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I now officially live on Long Island, NY. First move since I was like, what, 13? Been here 4 days now but I still just feel like I'm visiting Heidi. Still have to go back to CT to get my Truck, and the motorcycles, and other misc stuff. I was a raging asshole on moving day, and I'm not really sure why. But I ended up having to do all the heavy lifting myself for the most part.. and after my lazy ass sat on butt all winter long, I will be sore for awhile.

The apartment is nice. The only beef I have with it, is one I knew would happen anyways, and that is that the wiring is prehistoric and all the regular outlets in the whole 2 bedroom apartment are on the same breaker. I will work around it. Theres definately plenty of space for us. The living room has pretty much all our stuff; couch, tv, bookshelf, 2 computer tables, mushroom chair, etc. Then theres our little bedroom that gets hot as a mofo, with bathroom. Then the room with our kitchen table and my workbench and toolbox in the corner. ;) Thats the biggest room in the house and will have a lot more freespace once I haul some of our leftover stuff to storage.

Hopefully this place will work out well for a couple years. More later.

Time: 1:24pm
Location: Man cave
Activity: Keeping mushroom chair warm

Hey, someone has to do it. Anyhow as you can see I got a little bored so I decided I would blog about absolutely nothing. Had a nice weekend. Came up thursday afternoon and decided I would leave tuesday. We spent saturday walking around lower Manhattan for a bit. That was fun and new for me. I spent the afternoon no doubt annoying Heidi talking about how I know where we are going because I played so much Grand Theft Auto 4... hah. But it was partly true. But in the real world theres about 6 streets for every street in the game, so on scale its not quite right. Did some more driving around and ended up checking out Heidi's old school in Bronxville. College kids walking around all over the place. They still weird me out ;) Met up with Heidi's friend for dinner at this Mexican place. I got to have "fried ice cream" for dessert. Crazy shit right? Pretty good though.

Spent yesterday mostly lounging around. Decided about 1 or so that I wanted to take a ride and check out LI a bit while Heidi studied. Had a nice course layed out in google maps, but decided I did not want to hook up the GPS, so that mostly went out the window. And I just made it as far as Glen Cove and got lost all around there for awhile. Pulled down to a beach parking area and guy named Keith riding a Harley sportster pulled up and we bs'd for 20 minutes or so. Harley was a divorce present to himself. He used to ride back in his 20s, 53 now and getting divorced decided it was time to take it up again. Seemed like a cool guy. Was a tad worried he was taking swigs from the bottle he had stowed in his fork bag, but.. hey, its really his own life hes playing with there. He at least was not the stereotypical harley rider, so we did not have the completely stereotypical motorcycle conversation in that respect. One thing I noticed on my ride immidiately when leaving the house, was as normal, horns galore. 7 people must've honked at someone about something before I reached rt 25 which is only a couple miles away. After i got out of Great Neck though, I didnt hear another horn until I got back. And physically Glen Cove has normal looking houses. Weirdest thing in Great Neck is that there are no cookie cutter homes. Every house is different and weird. Not alot of vinyl siding around here, windows in weird places, just exotic looking homes. And the cars.. wow. Noone out here drives a car that didnt cost at least 40k. Nobody. Glen Cove was a return to normality in that respect too. And to help enforce the stereo type, Great Neck is a predominately Jewish neighborhood.

So, while I dont think Glen Cove is actually much different in terms of wealth, in fact they might be wealthier in general.. I think people out there just own more land. Er back to the point. I was glad to see something that looked a bit more normal close by. If me and Heidi move in together it cant be too far away from the school. I plan to thoroughly investigate the surrounding neighborhoods. I know for fact LI at all, is not the place for people without big money, but Great Neck must've been one of the poorest choices of towns to move to. We of course didnt really know that at the time. I gotta really get on working on a good resume to start looking for jobs here. Heidi as usual seems sure I wont have trouble finding a job around here but, lets face it half of these people work in the city. Doing "important" sounding stuff. And I'm not Mexican so, from what I seen, I dont qualify for land scaping. ;) Requirements for landscaping are: Mexican, and once or twice a week to have to ride in the back of the truck to job sites. That was the funniest thing to me. You hear these jokes all the time, but where I come from, which is surely not poor.. anybody does landscaping. Mostly white folk. Half of my damn town probably runs a landscaping business. The rest are plumbers, electricians, carpenters.. hard working folks. Out here I can promise you that white people, do not do landscaping. I don't have much faith I will be able to find a regular ole Joe the plumber type job around here, nor would it produce the kind of money needed to survive out here. All I can hope is that living in such close proximity to NYC will open new doors for a more professional career, that pays something.

Well thats all I've got to say for now. I installed Gallery over the weekend. The link is in the menu now. Check it out, let me know if anything is broken. I'll give all users of the site an album so they can add their own pics. This connection has a little bandwidth, might as well use it.

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Oh, and we can't forget this guy.

I've been kind of depressed this past week, moping around, and getting myself into lots of computer projects to pass the time. I get up this morning and find out the hard drive in my PC, apparently has truly been slowly dying, and its finally kicked the bucket. So I'm a little extra bummed today. Until (if) I get the drive recovered I'm out some pictures, and some code, and who knows. My PC's are quite the archives of old stuff. I have a scheme to take the PCB off the identical (date code and all) drive from this PC and swap it with that one temporarily to recover my files and hopefully that will work. Undecided If I should replace the PSU, no idea if its the culprit or not, entire thing seems fine otherwise.

Sad part is, I had suspicions the drive was dying for awhile now, and didnt start backing up my stuff. Theres a word for people like that, but I'll let you figure it out.

It’s been a long time since the site has been up, or since I’ve posted much of anything on it anyways. A lot of things happened since then, so lets see if I can cover some of them. First of all, my sister and her fiance had a baby girl last October! Her name is Sophie and she’s the cutest baby ever. No really, I know everyone says that, but I’m serial, she more cuterer then the rest. Sad truth is I’ve only got to see her a couple times over the course of a year, hopefully I can change that next year. I’m hoping in the next month I will be able to visit. I have a big blue motorcycle to bring to them, that I’m only partially excited about doing. I will now have safety concerns for the new owners of big blue motorcycle. ;)

Secondly, I met a wonderful woman last November, and we’ve been dating since. Her name is Heidi, and anyone reading this already knows what her name is, so this is kind of redundant. They mostly probably know her as that girl who made me fall off the face of the earth, I’m sure. :) We have pretty much spent all of our time together since we met. She moved in for a few months in the spring, and moved out August for medical school (NYCOM), so we see each other on weekends now. I’ve done more hiking and biking in the last year than I could even remember. We even got her a motorcycle, signed her up for classes, and ended up going motorcycle camping this spring (something I’ve been DYING to do). It’s been a blast. The relationship makes me have second thoughts about my website’s name. The whole move has been a bit of an extra shock to me because I haven’t had a job in quite a few months, and now have an excessive amount of free time, hence website.

I could bitch about my financial situation now, but I’m really tired of doing it. Let’s just say my future is still up in the air as usual. For the time being I have no shortage of personal projects going on. I use to have an entire website dedicated to my automotive fiascos, I’m thinking its time to start at least a section for my computer geek adventures. I’ve been getting a lot into computer security, long distance wifi, and that sort of stuff lately. Security is one of those fields that will make you a little neurotic in a short time. Every time you come up with a new idea you immediately start thinking about the vulnerabilities it presents and it gets a little aggravating. I could see working in that field being an interesting career though. Due to my financial issues I no longer have a cell phone plan, or a house phone for that matter, so I’m looking into a Skype plan. Hopefully I will be able to call some of you again in the near future (but lets be honest when do *I* call).

Almost at 24k on the bike now. 20k is not bad for 2 years of ownership I’d say. It’s been trouble free too. So far I’ve changed out the chain and the tires (and once and awhile the oil). That’s it for now.