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I’ve been working very hard the last week or so trying to finish some stuff up. Unfortunately that means that I have been neglecting my own stuff for the time being. Even right now the only reason I am posting this is because for the moment I am stuck on my phone and cannot get to a computer to work, so because of this I figured I’d try out the WordPress app I downloaded a while ago.

I’ve already used it to comment some people, but I figured I should try it out to actually post with. So far I can honestly say that it has been pretty easy to do. I was kind of dreading writing a post on my phone, but now I don’t think I will have any issues with it in the future. Who knows now maybe all those post ideas that I have when I can’t write it up like in the bathroom or shopping I will just whip out my Droid 2 and write it up.

My life has become incredibly stale though so getting ideas for blogs usually comes when I can’t write and when I get back I don’t usually have the time to write. Maybe one day in the future that will change, but I guess I’d need to make that change and at this point I am not really sure what that change would be. Yes I would love to go back to school, but my original plan for that was to get down to at at most $4500 in debt. While I am down to around$ 4700 in debt, I just think that I should wait for my original goal. Besides that there isn’t even $500 usuable balance on one card yet, so if I had to use it for books or something it would be kind of hard. Another factor in all this is Christmas is coming up and I want to focus on putting money in savings for it and not putting it on a credit card, hopefully that happens.

In any case I should be heading home now and getting to work arguing with clipshare. Hope it isn’t as bad as it was the last few days, that script can be such a bitch sometimes.

Our phones are here. They are sitting about 6 feet away from me in a Fed Ex box, but I promised Kris that I wouldn’t open them until she got home tonight. It’s so tempting just to slice open the box before hand, but I must restrain myself for whatever reason. I can tell you this much, tomorrow when Halo Reach gets here, I am opening the box as soon as it arrives and I plan on taking a nice long break while flying around with jet packs.

I did some cleaning up over the weekend around the site. I fixed a lot of errors that were around and I am working on fixing more and doing more as far as SEO goes. Hopefully it works.

In the coming days, I hope to have a review of the Droid 2 along with a review of Halo Reach up, though I don’t suspect either one will be a bad review by any means.

I’ve been very busy the last few days, yesterday I had three meetings and today I have two. I haven’t even had time to go and get the film developed from the trip to the aquarium. This past weekend I did manage to get the multi file upload done for my gallery though, so now I will be able to upload multiple pictures at once, which is so much more convenient than uploading one at a time.

Halo Reach comes out on Tuesday and I still haven’t pre-ordered it. I am waiting until I can be sure I can swing it before I go ahead and order it, though if I don’t have the money, I may just put it on a credit card for release date delivery, or go out Tuesday and pick it up, one thing’s for sure though, I am not going to do a midnight opening to get it. The last midnight opening I went to was for Halo 3 and that was just insane.

I should get to my first meeting of the day, hopefully with all these meetings it will be good news in the long run and maybe I will have some steady work, though I do have pending work that I just haven’t had time to get to either with other things coming up, or just not feeling well.

There is a Back to the Future game in the works by Telltale games, one that will be released as episodic content with Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown. It’s also been revealed that they have permission to use the Delorean and the likeness of Lloyd and Michael J Fox. Also Bob Gale, who wrote the original screenplay is going to be involved. It will going to be released to coincide with the Blu-ray and DVD 25th anniversary releases.

I love Back to the Future and have been hoping for some new content for years, as a comic, or even a movie. I hope this will be better than the cartoon, hopefully it will be a true sequel and explain what happened to Doc when he got back with his wife and kids, and also if/how the time machine was rebuilt. I hope some of the other cast signs on, I understand if Michael J Fox can’t commit, but maybe Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Crispin Glover, Claudia Wells, or Elisabeth Shue will sign on, it would make it that much of a canon sequel. Who knows, maybe this might open the door to more sequels like the Ghostbusters video game did for that franchise. I guess only time will tell.

So we got back on Sunday after a nice relaxing trip out to Ronkonkoma. When we got there we realized that we realized we forgot the cameras, so we decided that when we were going to go to Atlantis Marine World that we would buy disposable cameras. We bought three disposable cameras and managed to finish the film in all of them, not we just need to get them developed. I will hopefully be getting them on a disk as well as physical copies, or maybe just instead of, so I will be uploading them to my gallery once I do, though hopefully I redo my gallery with a multi file upload script as well, otherwise it will take forever.

Other than that, I will be having a pretty nice payday on Friday, which will enable me to pay the remaining bills for the month, plus preorder Halo Reach. Then I believe next Friday we will be purchasing a couple of Droid 2’s since we can upgrade our phones now. I’ve wanted an Android phone since I saw what they could do years ago, it’s only recently that we’ve had the means and the upgrade available to us, so why not right?

So I put my away message up on Google, and even though we haven’t officially left yet (or packed for that matter), I am on vacation. I haven’t done any work, or put bids in on anything much today, I figure I will do that on Sunday or Monday when I get back. Either way, hopefully next week when I get back I can get some good clients or finish up some of the stuff that is pending that should lead to a decent payday.

Later today we are heading out to Ronkonkoma and tomorrow Atlantis Marine World, so hopefully I’ll get some good pictures and be able to relax a bit, since it’s been about 8 months since I had a full day off with nothing to do. I will blog when I get back and hopefully put up pictures.

I’ve been really busy with work the last few days, which is why I haven’t been blogging, though I guess I don’t really have much to blog about, otherwise I would have posted sooner. I am trying to finish up as much as I can before Friday since this weekend we are going away and I will be away from my email for a few days.

One of my clients is doing a Jersey Shore website. For the most part that show offends me as a New Jersian, mostly because the show put a bunch of New Yorkers in a house in Seaside and would have you believe that these people are from NJ. Obviously most people from New Jersey are upset about this, even the governor has come out and said it was offensive, and that is probably the only thing I would ever agree with him on. If you are from NJ then you know that isn’t even how we talk, these people act like the spoiled Gotti kids that had a show a few years ago.

I must say that I am amused by the number of shows about New Jersey that are going on television, but they aren’t true to life, most of them have New Yorkers playing New Jerseans, much like the Jersey Shore. I wish they’d follow people around Middlesex County College, or Brookdale, or Rutgers, and show what real New Jersey college aged people is like. Even just putting a camera in Denny’s or Peter Pank in Sayreville would be more accurate and possibly more entertaining than some of these shows.

No, this isn’t some new stage in my life, actually it was a friend’s birthday party this past weekend and her dream has always been to have a luau, so we went to Party City and picked up a bunch of luau supplies, including the outfit that I am wearing. She had no idea what we were doing, but she loved it when she finally got there, after being stalled by her boyfriend. I’d have more photos, but they are on my Facebook and I don’t normally carry a camera around with me anymore, so that’s why there have been a lack of pictures here for a while, but hopefully when I get a phone with a better camera, things will change.

That luau actually took up most of our weekend. We decided to do it on Saturday and while we were in Party City, we got her mom and boyfriend on board and just kind of went crazy from. It was really fun.

In a few months gamers are going to have two more ways to play video games, in the case of Microsoft, it’s going to be without a controller at all, and by using your whole body, and with Sony in a way that is much like the experience that comes with the Wii.

In Sony’s case I think they saw what the Nintendo did with their system, and then looked at what gamers were hoping for, then did a combination of what Nintendo did, with what gamers were wanting. They also have the advantage of 3D gaming, so motion controls and 3D might allow them to sell more consoles, but I don’t know anyone with a 3D television, so while in theory it does sound good, it also sounds like something that won’t be happening very soon.

Onto Microsoft, they have said time and again that Kinect is more about using an intuitive way to interact with what’s on screen. While core games haven’t been shown yet, they have promised that they will come, the question is when. Kinect isn’t just about gaming though, Microsoft wants it on computers to offer a whole new experience there as well.

Now I have played PS3, and I own an XBox 360 and Wii, when it comes to PS3, they didn’t have anything I really wanted. I would love to buy one and have Move, but unless I see some exclusive games that I really want to play, I won’t be buying the system, plus their online system isn’t that appealing. As far as Kinect goes, it does look promising, but the lack of any kind of input device seems limiting, you can’t move around freely in a game like Halo and there’s no trigger or button to press to shoot your gun. Microsoft does have the online support though, and with their video chat feature, I think that could bring in some awesome features, if it’s done well.

I think a lot of gamers feel the same way I do about these companies and what they’re trying to do. Unfortunately, until we see some exclusives for these new devices, I don’t think they will see much movement, at least not enough to consider it a game changing movement.

For some people money seems to come easy, they get it whether they need it/deserve it or not. For me it seems I get it when I have something planned. When I was going to Disney, I had money coming in from a bunch of different projects and clients, when we canceled the Disney trip that money stopped coming in. When we made plans to take a vacation out east, I got $600 from different clients. I am going to try and have things planned from now on, since it seems to be the only way I can have a lot of money come in. So far I think I want to pay off most of my bills and get two of Kris’s credit cards down to half, then get a new laptop for myself. Kris also needs a car since we only have one between the two of us and she wants one that is going to last ten years or so. Let’s see how well this works, in theory it sounds good, I suppose, let’s see if in actuality this will work.

A few days ago I put up a logo. While I do have some minor issues with it, I think it is good for the most part and really symbolizes what I am and what this site is. I will edit it, possibly this weekend to fix the issues I see with it, but I really like it.

It’s getting late and I still have work I need to complete before I can get to bed, so I should probably wrap this up, but first some questions:

What do you think of the articles so far?
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What do you think of the logo?

I grew up playing video games, but when I was growing up we didn’t have 3D games, or even game saves. Playing Super Mario Bros. you only had three lives to start and you had to earn more. If you ran out of lives, you had to start the game all over again. Of course we had things like Game Genie and whatnot that let you alter the game to allow for unlimited lives, but even with that it was still as hard. In World 8-1 of Super Mario Bros, you had to jump at the exact right time at a certain speed in order to make a jump, if you fell into the hole you had to go back to the middle of the level, or the beginning and try again.

Nowadays, life count is hardly ever seen and if you die, you can just load up from a checkpoint and continue. You can even stop playing the game for days and still have the checkpoint saved. You can even choose a difficulty setting on video games nowadays. Kids nowadays have no idea how hard games can be, yet if your on Xbox Live or PS3 you will always here some kid, whose testicles have yet descend, cursing up a storm about how he keeps getting killed, or can’t do certain things. Meanwhile, the kid has probably never played a game like Contra or Super Mario Bros and has no idea just how hard games can be.

What happened to video game companies in the last 25 years? Obviously Nintendo is still around, but Zelda and Mario games seem easier than ever. Ocarina of Time was much harder than Windwaker, and the original Zelda trumped them both when it came to difficulty. With Nintendo’s Vitality Censor, I fear that it is only a matter of time that games will be controlled by your heart rate and in order to win you will need to be the calmest in the room.

Maybe it’s time that a company not try and make a game anyone can play, but one for the true gamers, the ones who know what an impossible game is, one that would make kids today cry in frustration. Take away the save data, the difficulty settings, and multiple ways to do things, and just have it one way, just like in the good old days of gaming.

I seem to have money when Kris and I plan something. Paypal sided with me regarding the dispute, and I had a few payments come in today, which is nice since this weekend we decided to take a vacation to a hotel out east and then go to Atlantis Marine World one of the days we’re out there. We’re going from August 27th-29th. I’m hoping I can just have Friday off and make it a three day weekend, but that depends on clients. It also depends on bills and how we are with money I suppose, though even when we are fine with money I find myself working more and more.

I suppose it’s because I can’t really relax. I am hoping that on our vacation I will be able to at least get a little relaxing done. Yesterday I played a lot of Left 4 Dead 2, but even then I felt like I should be doing something productive, I’m not sure why I can’t just take a day and relax without thinking about work or anything important, I am sure that when/if I get the Droid 2 it will only get worse since I will be able to check my email and do some minor work wherever I am. Maybe I am just destined to stay in a productive state.

Yesterday I did manage to get something done though, I put up the articles section and I think so far that it may be confusing some people, especially since right now it is on top of the blog and no one scrolls down that far, maybe I will change that, but eventually I’d like to have them side by side I think. Either way it will be a place that I can get my thoughts out about things that are separate from the blog and sometimes more important. I will hopefully eventually have categories there too, so I will have posts on video games and other things I want to write about.