spikestress

10:12 pm: Bit of worthless info about me!

Ok so I used to play clarinet. Way way back when, I mean like in 1984. My mother was also a very good clarinetist. Recently, I decided to have her 1964 Le Blanc Classic clarinet overhauled. I got it back today and it turned out beautifully!

I put it all together and WOW I can actually get it to play. And after messing with it, I remembered how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The First Noel.

I know… lame.

11:53 am: A question I asked a couple of parents that I know.
Here's an odd question.

Do parents think less of women who have no children?

Recently, I was told by a co-worker who is a mother that I was not as 'worthy' of time off as she is, because I have no kids. It got me to wondering; do all parents secretly feel like this?

01:49 pm: Awesome beyond all awesome
Got this in my email today, from JMLive.

JAMES MARSTERS JOINS CBS HIT DRAMA WITHOUT A TRACE

James has been cast in a recurring/guest star role on the hit CBS one hour drama
Without A Trace. He will portray ‘Detective Mars’, who is described as: "mid
30s to 40. Attractive in a real way, a bright, full-of-life personality,
charming, possibly from around the Washington DC area, so could have a slight
southern accent. Mars is a Police Detective who has started to investigate what
seems to be a ring of Human Trafficking. He has information our FBI team is
interested in and comes to New York to speak to Vivian about what he knows.
Eventually he will become part of a task force to deal with Human Trafficking."
GUEST STAR, RECURRING ROLE.

this is LARGE SQUEE! I am SOOO Excited!

11:13 am: 37? But, I don't feel 37?
Happy Birthday Me.

So far an uneventful day of work. But then, with the acception of two or three special birthdays, it's usually uneventful.

I figure it is best that way anyway.

Also born on this date:

Samuel Colt 1814
Anthony Edwards (E.R.) 1962
Brian May (Queen Guitarist) 1947
Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) 1982

CoooooL!

10:19 pm: Putting this video I made here.
It's a tribute to John Winchester to the song "The Gift" from the Buffy sound track. I don't own either, just made the vid for the love. :)

enjoy



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09:47 am: Dean loves his car.
Ok, here we go. A post about my new found Fandom. Supernatural. :)

And NO NO NO I have not given up or lost ANY love for James... that will never happen. I am, if anything, uber loyal.

I don't have a beta. But then again, Only friends can read this anyway. I ain't got the guts to post it in an open forum.




Dean loves his car. His midnight classic growling and purring like a big black pussy cat. Faithful and true, his baby starts every time, no matter how cold, no matter how hot, no matter the rain or sleet or vampire chasing you. If you dive into Dean’s girl, she’ll start for you. She’ll bare dents in her hood for you, she’ll take claw marks on her fenders to protect you. Like a rolling suit of armor; a chariot with 350 horses under her. She’d even take being T-boned by a semi truck for you. (Though, OUCH that hurt!) All you have to do is keep her full of gas and keep her oil changed and keep her battery charged. Dean’s girl will do battle for you.


The ’67 Impala was already an old girl when Dean was born, but like anything old, there is certainly wisdom in her. Worn into her cracked hide seats and smooth steering wheel, spread out over the expanse of her mammoth black hood, she tells stories of the road in the rumble of her V8.


To own a car older than you are, you have to love it. Dean changes her oil himself, because the thought of someone else messing around under her hood gives Dean the same feeling some dude feeling up his girlfriend would. Dean watches the fellow at small town muffler shop as he puts a new exhaust system under his baby with the keen eye of a father scrutinizing his daughters first date. Dean knows every squeak, every rumble, every knock and every quirk about her.


She is poetry in black and chrome to Dean. They don’t make cars like her anymore. Style, weight, power; Dean’s girl is a big girl, Heavy. The way most people want a tank, nearly two tons, over six feet wide and, bumper to bumper, she’s over 17 and a half feet long. And she’s got a 5 body trunk. You could put a whole compact car in his girl’s booty. Talk about junk in the trunk. Yet, Dean’s girl is slick black and sleek, she slips through the night like a shadow; her low growl a natural part of the landscape.


Dean’s car is more than just a vehicle. Dean’s car is home. He can’t even begin to number the times he’s slept in her. Her seats molded sensuously to his body over time. Her comforting smell of leather interior and the heady perfume of her heated engine block; hot motor oil and exhaust are all her own. She handles in a swoop as familiar as his favorite gun in his hands. And when he tromps the gas peddle; he knows just how loud and how long her gait will take to thunder to a roar – zero to sixty in about 9 seconds- fast for a big girl.


Dean loves to drive around in his girl with the windows down and the music blaring along with the song of her engine purring. Dean’s Impala isn’t a car he drives for status or flash. His girl isn’t a Barbie plastic car for a Hollywood plastic pretty boy asshole or a self-indulgent jerk off. Dean’s girl is an American muscle car for an all American boy; made of cast iron and American steel. Oh sure, other cars were faster, but in Dean’s mind, none compares to his lady. She is his darling, his sweetheart, his first love. She is his baby. And she takes all the punishment he can dish out to her. His love for her passed down by tradition from father to son, like good teeth and hero’s guts. She is big and mean and all his.


Most of all, Dean loves the Impala because she is the one thing in his life, that no matter how badly broken, he can always resurrect her.

08:38 am: Huh...

my birthday starscope.

The Moon is in talkative Gemini today, giving everyone an opportunity to talk directly to a possible conquest. Embrace the opportunity of today's zodiac to pursue a dream lover. A confident approach yields results. Do you want to aim for the best?

WTF is this supposed to mean?

09:33 am: While I stew on my story...
Ok, SO while I think of the exact direction I am going to take the story on. What rabbit hole I decide to go down. My bud Sexymermaid posted a five questions type deal.
here are my responses.

1. Total volume of music files on my computer:
Work Computer has 2 gig. Home has about the same, though I did just buy a bigger hard drive for my laptop. So ask me that same question in a few weeks and I am sure it will be higher. I have a lot more stored on my MP3 Player. Like I think 9 gig or so.

2. Last CD I bought:
I just bought 5.
Beck - Guero
The Bravery - The Bravery
The Killers - Hot Fuss (What a great album title by the way)
Green Day - American Idiot
James "is the Motherfucking SHIT!" Marsters - Civilized Man

3. Last song I listened to before doing this meme:
"Sombody Told Me" - The Killers.

4. Five songs I've been listening to a lot lately:

a. "For What I Need" & "No Promises" by James Marsters (kicking ass and taken names)
b. "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers
c. "Bulivard of Broken dreams." by Green Day
d. "An Honest Mistake" by The Bravery
e. "E-Pro" by Beck

5. Five people I want to do this meme, if they feel like it and haven't already:
Dude, I don't know five people with LJ's .
:)

09:39 pm: Shelter for the Broken Heart
This is my first time posting a story I wrote on line. I am pretty nervous about it.
Thanks to Jan for the encouragement and to my room mate and beta Cindy.

Here it is. Set after the end of Angel. Spike goes searching for Shelter, Part One.
It is Nc -17, Incase anyone wants to know


( Shelter )

08:48 am: More on the computer
Ok, so I had to send in the computer. Fine Dandy...

HERE is the light at the end of the tunnel.

I got on the phone and bitched and bitched to Dell about some sort of compensation for the lost time with the computer.

They gave me a $200 cupon through the mail to get anything on their website.

SO some justice.

Meanwhile, I am waiting for the computer to come back.



So at least SOMETHING is happening.

11:25 am: And the computer blues just KEEP ON FUCKING COMING!
So,
Here is it March 3rd,
I have been with out my laptop for ... 12 days now!
That is right 12 DAYS!
SO yesterday I find out that they shipped my parts at two seprate times. One box arrived at the tech center on Friday feb 25th and the other arrived on wed march 2nd... problem was I was NEVER TOLD OF THIS...
I had to find out from the tech center that I had a tracking number and two boxes and blah blah blah.
So the tech shows up to install ALL NEW guts in the laptop.. Oh goody.
GUESS FUCKING WHAT!?
It doesn't FUCKING WORK!
so he calls someone at their Tech Depot in MEMPHIS TENN! "Oh you have to send it in now."
So yesterday they send a box and I ship out my laptop to Memphis to be fixed... I am so so SO SO SO Fucking pissed off.
Some other dumbass from Dell was supposed to give me a "call back" yesterday with a supervisor/managers secheual so that I could complain. Guess what never happend.

I guess I am going to have to call techSupport in INDIA again. to get a manager to throw a fit.

12 FUCKING DAYS!

11:01 am: And the computer blues just KEEP ON COMING GRRRR!
quick recap;

Sunday, feb 21st my computer over heats and shuts it's self down.
I call Dell tech support on Monday feb 22nd
They dispatch a fan,
It comes in on feb 23rd and is replaced.
Computer boots up, tech leaves. computer DIES again. The chip is damaged in the over heat, needs new chip and mother board.
I call DELL again that same day, 2/23.
They dispatch a new mother board and chip.
guy arrives on 2/24 to put it in... FAULTY NEW PARTS the new chip and motherboard don't work, at all. Totaly dead.
THIS guy tells me he will order the parts and call me back.
I wait, Friday 2/25 goes by, no call,
Saturday, get call from dell at home that I MISS because it was like 9am.
Play phone tag with DELL for the whole weekend. FINALLY get to talk to a guy named Chris on sunday 2/27.
He says, "I will look into this and get back to you."
Yeah, right
So after not hearing from anyone by 10 am on Monday 2/28. I CALL THEM.
First call. Dude says he can't tell me anything but he will transfer me to someone who can. I get cut off.
Second Call, Mind you during ALL these calls, I am waiting on hold for 20 to 30 go 40 minutes on hold! He says the parts were never ordered or at least he cant TELL. The guy gives me the number of the TECHS here in my area, the guys who will actually be coming out.
I call Those guys third call. THEY say they don't have the parts and they haven't been shipped to them. but THEY have the DELL dispatch # for this... Dell didn't give me that.
Fourth call is to customer care... they can't help so they transfer me BACK to tech support. GRRRR
Finaly get some appoligetic woman on the phone and she gives me the "they are on back order' excuse. but assures me that the parts have now been ordered. She says she will call me back TODAY at 3:30pm... HUH.

SO this morning I call the Tech guys to see if my parts are there. They aren't, they have still not been shipped... SO NOW when the bitch calls me back, and OOH she had better, I am saying ONE thing to her.

"What are you going to do to make me happy?"
and when she can't I am going to ask for her supervisor and I am going to say.

"What are you going to do to make me happy?"

I am so fucking pissed right now it ain't funny.
Here it is, TUESDAY March 1st and I have been with out my laptop for OVER A WEEK!
I have a $1700 PAPERWEIGHT!

GRRRRR!

02:20 pm: More Computer Blues
Ok, so the guy comes, replaces the heat sync and fan. It BOOTS UP and looks fine. I boot it up again. WORKS.
So he says to let it run and see what happens. And to call back if it does it again.
Sure enough 10 minutes into letting it run. POOF! gone again.
So I call tech support again.
The are NOW sending out a tech with all NEW GUTS for it.
Hope that solves the problem once and for all.
I figure it this way, the processor was damaged in some way when it got too hot.

We shall see.
HEY SOMEONE post some porn for me to reaD

11:32 am: Computer update
Ok so they finally call and set up an appointment to come out and look at my computer.
they are replacing the fan and heat sync... but of course I told them that is not going to solve the problem since the motherboard and chip are now most likely fried.
He said, "Oh, yes that can sometimes happen too. I will come and replace the parts I have an then I can look at it and order any additional parts if needed."

THAT is what I wanted to hear. So I am in a much better state of mind today.. THANK GOD!

Now, we shall see what happens when he gets here to look at it.

02:50 pm: A new Journal
Welcome welcome...

TO my evil world.