Lewies Blog

Usually, my money worries are because I’m in the red.  I’ve been in debt so deep with my checking account, that I’d be seven, or eight hundred dollars in the red each payday.  Now, I’m in the black.  I’ve lent out a lot of money, and I still have a nice cushion in the black.

It has me worried.  I’m hunting for where I may have gone wrong.  Was there a bill neglected?  I rarely read my mail.  I discovered a letter that my wife and her mother laid out for me that was dated back around February about my car insurance being canceled.  I thought this was the second time and that I’d been driving without insurance this whole time.  Last time it was just a day.  It turns out, that this was the same letter from last time, but warning me that my insurance was about to be canceled.

I’ve got a check from my car insurance agency too for the new policy number.  It says that I’ve overpaid my premium and refunded me $80.  I logged onto the website just to make sure.  I still had an account.

So for now, I’ll keep worrying until I find something. Eventually, maybe this cushion will build up enough that I can get new computers for my wife and I to play SecondLife a bit better.

So I’m getting a bit low on money this week and my wife asks if she can have some extra cash.  I told her to send 7,000 Lindens my way in SecondLife and I’ll give her a twenty.  I worked it out later in the day that the conversion rate would be at 6,441.

So any how, she got a friend of hers to give her some Lindens and handed them over to me after she discovered that I was seriouse.  So now my extra lindens are up for sale and she has a crisp US $20 bill in her hands.

So I’m trying out Ancestry.com and having a heck of a time finding info about me and my family. It’s like, you need to rethink the normal way that you search on the internet. Tons of names come back, and the thing is, my name is rare. Or so I thought. How many people have you met with the last name of “Moten”?

Anyhow, I’m looking through some personal records that I have at home and look at my birth certificate. Nothing new there. I begin to put it back in the safe box and notice some faint writing on the back. A closer look gives me some sought out information I have been curiouse about for years.

9 lbs. 4 ozs. 4:40 am.

Woohoo! Now I can figure out a closer target for when I’ll be a billion seconds old this year. I’ll only be off by +/- 59 seconds at the most.

Saturday, February 03, 2007 6:26:40 AM

My brother came over tonight and brought me a skill saw and some garden lights. It looks like I’ll be remodeling the back deck soon I guess. I don’t know where to start, so I started to build a mockup of my current deck in SL. After all, SL is pretty much a CAD program that a bunch of people play in. I’ll have to get some “real” measurements tomorrow.

Blogging … it has pretty much taken a back seat to SecondLife. I’m finding myself becomming more “social” in this game then I ever have been in real life. I’m starting to appear in other peoples shapshots and videos. In fact, I’m starting to apply those skills to real life. Now that’s really odd.

From what I have learned, the most powerful word in this game is “Hello”. Once that word is spoken, people tend to drop what they were doing and start talking with you. I had a group of people just hanging out at my shop after a few minutes. Most of the time, people show up, grab some money from the money tree out front, and leave. “Hello” got me a little party going. Later a few of us went to a museum court yard to see some photos submitted for “7 Days of SecondLife”. We then went inside and saw some really really great photography submissions from RealLife.

In Real Life, Hello isn’t as powerful for passers by. I say hello, and we both go about our way. At least I get a “Hello” back in some form or another. A nod of the head or a smile.

Yea, it’s that special date. June 6th, 2006, otherwise known as 666, the mark of the beast (or is it devil?). What if everyone has the number wrong? What if six hundred three score and six actually translated to 6002020206 or even 600202020.6?

Why doesn’t anyone panic every day when the time hits 6:06 in the morning and 6 seconds?

I think it is all the bible thumpers that are paniced though.

I now have a new nephew and now it is time for me to sleep.

Yep. It’s my birthday.

Do me a favor and get me some referral bonuses.

Free Sony PS3

Free Video iPod

Free XBox 360

Join SecondLife, and yea - it’s free too.

My wife and I had some really bad service the other night when we went to get some late night toasted subs at WaWa.  Last time, it was three in the morning.  This time it was only eleven at night.  We walked in and we saw our esteemed friend behind the deli counter again.

I wispered to my wife that we could drive on down to the next WaWa and order our subs there.  She decided to give the guy a chance.  After all, his fingernails were no longer purple, and he looked a bit more sober.

She watched as he put some swiss cheese on a sub, then took it off, then laid some mayonaise on thick, then put the cheese on.  He was looking at a screen back and forth to the sandwitch.  Still new I guess.  Another customer came up and asked if it was the roast beef that he ordered. “No, it’s the homestyle roastbeef” was the reply.  Sheesh.  On top of that, the customer complained that he ordered a larger sub.

My wife looked at me and then ran for the door.

On the way to the next WaWa, we passed checkers.  My wife loves checkers.  She went through my wallet and pulled out some singles.  I told her to look again, there is bound to be a twenty in there.  Sure enough, she found it.  We went home happy with nice meaty sandwiches, drinks, and awesome fries.

A little over a year ago, I participated in an acceptance test for an upcomming service called NewsworthyAudio. The service converts news stories to audio. During the test, there were stories read by people, and others read by computers. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between a person and a machine. They have software that has many “bits” of a real person speaking that strings those bits together to read out the story.

I bring this up because they sent me an email today regarding there service. They have 5 new free podcasts available in the iTunes library. They are also taking surveys in return for a free week of there service once they go live. If you are interested in what they are about, head on over to register and take the survey. After that, subscribe to the iTunes feed and listen.