anyways.. i’ll make sure to take pictures of my progress and post them. since looking at packed boxes is oh so interesting for everyone.

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awesome show… and cyndi is amazingly cool. i just wish the photographer would have really paid more attention to the cropping of this picture… i’m gonna have to photoshop out all the extra “stuff” in the background. ugh!

anyways.. more pictures (and video clips) are over here

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-t

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check out my new “ride” *rawr*

• was recommended a real estate agent
• i saw a house i liked and viewed it a day before my birthday
• i turned 29
• i saw the house for the second time on my birthday
• i also put an offer on the house on that same day
• received a counter offer on the house the day after
• i responded with a counter offer that evening
• i woke up today to the message “they accepted the offer”
• also today found out that i have been pre-approved for a mortgage loan
• told my landlord and building manager that i’ll be moving
• woah. i bought a house
• scheduled home inspection
• dang.. i’ll have a house…
• … and a lawn
• have an appointment to talk to a home loan specialist
• co-workers proved how awesome they are by drawing on my dry erase board, a very funny “my new house” scene
• wait… did i just get a house?

i laughed *so* hard at that video. it’s long.. but FULL OF AWESOME! hah!

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so who want’s to hop on the “greenb.us’?

the first time i did this i got a little bit of a weird look from the lady behind the counter. today i got a weird look and a “i’m not sure if i can do that.” luckily she checked with a co-worker and she said “yea, of course!” … and another customer standing next to me said to me “good for you.” (and i didn’t even know how to respond actually, it took be by surprise)

this got me thinking… why is this so weird? i mean, it’s honestly not that hard to do. it just takes a little effort and some remembering. i also think that more places should offer “rewards” for reusing stuff. (technically they save money, and it provides another way for marketing) not that i wouldn’t do this stuff if there was no reward (heck, i do it all the time. my reward is that i feel better after not consuming more “stuff”)

anyways… i just finished my lunch, so i’m gonna go wash out this container again.

so here’s the question. what does the words “every moment” make you think of?

i need some input here! 

please leave a comment or a video comment reply below. THANKS!!

… As you may know, last Friday was the Day of Silence, a day that was created to make people aware that gay individuals have been silenced in our society.

Well, I had a full-time job a supplemental instructor in a local high school, tutoring individuals who needed support in their classes. One day, some students asked me if I am gay, and I informed them that I indeed am gay.

Now, my orientation was no choice of my own, but I am now thankful that for it. I am not ashamed of this.

However, the principal told me that I should not have told anyone because my orientation is no one’s business. Normally, that would be the case. However, in a society where my people are publicly persecuted and oppressed, my personal life immediately becomes relevant to the public. For example, how could Martin Luther King’s message have had the same power if he couldn’t let anyone know that he was black himself? How could Esther plead for her people if she could not tell her husband that she, too, was an Israelite?

Secondly, I wanted to show students by my example that gay people are cool and respectable, and not abnormal, depraved, or predatory, etc. Many of them had never met someone who was gay. I was in a unique place to destroy ignorance.

Unfortunately, the principal fired me because of the truth. My witness at that school was silenced.

Do not feel sorry for me, but pray for my students who wander lost without their mentor, and pray for the man who perjures himself every morning when he affirms his commitment, before God, to the idea of “justice for all.”

discrimination like this is never ok. it is this type of behavior that encourages the undeserved violence and hatred towards LGBT individuals in schools, workplaces and in society.

i say it again…

this
is
not
ok!

anyways.. have a good one

(and ps. i still have a couple seesmic invites if you want to leave video comments on my blog.. leave me a comment and i’ll send an email to the email you entered. k?)

secondly, i think i’m gonna try to do a ustream live webcast of the gig, but i may need to find someone to man the computer to make sure that people don’t stop the broadcast accidently. i’ll see what i can do.

hope to see you tonight!

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look what i won from chumby!

and i’ve already been on the phone with the tech support people… and guess what? they helped me. (i know this is a pretty strange concept.. especially in a world where companies like time warner cable get away with not providing any sort of customer service to the people who keep them in business…) the lady i spoke to was helpful.. and even walked through more help than i had asked for… just to make sure that i was completely satisfied. so i am now officially a happy at&t dsl customer, along with a current happy at&t wireless/iphone user.

i have used road runner/TWC for many years… and every year i would rather shove sharp objects in my eyes. the customer service for time warner cable has been worse than bad, the service has been slow and choppy, and i have been randomly disconnected, hung up on, and been treated like crap for no reason whatsoever. there was even a week of time where my internet was getting speeds of LESS THAN what i got when i had DIAL UP internet. not only that, but they have been over charging me for months, and they now owe me over $150, since they said they were going to “correct the mistake.” (mind you.. that was over six months ago…) i can’t believe that time warner cable is still in business when this is the kind of “service” they provide.

so i am happy to move over to at&t for their highest speed residential DSL option (which is still cheaper than what time warner cable was charging me for their crappy service). i’ve also talked to their tech support and they have always treated me with respect and taken care of any questions/problems i’ve had. last time i checked, this is how a real business takes care of their customers. (i guess time warner missed that memo…)

i’m officially logging off my computers here at home, and disconnecting my internet, and will await for my DSL to be turned on tomorrow.

alright. now i’m off to bed. g’night all!

so do you see how dumb that was? well if you are a web developer, you will see it immediately. first off.. there is no such thing as “an easy site to move over to a new host”… secondly.. when changing a domain name to point to the new server, the settings of that domain name are going to wait to the most inopportune time for the change to actually go through. in this case.. it was after i was already tired and sick of working on websites… at 5am.

i just spent the last two hours “tweaking” my webpage to work on the new server.. and import all my old files, designs, settings, etc… but now tracyapps.org should be officially up and running on my new server. three sites successfully moved… two more to go… *sigh*

anyways. now i am going to go to sleep. my next “bad idea to start this now” project will be to redesign everymoment.org… but i’ll wait until i have a whole lot of other things that i need to do to start that one. g’night!

and i’m moving this one first.. since it’s the first to expire. wish me (and all my websites) luck!