A lot of time I put a lot of basis for liking a website based on its design rather than its content. I think a lot of people do. Luckily I found a website where you can play backgammon where form and function come together in beautiful harmony. I used to play backgammon on my old IBM 386. I was never any good at it so playing in any backgammon tournaments online would probably be a bad idea, but if I ever get good enough then maybe it would be an option.
Well I am happy to report that the LepsLair Myspace has over 1100 friends. I am very happy about this. Not only does it give me a chance to broaden my potential visitors, but it also allows me to hear back from people and what they would like to see here, even if they don’t feel comfortable commenting. Just today I had a guy tell me what fanlisting he would like to see. I am going to check out the star he said and iif I can honestly say I am a fan then I will be making it.
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I have always wanted to go to a ski resort. Not really into the skiing aspect, but I want to learn how to snowboard. I would love to eventually be able to go to Meribel, France or St Anton, Austria and snowboard with the best of them. Maybe one day I will be able to go to the luxury chalets in Courchevel, France. Luxury Skiing holidays are something that I would love to bring to my family when I am older. To see my kids faces (when I have them) going down the slopes would be amazing.
I picked up Rockband last week and I am not good at drums. I have no rhythm at all, but I am trying to get better. I seem to do all right on guitar. I haven’t really taken it online yet, maybe I will with the guitar since I do so much better with that than the drums. I do want to do the world tour, but you need people to play with and no one on my friend’s list plays so I have to find random people.
It is a good game, in fact if you can play the drums on expert than you should be able to play the drums in real life. Maybe one day I will be a master of drums. I just wish it was that way with the guitar, but who knows maybe one day there will be a guitar hero game with the equivalent of a real guitar.
Imagine the look on their faces when they come down the stairs on Christmas morning and they see all their presents wrapped up under the Christmas Tree. As they open the presents they see that they got exactly what they wanted, which makes their smiles grow even wider. Don’t you want to have that feeling that can only be gotten from the look on their faces? That feeling that makes you feel like Superman? Now you can with payday loans.
With a payday loan you can get them what they want, without having to worry about the price right now. All you do is fill out a simple form and you get the money in very little time. Then just pay it back when you get your next paycheck. It is as simple as one, two, three.
A cash advance doesn’t have to be just for the holiday season. You can use it anytime of the year, whenever you need that extra money between paychecks. It is perfect for buying gifts for birthdays or anniversaries, or just when you need that extra cash to pay the electric bill. The next time you need that bit of extra cash, consider a PayDay loan, it might be just what you’re looking for.
I am an avid fan of Red vs Blue. It was a big part of my decision to buy the Legendary Edition of Halo 3, but I am tired of waiting for their new mini series. I have been toying with the idea of making my own Machinima series using Halo 3, but I would need a DVR and if I were to get one I would make a montage of my kills and the like. It has been over seven months since the Blood Gulch Chronicles ended, I want to see some new stuff already.
With the holiday season being upon us, there may be times that you need to do some shopping, but won’t have the money until your next paycheck. Well if that is the case then why not get a payday loan? With payday loans you can get the cash you need right now and pay it back when you get your next paycheck. It takes little time to apply and get your loan so you could have the money you need for the presents you want to give.
The idea for a cash advance loan is a good idea. I mean if you don’t have a credit card, or the cash then it is the perfect solution. Why waste time and possibly miss out on that perfect gift just because you won’t have the money for a few days? Get a PayDay loan and get them the gifts they want.
You don’t just need to use it for a gift for someone else, why not be a little selfish this holiday season. You deserve it right? You know that big screen television you want? Why not pick one up? If you have been busy doing shopping for others this year, why not get that one perfect gift for yourself? You’ll thank yourself in the morning.
We are going to Atlantic City this weekend again. The room is free and we don’t plan on spending much money so hopefully we will win more than we spend. We will be leaving on Saturday and coming back on Monday. I think we will be taking the laptop so hopefully they have WIFI so I can check my email, do some work, and maybe blog if I win any money.
"Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead."
Those words were written by Joss Whedon and spoken by David Boreanaz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I think it is a truly amazing quote, but flawed. Greed would be the offset of passion. With greed people do things they wouldn’t necessarily do, but maybe some would say that greed is another form of passion. I don’t agree with that, however if it is, then it is the dark form of passion.
Let’s take Myspace for example. Tom Anderson, everybody’s "first friend" made Myspace out of passion. He wanted a place where people could come together for free and have somewhere online to talk and post bulletins and join people with similar interests. Somewhere he lost the passion. When he sol Myspace he gave in to greed. Everyday that a Myspace error occurs they give in to greed. Why? Because with all the money in the world they don’t fix the errors, they just let them keep happening. Why? Would it cost too much money for more servers, would the CEO not have that million dollars a week that he is so accustomed to?
Not all companies loose the passion. Look at Facebook. They were going to be showing targeted ads to you based on your buying habits. An online petition changed all that though. They didn’t give into the greed that so many others have.
Going back to the original quote, say we gave up the passion and replaced it with pure greed. What would happen? We wouldn’t be hollow as Joss has said, instead we would do anything to get that with which we so desire, money, fame, possessions. What is sad is that a lot of people are already like this. So many are filled with keeping their eye on the prize instead of seeing the journey. The journey is where the passion is, the prize at the end isn’t as important at the end if you keep your eyes open on the journey.
Now I will leave you with this to contemplate, do you look at the journey and see the passion and where and how it takes you, or do you focus on the greed and don’t care how you get there just as long as you get the prize?
Well it seems that I need to buy a Firewire card that goes into my PCI port in order to connect a camcorder to my computer. I will be holding off on that purchase for a while though, at least a few weeks. After a television, a new camcorder (which I am pretty sure I am returning anyway), Rockband, and a Mac for Krissy, it has put a big dent in my pocket and a huge deficit on my earnings. Hopefully I will be able to make some more money soon though, especially if I can find some more clients and do more Flash work.
I have always been fascinated with what is in the night sky. The universe is so big and it is hard to imagine that out of the millions upon millions of planets, earth is the only one with life on it. I have never owned anytelescopes or anything like that, but I have always wanted to. I guess I always imagined that if I were to look out into space I might be able to find something that someone missed. Nearly impossible, I know, but it is always nice to imagine. Maybe one day I will find something in space that no one has seen before, but first I need a telescope.
I didn’t do as good as I would have liked to this month. Luckily these aren’t my only sources of income, just what I make with my website. For the month of October I made $702.63, let’s see how I did this month:
Loud Launch: $22.50
PayPerPost: $495.70
Blogsvertise: $25.00
Sponsored Reviews: $16.90
Smorty: $20.40
Text Link Ads: $10.25
Adbrite: $16.41
Private Advertisers: $4.16
This means that my totals for the month were $611.32. Even though it isn’t as much as I would have liked, it is still a considerable amount of income and hopefully it will go up a bit in December, though I am not so sure.