6/9/03 10:10 am

Damn, I haven't updated this thing since the end of April. Well, a LOT of stuff has happened since then. Let's start from the beginning.

My car got broken into at our apartment in Muskegon. Some jack-off smashed the driver's side window in. At first glance, it didn't look like anything had been stolen. My radio was there and looked untouched. I couldn't figure out why someone would do that. Oh, and of course, it was raining that morning that I discovered this (it was a Monday morning, too, of course). So, I called the police and he came out, took all my info and then said that there really wasn't anything they could do. I said ok and went to call my insurance just to double check that they wouldn't cover it. While i was doing that, the officer came back and came up to our apartment. He said, "Are you aware that there is a warrant out for your arrest?" Gerry was in such a state of shock I don't think he was even breathing. I just looked at him in shock for a moment and said, "No. What's it for?" "It's a bench warrant, so it's state wide. It's for failure to appear in court." "Appear in court for what?" "It doesn't say. Do you have any tickets?" "I haven't had any tickets in a long time.........So, what do we do? Do you have to take me in?" "Well, it's a $500 bail. I'm supposed to, it's officer's discretion. I trust you'll go in and take care of this?" "Oh, yeah." So, he told us where to go and we went to the courthouse. I went up to the window and said, "Hi, I think there's a warrant out for my arrest." The woman looked up my records and couldn't find anything. "But the officer told me." So, we went down to the police department after that. The woman there looked up my records and didn't find anything either. BUT she did find that a woman with the same first name and "ss" in her last name rather than "sh" was the one with the warrant out for her. We went back to the apartment and I was on the phone with Gerry's mom when we saw the cop pull into the parking lot. So, I went running down. He said, "I owe you a big apology." "That's ok. I'm just glad it turned out alright." He was a really nice guy. Can you imagine what a pain in the ass it would have been if he had taken me in? Well, after all that, I finally discovered what they stole: my paperback book. If I'm reading a paperback and I'm going to be taking it around with me, I put it in a black book cover. I guess sitting there on the seat it looked like a purse. Bastards, I was halfway through with that book!

Later that same day, I discovered just how badly I had hurt my back at work the previous day and ended up having to go to the doctor. It was so bad, I couldn't move without screaming. Work covered it. I was on muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatory drugs for a few weeks.

Also later that same day, we decided that we were going to move. We had known about an apartment in Grand Haven that someone Gerry knows was renting. We had been a little wishy-washy on it, but after the car situation, we decided to get out of Muskegon. So, we moved to Grand Haven. This is much nicer. I'm closer to school and I'm closer to work.

Oh, and since I haven't really gotten any response from the comics page, I'm going to dump it, I think. If you want it there and you want the updates, email me and let me know, otherwise it'll be gone by next week.