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So we finally got cable. They came today and hooked it up. We have an HD-DVR in the bedroom hooked up to my 32 inch high definition television. It’s pretty sweet.

Besides cable, nothing much is new. Been working for clients, finished up a bunch of stuff, and have finally gained some free time, but I have been playing video games with it rather than working on anything personal. I know I have to work on the design and some new pages for prices before all my clients disappear, but when you are working so much, any break away from the computer to do what you enjoy, is a much appreciated break.

We do have a new Guy of the Moment, and that might be the last one for a while. I have one contestant all set for Girl of the Moment, and I have been putting it on Twitter, so if I get enough interest, then that will start soon. I will also be slowly making more time for the site, if you follow me on Twitter, or have looked at my what I want to do, then you will have an idea of what might be coming at some point.

It’s been a very hectic week. On Saturday when I was out picking up a Sicilian pie, I backed into someone. We decided not to go through the insurance company because if we did it would raise both our rates. Being we did that though, I had to give her $350 to fix a dent in her bumper. Oh well could have been worse.

Ever since then I have been working to get the money back into the account. I’ve got three clients that I’ve been working with in the last few days, which are taking up my time so much that I haven’t been able to update my TGP at all. It is all right though because this brings in more money. Eventually I will get back to being days ahead on the TGP, but for now it doesn’t look like that is going to happen anytime soon.

I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on GTA in my comments, I love the Grand Theft Auto series. I ended up picking up Resident Evil 5 and playing it sporadically for the last week. I somehow managed to beat the game though, I guess it was relatively shorter than 4, which I never fully completed, but I hear that it was a long game. Oh well, at lease Chris and Jill are both alive and hopefully will appear together in Resident Evil 6.

Believe it or not, this is my first post from WordPress 2.7.1. I can already tell that my character count plugin doesn’t work, so I will need to fix that, I suppose. I am getting less and less people interested in the word count, but for some reason that still works. I like where the new version puts it too, but since a word count is already included in the new versions of WordPress, my little plugin is obsolete. Oh well.

In work news, after weeks of having very little to do, things have finally picked up. I got one client off of Twitter, and another one off of the Social Engine Base forum. I also have returning clients asking for work, which is nice. If this continues, we might be able to afford to get a bed soon, along with some other things.

Speaking of money, we are going out tonight with Alicia and Dave for dinner. He is giving me a contract to look over and if I sign, I will be entitled to over $1000 a day if a disaster strikes and I go down in it. I would be basically working a spreadsheet to keep track of drivers who are down rescuing animals. Granted, there needs to be a disaster for that to happen, and I’d never wish anything like Katrina on anybody else, but it would be good money for a couple days worth of work.

I am going to comment back and then head out to dinner I guess. What do you guys think if I made a login here, and let people sign up, post pictures, and add features as they come? Kind of like a little social network of sorts, with the main function in the beginning being a forum? Let me know.

We have a new Girl of the Moment. I am really excited because this time, we got over 2000 combined votes. In fact first and second place alone were well over 1000 votes each. I wish I could gain that much attention to the site when I am not running some sort of contest, but I digress. We are still accepting entries in the Guy of the Moment Contest, so if your a guy, or you know a guy, sign him up.

In other news I downloaded the Left 4 Dead Survival pack yesterday. It is fun, but I wish Microsoft would allow Achievements to free content. Either way, it is a lot of fun, I just wish they would add all new campaign modes. It might be interesting to see a school, or football stadium full of zombies you must get by.

Girl of the Moment voting is now open.

I’m hoping within the next week I will have a new Girl of the Moment up. Easter was good, we went to Alicia and Dave’s and ate a lot. We also got to watch Lakeview Terrace. It was a lot better than I thought. I need to actually sit down and start watching the movies I have. I think tomorrow I am going to check out Ten Inch Hero.

Work has picked up a bit. I have a new review to do and I have been talking to new clients, and things with MyJokeCafe has picked up a bit. I’m still not in the clear though. I am hoping to get a few more clients this week, but I don’t know how that is going to play out. We will see though.

So Vermont has made it legal for two men or two women to get married. This of course comes after Iowa decided the same thing last week. I am all for gay rights, afterall if a man and woman can go to Vegas never meet before a drunken night and get married, then shouldn’t gay people have the same freedom? If it were up to me then gays would be allowed to be married in every state under federal law. I would actually give tax credits to gay people who get married in Texas, but maybe that is because I don’t like Texas, aside from the express lane to the death penalty. Afterall they did give us George W. Bush for eight years.

I am a few days ahead with the TGP. I’ve also randomized the updates so I just fill in a bunch and it is then randomized at midnight.

I’ve also began another round of the Girl of the Moment. So far I have three entries, which is pretty good, I just hope we have much more of a response when it comes to voting.

In other news I filled out the Fafsa. I suppose I am going back to school, not really sure yet. I need to go to Nassau and check out the classes and I suppose talk to a counselor. I think I am going to do that sometime next week. Who knows, I may be going to Nassau in the Fall. I am also going to apply to NYIT. I doubt I will be able to afford that though.

There are reports that the Wolverine movie was leaked onto the web. While I haven’t seen it, I have read the an in depth synopsis. The developers claim that the movie will not be horrible, but the fanboys say that the movie is horrible. From what I’ve read it won’t be as bad as X-Men 3 or Spiderman 3, but it will be bad at certain points during the movie.

I won’t give anything away, I will just say that if they release the movie as is, it will be bad. It sucks because I thought they would have learned their lesson with X-Men 3. It looks like we may have to see if Hugh Jackman will and live up to his word and bow out of the X-Men franchise like he said he would if the fans didn’t like X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

So after a couple hours trying to figure out if my microSD card was working, I finally figured it out. It will not work with the camera attached to the computer, or the SD card plugged directly into the computer. What I have to do is plug it into my printer and then go to the allotted drive on the computer that is mapped to the printer. Unfortunately the pictures are much smaller than I thought they would be.

I found pictures of Lucy, Krissy, and me on the camera. That kind of caught me off guard. They are from Halloween, I thought Kris deleted them, but I guess not. It seems just like yesterday that we were hanging out around the fire pit, still can’t believe she’s gone.

XBox Live Arcade has tons of great games that you can download and play. No games peak my interest more than the ones that are remakes of games I loved as a kid. Here are some of the great games of yesteryear that I would love to see on the Xbox Live Arcade at some point in time.

Sonic and Knuckles- Sega Genesis’s sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 that enabled lock on technology so that Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles could be played as one long game. Together, the two games created one of the best Sonic game for the system.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time- The sequel to the TMNT arcade game that was later ported to the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. We already have the original arcade game, why not the sequel?

X-Men Arcade Game- Six players simultaneously playing on a dual CRT ultra wide cabinet that was usually filled with players and spectators. It was hard to ever get close to the cabinet to watch the game, let alone play it.

Simpsons Arcade Game- Another game that was hard to get near in the 80’s and early 90’s. The game played much like the Ninja Turtles games, but two players had special abilities if the characters and situations were right.

Toejam and Earl- I’m not sure how popular this game was, but I remember playing it with my brother on the Sega Genesis. It was one of those games that just seemed stupid if you were playing it alone, but when playing with someone else, the split screen technology and open world was a crazy amount of fun for both. Just try and avoid the sequels.

Willy Beamish- This game puts you in the life of a nine year old whose just starting summer vacation. You have to solve puzzles and not annoy adults, otherwise they will ship you off to military school.

Sam and Max Hit the Road- With Sam and Max Season 1 coming to XBLA, it just seems like that Sam and Max Hit the Road would be the obvious predecessor.

What games would you like to see on the XBox Live Arcade?

One of my many, many goals in life is to attend the biggest electronics show in America, at least what used to be the biggest and what appears to be returning to its former glory. I am of course talking about none other than E3. What is E3? It stands for the Electronics Entertainment Expo and it showcases the latest upcoming video games, gadgets, and hardware. Whenever Nintendo or Sony have something big to announce, they usually do it at E3. Microsoft announced Halo 3 at E3 a few years ago. E3 is where I want to be.

Why am I not going? Well it isn’t open to the public. Those who are fortunate enough to go, are hand picked.Lindsay received her registration card in the mail (she went a few years back). Tim also received an invitation to attend. I think I may try and make this blog more technology based, or maybe add more of a technology aspect to the site in some way, this way it might peak some more interest, though that has been on my to do list for a while now. I guess only time will tell what happens huh?

We found out yesterday that the bump that they removed from Bella’s stomach wasn’t a cyst, but was in fact cancer. The vet says he thinks he got it all, but we have to keep an eye on her and see if she gets anymore growths and take her for regular visits. I guess all we can do is work to be able to afford it and watch and wait. I hate the feeling of being helpless though.

Krissy and I headed out to dinner last night, seeing as how we hadn’t been out in a while and it was St. Patrick’s Day. We went to Friendly’s, not someplace I could get a beer, but it was still nice all the same. Maybe this weekend we can go out to someplace with a bar or something, I just want to get my drink on, though I might need to get it on while watching Lost tonight.