2008

I love Vista Print. They have a ton of free offers going on all the time, and they have on going discounts that can save you even more money. For instance if you use the discount code TShirts25 then you can get 25% Off T-shirts. I would love to have a t-shirt that had LepsLair printed on the front of it. Think about it, I could go to the mall, or a store, wherever and advertise my website just by walking around. I don’t actually know if it would work, but it would be worth a shot.

I know I would use Vista Print for Christmas Cards. I am not talking about everyday run of the mill Christmas cards, I am talking about custom photo christmas cards. See I think the photo cards are a great way to keep people updated on what your family looks like, how it has grown, and what has changed with you in the past year. Maybe even do more than the typical picture with name of who it is too, maybe have it as a real card where you can write what has been up recently, especially for the people you haven’t seen in a while. I don’t know, maybe it is corny, but I know I like the idea.

Krissy’s been teasing me about what she got me for my birthday. She said it’s something I have wanted for as long as she’s known me, and then something else is two of the same thing just different colors. I can wait until Sunday to find out what she got me, I just want to know what it is that I have wanted for as long as she’s known me. I don’t think there is anything that I have wanted for that long, I know I have wanted a cell phone, but the plan was to wait until the insurance stuff and our stuff was up here and then we get a plan, so I doubt that is it. I guess I will be waiting until Sunday, since I can’t seem to figure it out.

Bathroom Vanities can really make or break a bathroom. Vanities don’t solve all your bathroom decorating problems, but having a new one is a great way to spruce up an old bathroom. Take the one we use, it has no walls, no shower, but it doesn’t look half bad because it has a Bathroom Vanity that is only a few months old.

I know we have been looking at houses and apartments for rent, and what we have found is that a lot of them don’t have much when it comes to Bathroom Cabinets, so we’ve added that to the list of must haves. How many times do you have a bathroom and just wish you had more storage? We are trying to avoid that at any and all costs.

If you haven’t noticed, there is a new section to the Funbox section. Contact Tables are Message Me, Add me kind of tables that you will find on Myspace and MyJokeCafe. They work 100% with both sites, and I will continue to add more when I create them. I also have some more that need to be edited, but those will need to wait for the time being. I have other Myspace stuff coming, I just don’t have a timeframe yet as to when. I also have a new Fanlisting/adult section coming soon, I was just approved for it so I am hoping to get started on it soon. Of course it will be a subdomain and only linked off the Fanlistings page with nothing explicit shown there.

I would like to change the way I do business eventually. See right now everything is transferred into my Paypal account and then I have to transfer it to my bank account. One day I would like, when I am making a lot more money, to be able to accept credit cards, this way the money would be deposited right into my credit card, usually the same day, or at the very latest the next day. With that system I wouldn’t need to wait to get the money from Paypal into my bank account, which usually takes around three days to do so. The fees would probably wind up being the same either way, so the only thing that would be different is the time it would take for the money to be in my account.

My whole life I have wanted to be a computer programmer. Not just that, but I wanted to make games. Now I do not have a degree, I would one day like to get one, but for the time being I am content. See I have been freelance programming for the last few years. I have finally seen one of my biggest accounts to date go live this past week. Myjokecafe has been in the works for years and there is still a lot that can and will be added in the future. While I realize the site isn’t a game, it does have games on the site. They are just not under a heading called games, they are under a heading called Play Jokerino.

When you play Jokerino, you win jokerinos, which can be redeemed in the auction area for real products, like a Casio keyboard. There are a couple of Flash based games in there that I didn’t write, though I did modify them. The other games though, the ones that aren’t Flash based, I created. Yes, Flip the Joker, Black or Red, and Deal Me Out are all programmed by me. Now I realize they aren’t to the same capacity as say Halo, or Call of Duty, but it is a good start if you ask me, and I don’t expect it to be my last. I am always experimenting and learning as much Flash as I can, so Flash games aren’t totally out of the question for me, it is just going to take time.

Even though I have no extensive formal education in this, I think I am doing pretty well. Eventually maybe I could collaborate with the likes of Cliffy B, or the guys at Bungie, but for right now I am happy that my dreams are becoming realized.

I don’t think I will ever forget that day seven years ago when four planes changed the way America thought, and the way the world looked at America. It was a horrible day, the events were like something you would only expect to see in a movie, only it was no movie. Unlike most Americans, I do not believe that 9/11 changed everything, after all we had been attacked in ’93 and on other occasions that were technically on US soil. I think we need to look at what had happened and move on from that. I don’t think that there was anyone in the Eastern Standard Timezone that wasn’t affected by that in some way, some may have lost a loved one, some may have looked at that as a wake up call live each day as if it was your last, and some may have looked at it and decide to take a stand in some way.

Personally I took it as never do something that you can’t do with your whole heart and that you believe in. That is why I decided to freelance and work for myself, of course sometimes it can be hectic, but I don’t believe that it isn’t worth it. I would like the pay to be a bit nicer, but it has grown as I have gotten more experience with things, so hopefully the trend will continue and I will get more money as time progresses.

We must never forget the lessons that were put in our hearts instantly the day we saw those towers on fire, or when we saw the sky turn black, or when we saw the plane that was taken down by the passengers so no one got hurt, or when we saw what happened at the Pentagon. We must never forget those lessons or that day.

Krissy’s dad told me that they got an alert today saying that there is a potential virus going around where you will receive an email that says you got a Hallmark card waiting for you, but when you open it, the virus takes over your computer. I have been told that not all Antivirus Software is fit to handle this virus, but seeing as how it has been out since February, I don’t see how it wouldn’t be up to date.

I am pretty sure that while some anti virus software isn’t able to deal with this, Cyber Defender can. Even if they aren’t up to date, if you have one that is, the software can potentially work together in groundbreaking new ways to make sure your computer stays clean. I have never seen any other antivirus work with other security software, they usually want to be the one and only on the computer and freak out if they aren’t, but I guess that’s why Cyber Defender is better than the others.

The Social Networking site I have been working on, myjokecafe is finally up. I was up until 6:30 this morning making sure everything was how it should be. A lot more people are joining than I thought would have in the first day, which is great, I just hope the growth rate continues.

After working on this social networking thing, it could be just a few hours before we finally open it up. I am very excited, so I will post something here when it is finally live. I just hope that it will finally be up tonight.

I opened an account online for Bank of America. I didn’t realize that it would take such a long time to have the money transferred from one bank account to another and then to get the account information in the mail, along with our debit cards. This is the last time I open an account with any bank online, it isn’t worth the trouble. Honestly I thought going into a bank with Krissy was a big hassle, but waiting for everything to go through and get the paperwork in the mail is an even bigger one. If you are thinking about opening a bank account online, take my advice and don’t. It is a huge hassle, and going between bank accounts when you have bills can be very hectic.

Ever since I linked my blog to my Myspace blog, I seem to get more and more traffic every time I post. There is no writing a bulletin, or sending messages to read my site for my newest blog entry, it is all right there in my Myspace blog, that people can come across naturally just by going to my profile. I think it is a great way to get people coming back to my profile and my site, I just wish I had thought about it before when I had the account with over 12000 friends, but if I don’t get deleted then I might have that many soon, afterall it has been only a few weeks and I am approaching 3000.

I have been thinking of other ways to promote my site, I have been thinking about cross posting it to MyYearBook, MyJokeCafe when it is open for registration, and maybe even Xpeeps, but I am not sure. I know that I need something promote it well. I have been looking into Network Solutions for their internet marketing services, which I may end up doing if I can start earning enough revenue from my ads, and other private advertisers. While I think that may be a way off, it also might not be as far off as I think, or at least I hope it isn’t, this way I can have a good amount of traffic, and then expand with new traffic, and maybe then I can concentrate more on this website, while still keeping my clients, just working less hours for them.