So I noticed earlier today that I have 100+ friends on GameSpot, yet, I believe I speak to perhaps 40-50 people tops!  Weird. :shock:  Well anywho, thanks for being my friend if you're reading this! :lol:  If you're not reading this, where are you?!

Where I live we have this city-sponsored program that inspects and removes lead from your house to make your home and the city as lead-free as possible.  They inspect, determine what's lead and yada, yada, yada, you're left semi-homeless for 1-2 weeks.  My parents, who live in a single family house down the block just had their house done, $5,200 from a 2-page lead report.  My house was inspected last week and the report is 21 pages!!!  I'm not kidding, we're looking at about $32,000 in work!!!.  My house is a 2 family that's about 250 years old; in fact, the "old" street map that hangs at city hall shows my house as clear as crystal sitting by itself with only a house of two within a 3 block radius. Things have changed, as I look around at building after crappy building.

So my folks lived with me while their house was renovated; the work took only about 5 days for them.  Mine is estimated to be 2weeks+. :(  I'm very sad about this.  I have to basically move everything out of my house into a storage pod (www.pods.com) and move myself and cat to my parents house (dread the thought) and lve with them for a while.  I swear I'm going to commit murder!

As of right now it looks like May 22nd could be the earliest start date.  So needless to say, I won't be on GS after 5pm EST when this occurs.  I can at least bring my mini collection of GBA games to their house and hide away in a corner somewhere...*scared*