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[11 Sep 2008|05:24pm] |
So yeah, myspace is neat.. so is facebook.. and now there's ning.. so many social networking sites but nothing is really personal anymore. I'll still use the aforementioned for networking, but I wanted to design something even greater. I've been working hard at it over the past 3 days and my work is almost complete.
The site is going to be designed pretty simple but clean. It will incorporate Cascading Style Sheets, Tables, Javascript, -tiny- bits of Flash, and Server Side Includes. These are just to get the design the way I want it. Now for the content.
There are three main parts to the site.
1. Left menu. This menu takes up 20% of the page and is the main navigation bar. It consists of a hotlink to the main blog page at the top and underneath are collapsable menus. This way it can show a lot of content but doesn't look overwhelming. There are various groups such as Cosplay, Photos, Videos, Games, Anime, Manga, etc. Underneath those groups are sub-menus for more specific pages. For example: Videos - Funny Stuff, Videos - Anime Music Videos, Videos - Events
2. Body. This takes up 60% of the page and is the meat and potatoes of the site. Anything that you click on the left is loaded here. There is a custom-logo title, headers for whatever the page is about, and then content. The main page is a blog where..... I blog!
The Blog. The blog is a bit spicier than your traditional web-blog. In each entry I will record me actually speaking what is on my mind, and then dialogue it underneath for those who actually want to read it or can't understand me. Beyond that I'll add the traditional "Tell us what you're reading, watching, or listening to:" section, but because it's personal I've created a "Play" button that lets you actually listen to the songs. They are pretty compressed so they aren't perfect quality (to ward off theives.. stop stealing music. If you want good quality stuff, buy the CDs!) but I keep them at good enough quality that it doesn't sound terrible.
The Pictures. Picture pages will load in the body and I have created a flash display to present them all. This lets me upload any picture regardless of what the size, display it in a site-friendly size without losing quality, and has great organization to it as well. Every picture can be clicked and presented, each with its own custom caption underneath. There are left and right arrows on the full-size picture to give you a "slideshow" feel, and you can even scroll with your wheel. (to scroll the site again with your wheel, simply click anywhere outside of the picture).
The Videos. Most videos will be uploaded from Youtube and presented directly in the main body of the page. You will likely see videos on my blog where I first present them, but they all will eventually go to their respective video-page.
The Games, Anime, Manga. These are going to be my own personal reviews of games I play, anime I watch, and manga/books I read. This section likely won't get updates as much as the rest because it takes days, if not weeks, to play, watch, and read the entire thing.. and I won't give a review unless I finish it beginning to end.
3. Right schedule. This section takes up 20% of the page and is present on every page. This is an at-a-glance quick look of my schedule. I won't go through and put my work schedule up there. It's mainly an idea of what events I'll be participating in over the next few months.
Right now the site is in its testing phase, but I'll have the domain up very soon. You can see what I have done so far here:
http://www.phillyotaku.com/jamie.net/jamie.shtml
When the domain name is registered, the site will then be called http://www.hiroone.net or http://www.jamierowley.net (both will work)
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| Major Update |
[26 Feb 2008|05:16pm] |
I'm going to talk about many things seemingly random but all are aspects of my life.
I transferred control of my website "the-warrior" to Radical Edward. He's running with it in a slightly different direction and using it as sort of an advertising tool for his own roleplaying agendas. I'm not too happy about that, but he has done site updates which I am pleased with. Overall, I'm glad it's in the hands of someone I can trust.
I've been active in world of warcraft but that is slowing down. I've earned tens of thousands of gold to equip my close guild mates with epic flying mounts. I'm now wearing two out of five pieces of season 3 arena gear and doing quite well there. I've had on and off brushes with raiding and right now prefer not to raid if at all possible. As of a couple weeks ago, I havn't been active in world of warcraft at all and my interest in it has faded yet again because...
... I just got back from Katsucon. This was my first anime con and it was an epic adventure. I wanted to do a cosplay as Hiro and had plans on one of two people to give me a sewing machine so I could make the costume. Neither ever came through so I cosplayed as what I thought would be the easiest costume ever: Kintaro Oe from Goldenboy.
During the con I spent a lot of time in the LARP room. I always thought LARPing was going to be highly "geeky" even for me but it ended up being a ton of fun. The only downsides of the larp was that my character, Kintaro, was not overly useful in general and that there were way too many people wanting to roleplay at once. It sure made things interesting with Johnny Bravo for example, but when you have to wait 20 minutes for your turn.. it gets a bit confusing and the bosses have no chance at all.
Coming back from the con I was on an anime high. I want to cosplay, I want to hang out with my otaku group more, I want to see more anime that I havn't seen yet so I'm more knowledgable.. basically I want to embrace the otaku inside of me.
I start by going to animenfo, checking out the top 200 anime, finding popular series, and I download the entire series via torrents. I downloaded in this order:
Death Note
Full Metal Panic Fumoff
Hellsing Ultimate
Full Moon wo Sagashite
Gundam Wing
Lost Universe
I already saw up to episode 6 of Death Note, but with my introduction to new characters that I havn't heard of at the convention, I had to see the rest. I watched all of death note in a matter of a day. I enjoyed it a lot.
I also wanted to push through my cosplay as Hiro. It was very lame going half-assed in cosplay to katsucon. I knew my income tax was coming in on the 22nd so I started looking for a comission. I started with cosplaymagic.com. They replied to me that they can indeed do a Hiro costume. They did one before minus the pants for someone else and sent me a few pictures.
I was excited by what I saw, but at the same time I was being picky. They asked for a lot of money for the costume and it wasn't perfect. The belt straps across the shoulders didn't have enough metal studs in them. The cloak looked strapped on at the back with a cut-out for the neck - very un-hiro like. Didn't even mention anything about the sports tape around the wrists or feet. I asked them questions, and they kept giving me short replies such as "Yeah we can do that."
I submitted my thoughts on the lunar-net forums to see what my age-old friends over there thought. Kizyr replied that he saw some hiro cosplay over the years and that LuciaOne (another age-old friend of whom I admire) had hers personally comissioned. He didn't know full details, but that's okay.. I was determined at this point.
After a few hours of research, I found the name of the person who does the cosplay comissions: Setsuna Kou. She has been doing costumes for years and has a very wide variety to choose from. After many e-mails back and forth with her (which are all very prompt and personalized), I found out that I definately wanted her to do the costume. I paid her in full and everything seems like it'll be done right away. Havn't heard from her in about 5 days now, but hopefully that means she's making the costume for me =] The only downside is she said "8 weeks normal, 2-4 weeks rush" and of course I paid for rush..
Shortly after that, I went to an anime club meetup at the delaware anime society in Willow Grove - right next to where I live. Bravo, Don, and Cloud from the philly otaku were coming as well. The DAS (Delaware Anime Society) were all very fun to be around. They had Nights for the WII which I loved dearly on my saturn. They also showed Midori Days (a bit odd), a new fansub about drilling and head-style mechas.. a bit odd but good none the less. We had to use my laptop because it's epic and doesn't skip like theirs did. They also showed this anime about a middle aged man who used to be a rocker and he is saving the universe with his rock and roll. It was epic.
After all that, I took everyone to the wasabi house for dinner. Got to know the DAS a bit more personally and looked forward to meeting with them again in the future. I took cloud, bravo, and don around town. We ended up going to Barnes & Noble to geek over their manga section. After much browsing, I found a series that was right up my alley: Genshiken. Here's an exceprt of the story overview:
Genshiken follows the lives of a group of college students drawn together by their shared hobbies, and the trials and adventures associated with being otaku. The story begins with the introduction of Kanji Sasahara, a shy, confidence-lacking freshman who on club day at university, decides to join a club he would actually enjoy, Genshiken. Over his four years at Shiiou University, Sasahara comes to accept himself for who he is and loses the inhibitions and guilt he once felt and associated with otaku culture, becoming an enthusiastic clubmember, and for a time, a capable club president. As the story of Genshiken progresses, focus is also placed on Saki Kasukabe, a determined non-otaku who initially struggles to drag her boyfriend out of the club, and Chika Ogiue, a self-professed otaku-hater who feels a deep-seated shame and self-loathing toward her own interests and hobbies.
During the course of the series, the reader bears witness as the group grows in its cohesiveness over time, and bonds form between the characters as they begin to see themselves as more than fellow club members, but friends as well. In this context, club activities such as group outings, the biannual pilgrimage to Comifes, and even simply hanging out in the clubroom, allow the characters' complex relationships to grow into friendship, infatuation, and at times, even love. While a few of them never quite see eye-to-eye about their interests or the lives they lead, they are held together by the bonds of friendship that they share.
Wow, Epic! I had plenty of B&N gift cards so I bought the first 5 mangas. Took everyone home and later went home. I read half of the first manga before hitting the bed.
I started to download more anime off torrents and found Genshiken as an anime too! Here's what I downloaded:
Genshiken
GetBackers
Black Cat
Ouran High School Host Club
Started watching Genshiken and loved every minute of it. In between episodes I was chatting with the philly otaku group and decided now was a good time to create a website for everyone. It's called www.phillyotaku.com and it's epic. I pretty much stole my old layout from the-warrior because it works well here. I don't want anything too fancy. The group widley accepted the site and all wanted to be added to the members section. So far I have 8 people who sent me a personal member request and I have added them all.
And for today, watched the rest of Genshiken and found out they have a second season.. Downloading that right now. Saw the first episode already and it's just as good as the rest. I highly recommend anyone who is an otaku to buy this manga, or buy the dvds, or download the torrents. It's definately worth your time. After watching Genshiken, I think it's time for me to release my ooey gooey otaku goodness by organizing my room and putting up more posters. I got a new camera after losing my last one and I'll hopefully be taking pictures of what everything looks like when I'm done.
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[25 Nov 2007|01:44am] |
Yay for console gaming! It's a shame that I don't have room for game consoles in my room.. I really want to play some classics again like Grandia and Lunar.
The latest Newtype magazine talked about a new NiGHTs coming out for the Nintendo WII. Finally a good enough reason for me to want to buy one. Recently in between college classes I've been playing some of my old nintendo games on an emulator and not just a sparse "hey remember this?" sort of thing but a "I'm going to play it seriously and beat it" kind of thing. I beat the original Zelda in under two hours. People gathered all around because they heard familiar music hehe. Good stuff. Now I'm playing MegaMan III. Game's tough and I need to hook up my sidewinder controller because the keyboard is for th' lose when it comes to megaman games.. wish me luck!
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| A birthday wrought with a busy life |
[04 Oct 2007|01:50pm] |
I'm 24 today and to celebrate my birthday I'm going to class from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening. I enjoy my classes, but this area I'm in feels very lonely. Montco is a well developed and diverse college, but a lot of people have already made connections and likely well before they came here. I find it difficult to make friends beyond a small socialing in class (and most classes I don't even have that).
My grades are doing alright. I havn't been applying myself to studies as much as I would like because I'm not really motivated. I'm the kind of person who does for others rather than for himself, and studying is "doing for myself". If I were studying with others and in turn for others, I will likely gain a foothold on the material myself as well.
My brother put it best in a recent conversation. Be rude and loud, because the nice quiet guys never get attention or respect. This is not the way I am, but it hits right on the mark.
Philadelphia in a whole seems like a black hole in my heart. I've been here for nearly a year and I'm still so very alone in all regards. I have a few "maybe" friends but they live so far away we never hang out. I'm supposed to be celebrating my 24th birthday, but with whom?
This is why I play world of warcraft or darkages all the time. This is why I lock myself away in my room for days on end, playing games, listening to music, watching anime.. it's because I have no reason to do anything else.
There is a girl in my japanese class of whom I'm remotely attracted to, but she does not take any interest in me beyond the class. I'm sure I seem like an interesting guy to her, but not interesting enough to ask about "What's your next class" or "Do you mind driving me to such and such". Maybe those kind of statements are too bold, yet I can't understand the reasoning sometimes. Today in class she was talking with her friends about how she wishes she had a boyfriend and this isn't the first time. I've tried my end: Asking her for help with studies, giving her my number, taking notes for her in class when she is gone. She just isn't interested in getting to know me.
So rather than make this entry another typical "he's in love but it's unrequited" post, I'll reiterate the basis of this rant. I need to find some people with similar interests that don't mind hanging out from time to time. There aren't any reading, anime, or japanese clubs at my college so I can't go down that avenue. If anyone reads this and has any suggestion, let me know.
- Jamie Rowley
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| Looks like I was close but not good enough |
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"Jamie,
Thank you for your interest in the position. At the present time, we have
chosen to offer the position to another candidate. Having said that, you were a
finalist for the position and I enjoyed meeting with you. If any other
opportunities become available within the Data Services department, I'll
certainly keep you in mind.
I chose to e-mail you because I recall reaching you at work on your cell phone
once and it was inconvenient for you. Having said that, if there is anything
further you'd like to discuss at this point in time, I'd be happy to speak with
you; just give me a call. Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Michael Sernoff
Vice-President, Client Services
SofterWare, Inc."
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| Sort of a lull.. |
[08 Apr 2007|02:34am] |
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The company that was going to hire me is in a mid-move process (closer to me actually) and they're a bit behind on interviews so they won't be able to decide on me for a short while until they're situated. Been doing good in darkages and learnt a lot more of coding on the side. Not quite a "fun" hobby but it makes me feel like I've accomplished something whenever I get a set of code to work the way I want it to work ^_^
At staples I've been pushing for a raise and I have a strong feeling I'm going to get it. They set their goals for my position very high and I've been exceeding them over the past two weeks - putting our store #1 in easy tech sales for the district for two weeks straight. Wish me luck!
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| Minor update |
[26 Mar 2007|10:41pm] |
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Minor update, but it's a bit major. I had an interview today at a small company that's been in business for 25 years developing database software. They want me to join them as a SQL Database Administrator. I'll likely get the job (will receive a call or e-mail within the week) and they're going to be paying me 35k a year. Not bad for a starting entry-level job for a guy who has no college degree to show his worthiness.
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| 300 |
[11 Mar 2007|12:44am] |
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Wow.. just... wow. This movie was fantastic. The choreography was stupendous. Three hundred spartains lined up in a neigh impenetrable wall of shields guarding a valley from tens of thousands of persian invaders. They push against a three man deep army, and the spartains punch them back with their shields, thrust in their spears for the kill, and reform their wall in seconds as one solid force. I havn't seen a masterpiece of strategy, leadership, and teamwork like this before.
On a side note, got my PA Driver's licence today and got my insurance down to $105 instead of the $140 I've been paying. I'm finally getting over being sick. Today was a good day. Hopefully tomarrow will be even better. I plan on getting a lot of work for my website done and we're going downstairs to clean out the basement. Got some books out of the van still unpacked from when I moved here and put them all on a newly emptied bookshelf. Mostly Fantasy novels, Manga, Newtype magazines, and D&D games.
Have a good night everyone. Keep in touch.
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| Crossroads |
[09 Mar 2007|11:30pm] |
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I'm now at the crossroads of my life and I strongly feel I am on the right path. To quote my favorite poet Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
My financial troubles are coming to a solid end. I checked my credit which I feared was going to be terrible. It's not as bad as I thought: 653. Definately has room for improvement and I'm on the right path to that.
My outstanding debt: $1000 to a credit card I havn't used in over two years. $3000 to a Mohela Student Loan. $3000 to Carmax for my '98 Neon Carloan. That's it. Everything else has been snuffed.
So what are my plans? I plan on being debt free in 8 months (sometime around October of this year). I'm killing that credit card loan. I'm stamping out the car loan. I'm sending Mohela on its way. I make $1500 a month and my bills include: $50 internet, $40 food, $50 gas every month. I know $40 for food sounds cheap but I'm not cutting corners. Instead of spending $6-8 a day on a meal, I spend $1.70 and it's good stuff.
What about things for myself? Of course I go out and spend money on myself from time to time. I play Dark Ages which is $9.95 a month, I go out to the movies, hang out with my friends, buy new anime.. but now whenever I pay for anything I think first "I still need to pay for things I currently own". So unless it's something I truely want and can't get later, I'm going to pass on it. This includes a huge cutback on Anime unfortunately but hey.. animesuki.com hasn't failed me yet. I'll manage.
So what then when my debt is gone? Well the next step accordingly is to make sure my life is set where I need it to be. With this said, I'm still not going to be splurging. Instead, I'm going to do whatever it takes to own a home. It doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be big. It doesn't have to be the best looking or in a well-to-do neighborhood. $100,000 home that needs a lot of repair will be fine. I've got an idea.. we'll see when the time comes on how I can bring it to fruitation. Find a $100,000 home in the suburbs that needs a good bit of repair. With no debt and good credit, I can afford to get a $120,000 loan. Buy the house outright with the loan. Make mortgage payments on it and use the other $20,000 to fix the home up. Take as long as it needs to make that house so that it's worth $200,000. Sell it. Now with $80,000 profit (more or less depending on how much investment is needed), I can nearly pay off a brand new house of my own. Imagine the cost of living owning your own home without a mortgage. Who wants to spend the next 30 years of their life paying on a house? There's got to be a better way and I think I have it.
Finally, I want to create a theme with the house I buy. I played a video game on the computer recently that really inspired me. It's a horror myst'esque game called "Scratches". It's cheap so if you havn't played it go and buy it for $9.98. The game takes place in a victiorian style mansion in North Umberland, England. I loved the visuals inside the game and I want my own home to be the same style. It may not be a mansion. On the contrary, it'll be small and humble but I want it to look spactacular once anyone steps inside as if they are walking backwards two centuries just by passing through my door. All my computer equipment and personal hobbys will be in a secluded room inside the house. The phone will be an antique rotary dial, a large grandfather clock, victorian style drapes, metalware, desks, bookshelves, tables. Old paintings lining the walls (replicas will do fine with a low budget). Just a dream, but a good possiblity of a reality. I saw some very nice victorian chairs on e-bay going for $199. A king and queen set. Here's a table going for $100:
On another note, I've had a sore throat all week. The sore throat is finally feeling better today than the entire week, however now I have a cold. Hopefully this entire sickness ordeal will be over sooner than one would think. I have however, done a TON of work on my website.
I've been very active on Dark Ages over the past month. Updated my creatures section extensively with creature and NPC animations galore. I have a lot of aspirations for the site and even though I've been sick I've still been cranking at it as much as possible. It's a great hobby. On my lunch breaks, I put the food in the microwave, snap open the laptop, plug in the mouse, plug in the power cord, plug in the usb 2 gig drive, and I go to town with website additions and newly created animations.
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| Life north of Philadelphia, PA |
[10 Feb 2007|09:32am] |
After being here a month it gives me time to reflect..
It is cold up here but it's nothing that I can't handle. I knew moving up north wasn't going to freeze me to death like everyone suggested. I work in Warrington Staples for now Monday through Friday various times (though they love to put me on for 11:00 AM to 7:30 PM). The job is extremely busy - much more than my other staples down south. I'm keyed as the "Easy Tech" though I'm not getting paid a dime more. To save all the rants and frustrations that I'm now responsible for, let's just say that I'm now overworked and leave it at that.
I'm looking for a new job almost daily - something that pays substancially more and hopefully (fingers crossed) isn't nearly as stressful. I'm also finally getting my finances under control. Soon to be debt free. I still need to get my car turned over to PA tags and licence but with all these 11 to 7 shifts it doesn't give me much time.
Lesee.. got a haircut.. got the warcraft collector's edition though I don't really play it. I'm still on darkages mostly. I'm probably going to pick up reading again very soon because my drive for online gaming isn't what it used to be. I met a few people around philly from okcupid but as close as Philly is to me (9 miles) it's nearly a 40 to 50 minute drive due to congestion..
 Let's talk about philly. It's big, it's busy, and it's packed like a can of sardines! I was driving down to the ritz to meet some new people and see Pan's Labrynth about two weeks ago. Block to block heavy traffic, hardly ever going past 20 miles an hour. Two-lane roads on both sides and a center median that has the zagged yellow lines instead of an actual cement block.. cars parked through the center median in the middle of the main busy street. Cars parked along the left and right side of the road all the way up and down it. An actual parking lot costs 3-4 an hour to park. No way around it, if you drive through philly you pay to park. Most people, it would seem, simply take a train or bus to philly and walk to where they need to go.
Pan's labrynth was actually very neat though! It was a fantastic movie. I'm glad they didn't change the language, I don't think it would have done so well in english. I'm supposed to be meeting up with the "crew" again on Valentines day and on Friday evening for more theatre and hang-out time. Overall, I think I made a great decision to leave Atlanta. There are things I miss, and miss greatly, but I feel like I'm now a lot more in control and proactive with my life. Oh, and it finally snowed but hasn't sticked yet.
Recently saw Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited away. I enjoyed Spirited Away much more but they were both really good. I think the main reason I didn't enjoy Howl's Moving Castle as much is because I saw it dubbed. I don't know why, but watching anime in japanese really feels more comfortable to me.
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| Back in the North |
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 I'm dissappointed! Where's my snow!?
I'm now living with my Father in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It's going to take a bit of getting used to. For now I'm on dial-up but already ordered comcast to come in and hook us up. I have the cable modem and the wireless router so I'll hopefully be up and running again soon. For now, I must suffer.. I think that sabrina online picture in my previous post now applys to me as well!
There isn't much space in this house for me so I'm going to have to sort through my belongings and find what I don't absolutely want to decorate my small room with and stuff it in the basement. My father's really interested in getting my finances on the right track. I havn't been here more than two days and he's already talking about how I need to save up to 10k in my bank account and buy a house for myself! Getting above 1k alone has been a miracle for me to be honest. Now that I'm going to be saving a bit monthly on my bills I'll see what I can do..
Trying to make new friends but don't know of much around here. I went to a few online sites to find people with similar interests and sent out a ton of mails but havn't gotten too many replies just yet. Meh, it's going to take some time I guess.
As for my job at Staples, it's good. It's good to be back up north, everyone's very laid back and helpful. They think I'm working too hard though because I do too much. Working in the south I was responsible for many things and many departments aside from what I specialize in, so I think they're a bit surprised as to what I'm capable of.
Still getting organized, but never enough time. I don't think I'm going to be working retail for much longer though. Knowing my father, he's going to push me to get an office-line job in an IT Department or something along those lines. I won't be complaining too much though, it'd be nice to have a monday - friday normal person's job hehe.
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| Honesty |
[03 Jan 2007|08:54pm] |
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The details will come. I rushed things with Alayna and followed the advice of a friend, shutting Alayna out of my life. That hurt me more than being told not to move. I'd like to apologize to her, but I havn't seen her on in quite a long time. Some would forget things over time but some things won't be forgotten until I'm in my grave.
Since that moment in time I started playing darkages again. I notice that I spend my time enjoying one thing at a time and whatever it is, I immerse myself in it. I brought my website (the-warrior.net) back under a new domain name: www.the-warrior.info. I joined a guild "Phoenix Rising". The guild was compromised of social friends that I was aquainted with. They were primarily a hunting guild so this would work out for me.
 Nearly a month later, a co-worker of mine named Jayce hyped up Warcraft again and piqued my interest to play my epiced warrior again: Pythons. I transfered him from Twisting Nether server (Medium Population RP-PvP) to Cenarius (High Pop PvE). Shortly later, he quit his job at Staples out of frustration. Although he was in a very powerful guild on his server, he was pretty arrogant. I had my orc warrior on Skullcrusher (High Pop PvP) server named Morpork and started building him back up and that's where I'm at now.
I visited my father in Philladelphia in mid-November for the baptism of my godson. I told him that I wasn't moving to Milwaukee and he was a bit surprised because he knew how heartset I was on it. He did offer to have me move up there with him. Day after day he said he wanted me to move up there and asked what he had to do to get me to make the move. After returning home a few weeks later I told him I would and we've been making plans to have me move up there mid-January.
I had an incident that is long over with the Philly flights. Mainly I lost my wallet and had to change flights over three times making my day very long and weary. Everything is taken care of now and the wallet was mailed back to me by the airport with everything intact.
I spent a bit of time reading some online comics that a friend sent me "Sabrina-Online.com". They're great, I recommend anyone reading this journal to visit that site and start reading them from the beginning.
Christmas was good. I mailed off my best friend in CT "Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift" PS2 game. He loves racing and racing games. Got my father a GPS, his wife a new set of phones and a JC Pennys gift card. Got my mother and her husband Biker gloves (They're into a Harley kick) and a Harley Throw. Got my grandmother memory for her PC (Hey, she really wanted it.. but note to anyone who does things like this, leave DETAILED instructions with PICTURES in the box.. trust me on this one....). Gave Russell & Inge (Room-mates) a copy of Everquest II - Echoes of Faedewer expansion, Batman Begins DVD, Batman the Movie DVD (The 70s one), and that penguin movie soundtrack. I was given some gift cards for Barnes & Noble (Got some new James M. Ward books, Author of the Pools of Radience Trilogy), Best Buy (Picked up a powerful new video card.. thing's like a foot long and takes two power connectors!), and got a Microsoft Zune Media Player (this thing is just too sweet..).
Not much celebration for New Years Day (just stayed at home playing games). I also recently started playing Resident Evil 4.. this game is fantastic. I just got to the castle now. Not much of a spoiler, but there's a castle in the game. Badass!
I'm now getting ready for the big move to Philly. My mother's coming up from North Carolina on the 6th through the 11th to help me pack and my father is driving down on the 12th to move me. Up there it's going to be free room & board, get to live near my original family, I'll get a chance to go back to college at DeVry, get my finances straight, and my father's going to motivate me to get a real job - not work in retail much longer. In the meantime I'm going to see if I can transfer my staples job up there.
That's all for now. If you want to talk to me about anything in particular, just send me a message on AIM. I'm on all the time, either HiroOne or Vamistlezellas.
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I'm getting over my love for Alayna. It's hard and I'm an emotional person but I've never felt this strong for someone my entire life through all the relationships I've been in.
I told her I wanted to be with her and that I wanted to move to her. She refused and though much contemplation we're no longer friends. She even removed me from her journal's friends list.
So what now? I move on. Do I have another love interest? No.. I wish I did to fill this void in my heart.
My warcraft account did not sell. It sold but the buyer used unauthorized funds and paypal reversed the funds. I have to resell it again. I created a second warcraft account to play on the side but I probably won't play that much. Warcraft made many enjoyable friends but it's not what I'm known for. I'm going back to my already grown roots with darkages. The day I came back I had a very warm reception. Although the two people who were very good friends have just recently left the game, there's hope there still.
I renewed my website but unfortunately I had to change the domain name because the-warrior.net is taken by an advertising company. Instead the website will now be the-warrior.info. It is odd but makes sense: the website is nothing more than information for the darkages community anyway.
I changed my AIM name to Vamistlezellas mainly to hide from Alayna. I don't want to be rude to her, yet this is the best way for me to get over her. The less I see her around the better.
Kru.com, owners of darkages, are having difficulties sending me the coupon codes needed to register darkages through my aol e-mail address. I purchased other ones through my g-mail address and that works well. Eventually I need to change my active e-mail to gmail.
I showed Megan a new anime series as well as a chinese live action manga romance series, I hope she likes it. I really want to hang out with her sometime but she seems very busy lately.
Living in Dawsonville with Russell is convinent but it's not working out. I need to move, be it Alpharetta or a move to a new life instead. It's the small things that are getting to me. Small and petty, but I've put up with it long enough.
Welcome to my world.
WELCOME
TOTHENE
XTLEVEL
I am Jamie Rowley, single caucasian male living north of Atlanta. Age 23, weight 118lbs, 5'9". I am an emotional, kind and helpful, and courteous. I enjoy video gaming, online gaming, and video game lore. My favorite past times are spending time with friends for whatever the occasion, watching japanese animation, listening to all sorts of music, and working on my website. My future aspirations include making a living enjoying what I do best and spending time with my family, friends and loved ones.
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I've got to be strong but it's so hard. I don't understand life.. I won't be updating this now so this is a goodbye to the glass window of me.
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[19 Oct 2006|01:57pm] |
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Do I stay strong or do I back down? I am planning on moving to be closer to the girl I care the most about so that we can be more than just online friends... So that we can be Real friends. I told her the truth, about the move, and about my feelings for her. It was silly for me to do, I know.. I mean how would you take it if one of your online friends told you that they loved you and they were going to move just to be around you? I know I'd be shocked and perhaps a bit scared as well. I mean.. you don't know them personally and you don't know what they will be like.
I can't expect her to want me around after this. A sensible person like her turns me away. Nobody wants to live with drama in their lives. As for me though.. this is the first thing I've wanted to do in over five years by myself that I'm actually following through with.
My life over the past five years has plenty of positive outlooks as well as negative. In all, it's a natural circle. I'll try to list them..
Positive:
I made many friends through darkages and continued working on my website, the-warrior.net to inspire and help thousands of people.
I started to play warcraft in the betas and became very skilled there.. so skilled that my account is selling for nearly a grand.
I've moved to a few different places north of Atlanta and met some interesting people.
I've been to an anime club almost weekly before the store (media play) was shut down.
My co-workers have always been friendly and I can account many of them as to being all good friends.
I've experienced college life through two different colleges and I want to experience more.
I had my first real life relationship.
Negative:
I havn't made too many friends outside of the workplace.
I rarely leave home because of my enjoyment of anime and games.
My college self-motivation is only in spurts.. I find it hard to continue normally.
I'm a hopeless romantic. I've tried to date Jenn long-distance (from darkages) but it never worked out.
I moved up north to a point I can't even say I live near Atlanta anymore and now I not only have no friends to be around without driving an hour, my room-mate/friend/co-worker doesn't have time to hang out either.
I've thought about moving from time to time but never as seriously as I have now. I thought about moving to be near Jenn but I was never as motivated to actually accomplish this. I find that I follow my heart too much and it's fragile. I recover quickly because of my level-headedness but I'm still a really emotional-driven person.
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[18 Oct 2006|10:51pm] |
the things I do for love.. like selling my Warcraft account ^^;
"Dear Jamie Rowley,
You have an Instant Payment of $832.01 USD from kim6772vcq (wowaddict@rock.com)."
W00t!
or not..
"Dear Jamie Rowley,
It has come to our attention that you may be the recipient of potentially
unauthorized funds. We have initiated an investigation into this event. In the
meantime, we have placed a temporary hold on the funds in question until the
investigation is complete. This temporary hold will show as a deduction in your
available balance. In the meantime, you are free to continue transacting using
your PayPal account.
Transaction Date: Oct. 18, 2006 11:41:57 PDT
Transaction Amount: $832.01 USD
Payor's Email: wowaddict@rock.com
If you have not delivered the goods or services related to this transaction, we
ask that you delay or stop delivery until our investigation is complete as you
may be liable for the amount in question.
To assist us in our investigation, please send an email to pending_reversal@paypal.com
with the following information:
1. The item, service or purpose of the purchase, and the associated value;
2. The name and address given to you by the sender (if an item was purchased);
3. If shipped, the company used for shipping, date of shipment, and tracking
number for the shipment;
4. Details of any other transactions related to the transaction(s) in question;
5. A phone number where you can be reached during the day and evening; and
6. Insurance information, if applicable.
Any additional information you have regarding this transaction, such as email
correspondence, will further help us to expedite our investigation. Solving
these cases helps us continue to offer PayPal as a secure and cost-effective
payment service. We appreciate your cooperation and assistance.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Team"
My reply to them..
"1. The item, service or purpose of the purchase, and the associated value;
The item that is being purchased is a digital online video game account and the work put into building it.
2. The name and address given to you by the sender (if an item was purchased)
The name and address given to me is the following:
Kim Paskey-Hartranft
5103 Meadowbrook Place
Pipersville, PA 18947
3. If shipped, the company used for shipping, date of shipment, and tracking
number for the shipment;
The content is digital so there is nothing physical to ship. Once the payment is properly recieved I shall e-mail Kim Paskey-Hartranft the digital content and I can supply a copy of the e-mail if necessary to assure that my end of the transaction is fulfilled.
4. Details of any other transactions related to the transaction(s) in question
The customer has claimed to me that he could not pay with paypal directly at first because he did not have a checking account associated with his paypal. He said that instead he had a credit card on file with paypal (his only bank account was a savings account) and by having only a credit card on file he wasn't a verified member and therefore couldn't spend over a certain dollar amount unless I had a "Buy it now" option through e-bay.
5. A phone number where you can be reached during the day and evening
Day and Evening both are 678-910-8726
6. Insurance information, if applicable.
There is no insurance information for this product. I only have auto and renter's insurance :)
Here is also a copy of the chat log between me and the purchaser if it helps any.
v0rtal (1:11:51 PM): hey
v0rtal (1:11:53 PM): i am here
v0rtal (1:11:58 PM): i want the account yes
v0rtal (1:12:31 PM): ok here is the "problem" i made a paypal account
HiroOne (1:12:34 PM): I already have the account set and ready to go. My paypal is HiroOne@aol.com. As soon as it's paid I'll give you the information. I also need the address, e-mail, and phone number to transfer the account to
v0rtal (1:12:49 PM): listen
v0rtal (1:12:55 PM): i need you to repost it on ebay
v0rtal (1:12:58 PM): with a buy now option
v0rtal (1:13:02 PM): please
HiroOne (1:13:21 PM): Hm.. let me link my paypal to the vamistle account
v0rtal (1:13:39 PM): man
v0rtal (1:13:47 PM): you sure your not trying to ripp me off
v0rtal (1:13:48 PM): lol
v0rtal (1:13:51 PM): im kinda nervous
HiroOne (1:14:31 PM): If you feel like calling me you can - it's 678-910-8726.
v0rtal (1:15:36 PM): well listen
v0rtal (1:15:42 PM): i tried to send you the ebay
v0rtal (1:15:47 PM): *paypal
v0rtal (1:15:53 PM): but my account isnt verified
v0rtal (1:16:02 PM): so i have a "spending cap"
v0rtal (1:16:41 PM): i need you to remake the auction so i can use my other CC and make another paypal cause if i make the PURCHASE AND PAYPAL AT THE SAME TIME i can spend over the cap.. and your character is way over the cap
v0rtal (1:16:53 PM): do you know what i mean?
HiroOne (1:17:17 PM): I gotcha. I went through the same trouble before. My paypal is verified (8) now after the years passed but I ran into the same problem when I first started
v0rtal (1:17:29 PM): yea
v0rtal (1:17:35 PM): i have no bank account
v0rtal (1:17:39 PM): =/
v0rtal (1:17:42 PM): only CC
v0rtal (1:17:47 PM): and a simple savings account
v0rtal (1:17:50 PM): no check account
v0rtal (1:18:14 PM): if you get it posted now
v0rtal (1:18:24 PM): i will purchase
v0rtal (1:18:27 PM): before you go to work "
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[18 Oct 2006|01:34pm] |
Blizzard somehow did it again.. they got my auction of my account canceled and removed -after- it had already sold!
"Oct 17 (14 hours ago)
eBay Item Sold: World of Warcraft 60 Warrior Epiced Legendary WoW (260041643581)
Congratulations! The following item just sold:
World of Warcraft 60 Warrior Epiced Legendary WoW
Sale price: $832.01
Quantity sold: 1
Subtotal: US $832.01
Shipping & Handling: Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service: US $0.00
Insurance: (not offered)
Sales tax: (none)
Buyer: kim6772vcq (v0rtal@aim.com) [ contact buyer ]
Buyer's registered address Kim Hartranft
5103 Meadowbrook Place
Pipersville, PA 18947 United States "
"10:27 am (3 hours ago)
eBay Listing Removed: Other VeRO Claims (=IS &12480 JM76094457)
Thank you for your recent auction-style listing. You listed the following:
260041643581 - World of Warcraft 60 Warrior Epiced Legendary WoW
Unfortunately, eBay removed your listing. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on this item that the listing has been canceled.
The rights owner, Blizzard Entertainment, notified eBay that this listing violates intellectual property rights. When eBay receives a report of
this type of violation, we remove the listing to comply with the law."
Now I'm going through the process of contacting the seller to see if he still wants to buy the account..
v0rtal (12:50:16 PM): what happened
v0rtal (12:50:17 PM): ?
v0rtal (12:50:19 PM): i just got home
v0rtal (12:50:25 PM): and was going to pay for the warrior
v0rtal (12:50:31 PM): and it got pulled off auction?
HiroOne (12:53:02 PM): It wasn't pulled off the auction, I believe you were the winner
HiroOne (12:53:14 PM): You're kim6772vcq, right?
v0rtal (12:53:29 PM): yes
v0rtal (12:53:43 PM): but i got an email that said the auction was pulled because it violated TOS
HiroOne (12:55:07 PM): Really? That's odd. It says it was won properly.
Subtotal: US $832.01
Shipping and handling via Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service:
US $0.00
Total: US $832.01
Congratulations on winning the account. The e-mail address for the paypal is HiroOne@aol.com. Once paid for, I will supply you with the username and password for the account. I also need a few things from you to assure that the account is transferred properly in your name. Name (First & Last) Address City, State, Zip Home Phone, Evening Phone E-mail Address
Please email me at vamistle@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Thank you again for your purchase.
v0rtal (12:55:43 PM): log into ebay
HiroOne (12:57:23 PM): I just got the e-mail. It's kind of odd that ebay can remove an auction after it was already won. Looks like blizzard is removing account-selling auctions. You can still pay for the auction though through paypal and I'll finish my part of the deal over here.
HiroOne (1:04:11 PM): Are you going to still purchase the account? Otherwise I'll have to repost it and wait another three days.
HiroOne (1:09:10 PM): Are you still there? I have to leave for work in an hour. If you're not planning on purchasing the account I will have to repost it before I leave for work today
v0rtal (1:11:51 PM): hey
v0rtal (1:11:53 PM): i am here
v0rtal (1:11:58 PM): i want the account yes
v0rtal (1:12:31 PM): ok here is the "problem" i made a paypal account
HiroOne (1:12:34 PM): I already have the account set and ready to go. My paypal is HiroOne@aol.com. As soon as it's paid I'll give you the information. I also need the address, e-mail, and phone number to transfer the account to
v0rtal (1:12:49 PM): listen
v0rtal (1:12:55 PM): i need you to repost it on ebay
v0rtal (1:12:58 PM): with a buy now option
v0rtal (1:13:02 PM): please
HiroOne (1:13:21 PM): Hm.. let me link my paypal to the vamistle account
v0rtal (1:13:39 PM): man
v0rtal (1:13:47 PM): you sure your not trying to ripp me off
v0rtal (1:13:48 PM): lol
v0rtal (1:13:51 PM): im kinda nervous
HiroOne (1:14:31 PM): If you feel like calling me you can - it's 678-910-8726. This is just the second time e-bay removed the auction and it's getting me worried that my e-bay account might be removed
v0rtal (1:15:36 PM): well listen
v0rtal (1:15:42 PM): i tried to send you the ebay
v0rtal (1:15:47 PM): *paypal
v0rtal (1:15:53 PM): but my account isnt verified
v0rtal (1:16:02 PM): so i have a "spending cap"
v0rtal (1:16:41 PM): i need you to remake the auction so i can use my other CC and make another paypal cause if i make the PURCHASE AND PAYPAL AT THE SAME TIME i can spend over the cap.. and your character is way over the cap
v0rtal (1:16:53 PM): do you know what i mean?
HiroOne (1:17:17 PM): I gotcha. I went through the same trouble before. My paypal is verified (8) now after the years passed but I ran into the same problem when I first started
v0rtal (1:17:29 PM): yea
v0rtal (1:17:35 PM): i have no bank account
v0rtal (1:17:39 PM): =/
v0rtal (1:17:42 PM): only CC
v0rtal (1:17:47 PM): and a simple savings account
v0rtal (1:17:50 PM): no check account
v0rtal (1:18:14 PM): if you get it posted now
v0rtal (1:18:24 PM): i will purchase
v0rtal (1:18:27 PM): before you go to work
v0rtal (1:18:27 PM): lol
v0rtal (1:18:43 PM): hey
v0rtal (1:18:45 PM): you there?
HiroOne (1:18:47 PM): I'm trying to see what I have to do to get my paypal linked to this e-bay account. If I can't get it linked, I'll use my original e-bay account at risk of it getting termed by blizzard
v0rtal (1:18:51 PM): sorry wrong keyboard
HiroOne (1:20:44 PM): I think I got it. Now just have to repost it
v0rtal (1:20:52 PM): ok
HiroOne (1:28:46 PM): It's taking too long to update for that so I'll use my HiroOne account
v0rtal (1:28:53 PM): ok
HiroOne (1:30:36 PM): Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220039041682
HiroOne (1:31:07 PM): Oof it took out all the style and text and such.. I'll try to make it look good again
HiroOne (1:32:37 PM): There, it looks better now
v0rtal (1:33:40 PM): ok
v0rtal (1:33:41 PM): cool
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I confessed.
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I suppose I am chasing a dream.. a dream worth chasing. I make bold steps that oftentimes are countered with repercussions. The best I can do is be prepared for them.
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