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Because I used the bar.

Let's Get Fiscal! November 2009
This will be a bit truncated.

Bbal 1940
mbal 1260
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cdiff 680
pdiff 930
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Loss 300
Dance freaks: 320 there's the answer there. I'm in the den, so I haven't gotten to do any look over of last month.

Start 1260
Car 210
insurance 90
ira/efund 100
at&t 90
sallie mae 130
rent 150
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remain 490

BoA: 7540. Gets 200. 290 left because I'm two weeks away from payday.

The 360 is dead.
I'd say long live the 360, but you really... REALLY can't say that.

All that is to say MY 360 is dead, it red ringed AGAIN back in like july or august and I really just didn't give enough of a crap to bother with trying to get it fixed. It's more than three years old, so i'd have to spend money on getting it fixed.

So I'm going to sell everything off except my hard drive (in case I end up with a 360 again in the future, or going to other people's places). Here's the list of stuff to off with a starting price after it:

Controllers:
2 white (10 each) ONE SOLD TO MATT, Other two to jeff
1 black (10 each)

Other accessories:
Component cables (5)
VGA cables (hellacious?) (15)
Old style power brick (5) to jeff
Play/Charge kit cable (5)
Wireless G adapter (official) (25) to jeff

Games:
Burnout Revenge (3) SOLD TO MATT
Oblivion (4) Willie wants it, no confirm.
Table Tennis (3) SOLD TO MATT
Chrome Hounds (1, free if you take it with another game)
DDR Universe (2)
Dead Rising (2) SOLD TO JEFF
Gears of War (8)
Halo 3 (8) ??GTC??
Orange box (6) SOLD TO JEFF
Fallout 3 (10) SOLD TO MATT
Rock Band/Rock Band 2 (GTC purchased for 20 combined)
Resident Evil 5 (20) SOLD TO JEFF

The dance freaks hangover
General soreness. A feeling that I spent $320 more than I should have. Relief that I have an exit plan for the whole thing.

It should go ove fairly well at acen, provided no sensors get busted.

Speaking of that, I do have one other acen project to see about: a bill changer.

dance freaks get... mostly
I'd prefer not to elaborate on the whole deal, but I did buy dance freaks tonight.

No, it's not here. It likely won't be here until late March or early April. Even that's a limited time engagement. After ACEN, I'll be selling it to Jeff N. for what I paid for it plus new parts.

It's being stored at one of his relatives place. Basically, the resale to him is in exchange for the whole, "I'll lie to my relative and say it's mine to get them to hold on to it for a while."

I know you had your hopes up on getting it, atomika, but If I hadn't gone this route it would have been bought by some collector on Wednesday and it never would have been heard form again.

I talked that last one over with Kristen. We and I have things coming up in the next few days that require cash. I won't be making a deposit.

I suck
In my LGF, I said I wasn't going to be picking up any Zendikar Fat packs. I was bad, I got three.

That said, I sold two of them to John/Omar, and was able to sell some of the cards I got from the fat pack I kept for 16 bucks. Even got to keep most of my "money rares".

Combine that with the four bucks I had sitting around, and I've got 96 in wallet/pocket right now. Shame 10 of it is in quarters.

I'll have to make a quick stop at the bank on the way home and put 80 of it back in so I don't burn it all.

I should mention that I spent like 114 or something on all of the fat packs combined. So I got my set for 18 bucks basically. And one of the cards I got is worth about 18.

Dance Freaks update
GTC and I are trying to find somewhere to put the damned thing. I don't care if it's someone's house/apartment, I just can't keep it here, but I basically have to buy it soon.

P.S. Zombieland gets A+++++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN from me.

Will be Getting Fiscal! later.

602 series on Sunday, 590 series Monday.

Archive trap deck is largely done, possible modifications forthcoming. Steve's deck decisions are stupid.

Geocache with Kristen after work, then home for Fiscal. Here's a quick preview of some good news from it:

I get paid three times in October.

If there ever was a time, if there ever was a place
This isn't really a major update per say...especially since it's on my phone... But I figure anything's better than nothing. I'll go point by point on some stuff.

Bowling: Quite the reversal in leagues so far this year. I started sundays with an asstastic sub-500 series, then rebounded last night wth a decent 530 series. By contrast, I started Monday nights with an unintentional 689 series. I wanted something around 200 per game, not almost 230 per game. We'll see tonight. I'm sure I'll catch some flak for that from people in the league.

Pump: I wish I could get some more play in on the damned thing. Not being home very much tends to hamper that. Not looking forward to winterizing it again.

The dog: Stupid little adorable bitch dragged fleas into the house again, and they're after me again. I basically tossed my room and cleaned it.

Dance Freaks: Money is readily available for it. I'm waiting to hear back on something before I strike.

MtG: The group getting a case got blowed up real good. I'm kinda glad, I can go after a box of Zendikar on my own time when I have some more money. Still looking foreward to the pre-release. Need to see if Reece is coming with.

That's all for now.

"I'm gonna punch your ass in the dick!"
Yeah, someone needs to stop me at bowling. I just put up a friggin 689 at Channahon (237, 254, 198) without even really trying.

The best part is my legs are so sore from laser tag on saturday night I couldn't even really accelerate into a shot.

I've got a picture on the phone, but I'll post that later.

Uhh, I guess I'm getting another arcade game.
Yes, you're reading that right. I'm working on getting ANOTHER arcade game. ( Here's the story and the plan. )

roargh
Well, the school year is about to start up again, that means weekends are going to be pretty much booked except around thanksgiving and october 24 (birthday).

I don't have any more classes to take, so I don't have to stick around campus every friggin night anymore.

In all honesty, I was pretty damned tired of that. I mean, if there's something to do it's not so bad. It's just nice to be able to go home after work regularly.

The average weekend schedule doesn't look too awful though. Friday starts free play and FNMs, Saturday usually ends up being chill around the pump day, and sunday is bowling and football season restarting.

It'd just be nice if I was getting paid more.

Yes, I am alive
Work got really busy with John having to make something like 250+ signs in Braile and English. This forced me to be out on delivery for pretty much all of the last few weeks.

Camping trip: Apologize.

Summer bowling has one week left, I've been largely screwing aroudn with it.

Pump: Put my machine on hard judgement. I've pretty consistently been sub 30 misses on K.O.A. and the like. I think a midrange speaker is going out.

Kristen got a new car. '06 Mazada 3.

That's about all I can think of right now.

This is the question I ask ye
360 just red ringed. Second time I've had a red ring in the time I've had a 360.

Call microslut for a repair, or just take a god damned sledge hammer to it?

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD
Just got back home from Magic 2010 core set pre release, went 3-1 (2-0, 2-1, 0-2, 2-1) to end up in a prize situation. It was just two packs, but hell, I did decent. Almost every lost game was due to being mana fucked in one way or the other, especially the 0-2.

Played a U/G deck that I'll spare most of you the details on.

Other shit:
Jason, I'm FINALLY getting to mail you the fuck nexcade shirt. Apologies on taking so long, but I haven't been home while the post office has been open.

Haven't put that new monitor in yet.

The attention at the time of "29FPX" the monitor, use voltage
This monitor is being designed so that change the connector of the degauss coil at the time of each input voltage and be obtained a supreme degauss effect.

I would appreciate the manner correspondence that could change the degauss coil plug on the side of each use voltage, to obtain a supreme degauss effect at the time of each input voltage, although it is trouble.

Although there is no the necessity of the switching in your company, because I am shipping and changing it on the side of the voltage that also, uses it at the time of our company shipment

I hope a sufficient attention in case that it is changed use voltage.

Yes, I got the monitor. No it's not in. Yes it's fairly heavy. No it's not backbreaking with two people. Yes it's going to require some wire splicing. No I will not walk your dog.

This is either what's wrong with the US, or pure brilliance
Today's been pretty good. Got up before noon for once, headed up to Chris Olivia's place to take a look at the monitors he's got sitting around for his DDR. The replacements he'd tried wouldn't sync, so while conferring with Brandon Martin, we determined that something in the power supply area of his original monitor. After further discussion (and about an hour on the phone with Brandon!), Chris is going to call a local TV repair shop to see about getting it to work. He's also going to see about getting one of the nice tri-mode monitors this week.

After leaving there, I headed up to Addison and hit up a Culvers. Talked with Kristen and a couple other people while I was eating, then headed over to Dave and Busters to rock Super Shot like a Hurricane. A few hours later, I decided to head home.

While the 355 south to 55 south to 80 west to Minooka trip is normally pretty uneventful, something odd happened as I was nearing the exit for IL-126.

( uhhhh, what the hell? P.S. HUGE IMAGES )

It's been all over the internet
But I'm saddened over the death of Billy Mays more so than any of the other celebrity deaths that have popped up in the last few weeks. All signs point to the fact he was a decent guy with real passion for his work. That's not to mention that his infomercials were entertaining even before everyone on YouTube got a hold of them.

There's really only one way I can honor his passing:

I realize very few of any of the people who read this have seen me immediately post shave. I think there's a few people who have NEVER seen me without facial hair of some sort. That's what it looks like right there. Doesn't look quite right, does it?

The honorific is that I'll re-grow to a full beard again, then shave clean. I'll also be wearing my jean work shirts to work all this week. I'll skip on using an extremely loud voice though.

LGF tomorrow or tuesday night.

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