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Wow...

I know that it has been quite some time since I have graced my weblog with a new entry. And to my site I appologize. I've seen a lot of change of the last month and a half. Heres the update.

I'm home now, happily in MI.

Going to be moving again soon.

Had to deal with creeper EX.

Transmission on the Jimmy is failing.

Still sane.

So as it turns out, it doesn't seem as though I've been doing to much. I have been to a couple of parties since I have been home, got a few numbers and never called (yay). Also I find it really hard to deal with my EX as she is kinda drivin me crazy. I mean JC WTF. I hadn't even talked to her for a month after I had moved back home. I really just want to know WTF she thinks she is doing with the way she is around me. It's all very complicating and I am confused and frustrated. At this point I really don't know what to do. so for now, PEACE NOOX.

The stand

I have decided to stand against my parents very firmly which is not exactly something that I am comfortable with. I do know that however I've made my decision already and I must stick with that decision. I will be moving back to Michigan in 12 Days and that is that.

But for gods sake, I hope they do not take this as a sign of disrespect or that I do not love them. I just need fresh air and opportunity. It's all that I need.

Really though, I just need someone to understand what I am going through by making this decision.

Currently Relationship of Command By At the Drive In Enfilade see related

Why can't I decide what to do about College?

As it currently stands, I have been in the process of readying myself to transfer to LMC back in my home town. I like to get all my ducks in a row before I take that one shot. However since I have decided to make these preparations, my parents have changed their position from standing behind me with this to being very worried that I will not want to complete what I have started here at Wyotech. I can understand where they are coming from but, I have 25+ credits at LMC for a degree in Tool and Die. I want to complete that degree before I have to take those classes over due to not attending for such an extended period of time ( I dropped out of LMC during the winter semester while I was still attending High School as a Senior.) 

So here is my dilema.

I am going out of my mind here in Blairsville. I haven't been able to find a job, and there is nothing really to do on the weekends. I've decided that I really don't want to drink my weekends away, and that is all that I had to do with the meager amount of money that I am allotted through my rent and living loan. So lets talk about numbers.

As of now, I recieve $760 a month for R&L, $400 of which is for rent. That leaves me with $360 for food, gas, and weekend activities. I usually spend about $120 a month on gas, and $200 for food. That is a measly $40 for fun on the weekends. Before the pool hall closed, I had a place that I could spend very little for hours of entertainment and random conversation. Not too shabby, eh? However, 2 months ago, Frank closed down the pool hall and only opens it for concerts. No problem there but, when he first opened it to venues, anyone with aa ticket was able to shoot billiards all night. Now, he has changed it a pay to play at all times of the venues. tickest are usually anywhere from $6-15 and billiards is 50 cents a game. Really it isn't worth the cash to see mediocre bands at those prices, and hae to deal with random underage kids that always try to bum smokes. I am not WE-CARD and I would rather not deal with that scene.

My good buddy Paul and his fiance' moved out last month and I have nobody to hang out with. I have 4 roomates and they like to scheme things to get me into fights with the others. I have been blamed for stupid childish things and I am tired of dealing with them. Recently I walked home from the bus stop after class to find my trucks windshields were covered in bearing grease and Tide laundry detergent. needless to say i was quite pissed. Not one of them would man up to doing it, however right inside the house were the two items that had defaced my truck.I called that the final straw.

Lets talk about LMC and the greener grasses on the other side.

In just a little ove a year i can complete my degree. While attending classes I have opportunities to apply for internships at Local Tool & Die shops, which would reimburse me for classes that I take with them as long I am working for them. I have taken Mahining classes all throughout High School, and this is a field in which I love and am quite knowledgable about.

Returning home would me that I would have a better support structure to complete this degree and also be able to save some money while paying off my debts that hae started to accumulate. As it stands, I owe $600 to the bank and about $700 in medical bills. I really hate the fact that my credit is sinking ever lower into the abyss. I am not even into my mid twenties and yet I have amassed all of this in just 7 months of being out here.

If, and when I return to Coloma, I already have a place where I can lay my head, and I have been actively searching for jobs.The Unemployment rate is rising over 10% and yet for my field, the pay range is good and people want fresh young blood in their companies to revive the economy. It seems so opportune yet, I am unsure that I will find a job there either. Out of all the jobs that I have had at home, I have only had one formal interview, and I have never been forced to accept minimum wage as an option.

So the question lingering is, If the grass seems so green just across the river (which it usually isn't when you get there), How does one decide what to do when faced with this decision.

How to destroy your truck in a day.

This past Saturday I finally fixed my truck after waiting on my alternator for 3 weeks. So it was time for a test drive. I decided that I would go and pick up my speakers that had left at a friends party. When I got there I find that my speakers are disassembled and someone stole my cd case. Damn. Well after loading up the truck I told my buddy Dirty Dirty about a fight that was supposed to be going on downtown and he wanted to go watch it. Cool. We hopped in the Jimmy and rolled into town to find out that the kids that were starting the fight went to Pittsburgh for the weekend. Disappointed I drove by and was goin to go drop off Dirty when he said this.

"I found some great spots to go Off-Roadin!" and my only reply was,"Yeah? Where?"

We drove a few miles out of town past the college we attend and he directed me to a corn field that had all kinds of trails in and around the property. We crossed a smaller stream and I went up a nice little 50 degree hill climb. FUN. I was ready for more by this point. I found another field that had been freshly tilled and I proceeded to rip around it at about 30 to 40 mph. I hadn't had this much fun in years. Another spot he showed me before I was about to turn and go home (gas was running low) was a nice two track through a marshy area. Once again I tore it up and in some spots the wheels were breaking loose from 40mph and spinning up to 75mph. It was here that I almost hit a tree as I popped up out of the ruts and jerked the wheel back. The return run is just as fun and then I tell him that I am done for the day (due to gas.) He offers to put in fifteen bucks if we can go for a few more hours. Of course I am happy to go.

On the way back into town I stopped by my house to ask my Roomies if they wanted to go. After grabbing some supplies we hit the road for the trails. After taking them to the place I was before. Bobby spotted a green gate that looked like the entrance to a utility access road. We turned around and started to climb the mountain. The truck was handling rather well in 2WD until we reached a point where it flattened out and and then another embankment was in front of us and it was more than a 70 degree incline but we made it up into an open field and that when we see tons of White Tail Deer. Perfect i thought and I spoke out,"Were gonna get us some venison boys. YEHAA"

I chased the deer up into the field at speeds of 50 to 60MPH, what I didn't realize was that there were drainage trenches all along the field. I bottomed out hard on a few, also nose diving into a bank on one. Finally we reached the high voltage power lines and started to tear though some two tracks off the beaten path. one we came upon was a nice downhill run about 1/4 mile long with some steep banking drops. I made it down the first one and then the guys wanted me to stop and they got out. They climbed up onto my roof and I continued to drive down this steep hill. Once near the bottom I stopped and told them to get in but they refused som I gunned it across a stream but I got stuck. Fuck I came out here alone and I am in a STOCK JIMMY. When I stepped out I realized that the place I thought was a clearing was just a downtrodden marsh. I struggled with a DOT 10ton rated ratchet strap to try to get it out. No luck.

I called my Buddy Abe out to help and he came in the Tacoma but It couldn't get it out (it barely made it back up the hill.)The next day Dirty picked me up and we headed to the collegiate housing complex to find some Jeeps to help. After recruiting a couple of guys with Winches we made our way out to the stuck truck.Without any complication I was pulled from the marsh and then the guys helping decided to play around. Both of them ended up stuck in the mud and it took well over an hour to get both of them out. Now cmae the difficult part of making it back up the hill climb. Somehow I ended up having no trouble (compared to Abe and the two Jeeps) making it up the steep climb. Most of the Hill I would estimate to be around 60-70 degrees inclined. But two gnarly spots were about 80-90 and one of them banked left nearing the top of the crest. As I bulled my way up the second incline I thoughtit was going to flip (we had along way to roll if we did.) After barely making it out I helped the guys find their way back out to the road and we headed back to the complex to get Dirty's truck.

Being that my truck was stuck up to the frame If I had left it there overnight again(it was gonna rain hard that night) my truck would have been lost to me.