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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.

As I sit here, I realize that I have nothing to do and I realize that there are lots of nights when I have nothing to do and yet I don’t actually work on my site, and I don’t actually blog, I just kind of sit here with the book of ideas next to me and not implement any of them. I am not sure what it is, but I think it is the lack of video games since video games inspire me in a way that I can’t describe. So many nights I could have worked on the Spiderman section or gotten pictures together for the fanlistings, or started the new one that I wanted to do, but I realize that it isn’t time, it is inspiration that I am lacking.

My mother got me a gift card for my birthday last month and I used it to buy Red vs Blue: Bonus Content DVD and make your own box set, along with volumes 1 and 3 of Cad-comic’s softcover books. I am hoping that when the books come they will inspire me to do something that differs from work. Maybe I should just go on Saturday to Delaware and pack up the car and come back Sunday, but I don’t know yet.

Has it really been over a week since my last entry? Money seems to be evening itself out, though I still need to be making more of it. Right now all my time seems to be going to work and I need to split it up better between things I’d rather be doing and work. Of course I think this will be a lot easier once we have our stuff up here and I can play video games. We decided to buy a bed instead of shipping the one we have so we can go to Delaware anytime and start loading our stuff in the car. I think we’ll be making a trip sometime next week.

We are heading out to check out bar stools with Lucy. She just got one of those traveling wet bars, I think they are called, and she wants a nice set of stools to go with it. I think she said that there are different styles that go by different names, like ones that don’t look like they belong at a bar are Counter Stools, while ones that could either be in a bar or at a counter are referred to as Kitchen Bar Stools. I don’t know, I don’t really know the difference, nor do I really care much. I mean if I had a bar I would just get the classic Wood Bar Stools, that are three legged and backless, that is what I think when I think of a bar stool.

My aunt moved her father into her house, and in doing so moved one of her sons to the den. Now she has decided tat the den should be her son’s official new room, so she has been going all over looking for Kids Bedroom Furniture. Last time I talked to her, I think she had found a bed, but I think she is still looking for Childrens Desks and a
Childrens Chair. I know he’s just content sitting on the floor when playing video games, so I don’t know why either of those are important, but to her they are. I guess for homework, but every time I saw him doing homework he was sitting at the kitchen table, so I don’t think that is it. It might just be a decorating thing.

Politicians are saying that the American family is failing, but what they don’t realize is that while the family structure may be changing, it is definitely not failing. It is true that the divorce rate is high in America, but that doesn’t mean that families are failing, just that marriages are.

In the twenty first century families are more than just people you are related to by blood, they are people you are related to by circumstances, experiences, and just plain choice. Friends are closer than ever, having ways to constantly stay in touch through the use of technology. Ten years ago you’d never find people on the internet who were away who were your extended family, but the times have changed, and whether you speak to them on the phone, the internet, face to face, no matter what you might someday consider them family.

While the government may be saying that the American family is failing, who are they to generalize us? The family structure is different now, but it is a lot stronger than it was in the 1990’s.