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As you probably know by now, I absolutely love knives and swords and anything like that. I bought my Katana a while back, and I am looking for new things to buy to go with it. I found a site that really has everything I could ever want, swords, knives, throwing stars, they even sell military tear gas if I wanted it. One of the products that I found was a Spiderman 3 throwing star. I’ve always wanted a throwing stat. and now a Spiderman 3 throwing star, how cool is that? I was looking at their armor earlier, as well, it is pretty nice. I could own a whole chain mail suit for a thousand dollars. Can’t beat that price. I could even buy a lock pick from them.

Some of their clothes are cool too. I want a Not Suitable for Children Shirt. I might also purchase the Banned in 502 Airports t-shirt. I think I will give this site when people ask what I want for Christmas. I don’t normally do this, but I am actually going to sign up to their monthly contest and newsletter, this way I know when they add their latest stuff, and I can be one of the first to buy it.

There’s a commercial for Head On that all you do is apply it directly to the forehead. You buy this product and put it on your forehead, but what does that do?

Does it make head aches go away? Does it help with brain freeze? It doesn’t say. Maybe it gives psychic powers, afterall you do put it on your head.

The website doesn’t even say what it does, why would anyone buy a product that you don’t know what it does? Well apparently this product gives relief to headaches, but the Better Business Bureau asked them now to say that, because they simply don’t know if it works. So whose buying this product that has no real benefits according to anyone? Obviously someone if they can afford a commercial.

If you told me last year that I would be working on a website that and getting paid for it, I would have thought you were nuts. The fact is that when I took this job, I didn’t know anything about PHP and I definitely didn’t think that I’d ever get the first part done, let alone be well into the second part of the project.

I guess it is true what they say, how can you know what you can handle, if you only keep handling the things you know you can?

So I announced that I would play Halo 3 for 24 hours straight. Well I have been hammering out the details, but I still don’t know whether or not I can get the game at midnight or at 9AM during normal store hours. If it is at 9AM, then I will wake up at 8:30 and go there and wait. I will probably be blogging, giving the run down every few hours or so, giving my first opinions, whatever. KIf anyone wants to come and say hello, then by all means go ahead. I wikll be cleaning out my Xbox Live friends list and only saving people that I play with regularly. So if yuou want to be send me a friend invite, my name is leprakhauns.

As for the normal everyday things (eating, bathroom, etc) I will probably eat something quick, maybe order a pizza and eat while I am not killing people, or getting killed. I will be using the bathroom regularly, afterall this isn’t hold your wee for a Wii. I’ll let you guys know more when I know more.

I bought Krissy Tetris Evolution, I played it for about an hour and didn’t even earn one achievement. Now I don’t expect all games to just give you achievements right away, but come on. An hour of making blocks disappear and nothing to show for it. Hopefully Halo 3 will be easier.

I’ve been thinking about picking up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I love the X-Men Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games, so I figured it might be fun, but there’s a lack of online multiplayer so I am apprehensive. Anyone play it? Also I might pick up Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I played it in the Sony store on the PS3 when I was in Atlantic City, but I don’t know if I want to pick that up either, most of the levels look the same as X-Men Legends. I might pick it up for some online multiplayer, that is if anyone still plays it.

As a programmer, servers and server people sometimes get under my skin. A while back Dreamhost, my host, changed the way they do php includes, so now instead of something like lepslair/header.php I need to do ./header.php, which is fine and all because I never really did outside includes. But years later, as I am coming into more programming, and wanting to do somethings where I need to bring in things cfrom other sites, I see how I am limited in doing what I want to do.

The same thing goes for the sites I work on. Sometimes the server people don’t feel like installing perl modules, so I need to wait until they get around to it. I just love the ones who don’t understand what I want, or the ones who I ask to install something and they don’t even know what module I am referring to.

I guess sometimes programmers and server masters are just natural enemies

I finally got Krissy’s graphics card to work. I went from 256mb to 128mb. That’s all right, I don’t do much gaming on my PC anyway. Maybe if I get Sim City 4, but I don’t think I need a 256mb graphics card for that game.

In other news I have no clean clothes. It’s hot and I am not wearing pants to go out, therefore I am doing laundry and hopefully we’ll go to the movie tomorrow or maybe even later tonight when I have some shorts.

Has anyone ever been to Reunion Resort? It looks beautiful there, I’m just wondering if anyone’s had a chance to go there or not. I’ve never been to Florida, as the subject says, but I’ve always wanted to go. I’d ask my parents every year and every year they’d say yes, but we’d never go. So here I am 22 years old and I want to go. I don’t know if it is the fact that I want to go to go, or because I want a picture with Tigger. Gotta love Tigger.

Lately I’ve been keeping track of the Disney News and that just makes me want to go more. I’ve been thinking about how I could save enough money, but I think I’d need to pay off the credit cards first. If and when I do have enough though, I am staying in an Orlando villa.

The Chicago Tribune wrote an article on how the company BP was dumping water into lakes in Indiana. I’ve worked for a newspaper and took a couple journalism classes, and let me tell you that the information you read in papers or see on television is completely skewed and not totally objective at all.

First of all, they weren’t dumping toxic waste into Lake Michigan, it was treated water. The waste that they were dumping was completely within the legal limits and it wasn’t going to harm the people or the environment. The Chicago Tribune would have you thinking different though. They would have you believe that there was going to be massive effects to the environment. BP cares about the environment and is always striving to improve the quality of life for those around the factory, nature, animals and humans.

BP produces gasoline, diesel and jet fuel people need for their daily lives. The company is looking to hire 2000 contract workers during the modernization of their equipment. They plan on spending around $150 million dollars upgrading equipment, this way more people can have fuel at a cheaper cost, while not affecting the environment around the company. Everyone needs gasoline right?

The facts here are taken from the BP Whiting Refinery Fact Sheet.

I got Myspace message from my friend the other day. I haven’t seen or heard from him since eighth grade so I was kind of curious as to what he was up to. Apparently in he made it through high school with honors and went to Rutgers University with a full scholarship. He started hanging out with the wrong crowd in college, though. He started smoking weed and then moved on to cocaine. Huis grades dropped and he stopped going to classes. He was on academic probation for a while, but they finally kicked him out. His brother was able to convince him to go in for drug treatment. He’s been at Brookdale for the last few months, apparently he had heard about me through the grapevine of the computer science department (which is his major) so he decided to look me up on Myspace.

We leave so many people in our lives that we sometimes think whatever happened to them, I think it is human nature that we think the best things have happened to people, but the truth is that we don’t know. I know so many people who have died since high school, and I don’t know how many of them I would think a week, or a month before I heard of their passing, that they are probably all right. The truth is though, that you just don’t know how someone is unless you pick up the phone and call, or send an email.

I think the reason we don’t pick up the phone is because we are scared. Scared that if we call we find out that things aren’t all right. That something bad has happened, and it could throw off our entire perspective of how we perceive that person. If we find out that something has happened to someone we care about that it will somehow change our feelings toward them. That is the reason a lot of people don’t go to funerals, because they don’t want their last memory of the person to be laying in a coffin, they’d rather remember them for the full of life person that they once were, not this cold body in the wooden box.

I worked in a furniture before. I’ve worked at more than my fair share of retail outlets. I’ve never worked at a place like Gallery Furniture, though. They have vintage elvis collectibles, an indoore tennis court and a daycare to put your child when you are shopping. This isn’t your average furniture store.Houston furniture seems like a cool place to make a road trip for.

One of my favorite pieces that they sell is that desk. It is beautiful, L-shaped with enough room for two monitors, CRT or LCD plus it has draws so you don’t have to keep everything on the desk. It even has a place for the computer tower. That’s is definitely one beautiful desk, if I had the money I’d buy it.

They don’t just sell furniture, oh no. They sell electronics as well. You can go buy a whole theater room from one store. Pick up the television, the seating and the HDMI chords all at one stop. If you are going to be there a while, you can get a free soda so you don’t get dehydrated while walking around their huge showroom. Be sure to bring your peanuts though, so the local birds who live in the store have something to snack on while you shop.

If for nothing else, I would gladly make the trip down to watch the 450 inch television that is always on. I wonder if I went there with my Xbox, if they’d let me hook up and play some Halo on it. Now that would be a great gaming television. I’d love to be fighting the flood on a 450 inch television while having a free soda.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the future. I’ve been hanging out at the 401k retirement forums, just to get a good idea of what’s going on wiand what IO should look for when planning for retirement. I know I am 22 and thinking about retirement? Well I wanted to retire at 25, but I don’t think that will be possible at this point. Unless I get some crazy money soon.

The reason is because I don’t know what is going to happen with work, or paid blogging, or advertising, so it is better to be prepared than blindsided. This way I can have a grasp on what’s going on and what I need to do to be set for the future.