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Hello, it's me! (no, really)
6th July 2004 12:37pm
So, it's been a while. For those who don't know already, a brief rundown:

I resigned as Abuse Manager towards the beginning of the year. Simply not enough time anymore now that I'm employed full time again.

I resigned as Support Admin a few days ago, though I had really turned that over to John and Empy a month or so ago - just hadn't made it official and gotten them prived. Again, not enough time, and time has become increasingly less available due to the next announcement...

Ready for this? )
mood ~  bouncy
LJ crosspost - Why I hate Brighthouse, part 267
10th February 2004 9:29pm
So, Tracy got her tax refund yesterday, so she woke me up when she got home a bit after 5:00 to drag me out to blow it all (including our new toy - old pics likely being scanned tomorrow since I have the day off). We come back to find the cable has been shut off - not terribly surprising because I actually don't know when it's due, and we haven't paid them in a while. What is a bit surprising is we were given no warning other than our regular bill with a past due balance. Tracy calls to see what we can do to get it back on, and the guy says we can pay by check or credit card. She informs him we don't have a checking account, and not enough credit on the card, so he says we'll have to go to the office and pay before they'll do anything. Fine, except the office closes at 6:00 - and this is what really pisses me off: The office closes at 6:00 - our cable was shut off no earlier than 5:55, judging from my IRC logs. But to make it even more ridiculous, when Tracy went to pay them this morning (and bitch at them, though she said the woman there was too nice and understanding to yell at), the woman called headquarters to find out why we weren't given any notice. Apparently the last time they threatened to cut us off, Tracy called to tell them we'd drop it by after she got her check around 10:00. The person said we had to have payment on our door at 8:00 or they were cutting us off. Tracy reiterated we wouldn't have the money until 10, and there was no way we were just leaving money in an envelope on our door, especially without a receipt, and doubly so because this isn't the greatest neighborhood (and we'd only been here a month or so - it's really not as bad as we thought).

So yes, because we refused to leave money unprotected on a door (for which we wouldn't even get a receipt), we're no longer allowed to know the status of our account. Of course, that won't stop them from charging us a reconnection fee or slyly billing us for a full month of service despite not having it for most of a 24-hour period. Fuckers.
mood ~  pissed off
How appropriate...
11th December 2003 1:27pm
threesome

You Should Have a Threesome

You are sure to be a threesome pro (even if you're a first timer)
You're considering having a threesome for the right reasons
Not as a quick fix for a dull sex life or bad relationship
So grab the nearest hottie, and bring him or her into your bedroom
As long as your partner is game - you're sure to have a good time
Be safe, considerate, and don't end up sleeping in the wet spot :-)

Should You Have a Threesome?
More Great Quizzes from Quiz Diva
Thanksgiving
29th November 2003 7:31am
I'd like to give thanks for one of the best days in a long time.

It started off at work, as most days do now. We had two trucks to do, but it went fairly well and we got out around normal time. We also got paid, so I got my first real paycheck of 2003. They're paying me 40 cents/hour more than they told me they would and someone screwed up on my hours from before I had my ID number, aparently. I only worked 7 days during the pay period (plus 3 hours during orientation), but my check says 64.75 hours. So, my check was a little bit more than what I expected my gross pay to be. I won't argue.

Got home around 7a.m. and Tracy got up not long after. We had the turkey stuffed and in the oven by 9:00. The bag said 4-1/2 to 5 hours, so we were expecting to eat around 2. The damn thing was done before 12. Luckily, we were obsessively checking it (9:15 - "I think the turkey's done!"), so we got it out before it got overcooked and managed to get everything else done about the same time. Everything turned out great, and we were both ready to explode by 1:00.

Mike called after we finished eating. Hadn't talked to him in a long time. I've been going to his parents for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I met him, but we didn't want to risk driving to Brandon this year because of the unregistered trucks and suspended licenses we have. It kind of sucks that we didn't see them, but Mike was determined to meet up with us, so he said he'd call after he did the dinner thing with his parents.

Tracy and I both called our folks. First time in a long time I've managed to talk to them without feeling like shit. Had a nice long chat with my sister, Val, too. It's weird - she's the oldest (12 years older than me), but I get along with her better than my other siblings. She's doing well. She said she's lost 50 pounds (!) but she still seems to only attract married men. She actually went out to lunch with one guy a couple times before finding out he's not only married, but is believed to have been cheating on his wife with someone else for the past year. Being the other woman isn't too bad. Being the other other woman isn't normally a good idea. ;-)

Tracy's dad told her he and his wife were going to come over Friday morning, so we cleaned up the house. It almost looks respectable now. Afterwards, I took a much needed shower, and Mike called as I was getting dressed to say he was on his way and to get directions. He kept rambling, so he kept missing turns because I couldn't get a word in edgewise. He finally showed up as I shaved for the first time in weeks (still need to buzz my hair). We talked for a little bit, then he took us over to his apartment where we proceeded to do shots of Jack - three each in the first fifteen minutes there. Also played a bit of Manhunt. That is one seriously fucked up game.

I reached the point of being incapable of memory just before we went to Lakeland to visit Tracy's friend, Christina. There's a picture of me sleeping on her floor, but I still deny being there. Apparently we went back to Mike's after that, but my memory doesn't pick up again until we got back home, which is a good thing, because I wouldn't want to forget my first threesome...

So, yeah, good day. Wouldn't change a thing.
music ~ Eminem - Without Me (dirty)
Weird dream (xpost)
23rd November 2003 7:46am
I was at a Buccaneers game with my friend Gary (playing himself), Amy B. (who I haven't seen in years, playing the role of "Leia"), and some guy, who seems to be a combination of people I know, as Jason. His main purpose seemed to be to piss of Leia with smartass remarks which were funny in the dream but make absolutely no sense now (e.g., after one play, she asked, "How did that happen?" and he responded, "Well, you see, Leia, when two people really love each other...", at which point, she flew in front of me to smack the shit out of him). Oh, by the way. We weren't actually in the stadium - we had a little blanket spread out on the ground outside like it was a picnic, but we could still see the game. Perhaps the most shocking event of the game was Jon Gruden (for those who don't know, he's the Bucs' coach) quitting mid-game because he was sick of them sucking, then joining the opposing team as their quarterback (although his Jersey said "Malik" on it). Didn't get to see him play, though, because he kept rambling on and on in some speech to his new teammates and ran out of time before they started the ceremony to honor the Naked Guy of the Week. The announcer started talking about how the guy won a new Dodge Ram as the truck was driven out on the field, but explained that he has to pass a drug test first. The guy rises up on this little rocket-powered platform (fully-clothed) from out of sight and glides into the middle of the field. He looks like a major stoner, and is walking like he's fucked up when he gets onto the field. Gary and I (who are now somehow on the field, too) start laughing and saying things like, "Look, there's the guy who's going to lose the truck he just won". We start to walk back to our blanket, and on the way, we see some woman leaning on a pickup (a Dodge Dakota. So many Dodges in my dream!). She has the hood up, and theres a beer stuck in a little pocket at the front of the engine compartment. I examine it for a second and exclaim, "Beer holder!" The woman pulls the beer out to show me it's just part of the latching mechanism for the hood, and I look at her and calmly, sort of dejectedly, say, "beer holder..."

I want a beer holder.
mood ~  weird
Birthday time
17th November 2003 5:05am
Happy birthday to _sacchiTrogdor. Have fun burninating the countryside!

Edit: Woah! I only got the one email. Happy birthday to abortretryfail, too.
music ~ Blur - End Of The Century
Product of the year
13th November 2003 7:36pm
Just what the world needs. This gadget offers a quick and easy way for total geeks to show us their sperm...
mood ~ sarcastic
Dreaming
12th November 2003 2:18am
Woke up from a rather bizarre dream today. I was on a college football team that I believed to be Virginia Tech, but our uniforms were the wrong color and the announcers kept calling us BP. Maybe they just had some weird speech impediment. Anyway, It was the third quarter, and whoever we were playing was sucking like a vacuum. They kicked off to us and our return guy it for a touchdown. About five or six times in a row. It was getting so bad, all I was really doing on the field was annonouncing the points (kind of like I was telling the announcers), and then handing the ball back to the opponent's kicker. My arm started getting tired after a while, so I was having trouble throwing it, so I kept apologizing to him. Our kick returner's arms were also going, and he dropped a few that went out of the endzone for a safety, so the other team got some points, but still had to kick again. hehe. Just before I woke up, I decided to try to help him out and I moved back closer to him. He dropped the kick because by this point both of his hands were up by his chin and he couldn't move them.I went and tried to pick it up with my bad arm (I don't know why I didn't even try to use my good one) and knocked it backwards before waking up.

Bizarre is good, though, because it beat the hell out of my dream the night before. I dreamt that I was driving down the road and suddenly a police car cam flying off a side street with lights flashing and siren blaring. I jammed on the brakes and immediately woke up. You know how sometimes a dream will scare you to the point you wake up with your heart pounding and sweat pouring off your brow? Well, when I woke up, I swear my heart had literally seized. It felt like someone had grabbed my heart and squeezed it so it couldn't move for a second. Scary shit.

In other news, it appears a bunch of people did a ton of work in support while I was dreaming about football because the board is in fantastic shape. I owe everyone cookies. I also cleaned out Private as a mini-thanks and only bumped about four or five green to gunk because I was sick of seeing validation and FO requests. Especially from people I can't prove are under 18 but sure as hell act like it.

In other news, I finally have a job. It's just overnight stocking at Targét, but it pays fairly decently for an entry-level job around here. I have orientation tonight at 6. Someday, I will own Targét, and then I will laugh at all you puny people!

Okay, yeah, I'm tired and giddy. :) Have a lovely evening.
mood ~  accomplished
music ~ Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Oh yeah, I'm going to hell
28th October 2003 7:53pm
[19:47:14] <deadcujo> The first Google result for "fires" is Addictions to pornography can be overcome!
[19:47:47] <bertho> ?
[19:47:58] <deadcujo> http://www.firesofdarkness.com/
[19:48:21] <deadcujo> Some Bible shit
[19:49:43] <bertho> "When we pray for our pornography addicted husbands or boyfriends, we are interceding for them. It is prayer that moves the hand of God." ... up and down in rythmic motions...
[19:49:58] <deadcujo> I wonder if they'd still help me if all I jerked off to was the bible
[19:50:19] <bertho> Hey, it's got plenty of spanking material
[19:50:36] <bertho> I mean, come on. A guy gettin' it on with his two hot daughters?
[19:50:49] <deadcujo> Mmm
[19:50:55] <bertho> I can only imagine the shit that went on on the ark
mood ~  amused
Interesting...
24th October 2003 3:46pm
Solitaire
22nd October 2003 1:39am
You know, I just can't play Solitaire with a deck of cards any more. I'm spoiled, made soft and listless by Freecell and other computer solitaire games which shuffle, deal, and tell you when you've completely blown it. I think it says something about our society that we've managed to make killing time incredibly efficient, allowing us to kill an hour of spare time in only fifteen minutes.

From here.
mood ~  amused
Terri Schiavo (LJ crosspost)
21st October 2003 9:58pm
For those of you who don't already despise Florida's govenrment, the state legislature and our lovely governer (Jeb!) have decided to step in and reinsert her feeding tube. This woman's life essentially ended 13 years ago, and her parents have constantly battled her husband (who seems to be the only person with a brain involved in this outside of the judge) to keep her stuck in bed drooling at the ceiling. Now the morons who run Florida step in at the last second to prevent this disaster from finally ending. I'm almost tempted to go kill her myself and take out her parents and the legislature with her.
mood ~  pissed off
Hippo birdies...
11th October 2003 9:31am
to the lovely and talented angel
Author! Author!
30th September 2003 9:54pm
Stolen from silverraven

Instructions: Take one list of authors (from someone else who did this thingie), remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and make the list up to ten by adding some more that do.

silverraven's list
J. R. R. Tolkein
Stephen King
J. K. Rowling
Dean Koontz
Lord Byron
Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespeare
Terry Goodkind
Jonathan Kellerman
Anne Rice

bertho's list:
Stephen King
J. K. Rowling
Edgar Allen Poe
Shakespeare
Tom Robbins
Tama Janowitz
Bill Watterson (Hey, comic strips of that caliber should count!)
Douglas Adams
Richard Brautigan
Dave Barry
DICKHEAD!
19th September 2003 12:23am
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