"Its easy to play any musical instrument. All you have to do is press the right key at the right time and the instrument plays itself." - J.S. Bach
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Well, i've got some horrid news. Im not going to be around for quite awhile.

The reason why: My home caught on fire...

Luckly, it wasn't the whole house, sadly, it was enough to take us out of our home and destroy a good 76% of the things in the basment, even from a distance. (Although I hope that my computer survived...or at least the external harddrive.)

Let me take you back to yesterday. (The day before the journal started.)

I was sitting at the computer typing up some new lyrics for my death metal side project, and my younger brother "Lumpy" was watching TV when all of the sudden he (Lumpy) sees smoke coming from the vent. He sees the smoke and we rush downstairs to see that his mattress is in flames. The first thing that went through my mind was: "Get the fire extinguishers!" In which we did, and tried to take the flame out with two of them.

Realizing that the smoke was obviously too much and the heat was killing my feet. I ran upstairs with my younger brother coughing and coverd in soot. Our neighbors across the street noticed and called 911. Now, normaly, a fire department wouldn't get to a house for ages, and the house would be damn near an ash-pit. Fortunately, we only lived a couple of blocks away from the fire station, so they came in like five to ten minutes along with several policemen. Freaking out, I wanted to get back in.

The character in me was like "QUICK, GIMME A GASMASK!" in trademark style. The real me however, was shivering, because I was only in shorts and a t-shirt and the home I was just waking up in, was about to be damned. They police go to the back to check out the dogs, who were fortunately outside and freaking out. Unfortunately, they freaked out so bad that Grace (look in my gallery for State of Grace to know what she looks like) had to be shocked with a taser. Me just coming up to only see the dog on her side twitching like crazy, I instinctively said "What the fuck are you doing!" while they were wrangling my dogs and breaking my back yard fence in half just to get in. Around this time, the fire department guys were already charging into the house to get to the last of the flames on the burning mattress through my front door, and another team in another truck busted through my back door. Resulting in broken windows, a flooded basment and a lot of smoke. Im still freaking out because of so many things. Not to mention the fact that NOBODY, not even the fire department could figure out what caused it.


I turn around and my next door neighbor has my dogs in her back yard, Grace, who was bleeding at the mouth, ran and hid behind the shed with the dog catcher thing still on her neck. I had to go and get the thing off her neck and try to calm her down. Now for such a "balls out" dog, this was the most defeated i've ever seen her look. It was crazy, she looked as if all the boastful barking she did just formed a hammer and cracker her confidence. She was making noises i've never heard before. I quickly tended to her and picked the taser barb out of her flesh, apologizing for everything nearly a thousand times. Vincent on the other hand, was relatively fine, except he was freaked out and had a scratch on his nose. I go back and answer questions from a tall fire department official who was overseeing the work. He was telling me what they (The fire department) were doing and how they were going about doing it. He was also telling me what they KNEW was destroyed. I of course didnt flinch so bad at the huge shoe, the, stereo, TV or video games that got torched. I was mad however, at the autographs I had lost, the rubber ducks i had that got charred to all hell, and my clothes were all burnt to hell. (Cept my Slayer t-shirt, which survived, although it has a hole and alot of brown parts, it held up WAY better than my Metallica/Gun & Roses tour t-shirt.)

What DID survive however, was my PA system money, all 190$USD of it. Too bad I spent all but 40 of it on clothing, but I needed it. Got alot of black t-shirts, some black pants, a black beanie and a hoodie. (and some sweet boxers that say "Got Beer?".)

After buying clothes, the rest of the day was spent being holed up in a hotel. Calling my ex girlfriend, and my best friends. Where we basically showered, slept and ate, and will be eating for the next two days. So technically, we're homeless. (Im on my next door neighbors computer as of right now, which will explain why the mood still says "Optimism" on it. ) We basically came back to pick up some things that got left there. Lucky me, I got new shoes (black/gold Vans) and was able to walk downstairs to get my mics, cords and my digital camera (The biggest treasure of all, folks. My baby Naoko lived through a flaming basement, although she has no charger..)

So where does that leave me? Well, I have no idea. All my homework and books are cooked, the charger to my camera is missing, so i'll take snapshots every so often..but you won't see them for ages, because I've got no photoshop.

I'm gonna go right now, but I just wanted to let the people that care know my status as far as im concerned. Luckly, im alive, and not burned on any part of my body. So bless whatever deity you worship, I guess.

Goodbye, hopefully I'll see you all again soon.

Reaper-X

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"I who have nothing but the comfort of my sins, I who have nothing but the comfort of my friends." - Ikon The Verbal Hologram a.k.a Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks

Lots of love to my watchers.....
I'm going to sleep.