Support your local stunt rider The link goes to the radio station website that says they're gonna give away 1 million dollars to the person that recruits the most people to sign up under them. I go over to Stuntlife.com alot and this is where I got the link from, the guy says he'll use it to get some more stunt riding events going. I signed up...didn't kill me.
Today...just another day, not much goin on....I am pretty damn hungry right now though can't even concentrate. gotta get food.

Sprint PCS Picture Website

Well I figured out what the deal with Sprint was....the website won't work with Mozilla, Well the picture.sprintpcs.com at least. I don't understand why different sites can work one day and then the next they just don't....oh well.

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Speaking of which the new address for the Sprint picture site is http://pictures.sprintpcs.com
I don't have my Sprint phone anymore since I switched to Nextel but I guess I'll be dragged back to Sprint kicking and screaming one way or another.

Well I went to the auction Sat. and picked me up the 626 I was talkin bout. It's a pretty nice car, I'm gonna try and resell it though and get some more money to buy a different car. I'll probably do that until I get a decent car that I like. I was trying to look up the blue book value of the car, its sayin that for a private party I can probably find one in my condition selling for about $2500. I'll put it up for like $3200 O.B.O. and I'll see how it goes. It was pretty decent earlier today, about 60 degrees....I wanted to pull the bike out and ride but I need a new front tire. ......So of course I did it anyway....Hey, I needed gas :) Well I brought it back home and wound up dropping it in the garage trying to put it on the center stand. The bad part came when I was trying to get it up and broke off the button for the starter....sux. So I'll have to price that to see how much I'm gonna get hit up for that. I smell like a freakin gas tank right now though, because some gas war coming out when it was on its side. Good news is I didnt flood the tank.
Tomorrow its supposed to be like 66, but of course its gonna rain the whole day.....oh yea, i forgot...I can't ride my bike anyways. ( We'll see )

If no one knows....Sprint sucks, for some odd reason the pictures website has been down for 3 days for "Maintenance and enhancements". If it takes this long to do that it better be good......and what if it isn't, Well then I'm just basically screwed yet again by Sprint. I have so many freakin pictures that I would never be able to move all of them with my cell phone. It already takes five minutes to get to the 6th picture in my inbox.
Oh, great news....my car is trying to tell me something, "Fix me damnnit" it seems as if one of my spark plugs was cross threaded when it was put into the head. So now I have to either get a new head for my car...or get the hole fixed, both of which I dont think is gonna come cheap. Well maybe the head will...who knows, just have to find out. That means I'll be without a car for awhile, unless I happen to get the one I want at this auction tomorrow.

Well I had my pre-arraignment for my reckless operation ticket, went in and pleaded not guilty so I have a pre-trial later on this month. I started a thread about this on the StarBoyz Forum I got some great responses back that made me understand the specific ordinance they're trying to throw at me. If my pre-paid lawyers do their job I should be able to get off the hook for it. Since I wasn't endangering anyone's lives or personal property I should be good.
Other news, I'm going to an auto auction this weekend....tryin to get this 95 Mazda 626 hopefully I can get it for the low. I would get that...sell my pontiac and then work on selling that so I could get another car.
Have you ever had one of those moments where it feels like everything you do is life changing? But the moment lasts a few hours and every second seems like eternity. I'm not saying this happened today or anything but today just made me remember the past. What if it turns out that some of the things you think you're doing for the right reason, really isn't the right reason or even a good reason. What if what you really think is meant to be...really isn't, that would mean that what's going to happen is still going to happen regardless of whether or not you think you know what it is. All these riddles for somethin so damn simple.

It's about 66 degrees currently and I can't ride my bike, my tires are seriously bald and in need of changing. I'll probably wait till december to get them, I know I'm not going to be riding anytime soon so I might as well wait....actually I probably would of still been riding if I had new tires anyways. My name has been officially changed, went and had my final court hearing today. Other than that today has been a pretty normal day...nothing too exciting happening. I am eyeing this car, its a used Lumina...I forget how many miles it has. I'll probably go there and wave some money in his face and see if he'll give it to me. Then I'll turn around and sell my car, I need to start building up some extra cash flow so that I can afford it get a new bike and a new car next year. This is the bike I want This is the car I want
I think its pretty possible to get both of those, get my house done, and get another house to either sell or Section 8. Which reminds me that I forgot to go look at houses today, but I guess since It seems like I have no time anyways I'll probably have to wait till later in the week.

Well what is on my mind for today, Well I guess tomorrow I go for my official name change. Its been a long time coming...don't really know if I'm excited though, Its almost like I'm becoming another person. Maybe I could stand a change, I kind of crudded up my current name for the time being. You know what....at one point I thought that I would be able to write on here things I wanted to say that I knew I wouldn't be able to all the time. Now it feels like I've backed myself into a corner to where I have to censor myself. Things I write on here will have a good chance of getting read and interpreted in ways that I probably don't want it to be. That's probably cool with people I don't know and don't associate with on a regular basis. What if I say something on here and then I have to answer for it because someone doesn't understand......I don't really care if they don't understand but i don't really want to answer questions about it either. Oh well, just got to live with it I guess. Veronica (currently in Iraq - Germany girl to those that know) said she had leave coming up on Dec. 13th, she didn't tell me if she was goin back to Germany or coming to the states...hopefully she'll be able to email me again so I can find out.

Well I got to see my movie yesterday, I even went again today....of course there are a lot of people that didn't like it but I got out of it what I wanted. Anyways, its cold now...so I guess that means the bike can be put up for the winter. ( I think I need to put it up anyways because I need a new front tire) *Sigh* I'm already starting to miss riding, but I'm gonna be on my hustle this winter so by next year I'll have another bike to play with. I'll probably spend this time finding other riders, new riders and possibly gettin a crew together. Next summer is gonna be pretty crazy, I have definitely turned into a motorcycle nut and I'm tryin to bring along as many people as possible. Right now I only know of a few that are definites to get bikes, others are hopefuls. I'm lookin pretty hard for stuff about stuntin.....
*Sigh* I got to fill out 2 absence forms for this week for work for being late. I just need to make sure I get here on time the rest of the time. I also need to get some more stuff to put in my cube....It's lookin kinda bare.

Well the last few days of this heat wave are leaving, so we'll be back down to the mid-50s pretty soon. I guess for normal people that would be the end of the bike riding as well.....not me, as long as its not freezing I'll be riding. I need to at least get a good wheelie in before the winter. Hopefully the people that were planning on getting bikes next summer will still get them. They just need someone around that's gonna continue to hype them up, I guess I can be that person. Also need to make sure I try to get more people to go the stunt class in Cleveland, that should be some good times so when we come back we can have our own stunt team. Next summer should prove to be a pretty good one, I think by that time a lot of people are getting more established, people will have their bikes, and everybody will just be having fun.

Well, I guess tomorrow is the day....Matrix Revolutions comes out, I'm going to be at the 9 a.m. showing. (I'm such a Matrix nut) I've been reading all the reviews about it and the critics have not been nice at all. I guess that's what you should expect though...their critics. I just don't think they understand all the other mediums the Matrix comes to us in. I guess if they just saw what I saw then they could appreciate it more.

Anyways, I guess I've already talked about bike riding and the Matrix...what else can I talk about? I guess my best friend is a good candidate. I guess the super secret news is that he's supposed to be moving down here....from a few months till for good. Is this a good thing? As long as he knows that he's coming here to work on himself then it will be, if he's coming here to reestablish what he had in Milwaukee...then there's gonna be some problems. Of course, he would want me to help him rebuild him empire...which I'm not going to do. It took me years to shake off the effects of Milwaukee, and now I'm clean and sober (don't worry there were no drugs involved)....just in the sense that I'm not the same person I was back then, and that I'm not all that eager to reclaim my once held position. *sigh* Well I guess I will only find out when he gets here.

What else....We moved offices...We were on the 2nd floor, now we're on the 4th I know that's not really exciting....but it sure is something different. My cube has a little bit more space but I'm not sure if its from the desk or just the new organization of my stuff on it.

Cookie...Smookie...Someone needs to give me a cookie for dealing with my freakin CIS 111 professor. I don't think I've ever met anyone so hell bent on destroying me, well not just me her students in general. Well I guess that can't be the case because she treats her favorites like......well her favorites. I turn in superb work and still manage to get so many points taken off...its ridiculous. I'll fix her though, I'll get all of this straightened out.

I'll give a cookie to anyone who knows what this is?

Yes.....I'm slackin...I know. I'll get it together soon enough though, time just seems to be going by so fast though...I need to catch up. It's getting very chilly now...I guess I'll concede and get my bike ready for the winter. It's been fun while the time lasted now I need to concentrate on other things, like getting out of my CIS 111 before my professor tries to come up with new things that she can do to get me out of her class. We'll see tomorrow.......*Note to self - I still need to write that letter.

Another moment to think....a guy that works with me died earlier this morning NEWS REPORT This is not something you can get used to, you see a person one day and they're gone the next. There's no warning....you don't see it coming...there's no billboard...no signs...just death. What will his family do? What's going to happen to his kids? Does that mean he really isn't going to be coming into work today? I mean...for real...he can't be dead, I know him....I helped him move his family into their new house. We would go to the movies in our off time...it can't be for real. Where's the guy that says "Yo Yo Yo!" whenever he walks in. Hmmmm...I don't know...you never know.

There we go!!!!

The weekend is almost upon us.....I'm looking forward to it, but I already know that I'm going to do a lot of work this weekend. I got a programming project due on monday and I need to try and work on this program for work.....ALSO...I need to get my bike legal (Title, tags,etc...) Even though its cold I'll probably still be riding...... :D *Big Cheese* I'm actually getting hype....there's a lot of stuff I plan on doing to that bike and I can't wait. Today was pretty uneventful, I spent most of the day waiting to go to work. I started watching K-Pax on TV at about 2:30 and of course I started to get into the movie right before I had to go (I was almost late to work) and then I had to miss the last 15 mins of it. That's always the worst. I just put together a new Redhat 9 box that I'm going to use as a repair box while I fix another computer that has Windows XP on it. I might even wind up putting Redhat 9 on that box if I can get the repair box to do everything I think is needed. Speaking on Linux, I called myself investing in the future welfare of the computers that are on our desks at the help desk I work at. I would definitely like to be using linux but of course there's that one software program that we need that only runs on Windows.... Remedy. As of right now there aren't any truly successful implementations of people getting Remedy to work on linux. Well one of our network admins said that he was able to do it, only he was only able to do it under Lindows. Well I guess its better than nothing so I figured I'd chime in and get him the new 4.0 version because I really hate windows NT. Well I decided to try it out for myself at home.....it sucks. So I think what needs to happen is to find another way to get remedy in Linux. Hopefully if I search long enough I'll find something.

www.UpOnOne.com - Motorcycle Videos, Pictures, Links, News, Reviews, How To's, Shops and More! This is where I'm going to learn the EXTRAs that come with riding a bike. Also ZX6R.com - For the Ninja Riders

But let me emphasize that there are so many mor things out there like what I just talked about, I just didn't want to take up the whole page.

What is it that disturbs me?.....hmmm.....The color of this damn blog disturbs me, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. I think two things that bother me the most right now in the US are rights and technology. Of course technology rights are a big thing with me since I'm so into technology. Well what's going on and why am I disturbed? Back when the thoughts of shutting down Napster I began to develop my own opinion of what was going on. Yes, I was one of the millions downloading music from there....does it make it right? No....but I wasn't going to pay $17 for CDs that were utter crap. I had a few speeches and papers that I needed to do for my communications and english classes at my college....so I wrote about Napster. I didn't sit and write about how I just wanted to download music for free forever and ever, I actually wanted to see what was going to happen down the road because of this. What I found scared the crap out of me really, it showed me that in the years to come what we wanted in regards to technological innovation was not going to occur....not because it wasn't thought up or implemented but because someone a few years back made laws that stifled that innovation before it could have even come to bloom. We go theDMCA you can see more info about it at Anti-DMCA, basically I would go to The Electronic Frontier Foundation because they have all the laws, bills that are being introduced, reintroduced....whatever. If you look at the different things that have been introduced you can just tell that these weren't made for the people in mind, in fact the people can protest till they're blue in the face but no one is listening. Does that mean stop telling? stop getting the word out against these rights infringing laws? of course not. Let's take the DMCA for example they have took upon themselves to sue everybody....businesses....individuals....anybody that has any kind of connections with P2P File Sharing, but for christ's sake they sued a 12 yr old girl and 71 yr old man...just recently they wanted to sue a 66 yr old women for $300,000,000.00 I all the zeroes in so you could see how much money that is. (The woman was a case of mistaken identity) Come on now, this is ridiculous....if it's that serious I won't even bother to buy CDs anymore, because this is sure not encouraging me to. Then you got the Copy Protected Media if you do buy CDs. Then you got Internet Censorship going on....but its going on with Google and what something like that does is basically erase whatever it is from existence. Why? because the majority of the people use google to search and if you can't find it in google you probably won't look elsewhere to find it. That's some heavy stuff, but it as well goes unnoticed by the public...then you got things that were supposed to be here to help us which could really be used against us. USA Patriot Act Even this crap with SCO and GNU/Linux is garbage the only thing that all of these issues really shows is that money talks and not everything is done FOR the people. The GNU/Linux issue is of concern to me since I like to run it myself, but the bad mouthing that Mircosfot is doing is pissing me off. I guess the hope for me there is that so many other countries are migrating to GNU/Linux that if there ever comes a time where the US just pasts some crazy law, banning Linux I'll have plenty of other places to live. Well that was my partial rant for the day....gotta go.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe - On a George Foreman Grill

Yes, you heard it right......Grilled Cookies. Now, this wasn't my idea but the results were pretty good....Especially for cookies baked on a grill. The grill shown above is not actually the one that I own, mine is a little smaller....$10 at Walmart. I wasn't really the one baking either, a co-worker of mine decided to borrow my grill.....why he had the cookies at work? dont ask. Anyways, what he did to bake his foreman cookies: He used the cookie dough sqaures they might have been Toll House, I can't remember. He also elevated the front a little to make sure the cookies didn't slide out. Since my grill was so small he sat them 3 across and left them in there for about 3 - 3 1/2 minutes. Yes, they did come out slightly burnt and funny looking....but hey he made cookies on a Foreman grill. I don't know of any health issues with this....so try at your own risk, if I get some crazy cookie disease then you know something went wrong.

I need a new car......I need a new identity with good credit so I can get a new car. *sigh* Bad credit sucks....I mean really sucks, I wish I would of new that when I was having funfunfun charging up everything under the sun with those first credit cards. It's my fault though, being hard-headed I should have listened to my parents. (Now that's a first) Anyways, I will work somethin out. My first design project for my programming class is due tomorrow and I also have to figure out when I'm going to test out of my pre-req for the class as well.......busy busy. The nice days are leaving and I don't have the title or tags for my bike...so I'll probably miss out on the last of the nice days. Don't matter I'll ride it when its freezing :) Okay, well maybe not.

Well I haven't been posting in awhile....everything is moving too fast. I've since started classes....I've since dropped classes, not because they were hard or I didn't want to take them I'm just trying to test out of them. Dealt with a retarded teacher with an ego problem and she had the nerve to say I had one after I said "I know more about computers than anyone I know" of course she threw in her...."Not more than me comment". But I don't feel like talkin about her anymore. I've even finished my motorcycle class and of course I passed.....You wanna see somethin else Check this out! It's not my actual bike, but it's the one that I bought same color, same year and everything. So even though its too cold this year, watch out cuz next year is gonna be crazy.

Thursday already.....this week is going by pretty fast, unfortunately yesterday I mistakingly thought it was my day off and about time I realized it wasn't I was about 45 mins late. Well today is actually my day off and I'll be attending my classroom portion of my BRC or motorcycle class. So today should be pretty interesting, I also received all of my information from when I submitted my paperwork for my company. It looks all official like, now I just need to talk to someone and figure out what the hell all of it means.

Slashdot | RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl I definitely have to say that there has to be something wrong with this......a 12 year old girl. They're even suing a 71 year old grandfather.....this is truly ridiculous.

Yea, its been a few days without a post...I guess a bunch has been going on. Somebody tried to steal my car last saturday right before I left for my reserve drill. (So that put a damper on the rest of my weekend) They tore off the lock on my passenger door and busted up my steering column....I wanted to invest in one of these airsoft BB guns. Then I'll camp out and wait for them......mwuhahaha!!! Well they didn't take anything for now, I need to buy an alarm though. Other than that drill...was drill, I had a PT test on Saturday that I'm still sore from. On Sunday we had a picnic that had me bored to tears. Yesterday, I ran around like a chicken with his head cut off and today I did absolutely nothing. Tomorrow, however is my classroom training for my motorcycle class and then this weekend we'll do the riding portion. I'm pretty excited about that, my friend was going to sell his ninja 600 to me for $1500 but of course I had already spent the money and had to let the bike slip away :( damnit. Work has been okay so far today I guess....nothing to crazy has happened. I did find some interesting things though searching on the net. Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX what is it you say? It's my key to not paying a damn thing for using the phone utilizing VoIP. Then I could even possibly turn over a profit if I integrate it with some other business ideas. I got to the Asterisk site via this one...Internet Telephone supported on GNU/Linux of course.

Go Here...and click on stuff Well it looks like MozillaFirebird is working for me for the blog...let's see how long it lasts.
Well I've putting in long hours trying to get the music in my car just right, I've spent quite a few dollars as well. For everyone's information, I drive a '90 Pontiac 6000 it isn't the greatest of all cars...but I don't have a car payment so its good. Well awhile ago my radio got stolen and I swore I wasn't going to put another radio in it....so I've been riding in silence for months. Well I finally broke down and bought this expensive radio that plays MP3s as well as gets satellite radio. I was going to take it back but I'm glad I didn't, since then I've gotten all new speakers in the car....3 amps...tweeters....crossovers. I have to say my car sounds very damn good now....I'm so happy, it has put the joy back in driving for me. I know I'm not finished yet so I'll keep updating about the latest stuff.
Other than working on my car I have been doing damn near nothin. I'm enrolled full-time for school and that starts on the 14th....still working on my house. I know this is a boring entry but I'll have more after my reserve drill this weekend.

Ok this is really retarded...Mozilla still does not work with my blog, I don't understand why. I haven't updated either but that's beside the point. Oh...for those people experiencing problems with their Roadrunner and MSN Messenger this is something you should look at

I do have to talk about my ventures that I'm trying to get into, maybe not right now but soon. CWN (Community Wireless Network) something like SeattleWireless.net, I would really like to do that but I would also build that into the NetShare program that Speakeasy has. So I would be able to offer those on the network internet access but to make it sweeter I would offer VoIP services so that they could make unlimited long distance calls for however much a month. I would roll it all up into a nice little plan.

Time Flys.....Had a pretty good weekend even though it rained every damn day, but it was still good. I guess I should go back to last Wed. then move forward huh. Well I got my Vonage stuff last thursday I think, and it works pretty good the only thing I had to do was plug in my ATA 186 and everything was ready to go. My one complaint is that for some reason its not forwarding my calls to my cell phone when I set it up...I'll call tech support on that one. My court date for my name change will be in November, so I'll be official now. I also registered for my classes last week, I wasn't really looking forward to registering but after I talked with my counselor I got hype. He was one of those people that will analyze you from the second he saw you. I knew what he was doing but it was cool cuz I knew he was doing it to help....and help he did. He suggested that I change my major to one that suited me a lot more instead of battling it out in some stupid Western Civ classes. He also showed me how this training that I'm getting through the Army for my CCNA and MCSE can be turned in to credit.....more than 60 hours of credit to be exact. So I'll be done with my Associates by the summer, I'll have at least 2 certs, and all my classes are cakewalk from now till then. On Sat. I helped this guy from work move and of course on the way up there my alternator dies, so he picked me up and we finished getting his stuff moved. Then afterwards I go buy an alternator and we go to hook it up, it was taking forever to get the stupid thing out then for some reason when we were putting it in this mechanic looking to bum some money drove up and asked if he could help. We let him help and he pretty much threw that alternator in with no problems, then we needed a jump start but none of us had cables. So he takes my speaker wire and makes some jumper cables out of it....I actually never knew you could do that but now I know. I will have to admit that the reason for the premature demise of my alternator has something to do with my stereo. I got a new Kenwood head unit, plus I have 2-10" subs, 1-500 Watt amp, 1-400 Watt amp, 2- new 4x6's and tweeters, plus a crossover thrown in there....oh and satellite radio. All of this in a 1990 pontiac 6000Not mine...mine is blue I'm going to make it a nice little ride to ride around in. It sounds great right now, I'm going to put some more stuff into it though...a lot more.
Continuing on with the weekend, I went to my Oma's house on Sunday and stayed there and chilled with the family all day...that was cool. Monday I did much of nothing except work on my car and watch the rain. Today did the same as yesterday but today I had to work. So that was the wrapup in a nutshell.

Well of course after I got all worked up about my new Vonage account a guy at work shows me something with a lower price....like $20 less. That sux. Of course it does basically the same thing and even has my zip code which the I currently has doesn't. I should switch over, but hell....I think I'll keep it anyways if I'm not happy with it then I'll change down the line. Other work news, I got my shiny new 450Mhz today...there's a noticeable speed difference but NT still sucks. I was given this project as well that I've basically been slacking on, it's supposed to be done by Friday so I guess I better start putting some actual work behind it. I don't know why I even said that I could do it....I guess that'll teach me.
I bought some more audio stuff for my car today and then I went looking for a new car....new car audio stuff in old funny lookin car just seems wrong. So I went looking for some new shiny paint bucket, I found a couple and then I even tried to find out if I could get financing. Of course it came back denied because of my wonderful credit history but oddly enough I can go in for a home loan and get approved a lot easier....I don't understand. What else happened? The weather sucks....it was raining like crazy today and I happened to get stuck in it, but I felt better because I was carrying a bunch of audio equipment. Well off to work...

For some odd reason blogger is no longer working with Mozilla 1.4b or whatever I have, either I'll update or continue to complain about it...whichever is easier. Well....do I feel better today? somewhat. I still feel like I have sent things off in a bad direction for everyone. Enough of that though, interestingly enough I had a pretty good day at work so far...I'm not really as bored as I have been on other days, great start. I did talk to one of our Network Admin guys about my computer, (a Cyrix 250Mhz) it runs like crap so I sent in a ticket and he said he would hook me up with a new one...well semi new. (400 Mhz) I also recommended getting rid of our two computers (Windows NT & HP-UX) and just having one....one with Linux on it of course. The guy I talked to said he actually recommended it to his boss and his boss told him to "Keep asking me" so I guess he's just looking for someone to convince him. I think I'm pretty much up to that job, the NA guy was thinking about Lindows 4.0 because he said he actually got Remedy 5.1 working on it....if he did that then that's pretty big because so far I haven't seen anybody say they have Remedy runningy on linux. So I'm gonna pickup a copy of that for about $50 then install it at work and on a test machine at home. I would also probably make up a mock network just so I can show the other higher ups some more benefits of using linux instead of the crap we have.
Another good thing I did was setup up my Vonage Account so I should get my phone next week, with a wisconsin number...hey that's big news since I live in Ohio. I'm really excited about it....I even signed up for the affiliate program. So if anybody reads this and goes with Vonage for their Broadband phone...come holla at me. They currently don't have my area code but once they do I'll have a wisconsin number as well as an Ohio number.

Well I actually had already typed something but since I was messing with the damn template, I erased it.....Arrgghhh!!! Anyways, like I was saying before I really didn't feel in the mood to post anything but I figured I might as well since this is a part of my life. Basically what happened was that I created drama for myself, but this time the stakes seemed to be a lot higher. This has to do with an ex of my and my son's mother, it wasn't anything that you might expect....well maybe a little. I created a situation to where I was lying to people again....again, because I caused a more hostile event in the past. This time wasn't like the last but like I said the stakes are much higher, I feel a lot more horrible, and the situation is not as bad as last time. It was the lies though....the little lies turned to big lies, which are turning into life changing events. I feel like I've ruined the lives and future plans of others now....I even feel like I've changed plans for my son. I just feel bad....I just wanted everyone to walk away cuz I felt that was the right solution, in some ways it was others it might not be. So .. .. .. Here I am .. .. .. What have I done?

Interesting day so far.....I've got some big things going on today, right now I'm not gonna comment on them. As soon as everything is said and done though then I'll probably talk about it. I know I'm not giving any details at this moment but be patient they're coming. I will say though that this is probably one of those turning points in peoples' lives. At this moment lies the rest of my life....different paths....different results.

I just realized what else is missing from here.....my comments.....damn template ARRGGGHH!!! I'll fix that later as well.

Now as for the rest of my day and week since Tuesday......hmmm...... I keep waking up late everyday, oh and late is like 11 - 11:30 since I go to work at 4pm. After that my day just seems shot, so I basically haven't got anything really accomplished for the week besides sleeping. I have talked to my sister to make sure she was alright after the incident with my step-father. (He will suffer!!!... mwuhahaha!!!!) I'm still waiting on my packet for my company filing (third power investments, llc) I'm starting into the real estate investing field so I decided to setup an LLC to save me some legal hassles that might come up. I am also trying to think of a problem that needs to be solved....you know that one idea that'll just make someone stupid amounts of money. It's taking me awhile but maybe I can accomplish all these side goals first while I'm waiting on that one. A corporate desktop in Linux is one that I had in mind....why? you might ask. Because my work computer sucks!!! I mean really bad....Windows NT on a 250Mhz....come on!!! you're killing me here. So that's one thing I want to do, I think it would definitely help out at work.

Another day spent looking for PPL stuff....pre-paid legal for those that don't know. I didn't find a whole lot of new information but I did find out that Paul J. Meyer is a big supporter of PPL. (You know the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" guy) Of course, being associated with PPL he had his share of "not-so-good" moments...do a google search for "paul j meyer ftc". The only reason I'm doing all of this research though is because my best friend is so deeply rooted in this it's crazy. The people that he's with are deeply rooted in it as well, but none of them are making that great of money from it. I was trying to gather all of this information in the hopes that I could possibly show him, expose all the wrong , and hopefully show him a way out. I think he's gotten to the point now to where if I say something bad about PPL it would seem like a personal attack on him. (It doesn't help that I bought a associate membership myself from him) So now he wants me to get excited and follow the scripts on my way to millions....which I know is not gonna happen? Especially the way they tell the people to go find others. They want them to come off as know-nothings and point them over to the experts who have the real answers. Why would you want to act like a know-nothing in the first place if you're trying to promote your business. I think that's enough of my pre-paid ranting for the day though. I think I'm doing too much research on this

Today just seemed like one of those days....where nothing gets accomplished and it really feels like it. It almost felt like I was stuck, like I was moving slower than everybody else seemed to be. I did do some more research on pre-paid legal, I found some interesting stuff from 1999 where they acquired "The Peoples Network", TPN was one of those things were you sign up get a website and sell a bunch of junk on it. Well I guess PPL acquired them...not for what they were selling, but for the people selling the stuff. They convinced a majority of those people to come over and sell PPL.....Now!!!! a lot of the people that you see making the money in PPL had come over from TPN. The reason a lot of them are making so much money is because they already had a large base of people to peddle PPL to. Some were already making a lot of money in TPN so of course those people that trusted them there would trust them wherever else they went. So these people were hyped up too much from the start, but that hype is still pushing them along. I do think they push out techniques that are not good business and also just plain stupid. It all makes sense now though why all the peoples' faces you see that are PPL superstars all seem to be so buddy-buddy.

Changing that damn template really messed me up......grrrrrr. I just found out the stats weren't working since my template fiasco, fixed it so it should be logging like it should now.

Yes....yes...I know, this damn template sucks....I'll change it later. Oh, and I haven't given any details on the Bahamas trip...those I'll have to think about giving later. ( I wasn't too impressed though) I do have 2 other things that I'll speak on....one being why my step-father (Jimmy) in his right mind would actually think he could put his hand on my little sister and get away with it? the second topic being why do a few people get this idea of me being weak compared to someone else? First up, Mr. Jimmy...I will admit that my sister has an attitude (she's 20) she lives w/my mother, Mr. Jimmy, and my little brother. Like I said my sister has an attitude, but this time she didn't really show all of her charming attitude with Mr. Jimmy. I don't know if it was the medication he was on or the drinks he may have had for breakfast but he actually thought my family wouldn't do anything I guess. Well as soon as I got the call from my sister that was crying on the phone (2 things that NEVER happen) I was immediately ready to send Mr. Jimmy to someone's hospital....I then proceeded to call up the Fam and advise them of the situation. After getting aunts, uncles, and grandparents together and collecting enough drinks to make we stayed "in the mood" we left for our 45 minute journey to visit Mr. Jimmy. My aunt and grandmother stayed back and stated that me and my police officer uncle should stay outside first when we got there. (I think 4 beers calmed be down pretty good though) We got there and everything went pretty mildly, even though I didn't see Mr. Jimmy I heard he was about to shit his pants. I went in later after everyone came out and had some small talk with my mother like nothing was happening. My sister got her stuff and went to her friends house that night. So Mr. Jimmy avoided the E.R. and I avoided....well I just avoided what would of happened. So we'll see how this story unfolds.

Second thing is about people thinking I'm weak, which I think is completely ubsurd. I don't know...all I know is I'm not a weak person. What is it though? this isn't the first time that someone has mentioned that. Is it because of the way I look? or maybe because I'm on the computer too much? or maybe it's written on my face in a special ink that only everyone else can see? I do know that those people that think that are retarded because I'm doing pretty damn good for myself...so I don't know what the hell they're talking about, examine yourself...then holla back.

Vonage DigitalVoice .::. The BROADBAND Phone Company... First off I have to say "Wow!" to this site. Broadband Phone Company people!!!!! What does that mean?!? Well for me it just seems so great....the killer broadband application...you can use your internet connection for more than just downloading music and looking at websites faster. Unfortunately, at this moment they don't have any area codes for the Dayton/Springfield area ***Which sux big time*** As soon as they do though I will definitely sign-up. You can even setup virtual numbers in different area codes so people can make local phone calls to you. This definitely gets the TJ "For real...For real" mark of approval. Oh, and I'll update about my Bahamas trip in awhile.

Using a Sprint PCS Sanyo 4900 with Linux I guess we have another one that gets the "For real...For real" mark of approval. I have yet to try this out but I definitely will be making this happen soon enough....and yes that definitely was a TJ link.

Well...the shits hitting the fan again at work today----- Okay, scratch that...everything is good again. Just a few more days to go till my trip, I went and bought some clothes today....spent way too much money than I needed and I still need more clothes. (I guess that's what I get for always tryin to get the expensive clothes) I just found out my car rental is gonna be a no go, the place where I wanted to rent from only rents to people over 25 and I am only but a mere 24 yr old. oh well. I still can not connect to my router from work, but I guess that was because I still haven't tried to fix the settings on it...I'll get to that after the trip. I was trying to look up information about my upcoming trip to the bahamas and from what I can tell its pretty damn expensive if you start doing a lot of stuff. I know I want to sky dive, scuba dive, swim with the dolphins, jetski, and some other stuff that's gonna start adding up. I can just use money I was gonna use for the car on activities and food. I'm gonna be without computer access for the week though, that sucks. I saw something where I could pay $30 for a week of internet access but I think that money would best be spent in the club...oh yea! Speaking of oh yea, I also fixed my air conditioner in my car....well it didn't really need fixing, it just needed to be recharged and they have this kit out now where you can do it for like $29....oh yea! Now I just need to get everything else fixed on the "6000" then I'm good to go.

Okay next time something works...I'm not gonna try to fix it. I changed the stupid template on here and it of course took away some of the stuff I added on to my blog. I guess I should have read the fine print more carefully

Do you ever get those days where you just get mad for no reason, I think I had one last night...just out of the blue I was mad. I didn't really have anything to be mad about but I would try to find stuff to make me even madder. Very silly....I'm fine now, I think I pretty much need to be ignored if I get like that though. (Information for anybody who happens to catch me during that time) I don't have anything technical to post, I did however become a registered GNU/Linux user. :D I don't think everyone else really cares that I did but hey I'm glad. I do have a problem connecting to my smoothwall box from work, I think there was something I didn't enable...I'll fix that later. I've been lurking on the JustLinux Forums and I just got through reading through this forum. JustLinux Forums - you know when you are addicted to linux when..... Funny stuff.

Birthday time coming up....another year older. Well my birthday this year should be pretty interesting as I'm going to the bahamas. I'll have to make sure to try a little bit of everything while I'm there to soak up the experience. I don't think I'm as excited as I should be, but I think I really don't get excited about it till I get to a place that I'm going. I went to Germany last year but I really didn't say much about it till I got there and that was a damn good trip. On a side note...I almost got my Redhat box (halfpinthp) how I want it, I spent the longest time trying to figure out XFree and Xinerama. I got it working (sort of) but my second monitor just comes up with a resolution of 800x600 and I can't change it...oh well, I'll just wait a few more months then work on it. I also did a router upgrade not too long ago so now I'm running SmoothWall GPL 2.0 beta5 "Orient". So far its working great, it even managed to get my connections to my playstation running decent. Now I just need to work on the dynamic dns and vpn then I'm all good. I also have an idea for TechLife I always wanted to make a place where people could come and ask questions about anything technology related and get an answer. Well...really if people try really hard and look for it they can already find places that will do that for them. Plus I realized I'm not always the one that likes to answer computer questions all the time. So I figured I'll just write up some stuff on what I need help with or things that I'm working on. Like I'm still working on building my ubernetwork that I'm gonna use to....well let's just save that for later but I am still working on it though. I think it would be better for me to just solve problems and then tell people how I did it and then if there are any questions about that...I'll be glad to answer them. So now that I've found direction...let's get started.

junkpc.jpg I was just uploading this pic of some junk computers that we threw out not too long ago. While I'm here I guess I can rant about work for a little while, now I know Linux is not the solution to every company's computer problems. I do think however that we could benefit from some linux desktops and a few open source packages throughout the company. Right now its just ridiculous, we have two computers on our desk, an HP-UX box and a windows box. Right there you can combine those into one great linux box because neither one of those alone is worth anything. The only problem that I see is that the Remedy client doesn't work on Linux, but there was a rumor that our network admin guy got it to work under Lindows. (Haven't confirmed that yet) If we could get linux I really think our productivity would go up very high, hey while we're at it...get rid of Remedy in favor of Request Tracker. We also have a program called AccessPlus that is crap, a web app needs to take its place very very quickly. Of course since I'm whining about it I better try to come up with a solution, so hopefully I can find one (or a few) that will work.

Well the motorcycle thing didn't go through, of course about time I got to it the bike was sold. It was a damn good price though....I guess I was being told something. Right after that I went to Best Buy to soothe my soul in something new and gadgety like but when I got there I didn't have my ID so I couldn't write a check. OK....ok...I won't try to buy anything else, even the second house deal I was trying to work on kind of fell through. Actually, it was already done to begin with it just took me this long to realize that it wasn't going to work. I'm learning though so its cool. I did get some insight on what else I could do as far as structuring deals and I even made a contact that could possibly lead to some design work on future sites I might need. Right now I just need to concentrate on stacking my money for my primary residence, getting these postcards out for new business, and finishing up my certifications on the side.

Yea, I know....I suck. It's been entirely too long since I've posted anything, in my defense I will say though that time has been flying. Of course, I still had stuff on my mind I just never got around to coming on here and posting it up. One thing that I do wanna say is that...I hate stupid people....at one point in time I could tolerate them just a lil bit more. Now I just can't seem to deal with them, at work I get these constant calls reminding me that they're still around. *sigh* Well enough of that, it seems as if my house deal is gonna go through I'll probably wait to close everything till I can buy a few more things and pay some stuff off. Once I get in the house I know all extra money is not gonna be around to play with. Now I just have to figure out how to get this other house, it's a real estate deal I was trying to work on but I still haven't quite figured out all the details as of yet. Oh...and I've been eyeing a few motorcycles, I think I wanna get a Kawasaki Ninja 250. People keep trying to tell me that the bike is too small, too slow, and doesn't have enough power. I had to do my own research to figure out what was a good beginner bike. I'm not gonna let my ego get in the way so that I go out and get a bike that I can't handle. (Even though the call of a 600 is very tempting) I think I'll be cool on the bike, besides it still goes from 0 - 60 in under 6 seconds. I'm gonna look at some tomorrow, they're not 250's but I just want to check them out anyways. I got my motorcycle permit today so I guess now I'm a little more anxious to get a bike than before.

Pics not up yet...I guess I'm just not that motivated to get them up right now. But while I'm here I might as well speak on something thats floating around in my head. Does it really matter if other people don't understand who you are? I'm usually the type of person that would say of course not it doesn't really matter, but I have to admit that I struggled for a long time to try to make people understand me. After awhile I just got tired of trying to change the image that people had of me if I felt it was the wrong one. I'm not saying that it still doesn't bother me...I'm just not trying to change it anymore. If someone understands then they do, if they don't then they don't...It really came about because I wanted to at least have someone that I knew like the same kind of things that I like and not just people like to go out or kick it or whatever. Some of the things that I appreciate I would like to see be appreciated by someone else other than me. Some times I get convinced that either I'm surrounded by idiots or that I'm actually crazy. They're not idiots because they don't like what I like...they're just idiots normally.

You know what though...I'm not gonna complain about not finding people to understand, I've done it once so at least I know I'm not crazy.

Back at work after my two-week paid vacation from the Army, actually it wasn't too bad. It was 95 -102 the whole time but it felt good, that dry heat made it not too bad. I think I've seen just about as much as I could see of El Paso in a 2 week period. Went to New Mexico to White Sands, Alberquerque, and Las Cruces. Spent just a little bit of time in Juarez, Mexico...Went to plenty of restaurants, bars, and clubs while I was there. Considering there were no trees the scenery still looked beautiful because I don't get to see that ever. (Looks like it came from a Road Runner cartoon) Oh yea, the work I had to do wasn't that bad either...I was basically responsible for getting computers up in running in one of these war simulations room, they weren't the fancy ones (those were in another room). They were the ones that were crappy and didnt work right, but after a few days got all of them working and got everybody happy. So I had fun getting all that crap to work. I'm gonna post some pics when I get some more time....maybe even detail some of the events that took place there.

2 weeks in (Fort Bliss, TX aka El Paso) I dunno I just looked up the weather report and its supposed to be like 90 - 100 this whole week I just assume its gonna be like that for the next week as well. Too bad I own like one pair of shorts....I'm gonna fry!

Ever felt the need to sit down and analyze your ownself, there are things that I see in myself that I really can't explain where they came from or why they're there. Of course, its probably there for a good reason but right now that reason is not clear. If you haven't guessed this really has to do about my feelings, specifically feelings regarding a certain person. I'm not really sure how to explain them to myself I just know its there and its one of those things that I really can't control. I'm the type of person who at least has moderate control over a situation, but with this I'm just at the whim of what I feel. I just don't want to make any mistakes, but we can only wait and see.

Pre-Paid Legal: If it's really the legal revolution, why the lawsuits, allegations of operating an illegal pyramid, and poor retention rates. Pre-Paid legal has many legal problems of its own I found this website pretty interesting, especially since I signed up to sell Pre-Paid legal....well its too late to take back the decision now, but maybe this link will help others.

I had written some stuff down a while back talking about how you need to get your words down on paper because that is one of the best ways for people to remember who you were if you were gone. I heard that somewhere else and I really agreed with it.... All different types of musicians and authors who've died left us with their words & their works, so they live on through that. I really started thinking about this today after I got the news that someone I knew died today, a very special friend to a friend of mine. It's very hard when someone fairly young dies so suddenly....you can't really explain it. It made me reflect on a lot of stuff, one being that I need to see a doctor for my heart condition, but also what am I leaving behind for people to remember me. I want you to be able to type my name into google and just find out what I'm all about. It's pretty funny though because you'll rarely see me even talking about me in depth like that, but I sure will write it for the world to see. So I encourage people to just write.....write about nothing.....write about something....just write, If you want people to get that extra bit of knowledge of what's going on in your mind then I encourage it.
:::Rest in Peace Asantewa:::

I just had so much trouble figuring out how to get in to blogger from work, that I forgot what I wanted to say. :(

Working 4 - 12am the day just seems to go by so fast, today I dont think I've accomplished much of anything and its 12:30 already. I do need to get my stuff together for my 2 week excursion to Texas on Sunday (Paid for by the Army Reserves) , I can do that then possibly come up with a list of real estate investors I could talk to to help boost my career in the business.

Well it looks like I can finally login from work to do some blogging.....I'll get back to work then come back and do some more blogging. Well from what it looks like...it seems as if some parts of Blogger.com are being blocked by our content filtering system, hopefully I can still find ways to come and post from work.

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This blog is pretty nice, I just added a new blog for TechLife, so I'll use that for a lot of the stuff I want to say for TechLife. I upgraded my account to a Blog*SpotPlus account, so we'll see how this works out.

Another day....another chance for me to think of more ways that I canget rich. :) I've been reading a lot lately about my Pre Paid Legal fiasco, I don't think I can sit here and promote it like I see others do. Some independent reps are basically lying to people to get them to join up, and trying to push it upon everyone. For one, I already know this is not for everyone It might be kinda good for me since I'm trying to dabble in real estate so it will work out ok for me. Its just not for everyone though, and I also know people who sell this as a get rich quick scheme. (which its definitely not) Hopefully I can just make a few dollars selling people the basic membership, that way I can still keep my peace of mind.

Sidenote: Now...if people know that I am the type of person that reads through the fakeness and falseness that people tend to throw up in front of themselves, why do they continue to do it? I guess really they have no choice, that is how the person is and they can't be nothing else. Unfortunately, that just makes them look like a dumb-ass in my eyes. Oh, before I forget...If anybody that reads this is approached by someone that sells pre paid legal....run away........run away really fast. After saying that I am one of those people that sells it, but I'm not one of their zombies. I just wish I would of knew all the charges before I joined up. :S

Javion was recently down here (my son), we had a party for him and my little cousin at Chuck e cheese's....it was funny, i think Javion might turn out to be a compulsive gambler though because of the ticket games at Chuck e cheese's but its cool.

Before I go into what I have to say let me say first that I am a Matrix fan, well more of a Matrix fanatic. The concepts of illusionary freedom, choices, & beliefs from the movie are fascinating to me. They are also fascinating to me in real life, but the thing that makes my stomach hurt when thinking about it in real life is that people don't see it. They don't see how their choices in life are getting smaller, how their illusionary freedom is not really that free after all, but the beliefs still hold strong. Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a room full of brainwashed cult members. No one else seems to see what's going on and if they do it really doesnt matter to them. Alas, when I go and try to show people the truth myself I'm usually the one that sounds like a lunatic running around talking of government conspiracies. I guess I do get a little excited about it, but I cant help it I just want people to see what I see. I guess for me I've really became interested after the lawsuits were brought against Napster in 1999. Since then I've been following news with things like DMCA, SSSCA (CBPTPA), DRM and other tools that are being used to hinder technological freedom. While I am concerned with the technology side of a lot of things, I am still very much concerned with the non-testing side of it all. I am not one who can sit around and witness the rights of people slowly being taken away without them even knowing what has happened. Maybe one day I'll actually be able to talk about this without being labeled crazy.

There are many different elements that go into making people who they are, a product of the influences that they face day in and day out. It will become clear through my writings what has influenced me ... what has made me who I am today.

I guess I'm in the talking mood today or something...Or just a lot on my mind. I could probably speak all day on the choices that we have to make and the consequences and rewards that come from them. A lot of the choices I make I have come to make those judgements about the consequences/rewards fairly quickly, so I can realize what I'm getting into before I do it. I know a part of my problem comes from the choices that I make regarding relationships. Those have become my trickiest ones, and its usually due to the choices and paths I've placed myself on right before the new choice appeared. Usually what happens is not really beneficial to any party involved and it creates a lot of disruption. The funny thing is though, I can see that disruption before it even occurs, before the path is changed, before the choice is made, before one word is spoke, I already know how its gonna turn out. I don't really give any insight on what I see is gonna happen, I guess I'm not really sure of the reaction I would get. Or is it that I do and I just don't want to see that happen? I can argue to myself that I really don't know what's gonna happen....very true...but I also know given my beliefs right now, what choices I will make then. Now if I happen to see things different between then and now, then I will more than likely think of another scenario different than the one I have now. I always thought that if people knew what I was thinking that things would be different for the people that know me..... Well I guess from this blog I will test that hypothesis? :::Let the truth begin:::

There's supposed to be this big all hands meeting at our company today, Our headquarters in NJ and our offices here, they're supposed to be talking about the new goals for the company. Some people see this as the next axe dropping, ( They've already laid off 10% of the company a few weeks ago) and it looks like if they do happen to lay off again the after-hours support would get it first this time. (I guess that means me) I don't think I'm really scared, but I know that this will throw a serious monkey wrench into my plans going into the future. Well, I really don't know how its gonna turn out....I guess I have to wait till I get to work.

Well I did have something written out for my next post that I wanted to put up, but it seems like I've lost it somewhere.....Hmmmm Oh well, It'll turn up. I think I've finally decided on where to go with this blog, for me to try and recount everything in my life would just be too much for this blog. (Honestly, It'll take too long to remember :) ) I'll just take it one day at a time, just the ins and outs of my mind while I do what I do daily.

First off it's about 1:35 a.m., and I really wasn't expecting to post something so soon after creating this account...but why not? I think from the start I have to think about whether or not I'm gonna be on here giving up all the knowledge I have on things in my life or will I just keep it simple. I don't know we'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.