Talk:Onideus Mad Hatter/No Rest For The Wicked

Still trying to find a place to live and a job somewhere...the economy sucks pretty bad right now though. I'm mostly living out of my car right now, with most of my belongings/pets at friends and relatives places.

I've tried staying with some of my relatives, but with every one of them, well...after about a week they start getting verbally abusive. I think they like it though, having an easy target to attack who won't attack them back (although a couple of times I've been ~very~ tempted). Basically I try and go out of my way to be the absolute most perfect house guest, I cook, I clean, I fix crap, I stay out of everybody's way, try to keep a low profile, try not to bother anyone for anything...but it's never "good enough" there's always some kind of "problem"...often imaginary...or constructed.

I tried living at my uncle's house, who started complaining about "bad smells", so I went out of my way and washed like...every fucking thing in the house, even gave my cats a bath, started cleaning out their liter box every single time they used it, started using deoderant 4 or 5 times a day, bathing twice a day, etc, etc...the "complaints" didn't stop though...and got progressively more nasty. Of course then I figured out what was going on (using one of my wireless web cams). See I was in the bedroom upstairs, that has a door on the main floor, and basically my uncle started just...hanging out, by the door...waiting. Until he heard one of the cats shuffling around in the sandbox...he would then wait about five to ten minutes after before coming up the stairs to start another round of verbal abuse. Until I showed him the tape I made of him...then told him I would find some other place to live by the end of the month and asked if he could refrain from any further verbal abuse until then. He just walked off and didn't say anything. Now my cats are at my mom's place (luckily she doesn't mind them) and I'm back to sleeping in my car mostly.

The worst part is that I can't even afford my pain medications right now, so I usually wind up only filling half the prescription and then go through a continuous cycle of withdrawal, taking them normally for a couple days to try and look for a job, then going a few days without taking any, forcing myself to go through the horrible fucking agony of withdrawal every few days. Can't do any freelance web/graphic work like this either, since internet connectivity is sporadic at best right now. Hopefully though I can get some kind of a job somewhere though so I can try and dig myself back out of this horrible hole. Hell at this point I really *WOULD* work for Wal*Mart or Dairy Queen or even fuckin McDonalds if they were hiring. I've been able to get interviews at a number of places, but with dozens of other applicants all vying for the same crap ass minimum wage job...yeah, makes it kind of tough.

At Safeway, during my second interview, they were hiring for a single "helper clerk" position, the guy who owned the joint was kind of an asshole, even basically openly insulted me at one point (though I don't think intentionally) and started whining on about how he still had "dozens of applications" still to go through...and that was "dozens" who managed to make it to the *SECOND* interview...yeah, did I mention the economy sucks? LOL

I see my mostly general absence on the Internet hasn't stopped all the little hordes of Hatter Addicts from running at the mouth about me. Apparently over on FTT they're now trying to accuse me of being some kind of "phishing scammer": http://foxtalestimes.actifforum.com/fox-tales-times-f3/fake-website-t8619.htm

...yeah, talk about "unwarranted self importance". Yeesh, I have ~far~ more important things to concern myself with right now than a bunch of tweenage muppet fucks playing pretend on the freakin Interwebs.

On a slight up note though I have been approached by Tim O'Reilly who said he'd be interested in publishing a few books from me, so I've been trying to work on that when I can. Pretty much everything else is all on hold though.