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With my video obligations complete I can now get onto the entry that I promised a few days ago and have alluded to for a few months now. This really has been weighing heavy on my mind for quite some time at this point but I can no longer be silent about it. In fact if I hadn't agreed to do the video work for Phreaknic again this year I would have ducked out completely. In all reality this shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone since I stopped talking on the IRC channel about 4 months ago and have stayed away from the meetings since about that time as well. Over the last five years I have met many interesting people and heard a wide array of ideas and different perspectives on things. I have and will always appreciate and respect the difference in ideas inside this community and will miss some of the more lively debates. While this just seems like some type of cop-out excuse avoiding a problem, it really does seem to be the only viable solution.

Allow me to preface this with I am going to vent as much as I can about the events of the last seven months without naming names if all possible. People that know bits and pieces of the situation will be able to piece it together and for the rest of you, well just sit back and laugh or something.

Okay as promised the Saturday videos are now all online. Check them out at http://phreaknic.wilpig.org. As I stated before I have reviewed the drunken ddr video and cannot find any reason for it to not be public or to have it cut by more than half to just show the finals. Okay first of all, I don't mind blanking out audio or portions if there was indeed a private conversation going on that the mic might have picked up. But I will not remove large chunks of the video to cover up drunken antics. The file lock has been released.

The videos from Friday have been chopped up and posted at http://phreaknic.wilpig.org just like last year and are available to download. They are encoded with divx 5 at 640x480 and look pretty good. The Drunken DDR is currently locked until it has been submitted to a content review. I got a few complaints about it and was asked to remove it. I have listened to the audio and did not hear any of the content that was complained about. So unless someone can get me specific time segments where this audio can be heard I will be putting it back online tomorrow with the Saturday videos.

Phreaknic 9 is officially over now and I have alot to say on this one. I am currently working on chopping up the videos of the presentations, so it may take me a couple of days to get things in order.

Just a quick note from the con. I have full days worth of recordings done and they are converting to wmv now. I am going to have alot of editing to do when I get back on Sunday. Not really sure how to read some of the people here this year but then again I am also very preoccupied with my previous thoughts. I really wish Crystal could have come because I am not having a very good time and am feeling really low. This needs to change because I can't take much more rejection. Or at the least, perceived rejection.

Okay so here is what those pictures are. The top one is a trinket that I have tried to get for the last month and last night after this really long, weird run of Dire Maul north I got the Ace of Warlords to complete my deck. Now if the faire would just come back for me to turn it in and collect my prize.

The second picture is me and my new spider pet. To get this pet you have to run lower Blackrock Spire in a 5 man and collect spider eggs. I've had the quest for that going on three or four months at least and finally finished it to get my nifty pet.

Finally the last one is showing me after I went trick or treating in the game and got turned into a goblin. LOL The tooltip was broke and said I had a pirate costume on, but I was really a goblin. I did it again tonight and this time got turned into a cat that lasted for a few minutes.

Last in game news I am dropping like a stone in the PVP ranks. I have been busy with stuff and haven't played all that much to begin with and then when I have played I haven't been hitting the PVP very hard. Coming in with a whopping 5 kills this week I dropped 183 places in the standings.

Phreaknic starts tomorrow. I have to drive to Sikeston, MO first thing tomorrow then from there I will make the trip to Nashvegas. Crystal is definitely not going and because of phreaknic I will be missing my chance to see The Aristocrats at Maiden Alley. Chris said he wants to go see it also so I may try to hurry back on Sunday and I will try to catch the 7pm showing.

And finally... I have gotten a good bit of flak about my last post. If I depressed you, sorry. If I annoyed you, tough. I started this a few months back to get stuff out of my head and try to get things back under control. From time to time I will post something that is bothering me to help clear my thoughts. I guess that is it for now. I marked a really good song on my MyFi today to put on this entry but I left it out in the truck so I will just have to use it another time.

Weekend over, and what a weekend it was. Alot to cover here so lets get moving.

First off Dawn is out of here! Huzzah and hurray is in order because alot of my stress is removed with her. Starting this week no more random people just walking in and out of my house at all hours of the night. I am really hoping that is going to be the trick to getting a full nights sleep again. I took this pic here when I saw the moving truck which made me so happy.

Moving on... Roomba! So far the roomba is pretty cool. It is actually a vacuum that ziggy isn't afraid of! First off it doesn't sound like a normal vacuum at all. I would describe the sound as more like a train set or a remote control car. I have run it around the house three times now and each time it had mixed results. Once it got lost under Dawn's couch and another time under my bed. I can't really tell how it knows that is has covered the entire room but it seems to come close. I need to give the virtual walls a try and see if it does a better job. In the end it has sucked up the equivilant of two cats and what could be the start of a pretty big sweater.

Friday night I played a little WoW and got into an Alterac Valley game. This one almost made up for the previous one where I got to spend a whopping 30 seconds in there. Eight and a half hours later we finally finished this match. For the week I have racked up 2200+ honor kills and I am really curious to see if I will go up a PVP rank or more than one.

That leads us up to Saturday and Rachel's birthday party. Since that dang WoW match lasted til 6:30 Saturday morning I woke up late. Jumped back on WoW to send some money to Vorshi for a chest piece then got to cooking and stuff. Left out of here about 3 and drove into nashvegas. I was about 30 min outside Nashville when I realized I brought a change of clothes, a towel, her present and the food but completely left my swim trunks sitting on the bed! DOH! A quick stop at target remedied the situation and back on my way to their place. The party did was the usual good food, friends and alot of talking.

As I drove to Nashville tonight for Nox(corey) and Podkayne(rachel)'s 4th of July party I heard a couple of offspring songs that just really struck a cord with me. Self-esteem was the first one and it was just like, wow. Now I have heard them before but in my current situtations it seems so on target. The second which came right after that was Why Don't You Get A Job?. Side note: I hate terestrial radio the commercials and the stations fading out so quickly going down the road was really annoying the crap out of me. I will be glad when my XM gets back off RMA. Now this one didn't really fit, but it reminds me of some stuff in my past and it always makes me smile when I hear it.

Back to the other stuff, got to Nox's place really close to 7 and surprise surprise showing up on time just doesn't happen with most everyone. So I got to hang out with Nox, Rachel and Lissa for a bit before everyone showed up. SHIT! I just realized I left my sunglasses on their counter that is gonna make for some crappy driving this week. About 8:30 or 9 more of the usual crowd showed up we ate a bit some drank a bit and we talked the normal crap that geeks talk about when they gather. Had a pretty good time, but it was getting late and I needed to get back home so I left around 11. Would have liked to stay longer but my mood wasn't getting any better with the current company so I figured it was best to leave.

So here I sit, I never did make that entry about Land of the Dead. So here it is. Short answer, don't waste your time on it. For a zombie flick not bad, the effects were okay but not great. But anytime you have a zombie ripping out chunks of stringy flesh that always adds a few bonus points to any movie. If you go see it and you are expecting it to be cheesey than you made the right call and it is amusing, otherwise don't bother.

Did a little housework tonight while dawn was gone, swept and mopped the wood room and the livingroom about to get into the dining room and kitchen. Moved my axis camera around the house while I cleaned tonight so people could actually see that I do clean once in a while. I like the idea of having a few more cameras in the house, I am going to start watching eBay to see if I can pick up a few more cheap.

In other web related news I reorganized my gallery a bit to make my vacation pictures a little more logical. Also moved the various galleries I have up there for other people into one spot for easier management.

Just got off the phone with mom as well. My step-sister is coming into town this weekend and we might all go out to Patti's for dinner on Saturday. My brother has decided to get married sooner rather than later and is picking a date in October it seems. He best stay away from the Phreaknic weekend or I am gonna kick him in the crotch.