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.. wants to be the last one there
And everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There’s gotta be somebody for me out there!⁰¹

Yeah, it’s been a long time⁰², but I had⁰³ a pretty rough time to go through..
Of course, I’m still standing and all this stuff, but for a guy like me who believes so invincibly in justice, the hearing in court was a mixed impression.
Don’t get me wrong, the hearing was great and the court’s verdict wasn’t that bad for me — but the opposing party’s appeal really shocked me..

I mean, anybody I ever told the details of how the accident occurred agrees with me and says it’s _completely_ the fault of the opposing party. But instead of accepting the verdict, they issued an appeal!

So, I’m still asking myself: why do I have to wait to get my money? Seriously, the accident happened 2007-11-07, so more than 450 days have and I still have to drive a damaged car, still have to wait for the amount due to me and still have to wait to come into my own..

But I’m not complaining about all that stuff — this time, things are⁰⁴ different, much more different..
This time, I’m not only bearing up against pain.
This time, I’m not only rebounding.
This time, I’m facing _any_ problem or enemy!

That’s not an empty phrase, but instead the truth:
I’m haunting all these people who told me that I won’t ever succeed.
I’m pusing myself, again and again and again — nothing can stop me.
I’m reaching each targeted objective, no matter how ambitious it might be.

The first “episode” was completing my planned technical upgrades by buying several things like additional 2 GB DDR2-RAM⁰⁵, another Samsung HD501LJ for backups from my newly created 1 TB-RAID-0 array⁰⁶, a Casio Wave Ceptor watch⁰⁷ with lots of technical gimmicks and the Teufel Concept E Magnum Power Edition⁰⁸.

The second episode means _a lot_ to me and that’s why it got this extra-paragraph:

VW Scirocco III 1.4 TSI Rising Blue
        
[front view]                                [rear view]

Yes, it’s a car⁰⁹, but it’ll be the first one I actually bought with my own earned money — that’s something _very_ special for me..

The third episode will be kinda “journey” through Germany (meeting friends, seeing the sea after a long period of absence, etc.) and I promise to take photos!

The fourth episode is a long-time one and started even before episode two was planned: finding Ms. “Not-perfect-but-damn-close-to-my-demands”.. Let’s see what will happen here..

Take care,
Martin..

1. Nickelback — Gotta Be Somebody [↩]
2. I guess more than three months are long.. [↩]
3. And unfortunately will for next couple of months.. [↩]
4. And will be for quite some time.. [↩]
5. From OCZ’s Reaper HTC-series, of course! [↩]
6. Which consists of two Samsung HD501LJ with firmware upgraded to CR100-13 — thanks to Dell which offer the upgrades strictly for their drives, but they work with _any_ HD501LJ.. [↩]
7. I preferred the blue WVA-460DSE-2AVER-model, not that black WVA-460DSE-1AVER-one.. [↩]
8. I preferred to choose the black-painted model.. [↩]
9. AFAIK, Volkswagen doesn’t plan to release it in the USA.. [↩]

.. And all the stars fall around the world tonight
Silent forces from a past life return
Pray for the silence in a world so alone
Till we touch the horizon beyond
Fly through the storm!

Tonight.. falling like the rain, insanity lives on
Feel the shattered dreams, one thousand voices crying
Raging endlessly, they come — whoooaaa!
And the morning light will hide the darker days gone by
And the sun will shine again across the blazing skies
Glorious, eternally we’ll rise above the world
Marching on, till victory we fight
The fire still burns…⁰¹

Well, I’m back from my trip to Cologne⁰², although it took me a day longer than initially planned⁰³..

Anyway, the trip was great, mainly because it was my first time at an airport⁰⁴ and I couldn’t resists to heavily watch those planes taking off or landing..

The job was pretty easy, although I had only about 4 hours of sleep in the first night⁰⁵, but I had the missed sleep a day later..

Now, I’m still fighting the “usual trouble” which basically means that some problems occurred and I’ve got to fixed or solve them, regardless if I’m able to do so or not.. — And that’s quite hard, because the “usual self-pushing” through such situations doesn’t really help and I _really_ have to step up and fight with every grain of power that’s left after so many fights in just a bunch of months..

Gosh, if I’d knew that being 22⁰⁶ would be that hard, I had prepared myself much better.. — But as far as I can remember, I always got thrown in at the deep end, so I’m neither complaining nor wondering.. Instead, I’m still standing, still fighting and I still won’t give up⁰⁷..

Recently, I received word that there are guys out there, playing Voyage Century Online⁰⁸ and enjoying Soul1980’s “CraftingMenu MOD” which enables a cleaner and more efficient menu for crafting several items.. Though, it seems that the modification doesn’t work anymore since some updates to their game which were published lately.. — That’s where I, the creator of an interface-modification who included Soul1980’s mod, jumped in and now, I’m trying to get the mod working again for them..

Regarding my personal life, I’m still out of luck since no female single with a brain and something on their hips⁰⁹ seems to be out there, because most men nowadays prefer either dumbasses, solarium-junkies, smokers or simply skinny women — but I don’t like any of these, especially when it comes to mate selection..
So for now, it seems that I have to stay single — at least until I find such a woman..

Firefox V3 is still in production, but because of much work and other non-pc related activities, I can’t promise to finish the theme in 2008.. Nevertheless, I’ll do my very best to complete it in time..

Feel free to comment on this post, but something tells me that this post will remain without any comments as it might be written for nobody except me..

Take care,
Martin..

1. DragonForce — The Fire Still Burns [↩]
2. Had to do a rollout for a customer of the company I’m working for.. [↩]
3. A workmate of mine became ill just a night before he had to catch his flight.. [↩]
4. Except one visit at Berlin-Schönefeld airport when I was about 5 or 6 years old.. [↩]
5. In the Holiday Inn-hotel which was just awesome! [↩]
6. Or shall I say “Almost 23”? [↩]
7. I guess you notice the relation to the quoted lyrics above, huh? [↩]
8. A very similar variation of a MMORPG called “Bounty Bay Online” that I’m used to play.. [↩]
9. I rather like to have something in my hands when it comes to “close combat” than grasping at nothing.. [↩]

.. Take my hand, this one last time
Face the world before us, the warrior inside
In a lifetime of disaster, it’s a battle to the end,
Final stand, my life must carry on,
And forever, this time..⁰¹

So, this is it, guys! I’m blogging once again, putting some letters together in an attempt to build so called “words” which might make sense and form kinda “sentence”? — No, it’s _a lot_ more complicated this time..

You guys must know that I had a car accident on 2007-11-05 while I drove to my training center back then.. No, no, I was ok, no broken legs or something like that — just fender blender, but that’s where the problems raised..

The cops came and took photos, asked questions about how the accident happened, etc. But although I called my insurance company⁰² at the same day, it ought to took about t-h-r-e-e months for the police to finally complete their investigation.. — Meanwhile my insurance company was “kind” enough to issue a company-internal investigation which resulted in the company to pay the other guy while his company refused to do so⁰³..

After my insurance company had paid the other guy and the police told me that I’m the one who had to bear the blame, I was pretty shocked.. — I mean, being able to look about 1-2 km at 06:45 in the morning and getting rammed by someone whose side mirror had kinda “touchdown” on your fender⁰⁴ just while you were overtaking cars⁰⁵ is pretty easy to judge, huh?⁰⁶

But no, the police didn’t see it like that, my insurance company didn’t see it like that and a whole bunch of other people, including my grandma, my mom (!) and my mom’s friend, didn’t see it like that — except my grandpa⁰⁷, Axel, Sebastian and of course my attorney..

And it took long.. Days passed by.. Weeks.. — Even months! I had to lodge an opposition for this and for that.. But I kept my head high and took all those setbacks, because I knew I was _completely_ right and my faith in justice was too strong to get broken..

Finally, on 2008-06-10⁰⁸ the appropriate county court arrested judgment on my case, freeing me from the fine and also from getting points on my demerit point system’s account.. — But that’s only half the battle, because the lawsuit against the other guy and his insurance company is still going on⁰⁹ and will hopefully finish until the end of September..

So, now we’re at the point why I picked that quote of DragonForce’s newest song called “The Warrior Inside”¹⁰..
Always remember: justice may take its time and that may be a long run, but in the end there will be justice — and for as long as I’m going to breathe, I will stand my ground and I will serve justice every single day with everything I can afford!

Take care,
Martin..

1. DragonForce — The Warrior Inside [↩]
2. And the other guy’s one, too! [↩]
3. Although, rules force insurance companies to pay the opposing party first, then clarify who has to pay how much — AFAIK at least.. [↩]
4. Right before your windshield! [↩]
5. Which didn’t start or tried to start something similar.. [↩]
6. Especially when there’s a law forcing drivers to look over their shoulder before attempting to start overtaking cars.. [↩]
7. Who means almost more than my mother to me! [↩]
8. Almost nine months after the actual accident! [↩]
9. Germany law distinguishes between civil and penal law.. [↩]
10. Only available via YouTube.com ATM.. [↩]

..weeping for the memory of a life gone by⁰¹

As the song goes on, there are two lines, stating “It’s late and I’m with my love alone, we drink to forget the coming storm” — and it’s pretty much reality for me, because tomorrow⁰² will bring in some clouds and quite heavy rain.. Additionally, it’s definitely late for me since it’s pretty hard to keep my eyelids open..

Anyway, not much work has been done to Firefox V3 recently, because I’m focusing on an GUI-Mod⁰³ for the well-known “Bounty Bay Online”⁰⁴ as the developers, named SnailGame⁰⁵, are pretty lame and normally take — honestly — about six months for a “real” bugfix-update.. And although all players around the globe⁰⁶ are experiencing a bug called “autofire-bug”, they’re up to now “unable to reproduce the issue”.. :-@

Still, the BBO-community here in Germany is really great and our provider, named Yusho⁰⁷, is heavily interested in getting its customers satisfied⁰⁸.. And that’s why I started to create the mod and together with another player, we’ve made some heavy chances to the interface⁰⁹ which are very appreciated among the rest of the community..

So, Firefox V3 is still in the works, but it maybe takes some months until Firefox V3 will finally be released — I’ll keep you guys posted, I promise!

Now I’m off, getting some rest..
Take care,
Martin..

1. Not Ultravox’ original song, but a cover made by Freedom Call which is IMHO definitely better.. [↩]
2. Oh, my clock shows 02:42 right now, so we’re already there! [↩]
3. Mostly on the texts/titles, not the graphics itself.. [↩]
4. Right, one might not know BBO, but it’s, well, “father”, the MMORPG called “Voyage Century Online” or “VCO” for short.. [↩]
5. Located somewhere in China, next to Shanghai AFAIK.. [↩]
6. Americans, British, French, Germans, Japanese, Koreans — and even Chinese! [↩]
7. That means “Fair victory” and comes from sumo [↩]
8. We’ve got the opportunity to choose between item mall-based servers and a monthly subscription.. [↩]
9. Well, especially he did much chances to the crafting-window, I’m more on the titles- and naming-part.. [↩]

Did you ever hear what I told you?
Did you ever read what I wrote you?
Did you ever listen to what we played?
Did you ever let in what the world said?
Did we get this far just to feel your hate?
Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
How blind can you be, don’t you see:
You chose the long road, but we’ll be waiting..⁰¹

Well, this time neither DragonForce nor HammerFall lyrics, but again one from Nightwish.. The reason is simple: up to now, this track spins about 80% of the time I’m running Winamp..
Though, there are indeed special things going on in my personal “real life”, so I thought that I could use “unusual” lyrics/artists once again..

As the day is drawing to a close, this post needs to be done a little bit faster than I usually do posts here.. So, let’s make the story not too big and let’s get down to business:

About a week ago, I finally signed up my employment contract with a company operating in the integrated store processes-sector.. The signing itself was quite “strange” as my hand which held the Biro was a little bit shaking, but that might be due to several dreams coming true:

• Getting a job after two years at a technical college full of stubborn and arrogant teachers is just amazing — especially, when the employment contract is open-ended!


• Doing a job which is almost exactly what you expected your job would be like is nearly unbelievable..


• Earning enough money to pay the bill(s) and still having some money that you can save for your “next big dream”⁰² gives me a feeling I can hardly describe — it’s just overwhelming!


• The workmates seem to be really great⁰³!


• The company absolutely believes in the idea that only satisfied employees are employees who put 100% of their effort into their job and therefore offer a great work climate — YEEEEES!!

I also met a new friend.. Christin is her name.. No guys, it’s _not_ that type of “friend”, she’s more like a sister to me than a girlfriend..

And yes, the smilies will be changed back to Nomicons soon!

Uh, quite a “rough” post this time.. But I’ve got to go and get some sleep⁰⁴..

Take care,
Martin..

1. Nightwish — Bye, Bye, Beautiful [↩]
2. Just use Google to get some pics of VW’s “IROC”.. [↩]
3. Especially the female ones.. [↩]
4. I had only 8 hours in the last 48 hours.. [↩]