March 2008

I owe about $4,000 in Credit card debt. Six months ago it was a lot less, but then Christmas came and I got in a bit over my head. I think I am doing all right with the payments and everything else. I don’t suspect that I will need any outside help for credit repair, especially if some things take off which I am hoping they will. See I have been offering my services to people looking for outsourced projects, so maybe my workload and money will increase over the next few weeks. That way I can pay off a lot more than just the minimum payments.

I just saw the new trailer for the Iron Man video game and it looks great. Between Iron Man and the Hulk video games and movies this summer, I personally can’t wait. I know that Iron Man and the Hulk along with Nick Fury are supposed to have some weird cross over going on in the movies, but I wonder if it will crossover into the video games as well. I think for a little while playing as the Hulk in the Iron Man game or vice versa would be a cool change of pace.

I know how hard it is to meet that special someone. Even finding someone that you can just go out with and get a couple beers is hard. Before I met Krissy I did everything to meet women. I’d go up to them in bars, I even went on dating sites. I couldn’t find a dating site that I liked because they were all the same. All of them had either fake or old profiles that were no longer active and they kept renewing the subscription, even if I wasn’t happy with them. I think it would be different if I was single now though. I would use MyFutureSpouse, they seem to have eliminated all the problems that I had with the other sites out there. They also go to great lengths to ensure pictures that are uploaded are real and recent photos of yourself. That means that there won’t be any surprises when you go to meet up with someone.

As some of you noticed in the St Patrick’s Day video and an image in my photo gallery, I dyed my hair blond. Today I tried to put blue dye in it to turn it green for St. Patrick’s Day. That didn’t go off according to plan. Only some of my hair actually turned green. Basically half of my head is green and the other half is blond. I don’t really know how I did it, but it looks kind of odd. I am not going to try and get it green again tonight, I think I’ve put too much stuff in my hair in the last week. It needs a few days without dying.

I rented Burnout Paradise from Blockbuster yesterday and I have been playing it a bit. It is a good game, I was familiar with the older ones so I knew what to expect.There were some key surprises in there that I wasn’t aware of, like the crash anytime model. There’s been a lot of controversy amongst fans regarding the new open city, but I think that adds more of a realistic standpoint to the game. I mean driving on preset courses gets annoying, driving on wide open road where you choose how to get somewhere is a lot better to me. My biggest gripe about the game is that there is no driver. You are driving a car, but there’s no driver in the car. There are no people anywhere in the city. That has been my gripe with the Burnout Series in general, so I can’t say that I was surprised.

The Sniperpoint toolbar does a lot of handy things. With it you can block popup ads, fill out web forms with one click, and have instant suggestions when you are searching. My favorite feature of the toolbar is that you can bookmark pages and access them from anywhere. I know a lot of websites do that, but having a built in function in the toolbar makes it worth having.

Rockstar let slip some details regarding the GTA 4 online multiplayer experience. In the multiplayer game you can play with up to 16 players each having fully customizable characters of their own. You can change the race, sex, hair, clothing, and more of each character.

They also let slip the game types. They are:

1. Hangman’s NOOSE
2. Car Jack City
3. Bomb da Base
4. Bomb da Base II
5. Mafia Work
6. Team Mafia Work
7. Deathmatch
8. Team Deathmatch
9. Turf War
10. Cops N Crooks
11. Race
12. GTA Race
13. Deal Breaker
14. Free Mode

In Race and GTA Race, the host gets to decide which vehicles are involved, and the number of laps to be played. You can shoot and throw molotovs from the window, and even steal your rivals’ car. In Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, the host gets to decide the number of pedestrians, the amount of traffic, the intervention of police (or not), and the type of weapons. In Cops N Crooks, one team plays as cops and the other plays as criminals. The cops must stop the criminals from escaping. They can monitor the locations of the criminals on their GPS systems, while the criminals don’t know where the cops are. In Mafia Work and Team Mafia Work, you play as one of Kenny Petrovic’s mafia henchmen. You must complete hits ordered by the boss (via the cellphone) before your rivals are able to do so. The map used in multiplayer is the same map that is used for single player. A single-player mission called “Hangman’s NOOSE” features co-op. You and your friends will be able to escort a mobster, while being pursused by a SWAT team.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am extremely excited about this game now. I knew there would be a multiplayer aspect, but I wasn’t expecting anything like this. I can’t wait for this game.

Oysters can be dangerous to eat. Gulf oysters can spread diseases to humans if they aren’t processed correctly. It is getting safer to eat oysters though, particularly due to the post-harvest process. The post-harvest process is one of three choices. It can be where the oysters are frozen, the oysters are cooked in high pressure, or the oysters are done in a heat-cool pasteurization. No matter which way they are cooked, it means that the risk is greatly reduced. Personally I don’t like seafood, but I know a lot of people who do. I also know someone who got sick from eating it and let me tell you that it isn’t a pretty site when someone gets sick from seafood.

I have been adding some features to the gallery script, but they are mainly on the backend and won’t show up until I choose to have them appear. I have gotten an email regarding if I will ever release the script to the public, the answer is that I am writing it in conjunction with other scripts. If I ever did release it then there would be different aspects, one for a login, one for the gallery, etc. I have about three other things that I would like to add to the script before I add something like comments, but I will be adding some today. After this process is completed I will get started on it.

My family is a bit stranger than most. We all like to believe that our families are the strangest on the planet, but my family goes into the science fiction type strangeness at times. I will watch Charmed and it will literally be like looking into a cousin’s life sometimes.

Now I realize there are nonbelievers of the supernatural out there, and that is fine. I am not here to preach to you, but I am going to inform you about something that is on the less supernatural side and more along the “I think therefore I am” state of mind. It is called The Sedona Method.

What The Sedona method tells us is that no matter what kind of luck you have, or how you live your life, if you believe something it can be true. What that means is that if you believe you have bad luck, then you most likely will have bad luck. If you believe something to be true than it will be. If you can think it, you can do it. This kind of thinking is called presence awareness, if you are more aware and more hopeful with your ooutlook and what you want, then you will be more likely to get it.

I have been trying to take extra care of my skin lately. I have managed to shave down the caluses on my feet and I am also moisturizing the dry skin on my ankles and elbows. I used to make fun of guys who used to do all this stuff, but now that I am getting older I find myself actually wanting to get rid of my dry skin. I don’t think I would ever get a professional manicure or pedicure though, I think that would just be weird honestly.

I have been looking up BORBA skin care products lately. Apparently everything they sell is dermatologist recommended, so that it won’t do more harm to your skin than is already done. They have a special promotion going on right now, buy $100 or more on skin care and you can get a free 16 ounce bottle of Skin Balance Water to enjoy with your order.

If you said three years ago that I would actually care about my ashey elbows or that your feet aren’t supposed to be completely covered in caluses, I would have looked at you and said you were nuts. I was ill-informed back then, but I am glad that I finally got informed and am doing everything I can to rejuvenate my skin

As I write this I am compiling the first ever video blog post for Lep’s Lair. I know that I have said there would be one for a few months now, but I finally got around to having something important to say. You will have to stay tuned later to find out what it is all about though.