So I went to visit my boss in Jail today. I got in there to find out that he had been read my blog posts and was upset at me trying to take advantage of him.

Seems a guy can’t say anything these days about what he is actually feeling/thinking without somebody getting upset about it. I mean I looked back a ways. Every week I have offended somebody. For fuck sake people, this is called the Born Smartass for a reason. I choose not to be some uptight asshole who keeps his thoughts to himself to keep the peace.

In this case I don’t think I did anything wrong. When I wrote that post, it was what I was thinking. Nobody else was going to run the company and if he got stuck in jail for a long time and nobody was there to run the business, it would go out of business. I do think me trying to take it over would be a good thing.

Ok so now it’s different. He has somebody who is running the store, and he has a plan to get out. Great. Now that I know this it becomes harder to buy the company. I still believe there is a lot of potential in it, and after our meeting he tells me that I can still buy it. However at 5 times the amount I wanted it for.

So now I need him to call people and get lots of financial documents to prove to me that it’s worth what he wants for it. I probably won’t do it, but if the numbers check out it’s always a possibility.

I am just sick of people bitching and moaning about what I write on this blog. You are reading it because you want to know what I am saying. What I say may not always be something that makes you happy, but it’s the honest truth… (well except that one time where I made up the entire day, but that post was well liked by the people who were involved in my bs) and I’ll be damned before I clean it up for print.

See as a kid I was really sensitive. I would get upset about everything and would bottle up my feelings inside. Eventually I snapped. I mean I am DAMN happy I did, as before I did I was on a downward spiral to end up a completely miserable old shit.

Now I realize I need to vent. Having no girlfriend in my life, and friends who are pretty much all married or moved away I still need to vent to somebody, so I choose the unsafe route of venting to everybody all at once. I don’t read my own posts. I write them once and post them, they come straight off the top of my head, and are not edited for political correctness or personal problems it may cause.

I suppose the only people who read this are the ones who know me, and that in itself is what causes the problems as I know a lot of people, and they know a lot of other people who in turn will tell each other about what an ass I am. Well shit happens. It happens to me a lot, and I don’t think I overreact anymore than anybody else. I just happen to write about it while I am reacting.

Safe bet would be to just stop writing the blog and start making more content for the website, but then I would end up turning into some sort of pent up serial killer or something just to prove to the world that I exist.

So If you don’t want your feelings hurt, don’t read my blog. Hell, I started it as a personal journal for just me and one day decided to erase it all and start over making it public. Bad idea? Perhaps, but I think most of the time it brings laughter to the majority of people reading, perhaps by dumping on the few but such is life.

I suppose I am glad that most of the people who are offended by this blog actually come out and tell me eventually. It’s easier to defend positions that way, but for all the rest of you who just keep it bottled up and slowly get angry at me I need to tell you it is an unhealthy habit, that will eventually bite you in the ass. Suck it up, take the criticism and turn around and attack me back. I will own up to my words if you all do the same.

Fuck it all….

And have a Happy New Year!

So, another year older, well actually that’s bullshit… I am only another day older than I was yesterday…. Semantics aside today is the day they set aside for people to make an ass of themselves with friends.

Before I did that, I first sold my car. Yep, no more prelude ;( Then again no more oil leaks! The new car is a 98 Chevy Lumina. Not stick shift, not lowered, not a tuner boy car. Oh well, it works, and since I will not be beating on this car nearly as much it will probably last much longer.

To ring in the new car I was sad to loose my mp3 cd player, however my sadness didn’t last since I now had a little bit of money to burn.

Being still just an irresponsible 20 something, I went out and bought a new car stereo that plays mp3’s….. off of dvd’s. With friends help we quickly wired it up to have extra inputs for the xm satellite receiver and the ipod video….

Hmm, yes I suppose that was the really irresponsible part. I bought an ipod video, my first thought was that I knew people looking for them that would of just bought it from me for slightly more than I did, but I was kind of hooked when I played with it.

At first I was annoyed that it wouldn’t hold my directory structure, I mean I keep things in order and perfectly organized on my hard drive, why does the mp3 player have to go and fuck with a system that already works. However at this point I have decided that I don’t mind it so much. It is a far superior mp3 player to what I had, and I have decided to keep it.

Oh well, guess that’s all the fun money I can spend, everything else will go towards bills and future bills, I will however be glad to be saving money on gas since I will no longer be buying premium, and am actually ahead on my finances now and will have my debt paid off within a few months.

I would tell you about the rest of the night, but basically it was just lots of drunken debotchery, to which I was fortunate enough to have a designated driver for. I do so love the bars in Madison now, having no smoky smell! That being said we ended the night in a super smoky bar in Deforest where I saw a couple people I have not seen in a long time.

By that point however I was really trashed and in no mood to hold conversations and made it clear to my friends that I wanted to go.

All in all, I would say this was one of the best birthday’s ever since I got rid of some problems, and got new toys all at the same time.

So it’s 4am. Technically it’s my birthday, but I don’t plan to count it until I have slept. So the idea is that I need to go to bed. Since now I am done doing what I have been doing for the past couple hours, I think I can actually do that.

I have been:

Reading:
-File Sharing Winners and Loosers of 2005
-Help buy new toys for the pirate bay
-Don’t leak bandwidth or pictures from me please

Writing:
-Some page that strips women in Firefox…but not IE…
-Ask-a-Smartass!!!(aka OAQ – Once Asked Questions)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that’s right… you can now Ask-a-Smartass and he will…. eventually…. answer (or delete) them!!!!!

Good times are had by all, now to go to sleep so I can wake up in a few hours and trade my car for another car and go buy a new mp3 cd player for new car and then hang out with friends and later get sloppy drunk on other people’s generosity!

Wow, what a super cool idea! OiNK, a torrent site that already holds the world record for being the greatest music resource in world decided to do something special for the holidays.

It is a ratio site, but for the rest of the year you can download all you want and it will not effect your ratio. ONLY uploading will effect your ratio. This will in effect double the amount of seeds that every torrent has since nobody is worried about downloading things.

I am taking this opportunity to download things that I already own. Yes this sounds silly, but once upon a time I encoded all my mp3’s in 128k quality, now I keep everything in 192, and it’s much quicker to download it from OiNK than it is to rerip everything.

I suppose posting this will just piss most people off since OiNK is an invite only website, and I do not even have any more invites. Even if I did anybody who signs up for an account from dec 23-31st will not get the benefits that the long time members get anyways.

The website has so much traffic now that browsing the site itself is going really slow, but still, if you have an account use it… and use it now.

So today is Christmas. My sister last night had asked me to call her to go see a movie today, but I don’t want to. That would take effort. So I decided the best course of action would be not to take any action at all.

To do this actually requires some skill, I mean you have to let your body control when you absolutly must move to go to the bathroom and grab junk food from the kitchen. Seeing as how Paul must of had a similar idea today he was sitting in the living room all day. That meant that for me to do nothing I must stay in my own room.

I quickly found a way to keep me occupied all day. I wached an anime series that I was about halfway through. It’s calld Twelve Kingdoms. It’s actually pretty good, except they do a couple things I don’t like.

1) They divide it into story sections and everytime a few episodes have passed they make an “interlude” between the end of that story and the start of the new one. More specifically there are several clip episodes, and clip episodes are stupid. I have never met anybody who liked them.

I mean I suppose if you are watching this over a 2 year period where you are waiting for new episodes to appear, then yes that might require a recap, but in todays world, people who want to watch an anime series need to nothing more than download it and watch it at your leisure. The nifty thing is that with most anime it’s legal since fansubed anime doesn’t violate Japanese © laws!

2) The series didn’t actually end, and NEVER will. The person who illustrates it got sick and never finished it and the company just stopped making it. I mean it’s a very common style, no offense to the guy who draws it but there are thousands of people in Japan who could of drawn it.

Other than sitting and watching non-stop episodes of that the only other thing my body forced me to do was use the hottub. I was going to winterize my website, but I decided it was already to late in the month for it.

Third night in a row to have to go to Jefferson County. Oh well.

Hmm, I suppose I should burn some meaningful cd’s/dvd’s to give to my dad/uncle and buy some chocolates for my grandmother on the way there….

Hey, how convenient! A dollar store in Lake Mills that is directly on my route to my destination was open. So I really will have presents for everybody. Oh, they have tiny fake plants… I will throw one of those in for good measure, and 100 bows for $1, hmm I only need 3…. Ok I will buy it and donate the open bag to the dollar store checkout so they can give them to other last minuite shoppers…. (Alright, back to speaking to my blog instead of relaying my delayed thoughts… )

So we have dinner, this year my grandmother decided that that she would make meatballs etc… Well we all like her meatballs, except she decided NOT to make her own recipe, but rather to make some other old lady’s recipe. Needless to say they were not as good, but not bad either I suppose.

Well after dinner I left the table and everybody else kept talking about “old times”. Actually if I had to term it, it would actually be considered “reminiscing about worse Christmas dinners than the one we were having”!!!!!!!

So after listening to that for a long time finally my Father and Uncle came into the living room and sat down. Now ever since my father had arrived, ALL he was talking about was how great he was for working so hard at moving, and unpacking. How he had hardly any sleep and what a pain in his ass it was to move.

I guess I am kind of used to this, in a manner I guess I would say that I am the same. I want to have people recognize me when I have done something cool. However I know my limit, I know when people start looking away and rolling their eyes and trying to start their own conversations that it has already gone to far.

Well after supper I guess we got to the climax of his story. The reason why he had needed so spend the previous couple hours playing the “oh poor me game”. He told us that the boxes and appliances had been talking to him.

Now to a normal person this would be a joke being told, but remember….. My father hears messages from God on radio stations (the ones with just static). He started by saying they were talking to him, and my uncle asked what they were saying.

Sadly I am so used to tuning him out that I don’t remember exactly what his response was but it was quite detailed. The boxes were all tormenting him, but different appliances were telling him different things.

I left there as quick as I could using a text message from my sister as an excuse to leave. Of course I didn’t tell them it was from my sister as that would upset them since my grandmother not-so-secretly thinks that she is trying to destroy the family by not talking to my crazy father.

He is alright in quanity but I have already seen/talked to him to much this month. I have a limit of once a month and due to helping him move I have broken that, so my tollerance is lowered.

I went to my sisters place and made some expensive, but tasty hot-chocolate and we were going to watch some movie she had gotten from her netflix list. I forget the title of the movie… it was either “worst movie ever”, “complete waste of your time and lifeforce”, or “please drown me in a glass of wine ASAP”.

I suppose whichever movie title it was it was really sucky. I mean I always watch movies from start to finish, but this one I couldn’t quite take, so I started fast forwarding in 20x. I mean I was going to finish the movie if it killed me, but I didn’t want it to kill me so I figured it would be ok in high speed.

Sadly the high speed wasn’t fast enough as I was busy bitching about how her 20x speed was not fast enough, but none the less we finished the whole movie and understood all that had happened during the fast forwarding.

Having taken all the torture I could endure for the holiday season already tonight I decided to call it a night and went home.

So today with my slightly banged up vehicle I had to go back to Fort Atkinson for Xmas dinner with my friends family. Yesterday I mainly came home from Fort only so I could cash a check and pick up a couple things for their computer.

Of course the cd I picked up for their computer got scratched up (due to it flying forward onto my diamond plate floor mats when I slammed on the breaks to “avoid” hitting a deer) and the ethernet cable was bad, and I didn’t really need to cash the check then, so now I am annoyed that I made a trip back to madison to just to get attacked by a deer!!!!

I suppose my utterly ironic story brought temporary joy to everybody else…. I mean it was sad, but still quite funny I suppose. The real kick in the ass is when I was leaving Fort I stopped at my Grandmothers so that I wouldn’t need to go there for xmas eve the next day only my grandmother guilted me into it by saying that if I was to busy tomorrow that she would move it to another day that I can make it.

Basically eliminating all my non-offensive excuses, so now I am going back to the area AGAIN tomorrow. It’s a good thing my headlights still work. The glass cover got destroyed but the xeon bulbs survived so all I had to do was put some tape in front of the lights to prevent them from shorting out from things hitting the coverless bulbs.

So tonight I was in Fort Atkinson helping my father setup his electronics in his new house. While I was there I talked to one of my friends who lives around there and he said that I was supposed to be at their Christmas…. Which was the next day.

So I went over there but then decided I was bored and had things to do at home so I decided to go home for the night and come back tomorrow.

On the way home I stopped at the computer store to get a Knoppix cd and an ethernet cable so that I could help get my friends computer working correctly the next day.

While I was there I got the sudden urge to sell my car. I mean sure, I had been thinking about it before but I just decided to say screw it, and sell it tonight. Only took me one phone call to sell it.

I sold it to a kid who had always liked it, he knew it leaked oil and I told him that the front bumper was beatup from a guy sliding into the car and would need to be replaced. Well he still wanted the car. So I hung up and started driving home…

Of course on the way home there was a deer crossing the road…. I hit the breaks and managed to stop before it, but apparently there was ANOTHER deer coming a little ways behind. Even though my car was stopped the deer was not and slammed into the corner of the car.

It smashed the headlight cover and dented the quarter panel…

Yeah, so now I’m happy… I just decide to sell it, call a guy, he decides to buy it at my price and then I have to get the car beatup even more.

Well I had enough irony for this night. The next morning I called to 13 salvage yards to see if they had prelude lights there but none of them even had preludes at all~!

Eventually I just looked up better, cooler projection headlights on ebay and found a full set was only $130 with shipping. I talked to the guy who wanted my car and he agreed that if I threw in my mp3 cd player and helped him install the projectors when they came that we still had a deal.

Heh, I thought the only thing that sucked about Wisconsin was the weather. That will teach me….. I think the deer actually lived and just ran the opposite direction after it hit me. It’s not often that people can say that they didn’t hit a deer but that a deer hit them, well I can!

Still, what a pain in the ass…

When I was in high school I once started a full period length class discussion by stating that the smurfs were communists!

Well today I was “stumbling” around the web and I get to this Page! Look, all I gotta say is “SEE, I TOLD YA SO”!!

In an unrelated story, today I discovered that people were squatting in my future computer store. Ok technically they weren’t…. but that’s not how I see it. I suppose I could explain, but that would take all the mystery out of it.

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