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If you look around you will notice a layout change.

There is still some work to be done but this is the back bone of the layout. I downloaded some new music today, first off I got Thursday, Kill The House Lights. I wasn’t very inpressed with their last album but this one seems to be a lot better. It is pretty in your face and the vocals are still the best part of the band. Next I got a hold of Armor For Sleep, Smile for them. Now this one I have to admit caught me by suprise. I wasn’t very excited to listen to it but once I started the first track I couldn’t turn it off, this cd is a must have. Last but not least I was able to find, Oh, Sleeper, When I am God. Now I haden’t heard much from this band, I had read a tid bit about them on Absolute Punk but I haden’t really heard anything. So I went to their Myspace and I was blown away. They reminded me of a better Underoath.

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I got my hands on In Defense of the Genre by, Say Anything today. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I didn’t really like their earlier material but from the first track I was really hooked. Their vocals are very well put together, the instrumental side of it is just as good. I also got my hands on some older music that I had lost touch with. Boards of Canada has been one of my favorite instrumental electronic groups since I heard them. The Agony Scene has gone a bit down hill since their self titled album, but just for old times sake I got that as well. I forgot how much I used to love that band. I plan on making my music library even bigger tomorrow. It is Nevada day and I have to work all day, more money, but lame since everyone has it off.

While I am on this music rampage does anyone know of a good Metal / Metalcore blog site? I want to keep up more on new things coming out and such but I have no been able to find anything aside from AbsolutePunk.net But if anyone could give me a heads up on one that would be great.

In the upcoming weeks I plan on doing a bit of house cleaning on my flickr account. I saw Aaron do it just a little while ago and it makes me want to now.

I have been tinkering around with new layouts but I have not found anything that is worth putting up. I plan on making something soon though, I love the layout I have now but it is just a bit too plain. I also want to code a new Myspace but it almost seems like a waste of time since I will just tear it down in a month anyway.

I am starting to re-think my new tattoo. I’m not sure if the current idea I have would be good for a full arm piece. I am trying to think of something more personal and unique. Unfortunately I do not posses the artistic ability to create something myself.

It is 12:41 a.m. I have to work in less than 7 hours.
Bed time.

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What a weird series of events. First off I come into work this morning, before I had time to even clock in my boss Andrew pulls me into his office. “Great” I’m thinking, he asks me to shut the door and take a seat. “Even better” I’m thinkingt to myself, “Well, we had to let your friend Justin go this morning.” Relief hits me in an amazing wave, but I still had a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. “We need someone to fill his shifts for the next couple of weeks.” I nod and decide and tell him that I am open for everything that they have. So I took this entire week and I am working Nevada day for time and a half. Which means a lot of money for me on my next pay check. Another hit of suprise my pay check was 50 dollers more than I thought. I am still really poor right now. Aside from that he tells me that when my other boss Kim gets back from her honeymoon that the three of us will have a meeting and see where my future lies. This puts me between a rock and a hard place. I can either A. Stay here and keep working full time and decline the job at American Hosting. Or I can B. Decline the full time hours and take the job at American Hosting.

There are pros and cons to both. If I stay I have the security of hours and a steady income again, I don’t have to go through the headache of trying to find another job. If I decide to leave I have to go through training all over again, it is all the way out in sparks, and it is a job that would be alot more boring and slow. But if I took this new job it is a pay increase and they are offering full time. Some how more pay is not enough to want to make me want it, so I am going to stay right where I am.I like security.

I finally downloaded the new Thrice and I am in love with it.

I got the ball rolling with some academics. I enrolled in a math course online, it has been all too long, I was kicking myself yesterday trying to figure out the simplest of equations. I am going to take it in stride, I am going to take my time, I am not going to mess it up this time.

I will be playing some shows in the next month, Novemeber 3rd at the Warehouse in Carson City, Nevada we are playing a battle of the bands. Buy Tickets here. Be sure to select Beard The Lion when you do so. Also we will be playing a bit bigger of a show November 13th at Open Ground skatepark with Recon, Thick As Blood, xAFBx, and xBarcadiax. The show is being hosted by Rise Records. We are the opening act, and we are going to stand out the most. There are going to be a ton of kids, I am really excited. Decemeber 7th we have a show at the Underground in Roseville with Bears Doing Human Things, I am still waiting for the rest of the line up. Also in December we plan to head to Castle Ultimate to record our debut e.p. So the next few months are going to be stacked with fun and adventure.

In the next couple of weeks I plan on starting my new tattoo project on my left arm, I am excited. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive to get good work done.

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I need to make some money. I hate being so poor. Not a whole lot going on in the Dojo though just been playing a lot of Skate and Counter-Strike which is exciting in its own right. I am still waiting to hear back from American Hosting. They said I would hear something on Wednesday but have claimed that it was moved until Friday so I should know something then. In the mean time I am going to apply at apple with Aaron that should be interesting to say the least, LOL. I just want a stable fun jop, if those even exist anymore. Why can’t I get paid to play video games and eat fast food all day? I will be heading to Castle Ultimate sometime in December to record our debut e.p. Roctapus, I am very excited for this. I am also very nervous at the same time, I was told that I am going to have to learn a whole new technique to record into a studio microphone, which is a bummer but I will be happy to learn something new. I want to get my job situation figured out quick, that way I can figure out what I am going to do for school. I want to start next semester but I don’t think I am going to have time to get everything in order before hand. Sometimes I question if I have even half the brain that I should.

I have nearly completed writing new song lyrics and I think that they will be something worth note. I am working on a revamp for this site and soon I plan on buying a domain for it. I want to try and transform this blog into something special, but I have no ideas on what would generate readers. What do people want to read these days? Ideas? Let me know, I will be happy to post about them. Everything I can think of already is a successful blog and I would just be another one that nobody comes to.

<blockquote> Quick side note, I will be creating a lyrics page that I will try and update every time I write something new. Comments, criticism, all are appreciated.</blockquote>

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Blog Action Day, October 15, 2007

I ran across a website today, Smoking Urns and Ashtrays. The site went on to talk about their product which were ashtrays, and urns. For me being a smoker I regularly have to find some where to dispose of my cigarette butts. Which in most cases is not easy since in Nevada, where I live, smoking is forbidden in most social areas around town. I try to keep the number of butts I throw out down to a minimum, for example not throwing them out the window while driving and keeping an empty soda can or something close to it in my car. Also if there was not an ash tray outside my work I would stub it out, make sure it is fully out and find a trash can or hold onto it until I found somewhere to throw it away. If everyone did this we could massively cut down the amount of cigarette butts liter the streets and sidewalks. I would like to quit smoking to cut down on the strain smoking puts on the air around us.

“Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic litter on the beaches of the U.S. and world-wide. “Underwater Naturalist”” Due to the increase on indoor smoking bans the cigarette butts found outside buildings and other areas has massively increased. Aside from being unsightly they can excrete chemicals and toxins, that can be harmful to humans and other outdoor life. Originally cigarettes were non filtered, but due to the scare of cancer nearly 97% of all cigarettes are now filtered. Which, due to cause and effect has caused the increase plastic litter. When looking at a cigarette filter with the naked eye they appear to be just plain cotton but they are in fact, cellulose acetate, a plastic that is very slow to break down in the environment. Smokers discard billions of cigarette butts yearly, directly into the environment, in streets, and parking lots., where they can be transported by winds or storms thus being introduced into rivers, sewers, and lakes. “The 470 billion cigarettes smoked in the United States in 1998 translates to a total of 176,250,000 pounds of discarded butts in one year in the United States alone. The filters from 5.608 trillion cigarettes (approximate world production) would weigh more than 2.1 billion pounds (Table 1). This figure does not include the weight of the tobacco still attached to the filter, or the packaging, matches, disposable lighters, and other “collateral” waste that is generated by smoking.”

Reading and understanding all of this makes me want to quit, because I know that I am one contributing to this. If everyone decided to just stop smoking we would see a huge decrease in the amount of plastic waste that it produced.

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Well I have been offline on my laptop all day and just been working on some new pieces. I am trying to learn some new techniques and I am working on something for Beard The Lion. Life has been fulfilling lately, I have been really busy. I have been on the job hunt, I think I might have found something with a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. I am still waiting to hear back from them on it. I feel like I have been somewhat disconnected outside of my small group, which makes me feel great. Sometimes it is just the best feeling to be cut off. No cell phones, no internet, no nothing, just air. Someone stinks in this office.

I spent a lot of time this morning typing up a new router list for Nick, I stopped my night job by the way. I reset all my system icons, they all match and the are beautiful now. I worked on a few new wall papers to match some visual styles, and I orginized all of my music and files. I cleaned off a lot of stuff I don’t use or need. Basically just did fall cleaning on my laptop. I did the same on my desktop a couple of days ago.

I am excited for fall and the holidays. I think they are going to be great this year, I have my family and friends all close and I am going to enjoy it as much as possible. No more meetings on Christmas Eve, no more working the day after Christmas, no more spending the holidays on my own. My favorite holiday is right around the corner and I have to start getting into my Halloween mood. Horror films from now until November, Sweaters, Layers, Octoberfest Brews, Dark melodic music in my playlist, Coffee, Glasses, Heaters, Fires, Cigars, Cuddleing, Hot Chocolate, Candy, Counter-Strike, World Of Warcraft, Art, Books, Blogs, Life, Friends, Family. Out with the Summer in with the Autumn and Winter.

This blog went in like 3 different directions, like all of mine lately.

Technorati : Autumn, Blog., Fall, Halloween

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Have you ever turned around and noticed so much change? Speaking with people lately I have noticed how many fall outs have actually taken place. This makes me sad to think about, all the people I knew, all the people I don’t know any more. How much negative influence can happen as well as positive. I have been thinking a lot lately at how I have changed and grown as a person. Is it for the better? Or am I on a steady decline? There is nothing I would change about myself as of present, I have a great life. My friends are amazing, my girlfriend is the light of my life, I have a job, I have a roof over my head, and I enjoy life. But why do I still feel like a I have something missing? I feel there should be more to me, I feel that I need more knowledge and expierence. I can see myself making the wrong choices with my life and I am not sure where I am going to turn. Noone ever told me it would be this hard. How do you find yourself? Who are we really? Do all of the things we do actually have meaning? Or is it just motions that we do so we don’t slit eachothers throats? I am fast food.

I have been on the job hunt for the past couple of weeks and it has really been a pain in the ass. But as soon as I am ready to give up I get something out of the blue. This one wasn’t even hard, I ran accross it on Craig’s List, I sent and email, I recieved and email and within minutes I had an interview set up for the same week. I hope that it is legit and something that I am looking for. It almost sounds too good to be true. Good pay, cool job description, and eager to hire. I hope this doesn’t turn out like the Vector sales job. It was almost the same as this, but after looking around on Google for a bit I found law suites and false promises from the company. But this one has a good reputation locally and everything I have read on their site suggests that they are successful and a growing company. Also I was speaking with a friend and co worker or mine whom actually knew who the company was and what they do. He said that they were a former client of ours and they were a reputable web hosting company. So I am hoping that they just lost someone and need to fill the gap quick which is why they seem so eager. I will find out today. Cross your fingers.

Reading back at this entry it was really random and made no sense, sorry. I have had no sleep for the past 3 days.

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Garett Rodgers reports that Google prepares a new version of Gmail, according to a message from the translation console. It’s not clear what are the new features, but one thing that will change is the user interface. Read More.

This sounds cool, maybe I wont have to depend on GreaseMonkey as much.

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Monday morning and I am tired. Sitting at work right now trying to pass the time. I have been face deep in CSS all morning and I have been trying to get jobs together. I have an appointment at Alere Medical next week and I submitted my resume into an IT help desk position. I am not sure where my life is taking me right now. Noone told me that this was going to be so hard. I am really stressing myself out lately with my finances, my car not working, just everything seems to go wrong right at once. Aside from some of those negative events my social life has been on the up and up. My work life at Great Basin has been a disconnected feeling. I feel mostly apathy when I think of my job there. I feel no motivation, just disgust and discomfort when the thought comes to mind. I have been very on edge with my co-workers and managers and I really don’t care. Everyone is starting to stay clear of me overall which is fine with me, I have no care to talk with anyone there anymore.

This post was meaningless and melodramatic.

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Here.

Holy shit I am excited!!!

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Fuck cars. Seriously.

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Wow, actually being able to type on my laptop is very nice. Life has been moving very slowly lately, it is 10:36 p.m. right now and yet it feels like 3 a.m.  I have been so drained and apathetic lately. I hate it. Everything hasn’t felt real. I have been working at the new job for a little over a week now and as much as I like it, there are certain points that I hate. But I cannot complain the work isn’t bad for how much money I will be getting for it. I have just had to sacrifices somethings for it, but we do what we have to do to make it in this life. Bought a ton of movies today and I wish I was awake enough to watch them, but I’m sure I will catch up with them tomorrow when I go to the next job. Had a couple of people over this evening and just played Guitar Hero which I might add is the most addicting thing on the planet. It is seriously nicotine in a video game form. I haven’t been pirating nearly as much as usual, the last thing I actually downloaded was the new Parkway Drive, which is by far the best metalcore cd of 07. But I have a ton of shows, movies, and cd’s just sitting in my quene but I have not had the motivation to actually let them download. I feel like I am hardly on the net anymore. It is really loosing its appeal lately. I feel like I do the exact same things every time I log on.  Check email, check myspace mail, check my blog, check my other blogs that I try to keep up with daily, and thats it.

Anyway this post was pointless, I am going to try and get some sleep before work.

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Well, I thought I was doing well today. Until my body decided to take a crash, it’s 3:34 in the afternoon and I am at my second job right now. Last night was my first night at the new job with Aaron. Amazingly I really liked it, and to my amazement I had fun. My new schedule is as follows; Mon-Sun 2:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. (new job) and Mon 11:00-4:00 p.m. Tuesday 11:00-4:00 p.m. and Friday 11:00-4:00 p.m. So all in all it’s not going to be that bad. I am going to have a lot more money on my hands, as well as time during the days that I don’t work at Great Basin.

Aside from that the house has been great, I love living there. It is starting to feel like home. I would write something more elaborate and in depth but to tell you the truth I am way to exhausted to do so.

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I am typing this post on an Apple keyboard connected to my laptop right now, and for some reason that makes me really giddy, I know I am pathetic with my technology fascination. Anyhow, tomorrow starts the beginning of my new routine, lets hope it goes well. There are going to be a lot of posts in that time because I will be logging my progress everyday, or at least I will try to log everyday. We started the move in, into the new house. Aaron and I slammed all of the big furniture out in one day; I am really proud of our work actually. There are still a few miscellaneous things at my apartment but those will all be out of there in the coming weeks. I will also be getting a new toy in the coming weeks, and I am really excited for that as well! I will not disclose what it is, I will just give you a little hint, Mobility that is the only hint that will be given away at this time.

Aside from all of that, it has been my birthday week and I have had two really nice parties, and I got my first tattoo and I am in love with it. View that here. Thanks to my beautiful girlfriend for that. Everything else is going great, I love the new place, I love my roommates, lol. I love life right now, the only thing that sucks right now is that I blew my right ear drum, I cannot hear a thing out of my right ear. Also the new medication I am taking has made me incredibly queezy today. But I am out to finish today, go home, and have a BBQ and some fun!

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Day one was a failure, last night after packing I decided that I wanted to start going to the gym in the morning before work. After I got done with my nightly reading I set my alarm for 5:50 a.m. When my alarm went off this morning I had every intention of getting up and just going because I know I would have felt great afterwards, but I decided to roll back over and keep sleeping. Let’s hope that next week with the new house it will be a better effort.

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Found a fun little site where you can create a fake identity;

Have Fun

Here is mine,

Truman A. Potts
3619 Mercer Street
Knapp, WI 54749

Email Address: Truman.A.Potts@mailinator.com

Phone: 715-665-2662
Mother’s maiden name: Coffey
Birthday: June 28, 1947

MasterCard: 5476 0929 2427 3452
Expires: 2/2010

SSN: 388-16-5180

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Ok, this made me really laugh. I was on one of my normal Geek Blogs this morning and they were comparing Real Life Friends to Virtual Friends and how you keep a balance between the two. My answer was “I don’t have to keep a balance, some days are for my “real life” friends, and others are for when I just feel like being a hermit and hanging out with my “virtual friends.” But I never sacrifice time with my real friends for WOW, I am on the computer all day at work and hardly have time for my “real life” friends as it is.” What was funny was that there were some people on there that said the way they keep a balance is to get rid of all of their Real Life friends and just spend time with their family and Virtual Friends. wow, some people are sad.

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Very simple, minimal, the way I like em’

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Things will only look up, I promise.

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Ah, what a weekend. I had my birthday bash last night and it was a blast; thanks go out to my darling girlfriend and amazing best friend for putting it all together. Not a whole lot to update with, a lot is happening with the band, Jes is going into surgery but we will be maintaining our normal practice schedule and will still be trying out Bass players as they come about. I will be heading to Deathbot Studios to lay down the vocal tracks for our debut e.p. “Roctapus.” Look out for that within the upcoming months. Once that is out look out for a Myspace overhaul, Website, Webstore, Merch, you name it it will be released. Once Jes is back into it we will be kicking off the new year with a small tour over Christmas break.Aside from band updates, nothing really new going on with me personally. We will start moving this month, and plan to be moved out by September so that is exciting as well. I hope to be posting more and such once my new “Routine” will be in effect, and I will be posting lyrics, and other rabblings that I decide to write out.