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I am feeling a bit nostalgic, this morning I bought Super Contra over the internet for the Wii so I could play some old school superNES goodness. Now I am missing old lame movies, and I just feel lazy and don't want to use my brain. To bad I am supposed to be accomplishing this.

KAHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Erin leaving for Grad school in New York is quickly approaching. She will be leaving Thursday morning. It will be hard but if you haven't heard we will be doing the long distance thing, which is scary, but currently the best thing for us. I will miss her an insane amount, and I can feel the crazy stress this is adding in my life building up inside of me.

Tonight is the Flobots show! It should be the largest concert the Flobots have ever played, opening for the fray at red rocks, I am really excited it should be a good time. I know there should be some new music which should be exciting. The Flobots also finally launched their new website so go check that out.

Lastly we launched the first version of Seekler, not that anything is really available to the end users yet it is still pretty sweet to get our first real launch and push of production code out of the door.

Erin is moving to NYC in about 15 hours. I am sad about that.

I finally finished a reading the rails book all the way through. I keep putting it off and reading other books because reading straight through a programming book is boring. Yippie for finishing that up, and I learn some more little rails tricks that should be helpful.

Next up Linux System Administration and Backup and Recovery!

Question:

Anyway, when you need a break from all the things running around in your head, see if you can find out what uses less power, plasma or the other thing?? LCD What??

Answer:

LCDs are the winner, not by a ton, but the do normally use less power, and it seems that their are still some other advantages making LCDs a more versatile choice.

Read more about the comparisons between LCDs and Plasma TVs here, and about power here.

I really miss Erin.

Well I am no longer the energy drink expert, as we have officially sold the Energy Drink Reviews site. It was fun to run and I will be helping out for awhile as they transition over, but I guess I have done that long enough. We sold the site so that we would have some funding for developing our product Seekler - Seek the best. So while I will miss certain aspects of the site, I will enjoy getting to focus my full attention towards our new growing project.

I am sure I will always follow the energy drink market a bit on the side, but slowly my knowledge of the subject will wane, and my knowledge in other areas with gain on it. So I guess I will have to give up that title sometime soon, but I have one final interview on NPR coming up, so I will enjoy my final moment of energy glory before walking away.

So Hooray for selling our first asset and the first real profits to speak of for Pretheory.

Side note I moved the monthly archives to their own page instead of the side bar, created a custom 404 page for this blog, and have placed every single post I have ever made on this blog in a category. So enjoy some of the small blog improvements.

Oh Yeah: I still really miss Erin.

Well if you have heard anything about the RIAA's tactics it is likely you agree they are going a bit overboard, this group is bringing a class action lawsuit against them for abusing the courts.

Sueing the RIAA.

About time!

This is the coolest image resizing I have ever seen, I love that your can resize to erase objects out of photos, awesome...

Amazing Image Resizing

Oops sorry commenter's I didn't even realize my blog had been marking all of your comments as spam for the last month... I thought just no one was caring to comment on my blog anymore and I was sad, turns out I was just an idiot, so if you were hoping for a response I didn't ever see the message until now sorry.

Also the clock on the blog used to be off I had two people mention that I need to go to sleep and such based on the time of the entries but the time was entirely inaccurate for the last two months.

Well all that is fixed, moving on...

I have meant to make a real post about Erin leaving (Erin moved to Manhattan for grad school) for awhile now. For those that don’t know we decided that we would stay together and deal with long distance. It is a hard time dealing with someone you love moving so far away. Some may think it is the same as when she left for Honduras, but it is really different when the end of the timeline is so far out. Basically it looks like we will have to deal with 21 months of long distance, which is an amount of time hard to think about when it is longer than you have actually been together. I take some comfort in the fact that we didn’t see each other for nearly 4 ½ months while she was in Honduras and telling myself we won’t have to ever wait that long to see each other again.

It has been a roller coaster of emotions since Erin left, and I think I am finally starting to balance out and return back to a normal mindset, unfortunately part of the fun of having Erin around is that I am never in a normal mindset, my mind is constantly high on love, which causes it’s own set of issues, but is different none the less. I mean having her around is wonderful, but a constant battle between work and just enjoying being in love.

I have said many times in the past that I would never do long distance again. I guess it is hard to ever say never especially when love is involved. What happens to love conquers all? What happens to all you need is love? What happens if you just decide love isn’t worth the difficulty of long distance? I mean in all these cases it would destroy some of the reasons we all find love so amazing, it is supposed to be something of a force to be reckoned with. Love will make you walk into something you know will hurt, and smile because you couldn’t have it any other way.

The Mayers and their long distance, my brother was in two long distance relationships, the first ending, and the second he is less than a month away from marriage. He recently pointed out that him and his fiancé Doc did long distance for 2 years, and that Erin is my second long distance relationship and we are facing about 2 years. So I guess if that is a trend, it isn’t a bad one to follow. Obviously some things change as you get older and more mature, and you learn certain things in all your relationships the older you get. Maybe the more you know about what you want out of life the easier dealing with distance becomes?

I still freak out and worry sometimes. I still feel awkward occasionally when I wonder why I am not moving to NYC, and don’t have a good enough answer at the time. I still wonder at what point something is compromise, and at what point one is giving up on their dreams. I am still afraid of loosing the most important person in my life. These are things that will be flying through my head, that will join some of the other questions that seem to float around never finding an answer, like “what is the point of life?”

I don’t know what is different. I don’t know if we made a wrong decision. I only know that we love each other. Currently we can barely escape each others minds, but we can’t hold each other in our arms. I know that it hurts both of us, I think that in some ways it hurts our relationship. I don’t know any other way that we could have both followed our dreams, while staying together other than giving long distance our best shot.

Erin I miss you, I love you, and I dream of when we can be together again.

1,781 miles and it is very hard... Wow Erin is calling as I try to post this...

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I know I haven't posted for awhile, it seems I have to much on my mind for me to write about anything. I guess I will have to work on that...

The good news is Seekler is getting some of it's first press. We received some coverage on mashable one of the top web 2.0 new sites. So check it out and leave a comment if you feel up to it, Seekler to Offer Community-Driven Reviews Site. I think it doesn't quite describe exactly what were doing perfectly, but I guess it gets the point about opinion search out there.

It is always a good time to get a little bit of press. We will have some more exciting news about the site as we get closer and closer to launch.