yeah, my 300zx is definitely the devil Z reincarnate. Everything I do causes another problem. Oh well, every Z owner has a love-hate relationship with their car. I'm going to love it when it's done, but I hate it now.

...Since I last checked in. I lurk about, but haven't really said much.

A quick summary!

All in all, life is going smoothly for me at the moment. I'm working a lot and have school almost every day. I also recently moved into a studio apartment behind my girlfriend  ladylablanc's house.

Since my last journal, my Cocker Spaniel Gracie passed on due to liver cancer, like rascal before her; as did my cat Oreo. We think the chemical lawn treatments we had been getting were to blame. We still have Little Guy and are not anticipating any sort of issues from him, as he never liked to go outside much.

On a lighter note, my parents in NY recently acquired 2 new cocker spaniel puppies named Sunny and Molly; pictures will be forthcoming (they're adorable!).

I'll follow up with photographs of the new puppies, whom I have yet to meet myself!

Pax,
Voltaire

I just got off of Skype video chat with my mother, and she had some bad news for me. My cat, who has been suffering from terminal liver cancer, had to be put down. He had gotten to the point where he was unable to get comfortable, was constantly sick, and wasn't eating. I am going to miss him, he was a wonderful cat. We are having him cremated, but after that I don't know what's going to happen. We'll probably scatter his ashes in the woods, someplace nice.

You know, it's funny how we take things for granted. Rascal was a constant. Every time I came home from being out, he was always right at the door like a dog. When you were lonely, he'd come curl up next to you. He was attached to my heels like a shadow, and for fourteen years this was the norm. Now he's not around anymore, and I somehow miss him more than ever, even though I haven't seen him since I came down to Florida a month ago.

I left never expecting to see him again, but it's still a real blow.

Rest in Peace, Rascal; and we will all miss you dearly.

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01/1996 - 10/17/2010

I just got home from work, and was given some sad news. My cat Rascal, in my opinion the most relaxed and loving cat in the world, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. He was given three months to live on the outside. I wish I could say it was unexpected, but he has been getting very thin recently. Even so, it hit hard. For fourteen years, Rascal has been my friend, my companion, and on occasion, my consoler when I'm feeling down. I'm going to do my best to enjoy what time I have left with him, and when the time comes, say goodbye with dignity. I love you, rascal.

Just throwing a note up before I get too far along, I am going to be out of the country for the next two weeks. If you need me, tough noogies, I won't have internet or cell service. I'll see you in two weeks!

Well, for all those interested, I may be picking up a Datsun 280zx next month! If its still available when I come back from Ontario, I'm going to place an offer.

Well it's time I bit the bullet and got my 300zx fixed. She's hurting, and procrastinating won't make that go away. What with the subframe bushings being shot, the air conditioning tensioner making a horrible racket, and the center console arm rest having come off, I'm looking at about a grand of repairs.

It's  rayhusky's birthday, and we're out for dinner! Joining us are  jujumouse and Michelle! Wish ray a happy birthday if you get a chance!

Hey all, just saying that I will be attending Anthrocon 2010 this year, and if anyone wannts to meet up there, drop me a line! goodness knows I like to meet new people!

Hey all! Just a quick note before I leave the country. I am on my way to Ontario for a week of seclusion and relaxation. I will be back on either June fifth or sixth, and I will see you all then! Hopefully I will have some nice new pictures, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdm_9_pkLA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Today is my birthday! Who woulda guessed by the title? Today at 9:33 PM it will have been 20 years on the dot from when i was born a tiny, fleshy amorphous lump of flesh that was absolutely useless and couldn't even hold it's own head up. 20 years later... Not so tiny, not so amorphous, still kinda useless, but hey! I can hold my head up now! YAY ME! :P

Generic OMGWTF IT'S CHRISTMAS sentiments to all, and I'm pumped for it too! Family, friends, hot cocoa by the fire, all the classic things affiliated with sugarplums a-dancing. As I write this, I am taking time away from some quite decidedly last-minute gift wrapping. Procrastination at it's finest. Yet the best gifts are sometimes not able to be wrapped, and sometimes even unable to be given. One of my friends, my closest friend even, wants only one thing for the holidays, and that is to get out of his house and away from Johnson City, NY. We will be moving to Daytona or thereabouts in the late summer, but neither of us want to wait that long, and I can't blame him. I wish I could just show up on his doorstep with an envelope labeled DELTA and we'd be off.

Why am I saying this? I don't rightly know. Possibly because it's nigh on 1:30 in the morning, possibly because I want so badly to help him out. Or maybe it's just because i'm tired of wrapping gifts and needed something else to do. I don't know.

Anyways, Time's a-wastin' and I need to finish what I was doing, so I can catch some rack time before my family creates a wrapping paper snowstorm. Merry Christmas to all, and especially to my friend, you know who you are.

well, this week STARTED well, i got a new car and got promoted in my job. Things were great, eh? Last night I was driving on a backroad and went around a corner to see a deer. I swerved to dodge it, lost control, and spun into a ditch. So much for that new car.

Well, Anthrocon is just over a week away, and I'm more psyched forever. I decided I really ought to tell my parents where i was goign to be for e5 days or so, because people tend to worry when you vanish for that long. I sent my dad an email explaining what anthrocon was about and what furry is about (to me) along with links to anthrocon's site. I guess we'll see what happens! Wish me luck, fellow fluffy ones (and scaled ones, if you happen to be out there)!

Well, damn. Today I got a notice saying that my place of employment is being sold on the 22nd of August, and on that date, any and all current employees will be fired. I'll be jobless again. Cue Mozee telling me to suck it up.

hey, just a quick pop in because i am not used to this keyboard style. I will not be around much for 2 nore weeks because I am in France. Not to worry, I am taking LOTS of pictures, so you will be able to be in france with me when I put them up. For now, toodles.

You know that town on your TV? The one with the hostage situation and murders? That's my town. Pray for those who died, or are still in danger. I'm not current on things as they unfold, but all we can do is watch and wait.

Update: It ended this afternoon. 12 died on site, 13 counting the gunman, who was found dead in one of the offices of the building. He shot himself. A thirteenth innocent life was claimed this evening when one of the wounded died on the operating table.

Shoutout: My favorite object in the world, my 1986 Nissan 300ZX, is coming out of storage after a long winter. Saturday, it sees the sun!

So, yesterday's journal was ho-hum in feeling, because I had a rather blah night. Tonight, however, there is no such sentiment! I just got back from one of the best presentations I have ever been to. Why? Two proper nouns, Grant Imahara. For those of you who don't actually know me, which is all except maybe four of you, I am a HUGE geek, as well as excellent with electronics, good with mechanics, and the like. Thus, this evening was particularly exciting, because Grant Imahara happend to be one of the five hosts of the show Mythbusters, and as such, one of my five engineering heroes.

It turns out that he spent his childhood much as I have, loving the geeky side of life, taking things apart, building things, and always needing to know how things work. We have even both, to the chagrin of our parents, taken apart the TV remote. Now, I'm not just making this comparison because I think Grant is completely awesome, I'm making it to prove a point, both to you, and to myself, because I'm on the fence. I love photography, I really do. I also love engineering and the like, but the hands-on aspect of it, not the desk job part. Hearing Grant's history amde me think; With just a little more effort towards my mathematics courses, and choosing to aim a little differently in college, I could get to where he was. I'm not talking on TV, that's cool, but i know it's not going to happen.. I'm talking special effects. That would be the best thing, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Photography is all well and good, and it's a hell of a lot of fun, but I don't think I'm talented enough to make a living off of the kind I like to do. Special effects, on the other hand, could earn me a respectable life, be stunningly fun, and I'd still have time to be artsy-fartsy and take pictures!

I think i've jsut about exhausted rambling about the seminar, even though I haven't said a thing about what actually happened at said seminar, but this journal is more for personal validation tonight than anything else.

I got home about an hour ago from my part-time job at the local food markets. I work as a cashier. Astounding, right? Money is money though, and I could do with a bit more of that right about now. What with taxes, insurance, and soon gas to pay for, I'll be scraping. Shit happens, and this too shall pass. I'm getting a second job soon, and i'm going to be moving into an apartment with two of my friends this summer. 4 part-time incomes should be enough, don't you think? We're hoping so. Since I'm just a kid in high school, a cashier job and a second job at an observatory isn't a bad gig, though, and in this economy, I really cant complain about having 2 jobs, where many have none. All that matters to me is having money for gas, a fursuit, and tickets to Anthrocon in June. Aside from that, life will soon be all about cruising in my Z with the T-roofs off, wind in my face, and nothing but highway in front of me. Not a bad way to be.

Alright, I'm back, like I said I would be, and with photographs! I successfully pretended to do homework for several hours, all the while I was on my computer swimming against the current of comments, shouts, faves and watches keeping me on FA here. I really ought to stop pretending at some point and actually do homework, because, ya know, I kind of need to pass high school to get on with my life. I'll probably hit it up around midnight tonight. Normally midnight is around when I go to bed, but I have an offbeat sleep schedule this weekend thanks to an awesome time chilling out with RayHusky, Autruchienne, and Mozee on Saturday. Up until midnight or so at Mozee's place playing on his Pump It Up machine, then a campfire in the woods until almost 3 AM. I still smell like smoke, but that's alright, it reminds me of my old boy scout days. Finally crashed at his place around 4 AM, so I think I'm off-kilter enough with sleep to be able to pull it off. If not, I've got bottled sodas and black teas.

Another entry tomorrow, hopefully more stimulating than me rambling about my day and homework situation. Bear with me guys, I'm rebooting my life.

Also, I won't be on FA for three weeks april 8-29, or if I am, it will be rarely, but boy will I have some stories to tell when I come back. I'll have been romping around Paris and the French countryside.

Pax, Merrosfox

So, I made an FA account almost 6 months ago, it seems. It would also seem that I forgot about it. Oh well, shit happens.At least I'm back now, and this time I'm putting it in my frigging favorites list on my browser so I don't lose it again. More tonight once I've spent the day doing homework that i don't actually have, durned grade-nazi parents.