A little this and a little that

by Matt | Dec 8, 2002 | Imported Entry

Well, today was “December Birthdays” down at my Grandparents house. Typically the Perry’s gather together on months when there’s more than one birthday, get a cake and exchange small gifts. Apparently the memo didn’t get around to everyone this time. My brother was off at the Patriots game, my uncle was at home (watching the Patriots game) and my aunt was buying her christmas tree. So, it was my immediate family, uncle Chris, Aunt Denise and my grandparents. Hardly the whole clan. Usually when something like this happens, the aunts and uncles tease each other for months with “well, if you had been there” type jokes. Christmas should be interesting.

Yesterday I hung out with Chip for a while. We got some food followed by a few video games. Much fun. I hadn’t played console games in quite a while.

Also, some random stuff for you guys to take a look at:

This made me laugh until it hurt. Internet SPAM king can’t take what he dishes out. Check out some of the comments for useful links at SlashDot.

New version of WinRAR.

Y’z Dock 0.4.2 (incase I forgot to link it before). Also check out DeskMod for some Y’z Dock Icons and Backgrounds.

Chris showed me Direct Connect and all it’s file sharring glory.

That’s about it. Later.

Better day

by Matt | Dec 5, 2002 | Imported Entry

Or rather, a combonation of a few days, or something. Anyway, things aren’t going half bad. In the past few days I’ve seen Harry Potter, I’ve had some pizza, I got approved for a loan, I’ve started work both a new CD mix and a new website and I’ve been playing Battle Field 1942 and Neverwinter Night non-stop. Huzah. I’ll offer more of an in-depth review of Harry Potter tomorrow (or later tonight) and I’ll let you know what’s what with the loan. But for now I’m going to watch the Daily Show. Later.

Another day

by Matt | Dec 3, 2002 | Imported Entry

You know, it’s getting really hard to title these dumb things. I can’t think of anything good anymore… not like that’ll stop me though. Well, today I went and paid Chip and Dave a visit. Or, more accuratly I paid Chip a visit since Dave has apparently dropped off the planet and no one really knows what he’s up to. I had wanted to talk to Dave about assisting him with a few photo shoots while I was home this break. I hope he needs an assistant because I’m very much against going back to EB. So, I hung out with Chip for a bit before going and getting some lunch. After that I can back here and watched old News Radio reruns.

I had grandeous plans of redesigning some web pages and finally putting the finishing touches on BlogProject.com. Damn I’m lazy. That site not being up is pretty much entirely my fault. I was either busy with school or so not busy that I was finding better things to do. You know how it is. The right level of “busy” is very hard to maintain. You don’t want to overwork yourself but you certainly want to keep yourself occupied.

So, instead of making web pages, I browsed them, in search of loan alternatives to those Wells Fargo bastards. I applied for a Nellie Mae loan and it’ll take 24 hours to process so I’ll know by tomorrow. I did it without a co-signer so my odds of getting it are pretty slim but if I can do it without involving my parents then all the better. They have their own finances to worry about without having to deal with mine.

Other than that I’ve just been sitting here, waiting for my folks to get home so I can figure out what I’m doing about dinner. Most of the time we just don’t have dinner so we do our own thing, but every now and again we do. More often than not the times we’re having food are the times that I have plans so I usually miss out. Everytime I stay in and don’t have anything to do (like tonight) I usually end up with toast. We’ll see.

Thats about it. Oh, and Age of Mythology is weird. I’ll explain later.

Brake Down

by Matt | Dec 2, 2002 | Imported Entry

I don’t break down often, but I just did. I don’t know what to do anymore. Wells Fargo, those communist sons-of-bitches, just told me that because I don’t have enough income they were denying my student loan. I asked how much I needed to actually get a loan and they said in the ballpark of $10,000. I find that humorous especially since I was only asking for $6000 as a loan. Don’t you think that if I had $10,000 that I might be able to just pay it off monthly and wouldn’t really need a loan. I seriously don’t know what to do. I straitened out my other loan stuff and I just have to return some paperwork, so I’m 99% set on 2/3 of my money. I guess thats good. Wells Fargo was supposed to be the other 1/3 of that. I was getting $2500 from NHHE, $2500 from Wells Fargo and $2000 for the government a semester. The bill was $6500 which would have left me $500 for supplies. It would have worked out. Now I’m short and I’m fucked. I don’t know what to do. I’m going to call Fleet and see if I can get something from them but I don’t know what the chances of that are. I have no other options. I had also “paid” off last semester so that extra money was going to buy Christmas presents, now I can’t even do that. I have $3000 on my credit card, less than $100 in my bank account, no loans and no options. Like I said, I don’t break down often but today it was certainly warrented. The Wells Fargo loan was supposed to be all set and then they tell me they can’t find it and that I’ll need to apply again. Sure, why not, so I get all the way through the process and at the end they go “ok, lets run the credit check” and then say “oops, it looks like you don’t have enough credit to get the loan, sorry Mr.Perry.” Fuck you. Fuck you and your stupid loans. Fuck SCAD for being so goddamn expensive. Fuck everything. I am not my credit report, I am not my credit card limit, I am NOT my fucking khakies. I am a human being, whos going to art school, whos trying to make it to the point where he can support himself and pay some of this back. I need to go to bed. Fuck this.