My van and my uncle and stuff.

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Best part is right at like 4:20 with the race between Takumi's AE86 and Mako and Sayuki's Sil-Eighty.
Is the dream. Have you seen Initial D 5th Stage yet? Glad a new season is out.

I still have my Supra, broken in my garage. I had a manual one I bought as a parts car and put gobs of miles on that I sold to my friend who scammed me for a broken Geo Prizm I was gonna attempt to fix in exchange for it. I wanted an AE86 really bad, but they are very expensive cars nowadays. I figured the Supra looked cooler and performed better for half the cost of an AE86. Mine's a MKII. Prices are stupid high nowadays for them, though, because everyone's broke and is buying used cars.

Overall, I wish I never learned to work on cars and bought a 190K mile 1980s Mercedes diesel instead. I'd probably be a much happier more successful person.

Well, the computer stuff my uncle gave me is pretty nice. I currently have 2 more gigs of RAM on this, now, and once I get some adaptors, I'll have a dual core 2.7ghz processor and better video via a 2009 Compaq compared to 2ghz single core. Not bad. Also got a few other ones, one 2ghz Celeron similar to mine, and a 700mhz Dell, and a motherboard with a random 478 processor on it, and some RAM. So, not bad.

Also, the van blew a freeze plug on him, and I got to talk to him to give him info needed, though I didn't go on the trip.

I guess I'm fine now, I probably should have seen him, but it was too much of a hassle with everything going on now.

Oh well, I'm about f****d. Or rather this is deja vu.

Guess who's coming to stay at my house for a nice short time?

My uncle after he got the van, left all his stuff behind in Vermont and decided to just go off in unknown destinations. He decided to try going to Virginia. The family member he wanted to crash with in Virginia said no. His wife currently hates my mom and doesn't wanna stay with us, but it's his only rational decision. The van also ended up breaking down and is having tranny issues, and will probably die/is already dead. So my mom is probably gonna have to drive to Virginia from CT to pick him and his family up.

So he's probably gonna have only my living room to stay in. There's not really any space in my house for him to stay. At least 2 of them are gonna have to have sleeping bags or something, and that's with the caveat of moving lots of crap out of our living room into the garage.

It's been 10 years. So maybe we'll get along. But probably not. I'm waiting for him to ask me about how I've f****d my life up and then answer back. I don't really plan to communicate with him much at all. However, I spent a lot of time cooking downstairs where the living room is. So either I go full hikikomori with my room and have a toaster oven, hot plate, and crockpots going so I can do all my cooking up here Japanese apartment style or I'll have to talk to them/be around them while cooking.

This is annoying as hell. I've only now gotten used to my sister's boyfriend sitting on our couch watching netflix 10 hours a day. Even better, my sister's boyfriend's couch sitting will be switched upstairs right next to my room.

So basically everything is going to likely suck a lot. Or my uncle might be cool and help me fix my Supra. Maybe. But I'm leaning towards more everything being completely sh***y and miserable, as that's generally how life works out.

Yep, it's happening.

Sorry to hear man. Saipan must be really looking good about this time. Hopefully you do end up getting some help with your Supra

Eh, I'll just hikikomori in my room forever.

I don't have a charger either so I understand. Chargers are very useful around here as it gets quite cold in the winter. It's almost impossible to get my car started without an extra battery so my dad charges it for me from a bench power supply just in case it explodes (happened to him previously). I work full time so I have some income, but good tools are expensive.

http://www.goldismoney2.com/showthread.php?492-DIY-Cheap-battery-charger-desulfates-old-lead-acid-batteries-12

I think Aspergers is a genetic curse running through my family line. My uncle has it, my cousin has it, one or two of his kids have it. My mom even told me I reminded her of a young version of her brother.

In essence, a problem in this all, is I'm being forced to confront myself, in another person. My uncle is very much like me. I even have/had similar goals as him, of getting a place in the woods and quitting. But now I see the hell his lifestyle caused to other people. I wonder if I negatively affect others by my existence in the same way he did/does.

It's biting me in the ass. I remember as a kid, everyone told him, and I parroted, that he should get a job at Walmart. He replied "It's not that simple." Or something to that effect. Now I'm in the same position with everyone I know.

Maybe I am just a terrible person. Maybe this Aspergers thing is a curse. I'm sure many here have heard the parable of the man born blind from the Bible. The Jews asked Jesus "Was it this man's sin or his parents that caused him to be born blind?" Apparently the Jews believed in preexistence or reincarnation, something I never gave much thought to. Jesus said it was to show the power of God. Maybe I'm built for that. Or maybe it's my prior or my descendent's prior sins. Maybe I just got an unlucky hand of DNA cards.

My mom said he could have the Galant I'm driving if he helps me fix up my Supra. Heh, maybe some good will come of it. But probably not. We're gonna go from broke as f**k to broker than f**k with double the household living with us, and we barely have money for food as it is, so it's gonna suck even more. Yay no nothing.

Also today I had a sh***y workout because my knee feels busted up. For my super mega post workout meal I had a bag of Hot Fries chips and 3 Klondike bars. Nope, not stressing this at all. Nope.

Well they're here and so far things seem just as sh***y as I thought it'd be and his wife hates everyone's guts. My internet also coincidentally decided to stop working as they came here, too, so I'm on my phone. My uncle also wants to hardwire his own router to his computers, so that should be a ball, network wars.

As a kid, I wanted to be friends with my uncle. That strategy didn't work. So now, I'm gonna be totally indifferent and barely communicate beyond courtesy. Not gonna give them any opinions whatsoever. Not going to attempt diplomacy, just going to stay the hell out of their way. Whatever decisions they make, they'll make regardless. So I only have to defend what's mine in this I guess. I hope I don't get rude and start cursing at them when s**t inevitably gets bad. I don't like being that way.

This is gonna suck. I'm going to be severely stifled. Tomorrow I'm gonna have to shower at the gym more than likely. One bathroom, 8 people. Maybe I should if not working, spend my day at the park or gym. Parks are fun.

I have enough specific complaints about the situation and lifestyle they have already based on them being here 2 hours, but meh, whatever. I'll have even more complaints later, so no need to voice them now.

In good news, I may have made a friend at the gym and I PRed my bench press. Yay making friends. Like in Persona. Woohoo.

I guess I look forward to working more now as I'll probably hate being at home. Well, almost half my home is taken over anyway.

Yay.

So things seemed to be going better today. My uncle organized some stuff and did the dishes. No arguments or fights. They seemed friendlier today.

But the seeming was a lie. Apparently they're getting my aunt to put another bed downstairs. Where? f**k if I know. My aunt was talking about removing the dining room table and putting a bed there. Or they feel the sleeper sofa we have in the living room is uncomfortable and are going to somehow put a bed in with the sleeper sofa, too? Or something. Also, they complained to my aunt about my "spicy" cooking. My cooking was not spicy at all. I simply put onion powder, salt, black pepper, and oregano on my chicken (they'll probably flip if I make curry...) Also their routine is going to bed at like 10:30, so I can't be in the kitchen past 10:30 to prep anything or whatever for tomorrow. So taking over the living room and part of the garage.

Dayum. Maybe you can use that homemade charger to zap them if they misbehave

Holy crap, man, that's unreal.

I guess the first thing I should buy if I ever get work is some drugs. By drugs I mean things that are drugs in other countries but supplements here in America. Might try some phenibut, which is GABA attached to an amino acid or something. Also piracetam.

My mom's outside crying right now, presumably over this all. She also couldn't even sit on the porch as my uncle's stuff is blocking the door to the back porch where the chairs are. Oddly I've adapted reasonably well since the job is more or less just ignore the hell out of eachother and stay out of our way, and both of us are secretly calling eachother's lifestyles idiotic behind eachother's back. Also today I heard his wife talking on the phone say "Yeah, he's probably the smartest of the three." Referring to my my siblings. Fun.

Heh, today his daughter was hanging out with my sister, just on the swings like 100 feet from my house. It was 9:30, he went outside and called her in at 9:30. She's 26. He's a biiiiiit controlling, I think. She's not had a lot of outside world contact at all. It's been 10 years, but overall, things seem almost frozen in time since the last time I saw them. She's supposedly severely dissatisfied with her family currently. Also, she's gotten some contact from the outside world thanks to her online friends. Heh. Oddly me and my uncle get along OK now, since I guess I grew into super Aspergers mode, it's a bit more on the level I guess.

So now that I know my Aspergers is a genetic curse on my mom's side, I'm glad she married my dad. It balanced me out. My dad in many ways was a stereotypical "bad boy" as often talked about by people talking about "nice guys" and whatnot. So I got the AS genes from my mom's side, and my general recklessness and coolness and any shred of Alpha from my dad. Yay. So in some ways, it's like a superpower combo, as like, my dad for example, lifted weights, but didn't spend time reading about all kinds of training methods and nutrition and whatnot in the same kinda manner I did, so due to my Aspergers I'll likely surpass him in short order. So in some ways the genetics worked out well, to balance things out.

It's weird, now that I know about AS, I see myself in my uncle, and it scares the f*****g s**t out of me. It makes me reconsider my plans of isolation, in that I do not want to become a megalomaniac isolationist like him. If I was by myself living like he used to out in the woods with no electricity and outside world contact, that'd be one thing, but if I had a family, it's a lot different. I can't force them into it, too. And it's one thing to have "quiet nice place in the woods" and still like, see people and whatnot, vs my uncle's old setup.