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I am stuck here because my water pump blew and I need a serpentine belt. I have an appointment on Tuesday to get it done, but it just sucks that I need to wait until then, especially considering I made the appointment on Tuesday. The mechanic comes highly recommended though, so I can understand why he couldn’t take me until then. It is just sucks not having a car, though Monday and Tuesday I guess I will be preoccupied with E3 conferences to even notice. Monday is the Microsoft one, which is what I am most interested in since Bungie has been hinting at something, and Tuesday is the Sony and Nintendo one. I am interested to see what Nintendo has to bring to the table since Reggie was teasing E3 back in April. Hopefully it will be something as big as Wii Fit. As for Sony, I can’t imagine they are going to do anything more exciting than Home, and that doesn’t excite me at all. I know they are rolling out Achievement like things known as trophies and that all games will eventually have them, it might prompt me to buy a PS3, especially if I can display my trophies online.

If you put a vw turbocharger in a Volkswagon it is going to run and sound better. The reason it runs and sounds better is because it increases the amount of air entering the engine and in turn gives it more power. I thought about putting one in my Beretta, and I would if I had the money, but right now I don’t. As it is I more than likely need a new Serpentine belt and I hear it would be a pain to install it myself, so I would need to get that installed. I love my car and there is so much I would want to do to it, even if I could afford a new car, I think I would just keep spending money on getting mine upgraded and fixed. I would love it if I could get a new paint job, make it black with flames, put in some racing seats and a nice stereo system with built in Ipod dock and CD player, maybe even a built in computer. Of course all this would be nice, but I need the money first.

E3 2008 is one week away. Last year Nintendo announced the Wii Fit, this year I am hoping that they announce more compatible games for it, like Tony Hawk. Bungie has been hinting at E3 in their latest podcast, so maybe we will hear about a new game from them, or maybe see something from the Peter Jackson Halo project. I know I am going to definitely be checking out every bit of Halo Wars screen videos there are, though I don’t know how well an RTS is going to be on the 360.

I am also hearing rumors that Microsoft will reveal a motion sensored controller similar to the Wiimote, so maybe that will be announced. I just hope none of the big three announce a new console because the console wars are still going strong and taking it to another level would be horrible in this economy.

Krissy says that my car is making some odd noises and starting to die. Now while my Beretta isn’t my first car, it is the car that has lasted me the longest. As of right now we are on vacation so hopefully we will be able to make it back home safely, if not we may need to figure out a way to do a car rental, but that might be difficult considering you need to be at least 25. Advantage is having a 50% discount on Luxury and Convertible car rentals, I hope they have that when I turn 25 because I might just rent a convertible for the hell of it.

The place we were looking into has been rented out so we need to come up with somewhere else to live. Since I am sick I haven’t really been out much, I have been mainly sleeping, but I don’t want to do that today since I have some work to do. I am kind of happy that the place isn’t available, it was kind of small and there wouldn’t be a place to have Sectional Sofas, which I find to be the most comfortable. When have you ever seen Sectional Sofas where you don’t just sink in and can fall asleep? Plus they are good because if you do fall asleep, someone else can still be sitting on it too. I guess we are going to have to keep looking for a place, there might be a few out east, but they’d be more expensive. I guess we’d just need to wait and see.

I saw Beast with a Billion Backs last night and it was good, I don’t think it was anywhere near as good as the first movie, but I liked it. I checked out the preview on the DVD for the next movie, and it looks like it is going to be Dungeons and Dragons based, which is all right. I heard the last one is going to tie up a lot of loose ends, in case they don’t make anymore after it. My guess is that it will involve Nibbler and possibly the Brains and what is meant by when Nibbler said to Fry that she must be the other. If it doesn’t tie that up, then I don’t know what is going to happen.

I do not agree with the views Glenn Beck, for one I think Bush is an idiot and for seven years he was giving Bush the benefit of the doubt. Secondly I don’t think I have much in common with Conservatives at all, I am more Liberal than Conservative, but I think I am more in the Socialist, Communist territory. While I don’t like the idea of the Government knowing your every move, I do like where the government takes care of you through Social outlets, like Universal Healthcare and whatnot. I am toward Communism because I think that as an idea Communism is great, but when practiced it fails miserably. I guess I am a Socialistic, Communistic Liberal with a hint of Conservative, even though I don’t want to admit the Conservative part.

While I do not agree with Glen Beck, I do enjoy listening to his views and what he thinks is wrong with the country. It is nice to get an outsiders opinion on the issues. He is having a show in Dallas on July 17th which is going to be broadcasted to select movie theaters that day. I might see if I can see the show on that date, depending on if there is a movie theater showing it near me or not.

Krissy and I went over to Microcenter yesterday and I saw all of the Mac stuff they had. A lot of them had real mice and keyboards hooked up to them and not the defaut ones that are so small I feel like I am going to break it. They had a better music keyboard that hooked up to the Mac than they had last time and if I had the money I would buy it, unfortunately I don’t have the money right now so it is going to have to wait. Being on this for the last week made me realize what a good machine it is and I definitely want a Mac now. I just need to pay off the first one before I can even think about getting a second one.

Krissy’s whole family rides Harleys. My father used to ride a motorcycle. I love seeing the bikes on American Chopper. With all these factors put into place, it is amazing that I never got on a bike to ride. Part of the reason is because I can’t drive a stick and I don’t fully understand how to do it, so riding a motorcycle could prove difficult. I don’t have the money for one, but I was thinking about learning how to change gears on one then maybe renting one and taking a ride on one of those Motorcycle Tours where me and a bunch of other guys ride off to someplace. I don’t know if I could do that though with a bunch of people I don’t know, but maybe if I got some of my friends together it would be different.

Back when I was in college, I wanted to have a degree or a certification in anything and everything I could. I wanted to have a certificate in web programming, A+ and Cisco certification, degrees in Computer Science and Web Design. Looking back I realize how impractical and illogical this is, but I still wonder about some of these things, like the Cisco certification.

I have done some aspects of network security, but that was with the programs and firewalls that I would use to block out intruders from an in house network, I never have done anything more advanced than that though. I would love to do the network security for a huge building, but I would need the network security backround that a Cisco Certification would offer. I think that if I ever do have an in house server then I might pick up a bunch of books on the subject, maybe trying for a certification after I put a full blown secure network together, but I doubt I will do it before hand. That is a dream that is going to have to be put off for a while though due to lack of funs, and the lack of a real need for an in house full blown server.

I may not have the money right now, but I know that eventually I will be able to go back to school, a good school, to get all the training I want and need to do what I want to do, which at this point I am doing, I would just like more education behind what I am doing and where I am going with it all.

I have this dream and I have had it for a while, probably since middle school or maybe even before that, I want to drive through and visit all 48 Continental United States. I originally wanted to do it right after high school, but lack of funds proved to be an issue. Then I met Krissy and shared my dream with her and it went from driving through in a car to driving through in an RV. The dream is still years away, even Used RVs are out of my price range at this point, but I know in my heart that eventually we will be able to do it. Maybe if everything goes well by the time we are 30, but I don’t know about all that now.

I try and get something done for my site at least once a month, though I really want to get something done once a week, if not more. My last two updates haven’t been significant for users, but they have been for me. I had tons of DVDs to actually go through and add and in the latest one I had been able to add it and edit it from the Mac. Over the next week I am going to try and get a lot done on the Mac, email checks, programming, all that, but only if Krissy isn’t going to be using it. The keyboard takes a little getting used to, but I just can’t get the hang of the mouse. I might have to plug in a 2 button mouse so I don’t keep hitting random things.

As for the updates on this site, they may seem insignifigant to you, but I have a whole list of things that need to get done. I am going to attempt to get some work done tomorrow then attempt to work on the Spiderman section, but that may not get done at all. I also have work and pictures to upload for the gallery, but again I don’t know when that will get done. Maybe being on the Mac I will be enticed to edit photos and then jut have to upload them.