Friday’s appointment was amazing. Two hours of ripping and re-installing software that the Dell phone support people had totally b0rked. Norton Antivirus. Printer drivers. Logitech webcam drivers and software. All working. He wanted me to stick around while the new virus definitons downloaded over AOL dialup. We installed his brand new Kodak digital camera and one-touch photo transfer base. Taught him how to print, how to email photos from the webcam and from the digital camera. I charged him for the two hours of service, and he expected me to re-charge him for two hours of training ON TOP of that. Well, I didn’t, and he considered it “money well spent”. He insisted on having two copies of my business card so that he could give one to his sister, who just got a brand new computer. AND, he’s going to have me come back to train his wife on all the stuff I trained him on.

I was so geeked that when I came out of the appointment, I called immediately and told him “If I could do this for the rest of my life, I’d be one happy fat man.” Cloud nine didn’t begin to describe it.

That day, I’d sent an email to my mother and father about the business. I’m not going to duplicate my father’s email, but I will say that its negativity sapped every ounce of enthusiasm that I’d gotten from the appointment. I understand his concerns and where he’s getting his concerns from, but I’d hoped for at least an ounce of encouragement. Well, if I have to do this without him, I will. I have plenty of support from those around me.

And I WILL do this.

UPDATE: I re-read my father’s email, and there was one sentance of encouragement amongst three pages of concerns. I’ve sent him a response, and hopefully he understands where I’m coming from. I’ve got my fingers crossed.

So, despite no longer working during the day, I somehow feel overbooked. Old friends coming back, new friends and current friends demanding/deserving time, a desire to spend time with local recent friends that I feel that I’ve neglected…. and then there’s the personal growth/determination/spiritual advancement and such things. Messy.

Despite this, I found time to clean today before I hosted my tabletop Mage game. Vacuumed. Got a lot of the dust bunnies from the kitchen floor up. Straightened a shitload of stuff. Cleaned the bathroom sink (It was demonic). All I had to sacrifice was eating. Heh. It was after five when I ate for the first time today. Dew can only substitute so much.

I’m upset with my father again. And at the same time, I’m planning on cashing in on an x-mas gift of a new exhaust system for my car. Yay for mutually exclusive dichotomies in behavior. (I felt a desire to insert a “u” in that last word.) He needs to come and pick up his printer, and he’s going to want to talk about how I’m going to screw up GND. He always said I could do anything I can put my mind to…. how is his lack of support so demoralizing after such a successful first appointment on Friday? His opinion means so much, I wonder how I call myself an adult sometimes.

And then there is , who is at this very moment distracting me beautifully by lightly rubbing my noggin. Dear gods, what would I do without her…

Interest in friends, gaming, and spirituality are up. Interest in clubbing is down.

Okay, there’s Rant Radio. That has the Sean Kennedy Show and the Tales from the Afternow multiple times a week. Then there’s SKTFM TV, which has eight episodes. The newest seems to have been released sometime in 2002. THEN, there’s the book(s) based in the AfterNow setting. This project is called.. goddamnit, I can’t find the link. , some help here?