As most of you know I have kicked my roommate out! So what am I doing with his old room? Turing it into my office!! It will be a nice change of scenery and actually make the apartment feel more like a normal place. Not having the computers out in the living room will be really nice and when people come over they won’t be like, “Oh there are computers in the living room”. So here is the before picture…
And here are the after pics…
As you can see I have moved both Ashley’s and my desk into the room. Everything fits very nicely inside. It is nice to have a room to just work in rather than an open room. It gives you a place to think, and if you want to get away from the work you can leave the room and come back. This is very important especially if you spend the amount of time on the computer that I do. Also I have moved the Sumo Omni & Otto into the office so if I am working and want to relax on my laptop I can. I am using the closet to store all of the products that I have yet to review. Before they were all either in the living room or in my bedroom. The closet is nice and big so it works well. I really think this move will make me more productive. All of the walls are kind of plain though, any poster/painting suggestions?
As you can see I have not updated my blog since the 28th! As I have said before I want to update at least once a day if not more. The main reason for this is I’m on a bad schedule. I have been staying up way to late and not getting up till later in the day and that causes me to not get as much work done as I should. It is nice not to have a set schedule, but having some type of schedule helps you to be more productive. I hope to get out of this bad schedule before CES, because if I’m on a bad schedule there I will miss meetings, etc.
Last week Jon tagged me. This time it is my goals for 2007. I actually like this tagging thing, because it gives you interesting content to write for your readers. So here are my goals for 2007…
Keep up with ThinkComputers – This holiday season has been extremely busy for me with ThinkComputers, it has been hard to keep up with the reviews etc. I hope to better manage my time so I can get more done.
Really get ThinkGaming going – ThinkGaming was launched this past year and it has done alright, but I wish I had more time to work on it. We are only posting 2-3 reviews a month. I would like to be posting more than that and also be posting daily gaming news etc.
Learn more about photography – I really have not had that much time to mess around with my D-SLR camera. I use it mainly to take product photos, but I would like to learn more about taking pictures etc with it.
Meet more contacts in the industry – This past year I have really met some great people like John Chow, Stephen Fung, and Jon Waraas who have really helped me learn a lot about the internet, money, websites etc. This year I hope to meet even more people and learn more.
Manage my time better – This has to be my biggest goal. If I can manage my time better I can accomplish all of the goals above. When working for yourself it is hard to keep a good schedule and manage your time. I hope to improve on this in the coming year.
So now for tagging, John Chow, Jonathan Daniel, and Jason Greiner TAG YOUR IT!
Also a few quick blog updates. I have finally fixed the dots that were appearing on the 3rd column. All I had to do was put in a ul tag and everything was fixed. I have also added the top commentators and recent comments to the side of the page. If you would like to see anything else on the side of the page let me know!
Well as it seems another roommate of mine is gone! This really is not a bad thing, the difference in rent is really not a big deal to me and his room is going to become my office! He was more of a rent-helper than a roommate, because he was hardly here and when he was he stayed in his room mostly. Now in his defense he was not as bad as one of my old roommates but here his what happened. One night Ashley and I were watching TV in my room and I was going out into the living room to check to see if something finished downloading on my computer. On the way out my roommate comes out and asks me to turn the volume down. I said no problem and I go out into the living room to check on the download, note if you take a look at my apartment here you will see it takes no more than 10 seconds to go from my room to the living room where my computer is. Any say at most 10 more seconds to check on the download and 10 more seconds to walk back. So 30 seconds go by and before I can even go back into my room he comes back out and starts yelling at me to turn it down. So I say, “Dude you don’t need to be an ass about it”. Well he continues to flip out and I just close my door cause I have nothing to say to someone who is that retarded and can’t wait 30 seconds for me to turn something down when he knew I was walking out to my computer. He also slammed his door like a 10 year old child would when they wouldn’t get their way. So that is what started this whole thing. After that night he really didn’t talk to me and stayed in his room when he was actually at the apartment, which was fine with me. Then the garbage happened…
This is what I would always see each morning when I would wake up. As you can see the trash is way overflowed, and all of those boxes beside the trash are his too. My roommate ALWAYS did this. I would never have a problem with taking out the trash, I usually would always do it too, but who wants to take out the trash when you can’t even get the bag out without getting things all over you. I guess he liked getting crap all over him when we went to take the trash out (which was not that often). This was the case not only in the kitchen, but in the bathroom too…
Ok a few things to point out here, one the trash is way overflowed and everything in there is from him. Who puts pop cans in the bathroom trash? Maybe it is because he was to cheap to by a trash can for his own room? Not really sure here, and I never really used this trash can because I have a vanity in my room and the only time I would be in there is to go to the bathroom or take a shower. It was really annoying going in there to take a shower and having an overflowed garbage can and having it smell. And I have taken that trash out so many times too, even though none of the trash was mine! I guess it was to hard for my roommate. Ok so maybe those 2 things are not that bad, here is exhibit 3…
Ok so because the trash can in the kitchen was overflowed and he was to lazy to take it out and I had it with him overflowing every trash can in the place so it would be impossible to take anything out without ruining your shirt, he started piling up his trash on the kitchen counter. Now I first thought it would only be there for a few days. Then it was a week then it was 2 weeks, this stuff really started to smell and how hard is it to take out your trash! When all of the trash cans where full I was still taking out my trash no problem etc. So after 2 weeks I had enough of his crap, so I decided to put all of his trash in front of his door to his room so he would know to take it out. Also to note, the night before I went out on the deck to cook a steak on the grill. The next morning I come out to find that light that was outside was smashed. I guess he does not want me to cook outside? I was like wow someone is 5 years old! Well that day I went out and when I came home all hell broke loose. He started flipping out telling me not to put trash in front of his door etc. Well I told him to stop being lazy and take out his garbage etc and he actually had the nerve to say he is clean and always takes out the trash…LOL. I almost lost it there, then he started arguing about other stuff then he said and I quote, “I’ll kill you” and I totally lost it, I just laughed in his face and thought to myself…how old are we? Note that my roommate is 26. So after all the fighting etc I basically told him that he can leave because I can’t deal with someone that acts like a child and that I would have no problem paying the rent myself. To my surprise he left the next day.
Now I am still waiting for the papers to take him off the lease, but most of his stuff is out of here. All of that garbage that was on the counter is still there, I moved it all into his room though so he knows to take it with him, along with all of his other junk and he was just going to leave here. I’m just waiting for him to bring me the rent money for December and get the rest of his garbage out of here and then I will sign the papers to take him off the lease. Once I clean his room it will become my new office, which will be very nice 
Well as most of you know Google was nice enough to send me a Digital Photo frame as a thank you for being a Google Adsense publisher. Well the other day I received a nice card in the mail from ValueClick. I mainly use ValueClick on my myspace related sites and Ashley’s site. Actually ValueClick pulls in more money than Google each month! So when I got the card I was a bit disappointed that there was no gift! Oh well, wonder if I have to make a certain amount to get a gift? I was talking to John yesterday and he said he didn’t even get a gift from Shopping.com, just a card and imaging what the TTZ media network makes Shopping.com! Oh well, maybe next year?
Well it looks like I have been tagged by my good friend John Chow. He wants me to tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me. Well I usually do not hide that much from people so let’s see what I can come up with…
1. My first ever website was a Dragon Ball Z fan website. When I first got into Anime Dragon Ball Z was one of my favorites! So I decided to make a website about it, especially since it was not that popular in the US at that time. The site was hosted at the old Geocities free hosting. What ever happened to Geocities?
2. I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch. Now some of you may think that this is funny but being paid to stand around and talk to hot girls all day really is not bad at all! The discount on the clothes was also nice. I met a lot of really cool people while working there and some are still my good friends.
3. I used to play the saxophone. From fifth grade to ninth grade I guess I was a band geek! I even went to band camp! I was in regular band as well as marching band. The whole band thing was more pushed on by my parents then anything, I mean it was fun but I would have rather been doing something else. I was happy when I was able to quit!
4. I eat salads plain. Everyone I know thinks this is weird! I really do not enjoy dressing that much, so I prefer just salt, pepper, and maybe some bacon bits. Every time I ask for a plain salad at restaurants I get like a double take from the waitress. I do enjoy cooking up some type of meat like chicken, steak, pork, and putting on my salad. It just can’t have dressing!
5. I have never been sick from drinking. There has not been 1 time that I have ever thrown up from alcohol. I have been completely wasted and still have not thrown up. I’m not sure what it is, but I have seen many people that have thrown up from being drunk that I am glad that I don’t do that. Just remember to take 2 Aleve before you go to bed to avoid the hangover!
Ok so that was fun, Jon, JD, Jason, and Sal, consider yourself tagged!
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