2007

I’ve been invited to play paintball several times now. I really want to play, it’s just things kept coming up that I was unable to go play. See my friend Eric has this huge back yard with tons of acreage that he has set up to be one of the most unique and elaborate paintball fields I’ve ever seen. I mean he has buildings that you can take cover in, large rocks to hide behind, and enough equipment to go around. It is really impressive.

I was thinking of getting some of my own paintball equipment. There’s an online store that has discount paintball supplies. I’d love to get my hands on this one. With a barrel that long, I am sure I could do some nice long range sniping from up in a tree or something. Now if only I could get the money.

Remember the Leprakhauns Word Count Plugin? Well now you can use it whether you are using the visual editor or the other one. You can get it by going to that page.

In other news, heat. It is hot outside, with the air conditioner off, it is hot in here. I think it hot 97 today. They said it was supposed to rain today, so hopefully that will help cool things off a bit.

I usually don’t go to Best Buy often, in fact I like the concept, but the prices are sometimes a bit too high. The last few times I have ordered from Best Buy, I only got blank DVDs the last few times I’ve ordered from them. I have found a place that offers you coupon codes for most online stores, including Best Buy.

Right now they are offering a free carrying case with purchase of select portable DVD players. I’ve been thinking of getting one since I am always on the computer, and the television is behind me, and as everyone knows one of my great weaknesses is television shows on DVD. I’ll think about it, because it really is a good deal with this coupon.

Krissy picked up a copy of this month’s GamePro magazine and I am sure glad she did.  In it it discusses Grand Theft Auto IV.  Now I absolutely love the GTA series, blowing up cars, killing cops, and running the city is as much fun as you can have.  It looks like GTA IV will be a bit different though.  Apparently this time around you can make outgoing calls, which is different than previous GTA titles in that you won’t need to wait for people to call you.

The main reason I am writing this, and definitely one of the best reasons, is the addition of an online mode.  No details have emerged, just that for the first time you will be able to take the GTA series to the next level, online gaming.   This is definitely a game I will be picking up once it hits shelves in October.

I am in debt with my credit cards. I mean the only good thing about them is that I got a season pass for Six Flags last year due to my credit card rewards. I am getting control of them though. Within a year, hopefully they will be paid off in full and then I can use them only for emergencies.

What a lot of people don’t know about credit cards, is that you can have one balance tansferred to another. These balance transfers usually mean lower interest rates for you and one less card to pay each month. Before you do a balance transfer, however, I highly suggest that you compare credit cards to make sure that you are getting a good deal on that card.

I believe that my ATI Radeon 9550 is dying, though I am not sure. See I have a dual monitor setup one with VGA and one with DVI. The DVI starts freaking out every so often, and I thought it might be the adapter I have, but after buying a new one it seems to be the card. I updated the drivers tonite and while last time that didn’t help, now it looks like it might have helped because I haven’t had any trouble, yet.

If it works great, if not, then it looks like I’ll be in the market for a new graphics card. It just sucks that my motherboard doesn’t support PCI-E , so I will need to find an AGP card. I will post when I know more about which one I am looking into.

I live in a resort town and the businesses down here seem to really struggle once the off season comes. I mean restaurants go from serving 30 things, to serving 15, that’s how bad it is. It seems like they really struggle to even stay open in the off season. Maybe if they went with AIM Factoring, they would be able to offer the same goods and services they do in the on season and not have to worry about the cost that much.

One of the big industries down here that suffers the most during the off season, aside from all the beach front industries, is the furniture stores.  They simply can’t afford to keep the lights on in the off season with all the tourists gone.  The tourists come in the summer buy furniture for their rental houses and then leave.  The same thing happens the next year.  Some stores even close up for winter completely.

I’ve had a website for the better part of my online experience.  I started back in 1998 and I have to say that things certainly have changed.  Blogs are much more prominent nowadays.  Those little counters people used to have on their pages are almost nonexistent now a days.  There are a lot more people with personal websites now.  Back when I started, I remember being the only one of my friends with a website, now everyone has one.

Another big change is the prominence of PHP.  Back then everyone hand coded everything.  And no one had their own domain name, now everyone does.  I guess things really do change.  I guess this time it was for the better, though.

A few years ago my mother bought the house that we are living in now. Before that we lived in a townhouse that she bought in 1999 for 150 thousand dollars. When she sold it, she sold it in not perfect condition, a lot of stuff needed to be repaired, but it still sold for 250 thousand dollars. She had to pay off her mortgage, which she had down to nearly nothing because she did bad credit remortgages so that she could have a lower payment each month.

When we moved down here she went through a debt consolidation program to get all her credit cards in order and make sure she could afford one low month payment each month. She also doesn’t have a mortgage down here so that is helping her out a lot.

My father, which this may be the only time you will ever hear me speak of him, has numerous mortgages on his house and I don’t even know how many credit cards.

Can you tell which one I am going to take note of while paying back my debts?

I find myself writing more and more on here and it is strange.  It is strange because when I started, I hardly ever wrote on here and I didn’t think I’d ever pay blog, and blog more than once a day.  Now there are days I post six to seven times a day, which I always thought was kind of dumb, but now I see that it will get people to come back to the site numerous times in one day.  Who knows what else will change in the future.  Now on to other things:

I returned a lot of comments, it was the last batch from the PHPBB forum comments.

I am behind in school work, I really need to get the ball rolling and write this essay and get on with other lessons.  Maybe I will do that today.  Hmmm.

I’ve always liked Chia Pets. I always wanted to put that stuff on different things, just to see if it would grow on its own, but mine never grew. I guess I diodn’t water it enough or something because everyone else’s grew, maybe I will buy a new one and put it on my desk after I get some more space on here.  I also want to get some other things for the desk, and the walls around the desk.  I’ll have to wait until I get these huge CRTs out of the way so I will have more room.

Krissy loves the Rush Hour movies, a few days ago we watched Rush Hour 1 and tonite we watched Rush Hour 2.  She wants to see Rush Hour 3 in the theaters, so I will take her to see that.  They are pretty good movies, but while I was watching I noticed that Brett Ratner directed them.  Now my first experience with knowing what movie he directed was X-Men 3.  And he did it very badly.  So I am completely shocked that he could direct great movies like the Rush Hour Trilogy.