One of those such "moments" Is the phone conversations between vee and myself. Normally when we use our phones we just txt each other. The things we are saying aren't of much importance, and we usually respond back pretty quick anyways. There are a few times however, we do need to call each other, and that signals that it's kind of "important", be that a loose term for it. More oft than not it's me calling vee for something I need to know pretty much at this moment so he picks up.

But this is a rare moment, someone who is in need of something "important" is calling someone for help, how can we best exploit this situation for the most dork power.

Every time one of us picks up the first line out of our mouth is, "Operator." The person on the other line then responds, "I need an exit" and continues on with the conversation as needed.

Vee and Coon both have a few of theses little nerd moments, like AI scripts we trigger on each other when we have the chance. Every time one of them happens, especially the phone one with vee, I get a super :cool: feeling,

12:38
Finished installing Act 1.
Watching 7th Circle. I don't like this one but I've watched it the least. I know the answer to it now, even if I didn't know what letters they are. It's Piervue Armement.

12:42
Act 1 Splash Screen
I hate this part so much, can't use any god damned gadgets its pure sneak

12:47
Meet with Mk.II

*pause*

THE BOSS EXTREME

Total Play Time 3:53:51

Continues: 0
Alert phases: 0
Total kills: 0
LIFE Recovery Items: 0

Weapon Types Acquired: 67
Flashbacks Viewed: 140
Special Items: Not Used
CQC Uses: 33
Headshots: 52
Knife Kills/Knockouts: 0

Wall Press Time: 00:01:01
Sideways Rolls: 0
Forward Rolls: 33
Crawling Time: 00:31:02
Crouch Walking Time: 00:42:00
Time in Carboard Box/Drum: 00:01:39
Combat Highs: 0

Weapons/Items Acquired: 96
Total Drebin Points from Sales: 772172
Current Drebin Points: 2569530

:(

Go ahead and check back to last year, I think I babbled about the black out weekend. Anyways the snow thankfully came and went without much ruckus - in it's wake leaving a lot of rain.

At first the rain was cool, it was the huge fat rain and it was melting the snow away quick. But then after a few hours it was still coming down. The next day, still coming down. That night... still coming down. It was as if Bothell was transported to the final fight in The Matrix: Revolutions. That night we went out drinking and then hit Denny's - still raining.

Leaving Denny's around 4am or so I cruised back toward my house, having to pass under a little underpass, my friend in tow. I get close to it and I see there is a huge pool of water. It was quite odd looking so I slowed to a stop, noticing a car on my right who was stopped, the driver doing something or another. I figured the guy would flag me down and go "gtfo noob" if I was about to make a grave mistake. Clenching my wheel I floored it, pegging my Honda out at 5 miles an hour. Deeper and deeper it went, not too bad so far. Then I got to the middle, and my headlights went out. Or... they didn't so much go out as they were completely UNDER water.

My entire vehicular life flashed before my eyes. This is how my car was going to die, not with a bang - but with a slow bubbling whimper. I keep the gas going and through some amazing stroke of luck I pull out of it, and continue driving as if nothing had happened. It really was one of the scariest moments driving I've ever felt.

And the rain never stopped.

The next day I woke up and got a call from my friend Aimee, she said she was flooded in - and how were we going to get to work. Calling work, Aimee, and texting others back and forth the only help I got from my manager was "walk" ;|.

So I did walk, I walked down and decided to find out how bad the damage was. The first thing I notice is that the street right after mine, on the northern (not sure which but I'll call it north to sound intelligent) side there is a huge field of grass. I'm not sure exactly what it's for, perhaps it IS a flood plane of sorts. Whatever it was it is now under water. It's a "huge fucking lake and the apartments near it are now probably beach side property. It's not as if it's a few inches all over, here you can see there is a fence, that's a full size fence that's pretty under water.

Walking down a bit further I get to the underpass where I made my little submarine car earlier. The water is a bit lower than it was last night but at least they got some cops out here to physically block it off. It's hard to make out with my shitty camera but there are barriers on either side of the pool, and as you can see they are about half way under water. Those are the standard concrete barriers you find on highways and the likes.

It wasn't until we turned down the cul-de-sac(??) that we found out just how bad the flooding has gotten. Down here there is a small (small) river that runs under the road and comes up at certain areas. It was literally overflowing over the sidewalk and just feeding the new river (was: road) with fresh water constantly. Even on the sidewalk the water was coming up to and going over the curb. The entire road was filled this high, deeper in some spots. It's just odd to think about the roads you drive on every day suddenly becoming some kind of archaic water canal system. Flowing over the edges of everything, blocking entire communities out of the rest of the roads - it was pretty intense. Some houses had to resort to sandbagging their driveways just in case. I couldn't imagine having to do that again :(

There is one "house" that got it pretty bad. I call it a house with a loose definition of such because I'm not entirely sure if anyone lives there. I see things that people might use if they lived there decorating the "lawn" and "yard", but I don't know how to get to this house and I don't know where it goes or does. Whatever it was, it was in low ground and at the time experiencing a good foot of water flowing through it. I hope whatever lives there is alright - as well as all their shit.

All in all it was a crappy few days and a crappy day at work. Apparently a state of emergency was declared - but nothing cool came of it :(

I've been sketching today so this is what I have so far.

Life just stops right now. I'm not thinking of how much I owe to people, my schedule tomorrow, what I'm making for dinner next week - I'm just enjoying my time, here, with myself.

It's an amazing feeling and I hope everyone I know has a feeling like this. No matter how my day has been I know that these moments right here will make up for anything I will have gone through prior till now.

I'm happy, plain and simple.

([secret message] also: despite the giant bugs crawling on your neck it is kind of nice to see them, at least lets me know you were happy for a short time)

Initially I jumped at the opportunity, I'd love to get some REAL bar shifts, but I wasn't able to get them because both bartenders here in Bothell had it tied down. I talked it over with Chad - my bar mentor and he said it would be a good idea EXCEPT for the fact that store is more than dead. It's a near ghost town every single night. Not only would I be losing out on working with my "family" for a month or more, but I may not be even making enough money to cover what I'm making here.

What I'm trying to do right now however is get ANY experience possible, because there is a new store opening up soon in Mill Creek. I'd love to head on over there with Liz and become the bartender - but I need some real experience before I'm just tossed in there. It would be a huge step forward for me career-wise and an even larger step for me monetarily.

After talking with my manager a bit he assured me I wouldn't need to work at the slow store to get the experience needed to work at the new one so I'm kind of in a bind. They said they would give me a day of bartending for myself - but that really hasn't happened yet. Recently I did have a Monday shift - which went pretty well, only hectic during one time and that was because I've never had the bar on my own.

And I've been thinking of re-doing my Jell-O shots post. I'll clean myself up a bit more and really take some good step by steps.

Not that it's for better or worse. FYAD now has my number and as we speak they are crawling through my skin and calling internet police.

I'm ded.

But on the plus side some TF2 last night got me these silly pictures.

[also I'm not at home so I cannot upload normally, sorry for free image host site]

edit: about 10 seconds after I put it down it dropped a nice fucking shit on my floor

OH MAN I LOVE PUPPIES I WANT LIKE 10 OF THEM YEAH AND SOME KIDS TOO

Once you do go get TF2/Orange Box, then you can join my server.

tf2.agnph.com
is the IP, and if there isn't any room, send me a message on steam - I'll kick to make room.

In other news I had to get my car's registration renewed - and I was up for an emissions test (again). So I go there, and ended up failing my test for the SAME thing I failed it for last time. The thing that cost me $800 :|

I go to a mechanic and get some bullshit repaired, another $800, but they said my check engine light would stay off. Guess what - it did! (for about 30 minutes). I'm going to see if I can pass the test again, if not I have a waiver so I don't have to pass it. Then I'm going back to the mechanic and asking what they did that costs $800 and still doesn't turn off a check engine light. It's really starting to annoy me. This has kind of bankrupted me this month for anything I was planning on doing. That and I'm leaving for California on the 19th means I have even less money from the week of work I'll be missing :/

Balls.

This is one of the many many variations of a chocolate martini. I make it this way because I'm usually short on Khalua when I get into the mood for one. Still enjoyable however.