But I'll post a meme, sure.



1. Hmm. Nah.
2. Pay? For cartoons?
3. O_O
4. What an awful thing to resolve.
5. This I do need to do.
6. And likewise.

But I have some news. Real news.

I got promoted to the Apple department! I'm like, a real computer salesman! Except, I make more money than your average computer salesman! This is so exciting. This is where I bought my first personal Performa 6360, and my iMac G4. Very exciting stuff. Today will be my last day selling in the peripherals department.

The flip side of this is that I had to switch to full time. Which means taking classes this quarter would be a bit too rough, especially with the holiday season coming. It'll be worth it though. I will make a ridiculous amount of monies.

One other issue I have is my competition for the position. He is a guy who is easily more knowledgable than me, both on Apples and not. He's also been waiting to have the position for over a year longer than I have, and has now been passed up twice. I think he's a good guy too, but I guess he's been having some bad figures as a salesman lately. It kinda sucks, but I wasnt' prepared to give up for his sake.

This also means that I will need to buy a Mac soon. Technically I don't have a Mac of my own to use on a daily basis. I'm thinking one of the new iMacs. I sort of wish they made a 20" model with the Geforce graphics card available for it. I'd be willing to pay extra for it, I just don't need a 24" iMac. I guess it'd take up less space than my current 20" CRT beast on my desk though.

I don't want a standard Macbook, it'd have to be a pro. Maybe I'll buy the demo unit 15" Macbook Pro we have on sale. Arrgh.

Well, it's been a few days since I was robbed, so here are some things I've since learned:

Concerning the bank account, I learned that it was not $400 that they'd gotten, as I'd believed. Since I have a $200 per day limit on my account, I'd assumed that was all they could take. Not so. $900 was taken, four transactions of $200 each, and one $100. I'd had a little over $400 in my account anyway, so I couldn't have imagined that. However, it appears that through using false deposits (one for well over $10,000) and different non-Chase ATMs, they'd taken out a good deal more. The good news? I spoke to the bank, and I'm not being held liable. However, I do wonder if going just under 1K was a tactical move to prevent a certain level of attention from the bank? Or maybe that's all they were able to wrangle.

The police came for evidence. There were a lot of random paper scraps, but the biggest thing might be the pair of malt liquor bottles with someone's fingerprints on them.

My car got a nasty dent on the front bumper from when they "parked" my car back in the garage, but it appears to have somehow popped back out? Is that possible? I really don't know much in that area of things.

My cell phone was in fact taken as well, but I was going to have to replace that soon anyway. The earpiece had been broken on it, so at least that decision has been made for me?

One of my shoes that had the laces taken from it is gone as well, which sucks. I paid a good amount of money for those shoes, and now I have to use my less-comfortable work shoes. Great. The lace in fact is around, which is the oddest part. I don't know why the hell it's gone, but I don't see it anywhere in the garage area.

In all honesty though, I still think I'm lucky. That really is a lot better off than I could have been.

Unfortunately, my brother and his wife were burglarized not two days ago. Among the major things stolen were their laptop computers, their PS2, and a number of important sentimental items. While it's fortunate that they didn't have any danger of meeting up with the thieves, they fared a lot worse in terms of being able to get their lives back on track. Hopefully the insurance will cover everything that can be replaced, and they find those sons of bitches as well. Christina wrote a lot more about it in her blog.

I'd heard a family in Columbus recently has robbed, but the family was home, and two of the family members had been killed in the process.

So.

Be careful all of you out there.

Last week, Katie and I were driving back to my house. I had a big package of bottled water in my hands, and we started walking towards the house. A pair of guys yelled at us to stop.

I shouted "No!" and ran to the house. At that point, they walked away. As we walked in the house, we were both shaking. I felt kinda worried, this was the first time I'd had something like that happen to me. That's called "foreshadowing."

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Oh yeah, it's Adam.

So yes. Things have happened in the last month or two, I suppose I should make a record of some of it.

Let's start with my favorite subject, gaming.

Since my last post, I've gotten the modded PS2, got the HD all working and great, and now the HD won't work with it. I don't know why not. Dammit.

Wow.

You know what?

I've been playing games, but I haven't bought any in a while. I think... I'm gonna get Katamari for the PSP. I know it's not supposed to be anywhere near as innovative as the PS2 titles, but I've been in that sort of mood.

Well in other news, Katie and I went to Florida for vacation last week.

What did we do there? We ate.

We also went to Universal Studios' Theme park. We'd been to the Islands of Adventure part of the park last time, so we went to the other one this time.

It really isn't very interesting. We rode most of the rides we wanted to, ate lunch, and went to see Superman.

Superman was pretty good. Not as good as I wanted it to be, but still.

I'd like to see a few less cliffhangers in my movies from now on, please.

So yeah. We ate a whole lot, swam a bunch in the pool, and lounged most of the rest of the time. That's the best way to spend a vacation. It's how I recharge best, personally.

It other news... my car is still not sold. That needs to be adressed. Seriously, if anyone on this list is at all interested in a car, let me know!

Oh! Yeah. I have a new computer. It was a barebones system, but all I needed to buy seperate was the processor. The HD and RAM came over just fine. It's a Gort. Cute little desktop unit, will move it to the entertainment center when I can afford to get a Macbook Pro.

My earpiece on my Sidekick just broke yesterday. Incidently, the Sidekick 3 was just released last week. That's... rude temptation.

As always.

So the Sci-fi marathon was a little over a week ago. Very fun, probably the best film was Godzilla: Final Wars.

In other news? Work has been going well enough. It's still pretty damn embarassing when someone asks for help and you know even less about it than they do. I have gotten rather good at Build Your Own Systems, but of course, that skill is good for about a week before it needs revamped.

This month is also a big camera sale thingy, so hopefully I'll make a decent amount of cash during it. Once I know a little more about these cameras, it will go much better, even.

Katie recently bought a new scooter, I'll redirect to her LJ for details on that. With that however, her family needs the garage space, so they're selling me her father's car. Please take note that I have yet to meet her father. It's a rather nice luxury car, which actually suits me pretty well.

This also means I'm selling my car, the white 1997 Taurus. I don't think anyone on here is interested, but I thought I'd bring it up if anyone was, or knew anyone who did need a car.

I beat Oblivion on the 360, freeing me up to play other games if I choose to play. Overall, I was really pleased with it. I didn't do about 40% of the odd things you can in the game, but I figure I can always come back if I feel like it.

Last week we went to see Hard Candy, which was pretty good. Jon didn't care for it, mainly ending-related issues. I was willing to overlook them myself.

Oh, and I also ordered a modded PS2. I've been meaning to do that forever, but finally had the money and the need all at once. Rather happy about this. I get to play my Gitaroo man once again!

I know the 4th one, I just don't know what the official name it's looking for is...

I know my Goombas like brothers. I got 14/16 on the 8-Bit Gamer test. Take the test!

More to the point, how often do I bother?

Well, things have been happening in my life. Good stuff.

Case in point, I got promoted to the peripherals department Friday of last week. It means I make better money, since I'm selling more expensive things. There are two downsides to this, as I see them now.

1. I have to learn about all of this crap, including motherboards, video cards, printers, digital cameras, PDAs, and all of their various models. It's not the worst thing, but there's a lot I just don't know yet. It's coming with time, I have yet another week to get a hold of it all, too.

2. Adam in the Apple dept. mentioned that it'd be nice to have me in the department around the end of the year. I asked why the end of the year, and he said it's not store policy to promote out of a department before 6 months have passed. While I have a lot I do wanna learn before going into Apple, it kinda sucks to know I have that limit imposed. These aren't always written in store I hear though, so mayb maybe this summer/fall I can move into there. Here's hoping.

The new quarter started, and I'm taking a screenwriting class online, and a Freehand class. I know, Freehand is dead pretty much all but officially, but it will be nice to learn to use a vector program well, not just fudging it like a photoshop/layout program bastard.

The weather, as alluded in my title, is getting rather nice as well. It means spring is here, and therefore also...

The 24 Hour Drexel Sci-fi Marathon is coming up next weekend! I'm so psyched. Very much in the mood to do this again. Films will include The Crazies, Godzilla Final Wars, Forbidden Planet, Batman, and the original King Kong. All good stuff.

Outside of that? I guess I'm just daydreaming what this extra cash inflow will do for me. I guess the main thing is that I'll be able to pay off some debt, without going way too close to the limit every paycheck.

On the video game side, I have been playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on the 360. I really enjoy it, but it seems to be crashing pretty regularly. I'm really not okay with that. I hope the machine isn't going bad in the drive already. I got the extended protection on it, so I'll be fine but still..