OK, so yeah, I haven’t posted here in a long time, and its cause I got bored of all you people. Ok, so maybe thats a lie, but I really have no excuse for not posting. It all happened with my personal site going down…

My goal was to let my domain registration on my personal site expire, so I could renew it under a cheaper company that I use for my other domains. It would save me money and keep my domains organized under one account and site. So I let it expire, tell them I don’t wanna renew. I figure I would be up and running again in a couple days. WRONG. I now get a notice that there is a 30 day waiting period on the domain, in which the domain name would be put up for auction. If nobody buys it within 30 days, it would be free for registering again. No sweat, who the hell wants to buy cryocreations.com, right? WRONG. I wait the entire 30 days, and get the email saying that the cancellation has been complete. I go to register the domain, and it says it is unavailable. I do a WHOIS search on it, and it turns out some fucker bought it the day after I cancelled! I checked out this guys personal info, turns out he is located a short way out of Chicago, and runs some crappy web hosting company and resells “premium” domain names. AKA, he snags any domain that is cancelled and then when the previous owner wants it back, he charges a ridiculous amount for it. I contemplated hunting this guy down, since I have his address and phone number, and forcing him to give it back, but I decided not to. I should have though. Anyway, I now was stuck with trying to find a new domain name for myself. Not to mention, all my web design work had the Cryo Creations logo and link on it…. So after two hours of guess and check on two dozen different domain names, I finally landed one. Not really professional, but it will do so I can host my files and crap.

Top top it all off, I contact my web host to change the domain on the account I prepaid for a year. Turns out, they can’t change the domain and that they can’t refund my money. FUCKERS. So not only did I lose 8 months worth of hosting, I also had to spend more money on NEW hosting. “Murderous rampage” was petting kitties compared to what I was feeling of doing at that point in time…

Needless to say, life has been hectic. Busy busy busy, school and work. New quarter, new classes. Today I got accepted to DePaul’s College of Commerce, so thats the last obstacle down on my path to a degree. All that is left is to complete all my major-oriented coursework. The weather is getting nicer, and Wrigley Field is a quick trainride from campus. However, my bastard professors decided to make their attendance policy super strict this quarter. Two absences, excused or unexcused, and your grade starts dropping half a letter grade for each additional absence. I’ve already gotten one absence in one class. But the Cubs don’t play that early. Meaning, I gotta fight the urge to go to at least 6 Cubs games this quarter and go to only 2

So there you go, hows that for a comeback post? I could ramble on some more, on how shitty last weekend was and how shitty this weekend is gonna be, cause its my Easter this weekend but I have to do go to some bullshit mandatory lecutre and film screening for my English class at 3pm on SUNDAY, and Easter is my fav holiday of all time and people are gathering at my house at 2 but I gotta leave at 1:30 and I won’t be back till 6 and AHHHHHHHHRHRHHRGHRHRH STAB STAB STAB STAB!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve done traffic school three times in the past 4 years, and am about to do it again. Four hour traffic school may suck big balls, but it prevents the ticket from going on your record. I had gotten in a car accident in November, and then got a speeding ticket a week later. Well, since it had taken place in the village that we know most of the cops, my cop friend told me to take it to court, plead innocent, and if the cop wasn’t there, I’d get the case thrown out. And if the cop was there? Plead guilty, they’ll just give you supervision and a fine. Fair nuff 50/50 chance.

Yesterday I got another speeding ticket lol. Wasn’t able to talk my way out of it, got me on camera going 45 in a 30. Since it is 2006, I’m doing traffic school on that one. ANYWAY, I go to court today and the judge was calling people up and they were pleading guilty. Each time she’d ask for people’s records from the public defendant, and he would tell him their past convictions. Depending on how many convictions and how severe, she’d give varying verdicts. So it seemed that most people with one or two speeding violations on their record were getting “supervision and four hour traffic school.” So I figured I’d get something like that, with my accident and this one ticket I went to court with a lawyer and got myself one year supervision for pleading guilty in 2004.

Judge calls me up. How do you plead? Guilty, your honor (unfortunately, the fucking cop who gave me a ticket was there, so i had to plead guilty). Judge ask for my record. The defendant was like, ummmm, nothing, your honor. She eyed me closely (I made the mistake of not shaving and staying up late on V-Day, so I was all groggy eyed and shitlooking), and goes, “You’re 20 years old, a few months away from 21. Giving you supervision won’t really matter since you’ll be getting your over-21 license in July. Just be more careful, and don’t speed. Case dismissed.”

PWNED

And then I went to greektown, met up with some friends from UIC, had some frappe at Artopolis, and came to school to do this quiz for English. WOOT.

Thanks to my buddy Lil Hammie for his genius calculations.

Steven, your movie star double is Will Smith

A joker like you needs to be played by someone charming, someone who isn’t afraid to get a little silly — but someone who always knows the difference between being outrageous and being obnoxious. That’s why Will Smith would be perfect for the part. With his dazzling smile, addictive laugh, and great comedic timing, people would immediately identify with the lighthearted fun you bring to this world. Like Will, you love laughing — and making other people laugh, too.

Back in school, were you the one making prank phone calls or organizing spoofs of all the teachers? Sure you’ve matured at least a little bit since then, but you’ve still probably got that 14-carat sense of humor. Because of that, you’re probably the center of attention at parties, as friends gather to hear you making a mockery of everything from current events to the computer-illiterate idiot who sits next to you at work. You, like Will, don’t want to take life too seriously, and that’s what will shine through if the Fresh Prince of comedy plays you in the movie of your life.

Wow, how sad yet so true. This is by far the most accurate test, cause Will Smith is the friggin shiznit!!!!

http://web.tickle.com/tests/stardouble/

Wow, that was one of the worst Super Bowls I’ve ever seen. Everything about it sucked. The game, the ref, the halftime show, the commercials. Granted, there were a few commercials that were clever and made me laugh, but it was nothing like those of other years that had me laughing every other minute. So I was rooting for the Seahawks. Big deal, they lost, it wasn’t the Bears so I won’t lose any sleep over it. But even if I was rooting for the Steelers, it wouldn’t have made the event any better. The game was utter crap. It felt like I was watching two high school teams play. By halftime, I was getting the feeling that the game was fixed. By the third quarter, I was guaranteeing it to myself. The refs were so paid off it wasn’t even funny. Hell, European Soccer does a better job at NOT making it so obvious (ok, thats a big exaggeration, European Soccer makes it extremely obvious, but you get the point). There was nothing professional about that game.

The commercials were crappy. I haven’t met a single person who understood the GoDaddy commercial. There were mixed opinions on the best commercial, but they all weren’t anything outstanding. Obviously, beer commercials were probably the funniest. I personally found the Ameriquest ones to be the funniest. But still, nothing outrageously funny. They either sucked, didn’t make sense, or made me chuckle just a bit.

Mick Jagger needs to retire. I have nothing against the Stones. They were an upheaviing band in world culture. But seriously, its time to retire. I watched the game in HD. I could see all the wrinkles, pits, and disgusting facial features of Mick Jagger’s already mutilated face. Plus their performance sucked. I’ve never seen the Stones perform before, but damn, did it suck. I was squinting to see if I could spot a team of paramedics on the side of the stage, holding oxygen masks just in case.

In conclusion, make next year’s Super Bowl not suck that much. A wardrobe malfunction isn’t such a bad idea now, is it?

Chuck Norris does not follow fashion trends, they follow him. But then he turns around and kicks their ass. Nobody follows Chuck Norris.

Random Chuck Norris fact FTW. So this quarter system is cool and all, but I’ve only been in class for a month and already midterms are here. On top of that, I got papers due every week and a major presentation in two weeks. Life has been uneventful. Back to the monotonous school then work routine. Currently reading The Jungle for my American Novel class, and its probably the most fucked up book I’ve read.

Pre-CU servers are beggining to pop up across the web. Actually, only two so far are public projects: SWG-Emu and SWG-Monster. A person from Wanderhome is privately starting one specifically for Wanderhome. Everything is currently in development for all three projects, and it isn’t expected to hit live till the summer. Monster and Emu boast 1000 person capacities, but theres more than 2000 people out there who will want to play on a pre-cu server. I’m just glad the Wanderhome one will be centered on Wanderhome alone, since it is a small community.

Thats it. I’ve also been using Blockbuster Online to increase my DVD collection. Its a good thing that DVD-R discs are now almost as cheap as CDs.

First, the good: Farm Sluts. Please, quit jumping up and down joyfully, this is not a porno. But it is one of the funniest short videos I’ve seen in a long time. It is a 49MB Quicktime movie, so if you can’t play quicktime movies and have a 56k connections…too bad.

I am also changing one of my New Years resolutions. I will cancel my high-speed internet in June. I called to cancel. I told Comcast they were too expensive. They gave it to me for $19.99 a month for 6 months. So in June i will cancel it. I had to call in and cancel my Earthlink dialup account before they charged me. So yeah, that leads me to my Comcast rant… (for you Wanderhomies, sorry, this is a repeat of my post. Its too vividly me in order NOT to put it in my LJ).

OK, seriously, WTF. Comcast conveniently jacked up their cable TV prices $5 on all their packages for 2006. Now I gotta pay $50 a month for basic cable (that is, the standard 75 channels cable comes with). On top of that they fucked me over by switching the Sci-Fi channel to Digital Cable, and revoking my HBO and Shotime privaleges by making them exclusive to their higher-end packages.I’m sure they’d get tons more subscribers if they had a “Make Your Plan” feature, where you chose the channels you want instead of having to pay $100 a month to for the big 180 channel package just so you can get Fox Soccer Channel.

A $10 monthly fee to cover the local channels and then like $1 or $2 per channel that you want extra. Not only will it reduce my monthly bill. I’d just order the following channels: HBO, Comedy Central, SpikeTV, TNT, TBS, USA, ESPN, FSC, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and CNN. Seriously, who the fuck goes, “YES, I get my money’s worth because I want to pay $50 a month to get 10 public access channels and useless channels such as The Food Network, or the Golf Channel.

But wait, Comcast now has a monopoly over the greater Chicago area when it comes to Broadband Cable Internet. Your 6mbps connection is much faster than DSL, but it also costs $50 a month. Oh wait, if you currently are paying another $50 a month or more for Comcast’s cable TV, you get it at a special low price of $45 a month! Douchebags. On a side note, why the fuck do I not have access to DSL when my friend who lives 5 minutes away does? NO DSL companies can provide me cause they’re fucknuts who can’t build a fuckin hub. Here retards, I give you permission to build a hub in the useless patch of grass in the backmost remote corner of my property that you can’t see unless you go there personally.

Instead of feeding us bullshit commercials of “actual customers” testifying how great Comcast is, why don’t you show us some live footage of actual customer’s opening up their monthly Comcast bill. I’m sure some of those videos will make it to the Illegal-In-The-USA Faces of Death videos.

Fuck you Comcast. I’m glad I made you give me 6 months of internet for only $19.95 a month, cause you want my business. And in June when I cancel, you can suck me. Suck me long. And suck me hard. And dry.

Here we go, lets see how truthful I stay with these in 2006…

• I will leave the world of online gaming until Lord of the Rings Online comes out.
• I will get all A’s and B’s in school this year.
• I will not sleep with anyone I work with.
• I will cancel my high-speed cable internet and resort to 56k to greatly reduce my time on the internet.
• I will use my free hours between classes to study (and not sit in front of a computer and do silly things like writing updating my LJ with this list and trolling the Wanderhomies forums.
• I will go back to working out 3 times a week at the gym.
• I will gain 10 pounds.
• I will complete my MMORPG idea and put it all on print as well as begin plans to pitch it to companies.
• I will learn Flash 8 and redesign my personal site with it.
• I will survive my 21st birthday.
• I will backpack through Europe (this one has been on my past 3 new year resolution lists).

So it has been a while since I last posted. Oh well, working full time 10+ hours a day as well as going out at night makes you forget about the internet entirely. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season (whatever the hell it is you celebrate). Today marks my first day at DePaul University, and I’m writing this from the library at the Lincoln Park Campus. I got another hour before my last class starts. Anyway, the last day off I had from work was the day I finished classes in December. Yes, I worked every single day, including Christmas Eve/Day and New Years Eve/Day. I had no Christmas or New Year celebration. I was working.

I guess there’s nothing really to talk about since my last post since I’ve been working 7 days a week. On a positive note, I got a raise without knowing it. I’m now at $8 an hour (up from the $5 I started with). So thats cool. I didn’t get much from Christmas. I think like four gifts total, mostly gift cards. I ended up buying myself a “cool” Christmas gift (a 30GB Apple iPod). It’s so friggin awesome, I have virtually NO use for CDs in my car or out, cause I’ve loaded all my music in it and just hit “shuffle.”

Hmmm, anything else? Oh yeah, my teacher in my last class (Ancient Art History) is more or less Hitler’s grand-daughter. I swear she’s a Nazi. She’s this German lady in her 30s and immediately gives a dominatrix aura to her class from the second the door closes. Some kid didn’t get a syllabus and asked her in her lecture for one and she snapped at him saying, “Do not interrupt my lecture, get them by the desk after class.” And when some girl put her head down, she stopped her lecture and goes, “Do not sleep, if you want to sleep, leave, otherwise sit up straight!” She has that german accent, and I was waiting for her to pull out a bullwhip and handcuffs at any moment. She’s sorta cute, so maybe I can just fantasize her taking off her clothes and revealing herself in a skintight shiny black leather bodysuit :p So far my last two classes before that have been cool. One more to go before my first day is concluded.

Books cost me $313.17. That hurt…a lot. Tuition hurt even more…

Some Wanderhomies got me to do this Myspace thing. I had originally created an account last summer to keep in touch with this girl next to me in class that was on it ALL the time. I never got beyond account creation and adding her as a friend, so it just lay dormant until now. I honestly don’t see whats so damn special or addicting about it. Anyway, if you get turned on by myspace, feel free to add me and stare at my profile for countless hours hoping for an update: http://www.myspace.com/sjcallas

Words cannot describe what I am about to post, so I’ll just post it:

Click Here To See The Truth

Owned…