Welcome to TheYanni.net, I am your host Yanni. Well we transferred over here from TheYanni.com, because my payment period ran out at, hostonce.com, the site which has hosted TheYanni.com for the past 3 years. Three years ago I started this website after the DBZMission became too much of a hassle and I wasn't interested in the sourse material anymore. I tried making other sites on anime and other stuff, but none of it stuck, and all the places for free hosting were just aweful as i was sick of pop-ups and having a thousand banner ads on my sites. So I just stopped for 8 months. Then while i was at New Paltz I got a bit of inspiration, from writing a story, and seeing some other sites on the net i decided maybe doing a site on something else wasn't the way to go. It wastime to make "my" website. and thus I signed up, and got TheYanni.com and was good...for a while. Well all of a sudden the site started slowing down, I couldn't upload anything, and then I couldn't login. I sent many messages to hostonce asking for help. And a few other ones where I was very angry. And then like 4 months down the road or so I got access back and continuued with the site. But during this time I started taking classes on websites and design so I learned a lot of new stuff to make the page better. While the look of the site has remained essentially unchanged since the beginning, the orginization and the technology behind it has grown greatly. I went from doing a journal by hand and seting up links and suck, to using Blogger, which after I designed the template does all the work for me. All the sites are formatted the same, and use the same colors, and text size thanks to CSS (cascading style sheets), and now the links or Retreat page is doen in PHP allowing me to add more sites effortlessly. In the future I hope to make the whole site PHP once i can learn it properly. But after all that Hostonce has cause me trouble again...the fact that their customer service is...nonexistant, its like to send amessage to their tech support just to make you feel better, they don't actually do anything about it. I told them I couldn't afford the payment plan i was on with them, and they only had one payment option, so I asked them to tell me when my website ran out, so I could back everything up. I never heard anything back from them. But last week all of a sudden the site was gone, but thankfully I had already back stuff up. So I went to fruitad.net, the company that hosts MegaTokyo, Ctr Alt Del, and many other fine sites. They had a good plan I could afford and plenty of freedom of what I could do. Also fairly new to TheYanni empire, we have some affiliates as I'm sure you saw on the main page MightyMatrix and TheCatherine, and coming soon TheJimothy, and maybe even TheFerro, or anyone else who wants to join TheYanni.net family. Perhaps one day TheYanni.com will return, but for now long live TheYanni.net, and may I update more often, and finish the Otakon pictures page for god sakes.

Oh well Happy Birthday TheYanni your 3 years old this month, out of the terrible 2's ond now hopefully the terrific 3's. Thanks to all who come to this site, and support it you are all awesome. Give yourself a pat on the back, since I can't do it from here.

Hello all, let me just quickly say that everything should be fine with the car thing, no insurance mess.

But on to the topic at hand. Well a little while ago I downloaded Winamp 5, the beta release of the popular audio/video program. Well this new version has a section they call Internet TV, which has a list of video streams you can watch for free. Some play Music Videos, one plays Family Guy all day, another plays Futurama. Well I was browsing these, and I stumbled upon "The Sex Club" which is a streaming cam from inside someones house, and it just stares at their couch, and surrounding area. I went to their website, and apparently its a bunch of people around 18 - 25, some who live in the house by themselves...and they just have their life on cam...and the moniker "Sex Club" because they apparently have a lot of sex and yeah cameras everywhere. And being the curious person I was, I had this on while I was working, didn't pay too much attention at first. It was just a girl sitting there laying on the couch listening to music, or watching the TV or something. Some people stopped by at one point all standing around, then left, just leaving the girl again, she looked pretty bored. Then one guy came home, and then they went off camera...and then I start hearing noises. Yeah they were definitely having sex, the ever increasing moaning and classic squeaky bed gave them away...it was kind of odd, not everyday I hear people having sex. but needless to say my interest was piqued, so I put it on for a little while, and yeah this girl was listening to "Baby Got Back", and just started taking off her clothes, she was dancing and such and then just laid on the couch. Announced she was going to her room cam, which requires you to pay for which I surmised form they way she said it, as she couldn't wait for their male room mate to come home. Its just crazy cause its not like its porn cause those people are just there to have the sex and leave. Whereas these people are just doing it for fun...and you know its live, so yeah a bit weird. Don't know if this something I'll watch regularly, cause yeah its kind of weird, but I'll admit to being interested after what I heard last night. Hard to believe people would just broadcast their lives...in such intimate detail. From their website...it seems like they have sex alot...although with a name like "The Sex Club" thats kind of what you'd expect.

Also today I realized my computer had a distinct lack of Beatles Music, I rectified that situation, found my Beatles CD "One" with all their number 1 hits. And then I discovered where my missing "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love", and ripped those puppies to the old Hard Drive. Yeah I recently added another hard drive his name is Dante, and for the record the old HD is named Vivi. While I was at home today I saw Cat's away message, "Bleeding Profusely and very purple" or along those lines. So I immediately had to call, she fell on the ice and beat the crap out of her knee, poor girl. So we talked for a while, then she had to go babysit. Also I got rid of my huge pile of clothes at the foot of my bed, and cleaned out my drawers of clothes I don't/can't wear anymore. And yeah found some clothes. Also reorganized my CDs put them in a different CD stand since without the pile of clothes I could fit the other one somewhere, also put my Computer Game CDs in it 2 since I had the room so now I have a huge space on my desk. Now...if I only actually did some school work I'd be all set :-P

I just want to say I have cars, I hate them. There just nothing but trouble, Its always something. Driving down my street to go to school, which ends at a hill, and apparently the ground was slippery, so I tried to stop cause there was another car at the base of the hill. My breaks didn't feel like doing their job I barely slowed down at all when I slammed on them. Went right into the back of this guy, I of course flipped out and started the "oh my god"s and "oh fucking shit!"s. We both went to a nearby parking lot, the damage wasn't too bad. Nothing broken it seemed. He had a car made of plastic, he made out with a small crack and tiny piece missing from the lower bumper and a few marks, my solid metal car had a nice dent in the front by the headlight...which thankfully didn't break. We exchanged information, and I went to school, he seemed really cool about it, I mean no serious damage was done to either car. But its just...WTF. I just hate having to wait till my dad gets home to tell him, and tell him about it. Cause he has me so full of fear about it as if our insurance is gonna fly up and we'll have to cancel Christmas. Hopefully everything will be ok. But its just the tip of the Iceberg, cause now I have to tell my dad about my cracked winshield which I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with right away. But geez I just had a good week of work which was going to bring me on the + side money wise so I could start getting Christmas presents and such. But I don't know how this is gonna turn out...hopefully not too bad. Again no serious damage, as long as this guy isn't an asshole and starts blaming every ailment his car has on me bumping him. But....yeah I'm just sick of all this car BS, every month its something. my tire, my coolant, now my winshield, and now this....and of course my dad is gonna yell at me again for having not washed my car since I got it, because that a very important issue at the moment But AHHHHH I don't need this stress right now. I have so much work to do in these last 2 weeks, and then finals. Well I'm gonna go make lunch and stress myself out till my dad gets home from running his errands. I don't even know how to say it. "Hey dad I crashed the car!", or "I hate to tell you this...". Nothing is ever easy...later people.