I signed up for automatic car payments last month with Chase. Get the confirmation that on 9/15, it’s going to kick in. So I don’t have to remember to send that payment in, it’ll deduct the correct amount on the 15th of every month (the date the payment is due). So today I get something in the mail saying that my payment is late. After giving a hearty WTF to the room, I look at my account online and see that on the 15th, the transaction went through. And then on the same day THEY SENT THE MONEY BACK TO ME. How fucking stupid is that? Now I have to wait until Monday to call them up and set this shit straight. If they think I’m paying a $10 late fee for their error, they are wrong. And fuck the automatic payment, it’s back to sending them money myself.

This makes a 30″ Apple Cinema Display look like postage stamp.
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After bitching about my insurance, I showed dad the paperwork and he said basically what Jon said in his comment below. They charge more than what they can get from the insurance company to try and get the most they can. Somewhere amist all the bullshit it says that the doctor has agreed on $240 as payment in full, so it looks like I, in fact, don’t owe shit. HOLLA BACK. But I still stand behind the fact that insurance companies suck ass.

So I was pulled aside from work today, something that makes the mind reel in various directions. But in this case it was for the better. I’m getting a promotion! That means I get to have the spiffy title of coordinator and a pay raise. Damn right. That now means I need to change my resume. It also means I have to do more at work, but at least it’s something new and…I get paid more.

In the bad news catagory, our friend Kevin Kage was robbed by airline banditos. Of the American Airlines kind. So fuck American Airlines for stealing a copy of Madden 2006 for the PS2. Let that be a lesson Kevin, keep the valuable shit in your carry on when traveling through the air.

The last 3 days have basically been a blur. Had a lot of fun, saw Kyle kick his own ass over the course of a day, and had more than a few laughs.

Big thing was the System of a Down show on Tuesday at Continental Airlines Arena. We tailgated for most of the show and went inside in time to see Mars Volta play their last song. When they finished they got a big pop so it sounded like they had a good show.

It took a good 25 minutes for System to get on stage so they got up around 9:15. They had a curtain with the Mezmorize logo on it go around the stage and started with BYOB. Classic “silloutte” intro to start the song and then they drop the curtain and the place went nuts. We were way the hell up on the second teir (section 211) so our seats were neither bad nor good. Biggest problem was we were above the lighting rig and a portion of the stage was blocked off from all the hardware up there.

But System pretty much rocked the place. Some crowd interation but where we were, there was some nasty reverb/echo going on so you couldn’t tell what they said. Simle set with some rugs on the ground, a crazy light rigging that was done really well and a light board above the drummer. They played all of their big hits and at times the crowd was deafening. Just the whole place singing along and looking down the General Admission area was huge. They broke it into 2 sections and the first section had about 3 pits going while the one in the back had 2. By the end of the show a super pit formed between 2 pits so the swirl of people was like 50 feet wide. While they were beating the hell out each other, we were literally bouncing up top. You could feel the whole top level move up and down with all of the people jumping around. It was almost like being on a boat, the sensation was really weird.

The worst part was that System didn’t play an encore. What kind of shit is that? The biggest complaint for me was that the show seemed like it ran on a timer. They just ripped through their set. Any interaction they did do, was during a song with the “breaks” between songs being 10 seconds at most. The crowd was with them 110% and they did their last song, said thanks, mulled around stage a bit and then got off the stage. Everyone starts chanting and cheering and the house lights came on! No one seemed suprised and just walked out. I didn’t think you could even do that. It was only like 10:45 at that point.

Even with that it was a good show…but Korn is still way better.

I’ve never kept any kind of journal before, and seeing how blogging is basically a public journal, the idea seems weird to me. It’s not as fruity as keeping a locked notebook under my bed (which is where I keep my comic books and massive amounts of dust) but the idea of it is kinda creepy. Like, how many of the people I know look at this? I know with AIM it’s like second nature to check peoples profiles from time to time (okay, everyday) but that’s just a normal thing. Same thing with checking away messages. But this shit tends to be more personal, more like looking into someones mind. Lord knows there are some fucking wack jobs on livejournal.

I never really thought of it before putting up this site, but it seemed liked the best idea to make something that’s mine and is easy to update. My original site was made from the ground up with the noobest of abilities so while it worked, it was a bitch to update and I couldn’t just port it over to a new server. All the links and shit pointed to specific things (I built it all wrong really) so I had no choice (more like desire) to try and move it. I gotta try and change the above image to something cooler….ah I’ll get to it.

So I got my xbox loaded up with some music cd’s and everything seems to be running all good. I just hope nothing breaks in it (the dvd drive I replaced already gave me a scare last night). While I was ripping music, I watched Boogie Nights. I think it’s the same director as Showgirls (you gotta see this, it’s hysterical and has more nudity than I even thought possible. Bonus that it’s Jesse from Saved by the Bell) and Robocop. What a weird movie. At just under 2 1/2 hours it was too long, but it was a cool idea. Mark Whalberg represents to the fullest and it also marks Heather Grahams biggest roles at the time it came out. Not sure if I would recommend it though. There’s a lot better movies out there.

I plan on having the script done in the next 2 days. Gotta hit that goal. I don’t see it being any longer than 20 pages and anything outside that really isn’t a short film. I should be able to bang it out in a day. Another for revisions.

Had a great time at Dave and Busters for Kevins bachelor party this weekend. He gets married this Saturday. What’s with everyone growing up lately? I miss the days when you didn’t have to worry about shit and the biggest responsibility you had was brushing your teeth before bed.

One last thing, I’m gonna start a Quote of the Day. It probably won’t be everyday, but if you see a random quoted line (unless I point it out as the QotD) that’s it. So here’s the first one.

“Hey Rico! I don’t see no snake!”

Some what interesting week. Lots of work, had my yearly physical (I was told I have beautiful veins by the blood lady. Weird how often I’ve been told that), did some serious chattin with Kyle and Bagels….and I got my New and Improved XBOX back today. Fuck you Sony.

I’ve been trying to get dad to get XM and he’s had the Roady 2 for awhile but never got it installed. Talked to some car audio dude in Glen Rock today and he told dad it wouldn’t work for some stupid ass reason. Something about interfering with the AM antenna, which makes no sense because it uses an FM modulator to broadcast to the stock radio. I might just try and install it myself when I get the chance. Might look a bit ghetto but I bet it will work.

I just realized I’m really tired. My mind is swimming with shit right now…I gotta get cracking on a script that I’ve been mulling over for the past few weeks. It should feel good just to get it out of me. I found a new contact at CBS I’m going to try next week too. Got a busy weekend coming up too, we’ll see how that goes…..

You ever look at that crack in an elevator where the door slides across between the floor of the building and the elevator? Ever wonder if you could drop something down there? Turns out you can. Namley, my car keys. I was the Jeremy (one of my co-workers) coming back from Burger King when it happened. He laughed and I swore a lot. Thank god Jonathan the maintance dude had nothing better to do than get them.

And for some more yucks, Jean, one of my supervisors, has the worst bug phobia I’ve ever seen in my life. Now I can understand having a fear, but this woman once called the fire department to her house because there was a bee in her kitchen. Yeah.

So Jeremy lost a little bottle of medicine in his pocket and was asking Angela (another supervisor) if she had seen it around. She said no and hoped that no one ran over it and crushed it or something. Hearing “crushed it” Jean says “crush what?” To make a long story short the three of us quickly whipped up a story about how Jeremy lost his pet African Hissing Cockroach (named Norman). Jean spent the rest of the night with her feet up on her garbage can and looking around like something was going to try and eat her.