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has links to music facebook and youtube as well

http://www.myspace.com/notjustdrums

(UPDATE: you dont need a myspace account to view the page)

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How to blog effectively

This is an email i sent to Lipe. It might be relevant to you too, if
you like writing FaceBook notes or Blogger blogs. If you dont have a
Blogger account, you should really get one. Go to blogger.com and
create an account. Seriously it'll help you write Facebook notes
easier. You'll see why.

- - -

pues si... about ur blog

there's a few things u can do to make posting easier and more likely
to be seen/commented on by other ppl.

The Blogger community is pretty popular, and ppl will see ur blogs.
However, it is microscopic compared to the facebook community.
Although the FaceBook Notes thing is nice, it doesnt have the "test of
time" thing that blogger has. One day Facebook will probably lose
popularity, just like myspace, and there'll be something else. BUT the
beauty is that you dont have to make a "transition".

This is what you do. You merge your blogs. If you look at my facebook
profile, on the left under my friends list, you'll see my "notes" box.
You'll notice that some have a lil white paper icon, and some have an
orange logo. That orange logo means that i actually posted the blog on
Blogger, and it merged onto my FaceBook Notes application.

The beauty of doing this, is that people actually see this blog, they
comment on it (a LOT) and the 20 minutes i spend typing it up on my
iPhone don't go to waste.

To make this happen, you'll need your blogger RSS address.

Blogs (among other sites, like news sites, TV show sites, etc.) and
basically any site that gets constant updates, have an RSS feature. To
get your blogger RSS address, go see ur blog, and at the very bottom
of it, you'll see a link that says "subscribe to: Posts (Atom)"
(OR if you're using safari, there's an RSS button right next to the
address bar, and just click that.)
The URL generated is ur RSS address. Copy/paste the address. Well,
dont paste it yet, lol.

Anyway.

login to facebook, and click the applications button on that bar
that's always sitting at the bottom of the facebook homepage. Open
the notes application.

Click "my notes" at the top.

Now, there'll be a blue box on the right that says "Notes Settings".
Click on the "import a blog" link in there.

Now paste ur RSS address from before into the thingy, make sure u have
the checkbox checked, and click "OK" or whatever it says.

Yay you're done with that. Sometimes it takes a few minutes for the
blog to merge.. like when u post on blogger, it might take even like
15 minutes for it to show on facebook, but it will.

NEXT thing we gotta do.

Go BACK into your blogger. Sign in. Go to settings.

There's a Tab there that says "Email & Mobile" open that.
Under "Posting options" put a "secret word" in pastorlipe.blabla@blogger.com
and clik the "publish emails immediately" option. Then at the bottom
clik save settings.

Now go to ur address book in both yahoo.com and in your phone, and add
an email contact, like if you were adding a person. Label this person
"Blogger" and, the email will be pastorlipe.blabla@blogger.com

whenever u send an "email" to this "person", it'll post as a new blog,
in blogger.com AND in facebook notes. YAY!!

What a dude has to do to get home

Yo I am madd lucky. I arrived to NYC, got off the Chinese bus without
a dime. I was so broke. I needed to catch a subway and a path to get
home. That's $3.75 total. It's 3am. No money in the bank, no cash on
me. I started walking and just hoped. I got to the subway station, and
was praying for a way to get on. The idea struck me. I went to the
turnstile and put my card in (just to fake it) and I turned the thingy
backwards. I told the dude that my suitcase doesn't fit and that I
needed to use the emergency door. He was like "pay a fare and turn the
thingy". I told him I did it already. He believed me.

I rode the subway free.

Next was the path. I was nervous again. What the heck was I gonna do?
I went to the machine to pretend to put money in. I was gonna start a
"fight" with the machine and claim it took my money. Then I saw that
the wheelchair entrance was broken. The employee's desk is literally
two feet away from that entrance. Using ninja skills and espionage was
the solution. I thought to myself "I hope I don't have to use a Steven
Segall on this guy". He got up for some reason, and turned around to
grab sumthin off the floor. That was my chance.
SWASSS... I slid thru.

Free path ride.

Wild Sprint

I have a quiz today that starts at 4:10pm. I was still at my house at
3:35. I was so worried. I ran out of my house and then I got on the
subway, dying of the stress. Then the stupid train got delayed. I
arrived at the door of the classroom, after sprinting wildly from the
subway station, just to find a white piece of paper taped to the door.

Class was cancelled.

Woah.

My goals. Here goes.

I was watching a YouTube video that documented the history of the
church I attend, Fountain of Salvation, marking the 30th anniversary.
The video showed images of other churches in the whole ICFS system.
I looked at Johansel, who was sitting next to me, and told him that
seeing all those churches is something I wanna to before I turn 30.
There's other stuff I wanna do...
(not necessarily in order):

- I want to own property. Not necessarily live on it, but definitely
have some real estate under my name.
- I want to see Europe. Or at least Spain, Monaco, and Luxembourg.
- I want to be a paid musical director at a church. Preferrably at my
church... but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
- I want to get a master's degree in something I can/will use.
- at some point I want a wife and two kids.
- I want to be part of at least one concert tour as a drummer, whether
it be playing for Kirk Franklin or Jessica Simpson. Quite frankly, I
don't care.

Seriously, if I get this stuff done, I'll die happy. Obviously there's
many more abstract goals, like spiritual stuff, but are mostly generic
goals everyone should try to meet.