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Krissy and I have been going down the shopping list of everything we want an d need. One thing that we haven’t really discussed yet is lighting. She wants a nice bright house that doesn’t look like a dungeon, I don’t care about the colors, but a house with really bright lights would bother me. I’m not saying I am a vampire or anything, I just have sensitive eyes.

Personally I would like something that provides light, but also looks good. Maybe some fine art lamps because they don’t look like normal everyday lamps, they look interesting, and that is the kind of thing that I like. A lamp that looks like a lamp that stands there with a switch, that is boring to me, if I am going to have a lamp, then I want it to be an interesting lamp. I would even go as far as trying to talk Krissy into one or two george kovacs lamps, I really like his grid collection, and even his other lamps look like they would fit my taste.

My web hosting is cheap. Unfortunately I am paying for space and bandwidth, not reliability. My website goes down at least once a week, and if it doesn’t go down a week then there are times when it is extremely slow. It wasn’t always this bad, though. It only started happening the last few months, so what I am hoping is that they are going to fix whatever problems they are having and it will become more reliable. If they don’t, then I am going to have to find a new host. The thing is that if I want the same anywhere near the same amount of space and bandwidth then I am going to need at least a Virtual Private Server.

I’ve already started looking into VPS Hosting, and from what I have seen most are pretty reliable and offer at least 10 gigabytes of disk space. The bandwidth that is offered is also pretty nice as well. From 500 to 2000 gigabytes of bandwidth per VPS, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal, and if I am making that much with my website (though I am not sure now that Google has changed the Page Rank system) then it might be worth the investment.

There’s been some confusion to who is in Ohio. Krissy refers to him as my brother and I refer to him as my friend, and some people have asked what he was. Well to clarify he is a friend I have known my whole life and I am closer to him than my own brother, so he is technically both. Now I haven’t been able to get in touch with him and it is really annoying. I wanted to be out there this weekend, but I don’t even know if he is back from Florida yet and he has the key to the place, so he needs to be there. Everytime I call him it says that the subscriber isn’t available. It has gotten to the point that I was asking people in his wife’s family on Myspace if they had seen him, one said she was heading over there today and would let me know what was up, so at least I will know if he’s home.

I want a garage. It doesn’t even have to be attached to a house, I will settle for a Prefab Concrete Garages . Some of those look a lot better than the garage my father has at his house, and that’s an attached garage. The garage just needs to hold tools and maybe a car, or two, but that really isn’t important, I can park on the street. The tools though would be set aside in a corner with a work bench, and it wouldn’t just be hand tools, it would be power tools too. My garage would just be a place that I can go and work on projects without having to worry about where my tools are.

Google changed something with the Page Rank system and now everything is messed up. Nobody is happy with the new system, especially those who sell links. It is theorized that Google is penalizing anyone who is selling ads on their website, or is making money off of their Page Rank. Krissy went from a 5 to a 3, I went from a 3 to a 2, MySpace went from a 10 to a 7, and a lot of other ones went down as well. This might be the end of the Page Rank as we know it.

The key to making a successful website is having a lot of traffic. I have a decent amount I think, but I want more website traffic. I’ve been looking into ways of doing it. There are a few things that I could do, and I am doing some of them to a degree, but I also need to do a lot more to get more website traffic. A lot of it is SEO work, because if your optimized then the website traffic is almost guaranteed.

The problem with optimizing my website is that there are different sections, so I would have to optimize each section in order to make full use of it. The most popular sections are the fanlistings, and then the blog. I really hope people don’t just see this as a blog though, and really look at it as a unique website. I still need to get more things together for it, but that probably won’t be until after we move, which is a shame, but I don’t think I will have time before then. Hopefully I can continue to grow my website traffic until we move, and while we’re moving it should stay constant.

Sometimes I wonder if I could ever be in charge of a real business. I am not talking about Lep’s Lair, I am talking about something bigger. Something that would require a business number, and a business bank account. If that was the case though, I would go with a Business VoIP. I think I would go with Packet8 to save some serious money though. The other phone companies are way too expensive. Every feature requires more and more money to use.

With Packet8 Virtual Office I wouldn’t need to have someone come in and install anything, it would install easily over the existing internet connection. I mean there isn’t any hardware, so how hard could it be? I think the selling point though is that it is able to be integrated into Outlook. I know Outlook, most people at least know and understand Outlook Express, so anyone I would hire would be able to use it to their advantage. Plus if I have a business of three people, I could give each person their own line as needed, and the more people who work for me could have their own number.

Definitely Packet8 is something that I would be looking into if I had something that required it, it just makes sense.

In a little while we are going to be picking up the loan. This weekend we will be going to Ohio to find a place to live. From then on it is going to be busy busy busy. We have to find furniture, a trucking company, when we can move, what needs to be done in the place, and see if we can do it. It is just going to be a very busy next couple of weeks. Packing shouldn’t be that bad, most of my stuff is already in bins that I can tape up and throw on a truck so that isn’t going to be bad, it is the books and clothes and crap that is going to be a pain.

I like boots more than shoes, even though sometimes they are too heavy for the task at hand. I know I need a new pair of boots, but I hate to part with the old ones. I have been looking at Rocky Boots though. They look comfortable, and they are the same ones that are part of a police officer’s uniform, so you klnow that they have to be easy to run in. That is what I look for in a boot, something that I can wear out to dinner if it isn’t that fancy, or even one that I can do work around the house in. I had a pair one time that really hurt my feet though, they looked like a sneaker, so I could wear them in gym class,but they were really heavy steel toe boots, so it probably wasn’t a good idea. Plus I wore them to work so when I got home I just crashed once the boots were off.

Bella is a Lhasa Apso and she is cute and all, but she is a very small dog. If someone were to break into our house she couldn’t even attack properly (although she seems to bite me at times. The next dog we get is going to be opposite of her, something big, maybe one or two protection dogs. I have always liked German Shepherds and if it is specially trained to put his life on the line for my family, then isn’t that worth it, plus even if someone breaks in, or tries to break in, the big dog will most likely scare him off, especially if he is trained to attack intruders.

Yes it wouldn’t be a replacement for Bella, but really Bella is more Krissy’s dog than mine, she has had her for years, and we are each entitled to a dog aren’t we? Besides my idea of a family dog is something you can’t knock over without a fight, Bella I can literally pick her up and flip her onto her back. I want a dog that I can’t do that with. Besides German Shepherds can be trained to attack, but they are also very gentle dogs too, if they weren’t would they train them to be seeing eye dogs?

I like alcohol. I don’t overindulge in it. but having a drink and relaxing isn’t exactly my least favorite thing in the world. Beer is all right, but really I just like to throw a bunch of stuff in a blender to see what I get. I mean occasionally I will follow a recipe taken from The Tequila Guy, and that is all right because I can still throw stuff into a blender, but other times I throw tequila into a blender along with other mixers, Juicy Juice, really anything I can find on hand. Most of the time it comes out great, but other times it is just horrible. That’s the thing with mixing your own concoctions, they are either good or they are horrible, they are never just all right. It is those times that I go check out The Tequila Guy for some recipes.

My niece may only be five years old, but she acts more like a teenager than a child. From the clothes she wears, to the things she wants, it is like looking at a five year old version of a fifteen year old. She seems adamant on everything in her room, especially the sheets on her bed. She doesn’t want bedding with princesses on it, or anything childlike, she wants "cool" Childrens Bedding as she puts it. She wants strange designs on the bed, with posters on the wall. She even wants to get a cellphone. It is strange because she doesn’t have any siblings to copy this behavior from, so it is really a mystery on where she is learning it from.