This was the first major replacement purchase for my family since the fire.
But my parents thought that it should be the first.
I’m happy.

Also, we move into our temporary house today. And out of the hotel. I need to call my boss and let him know.

My key broke off in the ignition for my van.
I had to have it drilled out.

But….

I got my picture taken with Wil Wheaton (and he threw up the horns)

We move into our temporary house this Wednesday

The insurance company called to wake me up… to let me know that my laptop is indeed covered and that I should go out and buy a brand new one. He will be sending much more money to my father today.

Is this where I start looking up?

Couldn’t sleep very well last night.

I thought I heard on the TV this morning that Hilary Clinton dropped out of the race.

I’m going to be spending the next five days at the old house. The rest of my family has to work. I’m glad I got the time off from work.

I need to catalog everything that is not salvageable for the insurance company. And then throw everything away. So after I finish the ground floor, I need to contact Waste Management and get a dumpster dropped off. While I’m working on the second floor, someone else can work on throwing things on the ground floor away.

But I want to try and get it done in the next 5 days. 5 very long days.

Alright. I’ve gotten the latest round of photos. Take a look.

Fire Tonight

This person at the IP address: 67.161.16.121 doesn’t understand
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wow you are sick!!

the part that makes it really bad is you lost some replaceable technology? wake the hell up- you lost some CATS, didn’t you? THAT is what is tragic. you seriously make me so disgusted.
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I just lost my entire life. I have no house. Do you? I have the clothes on my back. I have a laptop with a cracked screen that I can barely read. I lost 7 years of digital photos and 21 years of hard copy photos. I have no video games. no dishes. no silverware. no food. no bedding.

But I am also a musician. I have no recording gear. I have one guitar. No protools setup anymore. No keyboards. No mixers. Sure. These are all replaceable. but it took me 10 years to aquire all of it. And thousands of dollars. My big screen television is gone. My dvds and player. And I am most destroyed over my cat. I lost my cat. I cried all day yesterday for this cat. A cat I have had since his birth in 95. I also rescued 6 of my mothers cats.

Can you live without your computer? Can you live without internet access? Can you live without a mailbox? The Post Office is holding all my mail until I can go in and give them a real address. My house has to come down. I could be living in hotels for the next six months. I have NOTHING you coward. Why don’t you come out of your fucking annonymous hiding place and tell me who you are? Let everyone who actually feels a little sympathy know how much of an inconsiderate jackass you are.

Or better yet…. why don’t you just move out of your house with only a backpack. And never look back. and you can’t have ANYTHING from your house. Try that.

I lost a cat. That is absolutely irreplaceable. And I would rather that no one even try and replace him. But if you want to help me replace my other things, well… you know how to do that.

I had a dream last night that my house was ok. It didn’t burn down, but I was still staying at a hotel for some reason.

Then I woke up.

And my four articles of clothing managed to fill the hotel room with their crushing scent. I still wreak of smoke and charred wood. Maybe I will try and buy some clothes today. The hotel is right behind a K-mart.

I’ve already started crying. I think there might be a lot of that today.

Want to help my family rebuild our digital lives? We lost three windows PCs and one Macintosh computer in our tragedy. Click the following link to be taken to a post where you help my family reconnect with technology.

www.flickr.com

I know a lot of you want to help. I really appreciate that. I’ve lost nearly everything. But this is a chance for me to start anew. New furniture. New dishware. New everything. The part that makes it really hard to live, is that both of my computers are gone. And all of my recording hardware. My macmini, and my brand new never turned on pc are gone. those are the things that I need replaced. My digital life has been deleted. Please help me rebuild it.

The red cross is taking care of my clothes and food. And first night at this hotel. But all I’m concerned about is rebuilding my music. I was days away from finishing the vocals for my album. That;s been delayed. I was a few days from going to Boston. Postponed. I do get to go to Duran Duran tomorrow. I’m very excited.

my fucking house just burned to the ground. Pictures soon

I just found out that Gary Gygax died early last month.

*shuffle*
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*roll*
One for me….

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*roll*
And 20 for my dead homey.

OK. So the movies thing hasn’t worked out as well as I hoped. I’ve been watching them. Just not reviewing them. I got kinda busy.

Since the review of SP3 I have:
watched:
Brick (2005)
The Brothers Grimm
All of The Flight of the Conchords

I have also flown to and driven back from San Francisco
Helped Krsitin move by packing some of her stuff, loading all of her stuff and unloading all of her stuff. Not to mention driving the whole way.

I have also…. fought with my boss. Now before you get worried, I am not fired. I should be so lucky. However, with the steady downfall of our economy, our entrance to this recession, poor location and advertising, and terrible luck, the antique store will probably be closing this summer. I’m going to ride it out though… because that’s just what I do. I am going to save as much of this income as I can so that I can complete my trip to china in June. When I return from china I do not plan on getting a job.

Instead, I am going back to school.

But wait. What’s that you say? I already went back to school once? While working for ATT? You’re absolutely right. I went to school for web design and network administration because that’s what I thought I wanted to do. However, thanks to powers beyond our comprehension, since then the secrets of my true being have been unleashed upon this primitive existance and my true calling has been revealed to me.

Science.

Yes folks that’s right. Your little boy is going to go back to school to try and help his country recover from this post atomic failure that is our United States Scientific… something. I’m going to be a Science Teacher. I’ve given it some thought, as I am apt to do. And I would have to blame my 7th grade science teacher, Mr Jones for turning me on to science. And then with assistance from my friends Ian, Kristin, Kurt, Paul, Jim, Katie, (I fell like this is turning into an awards show) let’s just say all my friends… the other night I decided to go back to school to get a degree in science and a teaching certificate or whatever it is I need to teach science.

Questions? Yes. You in the back…. with the face…. uh huh…. uh huh…. ok. Did everyone here his (or her) question? Which field of science am I going to study? Anything having to do with LASERS! Just kidding. I believe I am more interested in the physics aspect of science. Never really been a chemistry person. Never really been a biology person. Always physics. Astro physics. Particle physics. Oh, and anything to do with LASERS.

My parents are behind me 100%. Secretly, my father always wanted to be a history teacher. so for me to become a teacher I think would make him very happy. I’ll be starting this fall. I know there is an infinite amount of governemnt and private funding for people who want to go into science and teaching. So I am pretty sure I’ll be able to get my tuition mostly covered. Otherwise, I will probably need a part time job. Nah. Student loans.

And there I am.

On a side note, I’ve been working on an idea for a brief… sort of sketch… science show. Much in the way of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Sort of sketch comedy, but instead, sketch science. Once we get the first episode in the can, I’ll let you know. But I’ve got some great people to help me work on it.

Erik