complaints & grievances

Entertain the Brutes
Monday Morning Edition

It's been a month.

After the disaster the last months posting was, I guess I got too annoyed to be bothered. But it's time for a recap.

The ex.

As I told her, she is nothing more to me than a source of entertainment. Doesn't stop her from trying to get me to help her or piss me off though. She dumped her longtime BF to start fooling around with what I believe to be a married man.

Life's funny, huh.

After all this bullshit came to light, I scratched an itch and bought www.myrelationshipfnsucks.com for fun. David has yet to set it up so I can use it, and I don't know if I'd bother.

David also bought me a badass KVM w/audio switch. But it doesn't work. Supposedly it needs to be powered, but David's cheap and lazy. LAZY!!

During the revalation of her being entertainment, I found out she was filesharing and vid camming online, killing my already throttled upload, thereby making my XBox Live play impossible. Since then I got the throttle released and ordered a second modem for the house. Once it arrives, I'll toss the old one and the router at her and keep the new one for my crap (two PC's, Vonage broadband phone, XBL). Course, it was supposed to arrive within 3 to 5 business days. 2 weeks ago.

Last week my PC crapped out. Actually I should say Windows XP crapped out for reasons unknown. Problem is my main OS drive is SATA now, so I can't slave it to an OS IDE and grab my data. After a week of searching and considering, I have an IDE to SATA Converter Board on it's way here with overnight shipping. The idea is to fake the system into thinking it has two SATA drives hooked up, and hopefully I can have one over the other. Losing all that data is not something I am willing to do.

I finally rounded out my Babylon 5 DVD's, with the exception of the Movie Collection. I have Married With Children's 3rd Season on it's way to me, and Family Guy's Season 1 & 2 set. I also have Devil May Cry 3 on preorder along with a new Gamer Graphiz skin for the PS2 (the "Chrome Mod" one stinks).

The final note is the most crucial. The ex decided she needed a bed. Hasn't had one since around the time I started doing her. All futons. So I'm like "yeah great not my problem". Turns out she needs to MAKE it my problem.

First she tries to get me to loan her the keys to my truck (while I'm in bed) so she could bring her bed home on top of it. While thinking "fuck you!" I explained to her how crappy my truck was and I wouldn't put snow on top of it to haul.

Then 8-ish hours later amidst a crapload of noise (including my friggin dog yappin his fool head off) which signals the bed has arrived, she calls me to find out if they can run the bed through my room cause whoopsy stupid them no one measured shot ahead of time. Like before, I'm thinking "you fucking bitch leave me the fuck alone!!" while telling her it's not possible.

5 minutes later I can't sleep anymore (yes, 8 hours is a good amount, but I was catching up and it was only 6:20 p.m., the overnighters equivalent of 4:20 a.m.) and I walk out of the room, where down the stairs they are looking at stuff trying to figure things out. One look at me and you can tell I'm pissed off, but does anyone care? NO! Instead I hear some shit about a hammer, which I get mine for her (and didn't get back). I seeth about calling her at 4 a.m. and she just blows me off and gives ME attitude. Then later that evening her mother tells me I'll never get anyone if I keep being such a prick.

If I'M such a prick why am I the one getting screwed? My shit gets broken, tough. Wake me up in the middle of the night, oh well. Stop being an asshole. That's what I get told.

Moving is, of course, foremost on my mind. Problem is affording it. I barely make $1500 a month, how am I supposed to afford a $1000 a month or more in rent? The ideal place I've seen is $1225, plus another $100 for the dog and another $25 if I bring one of the cats, which I won't be.

Fuck my crappy life.