LITTLE-SIN.NET

Okay, so I’ve been over at Sebastian-Stan.Com messing around with wordpress, discovering new plugins, and gernerally getting to know it better, which will translate here (eventually).

Now that I am starting to understand the way the pages work and how to include stuff without sidebar.php and widgets, I’m really starting to get motivated to design a new layout here and get it back on track (considering I now have so much free time on my hands).

Anyway, so that is where we are at right now. I hope to have this site turned around by the beginning of summer. Yes, I know. That is likely not to happned, but I can dream.

I have joined Twitter. I am slightly ashamed.

So here I am posting an entry after seven months of nothingness. But what can I say? Things have been weird lately and I just haven’t had time to deal with Little Sin. I have plans for this site… I always do, but maybe my computer crashing and making me essentially start from scratch (although I didn’t loose much, but my programs) has forced me to pay attention to my little corner of the web.

As you can see, this is a wordpress template not made by me. I do plan on making my own layout, but I’m blocked right now and am not quite used to Photoshop CS4 yet (I’m not sure I like it).

Anyway, the plan is to post regularly from now on, as I have a lot more free time. We’ll see what happens.

Alright, so I am about to design a new layout and switch my publishing software to Wordpress. Now that I’ve figured out how to edit the WP templates, I’ve decided to go ahead and switch as I like the way it runs at Sebastian-Stan.Com. I think I’m still going to let Movabletype hang out on the server just in case I decided to come back to it, but that is doubtful as they haven’t released a new version of MT in ages and probably aren’t going to. I think that all improvement and forward movement on MT is dead and has been for a couple of years. Oh well.

Anyway, so yeah, that is what I’m planning. I also have a lot going on in my life right now and there is a lot going on in the world that is worth blogging about, so I’m motivated to get back in the game. It shouldn’t take me to long to get things going again. I just have to get off my lazy ass. Easier said than done.

So, I’ve been under the radar lately just dealing with life. I’ve had a lot of stress in my life lately and I’ve just needed to decompress. It hasn’t been working very well, but at least I’m trying.

Yesterday was by birthday and as usual I was going to do my “it’s my birthday and I’ve done absolutely nothing with my life post,” but that is getting really old. Yes, I am now 28 years old. Yes, my life sucks, but the only person to blame is me, so I should get off my ass and do something about it. *sigh*.

So yeah, I’m feeling pretty down right now. I suppose this isn’t the best comeback post, but I gotta keep it real. I do plan on revamping this site with a new layout. I’ll probably covert to wordpress to… I’m giving myself until Thanksgiving. I know it’s a long time, but I’m lazy and like to take my time about shit.

Alright kids, I’m not dead. I know you were wondering there for a moment, but I am indeed still in the land of the living… barely.

I’ve mostly been working or sick for the past few months. I got a double dose of the flu and an ear infection and was out three days for both. I actually had to go to the emergency room for the ear infection as it was causing vertigo and the room wouldn’t stop spinning. Of course all of this happened at work and I was supremely humiliated by the whole thing.

Anyway, there is a new layout up at Sebastian-Stan.com and things seem to be going well for him, which is nice. As far as a new layout here goes, I’m working on it, but I also have some other projects in the works that have priority, but I will try to post more (I say that every time, I know).

I also went to yet another Circa Survive concert last night. There were four bands playing and I can’t remember all of the names right now, but generally they were all pretty good. It was once again in L.A., Hollywood this time, at the Avalon and it was an okay show although I left at the tail end of Circa’s set as I wasn’t interested in seeing the headlining band. I have pictures and crap and will post a dedicated blog entry with the pics later. I’m too lazy to do it now.

Also, Jackie, I have not forgotten about you. I so owe you a new layout and will e-mail soon. I’ve just haven’t had the time or the patients to really deal with e-mail right now.

Okay, that’s about it. I know no one reads this anymore, but I blog for my comfort, not yours. Kisses!

Ya know, 2008 hasn’t started out as well as I wanted it to. I was really looking toward the new year to be better than 2007 and it certainly isn’t living up to the expectation. In fact, 2008 is turning out to be worse.

I got another ticket in February. It was for “speeding” (going 45 in a 40 zone) and I got “popped” in the exact, I mean THE EXACT same place I got popped the first time. Now I owe $651 in traffic tickets and I assume I have two moving violations on my DMV record which is going to make it impossible to find affordable insurance. I don’t have to go to court this time though. I can just pay through the L.A. Superior Court website. Convenient, isn’t it.

The Signal Hill Police Department is on my hit list. Long Beach Cops are pricks, but they have better things to do than give out bullshit tickets. Maybe it’s because Signal Hill is the size of two city blocks that they feel the need to give out numerous traffic tickets for no apparent reason. Why that “city,” and I use the term loosely, even has a Police Department I will never know. Now I take the freeway to work and back every day. Fuck taking the streets.

On another annoying note, I got some bullshit scam letter in the mail today from some con shop calling themselves: Check Processing Bureau Enforcement Division that claim I owe $140 on a bounced check from some pizza place I’ve never heard of. Number 1, I don’t write checks. It’s all about the debit card or cash. No. 2, I would never order $140 dollars worth of pizza from some delivery place. If I need that much pizza, I haul my ass to Costco and buy like 4 or 5 of their gigantic pizzas in the deli section. Fuck paying a tip and delivery fee. I can bake that shit myself.

Considering that I am still highly pissed off about being scammed by my own city (as far as I’m concerned Signal Hill is a glorified neighborhood in Long Beach and traffic tickets are indeed a scam by the city to line their pockets) I decided not to stand for that shit and reported their assed to the U.S. Postal Service for using the mail to defraud the public. Why these people aren’t arrested and out of business by now anyway is something I don’t understand. Apparently they’ve been doing this shit since 2006. My complaint to the postal service is below. I sound so snooty, LOL.

“A company by the name of Check Processing Bureau Enforcement Division has sent me a letter threatening legal action if I do not pay them the amount of $140 for a supposed bounced/fraudulent check that was written to a pizza delivery service (South Bay Pizza) that I have never heard of. They calm that the “issue” was first sent to a collection agency that “made” several attempts to resolve the matter before it was turned over to them. They are threatening civil and/or criminal action if I do not pay them immediately. I’ve researched this “company” online and many people in various states have received offensive letters and harassing phone calls from this company claiming that they owe money on bounced checks that don’t exist. From the sound of the letter this company is attempting to sound like a federal agency and is using the U.S. Postal Service to send fraudulent and harassing letters to people in an attempt to scam them out of money for unpaid debts that are not real. They should not be allowed to do this. I ask that the U.S. Postal Service look into this matter and hopefully take the appropriate action to cease these fraudulent letters from reaching me and others as well as pursue any legal/criminal action if warranted.”

See, I’m really hyped up about this. This seriously chaps my ass and I’m totally serious when I say I want them to pursue criminal action against these guys. I was lucky just getting a letter. Some people are actually being harassed over the phone by these people repeatedly, and who knows how many poor fucks fell for this shit and sent them money on something that was/is a complete lie. I really, really want to see these con artist and others like them in jail. Everyone is already having enough trouble keeping their head above water in this economy. We don’t need evil bastards like these stealing from us too. We get enough of that at the gas pump.

*Sigh* I’m so bitter these days. I wish I could relax, but I can’t. Maybe putting up a new layout here will help, but I can’t do that until I take care of some other things. I DO have plans for this site though. Tons and tons of plans that I need to find the time to work out. If I didn’t have to work I could do it. Having a job sucks.