A Blog About Life… Isn't That Unusual?

Well. Since I haven’t really been posting on my own blog for some time now. I figure I should tell you what i’ve been up to…

Really, I’ve been busy with family and work. Around July we went to Iowa for the Eliason side of my family. We shot some fireworks and talked for a while, and spent the night. Then the following day we drove straight up to Minnasota for the Flemmer side of the family. We stayed there for a few days and blew a bunch of crap up! It was great.

After the 4th of July was over, my dad had to have surgery on his neck because he had a node on his thyroid. They did a half thyroidectomy and flash freezed it, and tested it for carcinoma… The test came back positive, and the next day we went BACK to Sioux Falls to remove the other half of his thyroid. He’s still healing and still has one hell of a wound.

After the surgery and all this. My daughter was born: Alexa Jean Cross. Born on July 19th at 12:24pm.
Alexa is my life. I love her so much. She’s beautiful. She’s smart. She’s alert. She’s my little girl! I’m so proud to be a father, but I’m also nervous. It’s something that I will have to get used to. I just want what’s best for her.

Though all of this time that I haven’t been posting I’ve been working on other websites of mine. These include this family website, and my own personal buisness’ website. I plan to earn a little extra cash y fixing computers around town.
I’ve also been working on my mother of a computer. I got a new hard drive disk, two new 19″ flash screen LCD monitors, fixed the 120mm fan in the back, got more and faster RAM, upgraded my badly needed graphics card, for my birthday i’m getting a new power supply, and with that I will be able to install my new processor.

My new system specs:

Case – Sunbeam Transformer (ATX Full Size)
Power Supply – Antec EA650 650W
Motherboard – GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S (Flash version 9)
Hard Drive Disks – Western Digital 250GB + Hitachi 1TB (1TB holds my Operating System)
CPU – AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma (2.8GHz Dual Core)
RAM – 3GB (1GB x 3) aData DDR2 800MHz
Video Card –  XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850

Yesterday was my birthday, I didn’t really do anything for it. My dad bought me the power supply and we ate a lunch with my family… On Saturday we plan on celebrating my 17th birthday…

This really sums up what I’ve been doing lately… I’ll try to post more later. Thanks.

~ Nick

Hahaha. I see you’ve noticed the new template… I swear these things keep getting darker and dark, more evil and more evil. I love it. Anyway, I enjoy this layout because it’s actually really organized, I didn’t think it would be, but that’s amazing!

I’ll add the digsby widget this evening, when I’m not so worked up.

Another thing I want to talk about in this post is that I have a twitter account now. The URL for that is: http://twitter.com/DSMexiCo (hard to guess, right?)
So far I havent really liked twitter at all, so I might just delete the account if I dont use it. Still, I’m going to say it: Follow me on twitter.

So here I am again, looking at how much music I have. I’m amazed. Seriously, only about 7 years of collecting music and I have 39.2GB worth of music. Here are some statistics I’ve done.

• 7,799 Files (AUDIO FILES ONLY)
• 529:23:24 (Thats 529 Hours, 23 minutes, and 24 seconds)
• 345 Bands (A little more, due to a misc folder.)
• 1,179 folders in my music folder.

And heres the math behind it:

529 / 24 = 22.0416 repeating… This means 22.0416 days of music.

22 / 7 = 3.1488095238 weeks of music.

Now seriously. This is a lot. Right? A sixteen year old should not have this much music! xD
If I just played my entire library of music without repeat on, it would play straight for 3 freaking WEEKS. That’s over half a month.  Nonstop. That is a lot of music. I love music, it really is my life.

This is my newegg review on my newest camera. The Canon PowerShot SX10 IS. I can expand more on this, and give a complete review if anyone wishes me to. Just comment, and I’ll write the rest up, and notify you when the full review is posted.

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I’ve added multiple spam-blocking addons to my blog:

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   1. Akismet is now enabled.
   2. Simple Math Comment Spam plugin
   3. Simple Trace-Back Validation.

These three methods of spam-prevention are working incredibly well. Not one bit has gone though since I’ve enabled them. The downside is that now for users to comment, they must answer a simple math question (add [number 1-10] to [number 1-10]). This should not be hard for anyone. Sorry for having to do this, but the spam increased my MySQL quota. Almost by five times.

That concert I was talking about in my previous post. I AM GOING! I have the tickets and everything. I’ve even invited Lane (his website is linked on my blog) to come with me. Tickets were $52.77 each! HOLY CRAP! But it’s damn worth it. Today has been going to slow :(

Tomorrow will be worse.

I don’t go to school on Thursday because it’s a 5 hour drive to get to the town. And the show starts at 6:30. There’s a meet&greet that we are also going to that is at 4:30 – 6:15. I’m so EXCITED!!!

~An extremely hyped up MexiCo!!

Right now I’m sitting in saturday school. So I just got really bord and decided I’ll make a blog post.

Let’s see. I told you I bought an xbox 360… That came with two controlers, the headset, 3 games… I havent told you that I bought Halo 3! I DID! But I had to send it back… The disc could not be read on my xbox.  So I called Microsoft’s xbox suport, and talked to them for nearly 20 minutes. We figured out that it’s not my xbox, but I need to retunr the game and get a new one… Damnit. I bought this on the internet, I dont want to have to return it, and pay shipping and handling! >:[

So I returned it anyway. $8 to send a .25lb package. ugh, that’s epic bull. Now I just have to wait for my RMA to get processed and returned, then hopefully I can actually play the game!

On other news… I MIGHT GO TO ANOTHER AWESOME CONCERT! As some of you may know I love Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, and Children Of Bodom, right? We’ll.  They’re coming about 5 hours away from me, and I’ve talked to my dad, and he’s said we can talk about it, my friend (Lane) and I would pay our own tickets to go, which happens to split about $120! I really want to go, I hope I can. It’s on the 30th of this month.

Bands Preforming: Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, Children Of Bodom, God Forbid, and Municiple Waste. All in one night, SWEEEEEET!

I’ve fixed all my blogs. There should be no more spam coming though. Sorry for that delay. I’ve removed the settings, anyone can now comment again. Everything has been restored to it’s origional options. Thanks for waiting.

Believe it or not. I have a spam problem on my blog now. I’ve just got done deleting 277 comments that were 100% spam. I need to make a change to the blog to automaticly delete these spam messages.

All the comments over doubled my MySQL Database. Therefore it’s a gian problem that I will settle soon. For now, you must be registered to comment, sorry for the inconvienence.