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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.

I created a Myspace Adder section for the site. You can find it here. I did this for a few reasons, first I thought it would bring in some new people to the site (so far it hasn’t though), and two, I wanted to create one for a while and I saw a site that didn’t use pictures for theirs, so I decided to copy the idea and use a general picture for everyone.

Other than that, I have been working all day today and haven’t had a chance to return comments yet. I haven’t even seen any decent new videos to put up in the previews section, it just seems like a blah day all around.

While reading through some sites I just found out that John Hughes died. If you are unfamiliar with his work, then really you should be wondering what you have done in your life. His works include Ferris Buelers Day Off, the Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Curley Sue, Sixteen Candles, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck, those are just his directorial credits. As a producer he brought us the Home Alone series, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Career Opportunities, Flubber, Baby’s Day Out, Dennis the Menace, Only the Lonely, and 101 Dalmatians. He also wrote National Lampoon’s Vacation. Like I said if you have never seen any of his movies, then you must lead a very sad life because these are most of the greatest films of the 80s and 90s. The world has lost a great talent.

It has been a few days since I’ve blogged, but really it doesn’t seem that long at all since I have been adding stuff to my Previews section everyday, multiple times a day using WordPress and some custom hacks I made up.

Either way, I haven’t really been up to much, just working and playing Prototype. I’ve got a few secret projects going on for LepsLair that I can’t talk about much yet right now, maybe sometime within the near future, but I think it will definitely start to bring more people here and possibly get others to promote it, which will be good.

We went to St. Roccos Feast on Saturday night, that was pretty fun. We weren’t planning on going, but Alicia called us and told us that we were. It’s great when other people make plans for you without telling you first isn’t it? We hung out there until after they closed up, then we hung out with them for a while afterwards drinking beer. I really like beer.

I really want to go to Comic Con one year. I just finished watching the Lost panel, and I’ve been reading up on the updates and it sounds really cool. Even if I never get to E3, I’d eventually like to one day go to Comic Con. All week I’ve been watching the videos and reading the stories and I think during the NY Comic Con I might actually try getting into the city to go. I know some people who I might meet up with there, so even if I go alone, I could still hang out with people once there.

Iron Man 2 sounds like it is going to be awesome, I was hoping to hear more about the Avengers, or even a Hulk sequel, but I guess we need to have Iron Man 2 come out before any of that since it is all in the same universe now. The Avengers actually looks like it is going to be good, though I am not sure how Iron Man 2 is going to play into it since The Incredible Hulk made it sound like the team was almost all set to go.

The new footage from Left 4 Dead 2 is making me think I will be going out on launch day to pick it up. If that is the case, I will probably pre-order from FYE since it is right up the road. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t show any footage from the sequel to Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but oh well.

July 21st (tomorrow) is Krissy’s and my anniversary. I can’t believe we’ve been together three years. We’ve had our ups and downs like any couple, but we’ve always been able to pull through stronger than before.

I think we might be going to Bertucci’s for dinner tomorrow, which I am all for, since I can get chicken parmagiana and unlimited bread. Believe me they have excellent bread. Kris also took the day off, which she needs, the poor thing works for a shit company and doesn’t get paid nearly enough. We also have some giftcards for movies, so maybe we will hit one up, though I don’t know if there’s anything she wants to see. Anything out now, I could honestly wait until it comes to DVD.

The dog woke me up at 7:30 this morning, for no reason other because she wanted to hop around in bed until I would pay attention to her. She’s such an attention whore at times, but she’s cute and she knows she’s cute, so that’s why she gets away with it.

I think I have finally decided on a new layout for my overall site, I just need to design it and see how it looks in all browsers and on all pages. I have some pages on here that it may look awful with, simply because of the how people’s browsers and screen widths are.

The new sections aren’t coming along as quick as I would like, mainly because I need to work to make money, but the majority of my time right now is being put into other projects that may make me money in the future, and finding clients right now to make money in the present. I have one who wants some big things, but I think I may have undercharged him with everything he wants. If anyone needs a PHP programmer, I am available.