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Winter is coming up and in the colder months I like to wear boots. Not snow boots, because it doesn’t really snow here, but heavy duty boots that won’t fall apart and are comfortable enough to walk in. There is a website online that sells work boots and these boots are what I am looking for. They also sell work shoes. Both the boots and the shoes are heavy duty and won’t fall apart easily, but look to be comfortable enough to walk in. How do I know? I’ve owned some of the brands they sell. Too bad I paid more than what the website is selling them for. I think the next time I buy a pair, I will go through the website because they offer free shipping on orders over $100. It would be cheaper than going to the store and buying them.

So there’s only 17 days until Halo 3 comes out. I’ve given up on trying to beat Zelda by then, maybe it will be one of those games that don’t get beaten, it’s a long list that keeps growing. Maybe I will eventually though, if I play any other games once Halo 3 comes out, I don’t know how long it will take for Halo to come out of the console.

I think I have all the important programs reinstalled, but I can’t do anything for work as I am waiting to hear back from Userplane support. If anyone knows anything about Imagemagick, then please contact me, I’m having problems with the temp file it creates.

I had to reformat my computer because it got to the point of crawling and would randomly freeze up. It even froze up after I reformatted my harddrive, but after I downloaded the latest drivers from NVidia, everything was fine. I’ve spent the better part of the day reinstalling software and drivers, while seeing if there’s anything we can do about Imagemagick making a tmp file that is too big.

I’m still waiting to hear back from Hotscripts, hopefully I hear something within the next few days regaurding my Myspace Parser.

I’ve been really thinking about art a lot lately since my friend Meg is openning up a book store/art gallery in Philadelphia. Now I like art, so much in fact that I have been thinking about taking Krissy to an art gallery or an art museum sometime soon. I’ve found Park West Gallery that features some of the finest paintings that I have seen. I am really impressed by what he does with the bright colors and the way he draws your eye to not just focus on one area of the painting, but the whole thing. There is usually something going on in each section of his paintings and none is just wasted space. Now that is art I am intrigued by.

Adbrite assures me that they took down the popup for drivecleaner, yet two weeks later I get the popup again. Adbrite has been pissing me off lately as they have really gone downhill. I just wish I could use Google again, or even Yahoo. And about Dclickads? Well they set it up so you sell through your site, but from what I have seen they don’t let you have a marketplace of network ads like Google or Adbrite, that is the only reason I am not using them.

If you get a popup, then please let me know.

I think this month might be the month that my bills take a huge leap forward in getting paid. I mean I have had some minor Debt Relief in the past, but my recent purchases have made those null and void. This month, I should be able to pay back what I put on my cards the last few weeks, and then some. If I budget properly, I may even pay one off completely. That would be nice.

For those who are wondering how I did it, I didn’t go through one of those Debt Relief programs, although they do help a lot of people. Instead I just stuck to earning enough money to pay back everything I spent in the month, or I just paid cash and not even looked at my credit cards. By cash I mean one of my bank cards. It is still too early in the month to say how much I can pay back exactly, but it should be quite a bit more than I have in previous months. Now that is going to be relief for me.

I’m always looking for ways to make some more money, without completely ruining the integrity I have for myself or for my website. Well I came across dclickads. They offer inline, text, and banner ads for your website. They seem to offer a lot more than some of the other ones, so you might have a bigger marketplace to deal with, and with them it doesn’t seem like it has to be that obtrusive on your website.

I think I am going to sign up to dclickads and try them out tomorrow. I took some ads off my site recently, and I am going to see if I can make some decent revenue off of them. Maybe I could replace some of my ads with theirs, especially the banner ads. If I can sell banner ads specifically then I won’t have to worry about such little payout per click. I will let you know how they work out.

Krissy and I have been talking about going to New York this holiday season to see the Christmas tree. Now when I was in New Jersey, this wouldn’t be such a big deal, drive in, or take a train and then see the tree and go home. Now that we’re in Delaware it is a bit more of a hassle.

First we’d need to take a train up there, then we’d need to find a Hotel in New York and leave the next day. Now personally I don’t mind New York. It gets hectic, especially around Christmas time, but it definitely is beautiful, you can’t deny that.

If we did do this, we’d need to check out New York Hotels online first and then book a room. If you don’t book in advance, then you get overcharged. I mean I don’t know, but it would be nice to go up there for an overnight one night after the tree goes up.

Everyone wants to feel secure on the internet. Whether you are shopping, playing games, or just browsing, security is very important. How do you get secure on the internet? The answer is a firewall. A firewall is just what it sounds like. It is a wall that is preventing the fire from getting to you. What fire you may ask? The spam, viruses, and anything else that you don’t want on your computer. It also keeps your information from getting out. Say you have all your financial information on your computer, without a firewall hackers could come in and take that information without you even knowing about it.

Firewalls aren’t the only thing you will need, especially if you have children in your household. We all know teenagers love porn, but a firewall will not be enough to stop them from looking at it. What you need to do to prevent that stuff from getting on your computer is to put up some parental controls.

Firewalls and parental controls are good, but how do you know which one to use? Well that’s you would check internet security review websites to see which are the best and which ones will be the best fit for you.

I wrote yesterday how an old friend messaged me and we picked up right where we left off. There’s a lot of people who have friends like that, theyu can not talk to someone for years and then just pick up right where they left off. My mother did that with my aunt a few years ago (not blood related sisters). I can do that with my friend Brett, too. I haven’t talked to him in a few months, but we always seem to pick up where we left off.

I have other friends, though, that I don’t speak to anymore and that is because we don’t really have anything to say. It is almost like there is a spiritual connection to those people whom we can just pick up with after so long. Our spiritual siblings, would probably be a somewhat good term to use right? I mean when you have a brother or a sister and you’ve known them your whole life you can come back and still be family, the same thing with these spiritual siblings, you can pick up right where you left off and not miss a beat.

Now how can you tell if you have one of these spiritual siblings? Well if there is someone who you can hang out with and not have any awkward silences, or be uncomfortable with. They are the ones where you are comfortable the first time meeting them no matter what the situation might be. They are the ones that you can spend six hours on the phone with and want to get off, because it only feels like 10 minutes.

If you have someone in your life like this, then they are probably a spiritual sibling.

I like projects. I’ve put in peel and stick tiles, built part of a basement, and I have repaired countless holes in walls. I’m always looking for information on how to do things that I can’t do yet. There is a lot of stuff that I would love to do. I’m into electronics, so I think learning about home wiring would be a pretty interesting thing to learn about. I’m thinking about picking up a DVD that teaches you all about it. Of course before attempting anything too advanced, I would probably have to make sure to watch the DVD a few times to make sure I was doing everything correctly, otherwise no more updates to Lep’s Lair.

I think DoItYourself DVDs would be good to start with, it is always good to have some background on the project you are doing. I mean you don’t want to get into something and realize that you do not have the correct tools for the job right? The DVDs will make sure you have the right tools and the knowledge of how to use them. If you are interested then why not Visit DoItYourself for more and buy the DVD, I know I might go there the next time I take on a project I need more information on.

I know a lot about computers, but no matter how much I or anyone else knows about them, we always seem to have problems with them. Whetehr it is crashing, or slow startup times, but there is a solution to some of your computer problems. Registry Repair helps repair your registry to prevent those annoying crashes. The registry is an integral part of your machine that contains information about programs on your computer and even system information itself. If you are the average user, then you probably have never seen it, but trust me repairing the registry can help tremendously in a lot of cases.

For those of you who have a lotprograms that have been removed, but traces are still around, there’s Registry Cleaner. It will clean out your registry so your computer runs smoother and be less filled with stuff you don’t need.