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Sunday, September 7th, 2008

spyderzero

3:33a More fun underwear behind the cut ( What's covering me up now )

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

spyderzero

9:27a Ike's heading for the gulf. So, round two apparently is on the way. For a follow up, let's check in with our man on the field (re: Harvester of Sorrow), Jim Cantore. Jim?

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Thursday, September 4th, 2008

spyderzero

8:19a I scuffed my baby yesterday. It's not bad. The back taillight has a little scuff from where it was bumped by the body of another vehicle. You really can barely notice it, but to some people it's like scuff.. to me it's like SCUFF!!!!!OMGSCUFF!WTFBBQSCUFFZORZ!!!! I feel like a girl with a zit on prom night. It's so lame, but this is the first new car I've owned, so any flaw in it really has me up in arms. So sad... So, tomorrow, I'm taking it to Nissan. If they can't find a way to remove the scuff, I'm going to be totally unreasonable and buy a whole new headlight. This is also a good excuse to be like "Go ahead and tint the windows while you're at it." I'm kind of sad because I was going to use some money to buy a new bass guitar this weekend, but eh...I'd rather have a flawless vehicle than another guitar. Two more hurricanes are apparently on path to hit us. Stellar.

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

spyderzero

3:25a Well, I didn't post anything during the day, so this leads to one of two conclusions: 1. The house was destroyed. I had to get the hell out of dodge and seek shelter, waiting until I could find power and internet to report to you guys. The wind shattered the windows in my house, letting in the onslaught of rain that would eventually overtake everything in my home. The storm surge destroyed the Coastline and created a huge flood that's left the Coast irreparable and decrepit. There's devastation and sorrow everywhere, and this has been a huge repeat of Katrina for me. 2. It was an uneventful day, and I went out for awhile. While option 1 sounds so much more dramatic, thankfully, it was option two. On the plus side, I got to take a few pictures of my locale. Gustav has passed, and for now, the worst is over. Hanna and Ike are still brewing out in the ocean, and nobody knows what's going on with them, but hopefully, we'll be spared. I've really grown tired of hearing people talk about how everyone on the Coast needs to move, and how everyone's an idiot for staying where they're at. It's really unfair to state things like that when most areas have the same problems. They may not be weather related, but everyone's got issues where they live that probably makes others wonder why they live there. I suppose it's a "grass is greener on MY side" kind of thing. Anyhow, so everything's fine. There was a 24hr. curfew out today, that I was entirely unaware of. I told a friend of mine I was heading over around 4:30ish to which he said, "If you can make it, sure!" I thought he meant because of the rain, but now I know. So, that's a good example of the friendship I have with Nic. We'd like to hang out, but will let each other go through danger without warning to do so. I spent last night sleeping on the smaller of two couches, with the larger of the two hovering precariously over me (you can see that in my pictures). That has got to be the most uncomfortable sleep I've ever had. I'm too tall for the couch, so my legs had to either hang off, or be tucked under me. With the storm over, I've brought the larger couch down, and I'm looking forwards to falling asleep watching a movie on it. Hurricanes like this are a good example of WHY we stay through these things. They're rarely what the media makes them out to be. Although, I've got a sneaking suspicion that its really only going to get worse, and more frequent. Maybe that's just shell-shock from Katrina, but it's better to expect the worst and be wrong, than the best and be wrong. My phone's been blowing up with text and calls from people making sure I'm okay. Vice versa, too. I really like the feeling of camaraderie that comes when a group of people have to pull together to get through things. It's nice knowing that in the end, you're really not alone, and people still do care. Anyways, I've got the pictures from Gustav up on my MySpace. I started a WordPress account, too. You can check it out here. I'm lame and used my Xbox gamertag thing to name it, but whatever. Anyhow, so if you get bored, check out the pictures, the new blog, or whatever. Here's to hurricanes that weren't all they were made out to be. Cheers, folks. P.S. The nat'l guard is handing out MRE's tomorrow. Woohoo!

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Monday, September 1st, 2008

spyderzero

8:12a Power's flickered on and off so far. Little rain, but nothing big. I'd imagine that this is just the beginning. If this thing DOES get bad, I'm going to try and update as much as possible to let everyone know what's going on. So far, just power flickering and wind.

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spyderzero

6:20a So, it's 6:23am. Here I am, sitting in the house, alone. Bored. I left myself my laptop, a guitar, and the xbox. I figure that's really all I need. Oh, and the TV. If it gets nasty, the TV's going in the bathroom. Only room with no windows whatsoever. I got everything important out of the house around 5pm today. Came back home to hold down the fort. It's been boring, to say the least. The curfew is to blame. I can't leave past 10pm. So, here I sit, waiting. Part of me wants to head down to the beach to take some pictures of when it comes in. It's a stupid idea, and I know that. Those are the people that they find floating out in the sound. Really, I think it'd just be neat to have some pictures to document the whole situation. Common sense outweighs that, though. Hopefully, my house won't get destroyed this time. Hopefully, if nothing else, it's not the ONLY house destroyed this time. Fucking Katrina.

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

spyderzero

6:04p The wind and rain are starting.... here we go, Gulf Coast.

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spyderzero

5:07a Why not? I've ran every Hurricane that's come our way. I'm sticking around this time. Everyone that matters is leaving, and that's what's important. I'm staying to do what I can. Let's do this, Gustav.

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

spyderzero

8:56p So, I'm not sure what's going on. I thought we were heading to Florida, but it looks like that may not happen now. I want to stick this out. Really. I wanted to with Katrina, which was a poor choice, but I want to with this one also. No Halo. No walking out and panty slapping. I just want to be here to do what I can to help. But Gustav probably DOES have dirty panties, also. Three years ago, I wrote an entry about Katrina, and how I wasn't scared. I even finished it with, "Bring it, woman." Boy, that sure was stupid. It's really starting to sink in now. Mom's not here. Man, I cried so hard when I finally talked to her during Katrina. I was so scared for her. Hearing her voice made everything better. But...not this time. Not any other time. I can't believe it. I know she'd tell me to leave. I just wish I could hear her say it.. I made a video about Katrina while I was stuck up in a hotel in Jackson. Being that it's only a day after the three year anniversary, and there's another one heading this way, I figured I'd share it with you (for those that haven't seen it.) Seriously...pray for everyone.

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

spyderzero

10:49p Gustav. He approaches. Thoughts?

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spyderzero

3:02a So, this is a tough choice... I've been working on rebuilding a relationship with my father. Not my dad, but my father. Anyhow, he wants to take me to Mexico if I can make it to Texas on 09/11. Part of me wants to go, solely to finally go to Mexico. The other part doesn't. It's about 6 hours to where he lives, and another 8 from there to Mexico. It'd be awesome to visit where most of my heritage comes from, and I'd love to do it, but at the same time, this is going to be the worst week possible to do this. My mother (re: Lisa) is treating me to dinner at The Dock for my birthday on the 15th, and I'd love to be in town to hang out with my friends. Maybe take a trip to Pensacola or something. Anyhow, I'm not sure what to do. This sucks because either way I get to take a trip, but I don't really wanna let Jorge down. Shit. Meanwhile.. Today, I went over to Subway on my lunch break to get a salad. There's this girl over there that's always yelling at me about how she's not serving me and this and that. I helped her and a friend out finding an mp3 player about a month ago, and she's been nice ever since. Anyhow, today, I go in and the first thing she asks is when I'm gonna take her for a ride in my car. I tell her whenever, thinking it's a joke. She follows up with, "Well, are you gonna let me drive it?" I tell her nope. We joke around a little and I leave. About 20 minutes later, Scruggs comes into the break room at work telling me that the girls over at Subway were talking about me. I ask what they were saying and he says, "Y'know that one kinda skinny black girl over there?" I tell him yes, and he says, "She asked if you had a girlfriend." I laughed. It's kind of flattering, but kind of insulting. It's flattering that she even asked, but insulting that I think it might be about the car. Either way, it was kind of funny. Having an awesome car has its perks sometimes, I guess.

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