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Hurricane Sandy hit Rehoboth Beach hard the passed few days. Everything in the complex seems to be all right and if you didn’t leave the road, you wouldn’t know that anything significant had happened. We had a lot of rain and wind, but we didn’t lose power, except for a few dips here and there, we didn’t lose cable, no trees came down, and there wasn’t a significant amount of flooding. I took a video on October 29th and uploaded it to YouTube. As you can see there wasn’t anything wrong in the immediate vicinity. It’s weird though, because if you left the area, and even just ventured out to the entrance of the complex, you’d see flooding. We are lucky with where we are.

Another blog post from my phone. This time I am not fishing though, I am in the car going to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. My mom has an appointment with an endocrinologist and will possibly be getting a separate opinion in a Philadelphia hospital depending on what they tell her today. It just sucks having to travel 2 to 3 hours for a good doctor because doctors in Delaware are horrible.

Her surgery is on September 14th. She is having more than half her lung removed. They aren’t sure how long recovery will be, but they say that normally it is 6 months to a year. We will be going back to NY to grab some more clothes, our main computers and our dog and then staying for an extended period of time.

I know I hated Delaware when I lived here, it’s weird that I actually sort of miss it now that I don’t live here anymore. It isn’t even like I grew up here, I’m a Jersey boy, so to miss this backward state seems weird.

I have 2 sites I need to get the ball rolling on, 2 others that need to be done, I have nothing done for Leps Lair or Lepcode, my new business based site. I am thinking about doing a new blog over there for business related ventures, of course this blog would pretty much stay the staff blog or whatever thiis will officially become. I have a few ideas, I just need to execute them. I have a lot of ideas that I haven’t had time or inspiration to execute.

No word on the surgery for mom yet. I think they may be calling tomorrow. I guess depending on when it is, recovery time, time she’ll be in the hospital, etc will determine when we go home and either rest for a few days and come back, or just go home and stay there. There is just a lot of unknown at the moment and it sucks.

I am lucky that Kris and I don’t have conventional jobs where we need to be there, otherwise I think this whole thing would be a hell of a lot harder to deal with. I don’t want to deal with it either way obviously,  but it is what it is I guess.

We came down o Delaware in late June. We have stayed here ever since because my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. She’s having surgery in the next couple of weeks, because it was discovered she has emphyzema and can’t do radiation.

It has been a very hard couple of weeks as I am sure you can imagine. She has been researching ever supposed cure for cancer there is, from some CAAT diet to cannibus oil. She even wanted to breathe in baking soda since it is opposite of sugar which is what cancer is attracted to. In theory it is a good idea, in reality I don’t think it would do much good.

The last few weeks has really been tough, but with the surgery and recovery and everything coming up, I imagine things will be getting much harder. I think I will be using this as an outlet more and more, considering I have been sitting staring at a screen trying to work and nothing is produced.

If I could concentrate and get things produced I could have a lot done for work and for Leps Lair which I want to turn into a nerd hub and entertainment social network. I have ideas of expanding the adult section with a sex advice, tube section, etc, plus removing sections and putting them on my new site which should hopefully be finished soon.

Unfortunately I haven’t had the inspiration. Even right now I am at the pier, fishing, drinking beer, and my mind will not stop. Anyone have any advice or any ideas on this?

I am fiscally responsible now (sort of), but when I first turned 18, I got my first credit card, a Home Depot Card, which I used to rack up some debt. I soon went onto Macy’s, Capital One and Chase credit cards. I am still trying to pay down some of this debt. I can’t say that I wouldn’t do it over again because with the cards I bought a Playstation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, television, and a bunch of other items I couldn’t see myself living without today. The other day we went and applied for financing for one (or possibly 2) of the last remaining 17″ Macbook Pro’s, but we weren’t successful. Kris and I did however acquire our first joint credit card. It’s a Best Buy card and we will be using it in the near future to purchase a Playstation 3, Wii U, and possibly a new monitor for myself, as this refurbished one I bought a few months ago is quickly dying.

I will be sure to bank enough to pay off at least half the debt in the first bill due, this way I can increase our credit scores and be able to put things off over multiple months. I am not too worried about being able to pay everything off more quickly though, as some things have changed and Kris and I will be getting a lot more work in the coming weeks it seems. Hopefully we will get enough to completely get rid of some of the useless loans we have (Kris’s personal loan, smaller limit credit cards, etc). I think all i all things are looking up, so hopefully we will be seeing some big changes soon.

It certainly has been a long time since I last wrote. It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to write, I just didn’t really have much inspiration to. Things have been pretty crazy the last few months too.

I guess I should probably start with my new gaming desktop, about a month after first getting it the power supply blew. I got a new one about a week later. It wasn’t the same kind that I originally had, but it will do as long as it doesn’t die again. I have turned that computer into pretty much a server I work off of no matter if I am on my laptop or my Mac. Of course I still do go play some Age of Empires and DCU online from time to time.

Speaking of gaming, E3 was this week and I must say, for once Sony showed me a game that put me over the top for wanting a PS3. Beyond Two Souls looks beautiful and it intrigues me, it even has Kris wanting to buy one too. Besides that, ZombiU looks amazing. The Wii U looks like it could have been a game changer, but with Microsoft’s Smart Glass it might be DOA, though with Nintendo, you never know. I do know that I can’t wait for the return of Master Chief in Halo 4 and thanks to Kris’ mom, I am already preordered.

After ten years we are in the process of getting a bathroom. We bought the supplies and are having a friend get it all together for us, the problem is that we have switched our schedule completely so we go to bed at 8AM when most people are waking up or are already at work.

Just because I haven’t blogged, doesn’t mean I haven’t been around working on stuff. There’s a new fanlisting up and I have a few more in the works. I have also been working on some other stuff, like new fanlistings, new galleries for the fanlistings, new pictures, etc. Also been looking at things around the main site and I am planning on revamping a lot of things, including the menu. I just need time to sort it all out properly. Hopefully in the next few months this stuff will come to fruition.

I bought a new computer today. I ordered a CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GU6015 Gaming PC with an AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB Hard drive, DVDRW (which I am replacing with my Blu-Ray burner that I got for Christmas, 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6870, 800W PSU with, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I also bought a monitor that is HDCP compliant so I can watch Blu-Rays on it. All in all I am pretty excited. I will be setting up Dreamweaver, Photoshop and using it for my primary computer until I can restore my Mac to day 1. After which I will be using it for video editing, playing the Sims, and if it can handle it next year, playing SimCity 5 (I may try and find Sim City 4 since I never played that at all). I already plan on buying the Sims 3, and I may check out DC Universe Online.

Needless to say I am really excited. Nothing is processed yet, I hope it comes before Friday, but considering it probably won’t be processed until Monday I doubt that will happen.

It’s been a while since I last posted. First I took 2 trips to Delaware. I got back to New York a few weeks after my last entry. After that we went down for New Years. In between those trips a dear friend and neighbor passed away. There is a new tenant in his apartment that has been there a few days, but I haven’t seen yet. His truck is still here, but his son says that tomorrow the truck is supposed to be towed.

Christmas was good, Kristen got a Mac and I got a leather jacket and a bunch of other things I have wanted for a while. I can finally make game videos, Kris got me a Dazzle, but to be honest I haven’t been playing many games. I used the system once, and it works very well. I have a cord ready to be strung across the room, but I don’t know, I’m just not up to it.

Kris isn’t up to a lot of things too. I don’t know if it’s part of the mourning process, seasonal depression, or what, but we’re both in a funk and for the life of me I can’t figure out why exactly. Even this somewhat short blog entry, that I would normally just sit down and write without thinking about has taken me over a half hour to do. Maybe we need a real vacation? Maybe we just need to deal? I have no idea. Any suggestions are welcome.

So we came down to Delaware for a vacation/change of scenery. So far it’s been good. The things that I didn’t really like down here are gone and I am really beginning to see the potential of what it could do for us. We’ve even started to look for a house down here, though right now they are a little out of our price range, but if business picks up for both of us then maybe something can work out. Right now there are two different houses, practically right across the street from each other, that we both like and dislike for various reasons, but who knows if they will be on the market when we start actually looking for a place to live.

I’ve still been working a lot, but I’ve had enough downtime lately to start really thinking about some new ventures and new ways of bringing in business, so it’s really going to be interesting if I can start or follow through with them. I’ve been on Facebook a lot under the Lep’s Lair account. I’ve changed the profile picture to the Girls of the Moment and the Fanlisting girls. Let me tell you that there are some perverts out there. It’s sickening what they’ve said and I am pretty sure that I could have some of them arrested for it. I do think for the most part my marketing on Facebook is working though. I have a LepsLair group, Add me page, LepsLair page and a Subscribe to Me page all linking to the site. My Analytics are up and I see a lot of traffic coming from Facebook, I just need to figure out how to capitalize on it more than I already am. I think I am going to add more people to my group then head to bed.

On this day ten years ago, a tragedy happened that brought America closer as a nation and reminded us that there is evil in the world that we must stop. Ten years later we still fight this evil and and we as a nation overcome everything that is thrown at us. Whether it be terrorist attack, debt problem, problems with our government, problems with another government, anything, as a nation we come together and fight. We’ve fought for over 200 years and ten years ago we were reminded that we can’t be too comfortable because there is always another fight to win. We must never forget, we must never give up, we will overcome this and any evil that comes our way. May God, Allah, Yahweh, Zeus, or anyone that you choose to worship worship, Bless America.

It’s been a while since I last wrote, honestly I think the only reason I am writing now is because I am sitting on the train to Manhattan. These last few months have been good, though uneventful. Besides work and Black Ops there’s not much going on.

As I watch the news lately, I see that my opinions have been wrong in the past. The state that this country is in is ridiculous. Both parties just seem like they want to help America, which I believe they do, but I think that the way they are going about it is all wrong. We can easily get more money for the programs we need with some simple common sense modifications, like drug testing for welfare, not providing any support for people who enter this country and stay here illegally, legalizing marijuana, and a lot of other things. For some reason our politicians can’t see these simple things that can be done. Maybe when you have that much power you have to see things as black and white.  Obama promised change, he has been able to deliver on some, I guess it was too much to hope for so. Much from someone who falls in the category of our two political parties, we still need change, but its change from the current system.

My high school was called Collier. It was founded by a convent of nuns known as the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. It was originally founded as a home and school for wayward girls, but eventually stopped being a home and opened up the school for both genders. I wrote the following on a post on one of my school’s Facebook groups and thought I would share it here, since a lot of people get the feeling that I am against all religion.

When I went to Collier, there was a lot of gay and bisexual students. There were students who got kicked out of school for fighting and drugs. I went to Catholic school for a number of years and they would basically just say if you do this your going to suffer eternal damnation. Looking on the news you see people saying that the end of the world is this date or that one, the Westboro Baptist Church pickets anything they can with signs that say “God Hates Fags”, Catholicism is looked down on in recent years due to the abuse scandels. Even individuals who believe they are good Christians and Catholics say that if you do these things you are going to Hell.

I don’t know what the above would say about Collier, I know that before I went to Collier I had shrugged off religion as a hateful practice, then a few weeks into being there September 11th happened and the news kept reiterating that it was done by religious extremists it made my distaste for religion even more.

Over the next few years at Collier, hearing, researching, and understanding how Collier came to be and seeing the religious statues on the campus, plus the fact that these nuns, administrators, and everyone who worked there really wanted you to be yourself. Even if that meant being gay, bi, straight, whatever, no one ever passed judgement onto you for being who you were, and while Collier isn’t technically a religious school, as I said you have the statues and the convent right there, plus a nun is praying for you during your time at Collier, it does have the potential to go the way that most other religions and religious people go, but it doesn’t. It accepts you and it helps you find yourself and be a better person, without judgement, or anything.

While most probably look at Collier and not think anything religion being associated with it, the fact is that it was founded by nuns so when I think about religion and how I see it as a huge problem and tearing this country and world apart, I also think about Collier and how if it wasn’t for religion how many of us wouldn’t be where we are, wouldn’t have graduated.

I wish more of the religious people of the world would stop judging others for their actions and put their energies to good use, like the Sisters of the Good Shepherd did with Collier.