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We want to move. The only problem is that we need a loan, and my credit is less than satisfactory. I’ve been paying back my other Loans very slowly. I’ve gone from $2500 down to just above $1800 in the last few months. That’s good considering that I’ve had them since I was in high school. We don’t own a house, so it isn’t like we could Refinance it. We don’t want to be losing money in an apartment, although I think we’d end up saving money in the long run if the utilities were paid for. It would be perfect if we could actually find an affordable house, but the cheapest ones we’ve found were in Ohio and they were still up in the $50,000 range so we would need a Mortgage Loan. Krissy never was to Ohio, so we might be planning a trip there soon, maybe we could find some place to live while we’re there.

There is a version just for you. It adds the character count to the write pages page and the write posts page both on the side bar. You can get it here.

There is a version just for you. It adds the character count to the write pages page and the write posts page both on the side bar. You can get it here.

This WordPress plugin will to count the visible characters in your post (including the spaces). After you unzip it, upload the plugin to your plugins directory and activate it. When you wish to count a character, just hit Count Characters, that’s all there is to it.

Note: If you are worried about it interfering with the Leprakhaun’s Word Count plugin, don’t. Both plugins work together or separate.

You can download it here.

The demo for Bioshock hit XBox Live this passed weekend, but I haven’t gotten around to downloading it. I have been checking out Bioshock for a while, and I had thought that it was a PS3 exclusive, but I am glad I am wrong. I’ve been busy with stuff the passed few days so that’s why I haven’t been able to get around to downloading it. Maybe I will set it to download and then walk away because I am hearing it is taking some people a few hours to download.

Apparently bloggers are trying to get a union together so that they can request things such as medical insurancem, collective bargaining, and even professional standards. Am I the only one to say that this is the craziest thing I’d ever heard?

First of all, if you aren’t getting paid to blog, then how does this even apply? Second, ifyou are blogging for free, then the union representatives will be hassling you for giving away your valuable information for free. I am assuming that this will not be affecting people who just blog about their everyday lives, but then if a union gets involved, then those will most likely have lawsuits against them for not joining.

How do bloggers go on strike anyway? Not write anything at all? Sit there all day typing “No No We Won’t Go”? Yes this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard recently.

I love poker. I play it every time we go to a casino. When we went the other day, it was the only machine I won at (one of those big electronic poker tables). I play poker on my computer, but then again I play a lot of games on my computer. A lot of people do. What makes me different is that if they had the same games for other operating systems, then I wouldn’t be using Windows. I’m not even talking about Linux, I’d even switch to a Mac if I could play some of my games on it. A lot of companies overlook the Mac though because they see it just as an media work machine, which is funny because when it came out they called it an expensive toy.

One company is listening to the woes of the Mac gamer, Mac PokerStars, will be out soon. Pokerstars already has a Windows version out, and the Mac users will soon be able to run their own native version of the program, without using other software to make it run. This is great news for Mac users, and those of us who wish to get away from Windows all together. Hopefully other companies will listen and begin to follow through with Mac versions of their games.

I was going to get on a better sleeping schedule, but I had to be up this morning at 5AM to run a script that I didn’t want to leave up to a Cron Job. Why? Because it is taking over 2000 images and making thumbnails out of them. It is a little redundant, but as is the world of programming at times. I started this script at 4:53 AM and the time now is 5:45 AM and it is still running. Judging from the test runs I did earlier in the week, this script should be done by 8:30 AM, then I will go to bed and wake up only a few hours later (I went to bed at 7:30 last night and woke up at 10:30).

My grandmother was never officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, but she was showing the signs of it, so much so that when she was in the hospital they gave her Alzheimer’s medication and she became much more lucid. Krissy has been telling me about how she donates to the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, every year. I don’t think it is a bad idea, and I am thinking of donating some money to it this year as well. The Alzheimer’s Association has been running the Memory Walk since 1989 and has raised over $225 million. I think everyone should donate to this cause.

If you can’t or don’t want to donate your money, then why not your time? The Memory Walk is looking for Team Captain, but you had better sign up early, the spots tend to fill up rather quickly.

Why should you donate your time and/or money? Simple. Do you want to be a 50 year old woman and not remember who you are, where you are, or how you got there? Do you want your family to take care of you in your prime of life, because it can happen to anybody. Do you remember the Golden Girls? Sophia from that show, Estelle Getty, suffers from severe dementia. Just goes to show you that nobody is immune to it.

Emz was shocked when I had posted my totals for July. Not so much with the totals per say, but with the Pay Per Post total. Now you may be saying yes you do a lot of paid posting and will post anything for money. The truth is that I will only take an opportunity if it suits my site and it is something I would normally talk about. I am dying to see Superbad and Halloween, I need a new car and we are looking into moving. All things that I’ve been paid for, but also all things that I am interested in.

I didn’t make a website to make money. I didn’t even make one for a blog, I’ve had a site way before blogs, I’ve had a site since 1998, when we first got this thing known as the internet. I have a site as a project, something to keep myself busy, beats porn right? Well this site has changed over the years, and will continue to change. Yes I have banner ads and text link ads, plus I have inline ads in some places, but does that really take away from the content of the site? I get people coming here everyday looking for stuff on the Spiderman and Matrix sections. I need to add more to them, and they will be ever changing. Does it really matter if I get some compensation for the time I put into my website?

There may be a time when I can cut down on the advertising, but right now the ads pay for the hosting each month, while the sponsored posts really just add up so I can pay off my credit cards quicker than just with my job (which has been slow lately). So yes I make money off my website, but I don’t think it takes away from the content, do you?

My car is getting old. I love the old girl, but I think it might be time to upgrade. I’m a big guy, and my car is small, so I’ve been thinking of a truck. I’ve been thinking about an Isuzu SUV. I’ve always liked driving SUV’s, so owning one wouldn’t be that far of a stretch. The Isuzu Ascender is looking really nice. It would be nice to have four wheel drive, this way I could drive on the beach in the summertime, and not have to worry about snow in the winter. It seems to get good gas mileage too, so when I go on those long trips that I seem to go on at random times, it won’t be too much of a stretch financially. Plus the extra leg room on those trips would be greatly welcomed, considering now my legs cramp up because they are crammed in the car.

I’d like to use my laptop more, but with these very bright days, you can barely see anything on an LCD screen. Also if I’m outside my battery dies within a couple of hours, so that is a pain. I’ve been thinking about buying a new Hewlett Packard Laptop Battery so I can be more mobile and not always on my desktop. I mean I don’t know if it would be good now, but definitely after I build the server, I’ll be able to access my files from anywhere and not have to worry about if I have everything I need on the laptop. Maybe I’ll buy two, this way I have a backup in case I am away from an outlet for a long time.

I’ve been to blogs that complain about people blogging and getting paid for it. Now I post sponsored blogs, and I have to say that as long as you write something that relates to your site, then why complain?

I have written about my credit card debt long before I was getting paid to write about credit cards, so why is it any different now that I am getting money for it? Every post on here is because I want to post it, I won’t take post stuff that I don’t like or I don’t think is cool. Everything I write here is me, so if you are here to get to know me, then here I am, otherwise why are you here?

I’m a programmer. I don’t know how it happened, I’ve always wanted it to happened, but somehow when I wasn’t paying attention, I became a programmer. You wouldn’t believe how many people told me that I wouldn’t be a programmer though. A lot of times programming has to do with math, and I suck at higher level math. I’ve been to math tutor after math tutor, trying to figure out things from 1+1 to harder stuff like Trigonometry.

Both high school and college was difficult because I wasn’t that good in math. I was excellent in computer programming, however. I got A’s in every computer programming course I took in high school and college. Math was a different story. I failed a lot of tests, and some classes. I was able to work around it though, I mean here I am today programming my heart out for work, and I love it. Granted things get slow at times, but I think it all balances out. I know that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the tutors I got back then though.

I guess it just goes to show you that if you want something enough, and you are willing to work for it, then maybe, just maybe, you will get what you want. Never give up hope.