Monday, October 10, 2011

htc evo

This weekend I bought myself the HTC Evo through Sprint. My old phone was the Blackberry Storm, through Verizon. The Blackberry Storm was a big piece of junk it had many issues, it would freeze and lock up so I would have to pull the battery out and reset it. On top of all the glitches and errors the phone has I dropped it screen down and cracked it so bad i was unable to text or type. It had gotten so bad it took me 2 hours to type a fifteen word message, so for the last year I have been looking forward to get a new phone. But if I were to renew my contract with Verizon the phone i would have gotten was the Thunderbolt, but it would have cost me $250. So as I looked for a new phone i came across the Evo which is the same as the Thunderbolt just on the sprint network and it was only $150 with a $50 rebate. The Evo has a 8mp camera and a front facing 3mp camera. It runs off the android network and is a 4g phone. Everything about the Evo is nice from the phone calls to the apps. Most of my time on the phone is playing around on the Android market, i have a bunch of games already, like My Country, Paradise Island, and many rpgs like pocket legend. I'm happy with my purchase and would recommend the phone to anyone.

Monday, September 26, 2011

most of the days

Most of my time these days are spent taking care of my eight week old daughter, Thalia Jade. We tend to feed her four ounces of formula at a time but recently we have been feeding her six ounces at a time.The only problem is she tends to spit up all day, so we have to change her outfits all the time. We change her all day but most of the time we only have one poopie time a day, whether its one diaper or two, it only hapens that one time. The rest of the time she is awake we like to give her tummy time, she loves it. We
tend to have to watch her a lot during tummy time because she rolls over a lot. We give her plenty of time sitting up time already. We have a Bumbo and she sits up for about fifteen minutes at a time.
 She is a pretty mellow baby she fusses when she needs something like a bottle or when she is cold and tired. We do all these things for our daughter. I usually feed her in my arms and when she falls asleep we put her in her bouncer. So she naps the day away ocasanally waking up to be feed.
When we take her anywhere she falls asleep within a few minutes and she stays asleep for most of the time we are away she will sleep the whole time. Everyone says she looks like me, i'm just happy she is mine.

Monday, September 19, 2011

grey griffins book 1

The other day i was recommended the book The Revenge of the Shadow King, by Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis. It is a fantasy book set in modern times in a town called Avalon, Minnesota. It involves a group a friends that call themselves the Grey Griffins. Grayson Maximillian Sumner III, but he goes by Max, is the leader and also the main character. Then there is Ernie Tweeny, he is a candy addict and a scaredy-cat. Natalia Romanov is the detective and the thinker of there group. And lastly is Harley Davidson Eisenstein he is the group strong guy and protector.
Max comes from a rich family that owns most of the town of Avalon. They all play a card game called Round Table, it is played with cards on a paper map.It is told that the game is only played by a select few and all cards they get are one of a kind . As the book progresses more things from the game keep showing up in their town, like Morgan La Fey and goblins,  and none of them no why. I have not finished the book yet, so don't know the ending but it has kept my interest half way through and it is now getting great.

Monday, September 12, 2011

1991 grand voyager front brakes

i recently had to change the front breaks on my junk van, a 1991 Plymouth grand voyager. we hate to sink any money into it so to save money i try to do it myself. Some are more easy then others, the front breaks were quite easy. 
The first thing you should do is gather all your tools. You will need a jack and stands, a socket set with extensions,a breaker bar, a four-way lug remover, pry-bar, a large c-clamp (very important), screwdriver, and break cleaner. First put the vehicle in park and block the wheels. Then you roll the jack under the vehicle till it is under the frame, you want to jack it up till it is holding only a little weight. You then want to go around and loosen the lugs on the front tires, you will use either the fourway or a breaker bar and socket. Once all lugs are loose you will then want to jack the vehicle up the rest of the way placing the jack stands under the vehicle frame. Carefully  you want to lower the vehicle down on the jacks till they are supporting the weight. you may then remove the lugs the rest of the way, and remove the tire as you go. The break assembly should be on the front side of the routers. To make it easier you may turn the wheel accordingly for each side.To make it easier to remove, you should use a pry-bar and compress the back side where the caliper piston is.  Next you remove the two bolts on the back of the front break caliper, one on top and one on bottom. The caliper could then be removed. On this vehicle you then remove the outside pad, followed by the router, then the inside pad. At this point you want to look at your routers and feel them looking for deep gouging or uneven wear, you might have to take them in to get looked at to see if they can be milled down and reused or if you need new ones. I got lucky and they were able to save my routers. You can then go back and install the  new inside pads followed by the router and finally the outside pads. Next you will have to put the caliper back on, but to do that you will have to compress the piston the whole way, to do this you use the large c-clamp. Once compressed you can then put the caliper back around the pads and assembly. When you do this the bottom side will go in first and it will be on the inside of the pads the top the slides down till the bolt holes line up. You may the put the bolts back in place and put the tires back on. tighten the lugs as tight as you can in the air while staying safe. when both wheels are back on you want to use the jack and lift the vehicle off the stands. Remove the stands and lower the vehicle back down. Then you want to go back around and give the lug nuts on the tires a second tightening. You can then remove the break and blocks. Then you are done you want to bake up and hit the breaks and test it out on a road before continuing to far. That's all there is to the front breaks on a 1991 Plymouth Grand Voyager. 

Sunday, September 11, 2011

world of warcraft

                I play World of warcraft it is a mmorpg, which means you play online with a whole lot of other people. In the game you choose and design a character from ten different races and ten different classes. You want to play that character and do quests to level up to the max, that at this time is 85. Along the way as you do quests it raises reputation with those factions, that will help get gear and make things cheaper to buy. Once you hit the level cap you still have to get better gear so you can go do end game dungeons and finish the story lines that you start when you do the quests. There is also a player vs player aspect to the game, you can duel anyone you want or you can join the arena. The arena is a team event you fight against other players and get a score ranking based on how many wins and loses you have.
                I have a few characters, my favorite at this point in the game is my level 85 gnome mage. what I like about it is he is just a damage dealer, so all I have to worry about is myself. By that I mean I watch out for the game semantics that affect myself and my own spell rotation.
                Recently I was hacked what that means is someone figured out my user name and password, they then went on the game and sold everything I had on all my characters and then mailed all my gold to them self. They also tried to transfer my mage to a different server and charged it to my credit card. I found out as soon as I woke up. I contacted the creators of the game, Blizzard Entertainment, I told them my account was hacked they instantly suspended my account to check to see what was taken from me and to investigate who did the hacking. They figured out I was hacked and fixed everything that was sold, they also stopped the transfer and any payments made. My account is still suspended even after all the issues were resolved., so for the time I cant play the game I have spent many years and countless hours playing. So all i can do now is wait for them to say i can play again.