OK, so howzabout some good news?

Yay!

Angie and I have reconsidered the "House in Gates" built in 1919 and decided to buy instead the "House in Farmington" from 1986. The price is nearly the same! We're putting an offer in on it tonight.

Nice feature: Our house is 3 minutes off the Canadiagua (sp???) exit. This is 2 EXITS east of the Lehigh Station exit that Fred usually gets off when he comes to Rachacha. Translation: about 1/2 hour closer to Fred's and 1/2 hour closer to Syracuse as well.

Nice!

Sol

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Friday, October 12, 2001 - 08:48 am:

Yah! Definately go for the newer house. Old ones aren't as energy efficient and you'd have lots of problems with plumbing and drafty windows =)

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Friday, October 12, 2001 - 08:55 am:

Yer right Nat! That old house had an old asbestos furnace that was bigger than ENIAC. This new sucker's electrical. Electrical heating, electric stove, and Sol's prerequisite: dishwasher!

Nyce!

Sol

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:11 am:

Yah, 3 bedrooms - 2 big one tiny. A big livingroom and diningroom, kitchen attached, finished basement w/ a den. Wish us luck! We wanna put our offer in tonight, so send good energy so it'll be accepted. OK!

Sol

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:53 am:

YEAH!

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Monday, October 15, 2001 - 01:02 pm:

Good energy worked Fred! Our offer was accepted along w/ 6% concession and best mortgage rate in 20 years ;)

Sol

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Monday, October 15, 2001 - 04:51 pm:

Today I have written my first (paid) computer program. I am home.

Sol

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Thursday, October 25, 2001 - 07:27 pm:

I have some great news!!


I am Hired as the new Library Assistant for the New Jersey Historical Society!!!!!!!!!!

I start work on Monday!!!


Buffy

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 01:27 pm:

Brenna! We heard the news! That's GREAT! You are gonna KICK BOOTOU on your new job!

Sol

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 01:37 pm:

Woo hoo! Congrats Brenna! Now you'll have some spending moolah!

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 02:04 pm:

Yeah even though the job is only part time for now but from what I am hearing is that they want me full time the reason why I am a Part timer is because they currently waiting for someone to full in the Library Director. I hope that he will make me full time


At least for now I can get the hand of the job until that time comes


Buffy

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Friday, November 16, 2001 - 05:00 pm:

Hello - just wanted to mention that the Tony/Angie move date (we're moving into our new house!) will be December 1st. We are looking for able bodied people to help (Bryan) if you can get the day off, please help!

Mark it on your calendar, it is a SATurday!

Sol

By Technomage (Houdini) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 09:35 am:

The good news is that today is my birthday.

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 09:39 am:

happy birthday Bryan.

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 11:07 am:

Happy birthday to youz,
Happy birthday to youz,
Happy birthday dear Bry,
happy birthday tooooooo yooouz!

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 02:03 pm:

Happy Birthday Bryan!!!


Buffy

By IITYWIMWYBMAD (Smokeduster) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 02:19 pm:

It's Bryan's birthday?
Happy Birthday Bryan
Enjoy it while it lasts

By Technomage (Houdini) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 02:58 pm:

Thank youz all! Today is a good day to be 28!

28 on the 28th. Kinda werid and cool at the same time. My friend Heather says the year you have a birthday that matchs your age is supposed to be a lucky year. Hmmm...

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 05:04 pm:

I dont know about that when I turned 19 nothing really exicting happened..... well then again.....


Buffy

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 12:07 pm:

Happy Birthday Bryan! Woo hoo! Yah! HAPPY HAPPY!

SoL

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 07:53 pm:

Boy, this board sure is quiet lately! Chowza! I guess we've all gotten old and busy and probably Cranky! Rrrr, what a way to go!

Yah, I'm back at RIT tonight. The academic life for me. One year from today, I should be graduated - that'll be nice, but maybe it is only the fool who wishes his life away! ;)

Well, off to my 1st Computer Graphics II course. Wish me luck!

Sol

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 03:40 pm:

Hey Sol Good Luck with the computer Graphics course.. I am sure that you will pass the course at the end of this quarter... Then when you are all done with RIT We outta have a BIG Graduation Party for ya!!


Buffy

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Friday, December 07, 2001 - 01:12 am:

Well, keep your fingers crossed. I am two weeks away from graduating. Provided of course that my slacking didn't jeoperdize it too much.

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Friday, December 07, 2001 - 03:45 pm:

SLACKER!!!

What about roleplaying tonight, dude? did you manage to swap nights yet?

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 08:35 pm:

Yah, just finished moving into the new house!

Cha!
Sol

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - 04:07 pm:

I got the Netscape Instant Messenger! Could you all let me know what your screen names are?

Anyone who emails it to me will receive mine in return! OK!

This helps us poor bozos who have to pay long distance! Now that my computer can handle it, I say why not?

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Monday, December 17, 2001 - 02:12 pm:

Yep, Fred and Darren and I have been chatting it up on the NIM. Sweet!

But the good news is that I got OpenGL working with my free Borland compiler! Yeah!

Sol

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 08:26 am:

The good news is this: Some old members have returned to LEV! Hey, U know who you are! Everyone, give a wonderful welcome when they post. It may shock and surprise you to see who it is! This board has like 60 members - if you're lurking right now, howabout a friendly hello?

Sol

By Technomage (Houdini) on Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 09:08 am:

Hello!

By Gerrit (Gak4178) on Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 12:39 am:

Sceadeau got married. Yes.. Sceadeau!!

Sara and Sceadeau Mazziotta
http://homepage.mac.com/snazzqueen

(figures, they took his mother's name)

congradulate them! =P
Sceadeau's email: sceadeau@endor.org
Sara's email: snazzqueen@rocketmail.com

hheeh, hope they don't kill me for this.. ;)

-gak

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 08:32 am:

Wow, good ol' Sceadeau, married after all this time! Ha ha, I can even still spell his name after all this time. I will have to email him and say "hi." Thanks for the info, Gerrit!

Where's he live these days, anyway?

Sol

By Sceadeau (Sceadeau) on Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 03:01 pm:

I live in mississippi, for no reason other than it's cheap to live here. Well that, and the fact that my wife goes to school down here.

And it's good to see so many old faces here (and of course all the new people who showed up after my brief stay at RIT.

I remember when we used to get threatening notices about how we were using up valuable space with all our messages and they would shut us down.

Long live lev

By Sara Mazziotta (Sara) on Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 03:36 pm:

I'm Sara, Sceadeau's **wife** (bleh, still getting used to that). Thanks for the invite, Sol!

The wedding was absolutely magical. Ya shoulda been there. It was New Year's Eve--Sceadeau's birthday--in case you didn't catch that. I thought I'd make it easy for him to remember our anniversary

Right now we're in Hattiesburg, Mississippi while I finish my undergrad. We'll be heading to wherever I go to law school (hopefully North Carolina) in a year or so. Sceadeau has a fabulous job working from home as a network security engineer-type-person, so he can follow me wherever I end up.

We just took the name Mazziotta because it's a ••••••• cool name. (Can I say •••• here?) It means "killer of eight" in Italian. Had it been any other name, I would have kept my own

I've got lots of dirt to spill about Sceadeau and his goings-on since RIT days...I'll start with the introductions page.

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 08:32 am:

Sceadeau,

Good to see ya, buddy! Congrats on the wedding! Did you know that I'm married, too? I met this beautiful girl at Nazareth College named Angela - dark hair and blue eyes, she even loves all my wacky pals. She is a real sweetheart, as those who've met her shall surrely attest!

Sol

By Technomage (Houdini) on Friday, January 11, 2002 - 04:28 pm:

The good news for today is that I'm an uncle!

Benjamin Christopher Cameron was born at 8:02 PM
this past Thursday evening.

He's very healthy baby weighing in at 7 pounds 11 ounces.

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Friday, January 11, 2002 - 04:39 pm:

Congrats!

All the perks of Fatherhood, except when ya get tired of the yellin' ya send the kid home w/ Sis!

Sol

By Kelly (Vampy) on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 12:45 am:

now... Vampy is home again!! you guys have no idea how much i missed you guys... and please, buffy, dont chase me with that wooden stake.. i only go after the bad guys.. the next on my list is Osama Bin Laden.. once i'd be done with him, i'd cut him to pieces beyond recognition, then feed to teh wolves, my buddies who prowl the night with me!!! :F' '
well... anyways, i have no great news on my part, i'm sad to say, but hey, congrats on your job, bren!! i wish i could find work where i can fulfill my potential the only big thing i did was ththis: i had my first big part in the Art Festival llast summer where i showed my panitings. it was a huge thrill for me, even tho no one bought my work, and alot people loved my work. ok. the night is still young, time to play that celtic music, like enya, enigma, and chieftains in my walkman and go out hunting for blood of those criminals who have no bizness living in this planet!! adios! - Vampiress (vampy) *Kelly*

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 06:26 pm:

Welcome back, Vampy!

And now, for some FRESH BLOOD--Everybody say hey to Jeremy, he works with me at the AP. I expect to see his introduction post hereabouts real soon. Welcome to our little corner of the web.

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 06:45 pm:

Nyce Job, Fred! You always have a way with the newbies - Fresh Blood as you say! I heard that Count Daracul was a REAL historical figure - pretty scary stuff - except that his people considered him a savior! The first real vampire?

Vampy, you are pretty cool! I'd love 2 see some of your art sometime. Did I ever mention that my father is an artist? Mostly he works in oils, but he's done a little of everything. His specialty is painting animals - like wolves, horses, lions, that sort of thing. Also he does portraits! As for me, I'm just a slob with a pen. I love to draw, but I am fairly mediocre. Maybe I'll post some of my art here. Heck, that'd make a keen new topic!

Sol types between TUES night classes at RIT

By Kelly (Vampy) on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 11:57 pm:

yeah!! just like there's a poetry message board here, there should be a way to show off our art somehow.. i mean, in pictures, rather than in words, like we do here, would probably be difficult..
-vampy

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 11:25 pm:

It's official boys and girls...and Fred. I got my Grades back today and i am now a second time collage graduate. Hooray for me.

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 08:41 am:

Good Job Nighthawk! You da man! I'm hot on your heels - I should have my 2nd degree (hopefully!) by the end of fall, should have classes done by end of summer!

Sol

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 08:42 am:

So KH,
What's your new degree in? For that matter, what's your old degree in?

Sol

By Technomage (Houdini) on Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 11:02 am:

Link to pics of my Nephiew. My brother-in-law made the site so I don't wanna hear any gripes about it being made with a Mac.

http://homepage.mac.com/ccameron/PhotoAlbum5.html

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 11:39 am:

Awwwwww, he's so cute!!!!!!

By Technomage (Houdini) on Friday, January 18, 2002 - 11:59 am:

Thank you.

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Friday, January 18, 2002 - 07:33 pm:

Hey I have some good news!! My job just went from part-time to full time!!!!

yea!! I am so happy... now where did I put that stake....


Buffy

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Saturday, January 19, 2002 - 09:45 pm:

Sol,

My first degree was my AS in Business administration.

My second is my BS in Business Managment.

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Saturday, January 19, 2002 - 09:46 pm:

There is a possibility I might go back to get my BS in Business Finance since it will only take me a semester.

By Kelly (Vampy) on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 12:10 am:

hmm.. and here i am, jealous of everybody cuz they all got a job, even in teh middle of this awful recession.. thanx to those evil terrorists.. i should get paid for sucking their blood.. its expensive living around.. my coffin is paid for by teh rent, if you must know, cuz otherwise, i'm a bag-vampiress, pushing a cartful of precious items at night around town.. augh.. !!!
-vampy

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 07:26 pm:

Vampy-


Just keep trying.. It took me 2 years to find work and Now I am working for the New Jersey Historical Society.. If you want something go and get it. (No blood sucking allowed)

Anyway could you give me Cat's e-mail address??


Buffy

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 12:17 pm:

Yah Vampy, U can do it! Finding the job 4 U takes time, but where there's a will there's a way. Recession can be tough - true! - but if ya throw enuff darts, one's bound to hit the bullseye!

Anyhow, yah, tell Cat she's invited to join LEV-board too! If she bites (ow my neck!) I'll do the password thing, and she can read "4 free" without a password :P

Sol

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 03:12 pm:

a link for the unemployed:

a day in the life of the unemployed

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 03:14 pm:

Here's another good way to waste time while looking for a job. Fred would love this:

fight3

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 04:02 pm:

OHMYGOD!!!

That was AWESOME!

I LOVE IT!

By Margravine (Ranger) on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 05:47 pm:

I'm Posting!

Yes, dammit that's good news. I have neither home nor work access to the net right now and must go about lurking near PC terminals in public places in order to post so read and enjoy cause I don't know how long this guy is gonna be in the bath room.

And by the way Sol, [history trivia queen crown on] Vlad Tsepesh known to history as Dracul/Dracula was a real guy. Know as the Impaler to his friends he was known to stake and hand scads of Turks at a time and held picnics under their wriggling bodies as they died. He would on occasion nail people's hats to their heads or slaughter the women and children of potential rival. But was also regarded as a national hero. I think his old castle has been convewrted into an hotel...Wanna book a room?

Gads its been so long since I 'held forth' thusly. I think I'll go read all the other topics, at least unlit I have to slink away from this terminal anyway.

By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 12:23 pm:

Ranger! Wow, that's great that you were able to post! I miss ya so much! So howzabout ya get NetZero or some other free ISP? Just do a web-search for "free internet" and maybe you'll find something that can work for you!

And as for the picnics of Vlaad the Impaler, I think I just lost my appetite!

Sol

By Kelly (Vampy) on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 12:44 am:

hmm yeah.. vlad was a real man, lived somewhere around tukey, or thereabouts.

dont mean to get off the topic, but do anyone here wish they didnt take "wolf lake" off teh air?? i had looked forward to wednesdays just for that show!! argh.. now, there's only "buffy the vampire slayer", (no offense, buffy) and "charmed". they are great shows.. but that kinda show is only good for wb channel. as for nbc abc, or cbs shows of this kinda genre is just too wierd or strange to the audiences. but, as im sure you all know me well, i loooove strange, adn wierd!! argh!!

-vampy

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 10:11 am:

Umm, you mean Romania (as it is now known), not Turkey. Wallachia and Transylvania are both in Romania. Vlad the Impaler used to kill the poor too. He'd invite them to dine with him, get the drunk and then say "Would you like to be without a care in the world?" (or something to that effect). Then they'd all say "Yes!", so then he'd fence them all up and burn them to death as a way of giving them what they wanted... Well, that's what I heard.

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 01:10 am:

Hey guys, sunday marked the end of my first week as the asistant manager at my store. Yeah for me.

By Technomage (Houdini) on Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 11:50 pm:

I don't know why I didn't see your post in here before Knight Hawk.

I hope the new job is still going well for you!

Congrats. Its always cool to be a boss. Feel the power! Muhahaha.

By ryder (Pixpusher) on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 04:02 pm:

good news?

lemme talk a minute about "good-news".

tryin' to be sarcastic here! ;)

anyways. like i went to a cool bbq.

i brought my $4k laptop.

i left it w/some close friends.

i take it outta the bag today, it has a "HUGE" scratch on the underside (this damn-thing is suppose-to-be titanium! arg!)

i can't stop thinkin' about the damn scratch, so i bring up the apple website.

i find some info on user installable parts. so i check things out and find i can replace the bottom pan (yeah, that scratched piece, and the keyboard - which i had spilled coffee on the 1st week i dot the damn thing!)

so, i decide to call my _local_ macintosh dealer, hmmm... used-to-be "baka" now called "ats" (why can't apple just get off their ass and put a "apple store" someplace in syr?)

i get somebody on the phone, they ask me what i want, i tell them i'd like to speak with "tech support".

i end up talking to some weird d00d sean or shane or something like that. he's quite uninformative, especially when i start asking him about replaceable parts for my freakin' laptop... gah.

so anyways, i get nowhere w/appliedtechnicalsystems on the phone.

they tell me i'll havta send my machine away or something, even after i explained the whole "user" installable parts thing i read about on "apple's" website?!

wtf? aren't they suppose to be an authorized apple dealer?!

i decided to call 1-800-my-apple. ugh!!!!!

to make a long story short, i get a cool tech on the phone, he helps me out in like under 10 mins. i order the parts (both the keyboard membrane, and the bottom piece of crap titanium thingimajig), it ends up costing me like $150 bux, and the cool part about the thing is "appliedtechnicalsystems" quoted me like $200 bux - just to replace the keyboard?!

man! what's with that! i've heard about markups but i smell a scam or something!



at-any-rate, just wanted to share a 'lil rant w/you folks here @ lev. i haven't posted much, and i thought this would be a good opportunity to do so.

share your thoughts! i'd love to hear 'em.

latz.

-- pp

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 05:23 pm:

Well, here's some good news:

Tomorrow at NOON I have an appointment to go to this actor's guild in Times Square, and they're gonna see how good I am and we're gonna talk about what I need to do to kick off my career in the entertainment biz... YAY! Wish me luck and stuff.

(Sol, Angie, positive energy, please! I send you mine all da time!)

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 10:41 pm:

Hey Phred! How wuz your meeting with the actor's guild?

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:46 pm:

I did a few sides (script reads) so they could determine where I was as far as skill level. He said I was good, and had a very natural feel about character reads, but there were a few, really technical things that I need to work on, which is like where to breathe and I apparently forgot all my training on how to keep my place (DUH) so he recommended I sign up for this 10-week class on like, "how to audition successfully" cuz he said I would be great on a set, interacting with another actor, but I need to succeed in an audition before getting to the set, and this has become quite an ambitiously long run-on sentence with no end in sight since I'm gonna continue by saying the place is exactly like the HS guidance counselor's office, only for actors and the guy said he thought I was funny and I should try being a stand-up comic.

DEEP BREATH

SO... Things went well and a half-hour meeting turned into 2 hours, most of which was me and the consultants BS'ing and trading funny stories and kinda just hitting it off. So, I guess that means they like me. My class is from 7-10pm monday nights, starting july 22nd. It's called "cold script-reading essentials" So, yah, you might just see me someday and say "HEY! That's FRED!"

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 12:32 pm:

I got my cable modem yesterday, I'm so over that dial-up crud...

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 12:34 pm:

I also downloaded Gnucleus... *grin*

By Technomage (Houdini) on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 12:45 pm:

Broadband does kick arse, if you got the $$ to pay for it and use the net enough at home to justify
the $40 a month cost.

I wish DSL would drop down in price a little more and compete with RoadRunner.

It would be great to see broadband get as cheap
as dial-up is now.


It was so sweet when my company was paying for
my RoadRunner connection. The company that bought
AppliedTheory took that little company perk away.

Its a bummer.

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 01:05 pm:

$40 a month is peanuts, my friend. Peanuts.

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 02:16 pm:

I got my connection to give me the option to work from home. Since my landlord is due to schedule some major renovations in my house, I need to be here (so none of the contractors steal my stuff) and I don't want to lose valuble vacation time, which I've used up this year anyway. So I can write the $40 per month off as a business expense on my taxes... I think...

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Friday, July 19, 2002 - 09:02 pm:

Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to meeee
Happyyy Birthday to me!!!!

Well today I am one year older and I dont feel any different!

Where is the cake and stuff??

Buffy

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 09:30 am:

Fred didn't get you any cake?!?!?!?!
Shame!!!!!!

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 01:02 pm:

Hey, I'm an uncle once again. My sister in law gave birth a bouncing baby boy.

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:10 am:

Cake was on Sunday, so don't go around thinking I'm bad and stuff.

Congradulations Uncle Damien!

By Technomage (Houdini) on Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:14 am:

Yeah! Uncle Damien!

By Technomage (Houdini) on Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 08:58 am:

Almost forgot! Happy Birthday Brenna! =)

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 06:37 pm:

Thanks Bryan!


Buffy

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 01:40 pm:

Woo hoo! Lost 15 pounds. *happy dance*

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 11:02 am:

I'd like to lose 50...

Congrads, Nat!

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 03:20 pm:

Thanks Fred! I've only got 30-35 more pounds to go before I'm happy. Oh, and Fred, since you like meat and things like that you might wanna give the Atkins diet a try. I'm currently doing something similar and so far it's working.

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:15 am:

Woo hoo! now I'm down another 5 pounds from just sitting on my arse. That's a total of 20 pounds.

*happy dance*

By Starlit simulacron (Ranger) on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 03:50 pm:

Keep dancing, girl, that's another 110 calories

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 03:37 pm:

Update on my legal battle with my landlord:

I won I won I won I won I won I won...

Well, I won by default, sorta. The enemy dropped the case *JUST* before we were due to request a trial by Jury. They were giving my lawyer the run-around about settling out of court because they wanted to drag this out as long as possible to exhaust me financially; their only "evidence" to evict me was a false affidavit from a super (from the super in the next door building to be more precise, also owned by the enemy- very sneaky but we called them on it.. hehehe). It was kind of like they were playing "musical chairs" with supers, conveniently picking the Super who didnt' work in my building to claim he'd never seen me before. Our answer to that was "Well DUH! Of course he'd never seen me before he's not the super of my building"... They really must have hoped my lawyer and I had no brains what so ever for us not to catch them on it. I had more than enough witnesses and hard evidence to shatter their world anyway.


So they realized:

1) They'd lose.
2) My lawyer has lots of experience handing landlords' asses back to them in court. So they could take their intimidation tactics and SHOVE IT.
3) They'd lose.
4) I seemed to have enough money to pay my lawyer this far into things, so it was safe to assume I had the moolah to pursue this to the end (true).
5) They'd lose.
6) They'd owe me my attorney's fees back when they lose.
7) They'd lose.
8) My apartment has so many uncorrected violations is't not even funny, that doesn't make them look credible, in fact it looks like they intentionally neglect repairs to make my life miserable.
9) They'd lose.
10) They'd lose.

Woo hoo!

I WON!!!

NA NA NA NA NA NAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

*happy dance*

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 06:28 pm:

Congrats Nat!!!

They are LOOOOSSSSERS BIG TIME!


I am glad that you won and that this whole thing is over!

Buffy

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 09:30 pm:

Way to go Nat!

I'm glad that the scare tactics failed and that justice prevailed. See sometimes the system works.

By Starlit simulacron (Ranger) on Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 11:25 am:

Brava, Nat.

The scourge have been walloped right proper.

Now all you have to do is tackle 'em on those violations :D

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 11:34 am:

Horatio Hornblower boxed set of DVD's is only 80 bucks! It includes all 6 of the A&E movies, which are like, 90 minutes each, and they are COOL.

Oh yeah, YAY NAT! Does this mean you no longer need the use of that gun?

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 12:41 pm:

thanks guys, this is one big relief. The only downside being that this whole thing has cost me about 5K in legal fees.

As for the violations, if theydont fix them I can either withhold rent (complictated) or go to housing court and ask for a rent recduction until the violations are repaired. I will probably go with the latter of the two. Less complicated, less legal reprocussions to prepare for.

By Technomage (Houdini) on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 09:28 am:

Well, the good news is I'm working again. (Is it really good news?? )

So I'm doing some full time freelance development work for a company called Utica Corp. They make aircraft and powerplant turbines. Project is expected to last 3 months.

First week or so is on site with my customer then I'll be working from the comfort of my home.

I'm hoping this will get my freelance biz going.

I'm still keeping my eyes peeled for a real job, but if the market still sucks in a few months I can take another freelance job to keep me busy.

Fred is prolly going to point out that I could have kept the gravy train of unemployment insurance going another couple of months, and he's right. But boredom was setting in. I can only play just so many hours of Galatic Battlegrounds ya know! I was starting to dream I was a killer ewok on a mission from god. Spooky!

Now if I could just come up with a cool sounding name for my biz.

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 11:17 am:

I will be laid off in December. I will have Anarchy Online to keep me from bordom =D I'm such a geek!

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 03:52 pm:

call your business "Killer Ewok"

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 04:08 pm:

"Rabid Ewok"
"Infectious Ewok"
"Evil Ton-Ton"
"Malicious Jawa"

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 04:34 pm:

"Space Monkeys from Hell"
"The Giant, Headless, Firebreathing Chicken"
"Bantha Gonads"
"Wampanuts"

By Technomage (Houdini) on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 03:02 pm:

Monkeyballs.

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 04:05 pm:

Brass-Balls
Steel-Ballz
Iron-Ballz
Titanium-Ballz

By Vengence is Mine (Knight_Hawk) on Friday, November 01, 2002 - 12:22 am:

I hate it when I walk in in the middle of a rant!

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 06:38 pm:

Guess what??

I am engaged!!!!!!!!!!!




Just thought I would let everyone in lev know

Buffy

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Thursday, December 05, 2002 - 09:42 am:

CONGRADULATIONS!!! Who's the lucky guy?

By Technomage (Houdini) on Thursday, December 05, 2002 - 10:16 am:

My heart dances with joy for both of you.

-Bryan

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 01:44 pm:

Gratz to you both! Who beat some sense into Fred after all this time? :D

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 06:27 pm:

I did Nat.. it took a while I FINALLY got through to him..


Buffy

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Monday, December 16, 2002 - 11:18 am:

You certainly have a lot of patience, I would have given up and left after 3 years :D BTW I know of a few good s&m supply stores in Manhattan to keep you well equiped with various devices so U can keep Fred in order :D

There are a million houshold uses for a ball-gag.

By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 09:40 am:

Hey now... Was there ever really any doubt about what would happen? The problem with the world today is that everybody wants to rush everything. Why not slow the pace down and enjoy life, savoring each and every moment? I wasn't going anywhere.

And you can keep your ball gags to yourself Nat. There's a rude comment in there somewhere if I switch the words "ball" and "gag" but we won't go there, will we?

By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:13 pm:

9 years is a looooong time Fred Like I said j00 iz one lucky d00de that Brenna put up with the waiting.

I have enough ball gags to spare.

By The Chosen One (Buffy) on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 06:19 pm:

No comment..

Buffy