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As you can see from the new cam image, I’ve begun slowly shaving my beard piece by piece. I’ve been shaving certain areas off a few days at a time and have been taking pictures along the way, so once I’m finally finished, I’ll have some new photos for the Shaved Gallery.

In other Shyzer news, my mysterious Romanian visitor has stopped coming to Shyzer. For about two weeks there, I had some dude in Romania checking Shyzer literally six or seven times a day. I’m not sure what happened to him, but hopefully he didn’t succumb to Bird Flu or anything. It was cool seeing him pop up on my stats list for a while though.

And finally, I have a great story that I’d like to share, but can’t publicly for at least a few months. I did, however, tell Stan about it and his direct response was, “hahahahaha. That’s the funniest story you have told in the last year Goob! Awesome to the max!”
Needless to say, it’s pretty funny.

Other than those stellar news bulletins, my life has been full of snow, HTML, and the Olympics. Sorry for the lack of posts within the last week or so, but I promise to pick the pace back up soon.

If you ever need somebody to come over and completely break your modem, give me a call. Saturday evening I was trying to tweak things and I somehow severed our connection to the Internet, so we’ve been without it (gasp!) for the past 48 hours. It honestly felt like I’d lost my right arm and for two ghastly days, my siblings and I were forced to “interact” and “talk.” *shudder*

With it now restored, I feel complete again. Don’t ever do that to me again, Internet.

I have a fully functional computer again, the Christmas decorations have vanished, and everybody is sound alseep while I work on Shyzer….yep, things are almost back to normal here in the Goob household.

But I’m taking a break and relaxing until the New Year. I’ve been neglecting Shyzer for the past week almost, what’s another few days? Besides, I should have something good come January 1st

My computer is scattered across my room as I upgrade it with parts I got for xmas, but I’m still around. More to come soon hopefully as long as I can put this thing back together correctly.

We’re always missing ya, bro. Two years or two hundred years, it makes no difference.

Yeah, I’m still in Australia, hence the total abandonment of Shyzer for the past two weeks. I’ll be returning back to Virginia within a few days with some good stories and photos. Plus I’m stocked up on Aussie food and beer….good God this stuff is delicious!

Just for a short preview of what’s to come, November will bring with it a trip to South Carolina for Thanksgiving, which means there should be at least a good post or two out of that. There’s also some other videos that I shot a few weeks back at home, including “Box Man”, but apparently our camcorder is malfunctioning ever since root beer was spilled on it on the trip out here to Aussie, so I’m gonna have to send that in to get it repaired first. Whoops. Let’s see, what else do we have here. Oh yes, there are some 11-month old prank phone calls that I hoep to get uploaded that now aren’t in the least bit funny to me, but since my brothers and I did them, I’m gonna upload them damnit!

Okay that’s it. Until next time.

Not much has changed or been going on in the Life of Goob. After finally completing this new layout, I took a day off, ignored all responsibilities, and basked in the glory that was “That bloody layout is finally complete.” Since then, I’ve gone to reworking Hey, It’s Free so that there’s some actual, you know, content on that site. I’ve also been testing out all sorts of new freebie offers out there with mixed success, but hey, I do it so you don’t have to. Hopefully I’ll have a review of it all up on HIF by the end of the week.

I still have some tweaking left to do around here, such as fix all the sublinks, change some of the colors, etc. Nothing major thankfully. I’m also back on track working on Shlyrics, which Stan didn’t know about until last week. Sucker. And finally, go ahead and silently curse me for wasting your time, because I am not going to go to bed. Which means this post will have no real substance and therefore was probably a waste of your time. Sorry bout that.

The gallery is down until further notice. The tech support for my host is dismal at best and therefore, I’m thinking about changing host to a more reliable and customer friendly company. I already have one in mind, I just have to talk to the owner and see what’s up. So, if Shyzer goes down early next week for 24 hours or so, fear not. It will be for the better in the end.

Now for some good news. Remember the post I made a year ago about a little flash animation called Magical Trevor? And remember the post I made last February about the sequal, Magical Trevor 2? Well if you haven’t guessed it by now, Magical Trevor 3 was recently released and I’m in love all over again.

Also, I updated the radioblog with a singer named Marc Broussard. I absolutely love his song titled “Hope For Me Yet,” but he’s got some other great stuff in there. Check it out.

The past week has been quite hectic and yet there’s not one single large accomplishment I’ve made or project I’ve taken on. It’s mainly been just catching up on all the little crap that I’ve put off for the past three months. The hunt for a job is in full swing, my plans for the next few months (some of which are quite secretive…in the good way…you’ll understand once I reveal them) are taking up most of my brain activity, and there’s still the moving, unpacking, seeing my family, etc.

And of course, there’s Hey, It’s Free, which opened up earlier this week. I want to thank everyone for the kind words as well as constructive criticism. I’m still tweaking the site constantly, trying to find out what works and what doesn’t, where to place ads, what type of ads, etc. And of course there’s the large amount of material that I’ve been writing for the site. Here’s to hoping it pays off and Hey, It’s Free takes off. Remember, tell your family and friends about it and seriously, if there’s anything you don’t understand, ask me! That’s what the site is freaking for!

But that’s not the only web venture that I’m striking out upon. Oh no. For the past year or so I’ve had quite a bit of pent up energy to make a few more sites, some for business and some for fun. The next one is already under development (sadly it’s a business and I’m still undecided if I want to affiliate it with Shyzer. We’ll just have to see) and then there’s the next one over the horizon that hopefully will be ready by October. Like the title says, it’s heaps of work, but I’m enjoying it and learning so much as I progress.

Anyways, I know this has been a bit of a random post, but I wanted to give a small update on things. Check back here later on today as there will be a few updates on the site to check out. Until then, I’m off to bed and waking up early tomorrow. Job interviews…what a waste of time…

Home from graduation / the beach. Will post tomorrow. Until then, I sleep.

Just a filler post for now. First off, I want to apologize for the tagboard bogging down Shyzer over the weekend. I know some people couldn’t even get the blog or any of the pages to load. Luckily, Tagboard had the problem fixed by the time I walked in the door from Seattle.

Second, I have no idea where my webcam is. It’s packed up in one of my many boxes around the house, so I just threw up an old cam picture over there. It’s from early 2003, so I doubt many of you were around for it the first time. In fact, I’m guessing all of zero of you would have even recognized it was a recycled picture. I should have just kept my mouth shut.

As you can see, I’m back in South Carolina after an awesome 5 days in Seattle. I’ve got a few days here before I go down to Columbia to graduate this Saturday, then it’s off to the beach for four days and then……then……time to get a job.

Son of a bitch….

I’ll try and get a few posts up this week, but in all honesty, 90% of my effort is being directed towards a new site that has been in the making since April. I want to launch by this time next week. But fear not! While in Seattle, Chong and I made some interesting travel plans for the end of September which shall be fully revealed in due time. Of course, they involve going to a foreign country where neither one of us knows the language and renting a car to drive to another foreign country where we still don’t know the language, so there shall be plenty of hilarity to share. But I’m getting too far into the future here. Now, I need sleep. Tomorrow, I shall post. Until then.