The Main Character's Realization

Every once in a while I get the feeling that I'm nothing more than a character in a novel (albeit a rather *boring* one). Right now, the main character (at least I *hope* I'm the main character) has realized that he's essentially unemployed. My last day at the "Big Blue Box" was the 16th, and school doesn't *truly* start until September 8th!

Now, of course I *should* be able to pick up a charter here & there over the next few weeks, and I've still got a couple paychecks coming from the Big Blue Box... And I guess I've still got unemployment coming for the time being... I should be fine, but I'm still nervous as hell that *SOMETHING* is going to go wrong and screw everything up. Maybe I was stupid to have ended my employment with Best Buy already, but I felt comfortable enough at the time in doing so.

Maybe things will work out in the end. I don't know... *sigh*

Anyways, besides that; on my last day I made one last purchase w/ my employee discount! I was deciding between a couple DVDs, be it the 4 TMNT movies in one tin collector's case, the Shout! Factory Transformers S1 dvd, their G.I. Joe set, or if I wanted to pick up something else or not... I was holding Tinman in my hands for a little while, since I really enjoyed that miniseries on SciFi a while back... My love for Transformers won out though and I picked up the first season of the Transformers cartoon. I really enjoyed the Rhino set, but think this one's better so far!

I'd heard something about a 'bad disc' a while back and decided to look into it. I'm still not 100% on just *what* the problem was, but think it had something to do with the audio track... I'm thinking it had something to do with the Rhino audio track used by mistake on a couple of the episodes on the second disk? I shot them an email yesterday and got a reply already. They didn't answer my question, but instead asked for my name and address... Maybe they're going to ship me the 'corrected disc'? I guess we'll find out soon! (Oh, for anyone who owns the complete Transformers DVD set, you have no need to worry, apparently they'd corrected the mistake by the time they put that collector's set together!)

What else is new and exciting? Oh, how about our recent FLOOD?????
Yup, you read that right. Seems that someone went and used the 3rd floor community room next door to my apartment rather late at night a few nights ago, and backed up the toilet! By the time I discovered it, the water in the community room was about an INCH HIGH! I grabbed my boots and turned the water off at the toilet, and tossed a few towels down to keep the water contained to the community room as best as I could...

Unfortunately, it appears that the damage had already been done by this time. The water had seeped through the floor, and began to flood the apartment below it! Heck, there was even water dripping from some light fixtures on the first floor!!!!!
It was pretty upsetting, that someone would do something like that and *NOT* do something about it... Noone knows who did it, but I'd sure like to punch them in the face, and I'm *sure* Accessable Space Inc. would like to have a word or three with them...

Luckily, since we're the next room over, and not the one below, we escaped relatively unharmed, with only a little bit of moisture creeping through the sheetrock... The apartments below have to have their ceilings ripped out, and the ceiling of the smaller community room on the first floor where the water was coming from the light fixtures? It's been completely ripped out! Tomorrow I'll try to remember to upload and post some pictures of the carnage...