I found the one TARC Bus in Louisville WITHOUT advertisements! Welcome to my home on the Net. This page is mostly for me but feel free to look around. Well, after playing around with it for a week I've integrated CSS into Rex's Den. It's currently nothing major, but it allows me to create and edit styles for the site very easily. No more "editing and uploading if and every page" whenever I want to change a theme. Now I just edit some pictures in one directory and edit the css style folder. This will make changing themes during the holidays more feasible and changing major themes eventually MUCH easier. I've also moved some stuff from the picture's section to the Archives section below and added a link or two. Nothing big. My current book listing: - The Pen is Mightier than the Sword - A resource for designing your own RPGs. - New Empire - Short Stories - Working title. My first paperbook story (In the works.) - New Empire - The RPG Core Rulebook The backbone of the New Empire book(s). - Zoids - The Role-Playing Game A free download of the Zoids RPG from this site. -Keith Foster (w.a.: Rex L. Mitchell) Last updated: 2/1/10 Rex's quote for the time being:

Current Mood = "Content and waiting for that tax return!"

Being content and happy with what you have There's always something better out there; Isn't there? I think that's a problem that many Americans face these days without even realizing it. I'm willing to bet that it's spending money unnecessarily was classified and a compulsive medical condition (similar to smoking, drinking, sex addiction...) that it'd easily rank highest in all categories. It's a problem people have that actually helps companies and the economy (to a point) so nothing is done to even acknowledge it. New things come out everyday that people just "have to" buy to stay current or just to keep up with everyone else. Let's take a look at cars. How many different vehicles are on the road right now? What's the difference between those vehicles and the new ones that come out each year? What about video game systems? There's three major systems competing right now and guess how many people I know that own all three (keep in mind that all three share a lot of games). What's the point?

A lot of people who are passionate about the topics I mentioned above would argue up and down about the differences and why each one is better than the other. It's actually pretty sad and I see it all the time. So let's keep moving to even more examples:

Operating systems. Yes, companies need to compete, but from the consumer's view each version is very much the same. I see these new Windows 7 commercials and I think to myself "Windows 95 did that" or "Ubuntu does that already". But a lot of people rush out and spend their money for it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I've gotten a lot smarter with my money lately. I'm content buying something a lot lower tech if I did to. I have the major urge to buy a PS3 but I'm holding off. I already have a Wii that I barely touch so why bother. The only reason I NEED a PS3 is because it plays DVDs up-scaled and also plays video files, but with two jobs I find it hard to actually watch movies so why bother right now. I even sold my Xbox 360 because I never used it anymore.

I think the economy took a downturn because money was being spent elsewhere. People lost track of what they could and couldn't afford. One thing lead to another and soon companies were affected buy the eventual downturn in consumer spending. What happened from there is known to all.

Watch your money and hold on to it tightly!

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