2007

Since we might be buying a mobile home instead of renting an apartment, we’ve been talking about how we’d like things. She wants pale green walls and everything bright and airy, which is fine. I might try and convince her to let me take out the old fixtures and put in new Moen faucets. I have always liked the look of a Moen faucet, of course I never knew what they were called until I looked it up online. I think it would be great if we had a nice white tiled bathroom and we had really great looking Moen fixtures. Now I just need to figure out how to put them in without having to pay for that.

We might be moving into a mobile home that would cost us about $300 a month to live in. It is a lot better than living in an apartment for $700 to $800 a month. The best part is that if we don’t like something, then it can be changed. I mean say there is a wall we don’t like, we can take the wall out completely. I think this is going to be much better than living in an apartment, especially with so many of them converting to section 8.

Krissy and I have close to no money. I mean yes we have money for food, the everyday bills, we have the money for all that. We even have money for rent in a new place. What we don’t have is the money to get my car fixed or to go to Ohio to look for a new place. That is why we took out an Unsecured Line of Credit. We did it unsecured because we don’t need to put up any collateral. We should know whether or not we have the money by my birthday, September 21st. I hope we get the money.

Someone emailed me earlier this week about why I talk about the Wii and the 360, but don’t say anything about the Playstation 3. There is a simple answer, at this point in time, I don’t see any reason to own one. Yes, it has wireless bluetooth controllers that are motion sensitive and it comes packed with a Blu-Ray disk drive. Well I don’t know if Blu-Ray will win the console war, and there aren’t enough games for it that I am interested in. Lair looks good, but from what I’ve read the controls are sloppy. Resistance: Fall of Man looks too much like Gears of War for me to get excited about, and the only game that I would actually want is Warhawk, and I cannot justify buying a console for one game.

I was a Sony fan long after they announced the Playstation 3. It was the price that made me turn away from them. Plus the Playstation 2 online was difficult to succumb to. Xbox 360 has the addition of a simple online service and the addition of the a gamer score, pretty much has the online play covered. Yes Playstation online is free, but I would rather pay as long as I don’t have to pay as muchas the Playstation 3.

The holidays are upon us, and we all know what that means. Among buying presents for people whom you don’t really like and going crazy trying to find the perfect gift for people you do actually like, you need to buy a new calendar. For me buying a print calendar is kind of annoying because I don’t like cute and fuzzy things and the inspirational ones all show the same 12 images, just at different angles. I’m not even keen on a Family Guy cal;endar or Simpsons calendar.

For my 2008 calendar I am thinking about getting a custom one made. Maybe a picture of Krissy and I for one month, Bella for another month, some art she or I did for the others. I don’t know I just think a custom calendar is much more fun, because most of the time people who see it will flip through and look at the different months. This way if it is personal it is a piece of art and tells a story so you actually want people to flip through the calendar and know the story. That’s just my take on it, anyway.

After the year is over, you can take those images and frame them to make art all around your house, so that the next year if you decide to do another custom one, you can use all new images.

So I just got off the phone with my friend who lives in Ohio and he kind of brought up some stuff that we didn’t even know. Apparently the bills out there are much different than here. He pays like $30 a month for electric compared to the $250 a month here, that alone will save us a lot of money. I think we might be moving very soon, maybe we will be all moved in by Halloween, well hopefully anyway. I’ll keep everyone posted on the moving plans and how they change when I know more.

I created that avi in Morpheus Photo-Morpher. It was really easy to do, too. All you do is load a picture in the first frame, then load a picture in the second one and then render it. It is a lot easier than spending countless hours trying to learn other programs that aren’t as user friendly as this. You can literally make hundreds of transitions right off the bat without having to sdo much configuring at all. I made that with out of the box settings, without tweaking anything.

Do you have photos of your children through each stage of their life? Maybe you would like to morph from when they were a baby to when they were three to when they turned seven to a teenager, to their wedding day. Or maybe you would like to watch yourself get younger. You don’t even need to morph people. You can transform cars, trucks, dogs, cats, anything you want. The possibilities are endless with this.

I’ve used photo morphers before, and none of them were ever this easy. I’m not talking about the free ones you get, I am talking about some of the big names, but none of them were this easy. If you are looking for photo morphing software, then I suggest that you pick up Morpheus Photo-Morpher. You won’t be disappointed.

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Gamestop has been calling me all day telling me about how I get an extra 30% when I trade in games because I reserved a copy of Halo 3. That is all fine and dandy, too bad I traded everything I wanted to get rid of months ago when I preordered Halo 3. If I had known that I would have gotten more money, then of course I would have waited, but no one tells you about promotions in advance, so I didn’t wait. I just wish they would stop calling me and taunting me.

Krissy really wants a Mac. I might put some money to one if she does decide to buy one, she would mainly be using it for work, I would use it for music and Photoshop. I might even use it for some games. The original Halo was perceived on a Mac, so I might get that. I’d also like to pick up some poker software for the Mac. I really want to get into playing poker and gain some strategies that I can take to a casino.

I’ve been on Fulltilt Poker studying the moves people make and why they make them, and I think I have learned quite a bit from going there. The people there are usually nice, and some have even given me some personal tips if I tell them that I haven’t played much in the past.

Pokerstars seems to have the best of the best. The stakes are high, and they don’t really offer many tips, but watching them play is amazing, you don’t know what some of them are thinking and then they pull out pocket aces and then you realize that they knew what they were doing all along.

The president interrupted your regularly scheduled television shows tonite to bring you himself in high definition. An idiot in high definition is just as much of an idiot as he was in other definitions. I don’t care what he has to say, I don’t believe anyone should have to listen to the man, or any president. He should have his own special channel, or just on news channels and not during other shows. But if he was on a channel that wasn’t one of the primary channels, then would you turn it on? Let’s put him where he belongs, on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, not on ABC, NBC, and Fox.

I’ve blogged a lot about how I am in a couple thousand dollars worth of debt, and I am doing good with paying everything back, and while I don’t think I am going to be needing help paying things back, I think I will need help getting my credit back. I’ve been thinking about getting some credit cards for bad credit. See while my number one priority is to pay off the cards, I cannot forget that I also need to build my credit back up. Without a good credit score I’d never be able to get a mortgage, or a car loan, or even a non-prepaid cellphone. That is why I am so dedicated to paying back the credit cards and getting my credit back up.

When I first heard about Spiderman: Friend or Foe, I was excited by it, but as screenshots and more information came out about it I became less excited. The demo was put on XBox Live today and I haven’t downloaded it yet, but I will probably download it later tonight. I love all things Spiderman, don’t get me wrong, but going from a wide open New York City sandbox style game to one with predetermined levels, just seems a bit old school. I will still give the demo a chance, but I don’t know if I am goiing to pick up the game like I had previously anticipated.