I just got back from Joseph’s house. Yesterday, I woke up worried around nine, hoping to find Office XP. Linh-Nam was leaving for work but left a copy of it under his trash can in his front yard. Joe’s dad picked me up, we picked Office XP (thanks Nam!), and then went to a small store to buy a new stick of RAM. We bought the computer in to have them install it and test it for us. Joseph’s dad left his credit card at home so we waited at the store for him. Then, we were off to Fry’s.
On a tangent, I read that it’s believed that wihthin five years, images displayed on a monitor will be identical to the real image to the human eye at 20/20 vision. Of course, this is when stationary because perspectives won’t move on a monitor.
Anyways, when we got to Fry’s, I checked in the RAM, my laptop, my camera, and the Clie. The young lady doing this was pretty nice, and we talked while in line. She asked me about my name and then showed me her name, which she said was Ukrainian. She said she couldn’t pronounce it correctly, which is funny because I can’t pronounce mine correctly either. She went to CSUDH for one class four years ago. I looked familiar to her, but we couldn’t find any connection.
The guy we talked to about returning the RAM was the same guy we saw before. He asked me if I got the system working yet, and I told him that I did. Joe wanted to buy a backpack while we there, and it worked out to be the exact same price as the RAM we were returning.
Back at Joseph’s house, his dad made us omelettes. I got the computer up and running. Dragging windows around is very choppy, and I’m not sure why, but everything’s working now.
Jaysen picked us up, and we went to Gable House. I did alright, I guess. Jaysen beat us twice, and Joe came in third once. That’s quite odd. Here are the results:

Then, we checked out the WWII store near La Capilla. It was pretty cool. They had an awesome, huge Nazi banner. It was $350 though 🙁 Dinner was tasty… I had two chicken tacos.
After dinner, we went back to Joseph’s house. For a while, we took turns playing Super Mario Bros. while watching the Super Mario Super Show. I made it to Koopa in world 8-4, but he killed me. We decided to play Risk 2210 AD, and while we were setting up, Alex came over. Joseph, Jaysen, Alex, and I started to play. Jaysen had to leave around the second year (Risk 2210 AD has a limit of five turns, called years). We had to change rooms because people were going to bed. Then Josh took over for Jaysen. I wrote him a cool note.
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse Josh for being tired in class. He was up late playing Risk with 3 CAMS alumni.
Peter Anargirou
C/O ’04
I told him to give it to Mr. Jett. I don’t know if he will, but I can hope, lol. During year four Josh had to go to sleep. We left his forces on the map to defend themselves, but did not give that team any new troops, and did not control it aggressively. The final scores were as follows:

I had a great time. It was so much fun. And I swear, I think a lot like Josh. He’s cool too. I guess this was the last time I’ll see Joe or Alex for a while. We finished playing around two o’clock this morning, and Alex gave me a ride home.
And I forgot to mention that while playing, I came up with a name for my cat. Mao Tse-tung. Or Mao for short. Yes. That’s a great fucking name.

I’m very tired. Yesterday, I went to Fry’s with Gonzales to pick up more memory. I visit Fry’s often now, it seems. When we got done, it was around four o’clock so we went to a Korean BBQ place that we’ve been to before. It’s all you can eat and very tasty. I was full for a long time after that. I put the RAM in and turned on the computer, but it didn’t work. I didn’t fool around with any yet because I had Joe’s computer to worry about.
Today, Joe’s dad called me, making very little sense. He wanted Joseph to come be with the computer basically. He was dropped off at my house, and we went to Linh-Nam’s. We got there around 12:30. All sorts of stuff was going wrong. We eventually got the BIOS updated, but it still was working like poop. Linh-Nam had to get going around 3:30 so we called Jon. He didn’t have any advice, and was unable to get together but recommended we call Ryo. Ryo wasn’t home and was probably still in school. We called Gian, and he said we could come over. Linh-Nam gave Joe and I ride over there.
Gian and I fooled around (we fooled around together zomg hhahahhahaa) with Joe’s computer and his computer for a while. Eventually, we got pretty convinced that the RAM in Joe’s was bad. Gian drove us to Joe’s house to pick up his HDD, and then we had a Taco Bell lunch. Windows 98 didn’t want to see the CD-ROM drive so we decided to upgrade Windows. However, he lacked any Windows CDs besides 95. We called Jon, but he wasn’t home. We called Ryo… Joe was pretty funny talking to his family, but Ryo wasn’t home. But Chris was! So… we went to Chris’s house. Chris joined the party! Windows XP obtained! Yes, the day was truly like a video game. Grand Computer Repair (like GTA only so much better)! Throughout the day we had been in Long Beach, Carson, Harbor City, Torrance, and Wilmington. Okay, so back at Gian’s house it was like a zomg computer repair party. And we watched the Super Mario World cartoon followed by some Queer Eye. Chris’s XP CD was only an upgrade but Gian came to the rescue with 95 CD. So all was well. Since Joe’s computer wouldn’t boot from the CD, we installed XP on Joe’s HDD in Gian’s computer. Then, we put it back in Joe’s computer and everything worked fine when using Gian’s RAM. However, it wouldn’t boot with his own RAM. So, we need to exchange RAM… get a XP Home activation crack… and install Office. Quite the adventure. Quite fun. I like how that was the first time I had been to Gian’s house, lol. Around 9:30, Gian drove Joe and I to Joe’s house. I had some soda, was given cheese cake, and driven home by Joe’s mom. Joseph’s dad’s going to pick me up at 10:00 tomorrow. This is some sort of anti-Peter-sleep conspiracy. We’re going to go to some small computer store, get new RAM, and ask them to try it in the computer there. Then, we’ll go to Fry’s and return the old RAM. Then, bowling and dinner. Yes. If Jaysen can pick us up. Yes.

[9/12][21:11:47] <@LostBurner> what computer are you working on, Joe’s?
[9/12][21:12:39] <@TU> Well, Joe has the legal ownership of it. I have physical possession of it. But I think it simply belongs to Satan now.
I created a boot floppy in an attempt to reinstall an OS, but I can’t get the computer to boot off of the floppy drive. It goes to the hard drive no matter what. Now, sometimes when I try to boot it, things power up, but nothing is displayed. However, after clearing the CMOS (and letting it sit at least a minute since the last shutdown), it always displays something even if the boot fails. I found a BIOS update that was released with the following description: “Fixed some DRAM can’t boot only after clear CMOS.” That’s not exactly phrased wonderfully, but that might be describing what’s going on. However, I can’t even get to the floppy. I also don’t trust the computer to stay stable long enough for me to flash the BIOS. Linh-Nam’s been keeping me sane while I complain to him. This is stressing me out a lot, and I’m barely handling it. He said I could bring it to his house today, and he’ll help me with it. I hope we get somewhere.

I accidently saved this post as a draft instead of publishing it. Here it is:
After the next couple days, I don’t want to be anywhere near another computer of Joe’s ever again. It seems like the computer stops somewhere before the memory test, while displaying the name of the BIOS and such. Sometimes, what’s displayed it cut off (mid-phrase). It doesn’t like booting right after being shut down. You have to wait a bit (2 minutes, perhaps). The first motherboard and CPU weren’t compatible with eachother so this is the second motherboard. God, it couldn’t be bad too can it? And of course, I don’t have a working OS installed on my HDD. I’ll have to get boot floppies and find a CD after I wake up.
I have to mail those health forms in or something. Or at least look at them. I think it may have said they have to be in before classes start. If that’s the case, I can turn them in by hand after getting to school. I’m looking forward to school (but not class).
I have a strong urge to play classic Super Mario Bros.
Joe thinks I should be the Princess for Halloween, with Toni and Jay as Mario and Luigi respectively.
I’m going to sleep now again. Sleep is good, but it’s always followed by that crappy awakening. I’ll write soon about my musical dream of antisemitic aliens and my dream about the tigers, flying, brain-washed people, zombies, secret store for the elite, and Samuel. I hope I don’t forget these.

I told Tony that I’d call by the end of the week. I just got off the phone with him. Basically, I told him that my dad doesn’t have the money, won’t talk to me about it, and just gets mad at me when I bring it up. I apologized for him being uncooperative, and told him I didn’t know what else I could do at this point. He told me that if talking doesn’t work, he’ll have to take my dad to court and will ask for money than he’s asking for now. I told him that I’d let my dad know… I don’t think Dad’s ever gonna do anything though. Tony thanked me and asked me to call him if anything changes.

When I got home, Dad was mad at me. I’m self-centered and against him or something. Fuck, I even said I’d take all the money I could out of my account (not the money that his debtors have locked because he fucked me over) to help him out. He got all mad at me, and we ended up yelling eachother. He told to break something, sort of taunting me, so I kicked his monitor off his desk, picked up a picture frame thing, and threw it at him. It hit the shelf next to him and shattered. Apparently, it was one of those designs or something made out of butterfly wings or something. I probably wouldn’t have thrown it had I known. But when I get to that point, I’m no longer thinking, you know? I also yelled out something about wanting to shoot him. So, then I go down the street because I still have to fucking deal with Tony’s dog, Coco. It’s such a fucking nice family. There’s the husband, wife, 14 year old daughter, 11 year old daughter, and 9 year old son. At least, those’re my guesses as to their ages. A really good looking family… really nice. They’ve already paid $1165.81. They didn’t have it either and had to borrow it. They want that soon and in one payment. They’ll accept the rest in payments. The total was $2500 or so, but the bills haven’t been finalized. I explained to them as best as I could my father’s financial situation and that I have no idea what’ll happen but that I’d talk to my dad and see. I told them I’d get back to them by the end of the week.
When I got home, my dad and I ended up fighting again. Jamie (the adult) wanted to talk to me. He told me that he was in the back but could clearly hear me threaten to kill. He just wanted to help me calm down. His mom also ended up talking to me about ways to remain calm or some bull shit. Nice people. I went in the house and asked my mom to stay while I cleaned up the glass so that I could get to my room without fighting some more. Then my dad got mad at me because I turned on the kitchen light or something. I don’t really know. I was trying to get sugar for Jamie. Fuck, I’m really trying. And I don’t know what to do when I get mad. I’m still shaking now. When that shit happens, I wish I could break down and cry or something but I’m not sad. I’m just fucking angry. And the only thing I know to do then is to smash things and hurt things. Alright good bye.