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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

  • So, I haven't gotten my new job yet but I have more hope than I've had in a while. Not to mention, I have a great story idea. That should put me in great spirits.

    So, I totaly lost what it was that I was going to post about.

    And It's iretrievable.

    Kinda like my poor compies functionality.

    I need to buy a new laptop some time...but I'm a long way from being able to buy it. I need to finish three websites and I'm discovering more and more that I don't know about web design. Does anyone know how to make PHP inteligable to someone who is tired of reading the details? I'm not too thrilled with the book I got from the library, though it's telling me what I need to know. My head didn't used to hurt so much when I was in school as it does after a few hours of this book.

    Oh, and I dreamed that I accidentaly ran into a baby dragon that had gotten lost in our world. It wasn't badly hurt. Then I adopted it. Not sure why, but a baby dragon is pretty awesome.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

  • A place of my own...

    So, Mu finally decided to like me. Now, I shall move many of my posts over there. That's going to be a lot of work. Fortunately, I have tomorrow off.

    I haven't finished tweaking the look and feel of the layout, not to mention, I don't really have any content over there, so I'll place a link and replace this paragraph once I make it public. Just wanted to make people generally aware of the change.

    I'm also going to be splitting up a lot of my work. I've joined a project called Kdari Blog Network, and I'll be posting topically to several different blogs. 

    Hello all!

Monday, 05 October 2009

  • Things I wish everybody knew about their checking account.

    1. There is no such thing as float time when you use your debit card! It's gone! No more float for you!
    The second you authorize a purchase, a hold is placed on your account for the amount you agreed to pay. (If their fingers hit the right keys that is.) The cashier told you this would post tomorrow? It will, but if you spend that money again tonight, you'll have the piper to pay tomorrow. It's more important than ever to track all of your debits. Checks can still be floated, but not more than a day now. Most companies run your check through electronicaly (ACH for short) so it comes out the next day. I haven't figured out if it places a hold on your account right away too, if anyone knows, leave me a comment and I'll update this post.

    2. Less than a day to come out; three days to go in.
    Yes, I'm referring to refunds. It takes twenty seconds to pull money from your account, but three days to put it back in. This isn't your banks fault. If you have to blame someone, then you can blame the credit card companies...or the people who tried to work the system and made the credit card companies have to delay the process so that people don't cheat them. Greed is a disease you'll find it in every social class.

    3. Don't use your debit card online unless absolutely necessary! If you make a purchase on the world wide web with your credit card and some creep gets hold of your card number, then they can create a mess, but at least your checking account isn't locked up. If worse comes to worse, you can still by bread and potatoes and shot gun shells personalized with the name of the perpetrator.

    4. Be ware of fraud. When you work at a bank, you have to go through some routine courses on the basic types of check and electronic fraud...and my head about exploded. I had no idea there were so many gimmicks out there. There are some that would even get me, but generally, the way to avoid getting taken is to refuse if you aren't dead sure. This is harder for some people than others, but learning how to leave a good deal on the table is an essential survival skill. If there's not enough time to think it through and get a second opinion, then you had better leave it be. Ten bucks says it's a scam.

    5. The most common type of internet fraud is free trials.  They say that money talks, but no money talks louder. IT SCREAMS WACHOUT!!! Before you sign up, look up the company. If you see few results; beware. If you see a bunch of negative comments...and you still sign up, then you probably got nothing at all from this post. Larry the cable guy's probably over your head too.

Saturday, 26 September 2009

  • So...

    I think I've about exhausted my interest in writing about myself...in reverse.
    It was fun though!
    Guess what?
    I'm going to start a new blog using wordpress. I may start more than one, but we'll see how the first one goes. Right now, I'm trying to set up wordpress MU. and yes, it is a beefed up version of wordpress. I'm not doing very well yet. It's got both myself and my uber-nerd brother stumped and stonewalled. I plan on throwing the stump at the stone wall soon, but I will have to find some superhuman strength first.
    I'm sure that won't be a problem.

    I have found something that makes me laugh hysterically! To end a script in php, they usually simply use the command "die". I thought this was apropriate for what the program is currently doing for me.
    I do have faith that once I figure out how to stop it from killing me it will be a good cow and let me blog in peace and freedom. That is the only reason I would leave xanga. They don't have the flexibility of owning your own domain space.
    I suppose when you own your own anything, there are headaches involved.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

  • 100 things that aren't me #99

    I believe that I never would tell something perjurous. I would never tell a dishonesty about anything. If I say that this post is #99 then you can be sure it is. Back at the hotel I used to work for, they used to call me "honest abe". I'm still not sure why they called me "abe", but that's what they called me.
    How can you know that is what they called me? Because I said so, that's how. Now, where are the brown cows?
    HA ha a HA.
    That was funny.
     I said so.
      So believe it.

    That is all.
    (And I didn't steal that from someone else.)

Friday, 04 September 2009

  • 100 things that aren't me. #4

    I am 100% consistent. If I make a habit, I stick to it. You'll never see me start something and not finish it because It's simply not in my nature. I can't stand people who are always starting things and then don't keep to a set schedule to accomplish it. Why not just make a list and keep to it? Is that so hard? I can't leave a sentence undon




    "Value everyones opinions but don't be afraid to tell them when they're dead wrong." ~ Dan Delyon

    "The customer is always uninformed." ~ Dan Delyon

    "What happens when the economy goes down? The rats come up for air and get caught." ~ Dan Delyon

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

  • 100 things that aren't me. #3

    See first entry if you are confused.

    I hate fiction. Fiction rots the mind and makes people into head-in-the-sky dreamers who are always searching for the pot at the end of the rainbow. Pot heads.
    Fiction writers have almost always crossed the line into reality by writing about something and then it happening. You can see this clearly in the books about criminal activity that almost always have copy-caters who do it in real life! Not to mention those science fiction writers who invented email and the internet 20 years before they were even heard of and now look what a mess the internet is. The world wasn't ready for it, but here it is anyway! Darn them!

Sunday, 23 August 2009

  • 100 things that aren't me. #2

    See first entry if you are confused.

    I love scrap booking! I know this activity is most commonly associated with girls, but it's actually quite fun. I just love to take books and put scraps of metal and paper and yarn in between the pages! One time I took a paper clip and drew around it with a multicoloured pen and then smashed it with a rock and glued the paper clip in place where it didn't actually match the outline. It resembled a cockroach after you slam the book shut to smash it. That's actually where I got the idea.
    I hope this doesn't affect anybodies opinion of me. I'd hate to think that anyone thinks I'm odd.



    "Simply follow your instincts, except when they're wrong." ~Dan Delyon

    "Don't just believe anything, believe what you can be sure is true." Dan Delyon

    "Fairness can only come from the fair and is only demanded by the unaware." ~ Dan Delyon

Friday, 21 August 2009

Thursday, 20 August 2009

  • 100 things that aren't me. #1

    I was inspired by my sister in law to do a series about myself...but while 100 things about me would be interesting, I am somewhat leary of posting them. So I thought to myself, how could I post something similar, but nothing alike, and thus the 100 things that aren't me!

    Entry one:
    I like talking to random strangers. People are always nice and honest when you get to know them, so I tend to talk to everyone all the time. Shyness was never an issue for me. I believe that to not say something you should have said is far worse than saying something dumb.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

  • A stray thought for the day.

    Were would we be without poets?
    They are the writers who make a genuine effort to condense what they show
    to a size that the average attention span can manage.

    Unfortunately though, they have a tendency to make their word choice
    and order unintelligible to the average Joe.
    Thus creating an elite set of fan-age.


    And now for a nonsense poem.


    Flatly flew the flighty file. While falling from the fire.
    Choirs of cacophonous cars collide,
    into the country side.


    Gregarious garages gilled-up with garbage,
    Deaden dependence on dampened demand.
    hand of the flower,
    pedle of now, ere'
    the time of the power to stand.

Saturday, 08 August 2009

  • What a day.

    I woke up and decided that today would be a nice day to go for a drive. I don't mind driving at all, so long as it isn't to the other side of Nashville, or has been the case recently, the other side of Rhode Island. I love the way the forest looks in the morning, what with all the short-needle pines and hemlocks and oaks and deep green wild ferns covering a large chunk of the forest floor. The underbrush seems to be more of an afterthought than a subculture in these parts. While I was enjoying this scenery, I noticed a Dunkin Doughnuts (Which seem to be as commonplace as Starbucks are in the south). Ok, well, I had left the scenic part of the trip behind a ways and was now into town, but I digres. The alure of capachino enticed me to detour from my detour and make a quick stop to adjust my caffeene to blood ratio. I went in, ordered, and received my coffee without event and then turned to leave. Little did I know that my life was about to change forever...

    Just kidding.

    I left and circled around the building like the arrows told me to do and stopped where the driveway met the road. I didn't see anyone coming on the left and I thought I saw a break in traffic on the right so I inched out. The break I was going to exploit somehow closed up and I found myself about a foot further than I liked into the road. I looked in my drivers side mirror and put my car into reverse. I managed to go backward about a foot before I heard two distinct sounds that I distinctly dislike. Both a cars horn and a slight crunching sound were heard as I looked at my rearview mirror and found out that I had kissed the nose of a car behind me with the behind of my car. Dismayed at the awkwardness of the moment, I put my car into park and stepped out to survey the damage. He was already out of his car and the first thing he asked me clued me in to the fact that he had been paying as much attention as I had.
    "Why'd you back up?"
    His question was genuine, so I answered it streightforwardly...
    "I was in the road and traffic started to come."
    I confess that this wasn't the most brilliant of assesments I've ever made of the situation, but he seemed to understand at least a little of the situation, so that was good.
    I had to pull forward to see whether there was any damage done to either car, and there wasn't. So far as I could tell, there wasn't a scratch on either of our cars. God is good, no?

Thursday, 06 August 2009

  • "Life doesn't make us happy, but happiness makes us alive. Joy is strength and strength is life, but not just any joy or any strength can make life." ~Dan Delyon

    "Paths are made for people who want to see exactly what everyone else before them saw." ~Dan Delyon

    "Fortune smiles on the fast. Fate smiles on the faithful." ~Dan Delyon

    "God added women because mankind would be boring without the plethora of words they soliloquize." ~Dan Delyon

    "Women are people too...and so are some men!" ~Dan Delyon

    "Life is eternal, and so is futility if you choose to use it." ~Dan Delyon
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  • If your tongue is like the rudder of a ship, then that would make your feet the bow and your eyes would be on the wrong side of your body. I'm a philosopher of sorts, poet of much, and a musician of...well, music.