2008

Wen you don’t hae a room that you can use for just guests spending the night, then having a couple Sleeper Sofas on hand really helps you out. When you think about it, what is the point of having a room just for guests anyway? How popular is your house that people want to be spending the night there anyway? If you have overnight guests for only a couple of nights out of the whole year then it is really worth it to have a whole room dedicated to them? What would you have in the guest room anyway, a bed and a night stand? Your house isn’t a hotel and if people want to have privacy then they should be in a place specifically designed for that, it’s called a hotel. Sleeper Sofas are just as good as any guest bedroom, and when they leave your room goes back to the way it was with no one knowing that you had guests.

I have always liked the idea of having a bar in the house. I am talking a real bar with tons of alcohol behind you, mixers, maybe even a tap so you can get fresh out the tap beer. Of course in order for you to have a real authentic bar you need a higher than normal table and Counter Stools for people to sit at. I am not sure if I would want a bar in the living room or down in the basement, along with some video games, and what might be referred to as a “man cave”, but either way it would be great to have. The Counter Stools would need to be all black, with backs to them so you can sit and relax, and not fall off the back of it, while the bar itself would b a nice old wood, maybe black, maybe a very dark stain, I am not sure. Either way it would look great.

Apparently even though I have the myspace comments up for everyone to use, Myspace considers them spam. Nevermind the fact that there are how many other sites that have Myspace comments out there? I guess I will give it a break until I hear back from them as to what exactly I did wrong (though I doubt I will hear anything). Guess I will need to stick to bulletins huh?

I miss going to college. I miss sitting in a classroom learning. I miss being able to hang out with people in the labs and play games while we are supposed to be working on class stuff. I just miss the whole academia setting in general I guess. My plan was always to get back to college when I could afford it, but as more and more time goes by I don’t see that happening. I mean I guess I could apply after I am 24 and no longer need my mother’s information, but I just am not sure what I want to do anymore. My dreams of having a degree in everything computer based is slipping away and I think if I could even just sit in a classroom it might come back to me.

Of course I don’t necessarily need a degree, I could always get a Cisco certification or something. I know that with a Cisco certification I would pretty much be set for life. The training that I would receive would be unparalleled and companies are looking for people fresh out of the program with no experience necessary while starting them at $75,000 a year. That isn’t even a high paying job, that is actually pretty low for a Cisco certified individual. Some of the more experience required jobs will pay upwards to $250,000. Of course with that you need to be good at what you do, and also have the experience to back it up. I may go that route, I think I could be good at it, the question is whether or not it will keep me entertained and interested while I do it.

I let Krissy’s sister, Maureen cut and dye my hair. It is supposed to have hair on the top, none on the sides, but with a fade into the hair on the top of the head. She was also supposed to die it blonde. I’m not really sure what happened where, but I am red with what appears to be a patch of hair on my head. I’m not really sure what to make of it.

With a move being inevitable at this point, Krissy and I have both come to realize that leaving furniture behind and buying new is definitely going to be a lot easier. The main furniture that will be left behind is office stuff, so we will both need new office desks. I honestly love mine and I would hate to part with it, but at the same time it is starting to age and some of the outer coating on the top is starting to peel away. It sucks, but it is a face of life, especially when a desk is a few years old. So new office desks, who knows maybe if we both have our own offices they can be completely separate with our offices decorated completely different. Maybe I would even have a window to look out of, that would definitely be great.

The ac compressor in my car went a few months ago and while it was a pain to get fixed, if I didn’t get it fixed then I would be driving to New York with no air conditioning. Now driving with the windows open is fine for those times that you are going 60-70 miles an hour, but when you are sitting in traffic at a standstill or even going 20 miles an hour, having the windows open isn’t going to do much. Many people say that ac isn’t a priority, those people have never been in traffic on a hot summer day with the windows open. It might be expensive, but if you can find affordable ac auto parts then you might be able to get it done for the price of labor, if you bring in the parts yourself.

I finally made progress with that game I am programming and it will have its first stage 1 round of testing tonight. If all goes well then I can move on to stage 2, which is really just features and not connected with the game play at all. The way I see it, it is going to be a three stage process with stage 1 being the most in depth. Unfortunately I cannot give any details as of yet, but I can say it might be the star of new games. It will not be on Lep’s Lair, because it is for a client, but I have been wanting to add games, so maybe if all goes well I might add some poker or something where you play with other people.

I know I am late talking about this as the episodes will be taken down for public viewing tomorrow, but if you haven’t already checked out Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog then go do it now. It is from Joss Whedon and starts Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris singing their way through the story. If you watch it you will see just how truly sick and twisted Joss Whedon is and that is why we love him so much.

I taught Krissy how to drive. I was there when she first started out and didn’t know how far to turn the wheel of the car and ended up in a bush to when she was driving up to New York a few weeks ago just fine. Now I have had my car for years, it’s the one car that hasn’t crapped out on me beyond repair and I love it to death. It has kind of become our car though. That is fine except when I want to leave and she has the car, there’s nothing I can really do about it. I know that she wants a car, preferably a Cobolt or Jetta, so we have been looking at Online Car Loans. I guess we can just go to a dealership and see their terms and conditions for Car Loans for new drivers, but they would probably be ridiculous. I guess we will need to see what happens with money and everything in the coming weeks before we can make an informed decision.

I have been doing nothing but coding the last few days. Tomorrow I think I am finally going to be getting away and going to a comic book store and possibly the mall with Krissy’s friend Lucy and her. I think they just want to go to the mall because they can finally get behind the adult curtain at this one store. A lesbian, my girlfriend, and me in an adult section of a store. It sounds fun doesn’t it?

In other news we are still in New York. Have been up here since around Father’s Day and I don’t know when we will be leaving, but at this point it looks like we might be finding a place up here and moving in. It won’t be so bad as long as rent includes utilities. Just need to figure out how to do all this.

In one of the high schools that I went to I took a jewelry class. It was full on working with metals to create pieces of jewelry, you could even make a ring out of wax and send it out to be encases in gold or silver. The metal that the school had on hand though was steel, copper, aluminum, the standard cheaper metals, along with strips and sheets of silver. Ever since I left that school I wanted to get back into jewelry making. I was thinking about buying some perforated metal or something and seeing how much the tools I would need would cost me. I know I would need a wooden mallot, a blow torch, a ball peen hammer, and a special kind of saw. I think I could get back into it fairly easy, it would just be the price of everything that would be hard.

I know that I could get a lot of the metal supplies from Petro Wire & Steel, they seem to have good pricing on the stuff I would need. The thing that I love about their site is that it is very easy to navigate, there’s no guess work for anything. I just need to select a metal type, like wire cloth or bar grating and then select what I want. It is very clean and they try to organize things very well and it shows. A lot of the other sites I have looked at are disorganized. If and when I do get back into the jewelry making then I will go there and pick up the metals that I would need, even if they would just be for practice.