So I hit level 72 today on my Tauren Hunter. Feels good man, though she is under geared still, I'm steadily working on it :) Sitting pretty on 1500 gold in the bank waiting on the lowered riding costs in the next patch. A little birdy tells me that *may* be as soon as tomorrow though I'm thinking prolly not till 3 weeks from tomorrow, but who knows?

The cast of characters so far:

(F) Bahka the Tauran Hunter:        72
(M) Morridi the undead deathknight: 60
(F) Amaraikwa the Blood Elf Rogue:  60
(F) Lindri the Blood Elf Paladin:    8
(F) Kaego the Tauran Druid:         14
(F) Baruu the Orcish Warrior:        8
(F) Rizaki the Troll Priestess       2 (I think thats her name)

The house seems like its a go, hopefully we'll get the closing done soon so as to have most of July to pack and move. Looking forward to getting out of that shithole townhouse, and looking forward to maybe getting a house kitty to snuggle and love on.

Car transmission seems to be doing wierd things. Will have to take it in and have it looked at after we get the house settled out as that will be the first time I will have disposable income.

We'll just have to see how it all comes together.

As I approach my 4 year anniversary working at Brighthouse, I have to sit back and wonder about it all. I both love and hate this job. I loathe going in every night to do the same shit over and over again, and yet once there, I generally have some fun because I work with a great group of people with whom I can talk with on just about any topic. Its a fucking conundrum...

So 4 years its been; 5 since I was fired at AT&T. That was another job I loathed every minute of the day, and yet had so much fun while actually there. had a lot of stuff happen while I was there. Met Heather, and though I still love and miss her terribly to this day, I feel that I would have been much better off for never have met her at all. Had a brief fling with Angela while I worked there. That wasn't a good idea at all. Not sure what I was thinking then, or why I did some of the outrageous things I did back then.

These days I am concentrating more on my own situation rather than trying to fill my life with someone else. I finally got my credit back on track after destroying it at age 18. I bought my first brand new car, and am currently shopping for a house. Got over 5k in my first 401k and at the start of my 5th year with BHN, I'll be in vested in the pension plan, so things are, for the most part, looking up for my financially.

Once I get past these baby steps, as I think of them, it'll be time to work on my personal issues. getting myself back into the dating game, looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with. Things are looking up, but in true form for me, I'm always looking out for the other shoe to drop...

Jesus, but has it been shitty weather wise this week, what with Tropical Storm Fay basically stalled out over Central Florida.

Flooding is everywhere, the rains just wouldn't stop (and its still raining here, though this seems to be our normal afternoon T-storms, but dammit! Water is water, and we do NOT need any more for a good long time)

The lake outside my complex is up at least 2 ft, if not more, and is threatening to flood. The always piss poor drainage in the complex itself is totally overwhelmed making it hard to stay dry. Hell, even driving to work last night I almost swamped my car in a lake that formed in the middle of a road. The road is unlighted, and so I could really see the water until I was in it. Almost stalled out like 3 times, and I thought I wasn't going to make it. Hope it didn't hurt my car :(

But finally the weather is being given a chance to normalize here. Hope it does, and for those of you hit hard in the south, my thoughts are with you.

So I went to FWA 2008. My first con since I dropped what little presence I had in the fandom in 2005. I wanted to do a few things at the con, but the idea wasn't to do the con, but to relax, hang out and just chill. It was a vacation I was looking forward to.

Fast forward through the weekend to tonight when I finally made it back home and all I can say is 'This was the worst vacation I have ever had!"

It started with the ride up to Atlanta in the furry caravan. The drive itself was alot of fun, always is as I love to drive. But the absolute shit conditions of I 75 between Ocala and Lake City left our cars sand blasted and me with about a dozen chips in my windshield; of my just days over a year old Yaris. I was pissed!

But it gets better. While I did have fun Thursday, the first night, I awoke on Friday morning with the worst pain I have ever felt in my left ankle and a severely swollen foot. I couldn't walk on it, and I could barely hobble around the hotel room. So I spent the vast majority of the con in intense pain in the hotel room, missing everything but the fursuit parade.

Sometime during the con, someone backed into my car and left a huge dent in the bumper and scratched the paint all to hell. They left no note, there was no surveillance of the lot and nothing the hotel or the con could do. Oh yes thank you whoever you are. I hope you die slowly of ass cancer, so that way while your suffering in pain, you'll never have to chance to get laid again. Serves ya right I say. You could have left a fucking note! It would have been the polite thing to do, never mind that it was required by law...

So with all that shit going on, Its finally leaving day and I get wheel-chaired out to my car (hence how I found out about the damage in the first place) and get on the road. I'm stiff and sore and in a lot of pain, but I'm on my way home dammit! But instead I get pulled over for speeding after the cop picks out of a line of cars n the caravan (because I was the last car of the group, dontcha know?) and get a $202.50 that probably will be $405.00 due to the construction zone we were in.

Fuck!!

Im alittle too pissed and way too tired to go into more detail, but I do want to thank the guys in the caravan for the commiseration and aide they gave me on the ride back. Its was generally decided I think that I must have been cursed.

I know I got a strong vibe that I should never, ever do this shit again, but the could just be anger coloring the experience....

Fuck!!

Just got a nasty, NASTY shock!

I just happened to log into my GEICO policy via the web to refresh my memory on the due date of the insurance bill. The payments are automatic, and I dont really need to keep an eye on it, but I was curious as of the due date so I looked:

Bill due date: 7/9/07, amount due : $46.68
Last payment : 7/9/07, amount paid: $46.68

Now wait a minute! I know they quoted me $109.xx per month for full coverage... how can full coverage be less than $50 a month??

Well I checked my coverages and the rat fuckers cut off my Comprehensive and Collision coverages on 6/29/07 WITHOUT a call, a letter, or an email! Exactly 20 days after I get the coverages mandated by the finance company, my insurance carrier trashes it and doesn't even bother to tell me! W.T.F. O_o

Anyways, so I call em and the guy blathers on about a system issue and how sorry they are that this has happened, and they will reinstate and backdate the coverage to 6/29/07.... just as soon as I fax them in a bill of sale! WTF kind of bullshit is this??

If someone steals my car, smashes into it, or something natural like a fire or a tree falling on happens before I get that fax off, I'm ruined! I'll owe the full amount of the car, GEICO wont cover it, and the gap insurance from the dealer wont cover it. My life would be absolutely ruined!

FUCK the insurance companies! Its not their lower, LOWER middle class ass on the line here

So by the title of the post, I think its safe to say that I'm disappointed in things.

You see, due to a lot of turmoil at work, I moved back to an overnight position. Its the best move for me for now, easier work load, friendlier team members, and a schedule more conducive to my nocturnal habits. Its all around good until you factor in the loss of Sunday Pay, which is time and a half. Thats $110 out of my check per pay, right off the top.

As is I am struggling to make my car and insurance payments. Sure my current Insurance company is high cost, but I haven't moved away them because I cannot afford the 200+ down payment to get a cheaper rate.

I have canceled all of my luxuries like xbox live, gamefly, and pr0n, but it still isn't saving me enough money. I'm thinking I might have to stop dropping money into my 401k which would really suck down the the road. I just need a break, and I think I might be able to get it if I plan the finances out to the T.

I wanted to keep the car payment, insurance, and gas to about $500 a month, but I currently pay 371.xx for the car, 174.xx for the insurance, and 35.00 for a tank of gas. Luckily, the gas holds me about a month thanks to the superb Yaris fuel efficiency. Thats about $80 more than I wanted to go, and with the loss of revenue from the shift swap, I think it might be enough to torpedo me *sighs*

So I never thought I would ever own a brand new car. Up until the last 5 yrs, I had never felt stable enough to be tied to a 5-6 yr payment. Its scary, it really is. I got all the what-ifs running through my mind and the scenarios are not pleasant.

However I went ahead and did it anyways. I cannot see where i would loose this job in the next 5 yrs. I'm being groomed for a supervisor position by my current boss, and I am on a good-type first name basis with all the center managers for the work I have done.

They are investing sizable sums of money in me for training in all different type of areas, and I am usually the first they come to with an issue. I hope its stable! Should be you'd think as its the local cable company; utilities don't tend to go out of business. They get bought out by others.

Anyways, enough rambling I guess. I got a 07 Toyota Yaris 4 door sedan. Upgraded stereo with CD mp3/wma playback and a aux jack for mp3 players. 15" steel wheels w/ ABS, and power everything. Cuase of the shitty interest rate and low down payment, I took it for 72 months at $371 a month. Horrible I know but I have NO CREDIT. It truly is a blank slate, and even though my father cosigned which I DID NOT want to happen, I still got stuck with a 12.4% rate.

Insurance shot up $80 so is now $175 a month, or just over $2,000 a yr. Thats alot despite not having an accident since like 1998 and no tickets since like 2001.

Overall I guess I should be happy. I got a car thats rated 34 MPG city, and I didn't get totally raped on the price. But I dont feel happy... maybe its just the shock?

So Im off to buy a car today; weird that. Im 31 and have never bought a car, never needed to have full insurance, never been financed for anything. My credit is like a blank slate with some good and some bad from like 7-10 yrs ago.

I hope they finance me without having to have my father co-sign. I really dont want that to happen for a number of reasons I wont get into here. Im all tied in knots about it, tho i am not sure why. My current car will keep me going for a bit if they say no, and since I am actively rebuilding my credit, I know they will say yes in 6-8 months.

Still, its alot of stress for really no reason. Purrhaps its from the fear of being rejected? I do fear that in my peer group (what there is of one) so I tend not to seek any external relationships out. This is different, and yet I wonder if it is triggering the same reflexes?

The mind is such a mysterious (and annoying) thing *sighs*