2007

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.

While we were in Walmart tonight I picked up a JVC mini DV camcorder. This purchase, along with my 500 gigabyte hard drive that should be here within the next few days should really piece together the next big thing for Lep’s Lair. Now if you are sitting there thinking that I have everything planned out with what I want the next big thing to be then stop, that isn’t the case at all. The truth is I have a lot of little projects, the main one being the Spiderman 3 synopsis and pictures to get done first, but after that I am kind of stumped. I guess we will have to see what happens after the camcorder is charged and the hard drive is installed.

They close a lot of things in Delaware for dumb reasons. One time I had a delayed opening in college due to fog. I got there on time because I didn’t think that they would delay it on a nice beautiful spring day, but they did. I was so mad at the school and the fact that if these people had to drive in the snow I had to drive in to go to school up in New Jersey, they would probably die, that I decided to blow off class and just go home.

It isn’t like the fog was as bad as it is in The Mist by Stephen King. It wasn’t so bad that I needed to stop and wait it out, like they do in The Mist. The Mist looks interesting, it is actually how I always thought my poem "The Dark Cloud" would play out if it ever went on screen, or if I ever expanded it into a full blown story. It isn’t like I copied it or anything, I don’t even think I heard about the short story until now. If you want to see what I am talking about, then visit The Mist movie site and check out the movie trailer.

My friend from Ohio’s father went into remission a few weeks ago so he is moving down to Florida where his stepmother and father live. I’ve known them my whole life, I was never close to them, but it is still weird when someone you know goes back into remission. Despite him moving, he still wants me to go to Ohio and visit him before he moves down to Florida. I would, but I don’t know about going out there in the next few days. I guess I just need to figure out if I want to take the trip out there, suck up my disappointment with the whole thing and make him feel better.Normally I would, but at this point in time with finding everything out last night, I just don’t know if I can. Besides he is leaving in a week or two so he needs to pack and everything.

I have been a tutor and I have been tutored. I used to give teachers and tutors a hard times when I was younger. Now that I have been a tutor, I want to call up each and every tutor and teacher I have had and apologize. I was especially mean to the Math Tutors and teachers. I think it was just the fact that I was so frustrated with everything, but if I could go back and change things I would. They have it rough. Between people who just don’t get it and those who just don’t get it, give up, and get so far behind that it seems almost impossible to catch up.

I did pick up the two disk special edition Spiderman 3 early this morning when we went to Walmart. I also watched the movie today. Now all I have to do is write up a summary of it and take some screen shots. I am half tempted to take any shot of Venom and add in a tongue, I mean afterall that is what makes Venom, Venom.

When I was in Delaware tech I was a tutor. It wasn’t anything hard for me really, it was just English and reading. Like all the Reading Tutors you had to have an A in the college English and if you had to take any remedial reading courses then you needed an A in that as well. I think I helped some people, while I just confused everyone else because what they were learning wasn’t what I was taught at all. I tried my best to go along with what the instructor was teaching, though. Som,etimes it is just hard because they are stuck on something a few weeks back and then you need to get them caught up again. Sometimes being a tutor is hard.

The complex was apparently sold to someone else and no one can get in touch with their the seller or the buyer, so we aren’t moving. I wish they would have told us this information earlier so then we wouldn’t have made plans to do this and get the loan and everything. It looks like we will be staying where we are until after January, it sucks, but we’ll deal somehow.