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It has always been a dream of mine to visit all fifty states, 49 of them I’ve wanted to drive through and stop at little towns along the way. What makes a state great isn’t how many Walmarts or Denny’s it has, but the little Mom and Pop stores that are around. When I get older I plan on owning an RV and just driving from state to state. I’d get one now, but it’s probably best if I have a place to live that doesn’t have an engine.

I’ve been to some states already, I’ve stopped in little towns and saw the interesting things that they’ve had, the most beautiful so far had to be West Virginia. I wish I had taken a picture of it, it was a mountain, a huge mountain that was cut in half that had the highway driving through it. It was probably the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. Each state has something unique about it, each state there is something different and unique about. One day I will visit them all.

It was my plan this summer to go back to Ohio and go to Virginia, but circumstances arose and I had to reorganize my priorities, for the better. So IU may not be going on some life altering journey just yet, I do plan on going one day. For now I have posted a page that has every state I’ve been in in red.

https://lepslair/me/places.php

So to help my cause of saving money, I joined PayPerPost. It is a site where they will give you a topic to blog about, and then pay you a certain amount for that topic.

So I’m still trying to find a job, so far it isn’t going so well because the furniture store I applied at doesn’t know if they have money for me because the boss’s son is going to be working there. And I may just go and do construction in NY, but I haven’t heard anything from them either. Other than that nothing has really been up. Keep clicking on the ads, and tell your friends. If I could make some extra money from this site then it will expand I promise.

Everything in life has to be learned. We learn how to love, how to communicate, how to hate. We learn that watching other people learn is easier than learning through our on first hand experience. We learn that when the time comes those people may not the best people to learn from. We learn that nothing in life is as easy as black and white and even grey areas are very seldom seen. It is the areas of many different colors that tend to pop up in our everyday lives. It is those areas that we most likely will mess up with.

When we mess up, it is easy to blame other people. Blaming the people whom you’ve learned it from probably seems easiest, but the fact is that YOU have learned it, and YOU have to take responsibility for it. Learned behaviors are just that, learned, they may be second nature, but they can be changed when necessary.

The hardest part of these behaviors that are second nature, is seeing the fact of why they might be wrong. And once we see that they are wrong it is hard to say sorry for what they may have caused.

Many people are guilty of this, even me. Far too often do I blame my parents for implanting something in my head, as the right way of doing something, or a way that something is supposed to be. It is hard, but I have to look at it and sometimes realize that it shouldn’t be that way, or there is a better way of doing something.

Recently, through self awareness and meditation, I learned that you can suppress the learned behaviors, and truly do what is in your heart. I know I blogged about this a few months ago, about listening to your heart, but since then I have been really trying to implement it. I have to say, really listening to my heart and not letting my brain interfere much, has really allowed me to make some decisions that I otherwise don’t think I would have made. I mean granted you can’t cut your head out completely, because you can’t neglect your financial situation, or other priorities you might have, but listening to my heart more has made me a truly happier person. I’m no longer doing the things that I think I should be doing, but now I’m doing what I’m meant to do. I know I’m meant to do it because my heart tells me it’s right and it isn’t some learned behavior.

You always hear older people saying stuff about how much kids have changed since when they were kids. In reality though, kids haven’t changed. Kids have always been the same way. It’s everything else that changed. People in general have changed so much, and there’s realy no reason for it, at least none that I could see.

Growing up I didn’t want to go to school, ever, what kid does? It wasn’t even the fact of waking up early, because admit it, if you were a child of the 80’s you know damn straight that on Saturday mornings you were out of bed by 8AM to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Nowadays there is no point in getting up early on Saturdays, for kids or adults, and if you don’t want to get out of bed at 7AM then doctor’s will say there’s something wrong with you and most likely give you a pill that you don’t need.

Really now, kids haven’t changed. Boys who chase girls around the playground or tease them are known to like them. This goes back even before the 80’s, probably back to the earliest of men, but nowadays if a child does that it’s called sexual harrassment. \

People seem to forget what it was like growing up, I mean nowadays if you get into a physical fight with someone your suspended at the least, and profiled and closely monitored to ensure that you don’t bring a gun to school. Boys fight, even girls do too, and if you’re going to make a big deal out of it then yeah, maybe something will happen.

One could argue that these are the result of video games, or how the world is today, but really the world hasn’t changed. There’s always been wars, and growing up with the Nintendo Entertainment System, does anyone remember the gun that came with it, you would think that would cause kids want to shoot things, but no it didn’t. Instead they say that holding a controller that isn’t anything like a gun is teaching kids how to kill. Which I’ve said many times before is just bullshit. Now if parents really believe that, then they should better monitor which video games they buy kids, afterall if you won’t buy your children porn, then why buy them a video game filled with violence?

Where you could blame video games, or parents, I blame the news. In Canada, where they have more guns then we do in the USA, they don’t have nearly as much news reports as we do here in the US. Think about, there’s at least two hours of news on in the morning, more than four all day news channels about two hours on every channel in the evening, then after prime time, they have news again. I mean the news has all these stories of killings in wars and in our own neighborhoods, plus a lot of times kids are around when parents are watching. There’s more news on average that comes into the home than the number of hours playing video games or violent movies combined.

My question is how’d we let this happen? When did so much violence get into people’s heads that it changed the way they thought and felt, and even made them scared in their own neighborhoods?

So just weeks after spring break, I am on summer break. The testing wasn’t bad, I had a pretty good grasp on the material. My final average for accounting was 84, in any other college that would be a B, but here it’s a C, which sucks, but what are you gonna do? I’m just glad that I passed.

I’m actually outside on my front porch right now, on my laptop. While it’s annoyingly muggy and cloudy, it’s actually an alright day to be outside. I just wish I didn’t have this hot laptop on me.

I go back to tutoring in a few weeks, and until then I hope I get to do some of the much needed work that I’ve been putting off since the semester started.

In the Allegory of the cave, Plato said that men that were chained up and spent their whole lives looking at shadows being cast on the wall would accept this and not challenge it at all, for it was all they knew. One day one of the men was taken out into the real world, into the sunlight. He was allowed to run free for a while, but was then brought back into the cave, chained up as he was before. Did the man like being chained up? Of course not, he wanted to be free. He told the others of his adventures, but they didn’t want to hear such tales. Eventually with all his ramblings, the others would kill him.

Now look at the world that we live in. We are not so different than those in the cave. Anyone who comes along who is different is ostracized for what they believe in. In the 1950’s if you believed in a different form of government then the US, then you were the enemy and could go to jail. Everyone believed that Communism was pure evil, but if you look at the theory of it, that all men are and would share equally, then it actually isn’t that bad of a theory, improbable, but in theory it works.

With religion, it is the same way. Christians, in the old days were brought up to believe that everyone who wasn’t Christian were evil. Through their own experiences, social gatherings in which not everyone was the same, people were able to step out of the cave and see the light. Just because you aren’t the same doesn’t mean you aren’t good people.

Now look at your own lives. Is there an instance where you are in a cave? In high school there are so many different caves, jocks beating on goths, populars beating on punks, all because they don’t step out of the cave and look at the real world. In the US some people hate people with different colored skin, because of the way they speak, or because of the country they come from. These people are in a cave all their own. If you don’t step out of your own caves, then your children will be in caves, and this world will never get any better, or safer.

Earlier this month, Mitchell Stuekerjuergen with the gamer alias “Kuja105” committed suicide. My thoughts and condolences go out to his friends, family, and gaming buddies. Unfortunitely that isn’t the saddest part of this story.

Jack Thompson who has been speaking publicly lately against video games, who have bought stock in Grand Theft Auto’s parent company to attend stockholder’s meetings, and whose just plain ignorant, released a statement regaurding Mitchell’s death. In this statement he said that Mitchell chose to fill up the void in his heart meant for the lord, with “combat video games”. He stated that playing video games is a “masterbatory senseless self stimulation” and that all the gamers out need to get off their computers and consoles, and if we did then Kuja105’s death could have been avoided.

What Mr. Thompson failed to recognize is the fact that when Kuja105 stated on a message board that he was considering suicide, the moderator’s of those forums spent countless hours getting his contact information and staying on the phone with him, trying to talk him out of it. Mr. Thompson also fails to realize that depression is a disease, and just because you play video games does not

Okay so before I start this thing I just want to say that I’ve been working on something for the site, but I realize that what I want to do is far too complex, although I could do it, just not at this moment in time due to school starting in a few weeks.

In 2005 I…

went to Ohio
went to Delaware
moved to Dealaware
saw my aunt whom I haven’t seen in 6 years
got numerous pay raises
quit my job at Shoprite
learned Assembly Language
started this blog
fell in love
lost my grandmother Sad
learned how to pump my own gas
got addicted to G4 TV
got VOIP
got a job using my technical skills
was president of my college’s computer science club
got a new scanner
drove through many states
had my car for a year without anything seriously wrong with it
had no tickets
got offered my job back at 3 dollars more an hour
got a few more sections added to my site
said goodbye to an ex once and for all
gone to the bar legally
bought alcohol legally
slept in a car
went to frat parties
gotten another poem published
met some really cool people
discovered great new bands
taken some sweet pictures
pwned n00bs on XBox Live

Somehow I thought this list would be bigger. Oh well 2005 was overall an okay year, hopefully 2006 will be better.

So I survived a Christmas with the family. It’s weird, I never really considered Debbie (my mom’s friend I went to get) as family, even though she is my God-Mother. I guess it is easier now that she is actually around. Christmas was good though, I got a Buddah which I think is awesome. That is definitely a really great present, because the whole religion is based on philosophy on how how you live, and not so much how you worship.

I went to see Kelly yesterday, she had no idea I was coming. Her reaction when she saw me there was hilarious. I took her out to dinner and fell asleep in her car with her LOL. I don’t think I would have made it that three hour drive back to DE if I didn’t have that nap.

As for the website: I am going to take care of things offline for a bit before I add anything else, or work on anything in the daytime, at night I’ll be working on some things.

So when my mother asked me what I wanted for Christmas I told her I didn’t know. I originaly wanted another monitor, but when I went into the only store down here, the guy was uneducated and I didn’t feel safe buying a Dell monitor from him. If I wanted a Dell monitor I could probably get it cheaper from Dell. So I asked her for the Nintendo GameCube. I am probably going to trade it in for a Revolution when it comes out, rumor is it will only be around 99 dollars. Because we won’t be here for Christmas, my mother gave it to me today. It came with three controllers, Sonic Adventure, Resident Evil, and Mario Party 7. As soon as I saw Resident Evil, I knew I had to have it. I’ve been yearning to get it for years actually, if for no reason except to play Resident Evil.

There’s also a few other games I’d like to check out for it too. The problem with owning all three systems, is the fact that you must decide which games to buy for which system. The main reason I got my XBox was so I could go on XBox live, which has really been worth the money. I have been able to promote my site, while pwning noobs at the same time. LOL.

I registered for classes a few days ago, I am taking an accounting class, Windows Operating Systems class, another operating systems class, and a Visual Basic. That’s 16 credits, plus another 3 that I have tested out of will be given to me at the end of the semester. So that will be 19 credits more by May. I also am taking the exemption test for the Windows class, which is good because it overlaps my Visual Basic class. If I can test out of the Windows class, I may take a graphics arts class, or just some class that I find interesting. That would bring me up to 23 credits. I have 25 credits now. That would give me a total of 48 credits. Then maybe I could transfer to Wilmington College or University of Delaware or maybe I could go to California like I always wanted. Anyway, let’s hope this semester doesn’t kill me. Did I forget to mention that on top of all this school work I also need to find a job? Oh yes I can see what little social life I may have dwindling faster and faster.

by leprakhauns on 14 Dec 2005 04:23 am
Lately I have been in contact with a few pornstars, I am even on call in case a webmaster needs help with a site. When I first started talking to them, I thought they’d be more uptight and I’m famous don’t look at me. It is weird, however, because a few of them don’t mind signing autographs and doing the publicity most mainstream stars do. What really surprised me was that one of the pornstars was a web geek. She has an XBox 360, and loved Nintendo. Now I know the porn business isn’t all having sex, I know there’s real work involved, especially for the guys, but it really just shocked me that they’d be willing to talk and all that. Some of you may be saying yeah, right, how could you start talking to pornstars, or how do you know its really them, but I must say that my proof it is them is undeniable.

I won’t give out information on who they are, how to get in contact, or what they have starred in, or what site I was called in to do work on. I will tell you this however, one of them in particular seemed to enjoy my site, and to me that’s worth more than 100 people who hate it, not because she’s famous, but because she took the time to bookmark it.

My 25″ monitor was out of focus, so I opened it to adjust the focus, but I somehow messed it up and it is now fuzzy and has no red color. So I switched my monitors, that is now just for my playlist. My monitor now is a little out of focus I think, but I don’t feel like messing with it. I could always hook up my television to my computer, all I would need is an S-video out cable. As much as I hate to say it though, it looks like I’ll be investing in a monitor soon.

There was an accident on Route 1 today, a car swerved in front of another car and got hit. I stopped to help, along with a bunch of other people, we still had towels and stuff in my momther’s car (since mine isn’t registered) so that helped them out a lot.

It’s hard this time of year, I don’t even feel like celebrating the holidays, first year without my grandmother, and I just feel like giving up. Usually we’d have a tree up by now, I mean it seems that she was the one who drove us to decorate. It was her favorite holiday. A few years back she was in the hospital around Christmas and she got out of the hospital on December 23rd. Up until then there weren’t any Christmas decorations up, but I decorated the whole house that day.

I’ve been acting weird with this whole holiday stuff, saying stuff I shouldn’t say to people, and not saying stuff to other people. To everyone who I’ve hurt in the last few days I’m sorry, I know I can’t make up for what I did, but I hope someday we can get passed it.