Well I've been mostly hanging out at home, browsing digg and reddit. I started listening to a new podcast (well new to me), it's call The Drill Down. I think it's probably one of the best podcasts I have ever heard. Go check it out for yourself here.

So last night I went to the mall with my friend Ben, we had some fun. I went to fye to get the new Iced Earth album (which is awesome) and then I saw the collector's edition of The Good, Bad, and the Ugly. When I saw it, I just had to get it (if you haven't seen it, go, go out and buy it, it is a must own title) Anyways, this morning I decide to watch it. I open up the case and what I see is quite unsettling, there were two of the special features discs and no actual movie disc. After what had just happened, I was just in complete disarray, now I have to go and take it back, which is not something I like doing.

As you might have notice from last's post lyrics, I started listening to alot of Iced Earth. My friend Dan got me hooked on them, so I decided to download all their albums and buy the newest one. I must say that they are one of the best metal bands around (IMHO). I posted one of my favorite songs below.

In other news I am going back to Philly on the 7th, I'm hoping it will another fun adventure. Getting to see my friend's roommate, Aleshia, again is going to be great or at least I'm hoping it will be. That is it for now, sorry for the horrible structure in this post. I just want to make a quick entry. peace.

This week was a busy one for me, work, Thanksgiving, and my party. Work went as usual, I finally finished putting doctypes in all the pages of jackalope. Thanksgiving was quite strange for me this year since I didn't spend it with any of my family. Me and my Mother went to my sisters for Thanksgivind, which was not normal and on top of that I felt uneasy around all the drinking that went on. I'm not a fan of drinking, I don't mind when people do it, it's just that when there are many people dinking at once. I don't feel like I can converse with these sort of people, I just don't feel myself around these people. So I left and went to my friend's house for Thanksgiving which was quite fun. They had two turkeys and a turducken (turkey + duck + chicken), but none the less the normal meal for Thanksgiving.

My party went pretty well, not alot of people came, but a decent amount. We played Guitar Hero and Halo 3, then got some pizza for everyone. It was just a usual party. My friend got me back into playing World of Warcraft, which I was perfectly happy not playing it and then to get sucked back into it's soul stealing powers is quite a change.

Just recently I added Doctypes and validated all my pages since I was already doing it at work I figured why not do it on my site. I found out alot more about HTML that I never knew, like you can't have tables inside a form and still have the page be a valid one. I noticed that pages load faster and sometimes even made the page looks a little better. A word to everyone that is making a website or already has one, please validate your pages. It can save time in the long run and it makes your search rank high since google likes valid pages better then just some HTML thrown around. Don't forget to close tags, just the other day at work while in the process of validating jackalope, I saw some of the worst HTML ever. Tags weren't closed, little use of quotation marks and horrible formatting, then were even using XHTML markup in a HTML 4.01 Trans Doctype. Just do everything the correct way from the begining, it makes it easier for you to read and manage the code.

[The Bash.org quote of the week] (11/25 - 12/1/2007)

Wow it has been 15 days since my last post. So in those 15 days many things have happened, in my last post I said that I would be going back to UNH and I did. It was great going back up there, mostly hung out and ate a different places (Wings Your Way, Mmmm Mmmm Bitch). I brought DSwain back home, since he wasn't sure if he would come home for Thanksgiving because of marching band, but he'll be down for Thanksgiving.

I turned 19 on the 13th, I didn't do anything crazy, went out to dinner with my mother for steak and dessert. This Friday and Saturday I'm having a party with my friend Sara at her house, it's a combined birthday party since mine was on the 13th hers was the 15th. Some family, but mostly friends are coming, probably end up playing some games and eating a shit ton of food. I got her a nice gift, but I won't disclose any information on that since she reads this, but it's a good one. For my birthday I was going to get a Calgary Flames jersey, but then I remembered that I needed a new phone. So ditching the jersey idea, I got a BlackBerry 8830. Let me tell you, fuck the iPhone, my BB might not look as nice, but it sure can do a hell of alot more than an iPhone. It's got GPS, Bluetooth, you can use it as a modem via Bluetooth and 3rd party applications without the need to hack it. It only cost me $199 USD, even that's a great plus, a review of it will be coming soon.

A while back I said that I'll probably go into woodworking/millwork, but I'm still not sure on what I want to do for the rest of my life. It's really tough coming out of high school, most of you will go to college, I did, but I hated it. In reality there is no school that can prepare you for the real world. It might take some time to realize this, but you'll know when you finally do. It hit my hard when I first knew that it's not going to be easy in the real world. School can give you the knowledge to succeed out there, but it doesn't prepare you for all the troubles in life. In the end it's just something that well have to come face to face to and sometimes it's not going to be pretty.

[The Bash.org quote of the week] (11/18 - 11/24/2007)

I've been posting quite often, mostly when something good has happened or just whenever I have the time. Well the hour has come or shall I say week, I am leaving Wednesday for UNH again. I will be staying until friday night and will be bringing DSwain back home for the weekend. It will most likely be the second best weekend ever, alot of things to do in such a short time. As of now, not 100% sure of what we are doing for the entire weekend, but whatever it is, fun will be had by all. So that's my plan for the week(end).

I recently started to teach a friend the basics of HTML and surprisingly she likes it. I plan on teaching my knowledge of HTML and CSS to her as best as I can. Since I started, she wants to make her own website for others to enjoy. It's fun sharing knowledge to people who are willing to learn, but sometimes I'm not the greatest of speakers. You can view her first HTML page here, it's nothing crazy but it's a start. I was lazy when I first learned HTML, just never had the motivation until I started working at an ISP. After that I just started picking up HTML and CSS little by little, and some PHP, but I'm still struggling with it. This point in time I can't get enough of coding, well sometimes it's too much, but I get into a groove where I just start hammering out lines and lines of code. A good example of that groove is my current layout, took me about 3 hours to complete and was happy with the results.

I really don't have much advice for this entry, wish I could say something, but nothing comes to mind. I'll try to give some in my next entry, which should be tomorrow or this weekend sometime.

So I'm back from Philly, I had a great time. My friend's roommate was great, but I'll talk about that later. Well Philly was a really fun time, the drive wasn't too bad, but city driving isn't that great. Most of the time we hung out in the dorm room, played some games, and walked around the city. It was better than sitting on a couch all day and watching TV. We got back saturday night, then today we watched the football games a usual. The Colts vs Patriots game was probably the biggest one of the season so far, Pats won. To be honest I'm more of a Hockey guy, NFL doesn't excite me too much, but to each his own.

Ok on to my friend's roommate, Aleshia. I had a great time meeting her, at first it seem that we had almost identical personalities, which was great. We talked and played some games together, you know, the normal things people do to get associated with each other. For the most part I can't quite post about everything that happened between us, but it's truly something that you go tell your friends, just not always great to post about it on public sites (maybe at a later time). In the end we just thought that there was no real connection among us. I never lost anything during this time, I could only gain a friend, which is always a great thing.

Meeting new people, it's a great thing. Sometimes it can be tough to start a friendship, but once things get moving it's one great thing to gain. I've always found that jumping right in head first is the easiest. Although it starts off rough and finally smoothes out to a solid bond, this is what I did with Aleshia, just dove straight in and it was easier than I thought. You just have to put yourself out there and hope they do the same in return. Nothing bad can ever come of trying to befriend a person, you never lose anything, you can only gain a friend or you're right back were you started. There is no win-lose situation, for the most part it's always a win-win situation. Win No. 1: you make a new friend and Win No. 2: that's one person that you've met in your lifetime. As of now I don't think I can truly find a person that can love me or even deal with my type of personality, most women that I meet literally think I'm insane. I will never change for anyone in the world, if they don't like my true self then that's their decision, I am who I choose to be and in doing so, makes me happy. No one can ever tell you who and what to be, you do what ever makes you happy, even if it gives other people discomfort, just make yourself happy because at the end of the day it's still all about you.

[The Bash.org quote of the week] (11/4 - 11/10/2007)

Well here I am posting for the first time in November. Anyways I have a few plans this weekend, a little different then most. I might be going up to Philly tonight and coming back tomorrow night. It should be fun, I going up with a friend so he can see his girl friend at college and I get to meet her roommate. I can't wait to meet my friend's roommate, last time I went to meet someone, she never showed up. Not sure what I'll be expecting, but being surprised is always fun, good or bad. It's great to meet new people, for the most part it's a great thing, but at times it can be a scary, not really sure why. So after coming from Philly, sunday we'll be watching the games just as usual.

Speaking about people in general, say what you want to say, don't beat around the bush. If you have something to say, just say it, don't be so afraid. It was hard for me to start saying what was on my mind and telling people what I thought about different things. Trust me, when I finally learned to do this, it made quite a few things better in my life. If you do/don't want to do something, just say it, don't put it off until you finally muster up the courage to say it, by then it could be too late. If it's too late you're in a place other than what you wanted, which isn't a good thing. So times this is hard to do because you don't want to make the other person upset or angry, this was the case for me. It's just something that you have to overcome and when you finally do, it makes things easier for your life.