September 2009

I haven’t blogged in a while, I am now 25. It really is no different than being 24, my car insurance hasn’t dropped, though I am planning a trip to Atlantic City for Krissy’s birthday.

This passed weekend I was screwed over by Troy Smith, the owner of sites like woosafe, and CrushDollars. He decided to not pay anyone for the work they were doing and just up and left. I am working on getting in contact with everyone who he screwed over and telling them what he did. I am also looking into filing charges against him and his girlfriend Nina Bronson since he paid me and a bunch of others via Paypal and then did chargebacks on the card. I have already in contact with NameCheap, his biller, his webhost, and Paypal about what they are doing and I have the addresses for everything I need to have the court secure the documents needed that I might need to file charges against him. I can’t believe anyone would try and get away with multiple counts of grand larceny when I have his full name and address.

Other than getting screwed out of about $700, I have been playing a lot of Halo 3 multiplayer and Halo 3: ODST. I haven’t really played much of ODST yet, there’s something missing with it, so I haven’t done a review yet, but maybe soon.

Everyone go check out the new Forum. It is just the beginning of what I hope will become a very active member’s area. In order for it to take off though, it needs your support. So sign up and you will be part of the greatest up and coming site in existence. I promise. Yes it isn’t a full member’s area, but we all need to start somewhere right? I chose to start with a forum and will be working my way up to a full on member’s area with photo uploads and whatnot. It just takes time to program it all in you know?

I realize that I haven’t posted much, but there is good reason for that. On Thursday of last week I got a call from my mother telling me she was having emergency eye surgery. On Friday morning, Krissy and I pack up the car to drive down to NJ, where she was having the surgery. Well when we get there we find out that even though it is emergency surgery, and without it she will go blind, since she doesn’t have insurance they won’t touch her without a $3000 down payment. Well since she can’t afford that, and since it is ridiculous that they’d want that, she does what any person who is pissed off would do, she goes through the emergency room.

In New Jersey if you go through an ER they have to treat you no matter what. Only problem is that since she already was upstairs they won’t treat her, so they manage to work out a deal with the hospital higher ups and the doctor and get it down from $3000, to $1100. Still a lot of money, but a lot better than three grand.

Either way, it is things like this that is proof that we need an affordable healthcare system where we can walk in, get fixed what we need to get fixed and go home without paying ridiculous amounts of money. Now for those of you who say something like “why doesn’t she have insurance”, it is simple, she lost her and couldn’t afford to keep her health insurance because she has a few pre-existing conditions and it would cost her more than she makes on unemployment in order for her to have it.

For all of you who are against a public affordable option for health insurance, fuck off, you are probably rich, have never been without insurance and would probably drown in your own piss if you ever didn’t have money.

I am sick. My head is throbbing my throat hurts and all I want to do is crawl back into bed.

I’ve been working through most of the day though on numerous different things. Right now I am trying to get everything sorted out with this script I am writing. The main concept is down, I just need to modify it to work with my user’s script, and then I may put it live.

I know it works right now, just need to make it more user friendly. It won’t be much, but it will be very simple and more things that will require users to register will be coming shortly after. I don’t know if I will have many members, but I hope so over time.

Caity was nice enough to give me five words to blog about, so here I am blogging about them.

Family
I used to think that I didn’t really have much of a family. For most of my life the only actual family that I had known was my father, mother, and grandmother. I went to my uncle’s funeral a few weeks ago and found out that I have cousins, those cousins have children, and I even have second and third cousins that I have never met in other parts of the world. I’d like to stay as close as I can to my family, after all, they are my heritage and my family can be traced back hundreds of years. I think I am finally seeing why family is so important to so many people, it just took me longer than most I guess.

Blogging
I like blogging, though it can get to be a pain sometimes, but all in all it provides an outlet for me to speak, that is when I can speak and not be bound by nondisclosure agreements. For the most part what I write here is completely 100% real. I used to do paid bloggings, until Google dropped my page rank, but looking back I realize that was a really low point in my blog. I lost all my visitors from back then and I am just starting to try and get them all back.

Games
I love games. There is nothing like just sitting back and relaxing after a hard day of work and beating up some virtual enemies like Nazis, Spartans, zombies, or the horrific Nazi Zombies. I have been a gamer my whole life. I actually cannot remember the first system I owned, I know it had a gun and some ghosts that would talk and tell me not to shoot them, but soon after that I remember getting a Nintendo Entertainment System. I’ve had a lot of consoles since then, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, X-Box, X-Box 360, Nintendo Wii. I’ve loved all the consoles that I have owned for many different reasons. Super Nintendo had some great games like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Genesis had Mortal Kombat with the blood in it. My Wii is completely different, I just wish it had better graphics and games. My 360 is what I play most though, because there’s just nothing like hopping online with some friends or strangers to beat the crap out of other people. It definitely beats playing alone.

Photography
I haven’t really photographed much in a while. I did take pictures at a Labor Day fireworks display, but other than that I have been really lacking lately. There’s really no excuse, if I had a more high end camera, I still probably wouldn’t take as many pictures as I would like. I suppose the not taking pictures come from not knowing what to take pictures of, on top of just really not having much inspiration. When we were living by the beach it was completely different. Watching the sunrise over the ocean was majestic, although I could also watch the sunset over the Sound here, but I can barely get over there for sunset, so maybe that’s why I don’t take as many pictures anymore. I had plans to actually make a lightbox at one point and set up fruit bowls among other things in it, but it never came about. Who knows, maybe one day I will build the lightbox and start taking professional looking photographs.

Programming
Programming is much more than my job, it is my art and it is my true passion. I am usually working on one thing or another in this language or that one. I’ve been programming since high school, it is what I studied in college, and it is what I do on an everyday basis. I’ve done C++, Visual BASIC, PHP, Javascript, Actionscript and more. I’ve been doing simple stuff like HTML and CSS for over ten years and I can see me doing this for at least another ten more years. Any script I download I modify in some way to better make it better, from WordPress and creating plugins, to Enthusiast 3, all the scripts I use on my site are in some way modified by me to work better for me or my visitors.

This is my first blog in over a week. Where have I been? No where actually. I have been here. I have improved some stuff on the site, but mainly I have been working on other people’s stuff. It’s been kind of a busy couple of weeks, so much so that I haven’t even had time to play my Xbox at all. That has hopefully changed though and the next week at least shouldn’t be as busy.

I am hoping to do a better blog soon, maybe tomorrow. Once I do then I will return comments. For some reason I am in a slump with the blog.