2007

San Francisco, home of the Tanner's house from Full House and the home of Battlebots, the only show on television where specially designed radio controlled robots beat the crap out of each other. It is also home to trolleys and the Golden Gate Bridge. I'd love to go there for some San Francisco Sightseeing . The hills there look awesome, I don't know if I'd want to drive on them, but I would definitely love to get some pictures of the hills and the houses that are on them. One of the things I'd do there would be sailing. Apparently San Francisco is a big sailing city, and I would love to be on a boat sailing and possibly even fishing.

Yes I'd love to visit San Francisco, especially around Chinese New York. Did you know that most of the videos you see of the dragon in the Chinese New Year Parade are actually from the San Francisco celebration? I've never been to any Chinese New Year, but it does look like a good time. Now I am in no way Chinese, but I would definitely love to partake in the festivities. What celebration would you love to partake in and why?

Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed until Spring 2008. Believe it or not, I was expecting this. Why? Well they announced it at E3 2006 with no trailer and the official trailer was released only a few weeks ago. It didn't really seem possible that they were working on it long enough that the trailer would only come out when it did, if they were nearly finished with the game.

So that is one game down that I won't be buying in 2007, but I would love it if Assassin's Creed stayed on track. I don't know what it is about that game, but I am definitely liking the way it looks.

Metroid Prime 3 is set to hit later this month, hopefully my Wii gets here by then, there isn't any new updates on where my Wii is, hopefully it is still on time and will get here next week.

I keep seeing those commercials for debt consolidation, and it made me realize why there are so many commercials for it. The credit card companies target college students. Most college students are poor, so any extra money will help them out, so a credit card seems like just the thing to help them have fun, without having to work extra hours. For those of you who think I don't know what I am talking about, how many times are credit card representatives on college campuses offering free gifts to sign up for credit cards? I will admit, I got mine from a Six Flags, and not from a college campus, but they were there. I just already had a $2500 credit card bill when I went to college, that's why I was weary of them.

Banks are way too easy at giving away money to college students. I am not just talking about the loans they give you to help you pay for college, I am talking about they will give you a credit card on a student account so you also use all the money in your checking account, and then owe your own bank money. About the only type of loan a college student can't get is secured personal loans and that is mainly because they don't have the collateral to put up to get the loan.

I took out the motherboard from Krissy's computer and put in one of mine. I threw out the case my motherboard was in. I am now one computer less, and now I need to figure out what to do with the remaining two computers. One will be a server, but I do not know when. I am going to try hosting files on it once it is uop and running, maybe a testing server for running a Linux distro. I don't know much about Linux, but what I can learn as I go.

I have been through three cars since I have been 18 years old. My first car, a Honda Civic, had 75,000 miles on the odometer, but it was clear to a mechanic that the miles had been rolled back. I was burning oil in that car and soon after it was dead. My second car, a Subaru Legacy, had 300,000 miles on it and the transmission went. I couldn't go in revers, so I had to either push it backwards, or park it head on. I didn't want to spend money on used transmission because the car had so many miles on it, so I decided to buy the car I have now, a Chevy Beretta.

I have had my Chevy Beretta for over two years, I have taken numerous trips in it, from Delaware to Ohio, to New York and back again. The car does have its problems, but the main reason I bought it was because a new transmission was put in it a month before, so I figured the transmission should last me a while. I think I need to give it an oil change, but that isn't too bad, it's a good car and it should hopfuilly last me a while longer.

Is there any other drink that is so good on a hot summer day than a nice tall glass of iced tea? I don't know why, especially when I do not like cold drinks, normally, but iced tea is always good. Lemonade is almost as good, but iced tea beats it hands down. Maybe later I'll add some rum to the mix and have some good old fashioned alcoholic iced tea. What are all of your favorite summer drinks if it isn't iced tea?

As someone who has taken to building my site up and getting it to be looked at as more than just a blog on the web, I know how important it is for me to have content. That is why I put so much emphasis on other things that aren't blog related. Having more content than just a blog will also help with search engines.

Most of my incoming links aren't from personal bloggers, but from other sites who use my tutorials and scripts. The more fresh content you have, the more people who link your site, the more people link your site, the higher link popularity you have.

If you aren't keen on having content, and just want a blog, but still want a good search engine ranking, then you might want to try link building. With link building you go around and comment on as many sites as possible, and get your site linked on as many sites as possible. The more links coming in, the better it is for your website.

I've talked before about how my grandmother loved Hawaii, and always told me that I would love it there. She went two or three times before she died, but I have never been there and neither has Krissy. Krissy and I have been discussing future trips and we decided to take the woman's advice and take a few trips to Hawaii, once we have everything settled and are doing all right financially. I'd love to see the volcanic eruptions, while Krissy wants to see sunrise and sunset over the ocean in one day. I think that would be pretty cool too. When we are actually ready to make plans, before going to a travel agent, we'll probably look up Hawaii vacation reviews to make sure we are going to the right islands during the right time of year. It would suck to go and find out nothing was on one island, when a big party was going on on another island.

We're going to Burger King tonight for dinner. I have some work I could be doing, but my stomach is rumbling so I don't really want to start anything yet. Krissy is working on something for a major client right now, so I really don't want to disturb her, she's a hard worker that girl.

In non-food news, anyone else get emails from thefanlistings saying to put an update on your site even if you haven't had any new members? That won't be a problem for me, once I really get into updating those things, but for right now, I don't have time to be thinking about them. Trust me though, my fanlistings will have more stuff there, eventually.

So here it is the beginning of August and I have calculated how much I have made from Lep's Lair. Last month's income from the site was $121.50. Let's see how I did this month:

Loud Launch: $15.00
PayPerPost: $373.02
Blogsvertist: $30.00
Text Link Ads: $5.25
Adbrite: 11.96
Private Advertisers: 4.16

The total for July 2007 was $439.39. That's up $317.89 that it was last month. Now let's see if I can keep on the upward spiral and make some more money next month.

Has anyone else seen the previews for Superbad? Superbad is the new movie from the guys who brought you Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin. The movie looks absolutely hilarious, you can check out clips on the YouTube website. The movie stars Jonah Hill (Accepted, The 40 Year Old Virgin) and Michael Cera (Arrested deveopment), two high school students who are going through separation anxiety after their party goes awry.

If you saw Knocked Up, or The 40 Year Old Virgin, then you know how funny they are, and this movie will most likely not disappoint. Just from the clips alone, I was laughing my head off. If you don't believe that a movie can be as funny as I am describing it, then check out the clips at SuperbadClips.

There seems to be a lot of comedies coming out of the woodwork, some of them just looks stupid. I mean with one ping pong movie, and another where someone is jumping over cars, this movie is guarenteed to come out on top, and it will probably an instant classic, being compared to other great movies. This is one movie that I will definitely be checking out, and I might even do it when it comes out in theaters, instead of waiting for it to come to DVD.

The Wii is on its way. It should be here by next week, apparently they decided to upgrade the shipping and instead of taking a few weeks, it should be here within ten days of the shipping date, which is Thursday. It might take a little while longer, but it might be here in less time than that. Either way, I am very excited to finally own a Wii. Now if they can get Metroid Prime 3 out for it, I will be as happy as a kid in a candy store.