Here's the situation.

I live with my parents, trying to help take care of them while I look for a job so I can finally get to a place where I never have to see my father again.  My father, however, is obsessed with the internet to the point of physically taking his modem with him to work.

However, my mother is taking him on a trip, starting next Saturday, to celebrate her birthday (three months late) to the Grand Canyon.  And, from all accounts, unlike the last two big trips they took, she's going to force him to leave the modem and computer here so I can get online for the mere week they're gone.

I say this because I really, really feel like I'm starting to connect with this community.  But thanks to the unrealistic computer restrictions my internet-addicted father fosters (addictions that my mother can't make a dent in when he physically takes the modem and computer to work with him), I can't make any of your regularly scheduled chats.  But with this, I feel things might have a chance of changing, just for one week.

So I have a question.

Anyone interested in having a Chatomatic with the IRGBalcony tag on Sunday, April 29th?  Maybe around 8PM?  Or maybe a few days later.

I'd love to get a chance to talk to some more of you in person and really feel more of this camraderie that exists here.  And until I finally get my own place and my own job, this might be the last opportunity.  If it happens.

In fact, anyone who knows me knows I live out in the sticks, deep south hillbilly cousin-lovin country.  With no car.  And odds are my best friend Josef is going to be busy that week.  So I'll actually be trapped alone in the house for a week.  A forced staycation.

Once this staycation starts, on the 29th, would anyone be interested in me doing a real-time, week-long staycation self-destructive spiral live blog post board thingy?  I would start a post here as soon as the trip started, and let you people get into my deepest, sickest inner-most thoughts while I try to cook Japanese food, look for a job, go through the 30+ movies on the DVR, and eventually just degenrate completely into madness by week's end.

Just a warning.  This is over a week from now, and things can still go pear-shaped for the whole plan.

I've got a pretty good idea that my father's trying to bait me into screwing up so that he has an excuse to take the modem and computer with him.  For example, he actually started cursing me out, while I was writing this, cursing up a storm because I opened a door for my mother.  So he can still wreck this.

But those are my ideas.  And as of now, supposedly for now, that's my plan.