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I know it's been a while, but I pretty much feel obligated to make a post here. So besides feeling lonely and blue, My christmas was alright. I didn't get exactly what I wanted, but I guess santa must be getting old and forgot what I asked for. I DID get a Small amp and a Blonde Telecaster clone by Ibanez, which I'm looking forward to painting once the weather warms up, Along with a pair of slippers, some random stuff in my stocking, and $100 cash, I think I did alright. Well, for those who don't follow my FA page, My PC looked like utter shit, so I bought an Antec three Hundred. It's an awesome cool case, but since my Cooling fan sticks up like an inch above the top of the motherboard, I had to remove the super sexy 140mm Fan from the top. I SO plan on modding this case, but after taking my old case completely apart for the first time, I decided that it wasn't in terrible shapen and could probably be sold for 60-70 bucks if I give it a fresh coat of paint and some mods. But I digress...

Since I spent close to $70 at canada computers, Along with having to buy a strap for my new guitar, my money was pretty much gonzo v.v I was really looking forward to buying that BCD 300, but I've also been thinking of taking another direction... I realized that the reason I want the BCD 300 is because it has the cool jog wheels, a soundcard, and the ability to interact with music in the same way as a turntablist. But after a month of studying controllerism, I'm pretty certain that I could get a pretty decent set going if I assign the knobs and faders to different controls. Sure, I wouldn't be scratching and shit, but I would be trading those small aspects of turntablism to a whole new bag of tricks that DJ's only dream of doing.

But back to Christmas. The original plan of action was that I was going to get some money to spend, I was getting $200 guitar + amp + accessories pack from best buy, and that I would be getting some pretty decent shit like clothes and maybe something like socks, but instead my stepfather suggested that I could just buy an electric guitar + Amp off of him for $100, and when he brought it over the volume knob looked visibly broken and it would only work if you played around with it. So that's in the shop until it gets fixed, and I'm spending my whole christmas break without a guitar when I told my teacher that I would be practicing. Not only that, but I'm thinking "gee, if I was told that I'm getting some money for boxing day, and then on the 23rd I save $100 on a guitar, that I should get something a bit greater than $100 right? But then again on the other paw the "house" got a 32 inch Tv and a new microwave *in all fairness, the microwave was a gift from my older brother, but again I digress*

Actually, I'm gonna split up my post cause I don't feel like making this TL;DR

Hey Journal

Just so you know, I've been watching mythbusters for almost 24 hours now, and I'm sure that I've seen every episode. Anyway, My plans were to go boxing day shopping with one of my friends because she wants to build a recording studio in her basement, but since all of the music stores were closed on boxing day, we postpwned it to the weekend and I went on a solo mission to Canada Computers. After doing loads of research on christmas day, I decided that a Antec Three Hundred would be the best choice for me since the power supply is mounted near the bottom of the case and won't press against the top of my big ass cooler. Since all of my friends are dicks, It was a solo mission.

As soon as I got to the store I pretty much ran to the back where they keep the cases, snagged the last one, then on my way to the front of the store I saw a guy and his son asking a floorwalker where he could find an Antec 300 and I replied" you're gonna have to pry it from my cold dead hands" and walked to the front of the store. When I took it to a cashier, he asked me how many were left and I said" including this one, just one" and he proceded to curse the world because he wanted to get one, and as an employee he isn't allowed to buy merchandice while on the job, so too slow for him. When I blurted out "why didn't you just pay a friend $5 interest to buy it for you" and the look on his face was priceless. It was sad, shocked, and pissed off at the same time, with a pinch of shame thrown in there for good measure.

I wanted to redo the thermal paste job on my CPU cause I know that mine was fucked up from all of the months of being pushed on by the power supply. A fucking small ass tube that holds like a table spoon of thermal paste was nearly $10 and I nearly jewed my way out of that problem cause my $100 was already dented, but I needed it so I just watched as my money went from $100 to $30. I walked out of there, and this fairly old dude started talking nerd to me about the cost of different products. Normally I would have just brushed this shit off, but he just talked and talked the whole way. Talked about power supplies, ram, motherboards, CPU's videocards, and generally everything that was on sale. The whole experience felt like a fucking infomercial. He even dissed my 1 gb of ram saying that "1gb of ram wouldn't even run Vista" to which I went all L337nux on his ass and he stopped talking to me.

So I got home with my shit, and spent like 10 minutes taking the parts out of my old case, while carefully saving all of the screws. I then popped open my new case on both sides and found a little cardboard box. This box was FULL of TWO sets of screws. One bag was full of motherboard stand offs, and pretty much an abundance of screws, and the second bag was full of just thumb screws. So I dusted everything off, making sure to get all of the nooks and crannies on my cooler and power supply before installing everything. My first problem was that the connector that goes from the power supply to the motherboard was short, so I had it dangling in the case while I installed everything else.

Then more problems emerged. after repasting and installing the CPU fan onto the motherboard and into the case, I realized that the fucking cooler pushes against the cool-ass 140 mm blowhole fan. The..Main..Reason..Why..I..Bought..The..FUCKING.. case in the first place... So I removed the fan reluctantly and realized that I couldn't even mount it onto the top of the case cause the damn fan cover is built into the top of the PC and is raised like a centimeter from the top of the case, preventing the short fan screws from allowing the fan to stay in place. So it sat in the box with my old case while I assembled my new PC. all fo the cards went in, all of the spaghetti went in and was all managed, everything was in order, but when I pressed the power button I got nothing.

I opened the case again, and realized that in my wire-management haste I unplugged the power button. I plugged it back in, turned on the PC, and that's all it did. No beeps, so visual indication that the PC was even on besides the gentle whine of my fans and an eerie blue glow coming from my CPU cooler. I spent HOURS troubling Till the Code Monkey school wolf faggot coolest guy ever with my PC noobness, and after many hours of rebuilding and trouble shooting I just gave up and decided to take the case into the PC place the next day and get him to do it.

Late in the night, the mystery of my fucked up PC was haunting my dreams and preventing me from sleeping, so I asked My new friend Surya if he could help me out, and he said "hey, were you fucking around with the red switch on the back of the power supply?" and my jaw just dropped. I HAD been fucking with it cause it was dusty as hell so I switched it back and forward a couple times; paying no attention to where it was before I started, but then again I couldn't even see what it said before. So after nearly 12 hours of horror, I finally got my PC up and running and I was able to sleep.

Imma split up this one and the next one, cause the next day was kind of a doozie.

So since the music stores were closed on boxingday, I went out with my friend Ana so that she could buy a whole bunch of music recording stuff. So after informing me that she was getting a ride and that I had to take the bus on this rainy-ass day, I get to the store and it's packed as hell. So I find Ana in the guitar room strumming away, and we go to the back of the store where they house all of the home studio swag.

She finds her Microphone in a matter of minutes, but it's an XLR input Mic with phantom power, so she needs the appropiate soundcard with XLR input and Phantom power to connect it to her fictional computer. After nearly spending an hour talking to the MANAGER on the stores first day open after christmas, and he guides her towards a Fast Track Pro USB soundcard and teaches us about Polar Patterns, phantom power, and how to record vocals with acoustic guitar, and $200+ later, she walked out with everything she needs to record and I walked out with a $15 guitar strap. So all said and done, I wait for her outside of the store while her ride arrives and when her dad gets there, she asks me where I live and when I tell her she goes "Ohhh... that's kinda far, Mind taking the bus?" Well obviously I mind taking the bus, It's fucking raining outside and I just spent the day fucking helping you" but I refrain from losing my temper and gracefully wait 45 minutes for the bus in the rain.

The next day I went out with a few friends and smoked a fat spliff. Then while we were playing around in his music room, I though "hey! what if I brought over my computer, she brought over her soundcard and microphone, and we used his music room *equiped with brand new drums, electric guitar and bass, a bunch of amps, and it's rather seperated from the rest of the house.* and he was all like "yeah!!! call her up tomorrow and we'll work something out"

So the next day she comes online and I suggested the idea and she saids "Oh, I took all of that stuff back, my bro said that it's overpriced. He said that he can get a card for $170 that goes into the PC, which is faster, and can do movies and stuff too." She sent me the link to a cinema card, made for making movies, no XLR input, no phantom power, and is useless." I told her about her mistake and she got all defencive. Claiming that she has to have $1000 for new years so that she can buy a plane ticket for a trip she's going on in june, and in the store she said "Oh, $230? that's like 2 weeks worth of work" so I told her straight up that if she isn't going to be serious about this, she shouldn't have wasted my time.

Like fuck, she spent over an hour talking to the manager of a fucking music store about recording and she trusts her older brother who's too retarded to even realize that USB is faster than fuckin PCI. I hate people who can't think anything out.

Alright, here comes the third post

Hey Journal

Ya know how it snowed pretty good a week before christmas? Well Josh, his cousin Daniel, and I really wanted to build a HUGE fort that involved shoveling all of the snow in his backyard and driveway to make a huge igloo. On the second day I helped him shovel, I was the first one out there shoveling snow in -20 and didn't noticed when everyone left cause I was just working away. So after I looked up and saw noone, I went "fuck it" and kept shoveling. Then like 15 minutes later josh comes out and is like "yo Rion! what the fuck! and tells me to come over. The fucking garage is HOTBOXED and there are two roaches sitting on the table, I got yelled at for not coming sooner and I was kinda pissed off. So after the blunt, I was tired as hell from shoveling a 10x10 space of 1 foot high snow

And also when I'm pissed off, I take out my anger in what I'm doing, so I'm shoveling outside in -20 weather shoveling the snow like the snow is daniel's head and I'm tearing the shit out of it. I had on a scarf, a hat, 2 hoodies, a coat, two pairs of pants, two pairs of socks, and two pairs of gloves. And after about an hour of hard working with a billion fuckin layers on, I started feeling tired and lightheaded. I just thought that it was because I'm fat and I was working rather hard, so I sat down and took a 30 minute break. the guys started bitching at me for sitting for so long so I got back up and continued shoveling.

After working for another 10 minutes or so, I noticed that I was getting dizzy and wobbly, so I slacked for a bit more and it got worse, so I went "fuck it" told josh that I was going inside. he was like "why" and I said "cause I feel like I'm going to fall down." and stuck my shovel in the snow. As soon as I took a step, I nearly fell over and grabbed onto my shovel again. then for a bit I couldn't even move and my friend josh was like "yo, you should sit down" pointed to the ground. " I said all slurred "fuck that, if I'm passing out I'm doing so inside." I wobbled my way around the huge walls that were coming up and made my way to the door. Daniel's brother decided to lock the door for some fucked up reason so I took off my glove and knocked on the door hard cause I honestly couldn't tell how far it was and heard Tony say "don't be rude or you'll have to come through the front" and just fell back into a pile of snow.

Tony damn-near jumped through the glass to help and he and josh helped me up. When I got inside, It felt like I was dying, so I took off my jacket and found that I was SOAKED in sweat. I stripped down to shorts and t shirt and sat down with a glass of cold water and slowly felt better. I went in at around 11, and at 11:30 I decided that I was going back out at 12. My clothes were dried out, and I was watching the end of a hockey game with Tony when daniel came in for a cigarette. He opened the door, draped his coat lazily over a chair and said "yo guy, what the fuck is this? Josh and I are out there shoveling snow the whole time and you're in here watching hockey and slacking. I mean I'm glad that you didn't need medical attention but you're just slacking now"

Tony just had this "oh fuck" look on his face as I jumped out of my seat and charged at daniel. he tried to get out of the door in time but I grabbed daniel by his scarf and pulled him back into the house. only to realize that he was coat and boot less, so I threw him back out of the house into the snow and gave his ribs a good kick" Tony and josh were urging me to leave him alone so I did. I walked back into the house and locked the back door" I then started getting my winter shit back on, only wearing one sweater instead of two with my coat open. Yelling through the glass " screw you faggot, I'm going home" and he ran around to the front door to kick my ass in his socks.

On my way out of the back door, I was about to just walk away when I looked at daniel's dripping boots and laughed at my sudden funny idea "let's see how fast this faggot can hop" I chuckle happily as I steal one of his boots and his coat and start running down the street. I went about half way and nearly laughed my ass off as daniel came hopping down the street I saw the blinds open as Tony and Josh watched from inside as Dan hopped like a retard as I quickly stuffed coat full of snow. taking both of my gloves off so that I can get that melty goodness all over the inside of it. Daniel then pulls out this cleaver and is like "you fucking douchebag! gimmie back my coat before I fucking cut you" and I gave him the jacket. As he was putting it on though, he put down the knife and bent over to tie his shoe. I then kicked him over and gave him a snowjob *snowjob:verb: to push someone over and kick snow on them*

Then in a stroke of utter genius, I picked up the cleaver and beat him with the blunt end of the blade. Tony and Josh ran out as daniel screamed on the ground and I ran down the street with a cleaver in my hand. I stashed the blade in my coat, got on the bus, and went home. Then when I went back on the 27th, I put a bow on the cleaver and gave it back to his mom and said "I'm sorry about taking this, Daniel was threatening me with it and I wasn't about to let him get away with anything" Long story short he was a phone call away from getting kicked out of his house and I had a huge grin on my face.

by the time Boxing weekend showed up, the temperature had risen to 10 degrees above freezing and the 4 foot walls are no bigger than speed bumps. And even though I hate Daniel, I'll still go over there because Tony and Josh are still cool and thought that fake hacking Dan was the lulziest shit evar. besides, smoking weed by myself makes me feel like a loser.

Well yeah, the blawg is all caught up now. I hope to be picking up more with my posts in the new year ^^

Happy Christmas and a merry new year everyone!!!

Rion out ~<3

P.S. I miss you Gabriel <333333333