I got word about 30 minutes ago that my maternal grandfather passed away last night. It's a sad loss but I'm just glad that he isn't sick or suffering anymore. He's free to do whatever he wants, not having to sit in a recliner all day. I'm lucky I had him for 28 years.

Rest in peace, Grandpa Mel.

One of the greatest people I've ever met,  dragonsurfer needs our help to raise $10'000. He is scared for his future and I want to do as much as I can to to help him out. He's been my friend for over 8 years and I could not imagine my life without him. Please donate to his gofundme. It's gotten over $1'000 so far. Please read what he has to say and donate what you can! Even if you can only donate a few bucks, every little bit helps!

The gofundme
https://gofund.me/bce8e9d0

Further information
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10938862/
&
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10940583/

My old Discord account has been recovered!! If you receive a contact request by the name of dariusdelaurentiis, this is actually me from my new account.

Since I am busy chugging champagne (not really) to celebrate, please check your block lists for my old account and if it appears, please unblock and send a friend request! I will try to send friend requests in due time!

It's been two months and I still find myself bummed out at losing my Discord account... so many fond memories I had with friends that I can't even access anymore and Discord Support hasn't done a damn thing.

I can't tell you how often daily I wish I could access certain chats and read over them to reminisce but I can't... it fucking sucks and I wish I had never lost it in the first place.

My account was hacked. Please do not listen to anything my old account tells you.

My new account is darius_de_laurentiis so please add me there

One of my mom's chinchillas had to be put to sleep last week... we noticed he was in respiratory distress, having trouble breathing. Turns out some of his teeth were poking into his sinus as well so the poor little guy was suffering and mom decided to have him put to sleep one last time. We buried him in the backyard, near my mom's daffodils. He was 11 years and my mom had had him since I was in high school (I graduated in 2016). I was with her the day she got him, along with Charlie, another chinchilla, who is still alive and healthy. We also still have Jenna, another chinchilla we got later.

Rest in peace, little Boris... we will miss you. Say hello to Sulu and Thumbelina (mine and my sister's childhood hamsters) for me.

I caught my dad's cold, barely slept last night and I feel like crap. Here's to hoping I have a speedy recovery!

 Claygen is hosting a raffle! Join here!
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10324065/

I cannot stress this enough. If someone did SOMETHING WRONG, tell them first!

For example, this girl I was friends with for years blocks and removes me, gives zero explanation. Since I have a mental condition that makes me seek stuff like this out, I spent almost two months trying to get an explanation (but mostly to get our DMs back). TWO MONTHS. If she had just taken 30 seconds to type out a quick response and told me not to contact her again, that would have been the end of it. She did have good reasons for it, but she never told me I was making her uncomfortable, so it was her fault. Was I really supposed to find out someone I considered one of my best friends online for four years blocked me everywhere with no reason given and be perfectly fine with it?

This same thing happened to me again this year but there is literally NOTHING I said or sent leading up to it that could have offended him into blocking me, literally no good reason in sight. I go to send him a message, not added. WTF. Send friend request. Request denied, BLOCKED. WHAT... THE FUCK.

I wish I didn't have this mental thing so I could just go "Well, if they're too much of a spineless coward to tell me why, fuck 'em to Hell."

If you feel the need to block somebody, tell them why and if you should attempt contact again. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble having to do with the person making new accounts and sending his or her friends after you for an explanation. It's a common fucking courtesy that'll save both the blocker and the blocked a lot of grief.

For this reason, I can safely say (in my opinion from person experience) that block systems are more often abused by spineless pussies who would rather take the cowards way out than deal with the problem like a mature adult and tell someone the problem before than it's actually used to block haters, trolls, blah blah blah. The block button is just an easy way out that pisses the other person off. I'm not saying everybody who blocks somebody is a spineless pussy, only the people who don't bother with an explanation or possible future hassles (like the one I mentioned above). If you have a problem with someone sending you a bunch of messages or asking to RP or just plain old don't seem to know what NO means, say that you would rather not talk to them anymore. If they keep it up, then block.

In my opinion, blocks should only last a year, 365 days because chances are you blocked somebody for a stupid reason, one year later chances are you don't care anymore but can't be bothered to/just forgot to unblock them, so the newly-unblocked can apologize or make amends, etc. If this person is someone you want blocked forever (crazy ex-boyfriend who won't stop spamming you with threats and his gross nudes, for example) or was a previously blocked person who still hasn't gotten over it and threatens you, no hard task; just block them again and set a Reminder for next year. Call this idea stupid if you want, it doesn't matter if blocking systems stay the way they are or get changed to lasting only a year; whichever way it is, there's gonna be people who will get screwed over by it. Heck, possibly even LESS then a full year because once I found I had been blocked months after it had happened, I asked for an explanation somewhere else, and they didn't even remember doing it.

Oh, and their should be either an option to report abuse of the block feature or send somebody one last message if they just went straight for the button.
Another idea, when you go to block somebody, you should be forced to give a reason which the blockee would receive.

I just had to get this off my chest and vent because I shouldn't even have to make this journal.

For the third time this fucking year, an issue has arose regarding my laptop which means I will be offline for a while. I'll see you all when I get it back.

my laptops charger broke last Friday and I'm still waiting for the replacement to arrive. I hope it arrives soon. Sorry to those I said I would send money to. I don't trust this busted glitchy POS iPad with PayPal or Discord after the last time my charger broke. Hang tight guys. I'll be back soon.

Ceeb's dog needs an emergency surgery for something that, if not taken care of, could be fatal. Please donate whatever you can to save Ruby's life! She may by blind but she's only middle-aged! Please help save Ruby's life!
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9423679/

This person for whatever stupid reason holds animosity towards me so if anyone baring these or any other names tells you sh#t about me, block him.

He says I got him IP banned from FA, can you believe that? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yl5S2tUhs
If you like what you see, subscribe to my channel!

1989 home video theatrical trailer for Die Hard 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93XZLInLq0

I'm fed up with depending on my parents to give me a ride somewhere and then them leaving without me. I'm also fed up with my dad refusing to take me places. So I'm gonna save up and buy my own car. There's a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am being sold in my area for $500. I'm gonna try and save for that.

I review the 1963 Hitchcock thriller, The Birds!!! Please subscribe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-h.....ature=youtu.be

Happy St. Patricks Day, everybody!!!! Drink responsibly!

Is anyone else having a problem with Discord? It's not opening for me and I'm starting to get pissed off!!!

I fucking HATE sharing a room with someone else. If they paid for it, they think they're entitled to make you listen to whatever shit they want to watch. My dad refuses to get the headphones out of the car and he snapped at me so I went down to the lobby. Since it's $124 a night to rent a room, I guess I'll be sleeping here in the lobby. Fucking yay.

I've arrived back in North Carolina. I am feeling a bit down because I liked the hot weather in Florida; I was able to go outside and walk around in a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals.

Now I've come back up North it's colder and I have to wear long pants and a sweater. It was really nice being in Florida, away from all the cold but now I'm back in the cold.

There's only a week left in my vacation until I'm gonna be back in Canada, likely having to deal with worse cold and ice and snow once again, plus having to go back to my job which I was more than happy to take a break from!

On the plus side,  RaveDragon67 and I will be meeting in person while I'm here~!

My time in Florida is over. It's been a very fun week but I am beat! I'll be heading back to NC tomorrow to spend a week at the place I was staying before. I'm going to be meeting a very good friend this coming weekend!

I bought a LOT of movies at a flea market today. Unfortunately, one of the movies ended up being a BetaMAX tape because I didn't look at the clamshell close enough >_< There were also two disaster movies I'd been looking for for a long time but I wasn't allowed to buy anymore tapes.

To all my friends on Discord, if I;m chatting with you tomorrow and I suddenly vanish, you can thank that damn Georgia dead patch. I'll resume conversation as soon as the internet comes back.

Boy howdy has it been a while! I am currently on vacation in Florida. I was at Universal Studios Orlando on Wednesday and was at Kennedy Space Center today. It was quite an educational, fun, and emotional experience that I will never forget!

I am hoping to meet a few online friends on this vacation. I might post a picture of all the stuff I got from NASA today.