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It’s rather apparent that I don’t care as much about this website as I used to. I just don’t have the urge to blog, and ultimately that’s probably going to be this site’s downfall. I’ve been debating on whether or not to keep this site up, but I’m sure I’ll stick with the latter. I suppose I just need to take a breath from everything else I’ve been working on, so I can spend some time on this site.

In other news over the past few weeks I’ve managed to build a new computer for myself, settle off some debt (I owed my dad $400), and of course gain some more clients and other work for a new project I’ve got up. There are a few blog entries in my drafts that I had started to talk about my new project, but I just never followed through with them. I think I’m just going to wait until I have the site up and running before I even worry about blogging about it.

Aside from freelance work, I’m still hopelessly a fan of Halo 3. I’ve even gone as far as contemplating joining a clan for it. Talk about geeky. :)

I don’t blog enough anymore. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, but I don’t know what to blog about. Writing about my personal life is out of the question because I really don’t like to divulge that information publicly. If I were to write a tutorial, it’s not going to be anything creative, or new. You’ll have read it somewhere else.

So my options are slim! Which eventually leads to a complete disinterest in this website altogether. I’ve opened Wordpress so many times to start new entries (I have three drafts with maybe 1-2 sentences) but yet I can’t muster up the brain power to go ahead and update. But I think I’ll try to update now.

Holdfire Network’s design has been up since June of 2007, and it’s become quite an eyesore to me. I’m sure I’m not the only person that visits her own website on a daily basis, as if she’s never seen it before. Kind of like when you rummage around the kitchen for food. You’ll look in the fridge, walk away, then open it back up again as if food has magically appeared since you closed it a few seconds ago.

Anyway, what has bothered me the most about the current design is that I have a lot of issues with the markup, and it’s just really messy. It also lacks a CMS. I’ve had a bunch of people ask what CMS I use for it, but I actually don’t. Just some includes, and .htaccess to rewrite the URLs. So along with a new design, I’ll be integrating it into a CMS. What that will be, I have no idea. I’m debating Wordpress since I’m already knowledgable of the system and how template works, but I don’t really need anything surpassing storing of pages, and a template system.

So far I’ve got the initial design down; I’ll I’m doing now is just proofing through copyright, reworking what might be outdated, and of course adding in new features. Okay, maybe not features perse, but more or less just updating the pricing for things, and other items.

Well, there you have it. You get a little sneak peak at what I’ve been working on, aside from another new project that I’ll be announcing here shortly. I’d supply you with a larger preview, but for now this is what you’ll have to deal with. Though if you’re that curious, I just might let you know ;)

For the past few weeks, I’ve had this constant urge to create something new. Not even something specific either. The urge has ranged from baking, to new website projects, and god knows what else. I haven’t really followed through with any of them, but I have managed to get a start on a couple of my ideas that I’ve come up with. The need to create something new has been overwhelming to the point where it’s frustrating to me. I don’t want to have another project to manage, because I have enough already, but I can’t help but want to create something new to either earn profit, or to be the best.

I’ve managed to find a bunch of new scripts that I want to test out. They’ve ranged from a host directory, gaming clan, to a Halo 3 screenshot directory. Some of them I doubt that I’ll ever get around to, but I’ve already put time and effort into the Halo 3 screenshot directory. I got tired of uploading all of mine into a Halo directory, so I went ahead and registered a new domain, and purchased some software to get the job done. Not sure if I really want to get it going to where other users join up as well.

Aside from putting together ideas for new projects, I’ve been trying to keep myself occupied with other work. Design work has been really slow, which is probably the reason why I’m looking for something else to do. Hopefully I can nab in some web design jobs soon, because I’m going to go crazy if I start up another project.

Other than that, I don’t know what I want to blog about here. I don’t want to write tutorials on A or Z; I don’t want to blog about someone else’s differences and shortcomings, but I don’t want to have an empty blog. I need to think up something to blog about because I hate having to bullshit my way to an entry on my own damn blog.

A few years ago when I had been dating Antoine, he introduced me to Dead Like Me (official). We ended up the entire first season, and when it was over he told me that it had been canceled after season two and wasn’t going to be on air ever again. I was really sad to hear about it, because I really loved the show.

Meet Georgia Lass (who prefers to be called George). She is a young Seattle college dropout who is unhappy with life. She is always at odds with her mom, Joy. One day coming back from her temp job as a filing clerk, she is hit by the toliet seat of the re-entering Space Station Mir. Finding out she is now dead, she is recruited to become a grim reaper. As in life, she is a pain in the butt in death. She does not like the details of her job, and is always at loggerheads with her boss Rube. Her fellow grim reapers don’t really take much of a liking to her either. She also learns grim reapers don’t even get a free ride in death, as they must hold down regular jobs along with their death duties.

I recently remember the show when I read that they were doing a straight-to-dvd movie of it, AND because it was a featured item on sale at Amazon where each season was 60% off. Of course, the only reason I even went to Amazon was because an old account of mine on Blingo had generated a prize for me to accept.

You see a few years ago, a friend of mine had posted about Blingo.com and said that you can earn prizes by using their search engine (though I think it’s powered by google anywhere, but nonetheless.) I’ve won a few times there, namely Fandago movie tickets, but I got an email today saying that my referral won, thus I was able to pick out a prize too. It was $5 to amazon, or a fandango movie ticket. Since I don’t really go to the movies that much anymore, I opted for the Amazon ticket.

So there you have it. I ended up getting $5 off of my order, and got both seasons of Dead Like Me for only $30 including shipping. Woot!