2007

I have been to a casino a few times now. I have been up to Dover Downs, Midway Slots, and Atlantic City and the casino really bothers me after a few hours. You have all those people around you, with all that noise, it just gives me a migraine. I just wish I could play in an online casino. The problem with that is that I live in America and most online casinos are illegal now.

Believe me though, if they weren’t illegal here then I would be playing and possibly losing all my money, or possibly winning some. I mean I am good when I am not playing for money, and I am good on a poker machine at a real casino, but I get too cocky and keep going, which results in me losing money. I guess I just need to learn when to get up and move to another machine.

Remember when I paid off my $500 credit card a few months ago, only to have part of the card go back to getting myself a brake job? Well I transferred the remaining balance out of PayPal today and I paid the card off completely. I should have some interest charges, but as long as the card is paid off then I am happy. I am going to keep my hosting payment on the card, but that is all right because it is only $10 a month and will help me build my credit if I pay that back every month in full.

Before I got my car fixed, I was thinking about getting a new one. I would need a loan for a car though, and right now my credit is kind of bad. Of course there is always Stonebridge Auto Lending, which offers bad credit car loans, new car loans, used car loans, auto loan refinancing, and auto lease buyout financing. It might be the way to go, if I really needed a newer, better car, but for right now it doesn’t look like I will be getting a new car. I will keep that website in mind though, for when my car actually does die, this way I will have it.

We aren’t trying to go crazy with the loan money, in fact we haven’t even touched it yet, and probably won’t until we are in Ohio, whenever that may be. Just because we aren’t going crazy, doesn’t mean that we aren’t looking at things we’ve always wanted and seeing if it would be feasible. I’ve been looking at cameras. Digital, film, and video to be exact. See I have always loved taking pictures, and even wanted to be a director growing up, so having a video camera would be great, and a new camera would allow me to take many more pictures. I just need to see how much I will be able to save and spend, but most likely I am going to have to wait until after the holidays.

Despite my little problem with the credit card a bad credit loan company sent me, I have no problem with bad credit loans in general. Everyday more and more people slip into debt and can’t get out. No matter how hard they try they can’t seem to catch a break with their credit cards, mortgages, even student loans. When that happens their credit slips well below average, with not many people to care about their story. That is why I don’t think bad credit loans are a bad thing, they help people who need to be helped. They care about helping you get your credit rating up, so they will give you a card that has an annual fee, but with a low interest rate so you can get on your feet again.

Nothing new on the Ohio front, I tried calling up a few residents seeing if they knew the number for the head office, but they didn’t. Apparently they moved the head office to Alliance, Ohio and there isn’t a phone number for them yet. I guess we’ll have to wait it out for now, but I want to get out of here quick and painlessly, so I am impatient. I just wish that I knew what was going on, we called the residents of the park, and tried his in-laws, but nothing seems to be coming from this. I just wish someone would shed some light on things.

I have a lot of ideas for my website and the Lep’s Lair Network in general. The problem is that eventually I am going to need a shopping cart, and I don’t think I could write one myself. Luckily Ashop writes a shopping cart program that has more features than I would ever need. It offers reviews, real time payments, and integration within the Google checkout, which would be a big thing for me especially with what I would use it for. One of the coolest features is the fact that I don’t need to write any HTML to design it, everything is done in a rich text editor. This way I don’t have to worry about taking out any code that will mess it up, I can do it all and not worry about messing up the code so it doesn’t work anymore. This shopping cart really does add it all for merchants, if you are looking for one, then check it out. They have a ten day free trial, so why wouldn’t you give it a shot?

The phone on sale wasn’t a Razor, but it doesn’t look that different than a Razor and it is from Motorola, so Krissy is happy with it. She also bought a Lava Lamp from KMart and I went to EBGames and got a new MadCats headset. The headset is kind of annoying, it isn’t padded and it goes behind the head, which I am not used to. It also keeps coming out of the hole. It was five dollars cheaper than the official one though, so I guess I can’t complain.

Krissy and I have been going down the shopping list of everything we want an d need. One thing that we haven’t really discussed yet is lighting. She wants a nice bright house that doesn’t look like a dungeon, I don’t care about the colors, but a house with really bright lights would bother me. I’m not saying I am a vampire or anything, I just have sensitive eyes.

Personally I would like something that provides light, but also looks good. Maybe some fine art lamps because they don’t look like normal everyday lamps, they look interesting, and that is the kind of thing that I like. A lamp that looks like a lamp that stands there with a switch, that is boring to me, if I am going to have a lamp, then I want it to be an interesting lamp. I would even go as far as trying to talk Krissy into one or two george kovacs lamps, I really like his grid collection, and even his other lamps look like they would fit my taste.

The Iron Man Screenshots of the upcoming video game by Sega look amazing. This is the first time Sega is taking on a Marvel game based on a movie, Electronics Arts did the Spiderman movies. The screenshots don’t really tell you much about the game, but if they are anything like the Spiderman movie games, then you it might be a sandbox style game where you travel from country to country, but they haven’t said anything yet about that. It looks amazing though, so I hope it plays just as well.

I want tyo go back to a real college after we move. It would be nice if I could just go and have the money to pay for it outright, but the truth is that I will need to apply for Financial Aid. I hate applying for it though, because no matter how many times I fill out the paperwork, it is just as confusing the next year. If you go to the college’s Financial Aid office they usually have some paperwork that is supposedly going to help you with the questions on the actual Fafsa forms, but it never does. I mean those questions aren’t as confusing, but they don’t really help you fill out the actual form.

I guess when I am going through the fafsa application I am going to need to find some help anywhere I can get it, like usual. I just hope that I will be able to receive assistance this year, seeing as how I am not able to be claimed and my income is going to determine if I can get it or not. I don’t think it will be a big problem, maybe I won’t receive a lot, but I should hopefully receive something.

I was messing around with an old section that I took down a while ago. I may be putting it back later today, it is going to go in the Me Category. Before I do that though, I need to shower and go to KMart because they are having a sale and Krissy wants a Razor and some bedding for when we move. I don’t know when we will be moving though, I still haven’t heard anything back from him, and I don’t want to just drive to Ohio to find out he isn’t there you know?