March 2008

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.

I have always liked the idea of fantasy baseball leagues and stuff like that. My problem with doing this is I don’t really follow sports much, I don’t know the All Stars from the Benchwarmers, so trying to play in a league would be disastrous. Needless to say being in a league, I would welcome and use all the help I could get.

I know from my friends who actually do these fantasy leagues win with the help of a program. The program they use is actually pretty impressive, it runs the stats based on modeling from PHD Statisticians, it gives full reports on injured players, when they will be back, when they got injured, how it will affect the rest of your team, the whole nine yards. Some of my friends have bets going and are winning upwards of a thousand dollars a week based on what this program says.

The people making a lot of money off this don’t need any breaks on the software, but getting started with it can put a hole in your pocket if you loose your first few bets, that is why you can get the software for $10 off just by using the promo code BMC200.

If you look on your left under the menu, you will notice a Photo Gallery option. There aren’t many pictures in there as of yet, actually at the time of writing this there is one category and one subcategory with two images in it. I just wanted to get it up and running. I will add pictures in it periodically, I hope to get most of mine in there soon, within the next few days. I know that it is lacking features like commenting and rankings, but I just wanted something simple to start with. I don’t have the whole backend features worked in yet, so after that is done I will create the comment system and maybe a ranking system. It is a work in progress, but I wanted to get a photo gallery up as soon as I could, plus it is 100% designed and programmed by me. I am hoping to have more programs I make on this site now. It will be easier afterall, I have a backend just for my programs.

Identity theft is a big problem nowadays. Luckily for us, we have options to sign up for serivces that can help us protect our identity and our credit. There is a service called lifelock that charges a relatively small fee, but whenever a line of credit is issued in your name they will notify you. They also give you free credit reports even if you aren’t eligible for one by law. It sounds great right? Well one of those credit agencies doesn’t think this company should exist. They think that they are bending laws in order to protect the people. Why would they think that? Obviously they want people to mess up their credit and are getting something out of it.

So Hillary Clinton is proposing a Clinton-Obama ticket for the Presidential ticket. It seems nice of her that even though she is loosing she is offering him the job of Vice President if he decides to drop out of the race. Talk about selling a house you don’t own right? What is pathetic is that I know some people who are saying that he should take it. If you are one of these people, why would he take it?

Would you take a job as a cashier if you were the CEO of a Fortune 500 company? I didn’t think so, yet you are saying Obama, who is in first place, should accept the job of Vice President because Clinton is offering it to him? She is in no position to offer him anything. If anything he is in the position to offer her Vice President, but he most likely won’t because as much as they are similar, they are equally different.

Hillary is a lot like a Republican in some ways. I don’t see much difference between her and McCain honestly. Obama is the only one who seems to be different. Bill Clinton was a lot different than most Presidents, but his wife seems to be the same cookie cutter politician that runs. Obama makes mistakes, he will admit mistakes, and he will find ways to make up for his mistakes. He is a human, he isn’t a corrupt politician like so many others in Washington. He is the man for the job.

I want to host my own site. I want to build a server and run it from my own home. Comcast won’t let me do it though, it is against their terms of service, so if I did that I would need either a business plan or a T1 line. If I were to do that I would need to get look into Business Loans. I am not saying I would never do that, but I would need to make sure that what I put out each month for the line I would be able to get back at least that much in revenue, which means I would start hosting people off it. I mean in theory if I took Krissy’s clients and put it up on a server of our own she would save money each month, but there is no guarantee that I would get that much back, especially if they leave or something. In order to make it feasible I would need to find more people and have a steady flow of clients before even attempting to move hers over to it.

Before I could even think of doing anything though, I would need to check out Business Loans. Business Loans could be tricky though because I don’t have a business registered, so I would need to register Lep’s Lair as a business first.

I decided to go a different route for my gallery and write my own. I have the backend up which means I can add delete categories and subcategories and I can upload and resize images. I am now working on the frontend, the part that you guys can see. I did this because I didn’t like the interface that Coppermine or Gallery2 offered. Plus I will have a permanent backend for any other script I want to write and put on my site.

Krissy and I are both on diets. We thought it would be going better than it was, but so far it isn’t working that great. I have been checking out www.ShrinkYourself to get tips and tricks on how to make a diet work the most effective, and I have to say they have a lot of details up on what to do and what not to do. They have tips no matter what your problem is, emotional, helplessness, no self control, anything that might be your problem they have tips and tricks to help you reach your goals. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to loose some weight.

The writer’s strike may be over, but it still affected some of the shows that I know and love. Lost will now be 14 episodes instead of 16 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles won’t be back this season at all. Now I want it to come back, I will go as far as buying the DVDs for season one the day they come out, if it will help get a second season. The show was just starting to shine when it ended, so not giving them a second season would be dumb in and of itself. I hope someone at Fox reads this.

I was watching something the other day on HBO about the porn industry and how male performers do what they do, and they brought up how when one can’t perform they call in the little blue pill known as Viagra. One director said that he has only seen it not work one time out of the millions of times they used it, so that has to say something about the pill itself.

It is too bad that you need a prescription to buy Viagra. To get the prescription you need to go see a doctor and have him evaluate you and test you, but that can be very expensive, especially if you do not have medical insurance. Even if you have insurance it could cost you a lot of money. Luckily you can buy Viagra online, along with a bunch of other prescription drugs. This will save you a lot of money in doctor bills and tests, especially if you are sure what you have and what you need to fix it.

If you do not know what you have, then you can always ask a physician online. You could also read articles online that will let you know more about what certain symptoms could be what if they might be more than you originally thought.