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So, in just a few hours I’ll be starting my first NFL Fantasy Football draft. My rules are simple, take a RB and a WR in rounds 1 and 2, best available till round 5, then grab Brett Favre, then from there it is best available until we’ve got a defensive break, grab a defense, best available, last round pick up a kicker. Easy! I’ll post my team when the draft is over. I am excited!

So, the main title on this page says ‘apexad.net’ and that’s basically where you are at. However, I’m a bit of a domain collector (I’ve got 13 now I think, kind of hard to keep track, I use 3 different registrars). Anyway, all of the following domains redirect to this blog:

http://apexad.net
http://alexmartin.me
http://alexmartin.co
http://martinalex.com

I voted today! It was the first time I have voted in Arizona. After work I rode my bike down to my polling place and cast my ballot. Yes, I saved gas by not jumping in my car. Don’t think for a second that I voted in the ‘Green’ party though. I voted in the Republican primary. I did vote for Jan Brewer to run a s governor. As for the other elections, I voted against McCain (and that’s all I am saying). Otherwise, I voted the best I could in the other elections. I probably did not do as much candidate research as I should have looking back, but this is only a primary so I’m alright with it.

Did you vote today?

As someone who has been on the internet for more than half of my life, I’ve dealt with the ordeal of trying to find a lot of things on the internet. That might be an early iphone firmware beta, it might be the owner’s manual for my jeep liberty, and so much more. Torrents are great for a lot of things, but many of these things are posted on file sharing sites like Rapidshare quicker than they’ll show up in a torrent, but rapidshare has no built in search feature. Enter Rapidshare Search, a search engine for Rapidshare and other file sharing sites. Go there now, and try searching for something you’ve been looking for. You’ll be amazed at what you will find. Rapidshare search is a sponsor of apexad.net

I upgraded to wordpress 3.01 on this blog. It did not go without a hitch. I accidentally deleted all my uploads. Thankfully I’m a smart web developer and had just told dreamhost to back up my database. Everything is back in place. I’ve decided to change the theme to a new one. Maybe this will give me some motivation to start posting again.

Rather than make yet another update to my first blu-ray book list post I decided to make a new post. I am going to focus only on American/English blu-ray books/digibooks in this post.

These are the blu-ray books I own:
300
Amadeus
Batman
Bonnie and Clyde
Clash of the Titans
Dirty Harry
Dr. Strangelove (or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
Falling Down
Goodfellas
Green Mile, The
How the west was won
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
JFK
Matrix, The
Midnight Express
Natural Born Killers
North by Northwest
One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
Poltergeist
Shawshank Redemption, The
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

These are the blu-ray books I’ve seen in stores, but have not yet bought:
Doctor Zhivago
Easy Rider
River Runs Through It, A
Silverado
Star Wars: Clone Wars (Season 1)

As I mentioned on Twitter awhile back, I bought the domain alexmartin.me to use as I see fit. Right now though I’ve just set it up to point to this blog. I’ll try and come up with something better for it soon. Perhaps even another re-hash of apexad.net is in order. We shall see.

I’ve been playing Fallout 3 lately. For anyone that has not played the game, you are missing out. At first the wide open map of the game is very overwhelming, but as you play it more and more and discover locations, the game moves pretty quickly since you can just ‘fast’ jump around the map. I’ve already beaten the game once, but now I’m going back and trying to complete all the sub-missions.

My last post was about the drive to Phoenix. Naturally, I went through Texas. I was cleaning up my stuff since I just got a new apartment, and I came across some “Don’t mess with Texas” stickers. Out of all the states I drove through, I saw the most cowboy hats in Texas. Cowboys are known for their gamblin’ ways, and in today’s world, that means they’re using online casino games (This link goes to onlinecasinotx.com which is a great site for anyone who wants to do a little bit of gambling online. It lists some of the top online casino games, but also provides you with a whole lot of information about the state of casinos through a blog style display. This post is sponsored by that site, so check it out if you’ve got a moment.)

Previously, I tried to come up with a few things that Apex could stand for, like ‘Apex, Phoenix Employed, eXcited And Determined’. Well, that has become a reality, and I took a 1,900 mile road trip, stopping to sleep only one time. Once I got to Phoenix, I had living arrangements already all setup and even a job interview. I got the job, and I am currently going through training. So, you could say I have fully relocated to Phoenix as I have all my clothes and essentials here. I’m looking to get my own place within the next couple of weeks.

I’ve already done quite a bit of ‘fun’ stuff in Phoenix including going to a Brewers Spring Training game, going to the Heard Museum (A Native American Museum), went to a ‘man-made lake’ (aka pond) and tried to unsuccessfully catch some fish.

Otherwise, I’m keeping pretty busy enjoying the awesome weather. I’ll make another update on what it’s like in Phoenix soon!