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Do I sound like a pirate? 

Soo… Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is amazing. It’s pretty flawless… and very entertaining. regardless of what critics say. Go see it. 

In other news. the teaser trailer for Transformers: The Movie was played before hand. and that movie is going to be huge. While I’m talking about movies. next summer is going to be a good movie summer: Transformers. The Simpsons Movie. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Shrek 3. Spider-Man 3… with possibiliies of Halo (which will be executive produced by Peter Jackson). Indiana Jones 4. and Iron Man (although it may be 2008). I’m going to go broke on good movies.

I’m going to bed… as I must awaken in 4 hours. 

Hello. It’s me. Remember? The owner of this pretty boring blog. Well. I’m back. Those of you who have been checking it frequently hoping for an update (all 2 of you) should know that I finally cleaned up all of the SPAM comments… and I updated Nucleus to 3.23 so it shouldn’t happen anymore. We’ll see. Unfortunately. some of your lovely comments may have been deleted. so that just means you have to leave more. Ok thanks.

Anyways. the major culprit for no updates is…. well. I work too much. And. with that.. I’m lazy. In addition. there hasn’t been anything to blog about besides… work? Yeah that’s boring. I wouldn’t even know where to start at this point since it’s been months. Let’s see… I set up a sound system in Union Square. NYC for VitaminWater’s VitaminSchool… and Kelly Clarkson was a judge… I did two DVD authors for BEL’s rotating plasma… I set up a sound system for Governor Ruth Ann Minner… I’ve done dozens of service calls. and probably driven 8.000 miles since my last update. How’s that?

Oh. happy summer.

Happy  4th of July too.

Perhaps I’ll blog more later. Very soon. I promise. 

Mary Poppins is right. that word really does make you feel better. 

It’s definitely 6:05 AM. and I am wide awake. I’m not sure why really. Let’s back up.

Friday. I had a service call at the DRBA Cape May Ferry Terminal. It’s a 90 minute drive each way depending on traffic. It’s all backroads there. so if there is traffic. it’s going to take longer. It’s usually local farmers or people that like to drive 5 miles under the speed limit. It’s annoying really. I got back home at around 6 PM. and I crashed. It was a long week. I think I pulled 4 all-nighters. I don’t mean sleeping less than 5 hours… I mean NOT sleeping.

So. my sleep schedule still isn’t back on track yet. Saturday. I woke up at 5 PM. I stayed up watching movies… and just didn’t sleep until about 10 AM. At about 7:30 AM this morning. I decided it was a good time to change my fuel filter on the Jeep… so I did. It was 34° outside! I slept until about 3 PM. then decided it was a good time to change the oil on the Jeep… so I did. 

I tried going to bed at 11 PM. but I woke up at 2:30 AM. and started programming some Crestron. I tried going back to sleep at 4 AM. and kind of laid there until 5 AM. and here I am. Whether I try to go back to sleep or not… I’m not sure if its worth it. It seems I’m doing more productive things when I should be sleeping these days…. like blogging!

Well. I suppose that is all for now. 

…go watch it…. Especially if you liked Vanilla Sky or Mulholland Drive… It’s good. Do it. Then thank me.

So I added the lovely mugshot that you see in the upper left. It’s sole purpose is to scare you away. We’ll see if it works. I think I’ve done enough work on the site for the next 2 years. That is my disclaimer.

I’ve rewritten my last update trick to a Nucleus plugin that is self-contained. You can read about it here. This post is also testing my code.

After some 6 hours of coding. debugging. and learning new things… I’m ready to present my latest trick. This one is 100% from scratch.

After I am done posting this entry. an image will automatically and dynamically be created on my site. This image is no ordinary image. It will be recreated each time I post a new entry. Why?

Well. I’m a rebel. and I don’t use the Blog that MySpace provides for free. So. instead of constantly editing my profile stating when I’ve updated. I can simply stick this image on there. and poof! You will see the date and time of my last update. Slick huh? I think so. I’m trying to come up with other uses for this nifty trick.

This involved the following:

• Learning how to use the image functions within PHP.
• Learning how to write a Nucleus plugin. I’ll be improving it and then sharing it with others!
• Creating a template image.
• Tons of debugging.
• About 6 hours.

Below is the image I am referring to:

Please keep in mind that this will always display as the latest update… if you’re reading this post late. Shame!

OK. it’s 5:10 AM. I’m going to bed. 

Well. hopefully… you’ve noticed that I’ve brightened up the color scheme a little bit. I think I like it. And. the sidebar recieved quite a bit of work. Most noticably is the Last.fm RSS feed. I’ve been trying to do that for a long time! But poof! There it is. It’ll show you the last 10 tracks I’ve listened to… If they’re recent. I might change which feed it uses.

There’s also a nifty Trillian Status indicator. It’ll show you which services I’m signed on to. Of course. if Trillian is running on one of my PCs. all of them should be signed on.

Other than that… I’m going to bed. 

Box of cables and CD cases from the other night… And…. oh it’s just junk.

This is the disaster my room is. As you can see. I have random books. magazines. and empty boxes from shipments still on the floor. My week of laundry waiting to be washed… and… There’s just a big pile of trash from stuff I’ve cleaned out.

So… The time is 3:53 AM. At 5:45 AM. I need to be at the DuPont Country Club to set up for a meeting. I won’t be staying. I will be driving back down to Camden. DE to help Polytech out. They’re having problems. If all goes well. that might mean I can come back home early. In any case. I need to leave here at about 5 AM. which is in an hour. I came home from work today (yesterday?) and slept since I had to get up at 6:00 AM. So. needless to say. right now. I am not tired at all. I tried sleeping. but I think waiting/trying to fall asleep is probably the most annoying thing I have to do every day. Sometimes. a ridiculously hard day of work (like Monday) is good… because I can come home and crash… It’s beautiful to lay down in bed. and fall asleep almost instantly. Then. you can wake up and say to yourself. "Yeah. I needed that."

And since Katie pointed out that I haven’t posted since the 10th. I figured I would: a) post. b) take a shower. c) make some coffee. d) maybe clean up my room a little. I haven’t started on that last one yet.

I’m kind of in the mood for some kind of breakfast food. Hey. that rhymes! Maybe I’ll drive thru McDonalds for a little treat. Mmm. I just had a slight college flashback of making 3 AM McDonalds runs for McGriddles. Sometimes. we’d be up at 3 AM doing stuff. Other times. we’d stay up just for that.

I bought The Sword In The Stone on DVD the other day. I probably hadn’t watched it in 16 years or so. I didn’t realize that Merlin always saw into the future and made references to electricity. plumbing. airplanes. movies. and television. I guess I didn’t have a concept of the time period the movie was supposed to take place! I also love Archimedes. Everytime he says. "Whoo? What what!?" I crack up.

I also just remembered that I have about 3 or 4 new CDs ripped onto my computer but haven’t sync’d them to my iPod yet. Quite frankly. I don’t feel like doing it now either.

Now. I’ll go see if my coffee is done. Have a great day everyone (all 5 of you that probably read this)!