diff --git a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdClient.java b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdClient.java
index 574a592..122a174 100644
--- a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdClient.java
+++ b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdClient.java
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 package com.github.r1j0.statsd.client;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.Socket;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.channels.DatagramChannel;
 
@@ -70,6 +73,23 @@ private boolean createMessage(final String key, final int value, final double un
 
 
 	public boolean send(final String message) {
+		try {
+			Socket socket = new Socket(host, port);
+			Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
+			writer.write(message);
+			writer.flush();
+			writer.close();
+			socket.close();
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		return true;
+	}
+
+
+	public boolean sendUdp(final String message) {
 		final DatagramChannel channel;
 
 		try {
@@ -88,6 +108,8 @@ public boolean send(final String message) {
 				log.warn("Bytes written: " + bytesWritten + " but message had: " + messageLength + " bytes.");
 			}
 
+			log.debug("MESSAGE:" + message);
+
 			channel.close();
 		} catch (IOException e) {
 			e.printStackTrace();
diff --git a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdTestClient.java b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdTestClient.java
index 834b107..734e0fe 100644
--- a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdTestClient.java
+++ b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/client/StatsdTestClient.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
-import java.util.Random;
 
 import org.apache.mina.core.future.ConnectFuture;
 import org.apache.mina.core.service.IoConnector;
@@ -15,14 +14,19 @@
 
 public class StatsdTestClient {
 
-	private static final String HOST = "127.0.0.1";
-	private static final int PORT = 39390;
+	private static final String HOST = "192.168.1.21";
+	private static final int PORT = 2003;
 
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+		StatsdClient statsdClient = new StatsdClient("192.168.1.21", 2003);
+
 		while (true) {
-			for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
-				new Automatic().start();
+			String message = "system.loadavg_1min 0.60 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\nsystem.loadavg_5min 0.80 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\nsystem.loadavg_15min 0.50 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\n";
+
+			for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
+				statsdClient.send(message);
+//				new Automatic().start();
 			}
 
 			Thread.sleep(2000);
@@ -47,7 +51,12 @@ public void run() {
 			connector.getFilterChain().addLast("logger", new LoggingFilter());
 			connector.getFilterChain().addLast("codec", new ProtocolCodecFilter(new TextLineCodecFactory(Charset.forName("UTF-8"))));
 
-			connector.setHandler(new StatsdTestClientHandler("bucket:value|type@sample RAND: " + new Random().nextInt()));
+			String message = "\nsystem.loadavg_1min 0.60 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\nsystem.loadavg_5min 0.80 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\nsystem.loadavg_15min 0.50 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\n\n";
+			System.out.println("MESSAGE:" + message);
+			connector.setHandler(new StatsdTestClientHandler(message));
+			// connector.setHandler(new
+			// StatsdTestClientHandler("bucket:value|type@sample RAND: " + new
+			// Random().nextInt()));
 			ConnectFuture future = connector.connect(new InetSocketAddress(HOST, PORT));
 
 			if (!future.isConnected()) {
diff --git a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/example/StatsdClientExample.java b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/example/StatsdClientExample.java
index 5365542..5d08909 100644
--- a/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/example/StatsdClientExample.java
+++ b/src/com/github/r1j0/statsd/example/StatsdClientExample.java
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
 public class StatsdClientExample {
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		StatsdClient statsdClient = new StatsdClient("127.0.0.1", 39390);
+//		StatsdClient statsdClient = new StatsdClient("192.168.1.21", 2003);
+//		statsdClient.send("system.loadavg_1min 0.2 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\n" + "system.loadavg_5min 0.7 " + System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L + "\n");
+		
+		StatsdClient statsdClient = new StatsdClient("192.168.1.21", 2003);
 		statsdClient.increment("my.bucket.test", 1);
 		statsdClient.increment("my.bucket.test", 1);
 		statsdClient.increment("my.bucket.test", 1);