Kex

Nothing other than pure coincidence. You assumed it'd be easy. I dunno. Ask my attorney.

So I was a bit bored one day, and decided that my username needed a little spice. My solution? Add a dash to both ends of my username. I was pretty unexpectedly made an ST before I got the chance to remove the symbols myself. So I just stuck with them... Until today. Decided to ask one our friendly neightborhood admins for a name change, as staff members don't even have the option to change their name in their CP, to avoid confusion. And since it was just a matter of removing two little symbols, it wasn't a big deal. I was still Kex all along. I lol'd everytime someone called me -Kex-. Just a heads up.

Yay, contest. Boo, evil Empress. What? It's been like this all along. Somehow, it all evens out...

After a recent turn of events in COT (not naming any names, and neither will you), I think it is finally time for this blog entry. So a member makes a spam topic. What should I, as a BZPower citizen, do? How can I help? 1. Report the topic. 2. PM or IM an online staff member that can handle the situation. 3. Reflect upon your good deed. It is very important to also note that you should never post in a spam topic. Ever. Ever. That will do nothing but encourage others to post, and will only draw more attention to the topic and produce even more spam. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Yeah, $150 saved is definitely a major push for the Wii. I never really got into FPS's, mainly because I've only briefly played them. But that is subject to change.

I dunno. I just dunno. I want to get one of them, but I don't know which. And no, both isn't an option. Now, if Santa would bring me that darned money tree that I've been asking for the last few years, then it wouldn't be a problem. Only thing is, Santa doesn't like me anymore... Apparently Dasher (or was is Prancer?) found something in the kitchen other than cookies and milk, and Santa wasn't all too happy about the present he got on his lap. But I really need to know... 360 or Wii?

Now, understand that I've been using the AOL browser for 3+ years, Which is not something you want to brag about. And since I've upgraded to DSL, I've been using IE 6. I was feeling 'meh' about it, so I upgraded to IE 7 yesterday... Didn't like it. At all. Now, a few months ago, I downloaded Firefox, just to try it out. Turns out that it's painstakingly slow... Like all browsers are using dial-up. But I don't remember having against the browser. So I downloaded it again yesterday, and I love it. It's awesome. It's my new best friend~

So Barraki pics are scanned from the back of the small 2007 set instructions this weekend. Which means that not only do we have pictures of them that aren't leaked, we have even better, detailed pictures of them. Which is very cool, and great for BZP. Naturally, these new sets are going be discussed on BZP. The solution? An incredibly awesome Official Barraki Sets Topic, made by somebody equally (well, maybe a tad bit more...) awesome. If you have any suggestions for it, please do suggest away. FAQ questions would also be helpful. Always feel free to contact me via IM, PM, or e-mail. Almost immediately, members noticed the strange red markings around Pridak. Using my awesome common sense powers, I decided to create a seperate poll so that my topic doesn't get downgraded in awesomeness because of off-topic spam about blood in Bionicle. I hope you're all enjoying the topics.

It's no fun... Now, some people over-exaggerate on how awful they are... It's true they're ugly and annoyoing, but that's all, I promoise. Even the so-called 'pain' experienced is more annoying than hurtful. Your mouth is a bit sore for a few days after your visit, eating can be unpleasant, but that's about it. I promise. Life goes on. I've had them for 3 years now. Luckily I've only got a few more months left with them. But is it ever so unconfortable to sit in that reclinable chair (it's evil, I swear) and have these people (are they even human?) yank and pull on various pieces of metal attached to your teeth. For me, it's the worst part. I can't stand doctors, especially the ones who are constantly touching you. And I especially can't stand it when they don't tell you what they're about to do next. It's your right as a patient to know. See, the thing is, they really don't care. Which is quite sad. Having that said, I must tell you the benefits of braces outweight any possible drawbacks... So if you need them, get them, no questions asked. And now I'm off to a nine o'clock fun-filled orthodonist appointment.

First they threw me in Software, and I suppose they then figured I'd make a better slaveFA in COT. Anyways, I think I tidied up nicely, dontcha think? And I can't forget to say hello to my new COT homies! Looking forward to working with you guys, should be fun!

Yes, my blog was sinking into the bloggie abyss of bloggie dung. Or something of the sort... I didn't want to get too close, dunno what exactly that stuff was. Anyways, figured I'd pull it out before he comes down with one of them diseases. Last thing I need is for my blog to be high on those Fleming meds. That pharmaceutical stuff isn't cheap, yanno? If all goes well, I should be updating this here blog more frequently (every day, almost?) starting tomorrow. Also, I need to pick a song for the new Short Stories Contest 3. Any suggestions?

What? Omi drinks coke?

Procrastinator! It's not like I have much room to talk, but still.

That was at midnight! I was sound asleep when that happened! I was wide awake. D:

Finally! Rarely do you get a nice day here in South Florida. Well, not unless 'hot and miserable' floats your boat. And for me, the boat doesn't float, but it rather sinks to the bottom of the ocean and rots away. You can walk outside for a mere minute and be sweating. Now, add a few hours of time and extraneous work into the mix. Sounds like great fun, right? Today's high is around 76. Normally we'd be lucky for that as our low for the day. Right now it's 63, and it was 50 early this morning. Temperatures are in Fahrenheit, of course. I hope it stays like this for a while. It's pretty awesome, and makes for a pleasant change. You're probably laughing at the fact that I think these temperatures are 'cold', but you would to if you lived in South Florida all 15 years of your life. Oh, and here's a little fact I bet you didn't know: Almost exactly 30 years ago today, it snowed here in South Florida. Yep. They let school out and everything.

Man was this week hectic. And it's not even over yet. Mid-terms on Tuesday and Thursday, with the PSAT in between on Wednesday. Huh? Yeah. It wasn't fun. Things went a lot smoother than expected, though. Way too smooth. I just hope I end up with a good grade on my Algebra II mid-term. I need an 'A' or 'B' to boost my 'C+' to a 'B'. And if I got anything lower... Guh. How I ever hate tests. I never do as well as I should on them. I dunno, I just blank out sometimes, and it doesn't come back to me. I really don't have much to say... Figured I'd just let everyone know what's going on. Maybe, just maybe I'll get some time in for updating this thing more often. Oh, and there's no school tomorrow. Which is pretty awesome. Excuse me while I continue to jam out to some Stone Sour.

Sooner or Later - Breaking Benjamin I want a normal life Just like a newborn child I am like a lover hater I am an instigator You are an oversight Don't try to compromise I'll learn to love to hate it I am not integrated Just call my name You'll be okay Your scream is burning through my veins Sooner or later You're gonna hate it Go ahead and throw your life away Driving me under Leaving me out there Go ahead and throw your life away You're like an infantile I knew it all the while You sit and try to play me Just like you see on TV I am an oversight Just like a parasite Why am I so pathetic I know you won't forget it Just call my name You'll be okay Your scream is running through my veins Sooner or later You're gonna hate it Go ahead and throw my life away Driving me under Leaving me out there Go ahead and throw my life away Sooner or later You're gonna hate it Go ahead and throw our life away Driving me under Leaving me out there Go ahead and throw our life away You throw our life away You throw our life away Someone's in a tight predicament, and they want out of it. He lies to himself and says he's okay, when really he's about to implode inside. He learns to cope with what is going wrong instead of trying to patch up areas that need fixing. He knew all along what was happening, and he hopes that the person of wrongdoing never forgets what they have done, that he's always haunting them in the back of their mind. Not only did it cause them to waste their life away, but his too. Your life, my life, our life. It's all gone, but he wants it back. He wants it back to he can break away and start over new, forget about the past and look onward towards a better future. "It's about being not right. Looking at people that have everyday jobs and do normal things and you are grateful for being a musician but at the same time you want to not tour, you want to go to a job, do your job, and come home to your wife and kids kind of thing, you know?" --Ben Burnley The song can relate to so many different things. I hope you can get something out of it. Be sure to download the song by clicking the banner. Listen to it! Tell me what you think.

HAHA. Right. I hope I never have to hear that sound again in my life. Tommorow, my five year era of dial-up finally ends. I've been using it since obtaining my first family computer in mid 2001. I can't wait until I come home tomorrow from school. But with my luck, something will go wrong and by house will be burned down or something equally tragic while Bellsouth is hooking up the fiber optic stuff or whatever it is that they do. It'll be like one of those dreadfully depressing stories Lemony Pepper Snickers writes, if you know what I'm talking about. And you know what some of the first things I'll be doing are? Downloading stuff. Stuff like music and the VNOLG. I haven't played it yet. As a matter of fact, I haven't even read about it yet. I hope it's as cool as people are making it seem. Wish me luck~?

See, this is why you check the link before you close the topic, 'raga.

Yeah, that Kex fellow? Total loser.

I called around to several stores the night of last, and found two stores that had the new iPods in stock. Target, who had three white 80GB's left, and Best Buy, who had everything. Naturally, I went to Best Buy. After waiting in a rather large line just to pick up the iPod, I had to wait in another even larger line to pay. Malls and shopping centers are always so hectic on weekends here. Anyways, I ended up with a brand new black 30GB iPod with video. $250 later, that is. But I really think it was worth very penny. If I didn't, I wouldn't have forked over that much. But I love iPods, and I wanted to stick with them, even after I filled the 2GB. I was going to venture out and buy something else, but then I heard that Apple just released new iPods. Great timing, if you ask me. And now I have this 2GB Nano sitting here, waiting to be dumped from full to empty and shipped to a worthy soul. Unfortunately for anyone who was actually interested in buying it, I'm sorry, but it's taken. Kind Sir KIE reserved it the night I announced it was up for grabs. Of course, if you want to go above his outragously high bid, then it's yours. Right now, I'm downloading a music video from iTunes. Just to test it out, and see how it works. Bought the video, Call Me When You're Sober by Evanescence. I held off on buying the single for this reason. Now, see, I left my computer on when I went to work, so the video can download. I was dismayed when I came home and saw that I was disconnected. That means I'll have to start the downloading process all over again. But when I went and pulled it up and restarted the download, it started from the point where it left off! Totally sweet feature of iTunes 7 -- especially for someone who uses dial-up like me. Ah, yes. Dial-up. Used it for all five or so years that I've been using a computer. I am all too enthused to report that I'm going to be dropping dial-up entirely very soon. And no, this isn't depriving myself of the internet or suicide. Nice try. As soon as my father finishes up structual workings of the house addition, electrical is next. We know an electrician who lives on the next street over, and he's hooking us up. Quite literally. We're going to have a server, and some type of wireless internet to go along with it. Don't know anything for certain just yet. Most of the time, I'm at my mother's house, though. So this means when I'm there, I'll be stuck with dial-up. Not cool. So I finally decided to ask about upgrading to DSL. Now, my mom uses Netzero, and I use AOL [free trial version(s)]. She pays the $10 monthly fee, and I pay nothing. And she doesn't want to pay anything more than $10. So whats happening is that she will pay $10 of whatever the monthly bill is, and I'll have to pick up the rest. I plan on getting 384 Kbps DSL from BellSouth. Can't wait.

I would say something along the lines of "It started as a normal day..." but it really didn't. Today was "Professional Studies Day" or something that all high schools in my district had the option of having. Whether or not you have it was based on school vote. My school voted for it, although I think not many other ones did. What this day serves as is basically an extra early release day each month. Meant for "study", I guess. I get out at 11:32 as opposed to 2:54, so all is good. Well, it was all good. Bus was a little late, and I had two pop quizzes on a supposedly lax day, but all was fairly good. Now to the real story. As you probably don't know, I have two half-brothers (and a few more siblings, but it really doesn't matter). They are two and four years old. The four year old goes to a free preschool at a church about 5 minutes away. He goes every day during the week for a few hours. I never go with my mom to pick him up, as I'm typically at school. But today was a bit different, as I detailed above. We got there a bit early, and we waited in the parking lot for about ten minutes before my mom went inside to pick up my older brother. I stayed in the car with my younger brother to save my mom the trouble of lugging him inside. I was orginally sitting in the front passenger seat, but I moved to the back seat after my mom left. So there I was, watching Monster Jam with my little brother on the DVD player inside the van. A 2003 Dodge Minivan, if I may add. About two minutes after my mom left, a black Dodge Minivan starting slowly backing into the space next to us (driver door to driver door). Same make and model, just in a different color. About thirty seconds after, eveything changed. He opened his van door, and hit the driver side door of the car I was in. I figured it was an accident; it happens a lot espcially with how close they make the parking spaces and how terrible some people park. So I'm thinking to myself, "Alright, what's he gonna do now?" He just hit my mom's car. I didn't have to wait long. He whipped upon the driver side door, leaned into the car, and snatched my mom's purse (which was between the driver and passenger seat on the floorboard. And he sped off. From the time he hit the door to when he drove away, 10 seconds went by. It was that fast. So, now, to re-cap some details. I was in the back seat when this happened, and my little brother was in a carseat in front of me in a buckett seat in the middle of the van. Oh, and the car was running, with the keys in the ignition. Could've took the whole car if he wanted to. The doors were unlocked, but that was a good thing, actually. This guy would've prolly smashed the windows or something equally desperate to get the purse. Speaking of desperation, this guy obviously needed anything he could get his hands on. It seems addiction brought the worst out of this guy, if you know what I mean. I'm probably leaving other stuff out, but I think you get the point, and I don't feel like telling the story for the millioneth time. A guy pulled up, opened the door, took the purse, and left -- with me and my younger brother in the running van. I didn't even get a good look at the guy, much less catch a liscense plate number. He was a middle-aged white male, and that's I could tell the cops. Yeah, I spoke with them for abour 30 minutes. Get asked the same question thirty times each. It was real fun. The cops were pretty cool, though. They took fingerprints of the door, and they found a huge palm print right above the door handle. It's obviously his. I just hope that this provides enough to get a suspect, because if it doesn't, nothing will happen in the case. This kind of petty theft happens all the time. There are many "what ifs" to everything here, but that doesn't really get anything positive going. In all, I could've died today. My brother could've died today. Human beings could've senselessly died today. Luckily, none of that happened, and I'm very grateful. But I was robbed in my own neighborhood. And I'm not all too happy about it. All because of scum. You always think, "it'll never happen to me". We all do. Fact is, scum like this exists -- it's real. To be honest, I wasn't scared in the ordeal. Happened so fast you didn't have time to be. But it opened my eyes real, real wide, and I hope this story does the same for you.

Bah. Lucky you. I should have one by the end of this weekend. Well... Yeah. Sure. So this one'll hold over 7,000 more songs than my other one. I'll defintely be getting more music for it. Yes, getting. I didn't say the "b" word. Found a solution for that problem. Oooooooooh, yaaaaaaah. B)

Oh no you di'int! You did. But really, I can see why they're used so often. Somebody did it not long after the Nuva came out, I'm sure. People thought it worked, and it attaches easily and in many different ways and areas... Makes sense. But as you explained, it doesn't always fit. And you know, I used them on both versions of the MOC I made of you, and you said nothing about them. Holding it back, or did they "fit" nicely? D: And don't think I didn't notice: two entries in one day. Things just keep getting stranger and stranger.

Catalogue wounds, lol. And I know there's still a little place in that evil heart of yours for G&T still. There just has to be. Yeah, three years is a long time. Really is. I'm sure you loved torturingmodding every second of it. Here's to three more years. I suppose I could hold off on any plotting until then. Er, yeah, and I'm still waiting. D: