Old Entries Sept 6th-Nov 30th

Well, I heard back from the bank today. They decided to hire someone else. Damn them. They don't know what they are missing. Oh well, at least I can start part-time work at EBX again.

Last night was Mormon night again. But this time lame-o Aleta ditched out, and Travis never showed up, so it was just me and Laura. And they brought 2 more this time, So it was 4 mormons against the two of us. That's lame of Aleta and Travis to leave us high and dry like that. It's funny, the mormons think they will convert me. ::evil laughter::

I know no one likes to read long logs, so I end it here. One more thing, all my friends who I haven't heard from in teh last week are fucking bastards, I hate you, and if I don't hear from you soon I am not even going to TRY to hang out with you during Christmas.
Bastards.

Ok, this will be short. I am sure no one bothers to read the long logs anyways. Just a couple things:

First: Where are all my friends??? I haven't heard hide nor hair of many people in many weeks. Jeremy is never on ICQ, Curran and Jessica did finally e-mail me a couple sentences, Clint/Trent are no where to be seen. And my newer friends, Kris, Amanda, Rosie, I hear more often from them than anyone.

Second: I had another LotR dream last night. I was a hobbit, and I had the most bitchin' elven cloak on. it was one of the color shifting kind, but in my dream i didn't realize it, it was white, and then brown... :) We were somewhere in the snow, and were hiding from a band of orcs (scary) and then a band of elves came along and the orcs left. The band of elves were all SCA people (wierd) and we feasted with them. It was a good dream overall, nice sense of wonder much of the time.

Third: I got stuck in System Shock 2, which is a bitchin' game, but it's a glitch or something. According to the walkthroughs online I should NOT be stuck where I am. But I am, and then I tried to cheat so I could get on with the game, and that didn't even work. So the 14 hours I have invested in the game are wasted because I can't finish it now. Damn it.

Ok that's all, if you wanna talk to me, get off your ass and e-mail me. And, due to junk mail reasons, I may be changing my e-mail address soon.

Last night, I fell asleep on the couch watching a movie, woke up around 3am and then moved to my bedroom and went back to sleep. I tell you what, I had some of the most vivid, twisted fucking dreams last night. As per usual, can't remember all the details, but here is what I do remember:
Being in a park with some friends, and for some reason the Ringwraiths were after us, and we all had horses. So we were trying to get away, and I was screaming not too look back at them, because if we lokoed back they would scare us, and we wouldn't be able to get away.
Setting up a boat on wheels for some football game. Then later findnig that same boat on a lake, and jetskiing around with it.
Going down on some girl (but not sex??), after traveling through 3 levels of demon filled dungeons to find her.
Finding a way to travel through space, in a kind of mall type area. It involved a small pebble (looked like a sapphire) and "The Heart of Gold" (small gold box) and when you hold both of them in your hands, you just pick the star and POW your flitting through space at incredible speeds. No spaceship or anything. But of course, some bad people wanted it, and at then end of my dream there was a struggle and if I could just grab both pieces I could escape, but I dropped the blue part, and as it bounced and skitted across the floor, we struggled to get it. I lost. I fucking lost. The bad guy grabbed it, and then killed me. What kind of fucked up way is that to end a dream??
Also, this all happened between 4am-9am this morning. I woke up 3 times, and each time hoped I would dream something better when I went back to bed, but it picked up right where it left off. Damn it. I even re-played the last part (while dreaming, still asleep) because I was so amazed that I LOST in my own dream... but each time I still couldn't win. It was disturbing.

On a more... good... note, last night was mormon missionaries night. I mean, LDS Faith people night. (I guess they don't like being called mormons anymore??) It was a pretty good discussion, but being Atheist made everything they were saying kinda of silly and hippocritical. Also, "Sister Wolfe" brought a girl that dioesn't normally come along, I think she realized that Aleta and Laura weren't going to convert that easily, so she brought her "big guns" from the church. Silly mormons.

Also, an old friend from Sprague stalked *cough* I mean, contacted me, recently. We talked a little in high school, had some classes, share a dislike of Ryan Potts. Me, Kevin Bair, Ryan Potts, and her all had the same Health class with Mr. Baumgartner. Her webpage: Amanda's Little Alamo and she's pretty cool so it's worth a look.

Well, I need a shower and breakfast, so I am done. I just needed to type up that dream before I forgot it all.

Take it easy bro!
ßradlor

Well, looky what we have here. Seems like ßradlor has moved to Seattle. And for some reason has started talking about himself in the 3rd person. ::shrug:: So ßradlor finished moving, he's still in the process of unpacking his room, but the PC is set up and the ISP has been negotiated. Indeed it has.

I sent out an e-mail a bit ago with several of my 3d studio works included, and then foolishly I forgot that I have a WEBPAGE where I can also place them. So I am uploading them now. There are several I have completed recently, some I sent in the e-mail, some I did not. Also, I would highly suggest checking out the animation fo the sword. I will add them to the media section, but also put links here for them:
Celtic Sword Temple
Celtic Hilt-Close Up
Magic Staff
Bong & SuperBud
ßradlor Logo
Animation for the Sword (sword2.avi)

Well, that's the main update I have for the moment. I am off to do more hunting and work and such. I have my room about 60% unpacked also, so it'll be nice to have that done soon. And things are great with the new roomie, especially considering that she is in love with all my movies that I brought, Star Trek, and most importantly, the Simpsons. She's also addicted to the Sims at the moment, so I can tell the future is bright. hehe

//..signal received..\\
ßradlor out.
//.o.End Transmission.x

Well, the time has come. I am packing right now. It's timeto move. Everything goes into it's box and makes a pile in the now empty kitchen. I pick up the uhaul tomorrow, load er up, drop off my keys at the managers, and close one chapter of my life. In Seattle I open the next. Which reminds me, if you need my new address it will be:
Bradley Webster
6717 24th Ave NW #1
Seattle, WA 98117

And my new phone number will be: (206) 297-7380

No big surprise, my computer won't be packed until the very last moment, and it will be one of the very first things I hook up when I get there. I am excited, it's going to be so great to be with my friends again. There will still be several people missing (Curran, Jessica, Jeremy, Clint) but perhaps someday in the not too distant future we'll all be in the same spot. Wouldn't that be crazy? I wouldn't be surprised if it caused a rift in the space time continuum. I am looking forward to the possibilty. Erh... as much as you can look forward to a catastrophic rift.

Ok, so the main reason I typed up this log was for a break from packing. But I should get back to it, so that come tomorrow morning, I can leave on time. I'll try to post as soon as I get set up in Seattle. I am getting DSL/CABLE soon (me and Laura "yay Laura!" Currie are sharing the cost) but I'll probably have to stick to dial-up at frist.

Oh, and the new theme for the page has been slightly delayed. Sorry, I have tons of ideas, but no Photoshop and little free time at the moment.

ßradlor "Does a One-legged Duck Swim in Circles?" Webster

Here, I had a good idea for why to write a log today and it's gone and vacated my brani. Damn. Well, it happens from time to time... probably some Marijuana Dayz fallout.

I just remembered "Gankfest 98" and lordie lordie, that was some fun law breaking we did back then. Billy Idol Rules. All over Salem, and then out to the coast. Nowhere is safe from a Gankfest!

I just turned around to watch the Simpsons on TV, and saw a blue screen. It took a moment, then it dawned on me. It's November first, I told them to shut off my cable today. And they did. What a rude awokening. <---hehe. This is, of course because I am moving to Seattle next FRIDAY. If you did not know this already, where have you been?? And you should visit my page more often. But, anyways, yeah, only 7.2556 days to go until I move. I can't dent my excitement.

Short log today, maybe might perchane to drop by tomorow night so I might just have a big party on my hands tomorrow. Guess I'll find out tomorrow. Later.

For quite some time I've been trying to figure out how to effectively indent each paragraph when I am writing for my webpage. I think, perhaps, I may have finally nailed it down. yay for me.

I stopped at a Burger King down the road a couple weeks ago, and across the street was a action figure store. Talk about nostalgia. Now, personally I don't think I should be old enough to have that sort of feeling yet... but damn it, those He-Man figures brought back a tsunami of old memories that couldn't be stopped. That also reminded me when myself and Curran had a discussion about how He-Man was actually originally a Conan action figure but switched over for the He-Man market. Conan, is there anything he CAN'T do??

My new video card arrived today, finally. It's only about... 17 days overdue? I haven't plugged it in yet, but I will tonight sometime. Everything else on this new pc has installed ok so far, so I am gonna cross my fingers to defeat the astronomical odds against it working correctly. I am running Windows after all, simple logic says that since this is the last component to install it will be the one to fuck up.

That's all. Oh, and I'll have a new theme up by the end of the week! I guarantee it!™†

Something kinda strange happened yesterday, I was walking home from the post office after having put in my Change of Address form, and started thinking about how I had done the same thing for Lisa after we broke up. The thought also crossed my mind that someday I hoped she would realize it was the best for us to have broken up. Then I get home, and, low and behold, there is an e-mail sittnig there from Lisa. And sure enough, there is her saying that she is much happier and better off now. Which is good, it's not like we broke up just becuase I wanted to hurt her or anytinhg silly like that. It was still wierd though, to think about it as a wandering thought, and then have it happen.

Do you realize how long it takes toenails to grow out? I've still got purple nail polish on my toenails from this summer, and it still hasn't worn off. Of course, if I had nail polish remover I'd just clean it of, but I am not going to buy a whole bottle of nail polish remover just for two litle spots. Duh. hehe

So this whole no drinking no smoking pot thing is going pretty well. Two days now, which is the longest in many many months I have went without. I'd have to say the reason for this change, is that my life needs to be gearing up and getting ready to move, find new work, ect. Moving to Seattle would be difficult if I was too stoned to drive there.

It's saturday night, which means time to set the VCR to record SNL.
And on that note, sleep time.

Well, it's done. Mostly. I have built my new PC. I am still missing my 64mb video card since it hasn't arrived in the mail yet. Other than that, world of difference. I just finished playing a rousing hack'n'slash session of Diablo 2 with Kevin from work. I never could do that with my old PC, it's amazing. Lesson learned: Old PC BAD, new PC good. Even if it does require maxing a credit card.

If you ever want to have a really fun time, build yourself a PC. It's not really that hard, just get the right parts, make sure they will work together, assemble. If the tab on the slot doesn't line up with the plug, DON'T FORCE IT. Tada, you will now have built a PC of your liking. The part that sucks (and my point here) is reinstalling the OS again. This is the 3rd time in 2 months or so I've had to do it. It's such a pain, every time I start to think it's not soo bad to have reinstalled Windows, then some stupid little setting or option pops up I have to track down and change. Or I go to play a porno, and I don't have the right codecs for Media Player. It's always something damn it.

This is the first night in... months? that I haven't been stoned or drunk. wow. hmmm... dealing with reality sucks.

I have my address in Seattle now, I'll be living with the illustrious Laura Currie. Did I mention that in a previous log? I don't think so... Anyways, I am moving the 9th for sure and if I am lucky I will have the great pleasure of Aleta and Laura Hall's company when I drive the truck back to Portland for the second load. Isn't my life just boiling over with excitement?

Anyone else notice how my main man Curran tends to do like an Apollo mission, and dissappear into the dark side of the moon? But instead of an hour of radio silence, it's more like 8 months of it. Coincidentally this occurs on the same months he's in college. Strange...
BUT! police have just recovered some amateur footage from an unknown... camera person! Roll it G!

What is it about sleeping in that is so wonderful? And can be, well, kinda disturbing at the same time. I was having some wierd dreams last night, or I should say this morning... I was in a maze, it was a party, then there were demons, then people having sex (but not me for some reason), and then waking up. That was the jist of what I remember, prolly not even in the right order.

It's sunday morning, there is nothing on TV, not much around here to do. Usually pretty boring, so I started recording SNL and watching it this morning. I must say, (as Kevin helped point out) that in the next few seasons are going to be the best for many many years. Basically, Saturday Night Live has a good seasons and cast once every ten years or so. In the first years they had Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and then in the 80's they had EDdie Murphy, then the 90's gave us the Adam sandler, Chris Farley cast. Now we're due for the early 2000 cast, which is going to be Chris Kattan, Will Ferrel, Jimmy Fallen. I would definately say it's worth watching in the coming seasons.

My computer is 5 out of 7 pieces complete. I am still waiting for my CPU and Video Card to arrive by mail. Then I can put it all together, and with my new PC rejoin the PC gaming, and internet community. None will stand in my path, I will be unstopable. I will be, ßradlor, Engine of Desctruction.
Oh.. and I'll be able to play games and run 3d Studio Max at a decent speed again. Finally. The time of prophecy is nigh. As originally stated by Nostradameus in the 13th century:
"In the turn of the new century, after the 10th horse has been ridden by the 19th man, the spider will weave ßradlor no more." As we can tell this obviously points to the date of Oct 19th 2001, and speaks of a spider (the WEB) loosing it's hold on ßradlor. It's plain as day, anyone can see the time coming! Run while you still can! No One will be able to STOP it!

Iron monkey commercials on TV, holy shit. That is funny funny stuff. First off, if you had any interest in that style of martial arts you can go down RIGHT NOW and rent it at Blockbuster. This is just a re-release of an 80's Chinese or Japanese movie.

So me and some homies rented and watched the movie, Iron Monkey, and I haven't laughed more at a movie unless I was stoned. With the bad dubbing, the "graviyty defying action that surpasses even the matrix" - Los Angeles Times, and the acting. And in the commericals on TV everyday are trying to make it look like a serious movie. I feel sorry for anyone who go to see a serious martial arts action movie, they are going to be dissappointed.

For the longest time I never could settle on on animal as my favorite animal. There were things I liked about many animals, but none that I really felt they... clicked. But I found an animal that does. My favorite animal is the Wolf. Everytime I see wolves on discovery channel I stop what I am doing and become enthralled in the show.

Looks like I'll be staying with Rockin' Laura Currie for at least my first month in Seattle while I find a job and place to live. So, moving the 9th of November. Exciting isn't it? I start looking online for jobs on Monday. yay.

Seattle will be good for me. Also, Curran might move to Seattle when he graduates next summer, and Jessica will be in Seattle in 3 years or so also. I can't think of anything that sounds better. Things will get better, it isn't going to be like it is right now. Not forever anyways.

Time to go.

Oh, yeah, since Dani did it, I have to do it too. Robot test!!!:

Oh boy... today was an adventure. If adventures can be disgustingly boring that is.
Basically, Saturday was going to be my errand day. Since I have no car, going to FedEx and ENU Inc. (computer store) was going to be a pain. I had to take 2 buses to FedEx, then 3 to get to the computer store from there. So I start by riding over to the transit center, waiting, and no bus ever comes. So I was coming back home and I asked the bus driver, and he said that bus doesn't run on weekends. Fuckin' webpage said it runs on Sat. Damn it.
So I ride the next set of buses all the way to the computer store, to find... an MCI building. No store in sight. The fuckin' internet map thing said it was RIGHT there... I started out at noon, after the bus excitement and the lack of store I wasted a good 5 hours of my day. Oh boy. Just how I wanted to spend it. At least I got to sleep in until 10am today.

Other than that, my weekend is going to be a long string of playing with 3d studio max with occasional breaks to download mp3s and eat. I finished my first animated scene in 3ds Max, I think it's pretty sweet. It's an avi file, I'll e-mail a copy to you if you want. I don't have much space left on this webpage so I am not going to upload it here.

For those who haven't heard, I still have a good. I was supposed to get laid off but didn't. Even though I still have a job, I am moving to Seattle on Nov 9th.

Can't think of nothing else. Do you care?

Updates. Woo. I know how all of you drool over my updates. I can just feel the tension everyday while you feverishly hit reload in vain, hoping for that new paragraph. But alas, NO new updates. Until now. Also, I send the same information in e-mails to people, and I retype it 10 times. It's easier to recap my OH so exciting life here where anyone can see.

And damn it, geocities.com is pissing me off. Their damn built in NOTEPAD program to edit HTML with is being a piece of shit. Damn it. I should back up my webpage and move it all somewhere... I could put it all on my shiney brand new HD I got free from Clint. Yay CLint!

It's been years, but I got ahold of it again. 3d Studio Max, the stuff dreams are made of. Even though I didn't have much time, I stayed up late playing with it and my new copy of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (see my newest work new-gif.gif). I am so happy to have 3d Studio again, I miss it. The thing that sucks is this old PC is holding me back, it runs like molasses. I need a new PC with more than 16 megs of RAM. So, my creative blossoming and long sleepless nights on the PC are being stopped. There is only one solution to this, max the credit card buying a new PC. Which reminds me, for some reason the credit card company decided I was so great as to have a higher credit limit. I have a guess the large limit increase might have something to do with the fact I've had my card maxed and being payed off the for the last 6 months. Hell, even freezing the card in a bowl of water in the freezer didn't keep me from impulse spending too often. Ahhhh, the sweet womb of debt around me. :)

At work, I sit and surf. Plenty of time finding strange stuff online. Also, I find interesting people who's lives somehow seem interesting. Such as Cookie who runs a webcam and seems worth a daily visit to see what's going on.

Sent in my 30 days notice tomorrow. It's done, I am moving to seattle, now wether I'll know where I am living or if I will have a job is another story. I am going to start checking apartments in need of a roomate mid-oct, which will be a couple weeks before I move. Time enough to contact people from the ads and find out all the details. And work, I'll start sending out resumes a week before I move and then set up interviews for when I arrive in Seattle. So, we'll see how that all works out. D^:

I am sooooooooo hungry right now. And they opened this fuckin good sushi place across the street! yes! I bought an oregon roll, already finished it. That hot green stuff, the pickled gingers, soy sauce, yum ymu yum. I am still working on my order of Yakisoba.

If you don't know what Exodus or Maces and Morgan is, then feel free to skip this paragraph. Seriously, you're not gonna miss anything, or understand anything here. So skip it. Really.
Ok, now that that's out of the way. You MUST go to Monster Bash. Whoever you are, wherever you are. Force your dad to drive you, or take your mom's gray mini-van, or fly from New York. Whatever it takes, to BE THERE. It's Saragosa. 'nuff said. Don't you remember the last Monster Bash, the Queen danced NAKED. I know what you say, 'but that won't happen again' and you prolly right, I doubt anyone will dance naked. The point is, you KNOW that if you're not there then something big will happen and you'll miss it. I, for one, will be there and not miss a thing. Also, if you say it's winter, you're a pussy.

I hate when I get something to drink, like wayer, and almost putting the water in cupboard because the cupboard is already open.

omg... time for a smoke.
I'm out like a narcaleptic
ßradley

Date: 9/18/01 6:06pm
Wearing: nothing(har har, read on)
Hearing: quiet ambient noise
Mood: Wish I was drunk

Well, I am accessing this site to update it the only way I can right now, from the fuckin' library. My home PC is screwed, it was working and I jsut a minor glitch. then I asked the ISP for help and now it won't work at all. Trying to help,. the screwed something up. So at the moment their solution is "Format and reinstall windows, and call us if it works since we're curious to see."
Bastards.
So I will have to loose tons of stuff I can't back up. Damn it all.

Moving to Seattle looks like an inevitability now. I've committed too it. as much as it would be easier to simply lay down and die here. not move, find some crappy job, be depressed, instead I am gonna force myself to get off my ass and move to Seattle. Things will be better there, it should remedy the current causes of my depressions.

If I had more time, I'd comment more, but since I don't I'll just finish. If you need to get a hold of me, my work e-mail bradley_webster@stream.com is the best, since I actually access it during the day. But in a week or two I won't even have that job anymore so it'll just be library access to hotmail for me. Later.

ßradley

p.s. Ken rocks because he actually went to my Calligraphy page.

I came to an epiphany today. The downfall of our society will come from the reproduction of the stupid. By the mere definition of beauty, our society has cast out the intelligent and let the dimwitted jocks reproduce enmass. The females/males are chasing after attractive members of the opposite sex. And as long as they are attractive themselves, it works out fine. As for the abnormal (which, to clarify is NOT a bad thing), they are chasing a pipe dream of those out of their league. While these beautiful dimwits are pumping out kids, the abnormal are still searching for compatible mates.
As our society expands, and eventually spreads to the stars, the percentage of "normal" people to the percentage of "abnormal" people will remain the same, let's say 10% abnormal people. But when the human species numbers in the trillions, this 10% becomes an amazingly large difference. 1 trillion interesting people as compared to the 10 trillion "normal" people. That's scary.
The idea of stopping at a station on the moon, and finding only 5 people in the entire station who have anything intelligent to say, that right there makes me wish I was a dolphin instead of a human.

On a different note, I scanned a pic of Jessica, Trish, and Me out to dinner one evening. And I also scanned this Calligraphy of the enlightened Ken.

Not much else right now, there is a high probablilty I will be laid off next Thursday, but Stream Inc. likes to keep me uninformed until the last minute so there is no gaurantee until the day arrives. But I am looking for work, we'll see how it pans out.

As usual, I love to get mail. Please send me mail. For the LOVE OF GOD! Send me some mail!