Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in drakenrahl's LiveJournal:

Sunday, November 14th, 2004
1:22 am	Now I can sleep parts just got here. and earlier than the worst case scenario. Now I can go to bed. morning comes all too quickly, and I get to drive out to Howell again. Yea for me!... Current Mood: tired Current Music: nothing (Comment on this)
12:53 am	Still waiting... So it's 1am and I'm still waiting for these stupid parts to arrive. One of the messages I recieved said it would be here at 11:30. LIARS! Ten to one they'll both arrive here together sometime around 3 or 4am... I'm debating on wether or not to even try getting some sleep. As soon as I do, they'll show up. It's Murphy's Law, and I know that one all too well. God I could use some caffine, if I did caffine any more. Well I do still have caffine. I just shouldn't, not if I want to keep the headaches away. Maybe I'll just go to sleep in my clothes, that way I can get right up when the parts arrive. I'm not kidding myself here. I'm going to fall asleep and when the guy shows up with the parts it'll wake up the whole household because Zoe will be barking like mad... whatever. I guess there's nothing I can do about it. At least I'll have roleplaying tomorrow night. Tonight I guess actually given the time... I really should get more sleep... The nap I had earlier helped. I was so dead tired today after that early morning call. Yeah I caught a bit more sleep, but any time your sleep gets interrupted and you don't complete a REM cycle it throws you off. Oh well nothing to be done about it I suppose. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Fullmetal Alchemist (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 13th, 2004
4:44 pm	A long days night I don't know how many of you have ever worked as a repair technician. I however do it everyday fixing computers. Occaisionally I have one of my stand-by weeks. What that means is that even after my normal day is done I can still be called at any time to go fix something almost anywhere in the lower half of the state. Well today is Saturday and my phone starts going off at 6am... It seems that a shoe store in Howell has a bad modem. Unfortunately my office actually had the part in so I had to go do the call. Idrive the thirty minutes to my office to get the part, and the hour and some minutes out to Howell where I install the part and it doesn't work. Oh joy. Now I have my own ideas as to what's wrong but I can't just run with those, oh no, that might make sense. I have to call back to the help desk where they spend the next two hours having me try all sorts of stupid things... I keep proposing ideas and being told that they want to try other things first. Meanwhile I have to keep bringing the registers up and down and it's delaying sales. Did I mention it was a women's shoe store at an outlet mall, and said shoe store was having a buy one get one and a 30% off sale? No, oh silly me. I'm getting daggers stared at me by the customers and while the ladies working there are trying to stay good natured about the whole thing they're upset because it's still not fixed. Finally they agree with me that the part was likely bad. Of course we can't just leave it at that, now we need to order four parts just in case. Now since it's a priority call I need to have the parts shipped to my house or drive out to the airpport when they come in. Given the choice, I think I'll have them sent to the house. Normally I'd have them at around 10pm or midnight, but this time. Oh no. No, they'll be arriving at 2:30am... And I need to be awake to sign for them. This just keeps getting better and better. To top it all off I'll get to drive back out there tomorrow and try again. In all likely hood it's going to go shcizo and I'll be out there all day long. I just hope I can make it back intime for roleplaying tomorrow night. Well at least the money for all this is good. That's something at least. I'm going to turn on Halo 2 and blow shit up now. I need some mindless destruction for awhile. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: silence, blessed silence (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
2:59 pm	A season of change So yesterday I just closed on my house. After months of searching and months of paperwork and frustration, I finally have a house. Of course now begins the long process of fixing up the house and getting moved in. I figure I'll be lucky if I'm moved in by the first of the year. I want to redo the kitchen completely and that's going to take time. I don't mind saying that I'm more than a little scared... I've never been on my own, or lived alone. I'm also kind of excited becuase I will be living on my own and I won't have people telling me what to do. I'm also totally responsible for myself now, with no safety net to fall back on. Flying solo is both frightening and exciting. It's amazing how there are certain moments that we recognize as times of change while we disregard the others. Every moment is a time of change. Each decision changes our life. If you believe in the theory of a multiverse then there is a universe out there where I'm not writing this but am instead quiting my job and planning to open my own business, or a universe where demons pop out of my monitor and haul me away to a hell where I'm forced to listen to country western singers while burly devils sodomize me for all eternity. Each decision opens infinite doors and closes infinite others. So, why do we only focus on the few? Because we believe those to have signifigance. Reality is defnined by thought, and so is our perception of it. I should be happier than I am I guess. People keep asking me "So, how does it feel to be a home owner?" The answer is that it feels exactly the same as not owning a home. It's like asking how you feel being another year older... It doesn't hit you in some wave-like epiphany and you're suddenly transformed. No, you wake up and go to work and come home like any other day. In this case you go sign a bunch of papers, give away an obscene amount of money and then they hand you some papers and a key. You don't move in that day and the reality doesn't hit for... oh I'll tell you when it hits. Everyone wants there own space, their own place. Why? For privacy? Rooms have doors. Why do people need their own house all to themselves? It makes more sense for groups of people to live together. That's how thing used to be hundreds of years ago. Everyone worked and lived together and everyone helped everyone else. Now people need whole plots of land for just themselves. It makes more sense to come together and work as a whole. Sometimes society sucks. Well I guess that's it for now.   Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: I love bees (Comment on this)