JOURNAL: FirestormXIII (Robert X. Hill-Williams)

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  • Dodging the bullet... 2002-05-09 12:24:26 Well today has been uneventful so far, excpet for me calling Gateway and cancelling my authorization of the repair of my laptop. I told my grandmother yesterday how much it was gonna cost, but made the mistake of telling her I didn't authorize it (when I actually did). I told her I'd call them and take care of getting it authorized, but she insisted that she do it instead, since it was her account. Enter me being scared to death, because if she had called today to authorize the repair of the laptop and found out it had already been authorized, I would have been a dead man. I've called Gateway's service center three times already, but i keep getting voice mail. I can only hope she keeps getting it to. I did leave a message telling them to canel the authorization and that the head of the account (my grandmother) would be calling later to get more information and authorize it herself. I can only hope they got my message.
    Oy, what a mess.

    In other news, I'm about to review Great Wang's 'To the Stars' while I download ShonenDizzyCow's 'The Final Wanderers'. I'm doing Wang's because I've been promising myself I'd review all the vids that I had put on disc, and I'm doing Shonen's for a review exchange. My usefulness is an 809 with 3 opinions right now (I right some long reviews, especially now that I've found a stride) and with the two reviews I should get launched on the 20 most useful commenters list. Cool stuff. I think I'll just pick a video at random later and put it on my list for review. 
  • Blah blah blah 2002-05-08 15:02:19 Well today's been pretty boring. I did however start reviewing, as I've been saying I would for last couple of weeks. I just finished reviewing jbone's 'Renegade Megadeus Compleate'. It took for-freaking-ever though. I'm gonna try and get around to reviewing Wang's 'To the Stars' vid, probably tomorrow though.

    In other news I called the service center at Gateway (they had called me yesterday but I wasn't in) and found out what was up with my laptop. They had it for a week and didn't do a damn thing to it. Their technician said there was damage caused to the chassis by the client (no duh, what was i supposed to do while I was still at school, just carry my laptop around with its insides exposed? I swear) so now it's going to cost me $299 plus tax to get it fixed. It was supposed to almost be ready to come out of the shop already, it was supposed to take 10 days at the most. Now they have to ship it out to get fixed, and god knows how long that'll take. Oh well, at least it'll be shipped directly back to my house. There goes some more money down the drain. 
  • I love stuff like this... 2002-05-07 23:02:33 This is a bit from R.A. Salvatore's 'Sea of Swords'. Drizzt Do'Urden is my hero.
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    ...I am alive.

    That seems such a self-evident thing-the I, that we, are alive-and yet, too often, I fear, we easily forget the importance of that simple fact. It is so easy to forget that you are truly alive, or at least, to appreciate that you are truly alive, that every sunrise is yours to view and ever sunset is yours to enjoy.
    And all those hours in between, and all those hours after dusk, are yours to make of what you will.
    It is easy to miss the possibility that every person who crosses your path can become an event and a memory, good or bad, to fill in the hours with experience instead of tedium, to break the monotony of the passing moments. those wasted moments, those hours of sameness, of routine, are the enemy, I say, are little stretches of death within the moments of life.

    We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope-nay, the iron will!-to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine or under starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance every step, be they through gardens of bright flowers or through deep snows....
    That is the meaning of life, I have come at last to understand, and in that understanding, I have indeed found that lust and that joy. A life of twenty years where that lust and joy, where that truth is understood might be more full than a life of centuries with head bowed and shoulders slumped....

    There remain worries and fears, of course. Wulfgar is gone from us...But I have accepted that his path was his own to choose, and that he, for the sake of all three-head, heart, and body-had to step away from us. I pray that our paths will cross again, that he will find his way home...
    But I can be patient and convince myself of the best. For to brood upon my fears for him, I am defeating the entire purpose of my own life.

    That I will not do.

    There is too much beauty.

    There is too much fun.
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    I've just started the book, and now I can't wait to get further into it. That outlook on life comes very close to paralleling my own.

    I am alive.

    Such a simple notion, but it leaves so much to ponder.
    Oh well, this has been my philosophical-type thoughts for the night.

    Later. 
  • I got a dollar, I got a dollar...Ok, actually more like three hundred dollars, but who's counting? 2002-05-07 10:50:17 It's been a while since I've written anything in here. I've been reading other people's journal entries and saying to myself 'Rob you should start keeping up in your journal again too'. But of course that never happened, I always found something else to do. It's actually been a few weeks since I've written in here, and quite a bit has been going on. I'm not trying to bore anyone to death so I'll try and gloss over the unimportant stuff...

    Got out of school on April 26th and was supposed to move into another dorm until the following wendesday. The reason for that was because I was on a search committee that was doing interviews for candidates for the Band Director position that had opened up. We had done interview on the 25th, and the rest of the interviews were to take place on the 1st (I think it was the first, I don't have a calendar near me). Well when I went to check and see if my name was on the list, for people that were to be moved into a different dorm, of course the lady said 'Sorry, your name isn't on the list'. Thus began me running around for two hours trying to get the problem fixed. The secretary in the music department called the lady, and the guy who was supposed to have my name, but both of them had their voice machines on. So then she said she would write a memo for me to take over to the lady with the list. I said thanks and left, because it would be a while before Dr. Garcia (the chair of the music department) would be in to sign the memo.
    So anyway I went back to my dorm and called my grandmother. I told her everything that had gone on that morning and we decided that it would just be easier for me to come home, then drive back next Wed. for the remainder of the interviews. So that's what we did, my grandfather came and picked me up and I went home. Happy happy joy joy, I was finally away from Lincoln for good.
    So I went back next Wed. and did the rest of the interviews. It was a beautiful day that day, and all in all I had a good time. It's amazing how when you're doing something you like it isn't work to do it. I also learned quite a bit about the politics running through Lincoln that day as well. I probably won't be going back to Lincoln to use that knowledge, but ah well, <i>cest la vie</i>.

    I took my laptop to Gateway's service center a little over a week ago. They haven't called me yet, but I'm gonna go over and see if it's fixed yet. I'll be so happy when I get it back with the sound and all fixed, I can finally get back to editing then. Next thing I need to get done is get a bigger HD. I don't need more space right away though, I've already got a project on the shelf for when I get the laptop back. I'm def. gonna need the space before I start my NGE project.

    Got some good news yesterday when my insurance claim came back. (The claim for the robbery, for those of you who didn't already know) They actually paid off a good chunk in reparation for what was taken, even though none of the stuff taken was actaully on the insurance policy. I know I'm going to replace the CD burner first, then probably VHD:Bloodlust, Princess Mononoke, Cowboy Bebop session 2, and Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. I'm not gonna bother replacing X or Street Fighter Alpha at this point, nor am I gonna replace Blood Omen 2 or Monster Rancher 3. Maybe I'll replace some later on this summer after I've been working, but right now money's tight, though the return on my claim helped that. I may not end up replacing anything though, since I got a 340 some odd dollar bill on my credit card, and I only have 240 dollars in my checking account. I'll probably pay off about a hundred dollars on the bill, then bite the bullet next month after I've been working for a few weeks. Or I'll just take the money from the claim and pay off the bill, then ask my g-mom for my money back for a blazer I put on my card. That blazer was a big source of my problems, since it cost 160 bucks. Oh well, it'll work out.

    At this moment I'm looking into transferring. I'm gathering info from various places and am gonna make appointments to talk with counselors to see what will and will not transfer, as well as get some other information. I just sent out for info from Rowan and TCNJ yesterday, and I've already gotten the application for Rutgers. I'm aiming for Rowan, but I won't be able to transfer anywhere until second semester, because most colleges deadlines have passed, and I don't want to pigeonhole myself into a single school just because their deadline comes in June. So that leaves me either going back to Lincoln and living off campus for a semester, or going to another school as a non-matriculating student for a semester. I'll probably do the non-matriculating thing, especially since I don't think the off-campus situation is gonna work out.

    I'm heading to my brother's graduation in two weeks, and my mom is going to go ahead and buy the KIA sportage. So I'll finally have my own freaking car and won't have to deal with my cousin anymore. Amen to that, she's been getting on my nerves recently. She uses the car during the week for school, work, and whatever else she decides, and I'm suppose to get the car on the weekend. Now nevermind the fact that she has the car 5/7ths of the time *and* that she had it all the time while I was at school, she still seems to think all the time she does have the car isn't enough. Which is why she went jaunting off to New Brunswick on Saturday without even telling anyone. I wouldn't have cared if she went, so long as she called me and told me that she wouldn't be bringing the car over. But she didn't, and I was sitting around half the day waiting for her to bring it over, not knowing where she had went off to. Well she finally pushed my grandmother (who owns the car) too far with that, especially stacked on top of the fact that she didn't bring the car over last weekend either. So now my grandmother wants Kristen (my cousin) to give me the thousand dollars that was agreed to on the contract if she wants to keep the car. I know Kristen isn't gonna have the money and even if she does she's not gonna be able to keep up with the car payments, tune-ups, gas, oil, and everything else that goes with the car. So now because she tried to be selfish with the car, she's not gonna have anything at all. Oh well, boo-hoo, excuse me if I don't give a flying fuck. And I'll probably be the first person she comes to asking for a ride to somewhere or if she can use my car. Yea right, like that's gonna happen.

    Oh well, that's pretty much been the goings on in my life for the past couple of weeks. I also went to my high school for the spring concert. Mr. Cataldo (the jazz band director) let me and Frank (a buddy of mine from high school who I played in the band with) come back and play with the jazz band during the concert. The auditorium went wild when we stepped on the stage, it made me feel like a celebrity or some shit. I guess I understand though, all of us from last year and a couple of guys still in the band this year were unstoppable put together, and all of us have only gotten better since last year. I had a damn good time, it was like coming home again, especially when we went back and played with the guys.

    Now I think I'm gonna surf the forums and start my review on jbone's 'Renegade Megadeus Compleate'. I was surprised when I saw it only had three reviews, some I'm really gonna go into detail on his vid. There's really nothing but detail to go into though, because the video is damn good. Alrighty, and I'm off.

    Later guys. 
  • What in the world 2002-04-28 19:58:40 I leave for what, one day, come back, and the org seems fubared?! What's up with that? I've got no number of opinions next to my videos, the off topic forum is gone and and and dear god, what's happened...?!!?

    *sigh* I'll take time to find out later, for now...

    See ya 
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