SpawnPoint

This is just a friendly note to all you would be hackers/cheaters out there. If you are going to download and use cheats/hacks, do not come to Spawnpoint servers. We have a growing community where a player can play free of abuse, hacks, racism and bad language. You might get away with using your hacks a few times, but you will be caught eventually. At that point, you will be unable to play on any of our clean and friendly servers with that Steam ID. If you choose to buy a new Steam ID, you can have another chance to play with us.

Sometimes you find that special someone that just brightens up your day, makes you smile and helps you feel good about yourself. This is someone that seems like they are inside your mind saying and doing things just to make you happy. To the people out there that have a special someone like this, congratualations. I have one of these people myself. When I met her, it was like a missing piece of my life slid into place that I didn't even know was missing. To the people that are these special friends, I salute you. You, by your very existance, make the world a better place.

For those of you that haven't met, or never will meet this person for your life.....I am truly sorry because you don't know what you are missing. The only advice I have to offer, is if you do meet this person.....hold on and never let go.

To all of my friends out there in cyber land.....
I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed playing with you and chatting with you. Some of your chats have been "fun" to say the least. The ingame interactions run the spectrum from laughing because you just stuck an awp in my face and pulled the trigger to having to look at my "need a bandiad" bind after I knifed you. Those of you who are my cyber friends, If you don't know how much fun I have had with you and how much I appreciate you, then I haven't been doing my job. Some of you I have gotten closer to me than others, you know who you are. Those people will always hold a special place in my heart.. I have enjoyed playing with you all!

Woot! The X-man has a new Truck! I bought an F-150 4x4 STX. It is dark blue and the inside smells soooo good. I love that new car/truck smell. It only had 3 miles on it and 2 of those I put on during the test drive. It has an MP3 player jack, woot! Building houses like I do farther and farther out as land becomes more scarce, you need an MP3 player. It's either that or old folks music. I will post pictures of it at a later date. My old Chev, a '02 Silverado, had some serious issues. Both of the Chevs I have owned were money-pits. The '98 F-150 I had before the '02 Chev never had any problems....so Ford it is. I did look at the Dodges because they have that new lifetime powertrain warranty, but for the same options in the truck, they were $6000 more....no thanks....I also hate the way the new Chevs look. The Titans and Tundras I didn't like either. This Ford has been getting my 21mpg on the highway. Not bad for a V-8, eh? It also handles very nicely. Smooth and tight. My insurance only went up $3 a month too.

I took the kids to Disneyland all last week. (the last week of September 2007) Man did I need the time off. We had lots of fun. Here are some pictures. These ones are of the fireworks over the castle on Friday.




This is my favorite ride of all, the Tower of Terror....


The last one is my little 4 year old daughter talking with Captain Jack Sparrow...

Update on my parent's house burning down situation. 
As if it wasn't enough that the lost everything in the fire, now they have been vicimized by identity theft. Evidently, the theives were stealing their mail and got some credit card billing statements to gain access. They are not going to be responsible for these fraudulant charges...thank goodness.....and as recently as a couple of days ago, these theives tried to open a new account at Best Buy in their name. Lucky for them their credit has already been flagged. 

I am not normally a violent person, but I had a wet dream about standing in line at Best Buy when one of these chumps tries to do this. That piece of slime's only chance at not having the pain being brought is the police showing up in a hurry.....roundhouse kick to head...knife hand strike to adam's apple....leg sweep...then stand firmly on neck while looking for something to hog tie them with...

On the other hand, the insurance company has been very good to deal with. Excavation starts first of next week (10th fo Sept.) and as soon as my mom gets her plan finalized, I will redraw it to code and submit it for a building permit. That part is kind of exciting for her as she gets to take any of the floorplan "flaws" that she didn't like in the old house, and make it exaclty how they want it. You will also be able to heat this place with a Birthday cake after I am done with it too...

You know what sucks? Really loving the Spawnpoint community, its servers and playing CS Source and not being able to play. Some of you know and some don't that my parent's house burned down and all of my available time is spent helping them lately. I could still probably play if it weren't for my 180 mile round trip to my latest contract job on top of it. You know what also sucks? I just installed an 8800GTS and my mom traded my 20" LCD monitor for a new Samsung 22" 3000:1 2ms response monitor and all I have been able to use them for is house designing. Spawnpoint rocks and fire sucks....

Well, my blog is up and running now thanks to the Spawnpoint team...I am just finishing up siding a 6000+ sq ft house and am looking forward to getting paid! My next contract is on the beach, which makes it about the perfect summer job. I also get to build his son a screaming PC. My kids will really enjoy it when they come to visit me on this job.