I'm going away myself, but not on a trip. I'll be out with my lovely who just arrived in the state. I probably won't post here for the next 5 days or so, but don't worry, I'll bring back plenty of pictures :]

Oops!! I thought Doom had left!

Awwwee, Chaos ... so sweet. Have the time of your life! Make many cherished moments and memories to last a lifetime as well as good photos to share with your buds at Chorrol.

(That guy is sooo photogenic. )

Well, it has been a rather full week, what with official registration at the college. That is over now, and regular stuff will soon begin. Of more interest- we have finally begun listing Mrs. Treydog’s paintings on Ebay. After some consideration, I let her “inherit” my existing account with the 60+ positive feedbacks. We first placed 4 paintings and already have a bid on one of them. At the moment, we are trying for reasonable pricing (as in $20.00 for a 5x7). If she develops a following, we will maintain the lower-priced pieces and maybe begin to list some larger work for higher prices. Before finally going with Ebay, we did visit a couple of local galleries, just to see…. The thing is- they are not primarily showing paintings and you can’t be sure how much they will promote your work. Add the fact that galleries take a 50-70% commission, and it just seemed like Ebay was a better choice. If time permits, we may do a couple of the better regional shows (like Blowing Rock, NC). And then I got the Ebay bug again, so I started a new account and listed some of my PC games that I don’t play anymore. Kind of a long, dull ramble, I guess- but we are excited about it all.

Hey, just dropping in real fast to post. Things went fantastic with Jamie... I couldn't have asked for more. She's coming over to my house tomorrow, so things will be even better than before (which was pretty damn fantastic). We got in slight trouble for staying out to the park too late, but it wasn't all that big, just a "try not to do that again".

I'm excited for you and The Great Bunny too ... let us know how it goes. The best art show down here in Cental Florida is the Winter Park Art Shows in Spring & Autumn. We have other smaller ones but those two draw national artists.

We here in Florida are all battened down tonight, waiting if all this rain is bringing a hurricane our way or just a tropical storm. It was briefly a hurricane ober the islands but has downgraded now. Hope it turns away ... but Jeb Bush has sent all the tourists home anyways to be safe.

Some good "excuses" for when you come home late from a date:

We fell asleep (works better with a car)
We ran out of gas & had to walk to a gas station (ditto)
One of us dropped our keys outa the pocket and spent time looking for them
We ran into friends and lost track of the time
My watch got wet/stopped/is running backwards/whatever
The movie was longer than expected
A viscous dog made us climb a tree
We took a different way home and got lost

My bf & I in hs had a million of them, but it didn't really matter cause my mom really liked him, so I never got in trouble when with him anyway ... best excuse = both's parents like both kids.

...... from the Ibis highschool diaries

Awwe geeze, I made a double post ... sorry!

With their idiotic children A host of kids from other buildings, for some reason unknown to me, comes frequently to hang arround in front of our building. NOw, I don't mind the noise they produce [usually just loud laughs and occasional yelling] but they sometimes vandalise cars. My rear glass on my '86. VW "Golf 2" was broken 2 times last year - after 2nd time, I went down and told a few kids I'll starts skinning people soon if I notice another scratch. Didn't help much, as they still continue to gather & piss me off in process. One of these days, god help me, I'll do something stupid.


p.s.: before you say "why don't you ask them politely to leave" or "Why not call police ?" I'll just say that both options are futile. These kids [you may even call them Serbian equivalent of 'chavs', they fit description just fine] mock people and would [i presume] only start taking things seriously if I went down one night carrying a baseball bat, a hunting knife or something equivally solid. And the damn police never sends no one.

Yeh, the police would probably only show up if you did go down with a baseball bat! Sp Mil, you drive an '86 car too .... we have an '86 Honda Civic here. Just think, next year our cars will hit the 20 year mark & in 5 after that will be classic cars.

As to scratches n dents, the idiots next to us seem to be hitting the passenger side of our car when they open their SUV door .... boy, I'd like to catch them at that!

*Psst* In case you didn't know it's 2006, so they're already 20 years old. ALmost 21 actually, since car models come out almost a year earlier than they say.

Anyway, I drive an '87 toyota camry. Wagon. It's somewhat awesome. Except for the fact that it has no power steering anymore.

Wow, no power steering anymore! Is it harder than manual then? Hmmm, soon Mil, you and us will be driving antiques. Cool ....

It's already an antique
VolksWagen, just like many other German car brands, is legendary arround these parts for its endurance and ability to take punishment over years. My father STILL drives a 1975. VW "Bug", which has hauled more cargo than some ocean ship over the years the "Golf II" which I'm driving, on the other hand, was one of the most produced and exported cars in 80's. It is unsurpassed when it comes to reliability & service time [I've personaly seen a 1.8l model of it that has 500.000+ kilometers and it still purrs like a big, powerful Khajitt in other words it could go for another 200.000 without serious problems].

Yeah ... VW's are great. I used to drive a family red bug and owned an orange bug complete with sunroof. But I thought cars had to be 25 years old to be antiques? I think they do here in Florida anyways.

Egh, we got in trouble again recently. Jamie got a ride over to my house from her aunt's.. and apparently she was suppose to ask her aunt for permission for that.. so she had to leave early and wasn't too happy about being yelled at for something she wasn't at fault for not knowing (she'd told someone else in the house and had cleared coming over yesterday). I'm making a horrible first impression on her family and it might have affected just how often she can see me.

Annoying. I'm not exactly an expert on relations (I'm more of a loner actually.) but I do understand that this can be very annoying to say the least. I hope things won't turn out to be too bad for you.

Hang in there Stomach Ache- I kept my second ex-fiance out too late on our first date- but her parents loved me, so it was O.K.

Ibis- Stay safe from Ernesto. Hope he fizzles out before reaching you...

This will be a rehash for anyone who goes to my channel, but...

I've been feeling really guilty lately because I have not thanked the teacher who helped me with a stalker problem just about six months ago.

Well, I've decided I will push myself hard to thank him tomorrow. I will be very nervous.

Various things are layered onto my irrational fear of him, but it's mostly because he is a man (let me stress this: I am not sexist, but I really don't feel like explaining what has happened to me to cause that), I find him AMAZINGLY attractive, and so much like me personality wise (sans my manic depressiveness and social phobia) it's a bit scary.

Trey, you are so sweet! Thanks for the concern. Most everyone, me included has off work tomorrow to be able to not travel in the storm and stay battened down at home. We have our hurricane supploes all in order but this will be the first time in 20 years that we do not go through a hurricane in our very safe soundproofed studios we used to live in (no windows, foot thick block walls, etc.)
But our condo has the whole back half towards the hallway and bathroom windowless, so in case of emergency we would go back there. And we are on the ground floor so that is safer too. I just hope we don't lose eletricity, that is so irritating. One of the hurricanes in the summer of the 4 'canes took 4 days to blow through - no electric, not much food, nothing to do but stay in bed.
The beaches above Daytona Beach are expecting at least a 12 to 15 foot storm surge of tidal water. I hope we here in Orlando just get alot of rain and nothing else. I will let you know ....

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Good luck talking to your teacher Zarr.Just try to be cool and be yourself, that should do it since he has a personality similar to your own.

Agh, this is terrible. The visits are amazingly great, but they aren't as frequent as we were led to believe. Tomorrow is the last time I will see her until Winter Break, sure I'll be able to wait.. but it's going to totally suck. Not only to make it worse but we have to hang out at her aunt's house and have barely any privacy whatsoever, which hardly helps the romantic mood. Still, I shouldn't be so ungrateful, I was lucky to see her so soon anyways, we didn't know this trip was even going to be possible a little while ago. We'll have to savor eachother's company as much as we can, because it will be the last we'll get for several months to follow...

I was chatting with a friend I haven't talked for the whole summer, and just for the heck of it he gave me a couple of links that I find hilarious. This is especially funny if you feel rather jaded about math..

Linky 1

Linky 2

And I don't have any relationship news because I'm not in one! Haha! But I definitely sympathize for the distance you have between seeing your girlfriend again, Chaos. I'm glad you're trying to keep it positive and make the best outta what you have though.

I must say that Jamies picture at your MySpace is just simply beautiful, Chaos. She is lovely. I remember those days when I was in high school and college and my first serious bf & I were getting it on but our parents of course didn't know.

One time he stayed a week with us at the Jersey shore ... but we got no private time all week. So on the Saturday we rented a tandem bike and pedaled from 16th street to the sand dunes of 69th street just to be alone. We were sooo sore from pedaling both ways the next day!

It's hard at that age, but you must make the most of whatever time you get together. Remember you will be older and hmmmm, sometimes it helps to each pretend you are going somewhere with friends when you are really going to be there together. That would make my parents ease up on the regulations, when they thought I'd be with my girlfriends. Not all's fair in love and war .... and all that ....

Well, you see.. I don't have any friends here. I just moved back home after my parents already moved to a new house... and school hasn't started yet. Things are fine and dandy though, we'll just take a walk to the park that hopefully won't be so crowded (not that it stopped us) and maybe take a trip to the woods. You know.. I've always hated the people who make out in public so I'll try to be more disctreet, but at least we were polite enough to be behind some bushes (which were apparently part of someone's back yard... oops). Ha, but that's enough of that, I enjoy her more for her personality and intelligence (everything else is just side benifits )

Yes ... she is after all, the girl with kaleidescope eyes! (closest smilie I could find to kaleidescopic)

Hang in there, dear, hang in there. Just be firm & confident of yourself and all will be well.


Oh, on completely unrelated note - I am really happy you went to see Stargazey's lil' piece of horror fanfic I hope a simple "Thank You !" & a hug is good enough...

Howdy!......

Back on track again, after a heavy party-weekend. All went well, but unfortunately I had to go to work this week, I´d rather stayed at home.

Got to start selling stuff now....to rise money for my trip to US! It´ll be in early october I reckon, my daughter wouldn´t have me the weeks I originally planned to go......I was actually thinking of flying to New York on the 11th of september, you see there are a lot of cheap flights that day!

lol! Gee,....I wonder why. Seriouly though, I think the terrorists won, because the 'need' for security now outweighs our 'rights' and 'freedoms'. Were the founding fathers alive today, they would put Bush on trial for treason. IMHO.

The terrorists will never win, as long as one free heart still beats ....

Well if the terrorists won, we would not be flying planes


Minky thats awesome... If you fly into La Gaurdia (in New York) in early october your bound to be there the same time I am. Hah, I'm flying back up to vermont with my parents to do some tours of the college I'm going to up there.

yay channy! It would be hilarious to meet you! Ehh I really don´t know, could be La Guardia but also Newark....or even JFK, depending on what flight I´ll take!

I´m so looking forward to go! Jeez.....I´d love to meet you and all the guys from here!

I have to go to court on 9/11. Needless to say, I'm not feeling too lucky.

Yikes, that definitely doesn't sound very lucky. I hope things go for the best for you, despite the circumstances.

Yes Minque ... I'm so happy you are coming whether we get to meet or not. I know you must be overjoyed about seeing your daughter again after so long a time. You certainly are becoming the world traveler.

My agoraphobia kicked my spotted owl today.

Nevertheless I'll try talking to this teacher tomorrow, and I'm procrastinating tomorrow too.

Crapmuffins, Zarr, crapmuffins well, tommorow ?

Mil, did you make up that word or is that the cesor at work again?

Zarr, don't let this guy intimidate you ... or your feelings about him. You've got to take the situation in hand and get on with thanking him. I'm sure he will appreciate it and you will feel ever so better.

Well.... I'm lost and I don't want to read up on, i'm lazy, but good luck with whatever is going on.

Well, har-de-har-har-har, things turned out ironic.

Ironically, the day I work up the courage to talk to him he's not there. Normally, he's outside his classroom in between classes. I checked three times for him. Not there....

I swear it's a conspiracy. Either these series of events have been odd coincidences, he has a Zarrdar, or (even more coincidently) he's a member of at least one of the forums I post on.

Or perhaps two or all of those. Anyway it goes, it's damn freaky I tell j00.

I made it up, especially for type of situation where all goes wrong ><.


Damnit.

You probably won't see too much of me for the next few days.. or maybe a lot more, it depends on how I react. The visit ended and now I won't see her for a long time. I'll have pictures up soon, but yeah.. I just don't feel too great.

Oh boy.

That's not good, but you could have told me that.

Ohhh Stomach Ache ... and we were just so enjoying having you around and posting again. Well, I do understand the melancholy you must be feeling ... do try to keep in touch with her at MySpace and by email. Are telephone calls out of the question??

Listen Chaos, I was just reading last night about Mary Steinburgen (sp?) and Jim Morrison. She was his first love before he got famous, when he attended the Univ. of Florida in Tallahassee and every weekend he'd hitch-hike back to Clearwater to be with her. But during the week - they'd talk by telephone and here's how ... Mary would find a different pay phone each time and send him a letter with the phone nymber for that phone booth and what time he should call her there. Then he'd call.paying for the first three minutes and they'd talk for a long time. Then when the operator called back with the charges of how much change he should drop in the phone, he'd already have walked away. Pretty romantic huh?

I guess the phone company doesn't let you phone like that anymore ... probably make you pay up front. Best thing would be if you or Jamie got a cell phone that has free national calls and buy phone minutes for it. Maybe you already have cell phones. Don't despair, you will see her again. Maybe you could visit down there somehow, if her parents like you.

Oh I'm good with the phone things, we have unlimited long-distance. I don't know all the details, but I do know that I can call from here and it's free. It's not all bad really, I just need to get re-use to things being long-distance again, I've become accustomed to things being closer. I'll get over it, probably sooner than I think. I've never had it so rough, long-distance is torture, but for her it's worth it. I won't go into the "she's the most wonderful gir ever, etc" stuff, I don't like listening to other people say it, so I won't go and be a hypocrite now. I'm starting to feel better anyways, I'm just binging on videogames to distract myself and soon enough I'll be my same old self again. Besides, I should be able to talk to her by... tomorrow or the day after that, so by then I should be doing much better.
Once again, thanks for all your concern. I'm glad that most of you at least seem to care about my problem-of-the-week. Not much to worry about though, just some moping and sulking and then I should be okay. It's just a matter of time.

Well everyone deserves a little moping and sulking around time .... especially when you ar missing someone in particular.

*sigh*

The one Rainer misses he hasn't seen in a while. She used to frequent the Offical Forums, but she hasn't been there is so long.

Her name is Kira. Funniest German Woman Rainer knew

Ha ha! I've finally done it! I have beaten it into the abyss and I probably won't bring it out for a while!

Ahem...

I started writing again and I'm over my Oblivion addiction... Hopefully I'll update my Halo fanfic soon. Also, I need a place to bounce ideas off of people about my novel so I may do that here too. This is a friendly forum.



Are you going to be in Michigan? It'll probably be cold here.

Danny??? Did I miss something here? Why on earth are you going to court????? Hmm whatever the reason is....I wish you damn good luck!


Ehhh? cold? in Michigan....hmm ok, have to bring some nice warm clothes then.....Oh wait! I´ll buy some instead!!!!

Nice to see you again, Sir Radont. Great to hear about your writing. Yeh, I guess it will be getting coldish in Michigan soon now that it's nearly Autumn.

Just remember this, while it may be cold in Michigan, it's freezing in Canada .

Ugh, we get a long weekend holiday, yet I still have to work on Saturday... If it rains though I figure the window won't be busy. So in other words, I'm going to have a very boring seven hours of works. I expect I'll make some headway into Don Quixote, it's been going kinda slow so far. Or maybe I'll write an update.....

'tis still warm as the blazes here in Florida. And we passed through Ernestos mild wrath with only some extra intense dousings of rain. Now he is headed to the Carolinas and up to New Jersey and New York for the long holiday weekend.

Grr.. freakin Ernesto ruined yesterday and caused me to have to work over time today..

Cold.. whats that? Here in NC is rarely snows or gets below 40 degrees

Meh, I'm not one to like overly hot days anyways; I burn too easily

It looks like some of Ernesto has reached Canada though, the skies are quite dark right now, and it's the middle of the afternoon.