Spent most of today watching a really great anime series called Samurai Champloo. It is made by the same people who made cowboy bebop, and definatly has a bebop style to it.

I would reccomend it so much I will give you all a link to the torrent file, and if you still don’t know what a torrent file is… for god sake, LEARN.

Samurai Champloo (fansub) ep 1-26 Torrent

My roommate can be a real fucking prick sometimes. So all winter long we happily coexist in the 3 car garage, his truck, my car, and his corvette. Well come summer he kicks me out of the garage. Now this is bullshit because all 3 of our vehicles fit in the garage, their doors open fine, etc….

Well I figured it was just because the one garage door did not have an opener and he is very lazy so he does not want to get out of his car. So I offered to pay for a garage door opener, or just take the spot with none if he did not want that. Hey the perfect solution for his lazy ass.

See when he kicks me out of the garage he uses 2 spots for his corvette, hell he goes at a weird angle just to hit those 2 spots, and if he left 2 more inches clearance all the vehicles would fit, he does it all winter / spring.

I asked him tonight to come up with one good reason why he needs to take 2 spots, especially if I am willing to pay for a garage door opener, and he came up with “because” and after about 30 of those “because it’s been that way for the last 5 years”.

What a load of bullshit, my friends already avoid coming to my house because they don’t want to be around him. There are advantages to living here as well, but it would be a much greater advantage if he would grow up and act like the 30 year old adult that he is.

So they wake us up this morning and the circus starts. They put like 500 evil sticky connectors on us with the hope that they will stay on us for 24 hours and not come off. Well that’s all fine and good but damn it, it SUCKS getting them off.

Anyway we were confined to our rooms all morning. Good thing I had brought music and speakers, most of the staff appreciated the music as well. Long story short today was not very fun… However after today it will be super easy, and there will be no more sticky bullshit attached to my skin so it’s all good.

Well had to get up super early this morning to get to “work”. I decided to take my roommate’s junky laptop and my external terabyte hard drive. I am not worried about it getting stolen, it is a secure facility… Only worried about being bored out of my mind if I didn’t.

Today we basically just sit around meet the people on our study, because we are not given rooms until 5 or 6pm, and I’ve been here since before 8am. The people on my study are not that bad, they are less weird than some of the people I have met before. But then again it is only a few days, the really odd ones come here for the long studies and make this their “career”.

Played the board game Risk tonight. I have never played before, but world domination is right up my alley so I actually won the game against the veterans who wanted to play.

Today after 9 am, the entire day was free to do whatever we wanted. Lucky me I have thousands of hours of television on my hard drive so the day went by easy.

I would better describe my day, but I didn’t do anything except watch video on my computer and eat. Not to hard of a day.

Well tomorrow I depart for Covance. My last brush with reality till Thursday. Sadly I could not spend it doing enjoyable things since they are restricted before you come in. Example being, a friend asked me to come to her birthday party / softball game today. However I could not bring myself to do so because I am not allowed to: drink alcohol or caffeine, and am not allowed to exercise. So I look like an elitist ass who is just to good to show up. Oh well, I would rather make a big pile of money than go drinking anyways.

My timing to leave always sucks though, this time my roommate is going to Louisiana for some bowling tournament and will be gone a few days while I am gone…. I much prefer that he leaves when I am going to be home so that I can enjoy the silence. Also this time going to Covance is pissing a friend off something fierce as I can not make his wedding in Texas because of this.

Oh well, life moves on… He will either forgive me eventually or decide I am an ass and waste many years wishing I was dead. Ok that one doesn’t sound to pleasant, but life is to short to be upset over everything.

So I get this call today from my father saying “can you call me back on a secure line?”… ah NO… i’m not the CIA. Well anyways I will skip the five minutes of bullshit he told me and go straight to the plot. Basically yesterday I was in Fort Atkinson, for a brief period of time. At which point I noticed my car leaking lots of oil and left, ya with me so far?

Not even a minute from where I was stopped I turned onto a long highway and got stuck behind a school bus. At one point the bus was pulling over to the side and I being in a hurry to get back to my mechanic went by him.

Well once I was already in the other lane to pass and next to the bus the lights came on and the stop sign popped out. Well it was to late, I couldn’t just drop back so I zipped in front of it and went home. Not really thinking much of it.

Neat thing though, the bus was being operated by an off duty police officer who took down what he could of my license plate. Then he found I was the closest match and went to my fathers house who is the only relative with my name in Fort Atkinson and began to scare the shit out of him. Telling him how serious this was and how I could of killed a child or something and how he was personally going to stick it to me. Then he told my father not to even call me so that I couldn’t make up some story…

What a crock of shit, what the officer meant was that he couldn’t prove that it was my car since he didn’t even write the plate number down correctly, mine just happened to be the closest. So I call and get a hold of somebody from the Jefferson County Police and they tell me they are charging me with some ticket.

The real kick in the ass is that it is $305, and the only reason I was even going that direction at that time was because my car was leaking oil and I had to go back to Madison. Otherwise I was going to be going to visit my friend in Milton, which was the opposite direction! Grr…. At least I would of liked it to be a cop in a car to pull me over, I can normally talk my way out of a ticket in just a minuite or two.

Cars and cops, isn’t that the same old story….. What a pain in the ass

So today I went to Dean’s Auto to have the oil pan gasket replaced on my car… I had originally tried to do it myself, but that was a flop. I took it to Dean’s because I trust them more than I do Andy’s these days. At any rate they got the job done in exactly the time they said they would, and I left and drove to Janesville.

See I was going to try to talk to this guy to see if he wanted to be an investor for my computer company. However I got there 20 mins late, and wasted a trip. So I decided to go to Fort since it was fairly close, nobody was home and I needed to kill time until my friend Mark called me back, so I decided to go to my fathers……………….

He was in some strange emotional mood, and had just gotten a big shipment of knives which he collects these days. I wasn’t interested at all, but he was so content to show me that I figured that would save me having to converse about some other issues. Well when I left there I noticed some spots under my car. I ducked down to see there was oil dripping off the entire underside of my car! Ok, so I was not happy… it was leaking 10 times worse than when I brought it in. So I have to go back to the Mad City then.

As I just start my friend calls me and I have to tell him that now I must go back to Madison and bitch out my mechanic. Well I call em and he even offers to tow it to save me from driving it raw but it wasn’t that bad so I got it back to the city and they say that 2 parts are cracked, they replaced the one that was shooting oil and they tell me the other one is my entire oil pan. Grr…

Well they did the honorable thing and said they would fix everything for no labor charges, I would however have to pay the $128 for a new oil pan. Hell it was probably cracked before they worked on it anyways, and this will take them probably 3 – 4 hours to put an entirely new oil pan on so I suppose that will save me money in the long run.

Oil pan is scheduled for tomorrow, they made sure there was no spraying oil and said I was good to go. I called a friend and she was moving so I offered to help, spent the rest of the night helping her move, then managed to get a ride to mechanics to drop off car and back home to DeForest….. Only to discover that I had not left my keys in their drop box so I had to get my roommate to drive me down there just to drop those off.

What a long day.

I have been doing this speed reading thing for the past few days. I have actually managed to increase my WPM from 136 to 502. Every day I have gained a lot of speed, until today. I actually dropped a couple words per minuite. Perhaps my eyes are getting tired, or else it might be that my comprehension is going up from when I first got over 500…

Quite honestly I am not really sure. I kind of wanted to get 1200 words per minuite or so, I guess I will have to keep trying.

Other news, I ran the gauntlet today. Apparantly there was some sting opperation on the Beltline in Madison. It’s just a stretch of road that people travel very fast on, and for good ol 4-20 the cops decided their time was better spent catching people speeding.

I personally counted 7 police officers on my journey up the beltline. According to newspapers there were 15, using such dicky under cover cars as a white truck with a ladder on top that looks just like a normal utility truck. Those 15 cops issued just over 300 tickets, and 400 warnings. In one day!!!!!! That’s insane, people like to drive fast, SO WHAT… There are no people walking on the beltline, fuck, let em go 100 if they want so long as they have a completly open lane.

I didn’t get a ticket, but it still seemed dicky to me.

So I get a call from Covance, asking me to come do the study for them that last time I was an alternate for… It would of been perfect timing, except the outpatient visit. I would have to go back on May 5th at 8am. That is kind of a problem since I am supposed to be in a wedding in Texas on that day. So I told Covance I could not do it.

However I got to thinking about it and called them back later to say that I probably could. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my friends and really was planning to go to their wedding, however 1) it’s a long damn way to travel just for a wedding 2) If I go I loose over $2000 between loss of study and travel expenses. 3) There had been a couple people that were considering going with me, and neither one could do it, so I would of been driving alone…. Yes I do that a lot, but it is a pain in the ass since I do not stop to stay in hotels. Just hours and hours of driving.

I haven’t decided 100% for sure yet, but I am 90% sure that I will not go. Honestly they should of had this wedding in Wisconsin, or else just got married at the Court House. See their wedding is in Texas, they have 10 people coming… and none of them (i think) are from Texas, so they are actually going to hold their reception for it a couple weeks later…. In Wisconsin!!!!!!! I’m sorry but this is kind of a bastardly thing to do when their guests are coming from Wisconsin. If they were going to have the reception here, then they should either be married at a quickie court house type thing and come here, or get married here.