2007

I know my car will not last forever. I know the harsh reality is that most likely in the next year or two I am going to need a new car. Honestly I am hoping for the latter, but I cannot control which it is. I have been looking at a Honda Car Quote that isn’t a bad deal. I got two quotes fast, and I looked at them both and while both of them are very good, one is lower so I have been drawn to that one. It is a very tempting offer, and I will need to think about it for a while. I wonder if I could get even a thousand dollars for my trade in, if I could, then this quote might become the price I pay for a car.

My hard drive should be here tomorrow. What that means for me is that tonight I am going to have to move some stuff around so that I can replace my twenty gigabyte music drive with the new 500 gigabyte one. I am still going to have a separate drive just for my music, I am planning on partitioning the drive maybe about 100/400 or so just so I have room to expand with the music. The 400 will be for programs and other various things.

Now that my printer is working, it tells me that I am out of ink. If I order ink for my printer, then I should probably order some for my mother’s printer as well. She has an HP printer and goes through more HP 56 black than anyone I know. She is always printing stuff from online, or her resume, or even those forwards that people send to you that tell you to send it to five people and something good will happen to you. I don’t know why she does it, but I guess it makes her happy.

I usually get my ink online because it is cheaper, and HP inkjet cartridges can be found anywhere that my printer brand can be found. I buy online because going to a store and purchasing ink is too much of a hassle, plus they are usually more expensive. Buying ink cartridges online though, from online stores like Carrot Ink can definitely save you a lot of time money and hassle.

The last few times I tried to print something, it didn’t work. It wouldn’t even loan the paper all the way in. I looked at it last night and I found there were crumbs in it. See Krissy likes to put food on top of it , so that is how they got there. It is a good thing I didn’t buy that printer in Walmart yesterday, but I am happy with the camcorder.

I am a nerd, you know why? I want this Beretta Air Rifle because it looks like the battle rifle from Halo. Actually if I could get real weapons that are replicas from the Halo series I think that would be extremely cool. Think about it, if I could own an Sub Machine Gun, rocket launcher, Shotgun, and a sniper rifle, I would be in heaven. I would mount them as my Halo collection. The problem is that I don’t really like guns, and I don’t think I could get all those as air guns. I am not even sure if it is legal to own a rocket launcher, but it would be nice though. I am not talking about having rockets for it, I mean just a rocket launcher, never will be fired, just to have.

Even if it isn’t the Beretta Air Rifle, I still would love to own an air gun. They are cool looking, and you can’t do much damage with them. I mean it is a lot easier to grab airsoft guns and scare away unwanted intruders than it is to grab a sword when Krissy hears something at night and kicks me out of bed to check it out. Plus if you can find mistakes on that website then they give you 5% off your purchase, so that is extra incentive for me to go through them rather than going to another place.

My site is slow and it is pissing me off. My site was down before and it was also down yesterday. Support hasn’t gotten back to me and it has been over 3 hours. I know that it is hard to keep a server up and running, but if it comes to a point where you need to ask yourself do you want uptime or unlimited resources, I think you need to choose the uptime. I will see what happens with this, but if they don’t do something soon, then I am going to leave Dreamhost.

I am throwing away books that I don’t need. I mean when am I ever going to be using a Photoshop 2.5 book, when I have a Photoshop CS2 book? I do appreciate that I could get them for free after my step mother died, but I don’t really have a use for them anymore. I don’t even think I ever had a use for them, but they did teach me some things in Photoshop that I didn’t think you could do, but I never used them for anything big. So books on Photoshop and networking Macs, and Illustrator I bid you farewell.

The time has come for me to start thinking about what to get people for Christmas, or whatever holiday they may celebrate. Thankfully there is couponchief, this way I won’t have to spend as much money to get people things they want. I am currently looking into coupons on cooking for things to get for Krissy, and for Bella I wasthinking about Petco coupons. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t use coupons because I am cheap, I use them because then I can save more money and get people more things they want. Giving is what the holiday season is all about right?

Since we are staying, we purchased some things to make our lives a bit easier. One of the things was a couple of bookcases that we are going to stack on top of each other and will be using as our television and possible DVD stand. It will add some much needed storage in the bedroom, so that is a plus. As for the office, I am going to be finding places for things I use on everyday. Plus I need to see if I can get some E-books of some books, this way I can have less books around.

I hate to say it, but it looks like the only way that we will be getting out of here is if we get a mortgage and buy a house. Apartments are too expensive and don’t offer any utilities down here. New York and New Jersey apartments are too expensive. Plus everywhere else is too far from our families in case something happens. I am just hoping that we can get find fixed rate mortgages. With this market lately, a lot of banks are giving variable rates and it is getting to expensive so they have to foreclose.

I know that I don’t want a mortgage if I am living in a mobile home. If I am going to be putting money out every month on top of utilities, then eventually I want to be able to own it outright. I might consider cheap mortgages if they can be paid back in a couple of years, if not then I don’t even think I would consider it unless the house was gorgeous. I know everyone has mortgages, but having a mortgage and paying lot rent are two completely separate things and I don’t want a rented lot that I can’t buy outright.

Right now the camcorder is plugged in and charging. I am already brainstorming ideas for some video posts and whatnot.I am also going to need some video editing software. I am going to look into Adobe Premiere CS3, after all if I am going to be editing videos, then I might as well do it the best way I can. I am also currently looking how to set it up to record off a television, but at this point I am not sure it is possible. I might be able to hook it up to the 360 via USB. I have a couple ideas that I could via Machinima, but that will be discussed later, and only if I decide to do it.

So while we will be staying here for a while longe, I need to come up with some better storage solutions, especially in the office. I have been thinking a lot about it, at first I thought more shelves, but that would just look bad. Then I thought about some Sterilite Containers, but we already have a bit too many of those. I have even thought about getting rid of the desks and using computer carts, but I love my desk and I know Krissy loves hers too much to give it up. I think the best solution so far might be getting LAN Racks.

With LAN Racks I could customize how I want everything to look and be set up as. I could get it as big or as thin as I want. Plus the advantage with the LAN Racks would be that they are on wheels and have shelves attached, so I could move the entire thing without much effort if I needed to. Plus the shelves could store any peripherals like a printer or a fax machine.