Jake’s Life

Well now, today was fairly pleasant. I woke up and heard from Dizzle, who of course needed something. I don’t mind though, because every time I’ve needed something he was there too. Anyway, he came over and I installed Windows Mobile 6 on his new T-Mobile Dash. Sandro wasn’t feeling good so he stayed in bed until Dizzle got here. Damn, he is so cute in bed.

Moving on, we went to California Pizza Kitchen for lunch, then picked up Gammy to go grocery shopping. After that I put her groceries away and took Sandro home. Then I went to the mall and got a haircut. I usually get an even umber one all around, but have been missing actually doing something with my hair for the past few years. Despite the fool trying and failing to decapitate me with clippers (got a nice little gash on the back of my neck now), I’m overall pleased with it. Sop the blood up and I’m good as new! Here’s the result:

Since then it has just been me, my homework, a bottle of pinot grigio, and my Juvenile Delinquency textbook.

Sandro comes back on Tuesday and I can hardly wait. Even with one coworker calling out sick indefinitely I still have my four days off planned. Through the past couple of weeks that he’s been gone we’ve kept in touch at least every other day through e-mail or IM. We’ve even worked through a problem this way (which happens to be one of two problems we’ve ever really had come up). He’s been so supportive of personal stuff and work stuff in my life and is always there to listen to me. I’m always there for him when he needs to vent about something, although I wish that he would more often just for the simple fact that he’s so bashful. We’re working on being more open with each other, going good so far.

Besides not seeing Sandro for two weeks I’m also feeling pretty burned out on work lately. That’s not to say that I’ve completely thrown in the towel on it, or have checked out while I’m there, but my entire life at any job I’ve been at I have given my all, always come in when needed, and overall busted my ass to make things work. Here, no matter how hard I work only one person appreciates it…unfortunately even though that person is higher up than me I rarely see him and he doesn’t control my evaluation. Right now, I need to take a break on that for my own sake.

Jakeslife.net is now fully back up. For the past week it’s been either down or short of several entries. Once I got it back up Wordpress was having some issues finding everything due to an upgrade. Anyways, that’s all fixed now. I’ve restored all of my posts, although many have been protected now. If you need the password and aren’t a douche, let me know.

Sandro gets back from Peru next week, and I can’t wait to see him. We’ve been sending video messages back and forth from our phones via e-mail since text messages are about $4 per for Peru. Nasty. He’s also been taking pictures of some sights in Lima. I also switched up my schedule some to spend more time with him when he gets back.

Upgraded my Dash to Windows Mobile 6. Good stuff, even though WM6 leaves me wanting to ditch my Smartphone for a PDA, like the new T-Mobile Wing. The only real difference is touch screen and screen real estate, but my Dash works great for me right now.

Mint, a new free online personal finance manager is in “Elite Beta” right now ad I can’t wait until it opens. It looks like it’s going to blow most others out of the water. Well, right now there aren’t many others out there. Sure, I have online banking, but I am in the process of figuring out how to track everything I do on my laptop on my mobile device. So far, financial software is lacking for Windows Mobile aside from basic checkbook apps. A web solution would be great if it displays right on my device’s browser.

I’m almost done with this school term too. I finished my rough draft for my Effective Writing II final (148/150), which can be viewed along with the final draft at Scribd.

Well, off to another night in paradise.

Today was pretty boring for me. As usual, it started out with Sandro coming over and waking me up, and being patient enough while I woke up for 45 minutes. Then we took Gammy to lunch, went to see Next, and then went and sat at the water for a little bit.

Oh, and he loves his new sunglasses by the way.

New car

New car’s first ding (if you can even see it, but I know it’s there!)

Sandro being camera shy

My asp after making entry into a building through a double paned window

First time fueling up after the full tank at 6 miles (it was on 1/8 tank, and yes it says 277 miles)

Wallet I bought Dizzle for his birthday

Day two of the new car is going good. Sandro and I went to see Gammy after I got it yesterday, and today after I picked up some things for the car we went to see The Reaping. Surprisingly, neither of us fell asleep like we usually do at movies.

Picked up some blueish headlamps for the tC today. They look niiiiiiiiiice.

I have felt a bit bad lately about the time that Sandro (Spidey) and I have been able to spend together lately, which I don’t think has been enough for either of us. Working nights it puts a strain on anything normal in life. But sacrifices have been made on both sides to help make things work. Even if it means waking up in the middle of my night (most likely your day), or staying up late after coming home from work, going out and doing something when I’m really tired I still do it. And when he comes over and ends up being lazy with me or hopping in bed and taking a nap (or watching me sleep…weirdo), going to the late movie when he knows he’s going to end up falling asleep, he still does it. It’s nice to know that someone is willing to make sacrifices to spend time with me and get to know me and knows I do the same.

In other news, i picked up a few new pieces of outerwear, if that’s what you fags call it nowadays. To me, it’s a jacket and a hoodie. 

Despite the so-so week that I had at work, today was pretty great. Spidey and I went out to the range today, where I pleasantly surprised myself. Two mags of ten rounds each, and only three rounds outside of the ten ring. I’ll post a pic later tonight.

The reason I didn’t post it now is because I’m busy transferring all of my files from my old laptop to my new one. I got my tax return and my paycheck today, so we went to Best Buy and picked one up. So far I think Windows Vista Home Premium is fine enough…Flip3D could be a bit quicker. All of my favorite programs work and so do all of my peripherals. I’ll sell my old laptop soon.

The other morning I came home, went to sleep, and felt fine. Sometime during the night (your day, mostly likely) something went wrong. I woke up and could hardly swallow, my throat was so swollen. After a night full of gasping for air through a straw I went back to sleep knowing how much homework I have to do this weekend. I woke up, and shit, still there. This time, looking in the mirror, you can plainly see what looks like a marble under my skin on my right side under my jaw. Nasty.

Of course, this didn’t stop me from seeing Spidey today. He knew I was sick so he didn’t rush me to get ready once he got here (kidding on that one…”Okay, let’s get ready to go”…”Okay, let’s get ready to go”). We went to see the Reno 911! movie, which was good if you like the show. We went to dinner afterwards, hit Best Buy (where I found a notebook I’ll probably go back for once I get my tax return), then he dropped me off at home.

  So, I haven’t posted any pics of him (or he and I together) because whenever I mention someone, or post a pic of them, things seem to end at that point. I don’t think that will happen here. I haven’t had much luck with guys in the last year or so (or period, really), so I am happy and proud that I found something that seems to work out. I’m trying not ot get ahead of myself, and at times have though that he is just too good to be true. I don’t know. I don’t have to watch when I call him, or how often, because he doesn’t see it as weird. He loves to hear from me. And it’s usually him that initiates it, as if he really was interested in contacting me!

Sorry if all of this seems ridiculous, it just genuinely seems like a foreign concept to me that someone can find me physically attractive. I know that inside I have way more to offer than most who have the looks, and I am not letting this viewpoint get in the way of anything with Spidey progressing.