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Well things are finally looking up. I had a meeting/interview today with a person whom I think I will be doing business with, also I have some other business prospects with an upcoming website I am working on and someone who is already well established. Now I have also made a few decisions based on this website. If I am doing good with money more money will be put into the site. More domain names will be purchased and it really will be a network of sites and LepsLair will just be a gateway. Also more money will be going into advertising, and new sections. I may hire people to write tutorials or something.

I have a lot of things I could add, thousands of things actually. I may go through them and see what is best. Right now I am thinking about a jokes section then riddles, maybe lyrics, recipes, etc. What do you think of that?

Not sure why, maybe it was because I pasted in a new list of sites to ping when I post a new post and there was like 20 Google URLs on there. I am hoping the updated list that I did will let my blog be indexed again, most of my content is in my blog.

Going to move some stuff now for Krissy’s aunt.

I am back from New Jersey. We actually came back on Sunday, but I just haven’t had much time or drive to blog. We didn’t win anything in Atlantic City, we actually lost around $1500. I think it’s okay though because most of the bills are paid and even though the network I work for is going through a rough patch, I have been putting bids in on GAF and other freelance sites to make some extra cash. Hopefully things with the network will bounce back soon though.

My car did pass inspection, which I am very happy about. I’ve had three cars, a Honda Civic with a blown headgasket that burned oil, a Subaru Legacy that needed a transmission and wouldn’t go in reverse, and my Chevy Beretta. There’s only little things wrong with my Beretta, like a leak in the frame, or windshield that I just need to get some silicon to fill, and the gas gauge is off by a quarter, other than that it is good. It’s lasted me a few years, and for the price I paid for it, I can’t say that it was a bad deal by any means, so I am very happy it passed inspection.

I realize the site hasn’t been updated, but I hope to rectify that soon. I have a lot of features coming soon that will be automatic, I just need to bang out how I am going to do it, since I don’t want everything to happen at once, I’d like to have updates happen throughout the day on their own, so I have to see about how to do that.

I still owe PayPal about $400 because Crushdollars AKA Troy Smith decided to screw me and a bunch of other people over and not pay us for the work we did. We’re not going to let that get us down for the trip to Atlantic City in a few weeks, but I guess I am going to have to pay them myself, hopefully that can wait until after we get back. I am trying to grab some extra work to help earn some money for the trip, but so far that is not working. I have a solid paycheck coming in though, so that isn’t so bad, but anything extra to get rid of the negative balance would surely help.

Speaking of the trip, we are going to be spending two nights in Harrah’s in Atlantic City and then two nights in the Comfort Suites (haven’t booked those rooms yet though) in East Brunswick, NJ. It will be a nice little vacation, but I will have a laptop with me to do work that needs to get done, so it wont all fun, but it will be fun regardless.

I am installing a bunch of updates rght now, iTunes, Safari, Quicktime, Remote Desktop Client, and Mac OS X update, hopefully none of these will break the system and render my printer useless, I spent four hours trying to fix the printer last night because of a firmware update broke it and I couldn’t print anything.

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.

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.

There was a huge thunderstorm in Glen Cove today. Well I am sitting here and I see a flash of lightning. Then I hear the thunder. It wasn’t just thunder, this was the kind of thunder that is right overhead, but louder than usual like it hit something. Well then I hear another explosion. I come out to the kitchen and what do I see? Well look below.

The lightning struck a power line and fell onto a car, which made that car, and the car next to it explode. As messed up as it sounds, it is poetic justice, since the Subaru that blew up was the same one who last week parked on my ass in an illegal parking spot and Kris had trouble getting out to go to work.

A few hours ago I was working on a blog post and some new content (which won’t be up for a while) and I hear a bang, like somebody had dropped something heavy. I go to the kitchen and I see a cop. Well as nosey as Kris and I are, we take a walk to go see what happened. A car went speeding up the road and hit the Bobcat that was working on the road from the fire earlier today. The car is totaled, and somehow everyone who was in it survived. Here are the pictures of it.

It’s been an interesting day on Forrest Avenue in Glen Cove and Locust Valley, now if only everyday was as interesting.

Work has been a little crazy the last few days. Things kind of blew up out of no where, but for the most part I think everything is back to working the way it should. My job would be a lot easier if I wasn’t on wireless internet. Occasionally I unplug the cord from my 360 to plug it into my computer, but that can be a real hassle. I have been reading up on using two routers together, so I may just plug in another router in the bedroom and connect it to the Xbox and the Mac and PC. At least then I would be able to check how stuff looks and works in Internet Explorer.

Other than that I think I am going to need to buy a battery backup, this way I don’t need to worry if it starts storming outside, I can still work even if the lights go out. At the very least it will save me from loosing work if the power goes out.

Last night I decided to leave my announcement list, and move to a completely new one. I have also changed the mailing list sign up on the sidebar to stand out more and made a WordPress plugin to allow commenters to subscribe with just one click.

I went grocery shopping today. Have you ever noticed that when you are in a rush and want to get in and out quickly and walk as fast as you can that the most annoyingly slow people cut out in front of you and won’t let you pass? I hate that, I kind of just want to push them with the shopping cart to where they need to be, it would help both of us out, if you think about it. They will get to their destination quicker, and I will be able to walk without them getting in my way. It’s a win win situation.

Okay, I think that rant is done. Besides shopping, I changed up my automated notifications that show up on Twitter, Myspace, and all the other services to include the name of the post. I think it will help me draw a user base.

So here are some questions for you, what kind of content do you like to see on websites? What will make you tell your friends about this site? Are you interested in being an affiliate?

I changed the layout of the index page a bit, I put the blog on top of the girl and guy of the moment. Will there be another contest with that? I don’t know, which is why I am putting them underneith. If I do it, it probably won’t be until after I figure out what I want to do for a layout change, although I have been talking about a layout change for how long now?

I think Kris and I are going out to dinner tonight. We were supposed to do lunch today, but something came up with Krissy’s job, so we made it a dinner date. Until then though I have nothing to do. I returned Prototype last night, and found out this morning I have another free rental at Blockbuster. I want to get one of the Call of Duty games, or this game that Lindsey was talking about, Overlord.

I am also anxiously awaiting a payment today. It is the first time that I am having any payments sent through my bank, so I want to see if that shows up today or how that works. I just hope it is sent before my bank closes, otherwise I think I will need to wait until Monday for it, and that won’t be good since I was hoping to pay some bills and do some shopping this weekend. I guess I just need to wait and see.