friday also holds Dan's party, his last party as he is moving away from us which I really don't like and I'm going to miss him. I wish he wasn't moving away. He's helped me a lot and been a really good friend. Hopefully he'll pay visits back and won't stray to far but he is saying he's going to Korea or something. :(

Who Knows

A few things have been going on. I haven't solved my money issues as of yet. I have a few things I still need to do that I haven't had time to do but tomorrow I might be able to get a few answers since I'll have time tomorrow. Today I had all work and school.

SCHOOL!!! First day of school back at UCF. Woohoo. First class is taught by some indian guy and I hope I can understand him. I really want to get a laptop or at least get my laptop going again. I'm gunna try working on it again later today. If I can't get it working I might get one of those Asus EEE computers. They are cheap, super small, and can only do word processing, internet browsing, and light programming which is just what I need. It's also fashionable! :p My second class has a really young new guy and he seems like he is kind of out in lala land. We'll see how that class goes too. The two classes I am taking are Network Securities and Object Oriented Programming.

So I've been hanging out with Vanessa now. We've gone out on about five or six dates and we kissed with a little toung action. She went back to UF on Saturday. I find it a little weird but we hung out on Thursday which I thought was her last day but she ended up staying Friday and she didn't call to have me over even though I wasn't going to see her for a long time. I called her Saturday and it was a short lived talk and I gave her my AIM and email. I haven't heard from her since and now it's Monday night. I think she is pretty un-social and not putting much effort in. I'm not really sure but I think I'm going to call it and say let's just keep it at dating and when/if she comes back to Melbourne then we can step it up a notch if she wants to.

It's been about 2.5 years since I've got any action. My friend Stephanie came over on her two week military break and I got some nice hand action going on Saturday night at a party in Orlando and then on Sunday some good fun action back at my house before she drove back home. Time to reset the counter. :) Let's hope that the counter doesn't go very high this time. I find it funny that two girls come up at the same time after so long. So crazy. Speaking of girls though. I'm back at UCF and I have more confidence now so hopefully I will be able to hook up with somebody while I'm there.

Tomorrow my car gets fixed, or at least it's supposed to. The parts come in tomorrow and I'm going over to Ken's shop to get the stuff put in. Hopefully it'll fix everything and I'll be able to take it over to Orlando for Wednesday's classes.

Realization Time

I've been saying this month is really tight, well, I didn't realize how much I have screwed up my expenses. I've messed up big time. So big that I am losing sleep over it tonight. I started doing a virus check on my computer and went to look at my CC bills. Well, they total a lot more than I thought they did so as a rash move I just scratched them all up so that they are un-usable and took all of them off my Paypal accounts so now I can't use them. I should have done that a long time ago but I didn't. What I'm hoping to do is consolidate them all into one CC and hopefully get either a student loan or some credit card loan from my bank. I'm going to go down there and talk with them to see what they can do for me. I've screwed up this time, and I don't know how I'm going to hide it from the fatherly figure. I can get a small portion of it paid off by simply selling a lot of my car parts. I'm not sure how much I can get but I'm hoping I can get about 2-3k paid off in car parts. The past two months have been horrible for income because my work is so unstable. Between the flucuating hours, my appendectimy, the break since the students were gone, and the hurricane I've had over a month of time off from work with no income. I can scrounge up 2-3k easily and then if I push a few things here and there maybe I can work around to getting 5k or so. With that smaller amount I'm hoping I can get a student loan since I am now back in school to pay for the other portion of the debt. Then I'll kill all my CC's and be done with them until I get a good foundation to stand on financially wise.

Tomorrow/Today I'll be spending with my dad going shopping and raiding my garage for things to sell. Hopefully a ton of small parts here and there for 20-50 bucks each should pull in a decent amount of cash. It'll get me going for this month and hopefully pay for everything next month. I have to talk to my dad about school payment and see what he thinks. I'm going to suggest a school loan of course.

Any ways. Good new though! I made another move with Vanessa and we made out a little. Woohoo. I'm getting brave! Not really but yaaa. :p Any ways. She is leaving today, Friday, for UF and last night was the last night I got to see her before she left. I'm glad that I was able to do that before she went away. I think it helped us out a little bit because it seemed like it broke up some tension, nervousness. Since she'll be at UF that's yet another expense I'll have to put out in order to see her. :(

I'm looking at selling Plasma for a short while. I hear it can bring in about 200-300 bucks a month if you do it twice a week. Two hours per session which is four hours a week for four weeks which is sixteen hours a month for let's say 200 bucks. That's 12.50 an hour. At 300 it's 18.75 an hour. That's really not bad and you can read/do homework while you do it. That's totally perfect for me! I can study while I give blood. At least I'll be so bored that I'll want to study/read the books. That should supplement some more money and enable me to bring in about 1k of income a month that can go to gas and CC bills. I'll be spending roughly 250 a month on gas and then I guess 750 on CC bills which will lower them fairly fast, at least one would hope. Any ways. That'll give me a decent boost in income for maybe a month or two while I really need it.

I'm gunna go and see if I can catch some shut eye before I worry myself to all hell. Peace.

What's a Hurricane?

So that so called hurricane, Fay, came through yesterday. It went down to a tropical storm which means it was just a huge storm with higher winds. It was nothing but it's been raining for about 24 hours straight almost. A few small stops here and there but almost constant. The back yard is totally flooded and looks like a shallow lake. The roads are pretty flooded too and some places there are 4-6 inches of water. I'll take some pics of it when the sun comes back out a little bit and it stops raining.

During the rainy day I had Vanessa over. Since my dad's flight got canceled I wasn't doing anything so I picked her up, brought her to my place, and we watched a movie, "The Breakfast Club" since she hadn't seen it, and watched some anime. We cuddled and talked a lot. :) It was a pretty good time. She's been kind of holding back. Like at the movie theater keeping her arms crossed on her lap. So I've had to been kind of up front with her and say, "Hey, why don't ya do...." Kind of bad for me since I'm shy too and nervous but so far it hasn't been to bad. Yesterday was actually really good for me and I lightened up and wasn't nervous at all. I started to get some confidence back which made me happy.

School starts next Monday and my car still isn't fixed. I'm still pissed that I paid 4k for a car that I was told worked totally fine. I even asked if there were any problems with it at all and he said none at all. I've also had to put money into parts and what not so I'm down another 300-400 bucks into this frigging car so needless to say I'm pissed at Ken. He is doing some of the work of installing the radiator and the head gasket which is awesome. I'm glad he's doing that but I still have to buy the parts. Because of all this crap I'm really low on cash. Between the monthly payment to Ken, my CC debt, and the last four weeks I've had off from work I'm kind of up shit creek. Today I'm going to raid my garage if it stops raining and trying and find more stuff to sell online. Maybe make another 200-500 bucks. I think i can easily get another 1k out of parts if I try. I still have to pay for school and what not. I think I'm going to put in for a student loan now that I'm 24 I don't need my dad to fill out the FAFSA so I won't need to get him involved. School is gunna be another 600-700 bucks in classes and then I have another few hundred in books.

Work is cutting hours or so says one of my co-workers. They guaranteed me 20 hours a week when I signed on so we'll see what they do there. They are limiting out hours to 12 hours per day though for all the residential staff. I don't think that's going to work that well. For me I'm not going to do this. If they do 12 hours for 3-4 people to work per day, then that'll mean most people are going to have 3-4 hours shifts. I won't work short shifts like that. That means I'd be working 5 days a week at 4 hours per day. That's messed up and un-acceptable. There's a reason why I only want 20 hours a week, that's because I don't want to be working a lot of days a week and if I have to work 5 days a week then I'm just going quit and find another job.

That's all now. Gunna get going. :p

Dating Yaaa!

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So I finally got a date after about two and a half years of being single. Woowoo. Her name is Vanessa and she's awesome. :) She's into anime, gothic lolita, sci-fi things, and is really nice. We've been out on three dates so far and I've enoyed myself. I hope she has too. One bad thing is that she's going to UF and she's only home for the summers so I have no clue how that's going to work. I'm also not sure where her and I stand as of yet as we haven't really talked about it. That's next on the agenda. She's kind of shy though with the whole moves thing and so am I. I am terrible at making moves. I get all frantic and nervous. Besides that though I've been having fun and have a good time hanging out with her.

I'm still working on the stupid TDI. I hate this darn car and I'm pissed at Ken for selling it to me and saying it had no problems at all. Taillight went out the other day and I got a frigging ticket for it. There's another 14 dollars down the whole and time wasted. The coolant is still leaking after replacing the radiator with a brand new one, the expansion tank, the expansion tank cap, and bypassing the heater core. So it's definitely the head gasket. I don't think Ken is going to pay for any of the parts to fix the head gasket but he is going to do the work for sure. It's beginning to be the biggest pain in the ass car in the world.

School starts on the 25th. Money is due on the 9th. I've got two classes and the car has to make it there and back three days a week. Hopefully it'll be fixed by then. If it's not I'm gunna sell it.

I'm lacking funds right now which sucks but I'm 24 now so I can get student loans without having to go through my dad and getting him to fill out the FAFSA. I might go and get a student loan to help pay for the credit card debt I have and help pay for gas and the parts that I need to fix the TDI so I can get to class.