This Journal is Rated M for Mature

Well, it's been a busy... uh... how long has it been since my last entry? Oh, whatever... not like people read this thing anyway, heh.

No, no... it's OK. I'm in a good mood... I just also know I'm not one of those Deviants that people watch. My art isn't ultra-super-cool, and I don't update regularly. By all usual Deviant judgments, if I haven't made it now, I never will. I'm not sure I care much about Pageviews... but when my website (incomplete as it may be) has gotten over 20,000 hits in five years, and my DeviantArt page (up for two years now) is still working on 3,000... I know I'm small time game, you know?

In any event, stuff's been happening. I've lined myself up a job, so a big "Fuck You!" goes out to Bush and how he's screwed the economy. I beat you, you little shit. I start training on the 31st... Yeah, Halloween, and at night... but it could be worse, right? I could still be without a job, yes?

I'll be working as Tech Support for a company called CallTech... they watch over and help out people with BellSouth DSL in the Columbia, South Carolina area. I'll be back with my old roommates for at least a little while, and general quality of life should improve for me once again... getting out of this damn house [again].

Actually, that's unfair to the house. The house isn't so bad... not like some I've seen... I'm actually getting away from my step-dad and all the conflict he causes in my life and the lives of my mom and little sister.

This reminds me, actually. Jeff's newest annoyance is that he got me a new Cell Phone. This might not sound like a big thing—and with Jeff, few things are—but it's just the latest of ways for him to inconvenience me and disrupt my life. I have this old Nokia phone, one of those dark gray, non-flip models circa 1998. I really like my phone. It's a phone, you know? It has contacts by up and down arrows, I can set a little alarm on it if I want, it has simple games, stuff like that.

So, Jeff decides that since my phone is old, he'll get me a new one. This is partially because Jeff likes to control aspects of my life, and partially because he's a frickin' Gadget Whore. He gets me this phone while I'm away in Columbia looking for a job, right? What this means is that I 1) had no input on what kind of phone that I wanted and 2) the service goes over to my new phone, thus cutting the service to my now "old" phone while I still have it in Columbia.

I asked for one thing from a new phone... one simple thing. As many features as it might have, and as much as I'd have to get use to a new phone, I asked for only one thing in a new phone (several times)... I wanted a non-flip phone. So what does Jeff get me? A flip phone, obviously.

Maybe there are those of you out there that love your Cells and all the little useless shit they can do, but this new miniscule piece of crap pisses me off. It's totally inconvenient in it's design and presentation. Something about it having so many features has cluttered the fuck out of the little things and made it difficult to use, or at least inconvenient and annoying... which counts towards being difficult to use, if I did my math right.

Cell Phones should be nothing if not easy to use.

On my current phone, I press the up and down arrows to cycle through the contacts and/or the most recent calls list. On this new, little, silver, flip-phone, I have to 1) open the phone 2) press the right-side button on the face... not the right-direction button around the center button, but another button to the right of that... 3) Then I have to cycle up and down using the up and down buttons around center "OK" button.

These numbers aren't listed by number or Contact, but something like a "Contact Cluster" or some shit... I don't know what they call it, but it's the difference between having headings for "Draco's House" and "Draco's Cell" and just having a listing for "Draco" with both numbers on it. I mean, I use to have my Contacts as a way to dial numbers... but the default way would have me have a single heading of "Best Buy" for Greenville, Anderson, Ithaca, and Columbia, rather than one for each. If you could make a major heading and have the other's show up under it... that would be helpful... but they don't. In fact, if I bring up "Draco" in my Contact List and hit "Send"... I don't even know which number it'll dial... or even if it dials, now that I think about it.

Yes, I could make different headings for each item (like in my old phone), but the way you enter in Contacts is also a pain. They want the number and name, and that's the usual... but they also ask you for the extra numbers, notes, E-Mail (what the fuck do I need to put E-Mail Addresses into my Cell Phone for?), and other crap too. I'm sure this is helpful for some people, but I just want Phone Numbers on my Cell Phone. Is there something wrong with that? Why can't I turn on "Classic" or "Simple" view or some shit?

I'm not a fan of the color screen. I suspect it will suck battery life... my old phone lasts about a week if it sits around not being used. I don't know about this one yet, but it has a color screen that's lit really bright for some reason, even when I turn it down. I can't seem to turn off these stupid animation things for when the phone is turned on or off... and when I'm talking on the phone, the time goes away from the screen... unhelpful, anyone? Ugh...

I miss my Enter button, too. If the "OK" button in the center of the screen worked like "Send", then maybe me and it could get along. But, it's a flip phone... so the buttons are all flat and laid into it like a DDR pad in the arcade... not bubbled out like my old buttons... so actually pressing Send feels like a chore because it's the same height and texture as the face of the phone. Also, who combined End and Power into a single button? Why are Send and End two different buttons, anyway?

I miss my one, single button that did everything. Kind of reminds me of enjoying my Nintendo controllers as compared to other systems... Yes, I'm sure thsi setup is good for some things, and I'm sure some people like it... but, to me, this is just a multi-function, extra-button piece of shit. I've barely used it, and I hate it already...

Damn, I didn't think I'd yammer on about a Cell Phone for so long. Oh well... people read Guyver47's Journals (as do I), so it's possible someone's actually taking all of this in.

Moving onward, I've had the opportunity to be the Player for my old Roommate, Justice. He's still got his "easily distracted" flaw, but now that we've gotten him to give us more than one game, he seems to be able to stay the course. I hope when I make it back to Columbia that Moonie and I will get to play a bit more.

Oh, right, we're playing Rifts. Currently, I have a Dog Boy, uh, Mind-Fucker, or whatever they're called, heh. Mind Melter? I don't remember now. It's not a usual character, but basically my character didn't get trained by the Coalition States, being born of two Feral Wolf-breed Dog Boys, so he was able to develop other skills. He's actually my second character and second Dog Boy... the first one was a CS officer and both Moonie and Shroud are Bounty Hunters... so... the first game was me calling for backup and protecting a CS installation that they'd intended to rip-off. It wasn't what GM Justice planned, but I ended up being the "victor" because of it. Plans were made for the next game to get us all back together, and I didn't think it would work out. Either they'd try to kill my character and succeed or (a bit more likely), they'd try and die. So, instead, I made a new character along the lines of what I wanted out of the game, and designed him so I could run with the other two characters. I've liked both, though.

Sims. Sims, I tell you. Justice, Moonie, and Shroud all have new families in The Sims 2. Well, Moonie has a family... the other two are just playing loners. You know how it is, heh. We've all been playing a lot of the game, and occasionally having things happen that someone else might end up seeing or have to fix. Our biggest problem was this one Sim that Justice made way back at the old apartment who was still alive in the Neighborhood (Veronaville). The problem was that Sharpner was sick when Justice last played him. I warned them all that he'd been seen walking past people's houses and in the community lots, hacking and coughing on people, and generally getting the whole Neighborhood sick. In fact, he was the Sim most likely to show up to greet new players such as Shroud and get their Sim sick on the first day of existence. Basically, without him being played, he never got better... and as an NPC, he was just a walking contagion.

I called him "The Plague Demon".

Eventually, Justice loads Sharpner up one time and discovers him unsick. He must have gotten better out on a Community Lot or something. But, after that, our current problem is Vampires. The vamps seem to be able to bite anyone (even Store Clerks and such), even if they don't have a good relationship with them... at least, as NPC's, that is. It's kind of annoying and needs to be patched. Otherwise, it's kind of funny and disturbed.

And, let's see... Oh, yeah, LARP. LARP should be fun tonight, I hope. Last game was kind of unfortunate because Velvet Maiden's character, Nemo, tried to rape my character, Thomas. Basically, had he not gone catatonic, she would have. It's barely not a breach of the Litany, to be honest, but that's not the main IC problem for Thomas. What it really comes down to is that Nemo showed Thomas to be weak by what she did. He's just been put up as Beta of the Sept, and she goes and acts The Fool at the Moot and ends up taking major advantage of him. This has put some seriously bad blood between him and her (wether she comprehends it or not), and I fear that Maiden might take my IC actions the wrong way.

Honestly, I realize that there was IC motivations for Maiden to do what she did... but, at the same time, I have to wonder if (OOC) she understands what Nemo did to Thomas. Thomas does not like the idea of being shown that he is weak, and she did it in front of just about everyone... and anyone who didn't see it, heard about it. It's a major mark against him, and gives any red-blooded Garou a reason to question anything he might say or do as Beta of the Sept. It's a mark of shame and weakness that he wont soon live down unless he puts upon her a suitable punishment... and even then, it's likely to stick.

And, let me think... I guess that's about it, yup. I'm done with this, now I just need to proofread. If anyone wants to comment, you can be sure I'll reply. Training doesn't begin for CallTech until the 31st, so I still have some free time ahead of me.

See you in the Future,
—Huntermun


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=guyver47 (2) - An image for her Birthday (0%). An image for being my 2,000th Hit (20%).
~VelvetMaiden (1) - An image of her character Nemo for being my 2,509th Hit (0%).
~LesserZ (1) - An image of Lesser Z Versus Huntermun (0%).
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~MajorMoonie (2) - Art Trade of uh... drat, something Ninja (I'll get back to you on that). A picture of Huntermun in his Annoucer cloths, to help with his Tournament (25%).
~Kumitekey (1) - An Art Trade... do a pic of his Fursona and he does some action pic of Huntermun (57%).

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Every 500 Hits is a New Winner!
Every 500 Hits, you've got the opportunity to get a free picture out of me. It can be a picture of anything [within reason]. What you do is take a Screen Shot and put it in your Scraps. You send me a link in a Note, and what you'd like as a pic, and I'll hook you up. In addition to this rule is an add-on... someone might not realize that they're a 500 Hit... if this is the case, then you can still do the Scraps » Note for, say, 3,001 if you want. Just realize that if 3,000 sends me a note a bit later, they "Out Bid" you... but since I want people to win, I've made this new rule. This goes out to anyone +50 of my 500 Hit. Past 3,050, no one can win for 3,000... get it? Good. n\_/n