I finally found someone who feels exactly like me.

"En mi opinión, no importa si un grupo que me gusta empieza a ser conocido por todos lados, yo sé que los escuché mucho antes que los millares de personas que compran su disco de éxitos pirata en el metro con "La Carencia", "Amnesia", "Si tu te vas" de Paulina Rubio, "Tu y Yo" de Thalia y por supuesto "Asereje" de las Ketchup. Lo que si me importa es que cambien su sonido. Si me dejan de gustar, punto final, me dejaron de gustar y ya. Siempre habrá un grupo nuevo que escuchar, siempre habrá ska que esos mismos millares de personas no conocerán y aunque lo lleguen a conocer, si es ska de verdad (con ideología, con calidad) es muy poco probable que les llegue a gustar. Pero si les llega a gustar, no importa. Un país que escuche una canción en contra del racismo siempre será buena idea."

that is why I don't hate everything on MTV, that is why I don't dislike coheed, because their music is still good. That is why I hate metallica, because their music has become utter crap.

Moment Of Zen #1

Thank you for the kind words, guys. But its not like, I'm dead. I'm just "on a break". But I will miss you guys too over the next month or so. I'll miss Rennie's "veganism". I'll miss Carlos' sense of humor. I'll miss Tamara's hyperventilating laugh. I'll miss Diego's "in your face attitude". I'll miss Checo's interesting conversation topics. I'll miss Fredo's movies. But what I will miss most is just hanging out and cracking jokes. But its not like the jokes will stop. I'll just be cracking them over the internets. The only thing I request is that those who haven't been posting much lately (basically everybody except Diego) to post more and in keep me up to date on the happenings in k-ville.

now that we got the sentimentalities out of the way heres some light humor....

Don't forget to forget to set you clocks back tonight and tomorrow. Makes a good excuse to miss class, work, meetings and anything you don't really feel like going to at 8 in the morning.

In the words of the Future President of The United States "I'll Be Back".

THE TERMINATOR FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!!!!

"We were raised by the same television"

It was the summer of my freshman year in college, Oscar Ernesto Regalado Jr. had found a job in Convergys and become friends with a few girls. Rennie had also become friends with these girls, and one girl once needed a ride, so I gave her one. The other girl was talking about how nice I was for doing that and neto quickly responds with "yeah, we were raised by the same television". Something so funny, yet so insightful, I think that was the first time I ever heard a zen comment. I believe it was true, we did watch a lot of television. We were raised by "the liberal media". Hell, want in on a little secret? I learned not to trust television from a G.I. Joes episode.
What I'm trying to say is that Neto is a very smart man, a good man, a great man, a person wise beyond his years. A person who has had to say goodbye to so many people more than anyone should. He has taken it well, and all he does is raise his head up, put his feet back up, and keeps going. Where as we suffer through our petty little worries, all he does is just not let it get to him and looks forward to the future. He will go to hell and back for a friend and those he loves, always there to help us and put us first, to listen to us, and to give us advice.
Me, as his brother, have seen all he has gone through in a more personal way. As Carlos said, he is someone who looked after me, as I looked after him. But him being older, throughout my whole life, I know he looked after me more. Sure we had a brotherly disputes, and there was the little brother jealousy that every younger sibling has. But he was there anytime I needed him, he was there to give me a hand.
So I end this post with a promise to my brother, to tell him, that whenever he needs my help, anytime, no matter where I am, to not hesitate to ask me. If I can't help him, I'll find someone who will.

Sincerely,
Renato de Jesus Regalado

Ode to Zen "to the best semester ive ever had"

As we all know on Friday October, 29, 2004 our dear friend Neto was terminated, and forced to withdraw from the halls. I find myself now on this blog, and feel something has been lost. I can not imagine what this month without Zen in our lives will be like. Imagine just for a second, who is going to astound us with brief moments of Zen in our hours of fragile stupidity. Who will change the channels when appalling commercials rein fury upon our T.VS? Who will eat the evil cinnamon rolls to save the seemly lost Ari. It seems to me a Void has now been cast upon us. Tamara lost a drinking buddy; Checo lost the company when everybody else has already eaten, Rennie a brother to look after him and vice-versa, and I, thinking about it, just realized we lost somebody who looked after us. Who did anything he could to make our lives that much easier. Finding examples of this is simple, but sit for a moment and think what he has done for all of us. In short I cannot find a better definition to describe Neto other than the word friend. That is what you are to all of us, we’ll miss you Zen, and cheerfully await your return. Were we will again all be reunited singing “tiny salmon swimming down the stream”, and “Scotty doesn’t know”.

Gtg Bye.

Carlos

Controversial issue #5 - Controversial Issues

Apparently some people do not know how to follow controversial issues, so here are some rules and guidelines to a controversial issue.

1. THIS IS A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE the puropse of controversial issues is to be debated. We will post about a topic, and post our opinions, these opinions will be "just our opinions" but they will be debated. So if you don't want to be rebutted, don't post.

2. Try to keep an emotional unbias while debating. Debates can get heated at times, just remember that it is just a difference in ideals, not mortal combat.

3. Try to keep controversial issues to be unbiased, and post your opinions in the comments section.

4. keep your comments on the issue at hand, ON THE ISSUE AT HAND, if you want to change the topic, make another controversial issue, or ask one of the main posters to make the issue if you don't post officially on the board.

5. refrain from calling anyone anything demeaning in the boards. These comments will be erased by the webmaster due to the fact that this is not a place of conflict, just dialectics.

6. "Now go do that voodoo that you do so well."

blah blah

i really have nothin to say i'm just increadably bored in circuits class....so
reeenniiiiieeee tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
.
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copyright diego saenz

Poem I found on the "internets" long ago

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.

Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Author (unknown to me )

Controversial issue #4

This is a big one folks.

Abortion.

We have catholic priests telling people that it is a sin to vote for Kerry because he is pro abortion (Don't get me started with the fact that what those priests are doing is ILLEGAL but lets stay on the subject). John Kerry says that he is catholic, but that he isn't against his church, he is just for the separation of church and state. Because when you look at it from the outside, this is just another science vs. religion bout. Sanctity of life vs. when does life start.

i gotta if i promised that i'd post equally on both blogs.

i did this by myself with photoshop overnight. at this rate, i could get my degree in graphic design in no time!

Your Teacher's Been Brainwashed

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5001/5001_01.asp

In the spirit of the SOUTH PARK Mormon episode I bring you what some Christians believe. Now I ask you to mock them. I am not asking you to loudly laugh at them or call them idiots, just sort of giggle in their presence.

This could be contraversial issue #3 since I know a couple of people might be pissed but those people believe "the jury is still out on evolution"---OUR PRESIDENT so I giglle in their presence too.

My Answer To CI #2

How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn’t work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.

-- John Cleese

This was borrowed from the blog of William Gibson.

Controversial Issue #2

This issue is a difficult one. As we all know or should know, November 2nd are the upcomming elections between Bush and Kerry (if you didnt know between bush and kerry grab a pencil and shove it in your eye, for you are a dumbass, and heres your sign). "erego the controversial issue; is the illiterate Bush capable of running the country better on his second term, or should we settle for "its not bush" aka Kerry. Please publish your comments with your points. We might even do a poll if somebody requests, to either the webmaster or I. For now remember laffing at people in worse of situations than you is FUCKING HILARIOUS vis a vee please dont post something stupid ill go HAns SOLO on your asss.

ha funny link http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushglobaltest.htm (obviously anti bush)

and to be fair a kerry one http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-kerrywafflehouse.htm

Question: How do you circumsize a redneck?
Answer: Kick his sister in the jaw.

Lastly http://cronuslags.blogspot.com/2004/09/new-member.html everybody remembers this New Member has anybody asked themselves whats he is doing on his KNEEESSSS muahhahahahhaha

ok i officially have nothing to say so plz stop reading as of NOW ok i lied how bout now , not yet, dammit you shouldnt be seeing thise letters therefore in order to get you to stop reading i have come up with a complex plan here it goes fadjfadjfa;kfjadjfalkjdf;ajf;akjdf;kajdfakjfkajdfjafkjadlfjadjflkajdf;aj;jfakjfda;jfa;jf;akjdfa;jfd;fj
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gtg bye

Now i know why ren is voting or hoping?? for Kerry 

read something, made me think of Carlos.

I really have no idea why it reminded me of Carlos. I guess its because he wants to catch lightning with as much fervor as I want to cure AIDS.

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau.

Also a poem by william Butler Yeats callled the fascination of what's difficult.

"The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt."

Bizarre Flowers/A Violent Mist

Each bulb about me blooms
Gives its own luminescence
Like some phantom lantern glare
There is nothing in this place but rainfall
Forlorn, dreary secret ghosts
That hide between the twilit trees
Doth gaze upon the spores that gleam
They only know the floral dream

By the shade of wither'd day
How the moonbeams dance and waver
Splendid through the pallid air
The poison mists doth flow and gather
Burst from ev'ry season'd flow'ret
Like mimosas of the night
Fleeth garden charms that sparkle
Like a shattered lantern's light

I breathe the vapours that surround
Like so many seedling faeries
Rose, and thistle
And berry red
That preside over the dead
Tell me what they've seen and said:

"Breathe no more
Thy ghost dost wait
To take thy place
At Garden's Gate
Poison, venom,
Toxic fume hast ensured
Thy witless doom!"

Insomnia

Most people out there don't know that I suffer from this. Some people out there don't even understand how it works. Insomnia doesn't mean that you can't sleep at all. Insomnia is actually any type of trouble going to sleep or staying asleep. This is usually attributed to stress when it happens for a little while. And while the problem does get worse for me in times of stress, its a little more permanent in my case.

Ever since I can remember, I have had trouble staying asleep. I would wake up at weird times of the night. And I often would make my parents crazy when I would wake up at six in the morning because it usually led to my turning on the TV since I used to be scared of the dark back then. Watching TV while going to sleep is not a good thing and usually makes insomnia worse. But back then the worry of all the horrible things that could happen to a five year old in the dark didn't help me get much sleep either. The good side was that I would always catch most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons.

As I grew older the problem became more about going to sleep than staying asleep. Puberty and worrying about all the stupid things that puberty came with (trying to be "cool", girls, etc) made trying to clear my mind and go to sleep difficult. I often wished that I could turn my brain off (turns out pot will do this just fine but alas it is illegal and any I may or may not have done was not enough). That's when I became very good friends with late-night talk show hosts like David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Bill Maher (his show would run at 1 AM in Brownsville). Since then only the things that I worry about have changed. Now I worry about classes, the future, women (guess not everything changes ;) ) .

I have tried many ways to fix this too but some of the cures are impossible and those that I can do don't work (I have even tried not watching TV before going to bed which was hard for me). For example, one of the websites about insomnia suggests that I not use the bed for anything other than sleeping. This is pretty hard when my living space consists of two uncomfortable chairs and two beds. I also tried sleeping pill for a little while. These worked great, but I don't want to be a guy who depends on them to go to sleep every night. Some have suggested that I stop napping in the middle of the day. But the napping is a result of the insomnia rather than the insomnia being a result of the napping.

Like I said, it is not all bad. The night seems to be my most creative point because the times that I am trying to go to sleep my brain is fighting me with every thought it can. And this has made all-nighters relatively easy for the first few hours. And the constant need to keep me entertained during my unnecessarily wakeful hours has led me to discover some interesting things on the internet (not all of them pornographic :) ) . So worry not for me. I've learned to deal with it. Just forgive me if I sleep at odd hours of the day.

raised by gluttony (early)

i could not stop this
no matter how i tried
the world is too big
i realize i failed

i pass this mission
on to you to fulfill
this won't be easy
it will consume your soul
need you to look into
my broken, hollow eyes
its time for you
to see that which has become
the burden of my life,

children raised on sin
told to never live again
to care only of themselves
to become that which is
richest, fullest, biggest,
a hedonistic nightmare

Goodbye Superman

de la verga??

ok so i havent posted in a long time
and no one seems to notice.
diegos left nut hurts, and checo doesnt give a shit, but diego is worried. but thats another story.
anyways, this is a post for those who speak spanish. why do we say "de la verga" when something really sucks.
does everything points to "la verga" in time of peril. i dunno, we say "me esta yendo de la verga" like if it were a bad thing, but to us men "la verga" is one of the highlights of our life. so why do we say it as if were a bad thing?
do we mean an insertion of a "verga"?
maybe we should say, "me esta yendo a toda verga" so we stop the typecasting of "de la verga".
maybe its just me. but "la verga" should not be bad.
cheers....de la verga

President in '08

If you all were smart enough to read my brother's post about Bush, and then read Diego's comment after, you all my know where i'm going.

Diego, that is the best idea I have ever heard you say. Neto running for president might actually accomplish something. Mostly because he's all for peace. But checo also proves a good point, in order to be in power, you have to play by their games. That means the possible risk of corrupting Neto. Of course that's impossible, its impossible to corrupt a Buddhist. But just to be safe, we should go kill everyone who is corrupt. I mean, if you're exploiting the workers, embezzeling, if you're spending government money on a hooker, shit, if I catch you getting yourself out of a jaywalking ticket just because you're a person who holds himself in power. Prepare to be shot.

Neto can also say Nuclear, can pluralize internet(which by the way, you can't), and knows how to increase "fast". I will say that good ol' Dubya was more prepared in this next debate. Shit, he was even writing down notes, well actually I think he was drawing, but he looked like he was writing good notes. But he kept trying to do something that really pisses me off, and that is scaring us. That's all he did, he kept trying to scare the people. So I leave you with a nice little quote from a little NAZI.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-Infamous Quote from Hermann Goering

That's Our Bush!

I don't like our President. Most people already know that about me. But its true. I don't like the President. I used to like the President. Its true. I don't tell people that, because they don't believe it anyway, with as much as I don't like the president now. But now I really don't like the President. There are a myriad of reasons why I don't like the President. There's the tax cuts he gave the country while spending more money than any other president (Did you know that he is the only president to ever cut taxes during a time of war?) There's the fact that we as a country keep allowing the killing of people for no reason. There's the fact that he pissed off every country who ever liked us. I mean every country. If you name a country, it doesn't like us. And you'll say something like "they're just jealous of us." While, I say "YOU IDIOT. IT'S PEOPLE SAYING SHIT LIKE THAT THAT THEY DON'T LIKE US". We're that really self-centered, snoby bitch that believes that everyone is mad at her because of how pretty she is while not realizing that maybe its because she is snobby and self-centered. Have you seen MEAN GIRLS? Well, we're the mean girls.

Anyway, one of the reasons that Bush pisses me off is because of how dumb he is. I mean he is dumb. Can you say nuclear? If you can't say nuclear, you are dumb. And Bush can't say nuclear. He wasn't able to say it during the 2000 debates and 4 years later he still can't say it. He's the President. Don't they have speech coaches for him? He said more dumb things during this last debate too. For example, he said "I hear there's rumors on the internets." That is not a typo. He heard about rumors on the internets. Plural. Now I don't have fancy government supercomputers, but as far as my computer goes there is only one internet. 4 years ago people made fun of Al Gore for supposedly saying he invented the internet. Well you know what I think now? I think, "Thats Good. At least he knows what the internet is." He also said, "I want to make it more fastful." when referring to taking troops out of Iraq. HE SAID FASTFUL! My mom can barely speak English but won't make mistakes like that. Any elementary school student who dreams about cars knows how to say "faster".

Of course people say, "that means he is a man of the people." Of the dumb people. I am not like that. Are you like that? We shouldn't want a man of the people in office. We want someone in there who is better than us. We want someone in there who is special. Not someone who is "special bus".

My point is. I lose brain cells when I listen to Bush. Save my brain cells. Vote Kerry.

P.S. I would like to tell you that the spell check wouldn't let me use fastful without a warning. So its not really a word. Just in case you were wondering.

jirafa (como el comentario de diet coke) (no tiene nada que ver verdad???)

rennie tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
y juega con su pelotita
que tiene en su rayita

rennieeeee tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
y juega con su pelotita
que tiene en su rayitaaaaaaaa

rennieeeee tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
y juega con su pelotita
que tiene en su rayitaaaaaaaa
y se me te el dedido en el agujerito
que esta en su rayita
y le sale toda la babita....

rennieeeee tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
tiene una rayita
y juega con su pelotita
que tiene en su rayitaaaaaaaa.............

dedicada a mi amigo rennie, en momentos de desesperacion a la ida al banco...

deux fuckers...

Hooray for Carlos

So Carlos today actually links my blog to this page, just look to the right and down right under member pages. He did this all by himself, so everyone, give a nice big round of applause to that lovable oaf who's addicted to Jedi outcast. After all, the world would be hebetudinous without him. Of course, he's too pixilated to realize that it was all up to me to finally get him and Neto to finally work on the blog. Usually they were just hanging out being all faineant and retarded. For a while I thougth this whole blog idea was going down the drain. Nobody was posting, nobody cared, luckily, that didn't happen.

Oh well, contrary to Carlos' little belief, my Blog is about more than just me posting somewhere else. I still have yet to see what but just wait. The idea will spark me in the head soon.

Locke and Demosthenes here i come.......

Diet Coke

With a fortified ambition
He who is convicted of standing still,
Move on to greater prowess
And stand amongst the child's scream.

A picture personified by life,
a memory killed by men
wake up, and live.
Tomorrow may be a myth.

Alone no more
right hand will judge
guilt gone
to no man's land

Sexicanism

sexicanism.blogspot.com

It's rennie's spin-off of the Cronuslags blog.

But it doesn't mean i won't be posting here anymore. This place is my bitch about shit rant fuck crap barbera streisand shit.

Sexicanism is my comedy show. :)

Here's a better analogy.

Cronuslags is my band, where we play a certain type of music. But i don't believe I'm growing enough musically so I make a temporary side project. Everyone's doing it anyway ;).

oh well. so long.

Checo's theory of Time dilation

After much deliberation I have decided to agree with Einstein.
Time is definitely not linear, but I'm not really sure it has anything to do with velocities or speed. I am absolutely convinced it has everything to do with boredom levels. A boredom level as defined by angel and carlos is related to your height. Feet being not bored and about head level being total bored. I am now a firm believer that when the boredom level is around the head level, boredom level high, time slows down in about a 1 to 4 ratio making a 50 min class seem like 200 min. This is in the theory stages and will require about 2 more years of study (which is why I haven't graduated yet) I must have an answer to this question.

Diego's frustrations

ok Diego really wants to get the punisher back so I say that we vote on it...he would also like to make it known that since Rennie is a vegan he can no longer "choke the chicken". so in order for us to help him keep his resolution we should all key into his room at random times during the day to make sure he hasn't taken "matters into his own hands" iwould also like to make it known that Rennie ate MILK and EGGS today. yes he ate pasta and a piece of chocolate cake and lets not forget his LEATHER shoes. so much for being a vegan...POSER!!! jejeje so when u see him don't forget to point and laugh... also i had to type this damn post like 5 times because the blog kept screwing up so i think we should get it back to how it was..

Deux Fuckers.

You can always use this font Diego

Or this.

Or this.

Basically I like it.

The Kinks

Some things are changin on the blog. As you can see we put up a new shiny background. Unfortunately this is making a few things all screwy. As far as I can tell the only problem right now is that the comments aren't showing up. If you notice something else then please email me. We are working hard on taking out the kinks.

Chameleon efect

Dianosis
Well I recently pierced my tongue and at first it was annoying, but now I’m starting to get used to it. I took antibiotics so it wouldn’t get infected so I got that taken care of. But now it has the chameleon effect. Everytime I drink or eat something that has a color my tongue gets the same color. When I wake up it is white, when I drink coke it gets black, orange soda it gets orange. It’s quite fun actually, but its still annoying to eat with that thing in there. On the bright side the swelling is gone and my tongue is starting to get its original color back.
In other news…. I was walking down the hospital the other day (normal routine) and I look through the window of an isolated room and there was this woman looking thing in the room that was screaming, and I said to myself “that’s the ugliest female I have ever seen. Maybe that’s why they have her isolated.” And when I looked at the name tag on the door it says “Nombre: Victor Manuel Sexo: Masculino”. At that moment I yelled “VEEERGGAASS, es pelado.” So out of curiosity I looked at its file and it turns out he’s a professional transvestite/hooker (or man-whore I don’t know anymore) and he’s had over 1000 sex partners (not at the same time hopefully) and he’s never slept with a woman. Well on the serious note, this man could have AIDS and as we all know that isn’t a pretty thing. Just be careful you guys because that little piece of shit virus is more devious than most people can imagine. So be careful out there.
Take care you guys and hope you like my first blog.