02:07 < Xenothaulus> I've a somen vow that I'll never touch ramen again
02:07 < necKro> You don't eat macs.
02:07 * solios CAN die happy.
02:07 <@solios> holee shit.
02:07 < Xenothaulus> s/somen/solemn
02:08 < necKro> I was getting pretty sick of chicken mushroom flavor ramen
until I discovered the curry.
02:08 < Xenothaulus> I had nothing to eat but ramen from black friday '96 til
xmas eve '96
02:08 < Xenothaulus> NOTHING
02:08 < necKro> xeno: I wasn't too keen on ramen again either, but give me $40
to live a week and a half on, plus drinking, and it's the
economical choice.
02:08 < Xenothaulus> I'll never touch it again
02:09 < necKro> I'm probably going to blow nearly half of it tomorrow night
with esch and rez.
02:09 < Xenothaulus> also, from Halloween '96 til Thanksgiving '96, I had 1/2
roast beef sub, 20 hot dogs and water
02:09 < Xenothaulus> teh DeVry kicked my ass
02:09 < necKro> a hot dog a day?
02:09 < Xenothaulus> less actually, but close enough
02:10 < necKro> You could have at least made a lame costume and gotten
Halloween candy.
02:10 < Xenothaulus> it averaged out because one day I managed to steal 2 when
the kmart person wasn't looking
02:10 < Xenothaulus> ...
02:10 < necKro> Razorblade caramel apples.
02:11 < Xenothaulus> I would've gladly picked out the razor blades
02:11 < necKro> Why? They add much-needed iron to your diet.
02:11 < necKro> You don't want to become anemic.
02:11 < Xenothaulus> If you've never been starving, and I mean your body eating
itself starving, you won't understand
02:11 < Xenothaulus> I lost 30 pounds
02:11 < necKro> Eeep.

02:11 < Xenothaulus> yep
02:12 < Xenothaulus> like you said, almost a hotdog/day, and I had to walk
almost a mile to snatch them
02:12 < Xenothaulus> oh, and coffee in the morning whenever I could sneak into
the staff room
02:13 < Xenothaulus> looking back on it, it's not even sad, just fucking stupid
02:13 < Xenothaulus> I should've left after the first week
02:13 < Xenothaulus> hell, should've left right away
02:13 < necKro> I'm cold and my right foot hurts like a motherfucker because
the circulation got cut off. I've hit rock bottom.
02:13 < necKro> Left where?
02:13 < Xenothaulus> DeVry
02:13 < Xenothaulus> Hell on Earth
02:13 < necKro> Where's that?
02:13 < Xenothaulus> Hell
02:13 < Xenothaulus> on Earth
02:13 < necKro> So down, then.
02:14 < Xenothaulus> basically yeah
02:14 < Xenothaulus> it was in New Jersey
02:14 < necKro> I see.
02:14 < Xenothaulus> DeVry is a computer school.
02:14 < Xenothaulus> I went there out of high school
02:14 < rystic> and why were you starving?
02:15 < necKro> So you starved yourself just to take class.
02:15 < Xenothaulus> and my housing got fuxx0red, so they put me up in a motel
for 2 months
02:15 < Xenothaulus> because I had no food, no money, no means
02:15 < Xenothaulus> yep
02:15 < rystic> wow, that sucks
02:15 < Xenothaulus> like I said, looking back, it was incredibly stupid
02:15 < rystic> what do you do now?
02:15 < Xenothaulus> also, and I know how this sounds, but it was a 5 mile walk
to class and back on days I couldn't sneak onto a bus
02:16 < Xenothaulus> sit here
02:16 < Xenothaulus> and type
02:16 < Xenothaulus> I'm Mr. Mom.
02:16 < rystic> anything else?
02:16 < necKro> My foot feels better. I am happier about the world.
02:16 < Xenothaulus> My wife's a career-type, so I stay home with kids
02:16 < rystic> well, that's nice
02:16 < necKro> This happens like every night. My computer desk is decidedly
non-ergonomic.
02:16 < necKro> Or at least, the way I sit at it is.
02:17 < rystic> my chair is supposedly like $1000
02:17 < rystic> but, it suck
02:17 < rystic> s
02:17 < necKro> My chair came from some office somewhere. It's okay.
02:17 < Xenothaulus> Get a bar chair, that's what I have.
02:17 < Xenothaulus> It kicks ass.
02:17 < rystic> and the chair in the next room from ikea, was only $100, and
it's heaven
02:17 < necKro> My computer also came from some office somewhere. It's also
okay.
02:17 < rystic> honestly i can not see how they could charge so much for this
thing
02:18 < rystic> and no, i did not buy it
02:18 < necKro> Is it that crazy kind with the rubbery mesh back?
02:18 <@solios> You know.
02:18 < rystic> got if from someone else
02:18 <@solios> I have letters.
02:18 <@solios> That Xenothaulus sent.
02:18 <@solios> When he was in DeVry.
02:18 < rystic> it couldn't fit behind their desk
02:18 < necKro> I'm fine with my chair. So is my cat.
02:18 < rystic> it's huge.
02:18 < necKro> It's her favorite scratching post.
02:18 < Xenothaulus> oh no
02:18 <@solios> Xenothaulus: yep.
02:18 < Xenothaulus> I had some letters that you had sent.
02:18 < rystic> it has a keyboard thing on it
02:18 < Xenothaulus> I killed them
02:18 < Xenothaulus> along with ALL the other letters
02:18 < rystic> like, space ship commander style
02:19 < necKro> How could Xeno afford paper? He could have eaten it.
02:19 * Xenothaulus was a thief.
02:19 <@solios> Xenothaulus: I never throw away anything.
02:19 < Xenothaulus> I even stole my books.
02:19 <@solios> Fuck, I still have all the Dave entries from my journals.
02:19 < Xenothaulus> FROM THE SCHOOL BOOKSTORE
02:19 <@solios> Xenothaulus: you were like a level 48 thief.
02:19 < necKro> There's something to be said for parasitical living.
02:19 < necKro> hahaha.
02:19 < Xenothaulus> yep
02:19 <@solios> Barry and the magic cards was total Karma.
02:19 < Xenothaulus> I know.
02:20 < necKro> So, um... how exactly could you afford classes?
02:20 < Xenothaulus> Scholarship
02:20 < necKro> Ah.
02:20 < Xenothaulus> i entered an essay contest on a whim and won
02:20 <@solios> And beer.
02:20 < Xenothaulus> so I went
02:20 < Xenothaulus> and got fuxx0red
02:20 <@solios> Well, yeah.
02:20 <@solios> It was Them.
02:20 < Xenothaulus> I know
02:20 < Xenothaulus> But I look at it this way.
02:20 < necKro> So you were at a school away from home with no job. You could
go to classes and had a place to live, but nothing to eat.
02:20 < Xenothaulus> The worst experience of my entire life was also my most
formative.
02:21 < Xenothaulus> yep
02:21 <@solios> Xenothaulus: puberty?
02:21 < rystic> xeno: did you graduate or go somewhere else or just drop?
02:21 < Xenothaulus> I left
02:21 < rystic> ok
02:21 < Xenothaulus> Eventually I got an apartment and a job and all
02:21 <@solios> rystic: he came back just in time to keep my senior year from
sucking anus.
02:21 < rystic> haha
02:21 < Xenothaulus> And everything started being great until one of my
roommates decided he had issues with me about having
issues with him and his drugs.
02:22 < Xenothaulus> So one night he sent two of his "boys" to come in and fuck
me up.
02:22 <@solios> * Xenothaulus has flashbacks.
02:22 < rystic> fuck you up with fists or drugs?
02:22 <@solios> Man, I remember all of this.
02:22 < Xenothaulus> with fists and blunt objects
02:22 < rystic> ee
02:22 < necKro> It sounds like Xeno's lived the life of danger.
02:22 <@solios> I was almost there.
02:23 <@solios> necKro: he's secret agent man.
02:23 * solios is too.
02:23 < Xenothaulus> My left ear was pretty much torn off my head and my left
eye was swollen shut for a couple of days
02:23 < rystic> who uh, won, so to speak
02:23 <@solios> We did.
02:23 < Xenothaulus> I was left the next day and when I came back the following
Tuesday, I asked the housing department what they were
going to do about it.
02:23 < Xenothaulus> Nothing.
02:23 < Xenothaulus> So I told them to fuck off
02:23 <@solios> OH!
02:23 <@solios> Dude.
02:23 < Xenothaulus> And yes, we won.
02:23 <@solios> Remember the restaurant?
02:24 <@solios> Where they charged you by the person, not the item?
02:24 < Xenothaulus> I had it from a very good source that Mark, the roommate I
had problems with, had been "dealt" with.
02:24 < Xenothaulus> rofl
02:24 < Xenothaulus> Yes.
02:24 < Xenothaulus> Assholes
02:24 < rystic> solios: are you making this up about you being there, or did
you and xeno actually know each other then?
02:24 <@solios> I had that idea and how much it sucked stuck in my head -
without context- for over a MONTH.
02:24 <@solios> Then you came back and told me about it.
02:24 < Xenothaulus> We've known each other since diapers
02:24 < rystic> wow
02:24 < Xenothaulus> yep
02:25 <@solios> 20 years.
02:25 < rystic> that's damn impressive
02:25 < Xenothaulus> it is
02:25 <@solios> Not really.
02:25 <@solios> He was the only cool guy in the entire county.
02:25 <@solios> By freak chance he lived a mile away.
02:25 < Xenothaulus> Well, Liberty and al- yes.
02:25 < rystic> where is "the county?"
02:25 < Xenothaulus> I need to make a business card.
02:25 < Xenothaulus> Name: Xenothaulus Questor
02:25 < Xenothaulus> Race: Human
02:26 <@solios> rystic: is PA had its ass in thair, it would be the anus.
02:26 < Xenothaulus> Class: Thief
02:26 < Xenothaulus> Level: YES (Retired)
02:26 <@solios> (involuntary)
02:26 <@solios> Well, sort of.
02:26 < Xenothaulus> ;)
02:26 < Xenothaulus> shh
02:26 <@solios> Name: Solios
02:26 <@solios> Race: No.
02:26 < Xenothaulus> maybe inactive would be the best way to put it
02:27 <@solios> Class: Technologist | Occultist | Lucky
02:27 < rystic> what did you do after school/before marriage?
02:27 < Xenothaulus> you forgot asshat
02:27 <@solios> Level: Quite.
02:27 < Xenothaulus> Worked for an antiques company
02:27 < Xenothaulus> and made lots of money which I of course immediately drank
on weekends
02:27 <@solios> Oh, that guy.
02:27 <@solios> He was kind of cool.
02:27 <@solios> CUBE TRUCK OMG
02:28 < rystic> ok
02:28 <@solios> Dude.
02:28 <@solios> That whole bit happened in between breaks at AIP.
02:28 <@solios> O_O
02:28 < Xenothaulus> YEP
02:28 < Xenothaulus> Memory is funny that way, eh?
02:29 <@solios> I think I'm the only guy from the Bad Thing that actually left
the area.
02:29 <@solios> Yep.
02:29 < Xenothaulus> It's all in there, just waiting to be rememberised.
02:29 <@solios> My mind is a repository.
02:29 < Xenothaulus> Um, hi? I'm not There anymore either.
02:29 < Xenothaulus> and soon I'll be even more not There.
02:29 < Xenothaulus> Ohio even
02:29 <@solios> < Xenothaulus > My mind is a supository.
02:29 < Xenothaulus> s/supository/suppository
02:30 <@solios> Xenothaulus: you're still close.
02:30 < Xenothaulus> yes, but not soon
02:30 <@solios> You're just outside the southern border.
02:30 < Xenothaulus> Ohio is farther away than you are
02:30 <@solios> Yeah, but you're further away than Ohio.
02:30 < Xenothaulus> and if I don't stop pronouncing that like Strongbad
everytime I see it or type it, i'm going to cry
02:30 <@solios> And Ohio is FLAT.
02:30 < Xenothaulus> but it has a lake
02:30 < Xenothaulus> and a Robinson
02:31 < Xenothaulus> ergo, it wins
02:31 <@solios> True.
02:31 <@solios> PA has lakes.
02:31 < Xenothaulus> no.
02:31 <@solios> And an Ed.
02:31 <@solios> And dipstick liquor laws.
02:31 < Xenothaulus> ohio has THE lalsjdfasd
02:31 <@solios> Also, unmarked staties.
02:31 < Xenothaulus> actually, they now sell on sundays
02:31 <@solios> dude.
02:31 <@solios> It's PA.
02:31 < Xenothaulus> it's being tried out in 40some liquor stores and
distributors around the state
02:31 <@solios> IT's called "communion".
02:31 <@solios> You thithe.
02:32 < Xenothaulus> the point is though, STATE STORES.
02:32 < Xenothaulus> That's just fucking evil
02:32 < Xenothaulus> When I was in Ohio last, Robinson and I went to a beer
barn. Where we ordered a Woody's Cranberry.
02:32 < necKro> Minnesota has lame liquor laws.
02:32 < Xenothaulus> Just one. A piece
02:32 < Xenothaulus> She even opened them for us.
02:32 < Xenothaulus> We never left the car.
02:32 <@solios> ....
02:32 < Xenothaulus> Yeah
02:32 <@solios> Dude.
02:32 < Xenothaulus> Ohio > *
02:32 < necKro> 10-10, mon-sat, liquor stores. bars close at 1.
02:32 <@solios> I have 17 bars within a one block radius.
02:33 < Xenothaulus> I don't know where the bars are around here, nor do I car.
02:33 * Xenothaulus doesn't do the bar scene
02:33 < Xenothaulus> people...
02:33 * Xenothaulus shudders
02:33 <@solios> Yep.
02:33 <@solios> Damned people.
02:33 <@solios> PEOPLE LIKE RICHARD.
02:33 < Xenothaulus> no
02:33 < necKro> people. beer on tap. people. beer on tap.
02:33 < Xenothaulus> Richard is people
02:33 < Xenothaulus> That's what you meant to say
02:33 < Xenothaulus> bah
02:34 <@solios> Richard is ALL The people.
02:34 < Xenothaulus> I can get beer on tap all I want
02:34 <@solios> At once.
02:34 <@solios> Dead.
02:34 <@solios> Korea crawled up his ass and died.
02:34 < Xenothaulus> just rent a tap and a keg
02:34 <@solios> I'm allergic to beer.
02:34 < Xenothaulus> with that, I'm off for sleep