September 2007

If anyone has any tutorials on how to draw, can you send them to me. I want to learn how to draw, I always have wanted to draw, but never could. Now I actually want to sit down and hone this skill. I just need to practice. I used to draw all the time as a kid, who didn’t? But I just stopped as I got older and realized I couldn’t, but now I want to draw again so I am looking for tutorials on how to draw, not even well enough to be a world famous artist, just well enough to make people look less like every other person that I draw, or even an apple look like an apple.

We’ve been looking into places up north and out west. Either way we go we are going to need a mortgage. Right now we are doing good with money so payin g a mortgage each month doesn’t seem like it would kill us, but add some money on top of that for lot rent and all the other bills and it may put us over the top. We’ve been looking for at banks who offer mortgages and are hoping to find the best price. I don’t think if we have to miss a payment we could use mortgage payment protection because we aren’t injured or sick. If we get to the point of overpaying each month, and we can’t afford it though, we can always apply to remortgages to get a better interest rate and possibly lower the monthly payment. Now we just need to settle on a state to move to.

Our bed was supposed to be delivered next week, but instead it is getting delivered tomorrow. Now they weren’t even supposed to deliver it, but because I used to work there they said they will, all they want in exchange is cupcakes. So I guess I will need to convince Krissy to make them cupcakes , but I am going to give the drivers some money for getting it in, the cupcakes are for the whole warehouse crew.

Winter is coming up and in the colder months I like to wear boots. Not snow boots, because it doesn’t really snow here, but heavy duty boots that won’t fall apart and are comfortable enough to walk in. There is a website online that sells work boots and these boots are what I am looking for. They also sell work shoes. Both the boots and the shoes are heavy duty and won’t fall apart easily, but look to be comfortable enough to walk in. How do I know? I’ve owned some of the brands they sell. Too bad I paid more than what the website is selling them for. I think the next time I buy a pair, I will go through the website because they offer free shipping on orders over $100. It would be cheaper than going to the store and buying them.

So there’s only 17 days until Halo 3 comes out. I’ve given up on trying to beat Zelda by then, maybe it will be one of those games that don’t get beaten, it’s a long list that keeps growing. Maybe I will eventually though, if I play any other games once Halo 3 comes out, I don’t know how long it will take for Halo to come out of the console.

I think I have all the important programs reinstalled, but I can’t do anything for work as I am waiting to hear back from Userplane support. If anyone knows anything about Imagemagick, then please contact me, I’m having problems with the temp file it creates.

Krissy asked me earlier about my position on Wind Chimes. We looked at that website and she asked me what I thought about the chimes she liked. I told her I didn’t really have much of an opinion because they are wind chimes, as long as I don’t hit my head on them I am fine. Well then I saw that the website had Halloween decorations. Now those are something that I can get excited about. They have a really cool inflatable haunted house, I think that would look great in front of any lawn. Krissy likes Halloween, but she doesn’t share the same amount of passion that I have for the holiday, so we made an agreement. I can buy anything for Halloween, as long as anything she buys doesn’t hit me in the head as I am walking around.

I had to reformat my computer because it got to the point of crawling and would randomly freeze up. It even froze up after I reformatted my harddrive, but after I downloaded the latest drivers from NVidia, everything was fine. I’ve spent the better part of the day reinstalling software and drivers, while seeing if there’s anything we can do about Imagemagick making a tmp file that is too big.

I’m still waiting to hear back from Hotscripts, hopefully I hear something within the next few days regaurding my Myspace Parser.

I’ve been really thinking about art a lot lately since my friend Meg is openning up a book store/art gallery in Philadelphia. Now I like art, so much in fact that I have been thinking about taking Krissy to an art gallery or an art museum sometime soon. I’ve found Park West Gallery that features some of the finest paintings that I have seen. I am really impressed by what he does with the bright colors and the way he draws your eye to not just focus on one area of the painting, but the whole thing. There is usually something going on in each section of his paintings and none is just wasted space. Now that is art I am intrigued by.

Adbrite assures me that they took down the popup for drivecleaner, yet two weeks later I get the popup again. Adbrite has been pissing me off lately as they have really gone downhill. I just wish I could use Google again, or even Yahoo. And about Dclickads? Well they set it up so you sell through your site, but from what I have seen they don’t let you have a marketplace of network ads like Google or Adbrite, that is the only reason I am not using them.

If you get a popup, then please let me know.

I think this month might be the month that my bills take a huge leap forward in getting paid. I mean I have had some minor Debt Relief in the past, but my recent purchases have made those null and void. This month, I should be able to pay back what I put on my cards the last few weeks, and then some. If I budget properly, I may even pay one off completely. That would be nice.

For those who are wondering how I did it, I didn’t go through one of those Debt Relief programs, although they do help a lot of people. Instead I just stuck to earning enough money to pay back everything I spent in the month, or I just paid cash and not even looked at my credit cards. By cash I mean one of my bank cards. It is still too early in the month to say how much I can pay back exactly, but it should be quite a bit more than I have in previous months. Now that is going to be relief for me.

I’m always looking for ways to make some more money, without completely ruining the integrity I have for myself or for my website. Well I came across dclickads. They offer inline, text, and banner ads for your website. They seem to offer a lot more than some of the other ones, so you might have a bigger marketplace to deal with, and with them it doesn’t seem like it has to be that obtrusive on your website.

I think I am going to sign up to dclickads and try them out tomorrow. I took some ads off my site recently, and I am going to see if I can make some decent revenue off of them. Maybe I could replace some of my ads with theirs, especially the banner ads. If I can sell banner ads specifically then I won’t have to worry about such little payout per click. I will let you know how they work out.

I’ve been watching the Home Improvement Marathon on Nick at Nite the last few nights, I like this show, I just wish they would bring some other shows from this time period to Nick at Nite, like Boy Meets World, or even Growing Pains. I’d even settle for Doogie Houser or the Wonder Years. I mean they are all from the same era right? So why not bring the 90’s television magic to Nick at Nite?