Support Forums

Many of you have heard about Hack Forums either via my blog or somewhere else on the internet. Today I'd like to introduce you to a much better forum (imho) created by the same man. http://www.supportforums.net/ is Jesse Labrocca's new forum (otherwise known as a Bulletin Board), and despite still being young in age, has been all the rage on the internet. Omni (Jesse) knows how to do it on the internet!

Support Forums is a place of... well, support! On Support Forums you can find help and support for just about anything from life help, to car repair.


I invite you all to join up and join in on a forum with a great community and greater motives. Be helped and help others, and Merry Christmas!



Alan

Interwebz

Was actually thinking about some old internet friends recently due to a thread on hf asking for the most popular users on hf. Myself and lasalite proceeded to post all the HF ancients. While looking for a name I couldn't remember, I came across an old thread I had posted that side tracked me drastically. It was 11 pages long consisting mostly of posts by myself, EdgeX- (iintens now) and Kuroda_Shun. The thread angered me slightly as I went through as I realized how naive I had been. Kuroda had just returned to hf after disappearing for a duration of time. I have a lot of respect for Kuroda, and trust him. He gave me his word in that thread that he would not disappear again. less than a week later he was gone again, and now, almost a year later, he's still gone. I dunno what to think of it really, it seemed a lot like him in the thread, but as far as I am aware Kuroda holds true to his word. Yet he has me blocked on Skype (as he uses it publicly, not just for the interwebz and also has it on his phone) and has disappeared from HF and my contact capabilities. It makes me wonder whether I might've done something to piss him off drastically...

God is Watching

So, as some of you may know, my relationship with my wife has gone down the drain. Those of you that are aware of how my church works know that husband and wife are the ministers of the church. Due to these issues with my wife she no longer shows up for services. As an assigned replacement from SACAN I received Cameron. Last weekend myself and Cameron had the same dream. A dream where a teenage girl had what looked like a violent seizure, this girl was also screaming and spitting amounts of blood onto the floor around here. This really scared us both, the worst of it being the fact that we had both had the same dream. We tried to figure out what it could mean, and came up with several possible scenarios. One of which came true last night. Last night we held youth group. I was dealing with some stuff in my bedroom so Cameron did the activities with the youth. She then brought them into the living room and let them put on a movie. Partway through the movie one girl walked into my room and asked if she could play my guitar. I told her she could. A few minutes later she said my name in what seemed a very worried voice, she then spit blood all over my guitar and fell back, she began seizing violently, at the same time spitting blood and screaming. This was identical to the dream myself and Cameron had had only a week before. I rushed the gril to the hospital leaving my landlord to call the parents of the other youth members. Before leaving I asked an online friend of mine who lives on the other side of the world (iintens) to contact Cameron via e-mail as I knew she would get it on her cell. An hour later we were both at the hospital, both of us thanking iintens for his help. Both of us sat in my truck after leaving the hospital the morning afterwards, both of us stunned at what had just occured. The girl is in stable condition for those of you who are curious. This just goes to show how God works in our lives day in and day out, warning us as to events that are to happen and helping those in need. Praise The Lord!


~Alan

Firefox Tech Support

Yesterday I joined Firefox Tech Support. Although very confusing, it is interesting once you get used to it. I was immediatly taken in by zzxc for training. Training for Firefox Tech Support basically means a support rep invites you to join his/her support conversations. You can watch, and once you feel comfortable you can help solve the user's issue(s). Once the support member believes that you know enough to become a full support rep, he reports you to the admin (zzxc) who makes the final decision. After only 3 hours of tech support calls with zzxc I was upgraded to a full Tech Support Representative or Support Mozilla Volunteer (hereby known as SUMOV). We use a program called spark, which takes each tech support request and hands it to each rep one at a time via a notification in the corner of the screen. You have 20 seconds to respond to the invitation with either an accept or reject before it passes it on to the next person in line. I must say I'm thoroughly enjoying this.

Week Begins

Some say we make our own luck. others say luck is made through us. I believe luck does not exist. It is true that "luck" was originally a god, the term "good luck" and "luck be with you" came from this religious figure. Luck does not exist because God does, and God is the ONLY God, as he has told us.

So instead of asking you all to wish me luck as a VERY difficult week begins, I just pray that God be with me and hope that you all pray the same. I hope you all have a great week as well, God be with you all.

IRC

IRC this morning brought back some old memories, having kye, myself and synny dipping around was something that hasn't happened around 9unkz0r in a long time. I miss it. A lot. I think I'm going to have to start looking for a server again. with my current internet connection I could easily provide the bandwidth necessary for an IRC server, and the specs won't be that bad. I honestly NEED to do this. I think what might be the hardest part here is trying to get the services up and trying to get Kye to join me as a netadmin. We need a name too. Any ideas? Lemme know via the comments box and look forward to a new IRC network for your chatroom needs!

Sunday!

Preaching time tomorrow!

I've never written a sermon in my life. For those of you that know me, that must come as a bit of a shock, but it's true. When I stand up there on that stage (and then wander around after I've started talking) I have no written backup, and speak straight from my heart. My words come straight from God. Sometimes I'm not even sure what I'm saying, but it all makes sense in the end, and I can see how God needed to get that across in our church. By writing a sermon for your Sunday, you deny God the chance of working through you. It becomes a seminar, where I'm talking to people via my own experience and I may be misleading people without realizing it. By not writing anything, I open up that passage for God, allowing him to step in and speak through me. Just thought I'd put that down. :D

Testing

Set up e-mail blogging today, just testing it out, making sure it works, testing for limitations. <b>This text is bold</b> <i>italics</i>

We as Human

Found an awesome band the other day, with such hit songs as Fly and Dead Man, videos attached below. Christian rock music, and some pretty amazing stuff at that. Only problem is I can't seem to find any of there music. It's not on torrent sites, I can't find it at the local christian store or any other music store for that matter. Anyone who has any clue where I can get a copy of any of there CD's, and maybe even the guitar chords to some of there songs, expecially Fly please let me know. Amazing band, you should all check them out! :)

K&K

I got up this morning, and the second I sign into MSN I get a message from.... we'll call him Jack. The message said that shit hit the fan. It all blew up. My heart sank into my feet. He showed me a log about what happened and I just about cried. She thought he didn't want the relationship when he did. She thought it was ruining him when it wasn't. She thought it would be better if they split when that was wrong. Her biggest fear since day one had been that if they ever broke up, they'd never talk again. But she was so scared here, that out of love for him she promised to never speak to him again. She's confused to think that, they both don't want it, but each one thinks the other wants it. they're both confused, it's Jack's first time in a relationship, he was just nervous. I'm afraid of what he might do in his mourning, that he may hurt himself, others, or make matters worse, seal the fate just because he didn't know it was salvageable.

I don't know why this case means so much to me. I've never even met Jack, never met Jill. But yet this case means more to me than most of my IRL cases, including a personal one. I don't think I've ever gone this deep, I don't think one of my cases has ever meant this much to me. I don't even want to call it a case, it's more than that, it means SO MUCH to me!

Countdown and Header Image

First of all I'd like to point out that full credit for the header image used for this blog goes to Kn1ght, who was nice enough to make it for me way back when. In the header image you see a few guys, these guys are members of the band Thousand Foot Krutch, one of my personal favourite bands. you can take a peak at a few videos below to see who they are and what they play :) This blog is also named after one of Thousand Foot Krutch's songs, Rawkfist, which is also my common username.

Second of all I'd like to explain the countdown going on at the bottom of the page. As a pastor who's very active with his you group, I attend a "Youth Retreat" with my youth every year, this retreat is a big thing for us, and I place that countdown there for them to use to get an accurate measurement of how long 'til Youth Retreat this March.

Victoria

Victoria is forcing me to write this at the moment. I'm talking to her right now. She's threatening me. Telling me she'll destroy me if I don't post this. So here it is Victoria! Spare me my life!

Boo!

Stayed home from work today. Was a pretty boring day actually. Got up around 8, talked with Kye for a few hours, got to talk to Crow for the first time in a long while too actually. Went down to the pawn shop beside the gas station and picked up a new guitar stand for my guitar. Came back, strummed for a few hours, cleaned the computer out a little bit, strummed s'more, ordered pizza for supper, and had a short chat with Kn1ght. And now here I sit.


Apart from that, I'd like to point out that this blog will be a log of my day-to-day life. A little bit about me: My name is Alan, I'm 29 years old, have a son and am currently seperating from my wife :(. This blog may contain dramatic posts and/or rants about different things, some of which may or may not seem meaningless to you. This blog also may contain some information not meant for all eyes, and viewer discretion is advised. This blog may contain reviews of bands, movies, concerts, brands of equip, and tech-related information. Anything not mentioned here may also be contained in future blog posts.