Major “behind the scenes” changes happening here. Assimilating my new laptop into the mix moves my old laptop into the web-cam computer position. This is cool, because having a laptop as a web-cam computer would allow me to chat with everyone anywhere in the room instead of just at my desk.
The XP desktop computer (That my friend recently gave me when he bought a new one) was going to be the new web-cam computer, but now will be used by my uncle in the living room.
All these incoming XP computers are replacing two old Windows ME machines that I’m going to bring to my shop to use as security cam computers.

Speaking about my shop, I have to move the entire thing to a new location because I need to downsize. Hey, things are so slow it just doesn’t make sense to have a big place any more. I still have big dreams and will continue to develop them, just in a smaller, less expensive place that’s closer to home.

I also want to ditch my Verizon cell phone plan. I’m paying almost 100 bucks a month for minutes that don’t roll over. I’d be better off buying a pay as you go phone. Maybe I’ll call them in the morning to wheel and deal. Anyone with info on getting out of a cell phone contract?

Some good news is I plugged my new power cord into my camcorder and it seems to be working. Hit me up on Yahoo this weekend for a web-cam show if you’re a member of my homepage: www.skaterkid9.com
-Chris:-)

Hi guys,
I just got back from another camping trip. It was so much fun, even more than last time because my friend and I were better prepared…
I brought my mountain bike this time (On a custom trailer I’m building) along with 8 or 9 cut-up pallets worth of firewood.
The ranger almost didn’t let us burn it because it was full of nails, but he said if I let him nail me with his wood he would let me burn my naily wood. …He’s a premature ejaculater so it didn’t take long. (LOL, just kidding)

While we were deep in the wild wild wilderness I got a call from my mailbox peeps. They said “Dude, you got a Dell!” which meant my new computer arrived!! I’m so happy.
Picked it up on the way home, It’s awesome. It has a 15.4 inch screen, a 2.0 GHz processor, 2 Gig of memory, and even a fire-wire port. This is the best computer I’ve ever owned and to think it’s a laptop too, unreal. Thank you Steve!!!

Of course the first thing I did was tear it apart by repartitioning, and reformating the huge 160 Gig hard drive. Hey, that’s what I do. If someone gave me a brand new Honda S2000 I’d take it for a long drive then roll it into the shop and make it my own by totally customizing it. Guess I have a little Tim Allen in me, arr, arr, arr.

-Chris

Y’all may have noticed my blogging has decreased quite a bit.
No I haven’t lost any interest in blogging, it’s just that life has been presenting me with issues of a higher priority…

Most of my thoughts have been with my friends Dad. He’s a good man who has been dealt some bad cards by medical personal who don’t seem to care.
He’s been complaining to his doctor for years about his back hurting and his shortness of breath. His doctor dismissed it as asthma (something he’s never had) and arthritis of the back.
After insisting his doctor run more tests he finally sent him out for an MRI. When it came back his doctor looked at it and basically said “See, nothing”. Some hours later the doctor calls to tell my friend that he finally read what the MRI team wrote on his Dad’s MRI…  He has stage 4 lung cancer! He somehow missed the football size tumor growing out of his left lung and into his spine. The tumor being the cause of his “Asthma” and his “Arthritis”.

I was pretty pissed off when I heard all this.
In my anger I urged them to sue this guy… “Doctor Douche Bag”   That’s when I was told about a Florida law that says only the spouse of the medical malpractice victim can sue. Well his wife’s already long gone, so I guess this careless doctor is in the clear to misdiagnose and mistreat at will.

Is this why they don’t want to legalise gay marriage? They want to be able to kill us off without fear of reprisal?

-Chris

Almost like clockwork my computer started acting funny again one month to the day after a complete rebuild.
It was doing all kinds of strange stuff…    Time to break out the CD stack again. <Sigh>

After the first crash I wanted better protection than my 5 year old anti-virus program was providing, so I bought the latest copy. This put much higher demands on my system, so much that I couldn’t re-install my movie editing software to update my homepage:   skaterkid9.com
In goes the new memory, then the rest of my software.

So when the trouble started to happen again I was beginning to think the new memory stick was defective. Tests proved it wasn’t, but having paid extra for the high quality memory, I was already writing the nasty-gram in my mind.
In the end I found out the second melt-down (And maybe even the first) was caused by some old software I was using that wasn’t 100% compatable with Windows XP.

Some more money shoveling, careful software choices, and a whole lot of time later and I’m back …again!

-Chris

I was chatting with a friend of mine the other night on Yahoo IM.
I was saying how Yahoo doesn’t seem to be as busy as it used to be only a year ago. That’s when he told me about the new buzz in meeting new and interesting guys…
GayWatch.com 

The name is a take-off on the hetero hit TV show Baywatch, only this place is just for us baby!

The first thing I noticed was how friendly everyone was. Also how many guys were already members!
Am I the last gay guy on the planet to hear about this website? I guess so, because in no time I had a hundred new chat friends!

The format is close to the mySpace theme, but it’s not the squeaky clean, sterile environment that brings on the boredom that mySpace does. That’s because the kiddies (under 18) are not allowed. Kinda like an 18+ gay nightclub open 24/7!

Check out my profile there by clicking here. After you see how cool it is sign up and say hi!

-Chris