Dan Cool's Journal

2:43pm: Updating and all...
Yeah, I know, haven't been really keeping up on the updating like I keep saying I am going to. So anyway, not much is happening in life. One really good thing is that I am 98% sure that I will have not only a position really soon at MDSC, but a full time position. I really thought I was going to have to wait for a full time position to become available and get it with seniority and all. But they called up and offered it to me instead of the original part time that I have agreed upon if they did hire me. So I just have to call the lady back between 4 and 4:30 PM today, about and hour and a half from now. She has to finalize being able to hire me by going one step above my head. Since they need people to fill the position and she and the other lady that I talked to were pretty stoked about hiring me then I am pretty sure that it's in the bag.

On the social note, I have met an interesting girl, and I could persue that. She is to young for me, not even 21 yet, just 19, which I am totally not down with, but it could be fun, and I have nothing else going right now. Even if it doesn't work out, she's a nice little blue haired girl, and that's cool for friends and what not.

Friend of mine got arrested the other night when we were out. He's on probation, and his vindictive ex saw us after we were drinking. Apparently he's not allowed to drink. They let him out of jail, but he hasn't talked to his actual Parole Officer yet, so we are worried about him going back in to be resentenced. She told the police officer that he was harassing her, which is not true, she just wanted to get him in trouble and new they would take him in cause he was drunk. He was really cooperative with the arresting officer though, so all that, plus the fact that it's a fairly minor thing might mean he just gets a yelling at. Apparently his P.O. is not a real bitch or anything, he seems to think she is pretty cool, so, yeah, anyway....

ummmm... yeah

2:05pm: damn

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9:29pm: damn
Was really drunk last night after the show I went to. First time I got sick from being drunk in about 6 months. The show was really good though. I got there a bit late, but caught Boss Martians and The Epoxies. Both were excellent, though in all truth I think I enjoyed the Boss Martians more. More punk rock, the Epoxies are more of a New Wave thing.

4:11am: hehehehehehehe
So my most recent ex... Fsarrah, is now dating Andy, the guy that introduced us. But I found out from her friend that she works with, also named Sarah, because Andy apparently hasn't wanted to tell me. It is to laugh. I told that boy he should hook up with her way before I dated her, and Fsarrah and I were dating like a week and a half maybe two weeks. I definitely think there is something to the theory I heard a bit ago that stated we live in a world run by female sensitivety values. A world were honesty is less important than kindness. On the other hand, Andy is one of the most honest people I know, he just didn't tell me yet. Man, I really couldn't be happier for the two of them though, which is the ironic bit. Makes me wonder how long he has sweated it out thinking about it, and whether or not I should let on that I know, or let him sweat out some more, just for fun. That would be mean right? Yeah, yeah it would, hehe, maybe I will do it though anyway.

3:50am: really cool show
So saturday night I went out to the Ritz, one of my favorite local bars, and there was this hippy band playing. The shit sucked, so after talkin with my friend Wendy for a while, she bartends there, I walked the block to Jay's Upstairs, yes there is a Downstairs too. Damn, I am fucking happy I did. What followed was possibly the coolest music night I have experienced in a while. The first band to play was a single guy that called himself I Hate You When You're Pregnant. He has some electronic music playing in the background while he sang, and he sang some funny shit, all the while he was dressed in nothing more than a hunter's orange ski mask and the same colour of speedo bikini type bottom. Oh man, when he fucking broke into the old Fame themesong.... you know, FAME! I want to live foreverrrr... FAME! I'm gonna learn howta fly.... it was fucking hilarious. So he sang that song with the normal chorus but a totally different group of verses. Dude was like 6'5" at least, and halfway through his set took off his hat and he had a short mohawk. The guy looked very hard core after the show when he put on some more clothes, but he was too nice, and very gay. I know this cause he kept saying loudly to me, and another guy their who is gay, that he wanted us to shoot our seed all over him. Yeah... But anyway, I got a copy of his second demo, or at least a cd that he entitled, The Second Demo, and this is the song list.

1. don't get wet....cause that's gross!
2. there is stuff in this world
3. gary sinese
4. sleeveless
5. hey, hot bitches! (which he introduced at the show as hey, hot bitches! give me some pussy!)
6. OMG, i never learned how to read!
7. the furr's is gone (no that's not a type-o, he used 's and is in the title on the list)
8. outro
http://www.ihywyp.com/ is his website... a lot of his songs are available for download there.
and make sure to look at his pics at http://www.ihywyp.com/photo_album1.0.html for the full effect.

Anyway, the other bands there were much better, in that they had musical talent as well as being entertaining. Stab City Slit Wrists, from Flagstaff, AZ, were next. These guys are cool. They had two vocals peeps, a chick and a guy. Both would do any black metal band proud, they got some made screeches, and the tunes are all good punk shit. All together they put on a fucking great show.

Japanther followed SCSW and they were also good, but honestly I unfortunetely blocked alot of it from my long term memory thinking about the other bands that were there and, well, with booze. Sadly, except for the last band, Japanther was probably the most talented there. They put on a damn good show. They are from Brooklyn I believe if any one cares.

The last band is called No-Fi Soul Rebellion. They are a local group. I'm not sure if they tour, really at all. If you ever see them out touring, then you should certainly check them out. The "band" really consists of one guy who makes all his own music electronically and does the singing. His wife was up on stage with him, well, she was on stage and he was running about the audience doing his thing. She appeared to be playing guitar, but a closer look at it proved that it had no strings, hehe. Just background I guess. He did have a bass there that he would pick up and jam on once in a while. The other thing he had was a tiny, totally kid's toy keyboard with a tiny speaker that he would make someone hold as he put his mic up to the speaker and played little ditties with his other hand. His music is high intenscity sort of dance/rock shit. He fucking rocks, and all I have to say is that I will do my best to not miss any more of his shows if I know about them.

Combine that with the fact that I had about 6 vodka tonics over the night and you can surely see that my good time was imminent. It was my destiny and shit.

4:06am: All is well
Had a talk with Clay tonight, and we worked some stuff out. Little better understanding of the roomate thing all around. He said not to worry about being out exactly on time and that I could have all of next month to get all my stuff moved to the new place.

And speaking of the new place, we have found a place. To those of you familiar with Missoula, it's right off of Russell St. on 10th. Not the best one we saw, but a good option, it has three bedrooms and a full basement. The basement has an extra room in it that Andy will be using as his room. That leaves a bedroom open, Chris said he is thinking of picking up that room himself, in other words, paying a bit more rent so he can put his work out equipment in there. Sounds good to me, since the only other thing I could think to do with it is make it a computer room, and I think that they are going to want to have their computers in their own rooms. It also makes rent a shitload cheaper if we do it that way, for Andy and I anyway. I am all about the cheapness. Anyway, the place has hardwood in the rooms for floors, and carpet in the main living area. I like hardwood all around, cause it's easier to maintain, but whatcha gonna do. The carpet is a bit old, but realistically, it's gonna get that way anyway. They have two cats, and the guy was cool about that. He also said he wouldn't mind me having a dog. That rocks. The lame shit about the place is that he wants us to get our own credit checks, which is totally ass. I honestly think it's going to be a big pain in my ass. Later kids.

12:43pm: interestingly enough, Vlad the Impaler is looked upon as a hero in Transylvania.

You are Vlad the Impaler. The man behind the legend
of Dracula. You hanged your victims, stretched
them on the rack, burned them at the stake,
boiled them alive, but mostly impaled them.
Most of your killings were politically targeted
but sometimes you killed just because you were
bored. Your "reign of terror" lasted
from 1456 to 1462. Estimated numbers of victims
vary between 30,000 and more than 100,000.
Evil Evil man. Fie on you!


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12:28pm: Out to Lunch
Just got back from out to lunch. For those of you not familiar with this, it's a little thing they do in Missoula every Wednesday afternoon in the summer time. At around 11 o'clock it starts, and it's just all the cool restaraunts in town have little stands in one of the main parks in town. So everyone who works downtown and all goes out to the park and buys lunch, sits around under whatever shade they can find and listens to live music. It's one of the things that makes living here feel so much nicer than Seattle.

Fuck Seattle.

So anyway, I had Pad Thai w/ Chicken, which is ummmmm.... yum... yeah.

4:17am: Life, yeah
Had coffee with Kenji and Andy and Nate today after gaming. Pretty boring day altogether, but you know, that's just what I do lately. Got up around 3 or so pm and sat watching tv a bit with Clay. Checked the mail and found that, very luckily, my unemployment check had arrived, just in time, which reminds me, I am going to fill that form out right now, hehe.

Done, so, anyway, yeah, got up, watched tv and went and deposited my check in the bank, at the very last second that they would have grabbed it. That was the longest deposit I have ever sat through, which confused me, as you think they would hurry through their last couple peeps. Then it was all about dungeons and dragons, which is really lame, I still don't know why I play that game much less with the people I play with who have to be the lamest bunch of gamers in the world. Fuck. So anyway, yeah, went to Dixies Diner, saw no one there I wanted to hang out with, then stopped as Finnegan's, another diner, and met up with Andy, soon to be joined by Big Mew(Nate) and Kenji. We discussed all type of shit from where we want to be in 5 years to ummm... yeah, other boring shit that was fun when it happened.

3:23am: Turning the Corner?
So I was talking to Chris tonight. He is sort of a friend, he's Andy's roomate, and Andy is one of my better friends here in Missoula. He said that he is going to try to look into getting a new place and he thinks me as an extra roomie would be cool. This is totally taking my mind off my greater worry right now. Still without girlfriend, but I think this could be, if not remedied soon, at least dealt with since I have had so much luck lately and I am feeling quite the stud, so I shouldn't have trouble finding another. You know, confidence and all that. Dan loves you kids, take care, and don't ummm... die and shit.

5:18am: Well well... here it comes
Found out why Sarah was sort of stand offish yesterday. She was thinking very hard about ending our relationship, which she did today. I'm not really mad about this, not at all, which is what I told her. We had a long discussion afterwards, we are remaining friends, but she just can't handle the emotional side of it. Meh... that's fine I guess, makes me sad, her being so cool and all. But fuck, she still wants to hang out and I got a really good pool partner out of it as well. Just really hits me harder than it normally would have cause I'm dealing with the whole, you're not wanted here anymore thing with the roomates. Maybe I will cry tomorrow, I'm not sure, I really am not mad, just sad, and life gets real lonely...

11:23pm: Wear your emotions on your sleeve...
...for Christ sake people, or for the sake of Satan, or even for the sake of apple pie, stop being so God Damn hard to read. I can't stand this shit. Nothing worse than starting a relationship with a person, and have them half the time be very luvvy duvvy and the other fucking half the time be distant. If there is one thing I need in life, it is constant reminders that people are my friends. I cannot stand this half and half shit. It's all very well to tell a person you care about them, but man, is it really that hard to show it. Is it really that difficult to be close to a person outside of bed?

5:59pm: met Fsarrah's dad today...
He was a nice gent. Seemed to be in a hurry to me, she said not, but he didn't stay very long. Didn't glare at me or anything, seemed very cool. Sarah and I hung out last night after she got off work. Before that I played some hearts, the card game, with Kenji, Crystal, and Shannon, some local friends of mine. Still haven't done my laundry, although Joy said I could do some at gaming tonight, which is good. Had a talk with Andre today, gave him a call and told him to say what's up to all the homies in Seattle. If he doesn't say hello to you and you are in Seattle and read this, know that I meant for it to happen, hehe. Tried to talk to my brother, but no answer, gonna go make a few other phone calls, mom just sent me a 670 minute phone card, so I can chat with my peeps now. Later kids.

9:25pm: Dan doesn't live here anymore...
I am being asked to move out because my roomates don't want to live with me anymore. The one reason really stated was that I am messy. I hope that there isn't other reasons but I would never know because they never bothered to discuss it with me before having the discussion when they told me they wanted me to move out.

We are still friends and all but I am hurt that no one ever feels they need to give people chances to improve. Why can't people work with me on shit. How do I know what bothers people if they don't talk to me.

4:48pm: laundry day
Apparantly Andy, one of my better friends here in Missoula had to work today, cause he isn't answering his phone, this is supa lame cause I really need to do my laundry at his house. I am out of underwear, but I must rejoice in at least one thing, I now have more pairs of socks and underwear than I have decent shirts to wear. This is cool, because I can wear shirts twice under protest, but dirty underwear sucks and dirty socks are foul, and, by foul I mean to be damned to the darkest pits before worn a second day. If I were rich I would pay for a brand new pair of socks, just out of the package every day.

Talking with Sarah, and actually before that Jessica on the same subject, it seems that I represent quite a few firsts in some of my girlfriends lives. Actually the big one is that I a apparently one of the very few people of the world to have made it to the age of 26 without being arrested. Is this uncommon? I have never even been cuffed by a police officer. Also of note, on the earlier subject, I am one of the few males that Sarah seems to know that wear underwear. Now, feel free to laugh at me or whatnot, but, dude, I have zipped up the tip of my junk before and that shit smarts. And not only that, but dude, jeans are made out of some rough ass material. All I have to say is motherfuckers walking around without shit between them and the denim of their jeans need to check their shit before they quite literally wreck their shit. Denim is like fucking sandpaper, end of subject.

yeah... I'm done now...

2:19am: When I think about my life....
I think I am the kind of dude that I used to hate, how dare I date two awesome chicks in the same number of months.

Anyway, Fsarrah, correction on that last posts spelling, is great. She sent me an email earlier with a kiss for my mind while I was sleeping at her house and she was out running errands. It was really sweet.

Stopped by and saw Jessica today. We are still friends after all. She seems to be doing well, but I can never really tell with her cause she does such a good job of covering it up when she is sad, and I can't be in any kind of position to try and help her. I shouldn't be worried to much, having the new lady and all, but I can't help it, I still really consider her my friend.

Anyway, that's all I have right now you crazy kids, take care.

6:08am: new girl
So I am dating a new girl now. Her name is Fsarah, and no I didn't spell that wrong, it's Sarah with an F. She goes by Sarah cause not that many people can pronounce it correctly. She's a red head, she gives a great massage, and I don't think she is in dire need of therapy. I think I am officially lucky, haha. Anyway, she's really cool and I hope I will have more to report soon.

10:55pm: The Dude abides man, the Dude abides.....
The Big Lebowski is, hands down, one of the coolest movies ever made. Hi Fidelity ranks way up there too, but that John Cusack, so of course it's good. Just thought I would share that with you all. If you haven't seen both of those movies I highly recommend checking them out. Hi Fidelity is sort of a romantic comedy, and I know that when you read that it makes you cringe, but it's really good, and it gives you a cool tear jerker to watch with the girlfriend or date or whatnot, it's got Jack Black in it too. The Big Lebowski is just funny as fuck, it's a slacker movie, to watch with whoever when you know you don't have shit to do.

4:15am: break ups suck
mostly cause the sex stops. broke up with my girlfriend real recently, actually the same night kenji got married. it just wasn't going anywhere, and since she is planning on moving this fall to seattle then it's not going to go anywhere. i miss having someone around to hang out with, and i miss feeling loved, that was nice for a bit.

9:40pm: Mr and Mrs. Kenji Kobayashi
Kenji ane Crystal tied the knot today in a fun and thankfully short ceremony. I was the best man in the wedding. That makes me feel awesome. Ever since I was a small child I wanted to have a best friend, someone who also considered me his closest friend, and that is definitely Kenji. He did me a great honor by inviting me to be his best man and I could not have picked a better wife for him.

7:14pm: Apparently I am the most immature person my friends know.

3:55pm: what's up in your life
not much massah journal. Yeah not much going on, had a loss of unemployment scare, but no worries, the slack continues. I'm tired, but hell, I just woke up, and that is to be expected. Hell it's only 4 pm. Yeah, anyway, nothing but luv you crazy kids, I'm off to watch I LUV JEANNIE, I think that is what the show is called.

Favorite quote of the day, "I've been listening to my gut for a long time and, frankly, I have decided my gut has shit for brains".

5:43pm: I like to ask people this question once in a while...

If you had the choice, and had to choose one, would you rather be blind or deaf...

1:49pm: new toys
Got a Ruger P-95 the other day and put 200 rounds through it yesterday. For those if you that don't know, that Ruger's newer 9mm semi-auto pistol. It's fun to shoot. Nothing else to report, carry on.

3:10am: long time no post
So long time no post.. all for a good reason
Jessica, the girl I was sleeping with, is now my girlfriend officially, and all is out in the open. Bad shit ensued, but oh well, people get over it. Will try to post more regularly from now on.

Just got back from a Stick Game tournement. It's a native american game, i know that should be capitalized, whatever. anyway, that was mass fun. but fuck typing, i'm gonna go look at porn.