============================================================================= _-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_ ¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯ ============================================================================= -IMPULSE-REALITY- ============================================================================= _-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_ ¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯ ============================================================================= [we're just fucking with your mind] [http://www.impulsereality.zzn.com] ==file #004=======================================================5/04/2000== today's episode: My dislike concerning those ill-fated 'busy signals' ================================= by Xade ================================= Written by Xade - 14JUL99 My ISP: ******** Amount of time 'busy': 24hrs...so far # hours I've spent dialing: 9; first 6 consecutively last night # times I've dialed: at least 2700 P,O.'d level: 100% amount of caffiene had: 5 sodas and a cappuccino contact with outside world: barely Note: I shall begin this account not with yesterday, but with the previous before yesterday. For this is when the trouble began. Day 1: Mon. 12JUL99 Mother dragged my lazy butt out of bed at the crack of noon. I showered and readied myself to journey with her. Our first stop was the local Xmart to pick up some pictures we'd dropped off the previous week. I ran into several people I know. The neighbors from down the street, a girl who will be a freshman next year at my school, and one of my friends I had not seen since school let out. A brief stop at Taco Bell to pick up lunch, a couple of bean burritos for myself(they have no meat). ((you're probably wondering the relevance of this story...i rarely get out much...therefore, i must tell of my outings...)) Then we took in my mother's car to be serviced. With that done we went to the Mall. I only needed a book for school (4 weeks left and I 'm just now getting a book on the summer reading list..tsk, tsk..)) but we ended up with about 30 bones worth of merch. Including a nice black, hardcover sketchbook for myself. :O) Lo and behold, just as we exit, 2 friends of mine I'd not seen in months spotted me as they exited the escalator. As my mother entered a shoe store nearby, I told her I'd talk to them for a bit. Mike and Toph. I'd last seen MIke at the Embodyment CD release party at tha Club a month before. I'd last seen Toph at the RFL Benefit (same place) back in February. (Sweet Mother of Bob! It has been that long!!) Toph's hair is longer than I saw it last and Mike's was a different colour. They told me how they ran into the bassist of Deftones and this other dude. And how the two guys bought them lunch. The boys were pretty stoked on that. We 3 sat on a mall bench, reminincing (looks like i spelled that one wrong..) the past times of when we all went to the same church, but oh! how the youth group has changed there! None of us still go. We all agreed that we should hopefully see each other at the Zao show on the 18th. The boys left after I gave them 'sufficient, good' hugs to send them on their way. My mother soon came out of the shoe store 10min later. Around 7pm we got home. I was incredibly tired. But I wanted so much so to get online. So ON my puter came. It connected time after time. But there was a problem. A very bad problem. The browser would not take me anywhere. AIM would not connect with the server. ICQ couln't connect. Nothing was working. I would close and reopen the browser, but to no avail....nothing!!! NOTHING! None worked. I tried connecting on my father's puter. Same results. I tried until I gave up around midnight. Day 2: Tues. 13JUL99 I heard a beating on my door which gradually became louder as I began to waken. Glancing over at the clock, I noticed it to be around 9:30am. The beating was made by my younger brother. I asked him what he wanted. He informed me I had a phone call. That Emily (the lady I babysit for) wanted me to babysit. He handed me the phone. Which I turned on and answered. She wanted me by 10:15 (45 minutes). Afterwards, I rebuked my brother for having her wait so long and not having made himself more clear when he was waking me up. I decided to see if the computer would decide to let me check my email. It did. The browser worked wonderfully. AIM came on, as well as ICQ. It was a miracle that only lasted 10min. before I had to shower. (Oh how I wish my puter were doing the same at this very moment!) Upon return to my home at 2pm from down the street, my mother was in a hurry to get to the library, I returned a book, The Joy of Pi (a good one I might add), renued 3, and checked out another. I begged my mother to drop me back off at the house before she did anything else. She would not comply. (Oh! How exhausted I was!) We drove all the way to the 'Boy Scout Store', for my brother needed some more stuff before he goes to camp next week. I walked in, took a cirle of disinterest and walked out. I entered a Gem and Rock store in the same shopping center. I walked around and took in the beauty found in each stone. Ending up, I purchased a pewter frog pendant holding a sphere of baby blue (glass or gem, I'm not for sure). After a few more stops, we were on our way. 5:30pm, we reach home. I enter in my room, eager to turn on the puter (since it was working that morning). I encountered the first of its kind. The busy signal. I shrugged it off the first 2 or 3 times it dialed. Then I started to get serious as it reached the 5th dial. After an hour of continuous dialing, I asked my dad as to what could possibly be the problem. He said that whenever something big happens in the news, that the internet would be busy. My brother told me how they had caught some guy. "That's it," my dad said. "Great," I thought, "just great." So I finished one book and started up to finish another as the dialer continued to dial up until midnight last night. Still no breaks. I went to sleep uncomfortable and dissatisfied. "Why would the puter still be busy up until midnight?" I wondered to myself. Day 3: Wed. 14JUL99 Attitude this morning: "Yay! maybe the puter isn't busy!! Weee!" Attitude now: "Stupid ISP! Why is it still busy at 6pm!!!" Yes, I awoke this morning eager to connect. Not surprisingly, it didn't. And it still won't. 14JUL99 * * * * wooo#@ back in the early days of july last summer@$#^#%$ wow i was such a lamer#@$ hehe j/k i think it was just a fucked up dns problem. Schtinkleberry ISP changed their fucking dial-up number and they didnt tell me until AFTER they phuqed with it. ahahahah what little patience i had then1@#$#W anyways, back to IR@!# digging up more archives!@#@#! :þ [we just want to fuck wiff yer mind f00 :þ ] --- Xade ============================================================================= _-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_ ¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯ ============================================================================= http://www.impulsereality.zzn.com ============================================================================= _-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_ ¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯-_-¯ =============================================================================