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9/30/11 So I kind of just started getting busy with a lot of real life things and haven't had the trouble to mess with my website all that much. I reconnected with a great girl from my past and I am currently watching where that relationship will go. She was my first crush... Ever, and surprisingly after like a bajillion years, I still have feelings for her. Granted not as strong as they were back when I was a kid but they're still noticeable... And her feelings for me are too<3 I won't go into much detail because I don't want to embarrass myself or incase she ever reads this embarrass her. Maybe in the future I will post a picture of her or us together. In the mean time I could give a rather apt description... She has long brown hair and the most beautiful brown eyes (Sides' my own, muhahahaha) that you could stare into for hours and feel at one with yourself. She is kind of short but has the perfect body and one of the most bubbly personalities I've ever seem. But nothing even comes close to that smile that fills her face every time she is with me. I'd give up so much to just see that smile each and every day. But anyway if you do ever read this cutie pie relate to me "Hooga booga jabba wabba". Cause that will just be funny. Or will it? Dun, dun, dun. 9/19/11 It's been an extremely slow month for me, as have the past few. I've been really busy with a lot of different things, one of them being some console guides that you can see I have been working on. Most recently I completed a Borderlands game walkthrough which I uploaded to youtube. Here is the introduction video for it:
I've also just recently started buying some games for the PC to make game guides/gameplay videos on. We will see how that works out over time but I am not sure how dedicated to it I will be in the future. 9/15/11 I just completed my Banjo Kazooie guide for the X-box 360 Arcade game. Here is the first video of my Banjo Kazooie guide for the X-box 360. Here is the page which will show you all of the videos I have created for Banjo Kazooie.
9/11/11 I would go into a long speech about 911 and how it affected everyone but I feel as if this song does all of the summerizing that the event ever needs. Yellowcard Believe
Think about the love inside the strength of heart 9/9/11 I have just recently started to create some wikipedia pages for my work, first one is the world I created for my book, Drylor. I will be creating additional Wikipedia pages later for Drylor The First Artifact as well as a wikipedia page for myself linking to a few of my writing achievements as well as website. If you are interested in reading any of it; feel free to head on over to Wikipedia, following the links that I have created. Drylor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drylor Edit: Running into difficulty with making the Drylor Wikipedia page as the people who keep checking it after I post it are claiming that it is a "hoax" because they are too stupid or too lazy to google it. Also, apparently the ISBN as a reference isn't enough to confirm that it is a legitimate source. You know, since the library of congress is just a figment of our imagination. ""This article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a blatant and obvious hoax. This only applies to cases where the deception is so obvious as to constitute pure vandalism. See CSD G3." Lawl 9/8/11 - PSN/Sony Down again? Looks like Sony is down again... Could it be that the hacker is back? I've checked all of their websites but currently none of them are up and operational and I can't find a single bit of information about Sony being down again on google. I've tried searching everything, Sony down in septemeber, Sony down 9/8/11, Sony down again, nothing warrants any good information. Anyway, I'll keep things up to date incase anyone here cares. Found something: This hasn’t been the luckiest of years for Sony, having been the victims of cyber-crime on more than one occasion. Their website Sony Pictures was one of their sites that had a security breach and also, more surprisingly the hacking of their PlayStation Network occurred back in April. After being offline for the best part of two months they finally returned with apologies and promises that they would step up their security to ensure this would not happen again. Now we have news that Sony has announced their PSN will be going offline once more in Europe tomorrow at around 17:00 UK time until about 23:00 for maintenance. Of course during these six hours gamers who own a PSP or a PlayStation 3 will be unable to play online games or access the service. According to Eurogamer, there is a way round being offline; if you happen to be signed in before the allotted time of the shutdown, you should be able to remain online throughout. Sony has also promised this can happen without any disruption to your gaming. This exception only regards those who are gaming online however; access to services like management options, account registration, PS Home and the PS Store will not be accessible to anyone until the maintenance is complete. Though the reason for the maintenance is not specified, we can assume that it will be something to do with the security, most likely an upgrade as the company also recently announced the acquisition of Philip Reitinger, ex-US Department of Defense member, to aid them in the battle against cyber-crime. If you would like to know more details about the outage tomorrow, head on over to PlayStation.com by clicking the link, where you will find all the FAQs and answers. What do you think the reason for the outage could be? Source: http://www.jagcore.com/news/psn-down-september-2011-sony-fixing-uk-us-servers-again.htm
9/7/11 Hey everyone, I've got a short sweet update today. I wanted to let everyone know about an awesome talk show in the tri-state area called Preston and Steve. They are on 93.3 WMMR weekday mornings and they are just about the funniest thing you will ever hear on the radio. I absolutely love them and recommend that anyone who is looking for a good laugh go and listen to them as well! Here is a picture of their banner and when you click on the banner it will take you directly to their website where you can get more information and also listen to their podcasts. If you want more information on 93.3 (WMMR) you can find their website below. To access it just click on the picture I have for them and it will take you directly ot 93.3's website! Once again, you can check out Preston and Steve online either through podcasts or by listening to them live. 9/5/11 Just making a quick update today to say a few things. I've been working a ton on my new book which will be titled Drylor, The Second Artifact. I am currently on page 38 and working very hard to make it as awesome as humanly possible. There is not much more for me to say but for now I am going to post a preview of Drylor The Second Artifact. This is the entire first page of the book. Chapter 1 - Prologue A shadowy figure creeps across the dimly lit hall with a catlike stride, each movement in perfect succession with the next. Few candles flicker in the hallway, as the fire hisses and spits, trying to stay lit in the thick muggy air. At the end of the hall is a large oaken door almost completely covered in darkness, behind it, the prized belongings of one of the richest families visiting Actius for the annual Early Spring Festival. The cloaked thief zigs and zags down the hall, dodging the candle’s light with ease. Reaching the door, the thief places his head against it, listening intently for any sounds on the other side of the door. Hearing nothing he cautiously glances behind. The thief’s shill, standing at the opposite end of the hall, clears his throat, letting the thief know that the coast is clear. Stepping back from the door the thief removes two slender metallic objects from his pocket and inserts them into the lock. Tension is kept on the bottom one with his left hand as he jiggles the top with his right, carefully listening for the tumblers’ of the lock to be pushed up. A soft click can be heard as the first tumbler is pushed into place. The tension wrench ever so slightly moves counter clockwise as this happens. He fumbles around inside the lock hearing two more clicks within seconds of each other. The thief takes an erratic breath while wiping the sweat from his brow. “One more…” While searching for the final tumbler his shill coughs, something is awry. The sound of footsteps can be heard echoing up the staircase with the smell of pungent stale tobacco filling the air. The shill confronts the man before he can even reach the top of the stairs, “Good evening, I’m looking for my friend… He is about four foot’ five, medium build, short black hair, scruffy brown feet…” The thief releases the tension he has on the lock, pulling out his picks and drifting off into the shadows of the hallway. Back against the wall and entire body cloaked in darkness, he moves a hand over his chest hoping to muffle the sound of his ever quickening heart. “No, I am terribly sorry but I haven’t. However, you’re not allowed to be up here unless you have a room, do you have a room, sir?” “That I do not, I am just looking for my friend. I’ll leave, I think he ran down towards the cellar anyway, mind unlocking the door for me?” “Sure, I will need to grab my keys first though.” The shill rubs the side of his nose, a signal to the thief, as he follows the owner of the inn back down the stairs. Stepping out from the shadows he inserts both picks back into the lock. Slight tension on the bottom one, click, slight jiggle on the top, click, click “One… Last…” click the final tumbler is pushed up, allowing the tension wrench to spin counter clockwise around the lock. The door swings open as the...
For any of you who find a mistake, I know, this is the first draft. I still have to go back and revise it when I am finished. One other thing I would like to say is that the world you experienced in the first Drylor was just the tip of the Iceberg. This second book will explore many new places of the world as well as some ones you area already familiar with. You can expect Drylor The Second Artifact to feature even more of the world as well as Actius, home of the Halflings. Halflings are by far my favorite race of all time so you can expect their hometown to be magnificent! 9/4/11 A quick write up about the Kalu'ak dailies: There are three dailies available to players from the Kalu’ak, each of them found in different zones, as you will be seeing in this video. The very first daily that we will be doing is “The Way to His Heart”. The Way To His Heart is located at Kamagua in Howling Fjord and is an extremely easy daily quest that awards you with 500 reputation with the Kalu’ak. All you have to do for this daily is head a little bit south of the quest giver and feed the Reef Bulls some Tasty Reef Fish to force them into following you to a Reef Cow on the other side of the river. The Tasty Reef Fish can be gathered from the small pools of water just to the east of the cows. To gather the Tasty Reef Fish you will need to use Anuniaq’s Net while you’re standing in the pool of water. I recommend that you collect at least 7 or 8 of the fish they like if you are trying to get the bulls across without having to go back for more fish inbetween. The best way to do this daily is to get as far away from the Reef Cows as you can before throwing a fish. This will force them to travel the longest distance thus using the least amount of fish in the long run! The very next daily I will be talking about is Preparing For The Worst, which is located in Borean Tundra at Kaskala. This daily here is by far the easiest one to do out of all of them since all you have to do is collect 8 Kaskala Supplies from the ground around town. If you’re patient and you know exactly where to look then you can actually do this entire quest without fighting a single mob! The final daily quest available to players for raising their Kalu’ak faction is called Planning for the Future. For this quest all you have to do is collect 12 snowfall glade pups from the area just north of Moa’ki Harbor. The Snowfall Glade pups are pretty much harmless but they can be hurt by AoE which will kill them instantly. For obvious reasons this is bad since you need to collect them, not kill them. Well, that’s just about all there is to doing the Kalu’ak dailies! If you already did all of the normal quests for the Kalu’ak and maybe a single set of the dailies while leveling up you should only have to do all three of the dailies for about a week before hitting exalted. Good luck and happy hunting! 9/3/11 A short story I wrote from a long long while ago: “Tom, Tom, can you hear me?” A familiar voice broadcasts over the radio. “Umph, uggh” A young man in his early twenties moans as he struggles to sit up. He has dark black hair, most of it is combed back and spiked but two small pieces hang over his forehead covering all but the center. When he looks around he notices he is in an alleyway behind a trash bin which is blocking his sight of anything on the other side of it. There are cat walks up above him in the alley, connecting a few of the rooms together in the building above. As Tom gathers himself more he realizes that he is sitting in a giant puddle, which is getting fed its water from a giant drain from the building above. “Tom, come in, can you hear me? They’re quarantining the zone you’re in, you have to get out of there.” Tom shakes off the confusion and grabs the rifle to his left before forcing himself onto his feet. Once he gets his bearings he raises his hand up to his ear and presses down the button on the device in his ear to broadcast to his friend, “I read ya Mark, what happened to me?” “I’m not sure, we lost contact with you for close to thirty minutes. Are you ok?” Tom searches his whole body for any scrapes or bites but besides the giant wet spots and some dirt stains on his otherwise unblemished suit he is perfectly fine. “I’m clean. What the hell happened here?” Tom asks his friend. “There is no time to explain Tom, they’re cutting radio contact inside of the city. Listen to me, you have to get out of there. There is no time. The people, they’ve been infected with a neurotoxin, they’re no longer hum…” The radio goes silent as Tom’s friend is abruptly cut off. “Mark, Mark are you there? What is going on? Mark! … Shit. I guess I am on my own.” Tom tilts his neck to both sides, cracking it and loosening himself up a bit before letting out a long drawn out sigh. He ejects the clip from his rifle and checks how much ammo it has left in it before reinserting it and moving towards the first road he sees. Tom puts his back against the wall of the alleyway and looks out, checking both sides of the street thoroughly. Oddly, they are completely deserted. There are newspapers and soda cans blowing around in the wind but absolutely no sign of life. Tom steps out onto the sidewalk and begins walking, checking the windows of each building as he passes for a sign of life. At the end of the sidewalk the road splits into four, a road for each direction that goes on as far as the eye can see. Tom walks out into the middle of the intersection and climbs on top of an SUV, giving him a bird’s eye view of the area around him. As he checks each direction a chill runs down his spine. The streets in each direction are a complete mess. There are dozens of abandoned cars covering most of the road and even a lot of the sidewalks. Most of them with their doors wide open, meaning who ever owned them left in a hurry with no regard of their vehicle being stolen. “Where… is everyone?” Tom mutters to himself while hoping to see anything that might explain what happened here. Just before giving up hope Tom hears an ear piercing scream and watches as a young lady runs out onto the street from an alleyway to the east. Once in the middle of the street she glances down both sides of the street before running in the opposite direction of Tom. Tom throws his arms up into the air and calls out to grab her attention. “Hey! Come this way!” The lady turns her head after hearing Tom’s voice, causing her to trip on something left on the road. Tom runs across the SUV and jumps to an adjacent vehicle, running towards the women. Before making it far a small group of people wobble out of the alley the women came from. Their shirts are torn and they’re covered in dried blood. They turn down the street and start towards the women whom they are obviously after. The woman’s eyes light up with fear as she starts to crawl backwards, away from them. Tom jumps to the roof of a nearby car and fires a shot up into the air. “Get away from her!” He yells at the people wobbling towards the women. They all stop in their tracks and turn around to face Tom. Without hesitation they all extend their arms and start towards Tom. The woman gets on her feet and hides behind a car, only just barely keeping her head out to watch and see what Tom does. Tom brings his rifle up to his shoulder and looks down the scope, aiming it up perfectly with the abdomen of one of the men of the pack. He fires three shots, each of them forming a small tripod around the heart. The man stumbles backwards from the impact of each shot but is not taken down. Tom breaks his eye away from the scope and takes in a deep breath. “It’s happening…” He says before looking back down the scope. This time he aims for the head. Once he has his sights locked he holds his breath and squeezes the trigger. The shot echoes throughout the city and the bullet tears a hole through the man’s forehead causing blood to spray out the back and dropping the man immediately. Tom fires four more shots, taking each of the people down. With all of them dead Tom jumps down from the car he is on and makes his way over to the women he just saved. She is cowering down behind the car with her hands covering her face, weeping loudly and trembling in fear. “Are you ok?” Tom asks. She looks up at Tom and shakes her head side to side. Her eyes and cheeks are beat red from constantly wiping all the tears away from her face. Tom kneels down next to her and places his hand on her shoulder to give her some comfort. “They… They ate my son… And there was nothing I could do…” The woman says to Tom in between her frantic tear filled breaths. “It’s ok, you’re going to be fi…” Tom starts to say before noticing a large bite mark on the women’s arm. His face goes pale as he removes his hand from the women and steps backwards. She turns to look at him, with a confused look. “What, what’s wrong?” She asks. “You’ve been bit.” “I’m… I’m fine. I stopped the bleeding.” “No. You’re not.” Tom says to her before raising his gun and pointing it at her. “What… what are you doing?” She says frantically, starting to drag herself backwards away from Tom. “The disease is transferred through bodily fluid. You’ve been bit, which means you are infected.” “Please… I feel fine… Please, don’t hurt me.” “I am sorry. I was sent here to prevent this from happening, but by now the outbreak is everywhere. The city has been quarantined and the only way I am ever going to get out of here is if I stop the spread of the infection.” Tom takes a deep breath and looks down the scope of his gun, the women raises her hand and tilts her head as Tom closes his eyes and pulls the trigger. He lets out a fragile breath before opening his eyes and hesitantly looking at the corpse. She now lays motionless against the pavement, with a pool of blood quickly growing around her head. Tom steps backwards and puts his back against a car before slowly sliding down the vehicle to the ground. He stares at the woman’s body before bringing his hand up to the side of his head and pressing the button on his com. “If anyone can hear this, please respond.” A few seconds go by with no response. Tom sighs before looking up into the sky. He fixates on one cloud in the sky and watches it for a few seconds before bringing his eyes back down to the woman’s body. “It’s happening again…”
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