Monthly Archives: December 2003

Spent the whole day resting and juicing up (a.k.a. shoving tons of juice down my throat) in order to be well for the Vegas party that I’m going to tonight. I didn’t realize that Angie was the host of the party until I took a look at the evite. I was going to have her drive us, but it might be better if I drive just in case I start feeling under the weather. I still need to get a white elephant gift that’s $5. Another thing I hate dislike (if I may go on a little side rant) is when the WE gift price is set so low. I think the lower the price is, the harder it is to find a gift. I know that you are suppose to bring something that you already own and all, but really, who does that anymore. So I have to scour the city and the mall for a gift with a time limit of 1.5hrs.
At least I was able to get through to AT&T today. After an 45-60 min wait, I was able to get through to someone and I think that everything is taken care of. I should have the phone by the end of next week (fingers cross). What is worrisome is the phone that I got at the auction. I still don’t see a charge for it and it should have shipped out by now. If nothing happens by Mon, I will call and see if I can cancel the order. I hope that I don’t get scammed, cause I pay all of my bills on this check.
Oh yeah, forgot to do laundry. So I am trying my best to dress down with my dress clothes. Reminds me of the time that I went to City Nights with Angie years ago and I just pimped myself out that night. **sigh** Good times…

At this point, I don’t know what the hell is going on with my phone order.
Just got an email saying that my order has been canceled and I need to reorder. Not sure if that is for the original order or for the second order. I have like 4-5 different phone numbers to call. And still no phone.
Also, got a call from Visa about suspicious activity on my account. Decided that it was the auction place and released the hold on my card.
At least I am caught up on things here at the warehouse.

Topic #1, Birthdays
I have been mainly in a self-centered kinda of mood lately. Actually, it is more of trying to keep my head above water mood (which I am barely doing, it seems.) Anyway, there is a list of people that I have to mention because it needs mentioning, and maybe because their birthday’s have passed…
In no particular order, but all of great importance…
Mariah a.k.a. Kabuki
I honestly think that Mariah is the first person that I have met off of livejournal. **thinks** Yeah, I think that I met her before I met joe_black, convelesence, or fairyqueen. Anyway, I think that I first met her with Suzanne at the Denny’s in Vallejo. Now unfortunately, all I get are yearly visits when I goto the Ren Faire…which I guess I don’t even have now that the Faire has closed. Anyway, at first glance you just might see a pretty cute punk/rock girl. Now this is corny as hell, but yes, I am going to use the onion/layer metaphor on her. Cause it is so true of her. I mean she is such an amazing person and I love listening to her talk. And I love her writing too. The last 2 months, there have been entries in her journal that I have literally just sat and savored over the words that she used. I totally talking about American Beauty/bag floating/ beauty hurts stuff. Mariah is just a great person and I am not just saying all of this to try and get free drinks from her. I would have 10,000 of her babies if I could.
Kurt Wallner
What the fuck happened? Honestly if you would have told me what…10 years ago that Kurt and I would be good friends, I would have probably laughed and told you that there was no way in hell that I would ever be friends with an arrogant, egotistical, Bible thumping (literally – he hit me with a bible and I almost jumped him right there and then) bastard like that. Cause let’s face it, two arrogant, egotistical bastards shouldn’t be in the same room at the same time…which makes me wonder how Kurt, Barry and me can ever get together for parties and stuff; we should have killed each other by now…Well, I’ll save that for another journal entry. Besides the fact that he is a great husband and father, he has to be one of my top personal hero’s for getting out of his car at a stop light, going up to the Mercedes in front of him, picking up the cigarette butt that the driver threw out, and throwing it back into the car at the driver. Only Kurt would be capable of doing something like this. A great drinking buddy, an alright Mechwarrior pilot (I guess), and an expert knife sharpener. And oh yeah, a great person who is always there for his friends.
Dan Rama
O.K. I said no importance, but I lied, because Dan Rama does rank higher because he was my first….my first friend when I came back to the States from Korea ya sick fucks.
Yes Dan is The First. The first person to experience the brilliance, the glory. the experience that is Joe Rogers. HA! Anyway… What to say about Dan? What not to say about Dan? I remember his room in San Leandro. Long before we had the ability to remotely turn on the lights and TV, Dan had it figured out. He had wired his room out that he could control just about everything from his bed. It was totally amazing. But Dan is more than wires and the huge entertainment center he built himself out of VERY HEAVY OAK WOOD. Dan was the big brother to all of the little kids in the neighborhood; he was the knight in shining armor to his wife of what eons. Honestly, I can’t remember a time that Dan and Jen were not together. Dan is the hero to his wonderful son Drake. Dan is the guy who would drive up an hour to stop by your house to just use the bathroom. He is such a great friend, I mean I honestly can’t put it in words how much his friendship means to me. O.K. this best describes Dan. So I come home and there is a package for me from Dan; in it is a T-shirt with the Joker on it. Why is this important? Only Dan would remember that I have a shirt just like this but it is really old and faded, see a shirt just like it, buy it and ship it to me. That is the friend that I have in Dan Rama.
Amy C.
It might be kinda sad, but I have only made one real friend this year. O.K., that’s not true, because I met Barbara, Laura, Kristen, and maybe some others. But you know that there is that line, that barrier that separates the casual from the close. Well, Amy broke that line pretty quickly. I mean it’s weird that I’ve only known Amy for…8 months now. All from watching some weird guy smell his dirty clothes on a web cam. I mean honestly, I should not even be talking about Amy now. When she sent me that first IM, I honestly thought that she was some kind of pornbot trying to get me to goto a porn site. Normally, I would have blocked the name and closed the window. And what a travesty that would have been if I did. I wouldn’t have known the joys of Yahoo! Graffiti (which we haven’t played in ages. We need to fix that.), Corn Pie (which I need to try), or Corn mazes at Halloween time (which I would have never set foot in normally). I’m sorry that I wasn’t at you your B-day bash; I def. want to hook up and take you out or something before I leave for the holidays.
Shawn Stone
Another great friend of mine, Shawn put me up in his house in Berkeley not once, but twice. He introduced me to the addiction that is Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne. He’s wowed me with his great culinary skills, and he’s not a bad computer game player.

When I look the intro page to my site, the snowflakes come down at a slow speed. However, when I look at it at work, it is like a blizzard is happening.
So when you goto www.tygreyes.com, does the snow fall fast or slow for you?

Used the new number that I got and got a person in less than 15 min. System is still down, but the CS rep took my information and told me to call back in two hours. It actually sounded like he was taking down my info too. We’ll see what happens at 8am
Now back to you regular journal reading.

So I woke up with a little heartburn about an hour ago. So I did what any normal person would do and tried calling AT&T about my cell phone. Had a little drink of Pepto while I was waiting. Amazingly it only took me 30min to talk to a person who promptly helped me out by telling me that their system was down and to call back later. She did give me a new number too try and call. **sigh** A sign from God maybe?
Anyway, I figure that I would give it an hour and then try calling again. I know, I’m just going to get the same “system down” response (even if I get through again), but what else am I going to do at 6AM in the morning.

The rest of this day/night has gone downhill.
Get home and get the dreaded “call me” email. From AT&T. Put on hold and was tempted with the thought that I might actually get to talk to someone. And I did talk to someone…IN CANADA!!!! Unfortunately, the person could not help me out and so I am back to where I was at before. Will try to wake up early to call. ugh.
Also waiting to hear from the auction place about the phone that I won there. Praying that nothing happens on that front.
Dinner should have been good, but it was eh.
I want to call in sick tomorrow and just hide under my blankets.

I am so stressed out right now.
I mean, I honestly can’t get my muscles to relax.
If there was anybody here right now, I would have hit them.
Just to release the pent up energy that I have.
Hitting blankets and Hooded Footsie Teddy Bears just won’t cut it.
Hoping that spending an 1.5 hours in a cold warehouse doing work will somehow help me to relax.

Somebody is bidding on my phone. WTF?!?! Now I have to stay and keep an eye on the bidding. Not going to spend too much on it, I can wait for the 2nd phone and bid on that one I guess. But still. AARRGGHH!!!