Welcome to hell!!!

Today Scott finally moved out into a new apartment with his girlfriend after being here for a little over two months since the first day of October. I got to admit, he left a few weeks earlier than I originally thought. We made the most out of things yesterday knowing it'd be his last full day stayin over. Joe joined us and we went to Ground Round to watch the first half of the day's worth of football games (since I had so much fun doing it last week too with Jane, Shawn, Sherrie, Rob, Joe, and Mom). Saw the Vikes and Bears win, so huzzah for them. Edinger turns out to be one helluva punter too for the Vikes, the Bears shoulda never gave this guy up, he is my new fave kicker. I am really glad to see the Bears defense deliver constant pounding and practically being nearly the sole reason the Bears are as good as they are, and that Brad Johnson is turning the Vikes around after Daunte gave them a miserable 2-5 start. Niners lost again tho, and again I wasn't surprised even though it was against the Cards at home. Had a good time watching the football games though.

I dropped Joey off for the time being and then came back to my place. Chris came over later that night with Joey back again too. We all played Star Wars Battlefront II and The Warriors for awhile. Joe showed off the new America's Army game he got for Xbox as well. Got some good gaming in before watching Mr. & Mrs. Smith. That movie ended up being far better than what I originally thought it would turn out to be. Don't feel like doing a quick movie review for it but it was easily in the 8-8.5 range for me.

Before Joe and Chris came over though Scott and I got around to doing something that Scott was begging me to do for a few days, a endurance round of Madden with 10 minute quarters.

We had to settle with Madden 2005, since I didn't own 06 yet (no plans on it either). I was the 49ers and he was the Bears, and up until the 3rd quarter it was a low scoring affair. My punter saw a lot of action, and I was barely managing to stay in the game because of a lucky interception I got returned for a TD. Third quarter arrives and at this point Scott was starting to get ahead of me by a score of something like 29-14, and he freaking injures Big Play Rattay. No big lost there cuz at that point he was only 9-18 or so with a barely acceptable amount of passing yards at that point. So in comes the Dorse and he starts the suckage instantly, but on my second drive on him right when get him into a half-decent rhythm be completing back-to-back passes, he gets a concussion and is out for the game too.

This ends up the first game ever where I had to use 3 QBs due to injury. So Pickett finishes off the last quarter and a half, and actually right when he came in is when things started to get somewhat better for me. First Scott musta been on crack or something for a drive and kept forgetting to go out of the pocket to throw the ball away and got 2 straight intentional grounding calls. So on 3rd and 30-somethin own his own 25 yard line he hikes it and keeps dropping back for no apparent reason (said somethin with his eyes...riggght) and I get one lucky-ass safety. On my next drive off the free kick I get a nice pass off to Lloyd to run it in for a TD and I think around this point I tied the game at around 35 all. We go back to back again trading scores and FGs in what is turning out to be a very competitive game. He is ahead 45-42 at the end and I do no huddle drives to get me all the way to the 3 yard line with 3 seconds left. I go to kick a FG to send the game into OT, and for some dumb reason I completely mistime my accuracy and blow the FG to give Scott the win. What a shitty way to end the game.

Overall, I thought things went allright with having him stay at my place. I did a lot of gaming marathons, and got to enjoy a lot of older games with him that I haven't in a while. He got me back into the online Halo 2, and I will remember the 4 or 5 straight weekends we spent knocking out missions in Sniper Elite's co-op mode. There were some quibbles I won't forget about him though (honestly I was expecting some of them from having him room with a guy in a 1 bedroom apartment), and I just know it is going to effect how much I trust him in the future.

The rest of this post is going to be a bitch-fest, but I got to get it out somewhere and maybe some of you can chime in if you have been in these situations before.

Scott said when he initially roomed with me he wanted to be here for 3-4 months until he got a job and saved up enough money to find his own place. I told him sure and gave him a nice low rent rate ($125/month, not even a third of what I pay a month). If it wasn't for his girlfriend just getting this new apartment he woulda prolly been here for another few months I know for sure. He said when he was going to get a job right away when he got in here. It took him two and a half weeks to simply go to the restaurant in town here that he worked at in Fargo and got hired there. I could have seen the first week as just settling in here and taking some time off just to get some r&r before going back until the work force, but he stayed up each night playing games and watchin movies here, and made little to no effort putting in apps elsewhere. It wasn't until I told him I was getting concerned about his unemployed status after two weeks that he went back to work.

So Scott had a job and all was good, I had a little bit of privacy in apartment, and Scott was starting to save money and payed me rent for November and December, and even bought a good amount of groceries for us since I let him helped himself to the fridge whenever. That didn't last too long as after 3 weeks Scott overslept work and decided to show up. I came home from class around 1:30pm, he told me he just woke up I offered to let him use my celly to call work to let them know what is going on. He declined and said he'd just show up the next day. His work was obviously pissed at him and decided not to let him stay employed there. After that happened Scott told me he put in numerous apps at many other places in town over the weeks. Though none were gettin back to him because his pay as you go phone was outta minutes and soon enough he was broke and couldn't put anymore minutes on it.

So for the next month and a half he stayed up each night playing games at my place, eating a lot of my food and barely chipping in on the dish load like he promised (during his stay here I did dishes 5 times, he did them once). All the while I was averaging 50-55 hours a week working at my 2 jobs and donating plasma and going to class for 8 hours a week on top of that. Add in the fact I work overnights and my sleeping pattern isn't the same as his and a lot of the time I was up commuting around back and fourth he was sleeping. Also add in the fact that the bathroom is only connected to my bedroom and understandably no matter how hard he tried to keep quiet on his way to the bathroom, I always ended up being woken up by him. So you can see how the frustrations mounted against him over this past month and a half.

I was never full-out pissed at him, he had his rent paid and notified me of his new apartment lined up for him a few weeks ago so at that point I kept thinking to myself "ok, just ride out these last few weeks and he'll be gone." And now he's gone, I hesitantly loaned his $9 this past week that I got a good feeling I won't get back and will prolly have to nag it out of him. It feels good he is out of here now though and I finally got the apartment back to myself again. If you couldn't of told by now, I am a guy who is big on having his own space and keeping to himself, so that is how a lot of these aforementioned frustrations fumed from. He said he'll be back tonight to watch RAW with Steve and I and pick up some of the dishes he left behind, I just hope he doesn't wanna hang out all night on my last night off before a 6-night stretch at work here. I need just a few hours to myself for some peace and relaxtion before I start another long ass work week.


Wow, that ended up dragging on for a bit too long. Thanks for hearing me out if you managed to read all that, and please leave some feedback if you can. Tiz all I got for now...latez.