2007

I like to learn. The job I have now, I mainly took because I could take it and learn while working. One day I would love to get certified in Networking or A+. Computer hardware has always fascinated me so a certificate in one of those would definitely pique my interest. I’ve looked into it and I found a CCNA certification training program that seems to be pretty good. It would cost me some money, but I wouldn’t have to sit through english and math, I could go right through to the networking aspect and get right into how to network computers and make sure that they are secure, so as to not get any hackers breaking through the system.

Sony revealed that the Playstation 2 is still a viable gaming system and that they will continue to make games for it. I was a Sony fan since the original Playstation, but I don’t remember many games coming to it after the Playstation 2 came out, but that might be because the Playstation 2 was an instant success. Playstation 3 is failing to gain a market, and just because they recently announced that the dualshock controller would be back, doesn’t mean that the Playstation 3 would even gain enough speed to utilize their old friend.

Microsoft stopped making XBox games a few months after it came out, and they never said the original was a part of their main focus after the debut of the 360, aside from some companies releasing downloadable content for the original XBox games. So it sounds to me like Sony might be sweating a little bit, especially with the delay of Home. Home sounds good in theory, but unless they have something that XBox and the Sims Online doesn’t have, I don’t think it will be as popular as they are hoping.

I’ve always wanted to do work on my car, but it is so hard to get under there that I normally just take it to a place to get simple work done, like an oil change or a brake job. Well I found out that you can get a car lift for your garage. Previously I did not know this, so I am thinking about getting one when I have a garage so I can use it for doing work on my car. It would be a lot cheaper than going to a service station, and if I know how to do it, then it would make things that much easier.

Warning post may gross you out

I really need to start eating better. I’ve decided that maybe it isn’t a lack of exercise, but a lack of eating nutritious food. I woke up today with violent poopage, and I have decided that it is most likely due to the things I eat. So I am going to stop drinking so much soda (right now I have eight cans of finished soda on my desk) and start drinking water. I figure when I pick up Halo 3 (I’m leaving on Monday at 11:30 PM), I can go to Superfresh and get some water. Then I can drink water all day while I am playing, instead of the soda I would normally consume. I figure I drink more soda than anything, so I would instantly start to cleanse my system by drinking a couple bottles a day, plus I probably wouldn’t be so thirsty.

My cousin has Diabetes, and it is sad, but that is actually the least of his problems. He has insurance, now, but my aunt told me that there was a time when he didn’t have insurance. Diabetes isn’t a disease you want to have witghout insurance, between testing supplies, and insulin shots, and an insulin pump, if needed, it would all cost a pretty penny. Unfortunitely not everyone is fortunate enough to have insurance. Luckily now there is ascensia diabetic testing supplies. Ascenia is a diabetic supply company for people with diabetes who do not have insurance.

I’ve known many people with diabetes, and I have seen how much it can cost. I am just thankful that I myself don’t have it and hopefully I never will. Even with insurance it is very pricey, and if I didn’t have insurance, there would be no way I could afford it. At least I could go to Ascensia and get cheaper supplies. That’s one good thing, right?

So my car cost me over $500. The card that I just paid off a couple days ago, now has to get paid off again next month. It shouldn’t be that bad, though, because I should have the money next month to pay it off, and pay a lot off the other card as well. Let’s just hope I have as much as I think I am going to have, it would suck if I didn’t. Now all I need to do is get a loan.

I went to EB Games tonight and paid for the rest of Halo 3, so I am all paid for and I can pick it up Tuesday at midnight. I am going to try and sleep most of the day on monday so I can get it at midnight and play it most of the night. Remember I will be giving my thoughts on the game on here and I will also giving a review of the game probably on Wednesday. If you want to stop by on XBox, let me know. I cleared out some people on my Friends List.

As you know I have been applying for loans left and right lately.I’ve tried personal loans, secured loans, even mortgages, but I haven’t been able to get any of them. Maybe I am not supposed to move, I really don’t know. We may have to get a co-signer to be able to get a loan, but that is a route that I really don’t want to take. Not that I don’t think I will be able to pay the loan back, but that is basically getting defeated you know? It’s like saying I couldn’t do it alone please help me. I am kind of tired of doing that.I may just have to do some debt consolidation to pay back everything I already owe and start fresh.

My car is dying. That noise that I was hearing that I wanted to believe was nothing, actually was the compressor that could die at any time. So I need to figure out how to pay for a car and get to Ohio, and possibly buy a place in Ohio. Oh crap! At least on Tuesday I can divulge myself in a whole day of Halo right?

I don’t use my computer for gaming, I used to for some RTS, but mainly that is what my XBox is for. Because I don’t, I can’t justify building a powerhouse for myself. My computer is fine for now, but one day I will need a new one. When that day comes, I might just buy a prebuilt computer, instead of doing it myself which I did for the one I’m on now. I know that there are some people who might hunt me down for saying that, but the truth is that when I was using it for gaming then I could justify it, but prebuilt ones aren’t that bad, and they are a lot less expensive. I’ve found some cheap computers that aren’t bad, especially with the huge harddrive they give you and the processing power. I don’t know if I will go that route, so unless I do you cannot hunt me down, if I ever do however, then you can do to me what you will.

Halo 3 comes out on Tuesday. I might be obsessed, but I love these epic story lines. Plus Halo 2 has been the majority of my online gaming the last four years and it is getting dull, so now I will be able to play the campaign online as well as all new maps with all new vehicles and weapons. Think about how all you WOW fans would feel if WOW 2 came out.

We may have figured out a way to actually afford to move. It involves getting a cheap mortgage and working our butts off, but I don’t anticipate working any harder than we do now. I mean we already work most days of the week, even though we do it from home, most of the work is done sporadically due to people not able to get back to us, or whatever. I mean if we are pooling our money, instead of having everything separate then we will be able to pay back any loans. I am the only one that drives so I would have to put out the money for car insurance, I wouldn’t ask Krissy to do that. I would have to find the best car insurance out there seeing as how I don’t think what I have now will be in Ohio.

My birthday was all right, didn’t do much due to the fact of the lack of funds. We need to save everything we can for our trip to Ohio (which may be next week). I just sat around playing Halo most of the day. I also had cake and brought my car to get looked at. Hopefully by tomorrow I will know what the noises are and I will be ready to drive to Ohio.