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General | Posted 16 years agoThey see me rollin'~... they hatin'~...
Well, it took a visit from my oldest brother and some conversation to get me to decide to reapply for California Unemployment. I didn't realize, at the time, how much it would piss off one or two of my "friends", when I got the first check. One would have thought these individuals would be pleased to hear that I had saved myself from financial ruin, as well as a number of family heirlooms we left behind in Cali. Not the case. Well, dumb story short: Those ties were severed and I won. I rode the tide in and stayed on as it went out. Now, I'm faced with a situation that could benefit me beyond what I expected to get out here in Arizona...
My housemate and mechanic managed to talk a friend of his into taking $1700 off a 1973 Chevrolet Nova, leaving me with a $3000 payment to make. Anything I can't come up with, would likely be covered by him or my older brother--or both. Reason?: My housemate and brother *love* muscle cars, and this one comes to me after having received enough love to be in running condition, good interior and exterior, and needing a little more attention to perfect (mild interior wear, is what I heard). Housemate understands my predicament, but is so caught up with the thought of having this beautiful, classic muscle car around to tinker with, that I'll have my chance to decide whether I want to spend almost all I have left on it... tomorrow.
I'm willing to trade immediate financial security for mobility, which would have its pros and cons. The benefit to me, would be the ability to drive further to find potentially higher-paying work (if the job I'm practically hired for declines to hire). The reason they might decline, as far as I understand it, would be if the drug test turns up abnormal results. What may throw them would be the two antibiotics and all the vitamins I took to fight off strep throat before Further Confusion 2010, followed by Scarlet Fever afterward the con (first antibiotic failed, or the infection was the amoxicillin-resistant strain)
It's been a long time since I had a vehicle of my own. To be offered something like this, with potential to someday become a classic show car (though it's going to become my daily driver for a long while)..? It's spending beyond my means, but my support network is apparently amazingly forgiving, and apparently willing to cut deals with their friends on my behalf. I'll owe big... but if THEY are the ones telling me to get the car--why should I ignore or decline and disappoint?
Besides: I love the look of it and the potential that comes with this venture!
[Can Skip]Ahem. It's been more than a year since I came out from Southern California to Arizona. The effort to get where I am has... well, admittedly not been that hard (I neither ask beyond my means or need much to thrive). Life took a hard look at me and felt I needed a wake-up call, back in April. Word began to filter back to me: Storage unit in California had no payments and threats of a lien sale were being fought by my mom... I was trying to find out what happened to my 1994 Saturn SC1 (took Sacramento DMV to tell me it had been towed [because they assumed it was abandoned], dismantled in August 2009, and its VIN retired)... top this off with the jobhunt here in Arizona producing no hits for me since November 2008.Well, it took a visit from my oldest brother and some conversation to get me to decide to reapply for California Unemployment. I didn't realize, at the time, how much it would piss off one or two of my "friends", when I got the first check. One would have thought these individuals would be pleased to hear that I had saved myself from financial ruin, as well as a number of family heirlooms we left behind in Cali. Not the case. Well, dumb story short: Those ties were severed and I won. I rode the tide in and stayed on as it went out. Now, I'm faced with a situation that could benefit me beyond what I expected to get out here in Arizona...
[End Story]My housemate and mechanic managed to talk a friend of his into taking $1700 off a 1973 Chevrolet Nova, leaving me with a $3000 payment to make. Anything I can't come up with, would likely be covered by him or my older brother--or both. Reason?: My housemate and brother *love* muscle cars, and this one comes to me after having received enough love to be in running condition, good interior and exterior, and needing a little more attention to perfect (mild interior wear, is what I heard). Housemate understands my predicament, but is so caught up with the thought of having this beautiful, classic muscle car around to tinker with, that I'll have my chance to decide whether I want to spend almost all I have left on it... tomorrow.
I'm willing to trade immediate financial security for mobility, which would have its pros and cons. The benefit to me, would be the ability to drive further to find potentially higher-paying work (if the job I'm practically hired for declines to hire). The reason they might decline, as far as I understand it, would be if the drug test turns up abnormal results. What may throw them would be the two antibiotics and all the vitamins I took to fight off strep throat before Further Confusion 2010, followed by Scarlet Fever afterward the con (first antibiotic failed, or the infection was the amoxicillin-resistant strain)
It's been a long time since I had a vehicle of my own. To be offered something like this, with potential to someday become a classic show car (though it's going to become my daily driver for a long while)..? It's spending beyond my means, but my support network is apparently amazingly forgiving, and apparently willing to cut deals with their friends on my behalf. I'll owe big... but if THEY are the ones telling me to get the car--why should I ignore or decline and disappoint?
Besides: I love the look of it and the potential that comes with this venture!
Further Confusion 2010 is over, of course...
General | Posted 16 years agoI'll enjoy the memories for years to come, but...
I didn't get in touch with all the people I was expecting to see! That's what furry cons do: You either organize a gigantic list of people you -want- to get in contact with while there, and follow it with militant persistence, or you prowl around the hotel or the city and enjoy the sights.
--as Quocorya and I did. This was one reason why we weren't so visible at the con. We were given a tour by a fox I've known as a friend for a decade, and shown part of San Jose and part of San Francisco.
I came back with a working pair of shiny handcuffs... ^.~
I didn't get in touch with all the people I was expecting to see! That's what furry cons do: You either organize a gigantic list of people you -want- to get in contact with while there, and follow it with militant persistence, or you prowl around the hotel or the city and enjoy the sights.
--as Quocorya and I did. This was one reason why we weren't so visible at the con. We were given a tour by a fox I've known as a friend for a decade, and shown part of San Jose and part of San Francisco.
I came back with a working pair of shiny handcuffs... ^.~
First Furry Con: Further Confusion 2010
General | Posted 16 years agoThis will be the first time I've gone to a furry convention--as though the subject didn't reveal that already. I've managed to convince a number of furiends to come along with me, and already alerted a number of others who are local to the San Jose/Bay area that I'd be showing up.
I'm looking forward to a good time there. Other than that, it's business until then. Save cash, prepare for FC, hunt down a vehicle... all that good, positive stuff. ^-^
I'm looking forward to a good time there. Other than that, it's business until then. Save cash, prepare for FC, hunt down a vehicle... all that good, positive stuff. ^-^
Infuriation #1: Job Search [Revisited-001]
General | Posted 16 years agoI go in for a job interview Tuesday, September 1st, at 9:30am. ^-^
Submission ideas... being a writer and a photographer...
General | Posted 16 years agoI should ask for advice on what to shoot or write about, because I'm barely motivated or inspired to write without an objective in mind. As for photography: I have loads of pictures, but I already have a flickr.com account to upload these things to. I don't quite have enough furry-related pictures to upload here, yet.
Granted, any writing-related suggestions given to me would likely be rusted gears in action. At that: Give me a beginning, a reason why it's happening, and an ultimate conclusion (for the fun of it, if you like), and I'll just connect the dots from there... furry-themed, of course.
I have nothing better to do until I get work~!
Granted, any writing-related suggestions given to me would likely be rusted gears in action. At that: Give me a beginning, a reason why it's happening, and an ultimate conclusion (for the fun of it, if you like), and I'll just connect the dots from there... furry-themed, of course.
I have nothing better to do until I get work~!
[Scottsdale (Blabbery)] With my bunny... and new expriences.
General | Posted 16 years agoMy bunny-boyfriend likes to joke about me prefering to be elsewhere, instead of with him, all the time. So untrue. I've spent more time with him than with anyone else in my circle of friends and acquaintances, and this is because I like being with him.
To top it off: After attending the pathetic Village Inn meet Saturday, August 8th, I invited him back to my place after enjoying a night of barhopping between gay-bars (Bar-1, Apollo's) here in the Scottsdale area. ...my first time ever going to this type!
...gay bars were 'eh?'. Then, '*sigh*'. I was looking around for the hot guys I always expected to see at these places, but as I stood around, drinking, gazing at the guys (one after another), my fantasies were dashed. I saw a transexual, several mediocre faces (save for the bartenders between both bars, who were quite attractive), and only average to 'rather above-average'-looking faces and bodies. I must've been doing the gay-bar visit wrong, because I wasn't impressed. The alcohol was worthwhile, but the guys? I suppose I need to get much more drunk before I start seeing the hottest-to-die-for guys-in-my-life types. So, I stuck around my bunny-boi and disappointed him by not socializing with the other homosexuals of Phoenix, Arizona. For good damned reason: Besides the bartenders, he was the only decidedly sexy guy there. I'm still pretty sure I did the gay-bar experience wrong.
We overslept after getting back home (because we woke up around 6am and stayed up about an hour, before going back to sleep, which disrupted his sleep routine; alcohol also helped this). Waking up around 2:30pm, we realized the bus schedule here in Phoenix was about to bite us on the tail and risk him being stranded by shutting down around 7pm (so he's told me). After we couldn't raise my older brother to help, a mutual friend of ours came to the rescue and we went out to eat (after spending several minutes trying to decide on a place to go). Returning with my bunny to his safe-haven, we joined the good Commissar Pazyryk in watching a National Geographic program, then skipped out to watch one of Quo's many odd animes (all of which please me).
Since he had work tonight, I was going to be left alone for several hours until he returned. On this note, he suggested I catch the Commissar before he turned in tonight, and ask for the apartment complex gym key (because I've been working out lately). Later, I joined him and a friend of Pazyryk's enjoying apricot hookah and watching the Y2K version of Dune (which has been an extreme favorite movie-series of mine for several years).
Two series down, his friend left, and Pazyryk crashed out to sleep. I wandered outside to hunt down the fitness center, and did thirty-five minutes of cardio (walking at a brisk pace and cycling). In total, I burned about 361 calories, followed up by some 100 reps of handweight lifts. I swear: Everytime I touch a weight, my biceps get larger... I must be doing something right. <.<
Wait until I get into capoeira and burn off all this excess weight, while simultaneously sculpting functional muscle onto this frame. 'bout time we add a new face to the furries out there: We need more muscle furs. Srsly.
To top it off: After attending the pathetic Village Inn meet Saturday, August 8th, I invited him back to my place after enjoying a night of barhopping between gay-bars (Bar-1, Apollo's) here in the Scottsdale area. ...my first time ever going to this type!
...gay bars were 'eh?'. Then, '*sigh*'. I was looking around for the hot guys I always expected to see at these places, but as I stood around, drinking, gazing at the guys (one after another), my fantasies were dashed. I saw a transexual, several mediocre faces (save for the bartenders between both bars, who were quite attractive), and only average to 'rather above-average'-looking faces and bodies. I must've been doing the gay-bar visit wrong, because I wasn't impressed. The alcohol was worthwhile, but the guys? I suppose I need to get much more drunk before I start seeing the hottest-to-die-for guys-in-my-life types. So, I stuck around my bunny-boi and disappointed him by not socializing with the other homosexuals of Phoenix, Arizona. For good damned reason: Besides the bartenders, he was the only decidedly sexy guy there. I'm still pretty sure I did the gay-bar experience wrong.
We overslept after getting back home (because we woke up around 6am and stayed up about an hour, before going back to sleep, which disrupted his sleep routine; alcohol also helped this). Waking up around 2:30pm, we realized the bus schedule here in Phoenix was about to bite us on the tail and risk him being stranded by shutting down around 7pm (so he's told me). After we couldn't raise my older brother to help, a mutual friend of ours came to the rescue and we went out to eat (after spending several minutes trying to decide on a place to go). Returning with my bunny to his safe-haven, we joined the good Commissar Pazyryk in watching a National Geographic program, then skipped out to watch one of Quo's many odd animes (all of which please me).
Since he had work tonight, I was going to be left alone for several hours until he returned. On this note, he suggested I catch the Commissar before he turned in tonight, and ask for the apartment complex gym key (because I've been working out lately). Later, I joined him and a friend of Pazyryk's enjoying apricot hookah and watching the Y2K version of Dune (which has been an extreme favorite movie-series of mine for several years).
Two series down, his friend left, and Pazyryk crashed out to sleep. I wandered outside to hunt down the fitness center, and did thirty-five minutes of cardio (walking at a brisk pace and cycling). In total, I burned about 361 calories, followed up by some 100 reps of handweight lifts. I swear: Everytime I touch a weight, my biceps get larger... I must be doing something right. <.<
Wait until I get into capoeira and burn off all this excess weight, while simultaneously sculpting functional muscle onto this frame. 'bout time we add a new face to the furries out there: We need more muscle furs. Srsly.
Infuriation #1: Job Search [SOLVED]
General | Posted 16 years agoSo... it seems that, by getting exceedingly angry and frustrated-enough, having no one at home (at the time) to release my frustration on (instead electing to post on a number of social networking websites), some power above heard me. Suddenly, I have a job come my way... (no I don't believe a higher entity did something for me).
...whatever it takes: Fancy imaginary scenarios or not. Infuriation #1 has been resolved. I go in Thursday for an interview. ^-^
...whatever it takes: Fancy imaginary scenarios or not. Infuriation #1 has been resolved. I go in Thursday for an interview. ^-^
Infuriation #1: Job Search
General | Posted 16 years agoIn an alternate universe, I see that I'm slowly, slowly... coming around to considering murdering people I don't know, so I can take their job...
Cut to the Real-World: Yeah right. If it were only so easy. *low, lethal growl...* Of course, work in prison for such a course of action would earn more than I'm earning right now--which is jack shxt. Maybe... *glances at knives* Nah, the position of Prison Pimp is pretty difficult to get when you don't have gang history and a reputation inside the pen yet.
Cut to the Real-World: Yeah right. If it were only so easy. *low, lethal growl...* Of course, work in prison for such a course of action would earn more than I'm earning right now--which is jack shxt. Maybe... *glances at knives* Nah, the position of Prison Pimp is pretty difficult to get when you don't have gang history and a reputation inside the pen yet.
CALIFORNIA: THROW IT UP!
General | Posted 16 years agoShow me love! Get buzzed; let's get fxxked up!
"California"
Hollywood UndeadToday, I woke up, and started thinking about (and missing, for no specific reason) California (Hollywood Undead reminded me where I'm from).
I Am SoCalThough I'm glossing over large swaths of history, I didn't live the California-lifestyle. Having left the 661 before moving to Arizona November, 2008, I have a a huge vault of lame memories from that state. More than twenty years of my life were spent living in various cities in its southern and central sections. There, I had lived a mildly introverted, quiet life, fixated on getting high grades in school, avoiding risque experiences (I didn't actively seek to start trouble--it found me, mostly) until senior year, where I decided I could teach myself better than the schools could (I graduated, of course). I was decidedly less than what I am today, though I'm understandably torn between shunning and regretting the inactivity that smears my prior history and lauding it for what I've become because of it.
Probably the best memories I have are of when I worked out in the oilfields for a year, raking in cash, enjoying myself, and living with a girlfriend (now an ex).
This New World...I never did get the chance to do everything I could have done over there, which directly translates into a desire to get into mischief out here in Phoenix. I've become involved in a number of amusing, disheartening, angering, infuriating, yet mostly positive scenarios while living out here, due to this 'mischievous' quality.
My desire to -do- something has become unsatisfiable. I seek to become involved in almost everything I hear about, and have begun considering how best host my own events when I'm not involved in something else. To further this end, my job search efforts have gone full-bore. I've put a hold on everything else I've been doing to take care of this overly neglected requirement (too much socializing and invites to parties kept luring me away from the effort, because it was too new to resist).
California defined and ended a chapter of my life. Two years after having lived one-quarter of a century, my life has changed dramatically in Arizona. I anticipate some of the best things have yet to come, and if I can help it, I want a number of my closest friends to benefit from whatever massive goodness comes my way (though it's up to them if they want to be a part of it). Until then, I do not regret leaving California as much as I regret being incapable of showing my home state how much I've changed.
Eventually, I will go back. Not forever, but for a visit. I'll make the memories worth the trip.
DA-DANG DA-DANG!
General | Posted 16 years agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkyqw3Ypl0 ...TOAST! 8D Mmm, that brand of butter is delicious. ^-^
Everyfur needs to be taught how to cook healthy meals, so, I thought I should kickstart it by offering an instructor.
Everyfur needs to be taught how to cook healthy meals, so, I thought I should kickstart it by offering an instructor.
The future...
General | Posted 16 years ago...there's something wrong with it.
Employment progress...
General | Posted 16 years agoWe're going to do this, and do it right. To start with, I need to take care of a couple of things that haven't been dealt with since I moved from the apartments, and see what jobs I can find within comfortable walking distances in my area.
CapitalOne...
General | Posted 16 years ago...you can choose from among one of five options:
1) Suck Me Off
2) Blow Me Down
3) Eat My Rod
4) Chew My Cock
5) All of the Above
Choose wisely, bitch. And put on that fucking wig, too.
1) Suck Me Off
2) Blow Me Down
3) Eat My Rod
4) Chew My Cock
5) All of the Above
Choose wisely, bitch. And put on that fucking wig, too.
Life is bliss now...
General | Posted 16 years ago...I'm so much happier than I was a month ago.
Events coming to a head...
General | Posted 16 years agoThere's a bottleneck in the road. Relationships, relocations, redirections... So much is about to happen; I know nothing's going to go absolutely wrong, but, I need to unwind.
For real. When this move is all done (to the larger residence just a few miles north of my present location), and I've got my future in motion: The anxiety will subside.
I'm tempted to have a few cold beers outta mah 'fridge to enjoy the passing of this night... ^.^
For real. When this move is all done (to the larger residence just a few miles north of my present location), and I've got my future in motion: The anxiety will subside.
I'm tempted to have a few cold beers outta mah 'fridge to enjoy the passing of this night... ^.^
Party-party!
General | Posted 16 years agoMay 18th - Party!
May 22nd - Move in day! [this is confirmed]
May 22nd - Salt River Tubing get-together [furries].
May 22nd - Party!
Anything else happening May 22nd? I wonder... d:
May 22nd - Move in day! [this is confirmed]
May 22nd - Salt River Tubing get-together [furries].
May 22nd - Party!
Anything else happening May 22nd? I wonder... d:
Moving day is extended...
General | Posted 16 years agoThere is a possibility that the move will take at a later date--around May 29th...
This isn't bad. It is a delay, but nothing big. In the meantime, I want to spend a few days relaxing and getting my section of the house prepared for the coming relocation.
This isn't bad. It is a delay, but nothing big. In the meantime, I want to spend a few days relaxing and getting my section of the house prepared for the coming relocation.
Moving day is set...
General | Posted 16 years ago...and it's May 18th, at the latest. We'll be in Mesa, just a stone's throw away from Tempe and other areas of Phoenix. Once settled in and earnin' capital, I envision parties... furiendly lounge-about and gaming days... movie nights...
I intend to give back to my Phoenix furries. *shrugs* I owe them much for making Arizona the best and worst place--simultaneously--I've lived yet.
I intend to give back to my Phoenix furries. *shrugs* I owe them much for making Arizona the best and worst place--simultaneously--I've lived yet.
Some days, it just pays...
General | Posted 16 years agoEvery single day gets better and better and better. Life is about to take that turn I mentioned earlier; I'm completely satisfied with the way everything has turned out, of late, and I expect horrible news to ruin it all at some point. ^.^
Until then, Arizona is mine. *clutches it in his paw* Or, at least, all the good pieces I've been picking up since early April--those ones that have just given themselves over.
Such is the way of this wayfaring wolf in Arizona... ^.~
Until then, Arizona is mine. *clutches it in his paw* Or, at least, all the good pieces I've been picking up since early April--those ones that have just given themselves over.
Such is the way of this wayfaring wolf in Arizona... ^.~
Forward, to better futures.
General | Posted 16 years agoThe move into the new house is coming up in a few weeks time. Located five miles north of our current apartment complex is a three bedroom, two bath complex with a nice backyard and rumors of a spa...
The future is luminous, indeed...
The future is luminous, indeed...
It hasn't even been that long...
General | Posted 16 years ago...and I have dreams about you. >.< Yah, it'll pass, I guess, eh? *growls...*
"All About [You]"...
General | Posted 16 years agoSomedays, music is the only thing that says all you really want to say. Just thirteen hours ago, it was all about you...
Original Posting Time: 2009-April 5th, 9:30am AZT
http://www.imeem.com/sharek/music/sDgF7A3X/jenny-bliss-all-about-me/
(It's All About Me.)
(You never seem to care.)
(It's All About Me.)
It's never been easy
To satisfy and to please... (?)
You're always complainin'
About everythin' I do.
I'm tired of waitin'
For you to make a change.
For you to make a change...
...for you to make a change...
If you don't want me to
Give up on you...
You've got nothing to say.
If you ever want me back,
It's way too late...
Don't ask me to stay...
Now it's all about
All about Me.
You never listen;
You never seem to care.
Now it's all about
All about Me.
Gonna make it on my own.
Now it's all about
All about Me.
You never listen;
You never seem to care.
Now it's all about
All about Me.
Gonna make it on my own.
I gave you everything...
And got nothin' in return.
But broken promises...
Can't believe I went for it all.
Leavin' you all alone...
I don't give a damn.
I don't give a damn...
...i don't give a damn...
(All about me)
It's all about me.
Now it's all about
All about me.
You never listen;
You never seem to care.
Now it's all about
All about me.
Gonna make it on my own.
Now it's all about
All about me.
You never listen;
You never seem to care.
Now it's all about
All about me.
Gonna make it on my own.
(It's all about me)
(You never seem to care)
(All about me...)
Now it's all about
All about me...Original Posting Time: 2009-April 5th, 9:30am AZT
And that was that...
General | Posted 16 years ago...and how great a fool I have been to expect something more or different, by being.
I feel like a King...
General | Posted 16 years agoI came back home a few days ago and just chilled. Was tired of running around and going to this meet or that meet. I know tonight was the Village Inn meet up near Scottsdale, but, eh...
We went down to Tuscon instead and spent the whole day with those furs. Was an entirely different atmosphere down there, seeing that they meet at a private residence and don't bother with public rules. They weren't uncontrollably wild... but they were definitely different. Their behavior was less contained, much more random, and perhaps a bit more interactive. The majority of furs there seemed to lean toward a younger crowd, at that...
Still, meeting the southern furs was fun. We were kept topped off with soda and snack foods, couches and seating comforts, laptops (with wifi for those who brought their portable computers with'em), and conversation.
I was there, camera in hand... and picked up over two hours of video covering their antics and picking up on topics of discussion. We made it there around 12pm and stayed until 8pm, then tripped back to Phoenix and arrived around 9:30. Dropped off back at home, I bid Kahlua/Doomy (our driver down to the meet) a farewell, along with Lee and Morrin and finished the day's events with this trip report.
All in all, the Tuscon meet was okay. Permission seemed to be granted to upload the video I took. [Update 01/12/2012: I still have those videos, but, never got around to doing any edits or uploads. I took too much video for me, as an amateur, to want to deal with. XD ]
We went down to Tuscon instead and spent the whole day with those furs. Was an entirely different atmosphere down there, seeing that they meet at a private residence and don't bother with public rules. They weren't uncontrollably wild... but they were definitely different. Their behavior was less contained, much more random, and perhaps a bit more interactive. The majority of furs there seemed to lean toward a younger crowd, at that...
Still, meeting the southern furs was fun. We were kept topped off with soda and snack foods, couches and seating comforts, laptops (with wifi for those who brought their portable computers with'em), and conversation.
I was there, camera in hand... and picked up over two hours of video covering their antics and picking up on topics of discussion. We made it there around 12pm and stayed until 8pm, then tripped back to Phoenix and arrived around 9:30. Dropped off back at home, I bid Kahlua/Doomy (our driver down to the meet) a farewell, along with Lee and Morrin and finished the day's events with this trip report.
All in all, the Tuscon meet was okay. Permission seemed to be granted to upload the video I took. [Update 01/12/2012: I still have those videos, but, never got around to doing any edits or uploads. I took too much video for me, as an amateur, to want to deal with. XD ]
*shakes his head*
General | Posted 17 years agoYou realize you don't have to hide. In fact, hiding doesn't do you any good. Be a man and wise-up.
