...Burning Star IV

 well, the past two days have been enjoyable... i've had time off from work, not that i spent any of it resting, but i still had a relaxing break from the grind...

i played a console game!!! lol for a long ass time too! y'see, this is a first for me, being a hardcore computer gamer and all, but i actually sat down and played Fable: The Lost Chapters, from the begining, for nearly 6 hours straight!!! i love that game! and it's so damn good, i'm almost thinking about getting an Xbox just to play it, and Morrowind... if i can find four or five game titles that i really like, that i can seriously play on that console, i may just justify getting one down the road...

i just bought my tickets for the concert in April!!! Coheed and Cambria, with Avenged Sevenfold?!!?!?! HELLS YEAH

um, i also finally caved, and i got a MySpace.... bleh, i dunno why, but i guess it's a great way to meet new people... anyways, if you feel like having a looksee, go to http://www.myspace.com/keywork716" title="http://www.myspace.com/keywork716" target="_blank"http://www.myspace.com/keywor... and enjoy... if you have a MySpace account yourself, please feel free to add me to your friends list, seeing as mine is pretty scant right now, i'll prolly accept an request from just about anyone (even you, ally :) )

so, my friend scott is endeavouring on a Photoshoot quest at the moment... he's taken every title from every song that Atreyu has ever done, and he's taking photos to match the song titles, editing them in Photoshop, and giving them a sort of Sin City style... i really like what he's done so far, in fact, it's inspired me to give it a shot myself... and you guessed it, i'm using the titles from all of Coheed and Cambria's songs! LOL... i'm going to have a difficult time with it, i can already tell... with there being a storyline behind all the songs, it sort of predetermines the mindset you're in when you start thinking about the content of the picture... i mean, you know what the song is about, and how it relates to the story, so the story sort of helps to form the image... thus far, i've figured out exactly how i want two of the pictures to look... and that's out of 38-40 songs (it's late, and i don't feel like counting that list again)... those two pictures are gonna look really sweet, but damn if it's gonna take awhile to come up with content to match all the song titles... i sort of want them to all relate to the story, so that might make it trickier... fortunately, i have Cobalt and Calcium and "the story so far..." write-up to assist me with that, but it only covers the first two CD's.... once i get to the pics for Good Apollo... i'm on my own...

if and when i get around to taking these pics, i'll be sharing them all with you guys :)

enjoy!

slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth...

BHC

 i need to post more often...

i've been working a hell of alot lately, trying to get the money issue under control... granted, i'm not working overtime or anything, but i'm getting as close to a 40-hour week as management will allow... so it's been wake up at 12, eat and shower, work from 2-10, then come home, play guitar by myself and talk to angie for a few hours, then sleep, and repeat... i'm actually in the middle of a 6 straight day work period... which is no fun, but i need that money... i've got big dollar signs in my eyes right now, and at the moment, moeny is the solution to almost all of my problems, so i'm pretty much set to do whatever it takes to get as much as i can, as quickly as possible...

my ears are finally healed, almost... i can prolly start gauging them in another week ( a full 5 weeks ahead of the recommended 8-week healing period)... i'll shove some 14s through them, then prolly gradually work up to 8s, if i go that far with them.... i dunno, i think it might look a little better with the top hole just a tiny bit smaller than the bottom ones... maybe 10s or something, i don't know...

i've almost stopped gaming on my laptop entirely... *gasp* work has alot to do with this, because i'm working so much, and sleeping so much, i don't have alot of time left over for games, guitar, angie, friends, etc.... but another major factor in it is that the gameplay on it has become so degraded, it's not even fun to play on it anymore, especially not after playing alot of my better games on my mom's uber-computer... i've tried everything possible, and i just can't fix this stupid thing... and i mean EVERYTHING... i've run cleansweep, virus scan, ad-aware, defrag, speedisk, i've rebooted dozens of times and left it turned off for hours on end, i've turned off almost every single non-vital background program i can find, and still, not a single iota of improvement...

i hate this fucking machine... at this point, it appears as though i have forked out alot of money for a really fancy type-writer...

got my paycheck last night, so it looks like i have a car insurance check to write, and a concert ticket to buy!!!

my abscence over the next few days will be work-related, so don't fret, i'll be back soon...

when you've gone about things all wrong
bury them here,
with the lifetime you would never regret...
...in graver mistakes dear mom and dad, i write you in the letter that states
when the new days begun forget your son when he's out on his own...
...point your gun in another direction, now that you've cried yourself to sleep

BHC

 wow, that was a really angry and depressing post i had up there... of course, i was really angry and depressed, so i guess that makes sense... i just don't really know why i was feeling like that, i mean, i was on my fourth straight day off from work, and i was drunk as fuck... what's not to be happy about? anyways...

feeling better now that i'm not concerning myself with such things as were mentioned in that last post.... not to say that they've been resolved, just more and more i'm realizing that bitching about them on here doesn't help them much, plus it generally makes for a shitty post....

i had this intresting little revelation thought, i think over the weekend... i was sitting on the couch, watching CSI, or Law & Order, or something of that nature, but for some reason all i could think about was the fact that i haven't played Grand Theft Auto III in a longass time....

boot up the laptop!

so i've been generally ignoring the rest of my games and playing that... i made it to Staunton Island just last night, but after my gaming session, i found a website with a fullblown high-res map of all three islands in the games, including roadmaps... so now i'm going to print those suckers out and label them with all the hidden package locations, unique jumps, hideouts, etc... should keep me occupied for awhile...

i lied earlier when i said i wasn't still concerning myself with the issues in the last post... there is still one at the top of the bitch-list... MONEY... i mean, my paycheck are getting bigger every time i receive one, which is awesome, but the thing is, so are my debts... i now owe roughly $475 to the financial aid office at the community college for failing out last semester while on a Pell Grant... my car insurance is due by the end of the month, which is another $175... i asked jeff to gimme a break this month on the car payments though, and he was kool with it, so i don't have to worry about that just yet... but i also owe my dad about $90 for the new rim i just had replaced on my car... turns out, it had been bent flat on the backside for i dunno how long, and that's what was causing the slow leak in my driver front tire... i need gas again, and for some reason, gas prices just skyrocketed again.... i need an extra $25 for the concert, and YES, that is a NEED... i'm sorry, but i just will not miss this concert... period... i need to get out and do something for myself in honour of all the fucking money i'm practically GIVING AWAY, and i've decided that's going to be it... i've put the tattoo on hold again, untill this is straightened out, which might be until after the concert, which is ok, cuz i think it will have more meaning to get the tattoo afterwards anyways... but hopefully, i should be back on the straight and narrow on the money by the middle of April....

i also need a new computer... granted, that's not a need, but my life pretty much revolves around a very few basic things, and one of them is the computer... and i'm finding some pretty sweet deals on Dell and Gateway alike on desktops that should suit my needs... looking at between $500-600 for a really good system, but i'll need to fork out close to another $200 for a really kickass graphics card... i can actually pull off $700 in almost a month, so that should be easy, once the finances settle out..

gah, i've gone on for way to long about this shit... not like any of you care... lol

BHC

i had a really, really, good obviously drunk post to go in here about an hour ago, but my goddamned internet punked out and erased the whole thing (because i clicked Post! and i was drunk and forgot that it booted me), and now it's lost forever in the annals of cyberspace... and now i'm uber pissed, cuz i'm sobering up, and my friends are being assholes, and not wanting to come and pick me up so i can chill with them for awhile, and my mom won't let me go even if they would come and pick me up, and to top it all off, i'm not in fucking ohio... which really grinds my gears... even though i got tore the fuck up tonight in honor of st. patty's day, i still feel like this is one of the shittier nights of my  new year... i'm not really fucking happy about it, so i'm chugging another beer to compensate...

in other news, to PastorDave, i don't give a shit what your intentions were in the comment you left me, or the tMail you wrote me, the original inciting incident screamed negativity, therefore, i reacted as such... get over it...

i'm generally fucking pissed, and i'm in the midst of a financial fucking crisis, and and lovelife crisis all at the same fucking time... i can't stand it... it's fucking killing me, i don't even have anyone to talk to about this shit, except angie, who i love dearly, ad even though she means the world to me, the distance is just taunting me... i have no one here to be with, and it  just sucks.... i'm lonely, and i'm needy... i want someone to be here with me on nights like this, when my self-esteem, and my self-worth is at a low point, someone who won't bullshit me into making me feel better, but who will just be with me, and make me know that at least with them, i'm all that matters, and that i'm good enough for them... i need a companion like that... i have that with you angie, i really do... but the space between us makes alot of that even harder to deal with... and i wish we were together... tonight.

as far as the money goes, well, you know... you can never have enough... and more often than not, you never have enough... and right now, that's where i am... i just had to get a new rim for my car, and get that alligned and fixed, which, granted, only cost $12, but the rim was fucking $90.... which i'll have to pay back to my dad... needless to say, i didn't get my tattoo today, which really pissed me off... i could have used a good dose of extreme pain today... to take my mind off of everyhing else... but i guess that's why i got into the alcohol tonight... other than it was st. patty's day, of course...

i'm just so angry right now... i mean, not homicidal rage, angry, but just pissed at the world angry... in general.... vis a vis... ergo... concordantly.... you know, that shit...

i did in fact recieve a new gun from shorty's today, proving that i did infact order another gun in my sleep... fortunately this one only cost me $12... can't complain about that... i painted it up really nice, and i think it's a worthy addition to my collection.. a collection which one day, i will show you all...

i'm supposed to be sleeping right now, so i can get up at 8am to go with my father and my sister to the maple festival.... not my idea of a perfect day, espcially seeing as i have to be at home to go to work at 5, and i won't be home till 10, but there's a free pancake breakfast and about $10 in beef jerky chew waiting for me up there.... xo why not, right? i'm not paying anyways....i've juyst chugged another brew, and i'm thinking the bed looks like a a pretty good option right now...  and on that note:

HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS....

BHC

 so it's 4:55am, friday, and i'm dead...

i don't men that literally, or even in a way that alludes to being in a serious amount of trouble...

what i mean, is that it's 4:55am on friday, and i'm not sleepy, i'm not asleep, the body is willing, however, the mind is spongy and weak... i feel like i'm in a haze (that could be the vodka talking), just generally out of it... i better stay away from Shorty's tonight... i might end up doing that thing where i buy airsoft guns in my sleep again...

so... i should have a new gun here later today...

i think i might be afraid to sleep... i played through alot of The Suffering: Ties That Bind today... or tonight, as it were... that game has scared the shit out of me... i mean, it's fucking frightening... and seldom does a game come along that allows the user to use double-barreled 12ga. sawn off shotguns (yes, plural), ineffectively... by that, i mean, i've never seen an enemy that could survive one blast from a shotty like that, let alone a barrage of 4 combined shots that only seem to leave the enemy wounded and angry...

suffice to say, it's a helluvalot scarier than Half-Life on pot...

you know what else is scary? the shit you find on the movie channels at this time of night... and no, i don't mean the horribly bad soft porn stuff, either... i mean, finding shit like, "The Forbidden Zone".... what the fuck was that about?!?!??! it was one of those, "It's so horrible, yet, i cannot look away, not unlike a brutal motor vehicle accident".....

back to the games... i am going to steal my mom's computer... simple as that... i love that fucking machine... it still has NFS:U on it... and i started playing it again tonight, because i forgot how beautiful it looked on her computer.... but jesus, is it hard... you see, i'm used to playing this game at 5 frames per second, max.... because my laptop is teh suk.... but my mom's desktop easily blasts out 50-60 fps with that game... it was gorgeous :)

i'm not sure what i'm blogging about at this point... it's kinda just, my fingers are dancing on the keyboard, and spelling words...

maybe i should lay down...

one last kiss for you
one more wish to you
please make up your mind, girl
i'd do anything for you

BHC

 i got my ears pierced again on saturday!!! they look pretty good... i let Adrenna do them (SnuggleB163), and she was very good at it... she did jerk a little the second time though, and it stung a bit, but it didn't hurt... i'm going to give them at least 3 weeks before i change them out and start gauging them... adrenna told me to wait 8 weeks..... HA! i also dyed my hair last night, all of it, so here's a photo update, so you can all remember my beautiful face:

.... those are my angry eyes... it was NOT a good night at work... but more on that in a few moments...

yesterday, i went splurging, got a few new games, new earrings for when i start gauging my new piercings... the games i got make me realize more and more how badly i need a new computer... they just do not run... it's horrible... and i feel like i'm powerless to do anything to fix it without buying a brand new desktop, because i know so little about upgrading laptops... one thing is for sure, i'll never buy a damn laptop again, regardless of how good a deal i can find on one... alas, i bought The Suffering: Ties That Bind, and Battlefield Vietnam:Redux... thank GOD i didn't pay more than ten for BFVR...the Suffering looks awesome, can't wait to play it on a good system, but i was always under the impression that the Battlefield games had a singleplayer story line to them, regardless of the fact that the multiplayer games from that series was what made it extremely popular... and i guess, it does have a singleplay "mode"... in the same sense that Star Wars: Battlefront had a single player mode... you can play it without connecting to the net, by yourself, but it's just like deathmatches...you choose one team or another, and battle untill one or the other is wiped out...

suffice to say, i'm glad i waited to get that until it was ten dollars...

then, after the splurging, it was shrimp cocktails at the sLobster, then home for two chocolate mint martinis :) i got pretty tore up last night too! :)

then i woke up with a hangover and less than an hour to get to work... and work sucked... in every way you could imagine... i even got red carded tonight... remember, when i told you guys about the first night the power went out there? and that one of the first things that happened was some chick gave me a green card because i carded her for alcohol? well, it happened again tonight, only with cigarettes, which carry a much less severe penalty... the reason i didn't card the guy was 1) i swear to god, i'd seen him in there buying smokes before, and 2) he asked for Parliament Lights.... jesus, of all the fucking cigarettes we sell, in a months time, we'll only get 5, maybe 6 ppl IN A MONTH that ask for Parliaments!!!! and i had thought i'd sold this kid the same smokes before, so i didn't card him, not to mention, he looked older than me by about 5 years... nonetheless, i was redcarded, and will be expecting a coaching talk about it later this week..... grrrr :( not kool

on a brighter note, depending on my money situation, i might be getting my tattoo on friday!!! which also be the same day that Webby buys our tickets for the concert!!! yeah! i'm stoked! can't wait, gonna see coca and ax7!!!! that's gonna be the best day ever!!!

well, i've got the house to myself again tonight, so i think it's off to do some gaming.... or at least try and get the gaming working....... :-\

Would we have lived as a child would care?
With this vile, to drink, i dare...
Only to cry all alone with your taste on tounge...

BHC

 for the first time in months, i logged on to tBlog tonight, and i didn't see any spamblogs in the recent post list, and the pages seem to be loading lightning quick... let's hope this continues...

so there was a meeting at work again a few days ago, nothing of intrest really, except the steven issue came up again... it seems that he really was the "mastermind" behind all of this, and that he really does have issues, in the sincerest form of the term... that was just how he decided to handle that particular problem in his life...

the thing that bothers me is... i was with this guy the whole time the night of the bomb threat... casually talking, carrying on, no big deal... i dunno, it's just the after thought of the thing.., like, holy fuck, i'm conversing with a psycho... and i don't even know it...

looks like things are really shaping up for the concert next month :) Webby already told me, he's driving down there, i can just ride with them, and he'd give me the money for all their tickets so i could handle all that, which i don't mind at all... so it looks like i really will be seeing coheed and cambria AND avenged sevenfold in concert!!!! hells yeah!!!

i found my Obi-Wan Kenobi Lightsaber that i bought when we went to see SW:EPIII opening night... and no one was home... so i went all jedi-fuckin'-yoda-and-shi t for a few hours :) really, bringing back some old techniques from Kendo class, but with a lightweight plastic lightup Lightsaber.... yes, it glows blue... it was kinda fun, in the dark, swinging it around really fast, so it would just be a huge blur of blue light... and with the blade weighing next to nothing anyways, it was easy as hell....

certainly much easier than swinging aroung the katana blade i finally got my hands on last night :) ryan came by scotts after work, where we'd all joined in for a night of poker, and brought the katana he wanted to sell me :) i was surprised at how good a condition it was in; no nicks in the blade, only mild rust, and the blade was still attached to the hilt... a little wobbly, but i fixed it right away... it's a nice, gloss black handle and sheath, all wood construction, with a dragon carving in it, and gold-plated metal endcaps and sheath cap... it's pretty nice, especially for only $20...

so my mom's friend Sandy is here for the weekend (and next)... she works for the FBI, and she with an Evidence Recovery Unit, so she's here in Quantico all the time for training... this time, they were doing a Photography Unit, and she brought home a whole bunch of Federal cameras and shit.... too sweet.... she's awesome fun to hang with, so this weekend will be fun for sure :)

so i have this little dilemma with a couple friends of mine.... seems they want to hook me up with on of their roommates... first off, lemme say that, yes, i'm all for it... meeting new people is something i rarely have the oppurtunity to do... and the fact that this other person they want me to meet is (from what i've been told) attractive, and fun, just sort of sweetens the deal... but in the back of my mind, i just feel like they are playing a trick on me... and it's not them, honestly, i just always get like this in these kinds of situations... i feel like the people who are trying to set me up are REALLY trying to set me up... for a fall, you know? but this time, it almost feels liek this feeling is trying to hold me back from even meeting this girl, which is rediculous... i feel like i've formed an opinion of someone i haven't even met yet... no, i'm not going to let this stop me, not this time... i'm at least going to meet this girl... better yet... i'm going to at least go on ONE date with her... i need to date, i need to get out, meet chicks, go places... instead of sitting here, talking to you guys all the fucking time, and playing videogames until 5am....

not that there's anything wrong with that.... honest!

you stormed off to scar the Armada,
like Jesus played letter,
I'll drill through your hands...

BHC

 i finally fucking did it!!! i may not be able to complete the simple task of reactivating and flooding a nuclear reactor core so i can transport myself of this planet, but goddammit if i can't kick a motherfuckers ass with a Nissan 240SX!!!!

i finally beat all of Need For Speed: Underground!!!! it was a pretty shitty ending too, but i don't care, i finally beat the whole game, and did almost all of it on the hardest difficulty setting, and almost all of it with the same car!!! i say almost because a) the Nissan 240SX isn't available when you first start the game, you have to unlock it after about 35 or so races, so i started off with a Mazda Miata MX-5... i know not the best choice out there, but it beats the hell out of a honda civic, a dodge neon, a puegot 206, or a VW golf gti... and b) drift races are damn near impossible to beat on the hardest skill level... it seems like the opposition is simply multiplying the "cool-factor" of their cars, by your final score, and kicking the crap out of you by almost 100,000 points... however, i did manage to beat ALL of the drift races on medium, with scores ranging from 90-150,000 per race... my stats at the end were even mildly impressive:

Total Race Starts: 173
Total Wins: 140
Total Losses: 28
Win Percentage: 80%
Overall Mileage: 693.03 Miles
Style Points: 2,060,465

Style points are points awarded for performing certain tricks or manuevers while racing... these include things like drafting (following closely to a car in front of you, and gaining momnetum from the airflow over their car), powersliding, nearly missing oncoming traffic, hangtime (the longer you're in the air, the more points you recieve), etc.... the points are totaled at the end of the race, and then multiplied by your cars visual rating, which can be increased by adding visual mods to your car, like body kits, neons, spoilers, and the like... when i finally beat the game, i had a level 5 rated car, which is the highest rating, but i had a minimum of visual upgrades... just a really nice Wide Body Kit that i won in a previous race :) here for your veiwing pleasure is my award winning Nissan 240SX:

So there you have it, my modest looking street machine... btw, in case you're wondering, she'll do a one-mile drag in under 23 seconds, and can hit 212MPH without blowing the engine... it's extremely tricked out under the hood, all the top performance mods in there, so it may look pretty weak, but it just fucking moves down the track :)

as i said, the end of the game kinda sucked, because throughout the entire game, you're taunted by "Eddie" and his posse of street racers, and you think at the end of the game, there's gonna be this huge showdown, involving several races, and that eddie's car is gonna be so tricked out, there's no way you'll be able to beat him... but no... one race... a head to head sprint, at that.... in all the different styles of racing on this game, i never lost a single sprint race.... not ONE... and i'll admit, Eddie's car was a nissan Skyline GTR, and at first, the fucker had me, but around one turn, he got to close to me, we traded paint a bit, and i pushed back, harder... and i threw his ass into a fucking wall, where he remained for about 10 seconds, which was more than enough time for me to get a mile away from him :) i whooped his ass, on the 111th/111 races... and then, i got challenged to another race... that's right, the game consists of 112 races, but only tells you there is 111.... weird...

i've gone on for way too long about this, but i'm sure some of you read it anyways... well, now all i have left is to beat NFS:U2....

yay.....

BHC

 so i've been tagged by Angela... here's how this works:

Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with "6 weird things/habits about yourself". In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their comments and tell them to read yours.

so here we go:

1. I have this horrible habit of talking to myself... and not just like, mumbling answers to myself when i'm working, or something... i mean, full out, in context conversation with myself, and with other people who aren't even there... i was a really lonely little kid... gimme a fucking break, but it kept me occupied when i was a kid, and i guess i just never fully kicked the habit...

2. i have this thing with statistics and lists.... but i apply them very... oddly... usually with videogames, it's not uncommon for me to play an older game with a clipboard and pencil beside me, and write things down as i go... like, a few weeks ago, i was playing through DD, and DD2, as a lone sniper, and trying to figure out how accurate i could be for the length of the game... other times include the night i stayed up for six hours racing every single car in NFSU on the same drag track, trying to figure out which was the fastest, quickest to accelerate, easiest to shift, etc... it's really complicated, and really fucking weird...

3. While driving, the enitire front console is my musical instrument... i play drums on the steering wheel, piano on the dash, and i've even played guitar on the seatbelt... i also sing... always.. but especially when i'm just by myself, and that's when i really let it out, and i scream loud and shit... headbang, throw myself around the in the seat... and keep in mind this is usually while the car is in motion... like, 60+mph of motion...

4. I've been known to have full out conversations (with real people) in totally foreign (and believeable) accents ... sometimes this gets me into trouble...

5. I'm actually pretty self conscious about my physical appearance and bodyshape... granted, it's something i haven't had to worry about fo awhile, thankfully, but even when i start to get a little extra weight on, it bugs the hell outta me...

6. i have been hit on/asked out by gay men.... and that's ALL i'm saying about it...

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so there you have it, you know 6 interesting, quirky, slightly embarassing, and downright fucking weird things about me... hopefully, none of you knew any of these already, otherwise, i just wasted your time... anyways, my six picks for the tagging are as follows:

Scott
Dave
Ally
Brandon
and Ruined

Enjoy, you fuckers!

BHC

 so i've got alot to fill you guys in on...

the action started on monday night... first off, some dumbass set the trashcan in the men's bathroom "on fire"... i'm quoting that because i was told it was "on fire" and that s was "smoldering"... either way, some other dumbass saw fit to use a goddamned fire extinguisher to put out the... smoke, i guess... effectively ruining the bathroom for a good number of hours... we're guessing that this has nothing to do with the incidents that follow here, i'm just mentioning it, cuz hey, it fucking happened, and it didn't make shit later on much easier to deal with...

about 30 minutes after that, i'm in the breakroom (think storage room, with a table and a chair) at work, when the phone above my head rings... i'm in the middle of a conversation with a co-worker, who we'll call steven, cuz that's his name... steven answers the phone, then says nothing, and hangs up... i'm thinking wrong number or something... steven just gets this panicky look on his face, and says we have to get out of the store, now... he says that the call was a bomb threat, that the person on the phone said "there's a bomb in the store" and hung up...

oh shit...

so, i tried to stay cool about it... i told him to calmly get our manager, and get her to the office, we'll tell her what's up, and we'll let her run things from there... she stays calm about it, and gets on the phone with 911 and store-solutions (our work hotline)... then she tells me and steven to evacuate customers out of the building... so i'm thinking, just calmly ask everyone to leave, tell them not to panic, and just exit the premises as quickly and safely as they can... in the midst of my safe thinking, dumbass steven runs out into the lobby and yells"

"EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET OUT NOW!!! THERE'S A BOMB IN THE STORE!!!!"

way to go, you fucking tard... now the store's in a panic, at this point, we have customers telling ppl outside there's a bomb, so there's no point in trying to deny it, so i grab the mic for the canopy outside, and tell everyone to stop fueling, and leave... after about 10 minutes, we got everyone out, shut down the pumps, locked up the store, and got out ourselves...

so where did we go? where do you go for that matter, when you're told to stay in the vicinity, but not in the store??? why, out on the fucking tarmac, of course!!! yes, by all means, go stand right over there, where only meters of concrete seperate you and 240,000 gallons of petrol!!!! that'll be safe!!!

FUCK!

then we realized that people we still pulling into the parking lot, despite the fact that there wasn't a single light on in the entire store.... it amazes me, but it's true what they say: tell a man there's a billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you... tell him the stove is hot, and the fucker WILL touch it just to make sure.... PEOPLE!!! honestly!!! if the store looks like it's closed, then it's fucking closed!!!! and oh my god, the mentality of some of these people... seriously, if a store that is normally open is closed early, and you go into the parking lot, to find four of the store's employees satnding in the parking lot, worried as shit, and one of them tells you, politely, that you need to exit the parking lot IMMEDIATELY......

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU QUESTION THAT?!?!?!?!?!?

seriously?!?!?! i mean, any fucktard can look at that basic situation, and should be able to tell that something isn't right... nevertheless, we had morons pulling in, asking us, what the problems what, what was going on, while we're trying to get them the fuck outta there, so as to possibly save there lives, mean while, i'm thinking, well, unless you know whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire, then you're about as useful as the hole in the ground we are about to become....... jesus christ, JUST LEAVE!!!! but now, some of them just get pissy with you, so that's when you look them dead in the eye and say "Because there's a goddamned bomb in the store, and unless you want to be a fucking crater, i suggest you MOVE!!!!"

that did the trick...

at this point, the adrenaline is pumping so high, i don't remember alot of what was going on next... just that, we were shut down for two hours, the bomb squad searched the store over twice, and came up with nothing... at that, they gave an all-clear, and told us we could resume business.... now, let's return our attention to what started this little fiasco...

steven answered the phone... steven told us there was a bomb... steven caused unnesecery panic amongst the customers... and steven was sent home early... he was supposed to stay till midnight, and i was supposed to go home at ten, right about the time the opened us back up...

only i was there untill 12:20 that night, unpacking cigarettes and making more coffee for the cops... where did that little fucker get off, leaving early like that???

suffice to say, things didn't look good for steven... at least, not in my book...

then comes tuesday... i didn't work tuesday, so all this is hearsay, doesn't mean it's not true though... basically, all i got about tuesday was that someone called the store again, AGAIN steven answered the phone, and AGAIN the store was threatened... this time it was "everyone in your store is going to die" *clik*.... much more than that i don't know, but i know that steven answered the phone...

then, wednesday... my first day back since the bomb scare, and i'm there with almost the exact same crew that was there that night... including steven... and wouldn't you know it, at some point, around 10, that boy came crying the proverbial wolf, saying that this time, he had been confronted by some kid near the bathrooms, who said something to the tune of "you're all going to die".... and again, this was kept extremely hush-hush this time around because of all the panic and shit on monday... but next thing you know, a cop is escorting people out of our store, and we're clocking out and leaving... fortunately, i got to go home, and steven had to stay this time...

all things told, the past few days have benn, well, nuts... there you have my reason for a lack of updates... as of right now, it turns out steven caused even more drama on thursday night, apparently threating one of our new supervisors, as well as one of the kitchen n00bs... before threatening to kill himself... so i heard he was under house arrest at the moment...

hell, prolly gonna be alot queiter at work now because of that...

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 stole this from angie... seeing as i never post any more, this at least will let you guys know i'm still alive... enjoy!

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