iohelix

me and my girl had been lookin for a new roommate for quite a while, since about new years, but no luck. so she started to get a little desperate and this guy shows up with this hella pitiful sob story about how he has to be out of his current place in two days.

he seemed cool enough, to her, i never met him before he moved in. so he gets moved in in like 8 hrs, all his crap in the garage and all over the basement. i finally meet him, and he’s kinda wierd, not good wierd either, kinda creepy and shady. for example, the first or second night that he was there, i was coming out of my room heading for the kitchen and he’s walkin past me with his hands behind his back, so i get a little curious as to what he feels he has to hide from me, because he’s 36 (which in itself is kinda odd, living with people 10 yrs younger).  i talked with my girl about it, and she said that she found a brown bag next to the couch, so i figured he just feels like he has to hide his booze from me and think nothing more of it. but then the next day, my girl asks me how much jack was in a bottle we had in the cupboard, and i told her i didn’t know, but she says there was only like an inch left in the bottom, and i’m pretty sure the bottle was half full when last i saw it, but i can’t say for sure, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

the next day. while straightening up my room, i notice my piggy-bank is gone. i may have misplaced it, but my first thought was that the new roomate (joel the creepy fucker) stole it.

it stays missing, i never find it, and later that week, we talk with our other roomates, and come to find out, he’s been stealing change from them as well. i guess they came home from a nice valentine’s weekend away to find their change jar, which is rather fat, and hence holds a lot of money, was missing about three inches worth of change, about $60. but the worst part is, it was hidden in their closet, so that means the fucker was going through our stuff!  after i heard that, i decided right then and there that he was out, i don’t give a shit about the lease, if he’s stealing from us, he’s either out of the house, or i’m beatin his ass.

my girl calls her dad (the landlord) and gets his permission to kick him out of the house, so joel calls her, and she tells him that he has three days to get out, he asks why, she tells him, and all he cares about is getting the rest of his rent back, he doesnt even try to deny it.

so he’s gone, moved all his stuff out in one day. but before he left, he stuffed our garbage cans FULL of his shit, which may not even be his shit the way he was going on around the house.

but i gave him a little going away present… while he was gone one night, after the incident, i cracked open his coffee maker and disconnected the heater, so it will only make cold coffee.  =)

so today, we’re gettin ready for a little party, and we noticed that there was a bottle of sprite that was in the same cupboard as the jack, that is now empty. fucker.

anywho, long story short, make sure you check references of new roommates, now matter how desperate you are or how nice they seem…  and keep a screwdriver and a coffee (dis)repair book handy in case things go sour.

plur l8

that’s Oh My Fucking HELL!! for those of you not in the know.

i am so sick of the company that my domain is registered through right now it’s not even funny. they have pretty much killed my site for the past three weeks and it is still dead. (i’m writing this through a more direct path that my hosting provides in situations like these)

my current registration period was going to expire, and my hosting company started offering domain registration services that they didn’t offer when i got the webspace, so i wanted to switch over to them to make everything easier. so i pay for the domain service through them about two weeks before it was to expire, and they tried to switch it but it didn’t work, so they tried again, but the second try was too late and my name (iohelix.com) was now being held ransom (ok, not really, but that’s what it seems like).  come to find out that there was a registrar-lock placed on my domain that nobody told me about, and i can’t remove it until i renew my subscription through my current company, so i finally give in and pay them what i need to to get it working…

still waiting…

its been a week now and i still have no control over my domain. the customer service they are providing is horrible, they have NO customer service on the weekends (?!?), no phone numbers that work, and the customer service they do provide is either wrong, or ambiguous (“don’t worry, we are getting in contact with department concerns”)  WTF???

anyway, they finally figured out that somewhere along the line, the order got lost and they are currently working on it, but that’s what they’ve been saying this whole time, so we’ll see…  anyway, just to let you all know, if your domain is registered through HostDime, Fariert, or any of their affiliate companies (except eNom, who is the actual registrar that HostDime is a reseller for), get out now!

just venting…
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more to come when my service is finally back up…