Drinks, Depression, Panic Attacks

After work on Friday, my friend Teresa came over to finish watching Juno, eat pizza, and drink. About an hour later, Jacob and Elias came by bringing more booze. For the first few hours we had a great time.

When Jacob drinks too much he often gets depressed. This happened last night and it took 2-3 hours to get him out of the depressive funk he was in. At this point Teresa was tired, so I let her sleep in my bed and told her I would take the couch. Very soon after she left, Jacob went outside to smoke a cigarette and calm down and Elias started going into a panic attack.

Elias' panic attacks are not your standard version. He growls, hisses, speaks in gibberish languages that sound like orcs, and grinds his teeth. I've seen him attack his brother a couple of times in that state, but usually he just flails around for a while and eventually calms down.

I wish there was more I could do to help both of them. We've tried therapists, prescription drugs, non prescription drugs, etc., with little effect.

After the panic attack Elias wanted to go home, so went outside and discovered that Jacob was asleep in his car. It was now three a.m. Elias wakes up Jacob and they went home. Since he'd had five hours of sobering up/sleeping time, I didn't try to prevent them from driving.

I hope we didn't freak out poor Teresa too badly. It was definitely an interesting night. What's that old saying, something like it being a curse to live in interesting times. Whoever said that had the right of it.

Scored an Xbox 360

Monday morning at work one of our programmers listed an Xbox 360 for sale. The 20gb hard drive version with 3 games(Halo 3, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and Tony Hawk Project 8) and several accessories (charge & play, media remote control, messenger bag carry case, chatpad and headset) for $325.



I've been trying to decide if should get an Xbox or a decent dining room set with my economic stimulus payment, but this made the decision for me. Less that five seconds after the for sale email was sent I sent a short email saying "I'll take it". It was a good thing I didn't take a minute to think it over; three more offers came through in the next five seconds, just after mine.

I haven't had a chance to play much yet, just a bit of Halo 3, but I can't wait to get GTA4 and start exploring Liberty City. I'll probably do that Saturday night after the D&D Meetup.

HOG Day/ Browncoat Karaoke

Last Saturday was a great, if long, day. I picked up my friend Leigh and met Chaos Mandy and Evil Mandy downtown for HOG Day. We were originally supposed to paint low income housing, but were switched to working the afterparty at the last minute. Evil and I checked IDs and handed out free beer wristbands, which Leigh and Chaos staffed the volunteer check-in table. Three hours later and we hopped on board the free trolley to rest our bones and saw the elusive astroturf limo.



Afterward, we went by Free Comic Book Day at Richard's Comics and Collectibiles where we took all of the Stormtrooper, Iron Man, and Silver Surfer photos. We also spread the word a little about UG; it's really too bad I didn't have any business cards with me. After finding out how disturbing Evil's Superman obsession really is, we went to Atlanta Bread Company to chill for a bit before Iron Man.

For those of you who have seen it, I don't have to tell you that Iron Man kicks major ass.

After that we proceeded to Browncoat Karaoke. I made a short video of Patrick & Laura singing Time Warp from Rocky Horror, and the other highlight was all four of us HOG Day volunteers singing Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.

All in all, a great time was had by all. In all.