November 2008

I want a really good pair of binoculars. Why? Simple, it is a lot cheaper than getting a new camera and a lens, all I need to do is set the binoculars up as a lens for the camera and then I have a make shift lens. Nikon, the leading manufacturer in cameras is having a sale on binoculars. The Nikon Ultimate Hunter’s Package Promo , which went on sale on Black Friday, isn’t a bad deal. I know it isn’t the traditional binoculars, but it might be better since it is made to help you shoot, and that’s what you do with a camera. I know it is merely a play on words, but in all seriousness I think it could work.

Thanksgiving came and went, I overate and didn’t go out the following day for early Christmas shopping. My Paypal is messed up and I have been scrambling to figure out a way to make payments of the bills that are going out this week. Someone’s credit card messed up so every payment they made to me over the last three months is being taken back, over $400 is being held in Paypal which puts my balance more than $200 overdrawn. I hope they fix this soon so I don’t need to take a cash advance on my credit card.

I have an odd obsession with western stuff. I have always wanted a cowboy hat, and maybe some cowboy boots, and I have always loved the ties that cowboys wear, the ones that are basically two strings with some sort of medallion. I am not sure where this want comes from, maybe it is the country music I listen to that makes me want to be a cowboy, though I don’t really know.

So after numerous trips back and forth to the DMV, along with a little mishap of my keys being locked in my car, my car is FINALLY registered in the state of New York. I still need to get it inspected within the next ten days, but that shouldn’t be an issue, I believe it will pass. I should be able to afford it, just as long as they don’t need to fix anything besides registering it.

Barrack Obama spoke in one of his speeches about how anyone can be an entrepreneur with the internet. Since I heard him say that I have been thinking a lot about it. It was brought up on the radio a few days ago in regards to music. For a while I have been thinking about making this an official business, but I had no idea what I would do or how to use it. I think I have figured it out though, I would use it as a consulting firm. Basically if I did that I could use it for anything, building computers, blogging income, ad income, income from other things, and most of what I purchased would be tax deductible as long as I used it for the business.

Credit card processing wouldn’t be necessary for what I have right now, but if it ever got to the point of this being my only business, then I could offer it for selling scripts, or Flash stuff, or anything really. Making Lep’s Lair Consulting would be a good move, I just don’t know if it is the right move for right now. For one I would need to be able to register the paperwork to start my own legitimate business, which means I would need start up capital. I might be able to get a loan, but I don’t know since I have no official training or experience. A business needs money, even if it is in the form of loans, that way they can gain merchandise or parts or whatever it is the business would need. In my case it would be the money to start it up and maybe some more training in Flash, signs for my car, and business cards. Maybe one day I will, but for right now all this nis just a dream.

I have been working on ways to get back into school. The first step is taken, which was get my license switched over, now I need to figure out how to get the money. I am thinking about maybe talking to my high school college counselor and hitting up every scholarship and grant available, maybe even some sort of fund raising for myself. Does anyone ever buy candy bards that go door to door? I guess maybe I could find out.

Krissy has been receiving a lot of numbers from Arizone on her cell phone. She got like 40 of them in an hour on Friday and they don’t speak english and then they sent her a text message. She tried calling the police, but they were no help at all. When I told her to Report Phone Numbers, she jumped right on it, and also added some numbers that had been calling the house too.

I honestly can deal with prank calls, in fact if they are funny or just a kid having fun then I don’t care. When it is someone who keeps calling and obviously over the age of 18 then it becomes a problem and should be reported. Prank calls should be a part of any tween/teenager’s life, but annoying calls from people who should know better shouldn’t be tolerated at all.

Krissy just got back from the supermarket with a whole bunch of food for Thanksgiving. I think after BJs and the supermarket, I can safely say that Thanksgiving shopping is done. At least we aren’t waiting for the last minute like last year. Oh well, at least we will be eating very well for a couple of days.

I love Spiderman Web of Shadows. I loved all the Spiderman movie games, even number 3 with its lackluster controls, but Web of Shadows builds on what the previous games had and takes it to a whole nother level. See you can fight in the air on land and on the walls. You really do fight the way that Spiderman would.

Aside from the controls, the game’s story is all right too. It isn’t based on a movie so they are free to include other characters from the Marvel universe. You see Black Cat, Wolverine, Nick Fury, show up along with mentions of Reed Richards, and Tony Stark. I think that if the Avengers movie takes a note from the game it will be a good thing, though I don’t think I have to worry about that movie at all, considering the top notch cast and directors that will be involved.

I love Windows don’t you? I mean the program can barely stay open long enough before you get one of those cryptic little error popup windows that makes no sense to you and even though you forward the error to Microsoft, you know that no one will ever read it and it won’t happen again until the exact condition is met that made it pop up the first time. Well now there is hope. If you get say error code 50, you can now look it up and find out why you are getting that error code and possibly do something about it.

I for one plan on using this a lot, especially with those hexadecimal ones, just because of how big a pain they are to me. I wish they would just tell you in plain english what had happened and why something went nuts, but they don’t. They want you to feel like an idiot with those 0x000544JB errors that pop up all the time. I have taken Windows courses and even taken an Assembly language course that dealt with registers and even that gave more specific errors than Windows does at times. I think Windows errors can be put into one of two piles, ones that crash the program, and ones that crash the entire system. Neither one is good, and each one is just as confusing as the other.

I took a decongestant around 3:30 today and I am out of it still. Shortly after I took it I knocked out for a few hours, but I have been out of it ever since. I have tried to do some work, but my mind isn’t even really out there, it just appears to be gone. I hope I can start to feel better tomorrow though, otherwise I don’t know if I can stay off the Afrin.

I was doing so good the last few months paying back the credit cards each month, making sure we had enough money each week, but now since I got a new card, and I used it to go to Delaware to get our stuff, things went haywire and I have been using it to buy things that I normally would use cash for. Of couse some things are one time purchases, like paying to have the car switched over in my name, and getting a New York driver’s license.

Hopefully once the holidays are over I can get the payments back on track without having to use Debt Counseling though maybe they wouldn’t be such a bad idea, if this is the way I am going to behave once I get a little bit ahead. I doubt it, since this won’t be an every year occurance.