July 2008

I would like to take Krissy on a Regent Seven Seas Cruise, but money is so tight right now that in order to go we would need to save up a couple months without buying anything. Fortunately though, things might be looking up in the near future, or so it seems and I hope it continues to seem that way into a reality. Then maybe around October we could possibly go on a cruise or something, just to get away and figure stuff out. What better way to think than to get away from it all, away from everything, and have fun on a cruise right?

I am trying to install a PHP module that will give me access to zip functions in PHP. I need this so I don’t need to keep uploading individual pictures, but so far I am lost on how to even go about installing it. There are the Dreamhost instructions and the module instructions, and it is supposed to take less than an hour, but I still don’t know what I am doing. I guess I just need to read and experiment until it works right?

I do not agree with the views Glenn Beck, for one I think Bush is an idiot and for seven years he was giving Bush the benefit of the doubt. Secondly I don’t think I have much in common with Conservatives at all, I am more Liberal than Conservative, but I think I am more in the Socialist, Communist territory. While I don’t like the idea of the Government knowing your every move, I do like where the government takes care of you through Social outlets, like Universal Healthcare and whatnot. I am toward Communism because I think that as an idea Communism is great, but when practiced it fails miserably. I guess I am a Socialistic, Communistic Liberal with a hint of Conservative, even though I don’t want to admit the Conservative part.

While I do not agree with Glen Beck, I do enjoy listening to his views and what he thinks is wrong with the country. It is nice to get an outsiders opinion on the issues. He is having a show in Dallas on July 17th which is going to be broadcasted to select movie theaters that day. I might see if I can see the show on that date, depending on if there is a movie theater showing it near me or not.

Krissy and I went over to Microcenter yesterday and I saw all of the Mac stuff they had. A lot of them had real mice and keyboards hooked up to them and not the defaut ones that are so small I feel like I am going to break it. They had a better music keyboard that hooked up to the Mac than they had last time and if I had the money I would buy it, unfortunately I don’t have the money right now so it is going to have to wait. Being on this for the last week made me realize what a good machine it is and I definitely want a Mac now. I just need to pay off the first one before I can even think about getting a second one.

Krissy told me about a job at her aunt’s job where it starts at $75,000 and the only requirement is that you have a Cisco certification. To me that sounds like a lot of money and I would take it in an instant, if I had that certification. The sad part is that even though I would take it no one else wants it. The starting pay is pretty low for that certification.

Hearing that makes me want to just get my Cisco Certificate and then take a job like that. I know about basic network security, so having a certificate doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch. Now I wish I would have just went and got some certifications instead of going to college and dropping out. Oh ell, I know one day I will both graduate college and have all the degrees I want. It will just take some time.

I am actually kind of surprised that Cisco certifications pay so much, I thought that A+ paid more, but I guess since you are dealing with security with Cisco that could be the clencher on why it pays more. I don’t think it costs much more to get though, so the turn around as far as money paid to salary paid is better. I guess it has to be when you want people to secure the entire network a business revolves around, otherwise people might mess around and pretend to know what they are doing and then get fired, but by paying more they are securing a competent individual to be behind your network.

I didn’t add any pictures today, instead I set up custom PHP.ini file on my account so that I can install a module to unzip zip files. I am surprised that Dreamhost doesn’t have this installed already, I thought I did it before using a premade gallery program, but when I try and program it, it doesn’t work. No matter, if I can get it working then I can just upload the images in zip files instead of individually.

Krissy’s whole family rides Harleys. My father used to ride a motorcycle. I love seeing the bikes on American Chopper. With all these factors put into place, it is amazing that I never got on a bike to ride. Part of the reason is because I can’t drive a stick and I don’t fully understand how to do it, so riding a motorcycle could prove difficult. I don’t have the money for one, but I was thinking about learning how to change gears on one then maybe renting one and taking a ride on one of those Motorcycle Tours where me and a bunch of other guys ride off to someplace. I don’t know if I could do that though with a bunch of people I don’t know, but maybe if I got some of my friends together it would be different.

Rock Band 2 was announced, and while I am not surprised, I am surprised that there is a lack of new instruments. I was expecting like a keyboard or a real guitar to help you learn how to actually play guitar, like the drums help you actually play a drum solo. Even with the improvements that I would have liked to see to the instruments, I think Rock Band 2 might be something that I pick up. The DLC is going to work no matter what Rock Band you have and if I can have a band with people across X-box Live then I think it will be something to pick up.

I have a hard time relaxing. I am constantly shaking my foot or getting very antsy when I am laying down in bed. It drives Krissy insane, she’s always hitting my leg telling me to stop shaking it because it is usually shaking everything around me. I don’t know where it comes from, I guess I am just nervous or paranoid or whatever you want to call it.

I heard about AbsoluteCalm and I was thinking about picking some up. They say that they are safe for everyone to take and that there are no side effects so it might be worth it to check it out. It might even help me get a good night’s sleep. Maybe if I take them before bed, I would sleep through the night instead of waking up every few hours or so.

They might even help me when I am working, if my mind isn’t all over the place and I am relaxed then maybe I could actually focus and concentrate on what I am doing instead of just sitting here looking at everything except what I am supposed to be looking at. If it helps me concentrate then that would definitely be worth it, everything else it could do would just be a bonus.

I uploaded a lot of images into the photo gallery yesterday and I am planning on doing even more today. I should have a few new categories up by tonight, and then hopefully that will get updated on a somewhat regular basis. The only reason they are getting uploaded right now is because I am on the Mac and I can use Photoshop to edit them, plus Krissy had most of them on here that I had forgotten about so they will go up and then I will start to work on the other images I took.