Well so much to say now. Well for those who I haven't told yet I have a new job! Over in the sunny silicon valley even! So next week I'm packing my things and will be moving to California ( you have to say that like Arnold.)
I'm kinda nervous and anxious at the same time. I have felt like my career at mythic has been on stall for a while and I've been having to justify staying for a while. I was kicked into seriously thinking of it when me and my girlfriend at the time Shannon broke up. I then started to notice several things that made me uneasey such as our constantly dropping subscribers, wave after wave of layoffs, and the general hopelessness I had with the job of ever having a good future other then starting out someware fresh.

So I'm hoping that this is all for the best in the end and not a huge overreaction to a breakup. ( although she was & still is a great lady. Pitty that things didn't work out.)

WOOOT!!

that is all

Oh whats this? Persona 3 portable!?

With a female lead!?

http://kotaku.com/5339626/persona-3-ported-to-psp-bringing-female-lead-character

It looks like that very well may be the case!

So, I was broke up with yet another girl I was seeing. This dating thing seems to not be working out for me very well at all. I'm getting quite frustrated with it honestly.
In related news, I've been trying to stay in contact with Shannon a bit since we did fairly well for a while. Saturday she invited me to a comedy show but as I was already out with the guys I kept with my already ongoing plans.

I sent a few texts in reply but never got any call back from her till today where she just called me about 30 mins ago. It was a brief conversation where I mentioned I was starting to think she didn't want to talk.. then after a bit of me casually talking about goings on in my life I noticed that there was a lot of background noise on her end that sounded like breathing into the phone. I asked if she was ok but she got upset and said she needed to go. So I say "ok, well hope to hear from you" to which she then flys off the handle and starts saying I do not need to keep asking if shes ok or be upset because it was "only three fucking days" since we spoke last.

Ok, I understand I could have phrased things better myself but good grief, women are being crazy with me lately. :(

So my house searching is turning up some very interesting stuff:

Tonight I'm going to go check out this add:

$655 Master bedroom in townhouse

This is a clean and well maintained 3 level townhouse with 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, large kitchen, 2 refrigerators, 2 dining rooms, large deck w/grill, fenced back yard, w/d, high speed internet, direct tv, Cue bus stop out front, 15 minute drive to vienna metro and 5 minute walk to campus.

the master bedroom is 11x17 with a full bath, walk-in closet, carpet, wireless internet/direct tv. $655

Utilities not included (around $100 month), 1 year lease and security deposit required

One current tenant works at a local college and the other 2 tenants are GMU graduate students. We would prefer graduate students or responsible professionals. There is one dog and one cat living in the house. Sorry, no more animals.

We are located on the corner of Braddock and Roberts Rd. "


Also I have an appt next week on Monday to check out the following, which sounds even better:

"$725 Huge TH in fair oaks, includes utilities

Are you looking for a great place to live in Fairfax. The House is ae level 4 Bedroom/3.5 Bath Townhouse in the Fair Oaks neighborhood minutes from 66, 50 and the parkway and within walking distance to the grocery store, movies and resturants. The house is in end unit in a square in a very quiet peaceful neighborhood. You would have 2 rooms to do with as you please. Typically people have used one as a bedroom and the other as a TV room/Office. We are looking for a new third as our female roomie moved out to live with her fiance and the new guy has to leave as his mother became very ill and needs to be home with her. The house has lots of room for everyone as the house is 2400 SqFt. The main level is a huge L Shape kitchen, dining room, and living room with a large walk out deck. The basement is where the one roommate lives with his own private bath. The house has its own laundry room. The Top level is 3 rooms and 2 private baths. We are looking for someone who can come into the house as a member of the house who is respectful of the house and the people in it. Please no drugs in the house as I work with kids and can not have that in the house. Please be between 25 - 34 Male or female is fine. No Cats. Just like the title says Utilities Included in the price. Room is open July 15 for move in. Please contact me if you are interested."


Yes, do I read that right!? 2 rooms to myself! and for about the same end price as the other place! And from what I talked to the guy, its in the townhouses across the road from Brandi!

Its good stuffs in both cases, although the latter is definitely superior.

Oh and in other news last night Shannan and I talked on the phone a bit.. then I went over to her place for a little while... yea being broke up with while doing the deed is a first for me.. and kinda sucks since its all awkward like, I still wanna be friends with you even with benefits, type she is saying. She doesn't sound like she really is even sure as she was this morning still kinda wavering on it. Probably a good thing we cut this now and let her sort out her priorities ad see if she can accept me for who I am (and come to terms that I think I know what I want).

*edit* And yea after much crying last night I think I'm ok about it now... well maby not, I feel kinda dead inside. heh =/

So with everything else falling apart at the last second I'm now resigned that I need to move out of the appt.
To do so will cost me $2194.93. Of that $1621.93 is purely from having to pay the 17th-29th on the month-to-month rate due to giving our 30-day notice today.

This will leave me about $400 till payday to live and try to find a new place with.. if that is even possible...

So it goes without saying... I'm not going to Otakon this year.

*sigh* I tried to avoid this crap.

So things are not as great as they could be right now.

Me and the GF are having issues. She feels that I see her as more of a friend then a girlfriend. I feel that I'm not satisfying her needs.
Last night I was over at her house and we were going to discuss putting up a roommate add on craigslist and she was wanting me to go look at others to set it up. So I go and do so and she has a few AIM windows sitting open on the desktop with the topmost one has her saying to someone "I've been thinking of you a lot lately, call me (number)".

I casually ask her about it last night and she described the person as being an old friend that she wanted to see again. Also she was going over some stuff and I casually looked and noticed she was going over bank data, so I appologized due to reading over her shoulder.

Come today the comments bugging me again so while we were talking I asked about it again, attempting to sorta not directly go at it but she sees right through me and says she was trying to call him so she could ask him about me. Then she brings up I was reading over her shoulder too the night previous. Yea, that was wrong of me to do, and this as well but my paranoia & curiosity were nagging at me.

So the conversation then went on from one issue to another and to cut a lot out it boiled down to she sometimes is happy with our relationship and sometimes isn't, that I am not trusting of her, and that she feels even more sure that I just see her as a friend then a girlfriend.

I wish I was not such a complete failure at communicating. The conversation tonight ended on a down note with her needing to go and saying she would call me back, but its been about 2 hours and I don't think its happening tonight.

I'd like a Woman's opinion here:
What would be a good way to bounce back from such a bad phone call, or is there a way?

So, wow its been a while since I seriously put a post up.
The big news for me is that I have a GF now. :)
Shes a pretty awesome person and she and I got together surprisingly fast. In fact, one of the reasons I have not been posting about it here sooner is because I spend so much time over at her place. (this is the first day this week I've been home after work.)

She is not really much of a gamer and doesn't really have much knowledge of anime or manga, but she is very open to it so I count it as a win situation. :)

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=2439377&postcount=1730

Final patch for Umineko is out!!!!!!

(bear with me here, the G key on my laptop is acting really stuck-like and isn't very responsive)
So after a long time of Tom telling me about the website okcupid I was bored and set up a page there.
I was contacted late last week with one girl and after a bit of talking it seems she may be interested in going out for a date this weekend. Cross fingers this one turns out better then my last comic attempts at dating.

Man... I think my CD burner is dieing, It failed to burn the past 5 cd's.

Just have to share, along with everyone else here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Love how they got the girl rolling her eyes & the horrible reactions BEFORE she started. Really hammers it home how much people tend to judge a book by its cover.

I have MASSIVELY underestimated how much work is needed to put in the scale of the things I was assigned to do at work.

I went in today with the intent to finish it all by the close today (or at tonight) but here I sit with only 1/3rd of it done, if that much.
As some people know, this is frustrating me greatly and I feel that my work is being both lackluster AND slow on top of it.
I guess all of that time spent doing things at my own pace has really got me used to a light workload.

I called home today for the first time in months.  In addition to some weirdness me and my mom talked about I also found out that my little sister has apparently been bullied by kids at her school.  Apparently she was being punched & kicked by the brother of a girl in her class, possibly that girl is doing the same thing to her, and the girl and her are also in brownies together.

Mom wants to pull sis out of the brownie troop but because the girl is one of my sis's "friends" and is in the same class she doesn't want to give it up.
I can understand the frustration thats probably going on.  Shes probably wanting to fit in even though shes being treated horribly.  
It makes me angry, I wish they were closer so I could do something about it.

My sis even got on the phone and asked me "Hey, are you married?"  Weird question, but mom explained it to me that apparently she wants to come live with me.   I've barely been around her most of her life so I don't think its a sibling crush, possibly she just wants to get away from that awful situation.  ='(

Found this set of links on another page but putting them here for everyone as well!  Hit the link up for more and Umineko stuffs.

Now to go listen to the 8+ versions of "Dear You".
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So I managed to find a buyer for my old car this weekend. Surprisingly it was Chris S. who was interested in it. I told him its issues up front but he still wanted it so all seems good and I gave him a 70% discount from the price I was going to try to sell it for.
Using the funds from that and a little out of pocket I managed to get myself my first EVER laptop! I think after playing with this keyboard some it may help my typing ability as I'm REALLY needing to hold the hands together to type on this thing.

I'm quite excited about it as I felt for a long time now I was starting to get left behind in the tech curve compared to co-workers and friends. Now to get a better phone sometime!
Oh and still manage to save up for Japan and the cons this year all while fretting if I'm still cut out to be in the job I am. heh.

So today I'm in a meeting about some new work and I'm trying to pitch an idea I had on expanding an aspect of the work. Once again I'm met with blank stares and silence.

Later on when speaking to someone else I'm told the reason it would not work was because of various limitations we have, however those staring eyes provided no insight to me at the time why that wouldn't work.

I dunno but I feel like either my ideas are failure or there is a major communication issue here, one of the two. It is frustrating the hell out of me today.. *sigh* Do I need a different job?

So things don't seem to be going great for one of our fave publishers.
*no Tom, not Falcom, that I know of at least.
According to http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/12/atlus-in-dire-straits-huge-loss-forecast/ It looks like Atlus is taking a pretty big hit this year due to pulling out of some markets.

Woot! Persona 4 is complete! At least with the normal ending, it had me shedding manly tears!
Now to go back to my save and get the true ending!

So I was sitting at home just now, playing Persona 4, when I get a phone call from an unlisted number.
Upon answering I'm greated with a machine saying it was with some federal credit union and that my account was being suspended. The only option given was to press 0 to contact their security dept.
That was very odd as I'm not with any federal credit unions and I would assume it would provide me with further info *not to mention something like that should be done sooner then 10:14pm on a Saturday I'd assume*.
I suspect it was a hoax but just in case I checked my bank account, credit card, and left a msg with my insurance company just to make sure everything seemed correct.

The only thing I can think of that may affect this is I obtained a letter from my bank recently that a credit processing facility had a theft of data and they think my bank card could have been among one of the compromised ones, so they were going to send me a new bank card. I wonder if this call is the thieves trying to get more info?

Regardless my bank account balance looks to be appropriate for now so I hope I can find out what exactly this is.