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Diary of a Half-Madman
Aug. 31st, 2007
11:50 pm
Well,. I haven't posted in a Dogs age, I haven't had allot to say and the original reason for this journal has kind of come and gone.
If you need to find me try:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu
Or email me at heckboy1(at)gmail(dot)com
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indifferentMar. 5th, 2007
06:01 pm - Quick Update
Things have been rough. I wasn't just sick but I had whooping cough. Yeah friggin whooping cough. Apparently it takes 3 months to get rid of and there's nothing you can do about it. I was sick from Thanksgiving to well into January.
But I'm feeling much better now.
Jan has been sick two. We just keep passing the lesser sicknesses back and forth. Jan finally has enough antibiotics in her to kill just about anything and is seeming to mend. We should be back to full strength really soon.
I got a job and start around the 12th of this month. I haven't really worked since just before Christmas. This is good as our money situation sucks. The basdd thing is I have been spending allot of time working on my new armor and I have to rush it to get it done before the weekend.
Ugh.
I'll try to update on a more regular basis.
Jan. 3rd, 2007
07:59 pm - Sick as a dawg,.
Were all under the weather again, We have been cooped up here int he apartment for 2-3 weeks,. just passing the disease back and forth. Now Janet has it. I'm mostly recovered. My right ear is plugged with mucus and it's rendering me mostly deaf in that ear. Life sux right now.
no job, no life. sick,.. cant's see my hand in front of my face.
Christmas was O.K. Jess got lots of great presents. we spent it with my family and everything was kosher.
NYE we spent at home. Drunk gallons of good stuff. This is the first year we let Jess stay up and watch the ball drop. which was cool.
More later.
Oct. 31st, 2006
11:34 pm
I havent updated in a while I have been too busy to write,
Last Sunday I went paintballin with the guys from Betheir,. We had a blast and swore to do it again!!
Haloween was tongith and Jess got a tremendous haul,. she was the "bamboo princess" a japanese character, but she didnt want to wear makeup or a wig,. so she was a blonde haired medieval japanese princess,..::sigh:; still she was mondo cute.
My cell phone fried two weeks ago,. I got a replacement from my dad,. sbut I lost my phonebook,. so If you outthere could call me I would be happy to put you back in my phonebook agains (sheesh)
Sep. 21st, 2006
07:41 am - Summer Recap
I haven't updated in forever,.
Lets see.
Had a great weekend of paintball at Skirmish "D-Day" what a riot. The game was great, the camping wa s like an unorganized pennsic, with hooligans. It was CRAZY. Morons shooting off fireworks,. smoke bombs in the port-a-johns,. people firing markers in camp. Me, I just got drunk and watched it all. I'm such a tourist. The game was fun, my new marker rips. I got to hold off an advance all by my self. Got to be "Audie Murphy" for a few minutes,.
Did Pennsic, Had great fun,. spent a boatload of money, bought lots of stuff, Got the Misproununski bible. Got some weapon heads for SCA fighting and finally got around to announcing my persona change, from the 14th century man at arms to a late-late 12th century Hospitillar monk in the holy land. Didn't get to fight as much fighting as I would have liked.
The local SCA practice in trenton,. the one 4 minutes from my house, got canceled. Bummer.
Took Jess to Adventure Aquarium in Camden almost got flooded in and barely got out before dark. (Murder capital of the world!)
Quest was a great time as always, still my favorite event. NEXT year if i can afford it I'm going to set up a separate "tent" for myself and put in a kiddie pool!! I'm not kidding,. I'll have a working bath in camp.
Sold out old tent at pennsic and have a 16' regent waiting for me at Cet's going tonight to set it up!!
Jan and I are doing great and the "secret hobby" thing is going strong!! (wink wink)
We went to Seaside a couple of times.
There's a pool in our complex and we went swimming alot.
Went to the little mini-zoo in Columbus NJ
Started in a new D&D game at Jeff's
I'll do more updates in the coming weeks.
Jun. 20th, 2006
10:43 pm - I love MAD SCIENCE ! ! !
Yesterday was weird,
Truly a day of weirdness. I felt weird going into work, I was running really late. And I hate, HATE having to do the "walk of shame" to my desk with EVERYONE knowing that your late. It really bugs me. So rather than face the indignity of having to do that again I called out. Feigned stomach illness. (Fat guy, go figure!) And went out and bought a phone. Long story, we are paying for internet phone service thru the cable TV, but didn't have an actual phone to use.
AAAAANY-WAY
I got home beat to death and couldn't manage to muster the energy to do ANYTHING, we drove to DMV to get some paperwork straightened out and didn't have enough ID to process our paperwork (UGGH DAMN YOU 9-11 HIJACKERS!!) So I went home and took an enor-moose nap, Like a 3 hour nuclear power nap.
(there is a point to ALL of this so hang in there, I know your all reading saying to yourself "Yeah he played hooky, bought a telephone and took a nap? This is worthy of a journal entry?")
So I get a call at 5PM from my friend brotherbill. Who has the night off and wants to come down and hang. I tell him it's fighter practice and he's psyched,. But a few minutes later I call back and practice is canceled. But that's O.K. another friend of his called and sd that the "peartree academy" was having a get together, and wanted to know if he wanted to come by. He said yes and I tagged along. So what is the peartree academy?
PEAR is the "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research" lab. It's basically Princeton U's "parapsychology" (to use the vulgar term) department. They research the effect the conscious mind has on machines and basically the physical world. It's involved and I don't think I'm explaining it adequately here, So check out the website,.
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
The basic principal is that human consciousness has a marked and measurable influence on complicated mechanical systems. They found that a human operator could "influence" the results of a computer driven random number generator. Changing the outcome (not always mind you) but enough to show that the conscious mind has a marked impact ont he physical. They have been doing this research since 1979!
Basically I got to hang out with super-bright people who research extremely cool science. One girl was an artist type who threw artistic/creative "rave" type parties in Europe, and did something with the random number generator. Another guy was studying dolphins and something to do with communication and intelligence. People cam in from all over the world. It beyond cool!
Of course in that setting all one wants to be is a "fly on the wall" and soak in the coolness. And all brotherbill did was extol my virtues and talk me up like a used car salesman. I appreciate what he was trying to do but because I became the topic of conversation for the most part I learned very little. I HAVE to get some time next year and get over there with him and really see/learn what is going on.
Jun. 12th, 2006
07:17 am - To the zoo
We went to the Philly zoo this weekend, I'm writing this 2 weeks later as I have been kind of distracted. I meant to write last week but the time and mind-set wasn't there. Oh well,. We saw Lions and Tigers and Bears,. (oh my) Jess spent about 2.5 seconds at every animal enclosure, (That was neat, a bear, come ON mommy, lets see what's next!) 
Giraffe,
Warthog statue.
They put in a new exhibit "Big cat falls" lots of feline predators, Unfortunately there were SOOO many people that Jan and I couldn't get close enough to see anything. Jess on the other hand wormed her way right up front! The advantages of being little!
The Cheetah enclosure was cool, they were separated from us by a pit, and really close. And you know they could smell us, they kept watching us and pacing, you could tell they were agitated. And sooo close. 
Looks like it could be in my backyard!
Jun. 8th, 2006
09:22 pm
I really don't want to update,. I've tried 4 times to go over all the cool stuff that happened at the Quest SCA event. But I just cant seem to write it all down. I've been waiting for some sort of inspiration to write but it's just not coming. So in the name of at least getting something down.
I DRANK, House Bheithir always has the best booze. I love those guys. It's like I said a year ago in my first (or second) entry, they are like family. Twisted, drunken-bizarre family. but family none the less.
I FOUGHT, I really stunk up the fighting field, I really REALLY need more practice. I was barely a speed bump. That's something I REALLY really need to improve. It's going ot be my focus for the foreseeable future. How can I continue to coach people when I can barely fight my way out of a wet paper bag.
I FROLICKED, more on that in the locked down entry section. :)~
I FEASTED, Brother Bill had is "turk-dar" on and we found a Turkish diner to eat at as we couldnt't get on board (Probably a good thing as it was a Hawaiian theme, salt and poi ugh!)
Needless to say, no one believed Bill was Turkish (He looks Hispanic) until he started speaking the lingo, then of course we got Turkish hospitality! One word Shish ke bob's! (Or is that three)
I ran into a girl who used to date Torkwrench. She still looks incredible, She's married now with kids and complained to me that her hubby was boring in the sack. We had a great long talk and I got an AWESOME kiss goodnight. I still smile when I think of her. She'll be a the Lakewood Renn faire. I was going ot blow it off this year, but now, I'm certain I'm going!!
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sleepyMay. 13th, 2006
03:59 pm - Not goin' anywhere for a while?
Screw snickers bars!
watch comic book fan films instead,..
Grayson:(What if Batman was murdered and the truth was covered up, who would avenge the dark knight? Visually stunning! )
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/264551
Batman-Dead End (Batman vs. the Joker vs. the Predator vs. Aliens)
http://www.collorastudios.com/proje
Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special (the Easter Bunny hires the "main man" to rub out Santa Clause)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sya181OQ
The Secret Wars Reenactment Society (you thought the S.C.A. was dorky?)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YveSHqhOkdo
The Punisher vs. Wolverine First round!!
http://www.coreysosner.com/
Loosing Lois Lane (Superman gets dumped, becomes a bum and then gets his groove back!)
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/265872
Fast Times at Hero High:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/248338
Power Girl: The Classifieds (Power Girl gets a dayjob,. now with Blue and Gold goodness!!)
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=85
Robins' big date! (We all knew Bats was an ass,. Now we get to see just how big of an ass!)
http://www.redheadedleague.com/films/ro
ecstaticMay. 6th, 2006
05:35 pm - Drinquo de mayo!!
Last night was Cinquo,
We went and saw "Big Orange Cone" decent local/party band. Very crowded. But lots off fun. I need to take the wife out dancing. She seemed to really need it. I dragged her away too early. We downed overpriced margaritas and danced to bad 70's and 80's party music. (J. Giles anyone?).
Afterward we went to "hooters" (The Owl restaurant) and had shrimp and wings and plotted our next move. We ditched most of the wives. (Except mine of course :) ) and went over the river to "Sugar and Spice" local go-go joint (I remember it as being called "Little Caesar's" back in the day.) My friend Mike was broke so I dropped him a $20 (The boy helped me out in the past, I couldn't leave him hangin!) and later Ansi and I got a lapdance together from a little 20 year old blond with a perfect bod and baby smooth skin.
Are all strippers bi/lez? Maybe i can get some government funding for a research study? Ha ha!
I'm not a huge strip bar kind of guy, but every once in a while it's a nice change of pace.
All in all a fun night!!
Oh yeah I just dropped some serious cash a IKEA today. We have a storage unit FULL of furniture, but it's not the right KIND of furniture,.. sheesh. But still having a nice place to live will pay off in the end.
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exhaustedMay. 3rd, 2006
05:21 pm - Bordentown, Home sweet home.
We are in and happy. We closed on the house and are out from under that moneypit/deathtrap. Just a quick note as to what was going on, when we moved Jess's bed we found the boxspring had been burned, by the baseboard heater. Another week and her bed could have cought on fire. This is the sort of thing that has given me nightmares for the past 4-5 years. I am soooo happy now. Not only do I have big pockets full of money. I'm in a better place. I'm working fior a good company, the people are great and my commute is around 15 minutes, (FIFTEEN FRIGGIN MINUTES!!) All the rooms in my apartment are bigger, they are airy and full of light. I feel like I have been living in a cave for the past 5 years. It's kind of funny. Ansi and I have been saying that we have to re-learn how to be house-living homosapiens again, having just moved up the ladder from being cavemen.
Life is great, we are going to afford to live a normal life. I can focus on going back to school, Getting a blackbelt or two, getting Knighted, loosing 200 lbs. You know, all the stuff I should have been doing.
I cant express in writing how happy I am. I'm practically flying. My luck is changing. I have seen and felt it, And It makes me happy.
Really
Fuggin
Happy.
ecstaticMar. 17th, 2006
02:46 pm - Still waiting to go
The move IS coming,. I have been a bit preoccupied with other crap, but we are moving into Pointe Breeze on or around or between April 13 - 16th,
somewhere in there. Until then we will STILL be in roselle Park. Things are looking up, I have an interview in Ewing on Monday,. if I get it then I won't have to worry about the hellish commute to North Jersey.
I havent been writing much due to the fact that I have no internet connection at home and I have been to busy getting ready. I'll update more once I get out of here!!
Feb. 27th, 2006
08:49 am - It's been a while
I'm afraid it's going to be a month or more till I get time to update again. We have found an apartment in Bordentown on 206 near Mastoris diner. We are moving in on April 15th. YAY Easter weekend,. I'm sure I can find people to help me then? (NOT!)
The apartment is nice and in a good location. Jan and I are extremely happy with it.
I had the interned shut off in preperation for the move (Because i thought it would be this week) So I can only update at work. So There won't be very much here till i get moved. Other than that things ahve bee rough. Not completely horrible but bad enough.
It'll be nice to start playing SCA,gaming, Paintball and Art and get to do all the things that I have to set aside so I cna get this friggin move done.
Anyway, wish me luck!!
Jan. 20th, 2006
07:58 pm - WE ARE OUTTTTA HERE !!!
Well It's official,. we have a contract on our house. We will be making allot of money, (Most will be invested for a while till we are ready to buy a NEW house.)
What does this mean?>
MERCER COUNTY HERE WE COME!!
Home again,. Near my parents and most of our friends!! It means monday fighter practice's with Duke Ron, getting to pummel Gwalthmai on a weekly basis!! Means working in Cet's shop when the feeling takes me, It means not having this Gy-Normus mortgage hanging over my head like a sword every month. It means being in a weekly D&D game once again! It means seeing my parents more than once in a blue moon.
I can't wait.
It also means we have a TON of work to do before closing, we need to find a storage unit, rent a truck and find an apartment to live in. It means finding new jobs down there. But Damnit I'M COMING HOME !!
February 28th people,. you have been warned!!
ecstaticDec. 17th, 2005
06:25 pm - MOMMA,. I'm coming hoooooooooome!!
Well it's finally happened. The bottom has dropped out of my life. Although it sounds horrible after all I've been through it's been kind of a relief.
I'll explain.
Unknowingly, I bounced last months mortgage payment. And I don't have enough for this month. So basically I'm fucked. With a big capital "F"
But its not as bad as all that. I'm going to have to quickly sell my house. That's a good thing, at this point I can no longer afford it and the stress of having to worry about everything has really taken it's toll. I've been a real wreck the past two + years, I've lost all my "cool" and have been feeling like a real "square". (for lack of a better term)Like an uptight jerk.
So the plan is to sell the house quickly, The real estate agent came through today and gave me a listing price well above what I was thinking (That's good) I'm going to have to make some concessions due to the damage in the house. but that's O.K. I'm still going to walk away with a nice "nest egg"
So the plan is to sell,. get the FUCK out of dodge. Put mostly everything in storage and get a SMALL apartment in South Jersey (Somewhere between Hamilton and Mount Holly) Commute until I can find a job down there. Then it's back to my home . The area I grew up in. I'm actually pretty relieved. All I have to do is convince the Mortgage company NOT to try to Foreclose on my while i get the house sold! And I think I can do that.
I'll keep you updated!!
Nov. 25th, 2005
11:43 pm - Happy Turkey Day (Just friggin SHOOT me already!)
Well Thanksgiving dinner was fantastic, Mom mom can cook! I ate like a pee, eigh, gee, pig. (Don't say it) I mean the dinner was fantastic. Everything you could want in a Thanksgiving dinner was there It was like a friggin Norman Rockwell painting. I even picked up my Bro in New Brumfis and took him down. (My folks love him !)
So what's with the shooting? Well driving back I get pulled over by quite possibly the biggest assh*le cop in all of New Jersey. Well if that wasn't bad enough, The registration on Jan's car had expired (Or been revoked, I couldn't tell if the previous post's problems with DMV have been solved yet.) so the car had to be towed and my Bro and my family were left stranded by the side of the road. (Notice I didn't mention that I was stranded?)
No instead I get asked to exit the vehicle, cuffed and stuffed in the back of the squad car and taken away. It seems that I had an outstanding warrant in My hometown that they neglected to tell me about. A freaking 89 dollar parking ticket.
HAPPY FUCKING THANKSGIVING.
Now I had been to my local police station a month ago, I had 2 or 3 parking tickets i had to pay for, I ASKED them to run my license # and tell me if I had any outstanding tickets? Let me know if I had to pay any more?
THEY SAID NO!!
WTF?
Anyway My Dad bailed me out and my Mom picked up my family and made sure everyone got home in one piece. You would think the the misery ended there? NO way Jose' because that would be TOO FUCKING EASY!! No Fortune wasn't done FUCKING ME IN THE ASS! It seems that my neurotic wife didn't want to let my Mom in the house BECAUSE IT WASN'T CLEAN ENOUGH! The woman picks her up stranded at the side of the road and DRIVES HER HOME and she can't even let her into the house for 10 minutes to wait for me and my Dad.
That was the straw that broke the camels back. I flipped the fuck out. I was RAGING at Jan. (I didn't hit her) and I broke down sobbing and apologized to my Mom for my wifes downright shitty behavior. I basically just lost it. I just had a complete emotional breakdown. So here's all 400lbs of me sobbing uncontrollably to my mom in the middle of the street because my wife was a total cunt. I'll say it again.
HAPPY FUCKING THANKSGIVING!!
When I get back inside Jan says something like "I'm a screw up, your a screw up, two screw ups shouldn't be together. I want a divorce."
She isn't the type to throw around the "D" word but at this point I'm way to tired and thoroughly beat down to care. I went to bed and got about an hours sleep because of all thais then it was this morning and I'm off to work,. yipee!
I don't know how much more of this my system will take.
Nov. 15th, 2005
08:16 pm - I AM FORTUNES WHIPPING BOY
Well,. I haven’t updated in a while,. it seems that lately I am a swirling evil black vortex of bad luck. I have had almost every thing around me fail catastrophically. It's getting to the point that I don't even seem to notice, or be surprised by it. I feel like the guy in the Monty Python skit where everything he touches falls apart, to the point that after he walks out of the house it falls down around him. I don't even know where to start.
My wallet was stolen about a month ago, (I think this is what started it all!) I lost $60 (not a huge deal) and all of my ID. License,. SS card, everything. It seems that I don't have enough ID to get new ID,. Social Security wants to see my drivers license and DMV wants my social security card. I have been back and forth between the two at LEAST ten times.
The refrigerator went bad and all the food spoiled.
DMV sent me a notice that my registration had been suspended because they no longer knew that I had insurance. (Having switched to Geico) It's costing me $100 to get it fixed. (Remember all that money i saved by switching?) Would have been nice if DMV sent me notice first?
DMV also SUSPENDED my license because they haven’t gotten my check fast enough and wanted me to send ANOTHER $100 to get that back. This prevented me from getting a new copy of my license this morning. I got on the phone to DMV and got them to un-revoke my license. (But not my reg) "Sigh"
My car The wonder van’s tranny is going/gone. I took it to my local shop and he replaced the tranny sensors. but it's still fucked up. He said he doesn’t do tranny work and to take it to a tranny shop (Goodbye money!!)
Oh yeah the little bar fridge i bought from Best-Buy to hold us over for the WEEK that i was going to take the repair man to get there seized after a week and I'm going to have to take it back.
My house is falling down, The plaster has fallen off the wall under the window going up stairs and there is a decent section of bare lathe showing,. I’m going to have to stay home from 100 minutes war to fix it,.
Three weeks ago I got sick,. Really sick. I think I even posted about it. I was awake for three whole days in a row,. I was hallucinating and everything (Who needs drugs?)
This much bad luck seems almost supernatural. I hope I’m building up HUGE dividends in my Karmic bank. Like enough to win the lottery or something. I think I have EARNED it at this point.
gloomyOct. 27th, 2005
06:45 pm
Quick update,
the Spectre of death seems to be leaving me. I'm still caughing but not as bad and my head is clearing up.
More later
Oct. 26th, 2005
12:25 am
Still sick,. didn't sleep last night, Didn't sleep today. Soo tired,. every time I lay down I feel like I'm going to hack up a lung. My back muscles are so abused from hacking and coughing thgat I think they can be used to make a suspension bridge.
I wish I could just expire right now. Save me the trouble later on.
seriously I'm not going to kill myself or anything, I just feel like you do when you wish you were dead.
That's me, I feel like a crackhead looks.
I feel lie the stuff on the bottom of your shoe. Not the healthy stuff you scrape off but the green putrid stuff thaat clings between the grooves and festers,.
That's me.
I didn't go to work today and I'm prolly not going tomorrow.
AAAgh
If I don't find a way to sleep soon I'm going to start halucinatin, Hellicuinam,. Seeing stuff that's not there. I am way beyond the limits of my endurance. I feel like someone poured lighterfluid on my b-rain and lit a match.
No spell Checkker today,. to crunchy
Oct. 5th, 2005
04:58 am - Yup
Was sick for the weekend,. sort of.
Went to see "Serenity" on Saturday afternoon with a bunch of friends, It was great. The ending left me cold but that is another story. Went out to dinner with Friends, Dee's birthday and all that. A great time was had by all! We waent back to Jay and Dee's house and everyone sat around a firepot and we told tall tales from our gaming days. It was good. I didn't get home till 3 am or thereabouts.
That's about all. Went to my woirkout on Sunday and my bro hooked me up with some acupuncture and herb. I am feeling better.
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