Relaxing at home
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Been chilling at home these last couple of days, it's really nice. I've been playing some ps2 and actually been giving some nintendo ds gaming a go. It's pretty good, beating Zelda A Link To the Past is pretty fun, I just want homebrew on that thing, it would be pretty sweet.
It's pretty quiet with everyone away or doing their own thing, I've only got 3 days left here so I took the opertunity to go downtown and look around and etc. Tomorrow we'll see what I'll do prolly nothing as usual, lol.
Anyways more 2morrow on what I'm up 2, lates
-Steve
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Promoting Safe Gun Storage
Monday, August 14, 2006
Hey guys, I don't know many of you who have guns or rifles but to those that I have to recommended that you guys get a good gun safe. Most have their guns and ammo in different locations, but what happens if someone finds both? Or if someone breaks into your house and you have to run to find your ammo is in the basement? With a good gun safe located in a easily accesible place in your house you can keep your guns secure while maintaining them close by for those sticky situations. There's some interesting stats that show that 30% of crimes with guns are guns that people have legally purchased and that are stolen from people's homes, cars, etc. So if you're crazy enough to have a gun in your house you definetly need to look at some gun safes to keep them locked down and ready to use.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about should look at these,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 6:01 PM 2 comments
I'm home
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Man I've been busy at home, just keeping you guys updated on what's going on. Partied with Costa, went to movies with my dad, chilling with Chris. Still haven't fixed my home internet but working on the phone line.
Anyways more 2morrow once I call Bell and bitch them out, they should have operators 24/7 like Tmobile does in the States, it's awesome.
-Steve
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Review on Rentalo.com
Thursday, August 10, 2006
With all my traveling and research and etc I've actually been taking a look at a couple of travel time sites and the best one I've seen so far is rentalo.com. They actually have a canadian section and that's pretty good for us travellers from up north. They have google maps integration which shows you locations of places on the maps and can show you many little inns and smaller hotels that you'd never find anywhere else. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to travel in the new future to look into, I like the new layout too. Go on to Rentalo.com for your vacation rentals.
-Steven
Posted bySteve at 11:03 AM 0 comments
Rideshares
Since I'm going home today and since I'm pretty dam bored today at the library I was thinking about rideshares on craigslist. Anyone do any of these? I know Carter had one down on a weekend but I've never had anyone I know do a rideshare on Craigslist apart from Carter's friend Phil. Scary experience? Cheap experience? What you guys think? The difference between most rideshares on CL and fare on the Greyhound ain't that much so I haven't taken any even though I've wanted to try but anyone else around it try it?
Post your thoughts, lol, or just aim/msn me since u ppl are too lazy to comment.
Posted bySteve at 10:55 AM 0 comments
Decent cooking and baking site
Hey I was looking around for some receipes at the library since I'll have time to cook and clean and all that once I got home and I found the site Baking Nation. It's a pretty good Cooking and Baking site and I was impressed by the number of things once you get out of the homepage that there was. It's got a Cooking Forum and articles on receipes and etc. I actually like it, it's not that bad. Anyways if you feel the need to participate in a Baking and Cooking community I think Baking Nation is the place to go.
Cooking Recipies and Baking Community
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 10:40 AM 0 comments
Going home!
Yep I'm going home 2morrow, it's official, taking the good old Greyhound. Leaving NYC Port Authority at 11:30am and arriving in Montreal Station Centrale (Berri UQAM) at 7:15pm, a nice 7 and 45 min trip. Trying to take care of everything before that is a mess, gotta clear my bill, buy my ticket, get my student advantage card, maybe get the V300 from G, ugh what a mess.
Oh yea gotta update my running log, if anyone wants to see it I can post up csv files of my mileage and workouts and etc. Let me know. Alright enough for now
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 10:21 AM 0 comments
Keeping your car cool during the summer.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
I've come across another decent product that doesn't seem to break the budget and manages to keep your car cool at the same time. It's a fan that pushes out hot air of your car while it's sitting in the parking lot or while you're waiting for someone at the airport. Seems like a nifty invention, seems to keep your car 30 degrees F cooler and it's solar powered, not too bad if you ask me. Anyways you can check it out here, Auto Cool Solar Car Fan. Not too shabby for you car owners
-Steven
Posted bySteve at 1:30 PM 0 comments
Moving
I HATE MOVING LIKE 3X A YEAR. Everytime I have to leave school, go back to school, go to someone's house, ugh, such a dam pain. I gotta move stuff temporarily to my friend's room, that's going to be a bitch, then I gotta start packing and cleaning up to go home 2morrow. BLEH I HATE THIS CRAP!!!
Ok enough ranting, I think I'm really losing my mind at the library, hopefully I can get a job at the fitness center, lol.
Posted bySteve at 1:27 PM 0 comments
Products to save electricity and beautify the yard
With today's need to make everything pretty around their house and all there comes a cost environmentally. Using expensive mock up lights require lots of electricity, when things such as solar powered lights or glow in the dark or other forms of lighting like LED lights could be used. A new thing that could be used is solar lights, a new invention that uses the power from the suns stored to light up things. Sounds interesting, since it wouldn't depends on power, would be more weather resistant, etc. I'm all for it, even tho I don't have a garden, seems like a good thing to know about. There's also many other things that could be used to beautify your yard too. Take a look here, Solar Lights.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:03 PM 0 comments
Just ranting on
I hate mornings. Couldn't wake up this morning since I was tired from practice and etc so I got into work 15 mins just to get bitched at by this loser librarian who's like 40 yrs old and has no future. Forget her. Anyways I'm just thinking how even if you have a month or so left in summer people always think it's over. I don't start my grad classes till the 7th of september, but it seems like its tomorrow, bleh!!
Going home for a week on Friday, pretty excited, also got Costa's birthday on Saturday and it seems like i'll have some good fun while I'm home. Apart from that life is ok, always the random stresses of juggling too many things, work, friends, training, girlfriend where it seems I always drop the ball on something but I'm managing. This semester might be the first one in a while where I get sleep, since I won't be stuck in the Training Room with every free hour I have during the day and since I only have class Mon-Wed nights that leaves decent time to do things during the day.
Anyways off to another payperpost editorial, I actually looked at the boxing gloves, not too expensive if you ask me :p
Posted bySteve at 12:42 PM 0 comments
Pink Boxing Gloves, wtf?
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Why the hell would anyone ever buy pink boxing gloves? I was going across the offers on payperpost.com and one is for this boxing supply company. Fair enough I looked at it. It mentions writing about mentionning boxing gloves in a logical context and including something along the lines of Pink boxing gloves. "pink" and boxing gloves are usually not associated together. Unless you're a fairy boxer or something why the hell would any real boxers get any pink gloves. Black, red, blue, sure but pink, bleh. Anyways, anyone who's interested in Boxing gloves should check out this site, http://www.boxingdepot.com/boxinggloves.html , as it'll benefit a number of people, including me. :)
More later on life. But for now, boxing gloves are what you need, lol.
Posted bySteve at 11:54 AM 2 comments
Life is crazy
Is being busy a good thing or a bad thing? I wonder. I got lots to write about however I need to go to lunch soon and want to get this post here before I go so I space my payperpost stuff with my real life stuff. I took up this offer on boxing gloves, lol, time to look up some gloves.
More later
Posted bySteve at 11:51 AM 0 comments
Tell The World About PayPerPost!
Hey,
I actually got 5$ on paypal for using these guys. I wrote a post about searching (July 10th) and got 5$ like 3 weeks later from payperpost. Not too bad if you ask me. I used it to buy something on ebay. Maybe if I save up I can grab those in-ear headphones that i wanted. This post is an ad for them but honestly its not that bad as they'll pay you to write on stuff, as long as you have an opinion on the product, good or bad, you can just ramble on in long sentences like me and get paid for it. I'd try it, what's to lose? 5 mins and 100 words ain't that bad. Click on the image below if you want to get there.
On a personal note, I wonder how long this will last, might as well cash in while I can, unlike alladvantage.com, lol
http://www.payperpost.com
Posted bySteve at 11:40 AM 0 comments
Random posting
Since I'm trying to post a couple of times a day because payperpost wants you to seperate your posts before you get paid I'm going to just write a short msg telling you guys that I'm going to write a longer one after the next posting. (Fragmented/long sentence apology)
I don't like the new rules but since they're pretty nice and have lax policies why not, hey, can't go wrong for making money while I'm doing nothing at the library anyways, right?
Posted bySteve at 11:37 AM 34 comments
Searching - Payperpost editorial
Saturday, July 01, 2006
I'm trying out this thing where they pay me 5$ to do a blog post on searching. I wonder if they think I'm violating the terms by posting this but my opinions are my own and they're neutral, i'm not biased or one or the other just getting paid to talk about searching. I search pretty often, like 4-5 times a day minimum, depending on images and random information. I use google a lot due to its image search, but my second favorite search engine is MSN search just because google is simply too big and sometimes the info is crap. I need use the word getyoursearchon I guess it's a keyword for search engines to get spidered, lol. Overall there's not much difference in the search engines right now, they're all pretty even it's really a matter of personal preference and choice. Yahoo ain't that bad just never use it cuz the other 2 are fine for me, but that could always change.
Anyways that's enough about searching, where's my 5$ payperpost.com? Let's go now
-Steve
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Posted bySteve at 8:59 PM 2 comments
The power of a blog post
Monday, June 26, 2006
Last time I wrote a post I deleted in within 2 days of posting it due to the information posted inside. I had written it in sadness and anger, and hadn't even thought about the consequences and who might read the post. I think the post accomplished its goal however I don't think I'll be going that deep into my personal life ever again. I had read other articles or news posts about the dangers of blogging but this wasn't truly a danger but a social kind of awareness that I didn't want others to have.
This makes me think of the problems that occur when revealing yourself to others. How much do you want people to know? If you keep it all in are you heartless or selfish or etc? I really have no ideas about the answers to those questions, as they've been developped by my writings beforehand when I thought of my last post. But hopefully they will develop into some positive discussion that I can write about here instead of boring mudane things about what's going on with my life.
As for what's going on in my life, honestly, not that much, and that's probably a good thing. I've been enjoying the summer in NYC, during tons of training, 5-6days a week of running, 3x a week weights, working in the library 4 days a week, and splitting my time between my friend's house in Queens and sneaking in the dorms. I'm not going to bore about my personal life but I've been chilling with my girlfriend and been spending time with friends. I do miss home and can't wait to go there for a bit but I need to work and save up and train before I get to do that.
Also been watching a lot of the World Cup, gotta go for England, my homeland in 2004, lol. It was great being there during Euro 2004 so I could imagine what it's like being there now when they're in the Quarter Finals after beating Ecuador. I don't think they've been playing that great but they are starting to come alive, they played really well in the second half and if Rooney keeps that up he'll definetly score tons and England will surprise some people.
Anyways that's it from the Library, someone remind me when it's been a while after a post.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:29 PM 0 comments
Summer has begun
Monday, May 15, 2006
Well here I am, on my first day of the summer, stuck inside the library on a rainy day making my miserable 6.75 an hour. Things are better than last week, haven't really run much since conference, gonna have to go out today. I need to meet up with coach to discuss my summer plans and see what I want to do. At least I've started to attend to my goal of writing in this more often. Since I'll be bored I'll have time to write in here with all the wonderful hours spent at the library.
Just got 3 of my grades back, 3 A's, in Immunology, Therapeutic Exercises and Sports Psychology, so things are great. Just need 3 more, then I gotta finish up my paperwork, ugh, all this paperwork annoys me. I need to do an extension for my I-20, so I need 2 letters, then I need a work authorizian form, ugh.
Anyways, I'm off the clock, until next time, I'll post something more abstract and thoughtful, for now it's just business.
Posted bySteve at 1:46 PM 0 comments
For once, everything was good
Friday, May 05, 2006
Bleh I wrote this huge long blog on the road while I was going here at the beginnings of a 5 hour ride that took 9 which sucked ass but it got deleted when my v551 or opera mini didn't save my middle text. Anyways I'll do a recap.
I started off this blog going on about how my life was actually pretty decent at the moment. I achieved, well more like got lucky with my goal of finding someone, and that someone means the world to me, she knows who she is, lol. I didn't just find someone tho, I found Kari, the nicest, most caring person I've ever met, who actually cares about me and not anything i do or etc. I just finished my last exam as a senior so now all I got is one year as a grad student and boom i get two degrees, which is pretty sweet. I won an award for being the athlete with the most heart and I was on the Knicks website also. My running had been going better as i "seemed" to be getting over my injured calf and my injured hamstring but that long car ride screwed it up, more on that later. And lastly I was overall happy with life, how I was managing to do whatever I had to do and still managing to have fun and do what I wanted to do as well.
However kinda pissed off today at my big race of the outdoor season, conference championships. I had just one race, the 1500m, and even before I got on the track I lost. I wasn't mentally focused, nor psyched up enough (dam sports psychology, you'd think after taking it these things wouldnt bother me but then again i don't think my coach helped at all really) and I felt extremely tight from the car ride. No stretching or loosening up helped me that day, cuz once I was in the race, i was in cruise control, not caring or reacting, just going through the motions. Once the pack left me, I was hit by the severe wind on the backstretch at the Mount St. Mary's track and I just gave up and coasted in to a 4:30 1500m, my slowest time since high school, 6 years ago. I warmed up for the 4x800m but didn't run it, oh well, prolly would've sucked anyways since my confidence was shot.
My season's over, but I still have summer track and might run some races and train, I want it but I think I need to focus better and feel like I'm healthy. I can't go into a race not at 100%, physically or mentally, I won't be able to give 100% then. I just binged on McDonald's, random thought, but I need to eat the way I need to and train the way I used to before the injury. Hopefully this summer with no stress, just my job, Kari and training I'll be fine.
As for my philisophical part of my blog, I'm going to ramble on a bit on why whenever everything seems to go right, or it should be your time to shine, there's always something that doesn't go right. It's like can life be perfect, or is there always going or got to be some stress, some problem, something that goes the opposite way of what its supposed to. Its like you do everything you can but sometimes it's not good enough. Shitty feeling, but I guess all you can do is move on. You stay in that place you got nothing to gain from it, so you got to just keep going then.
I think this is my longest blog on this thing. During the summer I'm going to either update this more or work on another website. I think I need a project, like that, on the computer to focus on. Also need more time to place some video games and just do nothing. Oh well I got 3 months starting monday, time to hop to it.
Posted bySteve at 5:03 PM 0 comments
Calm before the storm
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Wow for the first time in a while I've been completely bored. Lately it's been either track or work or tranining room. I'm glad I got a day like this, big race tomorrow, running the mile at the NYU meet at the Armory T & F Center in NYC. First mile in 2 years, so that's pretty big. It's good to have these extra two weeks to prepare for the semester, train, get extra money, it's great. I got to work, buy books early, took care of all the little things I wouldn't have time to do, got extra hours done at the LIU training room where I do my internship, it's pretty good especially the meal money part, lol.
As for New Year's, it was a good time, spent a shitload however I got my money's worth, Moomba was pretty tight and Armin Van Buuren was SICK, he played an insane show, too bad I couldn't stay the whole time cuz my friend was dumb at the supper club, meh, there'll be more shows and more big DJ's. Avb is all I've been listening too lately, he's prolly the best dj imo in the world now, with his show and all.
I've been working on little things around here, going to install XMBC on my xbox so I can watch xvid/divx, I'm modding my ps2, I'm cleaning up / OC'ing my comp again, got my 3200+ from 2.0 to 2.6ghz 24/7, pretty sick clocks since that's FX-55 speeds, lol
Anyways I'll post back when things get a little less crazy, I'm going to try to work on my (3rd) webpage since I won't be stuck in the library 24/7, so until then wish me luck with running, it's looking go so far, let's see how it goes.
-Steve
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