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Added a few site designs to the design section.
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A ridiculous amount of work was completed today. Jason was recreating the Hurricane logo using vector while I was putting some finishing touches on the Hurricane Internet Site. Now all I have to do is replace the logo on it with the one Jason recreated. I added and modified a bunch of parts and prices into the Hurricane Computer Parts Site, which was a long and boring task. Completely done with the Kick Start Hosting site. I made two newspaper ads and sent them to the chick that handles that stuff at the Orlando Sentinel. I put some more RAM and a GeForce 4 in my comp; next week I'm getting a bigger+faster hard drive. CPU and mobo will come later. The P3 733 will do for now. Got the logo done for the Perfect Zero site but I forgot to send it and I have to wait until Monday to do that. Worked a little on some credit card processing site but I can't remember the URL. Went home and played some Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance until Brandon (AKA PieGoD) showed up around 9:30 to hang out for a while. He left and I went to bed because I didn't have much else to do.
Also, Rob takes it up the ass.
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After this week or maybe next week I won't have anymore projects to work on besides the PerfectZero Site so you can expect a revamp of this site pretty soon. I don't like it and I've never really liked it, even though it was exactly what I was going for (intentionally dull and bland). It's actually modeled after the first CDeath site, which I'm sure nobody remembers. Just picture this table as dark blue and the bg as black and a cheesey banner at the top along with some ad banners and you have the first CDeath site. I'll try to put up some tutorials (MY tutorials) on graphics and other things. I'll probably put up a tut on how I knock out a simple layout like this one in an hour.
Jason is working with me now. I asked Craig if he would hire him and he agreed, so I told Jason that he would and that he should quit his job. So, he quit at the end of the day and showed up immediately afterward to meet Craig. He went from doing hard Mexican work at a nursery to doing what he does at home in an office. Sweet deal.
Today I just worked on the content for the Kickstart Hosting site and the Hurricane Internet site. Then I worked on the PerfectZero Site a little. This graphic designer that Craig knows came in and told me my work sucks...not sure if he was being sarcastic or not. I blow his played-out shit away, though. Then we started playing Counter-Strike and Jason kicked all our asses as usual. Then he kicked Craig and Rob in the ass in Unreal Tournament 2003 while I worked on some more projects since I can't play UT until the UPS man brings my GeForce 4 Ti 4600. 6 rolled around and I went home and did a bunch of nothing until I went to sleep.
In other news, my dad and my stepmom had some big fight or something, and apparently the cops are looking for my dad. My stepmom says he hit her, my dad says he didn't. I believe my dad because, even though he's a pretty big and violent person, and a fucking asshole, he'd never hit her. He did once before but it was an impulsive reaction to her throwing some water on him. She has a history of putting marks on herself to make it look like he did. From what I understand, she stole some money from him and tried to leave with it. He took it from her and gave her half of it, then told her to leave. She tried to get the rest from him and they somehow ended up in bathroom and she slipped and fell in the bathtub. When my dad tried to help her out, she started scratching him and hitting him in the face. That's when she says he hit her (except she left out the details about her hitting him until later). Seems possible, but getting hit in the face wouldn't make my dad flinch unless it was someone built like me. I've seen her hit him before and he didn't do anything. He didn't even try to block it, so I know she's lying. She doesn't even have a mark on her, and if my dad would have hit her she'd have something broken. I don't know what's going to happen now, but I don't really care. I'll just try to steer cleer of all of that.
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Yep, I'm finally updating again. Well, updating the news, anyway.
The way I was feeling about certain things was starting to scare me. I wasn't suicidal, but if I was in the middle of the road and saw a truck coming at me, I wouldn't make any special effort to get out of its way. But, I'm over that now.
I guess Jason has pretty much moved in. He's getting a lot of shit at home from his grandparents so he hangs out over here pretty much all the time. I can relate so I've got no problem with it. He even sleeps here. My dad finally stopped bothering me, which is fucking fantastic. I feel like a different person now that he's leaving me alone.
And, the best change of all: I got a job. A good job, too. Well, compared to what I'm used to. I am now working for my web host - Hurricane Computers in Mt. Dora. Got it without my dad's so-called "help." I was wearing an old, blue t-shirt with holes, faded and torn shorts, and the sandals I wore when I was painting pool decks, tired and weak from not eating or getting much sleep. I came in to spend my last $15 to pay for my web hosting because, well, I wasn't thinking right. Out of the blue, Craig, the owner, asked me if I wanted a job doing graphics, since he had seen my work. I'm getting $7/hr for pretty much doing the stuff I'd be doing at home anyway, so it doesn't really feel like work to me. We even play CS here. He gives me artistic freedom on everything I do, which is the best thing ever.
The first thing I did was redesign our main hosting site, kickstarthosting.com. After that, I worked on the back end of our shopping cart, which was pretty painless. In the mean time I'm downloading shit and chatting on AIM. After the hour lunch break we got back and Craig wanted me to start up a CStrike LAN game. I kicked their asses (Craig and Rob) severely. You'd think two Unreal Tournament vets would be able to beat a cstrike newb like me (they also play unreal tournament at the office). After that I worked on the ksh page until it was time to leave, all the while listening to mp3s and chatting on aim and icq. Hell yeah.
Is anyone even coming to this site anymore?
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