I just wish to write a reflection over drug addiction tonight, and about some ways to fight it by taking courage and seeking for help from friends, family, and specialized center. An example: the Illinois Drug Rehab center can offer some help and advice, even by phone. Sure, Illinois citizens can take full advantage of it, but why not take a simple phone call in consideration? :) Precious advice and guiding through your issues, and getting a word of comfort and courage… that can be a good start, so I’d really suggest this center for Drug Rehab in Illinois for a phone call or an appointment if you live nearby. The Illinois Drug Rehabilitation is not the only one around though, so make sure to look for specialized help in your place.

Keep this thing in mind: addiction – of ANY kind – is a mental state, one in which we try desperately to hold on something (drug, alcohol, cigaretters, etc.) that makes us feel safer, where we can vent all our depression and frustration. Healing from drug addiction is a matter of healing inside your heart, so seek for people, for their kindness, for their support in fighting this ‘illness’. You’ll see, the road to full healing will be smoother. :)

It’s like when we do a market research online: we need to get quality consumer data to be able to improve our politics and decisions regarding marketing and finance administration. Robocity is our hands, and obviously you can understand how much work we Leaders have on our hands when it comes to keep it all balanced. We need to keep track of the citizens’ consumes to understand what we need to do to improve the city’s overall well-being AND mantain everyone in a decent living condition.

Even online, we Leaders are going to setup a consumer panel to get our citizens to share more about their feelings and dis/satisfaction about the services we provide the rest of the crew with.

Personally, I’m going to experiment a market research panel (like uSamp) on a section of my website and involve the other Leaders and a few Robocitans as testers. If needed, we’ll start getting more feedback from the citizens ONLINE rather than offline, since over the years the population has grown a lot, and it would be impossible to reunite all of them in the Meeting Room; nowaday every Robocitan has a computer with a Internet connection, so it’s going to be a lot easier to get feedback this way.

Also, we’re developing a series of websites that have the precise purpose of keeping our citizens informed about every little and big event and decision that involves the city and our little community.

Granted, we’re going to need the Robocitans to collaborate on this project, but hopefully they will do it willingly. :) This should be exactly what we needed in so many years.

What would Robocity ever be without its open heart to the ones in need? This town was born for that purpose, and thus closing the doors to immigrants would be killing it at its very heart. No, Robocity just CAN’T close. Never.

Actually, I hope more Robocitans are going to join in the next months. Yes, I do hope that, because only more citizens can make this city grow up and mature at its own core. AND we welcome human beings too! They would need other permissions too, but you see, human beings are not kicked out of here: our Leader Shotfire, for instance, has a human girlfriend and a human adopted son, and they’re sweet people to cohabit with. I really have nothing against humans, and I hope others in Robocity think alike too.

Anyway, I’m off to sleep now. Tomorrow I got to go out and buy a few chevy accessories for a friend, so I need to wake up early.

See ya.

Now I’m spending time reading web hosting news on WebHostingGeeks.com. They’re interesting, and anyway I was thinking already about getting another webhosting sooner or later. Blue Host? InMotion? Or a cheap reseller? Well, something. I want another web hosting account because I don’t want to keep taking advantage of my friends’ kindness and availablity in giving me free space on their accounts. It wouldn’t be fair. I want to return somehow. :)

So you see, I might be the one hosting others sometime! :D And I got another big news:

I haven’t put up the hosting page yet, but you can apply already by sending me an email to megatron95@gmail.com ^_^ I would give you: 40MB of free space, loads of bandwidth, a free email forwarder yourname@eileenson.org, FTP account and a subdomain yourname.eileenson.org. Is that enough? :P Hehe, I guess it is.

Right now, my hostees are my brothers Cyclonus and Galvatron, but it’ll be nice to have someone who’s not part of the family too. :) I hope many of you will apply, and I’ll let you know when I buy the new domain too! That’ll be after my birthday though, I tell you: I need the money first, eheh. :P I’m short on money lately, and I really need to save up again for many things, including this project.

Anyway, uhm… sorry about not blog hopping lately. As you might have read in my previous post written today, I’ve had a crazy week, and an even more crazier one is coming soon. x_x A Leader’s life is not easy, especially when you’re a young kid! But oh well, I can say I’m a grown-up already at least. ;) It makes you feel more important, ahah.

Anyway, I’m considering that I should probably sell used books from the past school years. They’re piling up on my shelves, eating up precious room for other books and other things, and since I don’t even read them anymore, they’d better switch homes and be of use to someone else. So if you’re from Robocity and you need the books, just catch me at my apartment or at work, or send me an email. If I don’t get to sell them here in town, I might just try to sell them on sellbackyourbook.com: THEY pay the shipping, so I wouldn’t be spending a cent. AND I would get cash frheom it (on PayPal). Hehe. :) The site looks simple to use too, so college students wouldn’t find it difficult to sell their old books through it. These services are a life-saver, really.

Anything else? Oh yeah, I’ve finally watched Avatar. :D That movie rocks! I would love to meet a Naa’vi alien someday in an alternative universe, ahah! They’re so cute, and they kind of remind me of Andorians, like my friend Thesh of the Prime family. :) I think their beliefs and religion are deeply touching too, and it would be lovely if they really existed, because I’d love to talk to them about that stuff.

Oh well, I’m day dreaming too much now. Off to take a short nap before watching a DVD.

Sayonara!

So for the news, a bunch of new Robocitans who joined the community three days ago: Erin, Amanda, Lucy, Krista, Steffany, Lisa, Chloe, Natasha, Plench, Hightower and Flexia. Welcome to Robocity folks! :D It’s a honor to be your Leader.

I hope I can get Shotfire and Commander Police to engage into another rescue mission to find out about abandoned or scrapped robots around the world. Hopefully, I’ll get to administer this part of the Leadership. Oh, let’s hope so!

‘Till later dudes. ^_-

All people, online and offline, who have known me for quite some time know how attentive I am to charity programs and volunteering associations. I do volunteer myself, monthly, in hospitals and refugee centers for immigrants, and I’ve always been supportive of initiatives that would help the poor and finance research against cancer and other serious still incurable diseases. It’s a reason why Bidazzled and its initiative stroke my heart with special strenght. Bidazzled is a simple auction site, like eBay, but it shows off some important differences that make it so far from eBay’s image and others like that. In fact, not just bid credits are given for free to everyone who signs up – and you can get a TV for $1 if you won at that price, with no reserves! – but the money the website earns with our auctions and activities will be given out to charities, and especially to help research against lung cancer (see www.ruchfoundation.com). When I saw this, I immediately felt like supporting this website and its activity. :) It’s good to give a hand to others and help improving their life, even through little things like this one.

So, if you ever decide to use Bidazzled for your auctions and bids, you have a chance to get discounts and free bids until January 15th with these codes (apply them on registration form):

- Blog: BBP1202A
- Twitter: BTP1202A

Normally, you can buy bids in packs for $25 to use on the site. Might look kind of odd, but these money are used for a good cause, and that motivates it all. It’s time of Christmas, and it would be a great gift for those people who are hopeful for a chance of surviving lung cancer. :) We can help them, and still enjoy life, with this initiative.

EDIT:// Please Cyc, leave me alone T_T I’m not in the mood really!

As discussed at the Monthly Reunion held on October 26th of 2009 (2:00-5:00PM):

- monthly finance administration;
- Internet connection issue and urgent replacement of DSL service with a new Intranet license
- apartments and public services maintaince
- immigration issues and city management

‘Till later folks.