Shyzer.com

The past few days I have spent hours upon hours working on my websites / computers. While in Australia, I brought along my family’s camcorder and captured some great footage that I wanted to share with the world. Unfortunately, when I tried to upload said footage to my computer, it froze. I restarted the computer, it froze. I went to the bathroom, it froze. I cursed to the Gods above and it…….that’s right folks, it froze. I have no idea what’s going on, but we here at Shyzer Industries refuse to let something as simple as complete and total hardware malfunction stand in our way of bringing you sub-quality material that you force yourself to even chuckle at. Give me another day or two and hopefully I’ll have it worked out.

Also, as I was going to upload some pictures in the gallery, I was told that I needed to upgrade my software. I was promised that it would be “Smooth, fast, and easy!” so I went ahead and hit the upgrade button. SIX HOURS LATER I opened my window, was greeted by a rising sun, and screamed at the top of my lungs that I was quitting the Internet.

Alas, I managed to complete the upgrade and even more astounding, upload a few hundred pictures. First off, there’s the pirate party that Dutch Dave and Luke threw right before we all left Newcastle. Dutch was returning to Europe and Luke was moving away, so they figured why not throw a going away party? I simply had fun running around with a pirate hat on my head screaming “ARRRRRG!”

Next we have my pictures from the Sydney Farewell Trip that Hannah, Keeley, Simon, Tim, and Tom accompanied me on. My plane left early Thursday morning, so in order not to miss it, we all went down Wednesday morning, goofed off in Sydney all day and night, and then went to the airport the next morning.

From there we move onto some family pictures. As soon as I left Australia, I met up with my family in Minnesota to spend the 4th of July with them. If you remember, Tommy and I went up there last year for the 4th to hang with our aunt, uncle, and nephew, but this year my mom, Jeff, and all my siblings joined us.

And finally, some pictures from graduation as well as a few other random shots. From now on, I’m going to be sticking random family pictures in this category.

Next on the agenda for Shyzer is getting these videos uploaded, updating the cast pages, converting all the old GreyMatter posts into MovableType and THEN upgrading to WordPress. After that, might I dream of making a new layout?! Of course, my every other three days ranting will go on in-between all this!

Actually, I take that back. I already have a post typed up for tomorrow about how I caused Hurricane Katrina. Bet you’ll never be able to guess how!

I just lost a 1,000 word entry due to my own stupidity. I copied the post, deleted it from the document since I no longer needed it, went to upload it, got distracted by something else and copied four little funny jokes to e-mail to a friend. After e-mailing them, I went to paste my post and was greeted with…

Four jokes that are not so funny anymore.

Anyways, the gist of the post was, “Hey look, there’s some new music down in the RadioBlog.” It’s been what, 65+ days since I updated it last? Yeah, sorry bout that. The countdown from 100 to zero has also been placed on hold until I can get my other websites off the ground.

The music selection down there is quite random, but I’ve been listening to that playlist on repeat for the past week or so. The Vanessa Carlton is a poppy little tune, the Thirsty Merc is some Australian music, the Hootie is from their new album (and is the best song of the bunch IMHO), the Gorillaz is a song my siblings and I absolutely adore, the DMB is folksy and off the top of his head, the All-American is…well, funny to listen to when you realize what they’re singing about, and the Alexi is a sweet and breezy tune.

Like I said, it’s late and I’m tired. I’m getting up bright and early with the kids tomorrow to get them on the school buses, so I need my rest. However, I have some massive updates planned for Shyzer that shall be uploaded tomorrow / technically today / whenever I wake up from my nap / whatever you want to call it. Until then…