2007

The Personal Loan we got is really helping us get everything we ever wanted. While it hasn’t helped us buy a house yet, it is helping us get the things that we need, like blankets and that kind of thing. We applied for $20,000 and were approved for $8000, but that is most likely because we don’t own a home. We do need to find out some things about payment though, like if we really need to send out the little payment slip along with a check, or if we can just send a check out using our bank account. I never got checks with my account because I never use checks, to me they are obsolete, why pay with a check when I can use a credit card, or with bill pay?? Personal Loans are great if you need money now. Plus you aren’t putting up any collateral, which is always a good thing in my book.

I think we are going to stay here by ourselves this Thanksgiving. We kind of don’t want to be around much family right now and Thanksgiving doesn’t hold much of a meaning in either of our hearts, besides we’d much rather just spend it together. We will still have the traditional meal, it is just that instead of going to New York to do it with other people we will be doing it by ourselves. Last year I went up to New York and had dinner at my aunt’s, but most of the day I was working. Besides at this point if I were to go to New York it would be more about playing Playstation 3 than spending time with them.

Where do you go when you need to know something about websites? I am not talking about finding websites, I am talking about the kind of stuff that might confuse you, such as what an IP address is. While websites like Wikipedia are great, they sometimes explain things in a technical manner, which might confuse some people. That is why Caribbean Web Development is so great, they explain things in ways that you can understand. They are a fairly new site, only a few months old, but they have great articles like why you should care about how your website looks on a mobile phone.

I have always wanted to try Absinthe. For those of you who don’t know it is a liquor that is illegal in the United States because of its high alcohol volume and because it is reported to make you hallucinate. Now I am not saying I want to be off my ass with cartoons running around, but I would like to see what it is like. I mean I can do shots of tequila and vodka and just get drunk, I would like to see what it is like if you are hallucinating. I am not even sure if I would hallucinate, some people have said that it doesn’t actually make you do that and its an urban legend, but I don’t know.

As you know, I just bought my first camcorder. I haven’t really used it for anything yet, but I am hoping to maybe have some video blogs, maybe in some odd locations. Who knows maybe I will record a blog from the beach, or in some other place that people don’t normally blog from. I am just haoppy that I have a camcorder, now all I need to do is figure out what my first project is going to be. I am probably going to break down and do a video blog post as the first one, but you never know.

Just because I am happy with my camcorder, doesn’t mean that I don’t still want a top of the line digital camera. One day, I would love to own a Nikon camera. While I do love the way film comes out, I don’t think I would get a film camera though. Digital cameras are making leaps and bounds every year and an 8 megapixel camera is the equivalent of a film picture, so I would choose a digital camera. I am not saying that I wouldn’t own a film camera, I am just saying if it was a choice between a Nikon digital and a Nikon film, then I would choose the Nikon digital.

I took some time today to clean off my desk. In just a week’s time, I don’t know how I accumulate so much paperwork, considering I don’t use any for work. It doesn’t look much better, but I am hoping that I can get back to it later. I did play some Halo today, but the hype seemed to die down. Halo 2 was great, I played for hours, even years after its release. Halo 3 just seems like something is missing. Maybe Bungie will release some downloadable content that will fill in the void. I just wonder what they will add besides new maps, if anything.

Have you ever needed money for something, but just didn’t have it? Did you know that you can get between $200 and $1500 with Payday Loans? It is easy too. There’s no annoying paperwork, you can submit it online and get approved within seconds. Plus if you have bad credit it doesn’t matter, all credit levels are accepted. It is definitely a good idea if you just don’t have that extra cash.

I started writing up the Spiderman 3 synopsis. It should be done either tonight or within the next few days. I don’t know because I need to watch it again because some details slip my mind. I mean I know the story, just some sequence of events might be out of whack, so I need to watch and take notes. After that I still don’t know what I am going to do with the website. There’s ideas, but they all kind of seem to fall short. I might try and get a gallery up again.

Is there anything more majestic than New York City in the winter? New York City is a wonderful place all year long, but there is something about the winter time that makes it even more spectacular. The stores have their window displays out that probably costs more than most people’s houses, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, Even just the Empire State Building lit up red and green for Christmas. If you have never been to New York City,. then I highly suggest you go this holiday season.

If you do happen to venture into the city this year, then you shouldn’t just limit yourself to shopping or the Christmas tree, why not take in some culture while you’re there? Visit some of the museums while you are there, take a a Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise to see the skyline. The problem with doing more than one of these things is it is just too expensive. If you were to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the new Greek and Roman galleries, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, the top of the Empire State Building Observatory, and get tour from the water aboard a Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise, it would cost you $130.

If you are interested in doing those things, and you want to save some money to spend it on dining and other things, then why not get a New York CityPass? It is $60 and includes admission to those attractions that I listed above, but with the CityPass you don’t need to wait in the long lines for tickets, you can just go right to the attraction. It also includes a map of the city and the best times to visit each attraction. What more could you ask for?

Well I updated WordPress to the latest version. I had some problems with it at first, but I think it was due to something in my htaccess file. I am a little confused as to what these tags under the post are, but I will try it out and see what happens.

Also I am happy to report that the Leprakhaun’s Wordcount Plugin works in 2.3.1.

I have been thinking a lot about going back to school. I was planning on doing it when we moved, but since our move has been postponed indefinitely, I don’t know when I will be able to get back into school. What I was thinking, if I just got an associates then I could be a substitute teacher.

I was already a tutor, and if I was a substitute teacher then I would have access to the teacher’s books and help people even more. I am hoping that when I was a tutor, I was an Innovative Tutor. What I mean is that I hope that I showed people how to look at things in a different light. Like if someone is having trouble with math, then to associate it with things they would understand like football, or sewing if the case may be.

I might be upgrading WordPress either tonight or tomorrow, so if the website goes down then you know why. I have to back everything up before I do it, so I won’t lose anything. What this meansg for anyone uses my plugins, I will upgrade my plugins as soon as I can to make them work with the newest version of WordPress. Now I am off to do some work, possibly do some upgrades, and maybe play some Halo.