Well, my friend and his girlfriend were cool with me moving in with them, but they needed to talk to her mom about it since she owned the condo.

Since she's always so cranky and stuff - yet she seemed cool with me - and they both had said she liked me, I got a phone call from my friend about 15 minutes ago and she had said she doesn't want anyone else living in the condo.

So now it's just a matter of time to see what happens between them or luck to see what happens at home.

I need to get outta here...soon.

Alrighty so it's been a while since I last wrote a blog post hasn't it? Well a lot has happened since then.

Remember that problem I was having where I couldn't sit down and play a game for a long period of time and actually enjoy it sort of thing or stay committed to a game? Well, that's gone. How did it go away? Well I was at a friend's place and we were flipping through channels and I saw a program called "The World Series of Gaming" so I asked him to check it out. It ended up being a Halo 3 (I'm pretty sure...) game tournament worth up to $100 000. These guys' eyes were bloodshot. It was amazing. And for some odd reason my problem just lifted. So that's gone.

Now another thing that's going in that I'm not going to focus on too much is at home. Basically it's going downhill and it's near the bottom - if not at the bottom. My mom, her boyfriend and I aren't getting along at all. I'm pretty much at the point of getting kicked out - it used to be to staying in the same district in the city, but now it's anywhere in the city - no matter where it is. But now there's a really good chance I'll be moving into my friend's place. There's a long story to that...and more after that even but I won't get into it. We just have to make sure it's all cool with his girlfriend etc etc.

Uhm...college is hell for me. I've cut down my course load to three courses a day - sometimes it's two courses so a real messed up day. With medical stuff going on I've missed so much so I won't be suprised if I don't pass this term. Whatever to that subject.

Today I was in this DJ competition and it went a bit awkward. Basically all we had to do was bring in our iPod / mp3 player and they play a couple of songs or whatnaught - but there was a few things I didn't know about. I posted this on another forum:

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This is retarded...

I'm at the college right now and I just found out that we're going to have a limit on the amount of time we have to play. Depending on the amount of people signed up, we might only be able to play even a PORTION of a song - or up to 5 minutes...if less people sign up then we might be able to play more.

I've spent over 10 hours on downloading, setting up my playlist, organizing stuff, and I find this out, and the competition is only an hour?!?!

I've downloaded full discographies of artists like Gackt and BoA and found their information and disc covers in case we have to display them too...
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But today was the competition and it went actually well. They were supposed to announce the winner of the competition. The winner gets to program / run their one time one hour show on the college's radio station. Another copy / paste here:

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I'm wondering why they never announced the winner of the competition. It went really well though.

Well the performance went good and I basically "took over the microphone" considering I was limited on time and songs. They cut me off on my first song so I went to my second song. The songs I played:

Bio Genesis by Schwarz Stein (cut off near the end)
Black Stone by Gackt

At the beginning I was just basically like, "I'll be playing stuff nobody here will know or will understand, but I hope you'll enjoy the sound, so this song's called Bio Genesis by Schwarz Stein off of their album called New Vogue Children. So lets get this thing started!"

When I got cut off the song in a humourous way I asked for the microphone and just said, "Oh I guess she doesn't like this song so I have to cut it off and go to the next one...so this one's called...(and so on)"

At the end I just got the microphone again and basically thanked everyone for listening and so on and I got a bunch of cheers and so on.

As well, one of the judges approached me and said I did a really good job and we chatted for about 10 - 15 minutes and I mentioned the amount of stuff I did and how I didn't know that it was only an hour long and so on. So it was alright. I think it looks promising.

I've just been listening to the radio to see if I've won or whatever and they never announced it like they said they were at 8 PM so I basically sat and did nothing for two hours...
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So yeah it's basically been like that lately for everything.

Well as my last blog post mentioned how the wireless connection was gone, somehow it's back up. It connects and varies on status as it normally does. I really don't know what happened - whether it was on my side or their side.

Anyways, tomorrow I have a LOT of running around to do. Finalizing some paperwork that I need for college, checking and repairing some stuff for my accounts at college...and a bunch of other stuff.

It's just an update, but whatever. My status is a bit confusing...online, offline, wandering around, working on our game - a bit of everything.

Well as the topic says, the internet connection on my laptop is shot.

I don't know how it happened, or what caused it, but I was using another connection from an unknown source and it worked perfectly fine. There was also other connections I've used when the one I normally used went unavailable for a short period of time. All of a sudden a few days ago I went to go on one of the sites I regularely go on, and all of the internet connections collapsed.

All I can do is connect to their network, yet at times even if the networks say 4/5 bars are green (Which is almost an "excellent" signal connection as they call it) the net would be up - but even then it doesn't always connect to their networks - whether it's 2, 3, or 4 bars. I'm probably going to take my laptop in to just ask them questions.

So right now I guess it's back to the old days of going on occasionally / weekends sort of thing. But since I don't really find the net as"OMFG YAY INTERWEBZ TODAY!!" like I used to, I guess I won't be on as much. Don't get me wrong, I'll still be on, but not as much - especially with college startingin 9 days.

Well with things that are going on right now - and about to happen, plans are still going well.

For starts, my mom and I are fine. I do avoid her a lot, but right now it's for our own good. We socialize a lot more, and we don't poke at her when she's basically saying "drop the subject" or "go do something" without me having to say why anymore. So that is going fine.

As for Aaron and I with the company, it's going well and has progressed a lot further than it did when I was working with a couple of others. Right now it's just the two of us, but we're working well. He's a bit on the flu side right now but I'm still going to work on things. Development isn't starting for a while, but researching and reading is going on, as well as us discussing things are also going as planned too. I'm going to be working on a side project as well. Information will not be released until further plans are settled and organized.

With college also approaching, I'm also not nearly as nervous anymore either. I do although have to get some paperwork done so I'm able to get the funding I need for the books and such. I have a bunch of grants which total nicely, as well as the loan as well so I should be fine. I just have to wait for my physician to come back from holidays this week so I can get some paperwork done. As for my neurologist since I'm epileptic I contacted the college and funding place, and they just said they'll be able to push the date to when I see my neurologist in October considering I'm unable to see him, and unfortunately even the nurses who know me very well that work in neurology cannot fill in the information. But that is going fine.

Well a few things have been going on lately, and it's been quite crazy. I'm finally getting out of the house a lot more as well.

My job hasn't been going so well, and I've started to look for another job too, just a few minutes ago I followed up on one of my resumes and I have a job interview on Thursday August 9th at 4 PM at Subway, not bad, but still close to home.

Uhm, I updated my game collection lists on all of the catagories as well.

I received my first year student loan papers and I now have enough for my first year of college in which I start on the 27th. I won't be received funds from SMD (which I believe I've mentioned before - SMD stands for The Socieity for Manitoban's with Disabilities. They help people get funding for things like school and jobs. I won't be receiving funding from them for this year because all of the sponsors and funding has been done and such for August quite a while ago, and I still have a couple more processes to go through before anything happens. So whatever I get help with, it'll be for the second year.

Also, depending on how much I stay committed to college, there's a good chance I can stay at my mom's place and not get kicked out, so I'm back on borderline, but it's better than what I had said in the post before this one. :)

Not much really going on, but yeah, that's pretty much it, college, work, and uh, yeah.

I think I had mentioned that I was going to be buying an Atari 2600 with a bunch of games on Friday (or yesterday). Well I didn't. I didn't because my paychecked was about $100 less than I thought it'd be. It was about $147 something. So instead of going home empty handed, I decided I had to buy something anyways. If I were to have bought the Atari and the rest, it would have left me with a mere $7 or so for the weekend - although I'm getting another cheque this week anyways from Disability Services. So I bought Super Mario Bros. 2 for $35 straight, and I was able to find a brand new copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the Gamecube for $39.99 at another store called Microplay. So with that I spent about $80 to $85. I'm happy. I also spent $2 on DDR as well for the heck of it. I'm getting better at that too with the common songs that me and my friend Aaron do too.

But at home, I've had a hard time getting into constant gaming where I stick to a game and play it through. So in a couple of forums I go to, I had made a thread with a poll of about 11 games that I haven't beaten (except for one which I added as a bit of a joke - the Ys: The Ark of Napishtim) and of course about 4 to 6 actually voted on a game. All you have to do is go in the thread, click a game and submit. You don't even have to enter a post. But no, alot of them are a buncha dimwits really anyways. So I spoke to my friend Aaron and asked him what games he hasn't beaten if he had any of the ones I listed and hadn't beaten as well. Final Fantasy VIII and Dark Cloud were the main ones. Dark Cloud he could have beaten but his stuff broke (weapons etc - part of the game system - interesting really. I have Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2) so we made a bet to see who could beat Final Fantasy VIII the fastest. The thing is, he's been working on his roof with his dad a lot redoing the shingles so I've kinda slacked off and played Triple Triad a lot. That's what screwed me up when I played it before. As for how far I've gotten in the game? Just past the Fire Cavern.

Now outside of gaming, keeping it simple, I am getting kicked out of my mom's place at the end of September. She isn't bluffing or anything of the sort. That's all I'm really going to say on that part.

Paypal's also been screwing with me as well, all my info is fine, my account works fine, just it isn't verifying right. I was going to put the text that I put in the thread originally, but Gamespot doesn't like the HTML I apparantly used - yet I didn't use any HTML to begin with? But anyways, Paypal's been really irritating me.

So a lot has been going downhill for me, but there's a few people that have been looking at me as if stuff will be okay - but I'm more concerned about school than a place to live right now.

I dunno right now.

That's pretty much it for now.

Okay so over the past couple of days, my friend Aaron was over, and I've also mentioned him as well in previous blogs.

Well, on my birthday, which was July 10th, I woke up at 10 AM and my mom and I went to my psych appointment and I learned a lot
- and so did she and my doctor as well. Anyways, the appointment went half an hour longer than expected - wonderful. I was supposed to meet Aaron at Polo Park at 2:30 - which is when the appointment ended at. It takes at least 20 minutes-ish to get to Polo (as most people call Polo Park - which is the largest mall in the city).

So we got to Polo around 2:50 and I couldn't find him. Thought I did when I got out of my mom's car, she took off, I lost him, so I just stuck around the place where we were supposed to meet. Anyways, we met up about 15 - 20 minutes later and high-tailed it to Silver City (The big mall franchise in Winnipeg if you guys don't have them in the US) because I wanted to see Sicko for my birthday, which started at 3:10. We ended up missing about 30ish minutes, bah it's just the previews, Micheal Moore saying, "hi" (lol)...and whatev.

So after that we went to my place around 8:30 (We wandered around the mall briefly). Then things got semi-dissapointing again.

My mom and her boyfriend Earl (I think I've mentioned his name in previous blogs...) ate already (she warned me about coming home late - if I came home late they'd basically wouldn't wait for me. So we had the leftovers. Then she says there's cake in the fridge. Then Earl doesn't even say Happy Birthday at all either. So I look at Aaron and I just basically say, "Wow..." So we went upstairs and started playing games. What did I get on my birthday?

• My dad sent me $50
• My Oma gave me $30
• Aaron took me to see Sicko as well as we played a lot of DDR in the arcade at Siliver City
• My mom said she was going to get me something on the weekend (basically like that) - but she's giving me the money tomorrow (Friday) because I work on Saturday, and today she works and there's a football game tonight that she's going to. Sunday I work as well. Sad, I know.

So Aaron slept over. We played a lot of games throughout the day, and we went to St. Vital Mall (another large mall with many strip malls surrounding it). Considering the Colecovision games that he gave me (in which I mentioned in a previous blog) - but I actually have to make a correction to them, since some of them are actually Atari 2600 games - like the duplicates for instance.

The Colecovision games that Aaron gave me are are:

• Cosmic Avenger
• Donkey Kong (2 copies)
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Mouse Trap (It's not like the board game, it's like Pac-Man in a way)
• Tim-Pilot
• Turbo
• Q*Bert
• Rocky Super Action Boxing
• War Games
• Zaxxon

The other games are actually Atari 2600 games, which are:

• Donkey Kong
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Q*Bert
• Zaxxon (2 copies)

So at St. Vital, I decided to buy a Colecovision which a store called Sam's Collectables had thankfully - which even was for $40. I bought it. I also bought for the Atari 2600:

• Asteroids
• E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
• Yars' Revenge

And yes, E.T. is the worst game ever rated and made in the world said by many. Why I bought it? So I can have it.

And at a store called Microplay...

Sega Genesis

• Ecco The Dolphin

Nintendo (NES)

Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt Split

For tomorrow - or later today, I actually managed to get them to hold for m:

Nintendo (NES) Games

• Castlevania (Mint condition, with box, mint condition instruction booklet)
• Duck Hunt (on it's own)
• Final Fantasy
• Kid Icarus
• XEXYZ

And lastly, the NES Zapper for Duck Hunt. I might also get a Game Gear and the Power Glove too.

Back to what me and Aaron were doing, well, we were just fooling around playing games, and since he likes helping out so much I asked if he wanted to help me re-organize my games so we could fit everything in. We also made some stupid videos with my digital camera's 30 second video function. I'll be posting those up eventually either here or some other site.

But yeah, a hella lotta games. I dunno how much my mom's giving me - then again, I am getting paid tomorrow - so that's a bonus.

So over the past two days I've been at a friends place trying to fix his computer, and today they had given me this bag full of games that they never play. They said that there's Nintendo games and there's some Colecovision games too, but the only thing that would work with the Nintendo is this joystick (Red base, red buptton, black stick, the button is white and the ball on the stick is red) - err I just looked on the bottom of it and it says, "Wico Command Control". So yeah. Kinda weird too with the games:

• Time Pilot
• Donkey Kong Junior (Two copies - the grey game and the black game)
• Zaxxon (Three copies - two grey games and a black game)
• Donkey Kong (Four copies - one grey game and three black games)
• War Games
• Cosmic Avenger
• Turbo
• Q*Bert (Two black copies)
• Mouse Trap
• Rock Super Action Boxing

Odd I know isn't it?? I wonder if they work - I don't have a Coleco to test them LOL!!

But hey - I'm happy. I sure hope what's going on with the computer is going good though. Apparantly I just need to uninstall / reinstall / play with a couple things including some WinSock Fix thing.

So I haven't posted a blog in a while...

Yesterday my friend and I went out to go see a couple movies (Transformers and whatever the one with Bruce Willis is called) then by the time the movies were done it was around 1:00 AM or just after.

Luckly we were able to get downtown to catch the only bus that goes to his area (or he caught it, I didn't have to catch it) and the one I needed was behind it. So I got off at the next mall where I'd catch the bus that goes to my place (since the regular one doesn't run that late) and I go check to see when it's comes at. So I find out there's no buses that go down Portage towards the Grace Hospital, I knew my parents wouldn't pick me up, so I ended up calling a cab - didn't show up, called again and well, cost me $17...

Then I woke up sometime in the night and basically had a seizure.