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I want a watch. I don’t have a cell phone and sometimes I would just like to know what time it is. Even if I had a cell phone I think I would still want a watch just because I wouldn’t want to pull out my phone to check the time. I have had a few watches over the years, but I think the last time I had a watch was when I was either 15 or 16. I don’t remember what had happened to it though, probably just another item lost in time (no pun intended).

Corum makes some really nice looking watches. The corum automatic is really something to look at. While that may be nice, I think my favorite watch is in the Corum Bubble section. It is the Corum Bubble XL Diver Automatic Chronograph Mens’ Watch. It has a Black Dial Diamond Bezel on a Black Rubber Strap and it looks really nice. It also has dials for the date, which I is another function I would use a cellphone for. I put a picture at the end of this entry if you want to check it out, and if anyone is feeling extra generous and has a few thousand to spare, then you can certainly pick it up for me.

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I miss watching “All in the Family”. I was watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” and I saw their kitchen and realized that it was the same one as in “All in the Family”. I don’t know why “All in the Family” or “Archie’s Place” aren’t in syndication, it might be because of political correctness and they can’t show it on television anymore. They show disclaimers on ABC Family before “That 70’s Show”, which is no where near as bad.

It seems that the solution for getting over cultural differences is to pretend they aren’t there anymore. Isn’t it not right to say someone is black anymore? African American is also wrong because someone might be black and not be from African ancestry, of course there are also white people from Africa, so that would make them African Americans too, I suppose. Maybe Kwanzaa is the right idea, a holiday to celebrate what you are in America. I say that white people have one too, along with all other people from different cultural backgrounds.

White Holiday will now be known for celebrating being white in America. Jié rì can be for the Chinese Americans. Come on everyone, let’s stop trying to pretend we are all the same and celebrate the differences without being called racist. Let’s have an all Japanese television station and an all white radio station, be proud of who you are and where you came from!

I want a really good pair of binoculars. Why? Simple, it is a lot cheaper than getting a new camera and a lens, all I need to do is set the binoculars up as a lens for the camera and then I have a make shift lens. Nikon, the leading manufacturer in cameras is having a sale on binoculars. The Nikon Ultimate Hunter’s Package Promo , which went on sale on Black Friday, isn’t a bad deal. I know it isn’t the traditional binoculars, but it might be better since it is made to help you shoot, and that’s what you do with a camera. I know it is merely a play on words, but in all seriousness I think it could work.

Barrack Obama spoke in one of his speeches about how anyone can be an entrepreneur with the internet. Since I heard him say that I have been thinking a lot about it. It was brought up on the radio a few days ago in regards to music. For a while I have been thinking about making this an official business, but I had no idea what I would do or how to use it. I think I have figured it out though, I would use it as a consulting firm. Basically if I did that I could use it for anything, building computers, blogging income, ad income, income from other things, and most of what I purchased would be tax deductible as long as I used it for the business.

Credit card processing wouldn’t be necessary for what I have right now, but if it ever got to the point of this being my only business, then I could offer it for selling scripts, or Flash stuff, or anything really. Making Lep’s Lair Consulting would be a good move, I just don’t know if it is the right move for right now. For one I would need to be able to register the paperwork to start my own legitimate business, which means I would need start up capital. I might be able to get a loan, but I don’t know since I have no official training or experience. A business needs money, even if it is in the form of loans, that way they can gain merchandise or parts or whatever it is the business would need. In my case it would be the money to start it up and maybe some more training in Flash, signs for my car, and business cards. Maybe one day I will, but for right now all this nis just a dream.

Krissy has been receiving a lot of numbers from Arizone on her cell phone. She got like 40 of them in an hour on Friday and they don’t speak english and then they sent her a text message. She tried calling the police, but they were no help at all. When I told her to Report Phone Numbers, she jumped right on it, and also added some numbers that had been calling the house too.

I honestly can deal with prank calls, in fact if they are funny or just a kid having fun then I don’t care. When it is someone who keeps calling and obviously over the age of 18 then it becomes a problem and should be reported. Prank calls should be a part of any tween/teenager’s life, but annoying calls from people who should know better shouldn’t be tolerated at all.

I love Spiderman Web of Shadows. I loved all the Spiderman movie games, even number 3 with its lackluster controls, but Web of Shadows builds on what the previous games had and takes it to a whole nother level. See you can fight in the air on land and on the walls. You really do fight the way that Spiderman would.

Aside from the controls, the game’s story is all right too. It isn’t based on a movie so they are free to include other characters from the Marvel universe. You see Black Cat, Wolverine, Nick Fury, show up along with mentions of Reed Richards, and Tony Stark. I think that if the Avengers movie takes a note from the game it will be a good thing, though I don’t think I have to worry about that movie at all, considering the top notch cast and directors that will be involved.

I love Windows don’t you? I mean the program can barely stay open long enough before you get one of those cryptic little error popup windows that makes no sense to you and even though you forward the error to Microsoft, you know that no one will ever read it and it won’t happen again until the exact condition is met that made it pop up the first time. Well now there is hope. If you get say error code 50, you can now look it up and find out why you are getting that error code and possibly do something about it.

I for one plan on using this a lot, especially with those hexadecimal ones, just because of how big a pain they are to me. I wish they would just tell you in plain english what had happened and why something went nuts, but they don’t. They want you to feel like an idiot with those 0x000544JB errors that pop up all the time. I have taken Windows courses and even taken an Assembly language course that dealt with registers and even that gave more specific errors than Windows does at times. I think Windows errors can be put into one of two piles, ones that crash the program, and ones that crash the entire system. Neither one is good, and each one is just as confusing as the other.

Right now the economy is in bad shape. I technically work for myself, and even though money is and always has been tight, the price of food going up, along with the holidays coming up is really making me try and stretch my budget. I have been trying to find as many coupons for things gifts, and things I need, even groceries. My DVD burner recently died, it no longer read DVDs, but it would burn them just fine, so I needed to go buy a new one. I would have ordered from Newegg, or something like that, but with a Microcenter right around the corner from where I was, I decided to go there and pick one up.

As I walk in the door they had a massive amounts of coupons, ones for burners, computers, mother boards, even stuff for software like Windows, Office, they even had Quicken coupons. It was a pleasant surprise, let me tell you, because with the money I saved on my burner, I was able to get some dinner and even some stuff for Thanksgiving next week.

When I was working in a grocery store I hated the coupons, Manufacturer, Store, and then you had to keep and separate them, it was a big pain to deal with. Then people complaining because they gave you an expired coupon, just made the whole thing ten times worse, sometimes I wanted to hit them and say something like “It’s only 30 cents”, but now that I am out of that mindset and actually using them, I see that 30 cents here and a dollar there is another item that can go in the cart that won’t be put off another week.

I plan on applying for Medicaid as soon as I have my license and car switched over to New York. I know in Delaware that I have optical coverage with Medicaid, so I am hoping that it is the same in New York. Whether I have it or not, I am going to need glasses, so I am planning on going with ZenniOptical instead of a store to get them. They have eyeglasses starting from just $8.00. That is frames and lenses for just eight bucks, that is a really good deal.

I put an image of the glasses that I want below. I really like the sophistication of the black frame, I just need to get the prescription for them. I looked at the others, especially the plastic ones, but I have always had much better luck with metal ones, and besides that, I just think they look better in general. I do know that when I have the money I might pick up more than one pair, just so I have a spare when the main pair get scratched or damaged or something like that. I might go next weekend to the optomitrist, I found a coupon for a $20 eye exam, and I think $28 for an exam and glasses is a fine price.

Lucy and her dad did the brakes on my car a few weeks ago. I don’t get to drive my car much since Krissy takes it to work everyday, but when I do drive it, I must say that it is a lot better than it has been the last few months. I’ve put a lot of money into my car and I don’t know much about them, so when I have a chance to learn about them by either doing something myself or reading up on it online, I try and understand it as best as I can, so maybe next time I can fix something myself, or at least have a better understanding of what is wrong.

I’ve spent a lot of money on my car, it isn’t really like the car is dying, but it has been getting expensive. First I needed an Air conditioning compressor. I know that doesn’t sound bad, but when you are driving around in 90 degree weather in a resort town and traffic isn’t moving, you get to the point where you want to sell your soul for some relief. The A/C I could have lived without, and I did for a while, but then it started affecting other parts of the car, so I had to get it fixed.

About six months ago I needed tires and an oil change, which afterwards they told me my serpentine belt and waterpump needed to be replaced. I waited until we came up to New York and they both died on me to get them replaced for $500 less than I was quotes in Delaware. Then about a week after they got fixed I needed a radiator. After that I needed a brake job and another oil change. It is mainly maintenance work, so I am hoping that I won’t need all this done in a short amount of time again for a long time.

Christmas Cards annoy me. You have the blank ones that allow people to write their own message in them, but in actuality someone either just writes Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, or one of the many other various forms of those two phrases, or they use the blank card as an excuse to write a whole well thought out letter. The problem with the latter is that many people put Christmas cards on display which people tend to open if they see them on display, which means that in turn your personal letter is on display.

There are also the kinds of cards which the Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas greeting is already in there and then the person writes little else since everything is summed up in those few words. Personally I hate either one, mainly because even if you still write a letter, a card with a predefined image on it seems impersonal. I would want to send out cards that either I designed, I hand made, or had something to do with me and my loved ones, something like a picture as the card, or maybe one I photoshopped, either way I’d want it to be personal. I’d also customize the Merry Christmas with their names and maybe a short message, that even if it was generic and mass produced, it could still be seen as somewhat personal.

I have been trying to figure out how to afford Verizon cell phones and a cellphone plan. I even tried paying for part of the first bill with a gift card, but that only messed things up, so I couldn’t do it. I know Krissy wants Verizon for the unlimited In-network calling and text messaging, which is fine, but I just need to figure out how to afford the phone that she wants.

Years ago I had a Cingular plan, a few months before they had merged with AT&T. That was all right, but I think now that I am working I need something that I can check email with and check the news, that kind of thing. I like at&t cell phones, especially the iphone, but I really can’t afford that right now.

I am really just looking for the best cellphone that I can get at a great price, I was even thinking about going with Tmobile for their Sidekicks, but after looking at the Tmobile phones, I didn’t really see any that I’d want that I could afford.

I haven’t looked into Sprint though, mainly because I had forgotten all about them until now. I remember they used to do housephones, but those commercials with Candace Bergan just stopped running, so I thought they went out of business. I guess I should look into Sprint phones, though. Who knows maybe I will find a good Sprint cell phone sale that I could buy a phone at a good price.