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Okay first an update on personal life: My father hasn’t come to look at the house yet, but said that he will stop by tomorrow to look round. Structurally there is nothing wrong with it, just cosmetic stuff. Everyone knows in order to prevent paint from peeling you use a primer, same thing with wallpaper, when they built the house, they didn’t prime anythingm so we have paint peeling and wallpaper peeling. Not to mention the fact that one of the dogs always goes on the carpet, making them smell really bad.

My dog’s test came back that the tumor wasn’t cancerous so she has a few more years to go. Very Happy My grandmother has pnumonea, though, and she is on oxygen at the rehab Sad Now onto site news.

I know that Gristly will be very happy that I have put Halo 2 game stats in the Me section of the site. I am hoping I can get the source code for them so I don’t need the flash, or host them on my site, but for now they are there. I also included my and Gristly’s clan, the Prostitutes in the stats section. It seems like this site is coming along better than my previous ones. I had to buy a new scanner today, I got an HP all in one printer, copier, scanner. It was cheaper than any of the single scanners I saw online or in the store.

Tell me what you want to see here. I will have a new section up soon, but for now it is time for me to take the trash out, get the mail, and head for some more Halo.

Okay so I got the official LepsLair chatroom up and running. It is a java applet that connects to IRC. Thanks to PJIRC for that.

So we took my dog to get her nails clipped and the vet felt a lump in her stomache, it turned out to be a tumor. She had surgery and is coming home today, but they aren’t sure if the tumor is malignant or not. She could die in six months if it is cancerous. Sad

We all dream of greatness, of doing something that will let our legend live on even after we are gone. Maybe that’s why I keep making websites, hoping that one day I will make something great. We always hear stories of those who overcome the odds and do something that makes them unique. I overcame the odds with highschool, but it doesn’t make me unique, many people have. If any of you don’t know what I’m talking about, then take a few hours and watch the movie Rudy. Then look at your life and consider why you are where you are. Are we where we are supposed to be? Or are we here because we made some decisions and took chances and opportunities? Or are we here because of destiny? If you say that we are here simply due to destiny then I pose this question to you? What about the homeless people? What about people who struggle everyday of their lives, never to get ahead? Do you really think that destiny put them there? What makes you so special that you aren’t living in a cardboard box in december in the middle of New York? Listen to advice, take chances, take every opportunity that presents itself, and just remember that we can all be remembered for something, don’t ever give up on that dream.

So I’ve been up all night these past few nights working on a new page that should have been up a few days ago. The writing section is basically the poems and the blogs and when I get enough for an archive, the archive of the blogs, and any other writing I plan to put up.

As for the home life, my grandmother is still in rehab, and my father should be coming over today to see if he wants to buy the house. We found a place that would allow us to customize the home to the T and now we’re on a waiting list. If we move to this place, it is about 3 miles from the beach and has a pool (I know kind of pointless when your so close to the beach, but its a good place to meet your neighbors).

It looks like two of my favorite singers are splitting up. Good luck to Comradef and Lucy Doll in their future solo endeavers.

I haven’t really been doing the graphics for the site as much as some flash things for an introduction. It’s coming along, just needs some tweaking. I’m still doing the layout, but still getting the house in order is taking up a lot of time. In related news my mother and I are going back down to Delaware on Monday to look at houses. She actually found one online that is perfect, just what we need, and we can afford it. It’s actually really funny because I took a picture of it the last time we were down there, without knowing anything about it.

Short post today so I leave you with this: Everything happens for a reason, we may not know the reasons why, we may never understand them, but they happen for a reason.

[Edit] My good friend Mike just emailed me about his CD coming out. Check it out here.[/Edit]

Newton stated that an object in motion will remain in motion until an outside force acts on it. With my grandmother breaking her hip, we figured it would be best if we moved her up to my mother’s room, my mother to my room, and me to the basement. I have been an object in motion, running around for the past few days getting everything together. I had to empty the basement to put a rug in (first time and it worked) so the house is full of furniture. When everything is in right rooms I will have a room tour of my new basement room.

In other other news I have an appointment on August 16 for a scholarship. I got it last year it is given out from the state of NJ and it pays for books and gas and some school. I am still somewhat short for next semester and I hope they pay the same amount as last year so I don’t need to take out a loan. When it gets closer to September I will post my schedule. I’d do it now but I don’t feel like finding it. I know I’m taking Object Oriented Programming using C++, an Introduction to Unix course, and a Visual Basic course. I took Visual Basic in high school and I remember it somewhat. I stole my book from highschool and I have Visual Basic on my computer. My high school teacher was always pushing me to my limits shopwing me the right way to program and drilled it into my head that just because you can write code and make something work, if it doesn’t work the right way, the best way, then you cannot call yourself a programmer. If it wasn’t for Mr. Munson, then I don’t know if I’d even know half of what I know about programming. Then my astronomy teacher, Mr. Bickart showed me how to utlize Photoshop and Flash MX and vector images. So to them both, I say thank you.

I am still working on the site I have not given up. I have a few images I’m working on and a few layout ideas that I am trying.

So my internet was acting up the last few days. I finally got it working and you can see little updates on the menu and the linespacing of the blog. I thought if I could hook the modem up to the main line and use a wireless router it would be better, but after I went out and bought the router, the modem was up again. So today I need to go back and return the router and wireless cards. After I return it I will have money, I’d like to get a sound card, one with a remote the stereo receiver jacks, but it isn’t feasable right now. I’ll need to take the money I get back and put it toward bills. It isn’t that bad, though, because I get paid on Thursday. Maybe I’ll get another movie. I bought Back to the Future trilogy and Meet the Fockers yesterday, which is okay because I haven’t treated myself to anything in a while. I still haven’t given my dad a Father’s Day gift, maybe I’ll pick something up for him.

My grandmother is doing about as good as one can be doing, I suppose. She fell the other day so we brought her to the hospital, but nothing is broken. They gave her pain medicine and shes completely out of it. She thinks we took her dancing and we all got drunk. She also thinks that Oprah is after her money.

I was sitting at work looking at something someone posted on myspace and it got me thinking. Remember when life was so much simpler? When everything was so black and white, good or bad. 2+2 always equaled 4 and nothing could change that. As we grow to understand the world, school became more and more complicated. When things were looking gray, not everything was a whole number. When life was really complicated girls and drugs and such, school threw us problems with more than one answer. As our minds and lives developed, school was there to challenge us in an intellectual way. When did I start to understand algebra? When did I start to use it in an everyday environment? When did time speed up, it was always so slow. I graduated high school more than a year ago. I went to an alternative one and before that a therapeudic one. I don’t remember a single lesson that was taught inside the classroom, I don’t remember a single therapy session. I remember the people, I remember the hard lessons that I learned. You know those lessons, the kind that no one can teach you, but you have to go through on your own, breaking up, friends moving away, following your heart. These lessons don’t end when high school is over, they never end. I believe that up until you die you are constantly learning these lessons, and when you finally do learn everything that this life can teach you, you move onto a different classroom. Everyday you learn something new, take what you learn that day and pass it on to another, so that they may pass it on. If you keep your lessons to yourself, life will be so much more lonely.

[Addon]So I was just reading the news and a minister was convicted of racist crimes from back in the 1960’s. When I was younger the 1960’s were so long ago, racism didn’t exist when I was growing up. The truth is when you’re growing up the only race issues you have is who can run the fastest. When did race become an issue again? Racism is supposed to be long gone in the history books, and yet it still comes back. I wrote an essay a while ago that I am going to keep working on and hopefully get published, it is about racism, and it isn’t like the normal racism is bad kind of thing that is out today, it puts a new spin on things. I’m at a point in my life where everything is so complex. I’m at a crossroads whether or not to move with my mother to Delaware or goto a different state and live on my own. [/Addon]

So this morning, well technically Wednesday morning I woke up at 6:30 AM to go to jury duty. I hate waking up early. So jury duty was interesting, I couldn’t serve, as I am impartial to a lot of people, but the case they wanted to put me on was a child molestation case. Having worked in a daycare and having a lot of friends who have been molested, I couldn’t be impartial. It wasn’t all that bad, however, I did meet an interesting girl who lives in my town, with a lot of the same interests as me, writing, debating, etc. I got her number, even though she has a boyfriend, and I’ll call her tomorrow (later today?), just to say hey and to talk.

Back in January my grandmother broke her hip, they had to do a hip replacement, completely putting a new hip in. Tonite (Wednesday night) she fell and broke her other hip. I was at the hospital until really about 3:30AM. I should have just stayed in New Brunswick, I was there earlier for jury duty and then again for the hospital. She’s been at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital so much, I think they should give her a private room, with her name on it, cable television, the works. She’s VIP in that hospital. She’s had to have been there more than 60 times in the past 6 years, so it isn’t like it was anything new. Everytime we go there, there seems to be more and more new construction. I am convinced my grandmother is paying for it, she’s been there so much. Everytime she brakes something, or has congestive heart failure, the hospital gets a new wing.

I will probably be going back to the hospital later (Thursday), after I get some sleep. They want to put her in surgery either tomorrow or Friday, which I don’t have the patience to just wait in the waiting room, I usually wander around, the maternity ward is always filled with cute little babies. Another place in the hospital I love, is the library. I will go there and just go on AIM and talk to people. It isn’t that I don’t have respect for my grandmother or anything like that, that I don’t wait in the waiting room, it is more of the fact that I need to take my mind off things. We all need a little escape in some form or another, my wandering is my escape.

So over the last few days I have been checking out some other interesting things for this forum, I added custom made smilies, and increased the file size and dimensions of the avatars so far, and I think I will be adding a lot more to come. So people (Kelly) have asked what I will be adding, I’ll be adding a default avatar for people who don’t have one, an AIM and Yahoo! online indicator (I hope they works with GAIM), and a lot more content. Sit tight I promise more content.

So it is 4:06AM on Thursday morning, I’ve been up since 6:30AM Wednesday morning, I need sleep. Goodnight America!

Living in a townhouse, you need to follow rules that are set by the association, like not having air conditioners in windows, not leaving a bike outside, and other things like that. They didn’t like it when I had my air conditioner in my window and threatened me with a fine. So I had to come up with an alternative solution. So I buy a portable air conditioner, but it kept blowing my power out. So right now I have an extension cord going from my living room downstairs up to my bedroom to cool my room off. So up until today, I didn’t have power to my room, so needless to say the new content will not be up yet.

I also have not had a chance to try my tv-tuner card that I got on Friday. This will allow me to record television shows to my computer. I am also trying to find a way to hook up my X-Box and PS2 to it and hopefully it will allow me to play in real time without any delay. My goal is to take out my television center and use that space to fix computers and such. So far I have two Macs under my bed I want to merge together and two PC’s besides this one that I have special plans for. Can’t tell you what yet as I am thinking of adding a section for that, who knows, though.

So I took my car in for the brake job and they said that the reason my brakes were squeaking was because they were a little hot. He checked them though, and said they were fine and didn’t charge me a cent. I need to take my car in a few hundred miles for an oil change. I just had one last month, though, but going all that mileage to Ohio, made me need another oil change so soon. This car seems to be lasting, so I’m hoping it will last me more than a year, unlike my other two cars.

Someone leave some comments please just click on the number of leprakhauns running around sign in and leave a comment I need some.

I have just one hour to go until I am free for the weekend. Maybe not free, I think I will be going to my dad’s this weekend and seeing if he has anything for me to do. He wants to dig up his driveway and repave it so I will be helping with the digging up part.

I hate cars, they’re so expensive. I went to Ohio back in May, and before I went I got a brake job. Well now my brakes are squeaking, probably from me using them a lot going through West Virginia. So now I have to go back to my mechanic and see if maybe I can just have them adjusted. If my sister-in-law’s family still had the car parts store, then I could get all the parts at cost and it would be a bit cheaper, oh well.

My mom’s birthday is Sunday too. She has been wanting to go to a really good psychic so I told her I’d pay for half, so I am giving her $100.00 to go to one. I also owe her money for my bills, which I have another one that’s due tomorrow. Credit cards are evil, I’m sure of it. I owe Macy’s 50 dollar minimum payment due to the fact that I hadn’t paid for three months. Oh well.

So I was working on the site a bit yesterday at work, I got a whole section coming soon, but it won’t have a lot at the moment, just one or two subsections. More information is to be coming very soon. If you were a fan of my old pages, then you might already know what I’m planning. Hopefully it will be up soon. I hope by maybe Sunday or Monday, but with my X-Box and my other games, who knows when it will be up. HAHA!

So it’s been a few days since I wrote. I have been looking at my previous sites trying to figure out what I should do next to this one. Since I closed my other sites, I have been wanting to bring the content of them to lepslair, in a new updated way. I think you will be seeing them soon, along with some new sections. I’m not going to tell you what you will be seeing exactly, but know that when it is up, you will notice.

So I am at work right now, there’s a lot of people, but not many needing much help. I got one comment for my last post, I didn’t even think I had one visitor. LOL. If you’re here and you want to comment, then look at the bottom where it says leprakhauns running around, click that then his post reply. Thanks guys.

So my blog has finally arrived. After months of promising to figure it out and months of studying and trying different thing, it is finally here. Although it isn’t that spectacular, it is something I’ve wanted for a while. I guess you could call me jealous, ever since I saw Meg’s blog (http://digitalreflex), I have thought about putting this one on a site. The only problem I’ve had with it was how to do it in a way to make it easy, and yet still make it mine. I have checked out other sites like Lissy’s (http://silvercpu) and Renee’s (http://sacred.nu), both of which use WordPress, but I didn’t really want that either.

I was a guy who wanted something for years, and still hadn’t found a way to put it on my site. Of course Meg does it the hard way and does everything by hand and then uploads it, but I wanted something a bit easier. Steve (http://ihavenoshame) was in my C++ class and he told me about PHP and how simple it was. I tried a few things with it, but again I didn’t know the syntax or how to manipulate databases enough to really do it properly. People kept asking me why I didn’t just get a Live Journal or blog on my myspace account, my answer was that it just wasn’t the same.

So one day my friend Mike introduced me to some really great music from Comradef and Lucy Doll (http://comradef). The music was great and so was the site. So I asked him how he was able to manipulate his forum to include a blog and he explained to me it was a hack called php fetch all. He helped me a bit when I had questions, and everything is now up and running.

So that’s the story of the blog and why it took a few years and a few different sites to actually implement it. If you miss one, don’t worry they’ll all be kept in the forum, they aren’t going anywhere.