What's on your plate?

[Dracos]

Too much.

Got to do some paid work today and get off the 3d functionality revisions.  Then hopefully get to designing since I've been slacking there.

Dracos

[Ranma_007]

My machine has died.

Thus, I attempt to save data and reformat, etc.

I shall return! (perhaps in a few days once everything is sorted out)

-007

[Anastasia]

That's pretty piss poor luck, Ranma. G'luck.

[Brian]

I am being evicted, and need to find out how to take care of my roommate's things, since he's now in a coma.

Also, I'm unemployed and broke.

Dangit.

[Ranma_007]

Java mortgage homework assignment - Finished in 4 hours today (from scratch, baby, no sdk, nothing was on my computer, and I know nothing of Java).

Machine still broke, but it will be fixed hopefully on Friday.

Have to go to Ohio for a funeral, Tues-Fri.

And thus, I am not on IRC.

[Liddo-kun]

I am being evicted, and need to find out how to take care of my roommate's things, since he's now in a coma.

Also, I'm unemployed and broke.

Dangit.

Great gibbering gerbils!  o_O;;

I'd return what's on the plate for something healthy like a salad if I could... but all kidding aside, you what in the heck happened to your roommate and how are you holding up, Brian?  O_o;

[Brian]

Great gibbering gerbils!  o_O;;

I'd return what's on the plate for something healthy like a salad if I could... but all kidding aside, you what in the heck happened to your roommate and how are you holding up, Brian?  O_o;

Not so great.  On Sunday his parents called me from Vegas.  they had to induce a coma medically because he was seizing ... well ... no.  He was having psychotic episodes from the pain, and was tearing out his I.V., his respirator, etc.  They tried to just restrain him, but he put up too much of a fight, apparently.  I'm not entirely clear on all the details....

Long-and-short is that I know he'd been experiencing a migraine all week before he left to visit his family, and was taking 6-8 times the normal reccomended dosages of things (stacking Alleve, Asprin, something I forgot, and a healthy amount of medical cannibus), but that could only reduce the pain to a point he could ignore for 4-6 hours out of the day.

He wasn't getting much sleep (I honestly didn't notice this part until afterwards; 2-4 hours of sleep is normal for me -_-)....  At some point, apparently the pain got to be so intense his family hauled him to the Vegas hospital, and they couldn't get him into an MRI (the respirator), and the CAT scan APPEARS to show a tumor.  They're not certain, so they're keeping him under until they can diagnose him.  Supposedly they got anothet CAT scan last night, but I haven't heard anything on that yet.

I managed to get ahold of his girlfriend, who lives in Australia, to tell her what happened....  But the same day his parents called to tell me what was going on, they told me they were probably going to be moving him to the East coast again, for his health.

To explain, my roomate was born without a pulmonary (sp?) artery, and was supposed to die before reaching adolescence.  He's 23 now, and is considered to be the healthiest person with his condition ever.  So moving him to a hospital to keep him under observation for a few months is pretty much a guarantee no matter what they discover.  His parents asked me if rent was paid.  Sterling had told me he paid it this month (it was his turn), and I'm broke....  I told them that it was fine and to worry about Sterling.

Twenty minutes later I get served an eviction notice. -_-

I'm honestly not holding up that well.  I'm trying to be optimistic here, but things look kind of grim.  I can deal with my own life falling apart -- this won't be the first time I've lived on the streets.  But in my 26 years, no one in my entire family has ever died.  I like to think that's my bit of luck; I've never had to deal with permanent loss.  And it makes me angry to think that I just assumed it was another quirk of his physiology, when it may have been the last time I'll ever get to see him alive.

More than a roommate, Sterling was a close friend, and the only one I'd ever actually smoke and drink with.  Until I found out he was in the hospital, whereupon I rounded up David and Peter, and we bonded, talked about the good times, the bad, and I slammed back ... 12+ shots.  At least.  David kept pace, and Peter called it quits when he got fall-down drunk.

David and I soldiered on; haven't talked to him, but I blacked out somewhere before the end of Spiderman 2.  Spent all yesterday feeling sick to my stomach, nauseated, and because I hadn't slept enough, mostly still drunk, too.  Headache's fading now, and I've got until tomorrow to round up rent money before the eviction is posted, and I'm given 14-30 days.

Job prospects looking bleak. -_-

Meh.  I guess it'll work out.  I mean.  It could turn out that the CAT scan didn't pick up anything, and Sterling just had an episode.  Maybe he'll come back tomorrow with rent and everything will work.  Hope for the best.

Plan for the worst.

:/

[Dracos]

Good luck brian.  And better than good for your friend Sterling.  Hope he pulls through.

Dracos

[Edward]

I am being evicted, and need to find out how to take care of my roommate's things, since he's now in a coma.

Also, I'm unemployed and broke.

Dangit.

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

>_<

For what little in counts, you and your friend have my sympathies.

[Brian]

Knowing I've got friends will help me get through this, and it actually means quite a lot to me (the apartment is feeling very empty right now).

[StormDragon]

Wow, this is like, the earliest I've ever woken up voluntarily this summer. I have an interview/appointment thing in about an hour and a half. It's about a management position in Arby's. They aren't looking for someone with experience, since they will train, which is good news for someone like me who hasn't been able to join the workforce yet and needs to pay for college. I dunno what we are going to talk about but hopefully things will go well. Wish me luck!

My deepest sympathies, Brian. :( May everything go right with you.

[Brian]

Thanks.  And good luck, Stormy.  Being a manager at a fastfood place may not seem like much, but 'manager' always looks good on a resume. :)

[Ranma_007]

I return from my trip to Ohio.

The funeral was tough.

Went to Atlantic City yesterday.

Won 175 playing poker for 3 hours and 25 on a spin on the roulette wheel = 200 bucks (for gas and sister's birthday present).

Have to program something else in Java today.

Computer is still busted

And that is what's new.

[Ragnar]

"Imminent Hard Drive Failure."

Backing things up.

[Brian]

Interview on Thursday.  Roommate recovering from surgery.

Not sure how to deal with positive factors in life.

Now attempting to spontaneously combust (it's harder than you'd think!).