Okay, so I cannot concentrate on work, and am going home in a bit, so I decided to go ahead and rant on my journal, that's what it's there for right?

Okay, so I was up late, and had to show up early for work to make sure that not problems happened with a big project that we are undertaking. Not many snags in the project, and most customers have been content. I had to deal with a few angry ones but not too bad.

So then I get this message from my older bro. It turns out that the life insurance company that he has been struggling with to get a claim for almost two years now for my dad's 4 kids is finally ready to give out the funds, but will only release them to my mother.

Some of you may be up on what is up with my mother, some of you aren't. Here's a quick overview. She is mentally ill, paranoid schizophrenic, delusional, and stubborn to boot. She was divorced from my dad quite some time before he passed away. All of her decisions have been extrmemly selfish for many years now She is remarried. She refuses help and has practically disowned all of her children, all 8 of them, except for me. She is either scared of or mad at them. She needs mental help and definitely needs medication, but it is extremely difficult to medicate a grown up paranoid delusional. She has refused help and has been homeless for quite some time now, living in a van with her husband on the street outside of a shelter.

So I get to call her to tell her to call an insurance company who is waiting by the phone to cut her a check, or at least to call my brother. I'm trying to figure out what my alternatives are here, but so far avenues are not looking good. It's 57,000. If she winds up with it, I only hope that she thinks of her children, especially her youngest who is staying at a friend's with no money, before making any wild decisions. I personally do not think she has the ability to make any financial decisions.

So I've been trying to get through to the shelter all day and have gotten nothing but busy signals.

So then, in between work stuff, I've been off and on the LARP lists. The list have made me realize that being a storyteller for this community of live action players is a truly thankless job. The lists are abuzz with debates of when game announcements should go out, the responsibilities of the storytellers, boycotting games, being pissed because characters didn't get enough time to do stuff, etc. And all because my in-character announcement went out a a day before the game and riled some feathers and people "didn't have enough time to react". Of course, only about 7 people came to my game anyways, and they're not the ones complaining, they had fun. It just seems like there are complaints all the time about this game, yet everyone is so obsessed with playing it. I could just care less sometimes. Dealing with the drama has become absurd. I've gotten busy but alas, noone else in my chapter wants any other storyteller and even though they sometimes get frustrated, they like my stories.

On a side note, the series conclusion to X-Files was pretty cool. It wrapped things up too matter of factly and too quickly. It was difficult to recollect how they put the puzzle pieces together today because they threw it together so quickly. They should have spent the 5 episode "Endgame" doing just that, ending a series, and not on Monster-of-the-week or Brady-bunch episodes. It was a cool episode, and I totally dug the answers to the questions, but at the same time it was rushed. But now it's over, and we can move on.

Now I'm looking forward to how they decide to end "24" because it's one of the most bad-assed shows I've been caught up with in a long time. The season finale is tomorrow night.

And if you haven't seen Star Wars, Attack of the Clones, see it in a digital projection. It is very visually stunning, and I have seen it twice so can definitly compare. There are some awesome scenes in that movie.