October 2007

With the prospect of moving soon, I am trying to save as much money as I can, and I am starting to plan on how to save as much money as we can once we are all moved and settled in. The one thing that comes to mind is saving on the electric bills. Now I am planning on having my computer on most all the time, it is what I do now, but in order to do that we are going to have to cut costs elsewhere. I am thinking about instead of using normal lighting for the outside, I might try some LED landscape lighting. It doesn’t cost that much in run and it will really make our place stand out.

I had a lot to do the past few days for work and it was really stressful. I mean I am good with deadlines, but they are just nerve racking. I mean there was no chance that it wouldn’t be done when it needed to be, but just looking at the amount of pages I had to code was just a bit overwhelming. I mean I did the right thing, I didn’t let it consume my life by spending every waking moment on it, I did about four to five pages everyday for a couple of days, while still taking time out to have some fun. It’s just that sometimes deadlines freak me out a bit, to the point of getting so nervous that I have to get it done that day, otherwise I think I never will get it done. I think I am getting better at spacing stuff out and making little deadlines in between, like doing four pages a day as opposed to the fifteen or so that needed to be done in one day. I guess that’s just all you need to do, pace yourself and take a break when you need to.

I have had my laptop for over two years now, but I hardly use it so the battery is still pretty good on it. Krissy though, has one of those huge ones that is good for around eight hours, well now she’s lucky if she can get five out of the thing. Her’s is only a little over a year old, so it isn’t as old as mine. I told her that she is eventually going to need a new laptop battery. They are expensive, but if you can find a good deal on one, then you should definitely snatch it up because good deals on laptop batteries are few and far between.

When I was doing sound mixing and editing for a game in high school, I was using my teacher’s old IBM Thinkpad. That wouldn’t even hold a charge. It would need to be plugged in with the battery in it in order to work, the minute you unplugged it, it went dead. All it needed was a battery, but a new battery for it would have been more than the laptop would have been worth, so it really wasn’t worth it back then. Last I heard that old machine was being donated to a class at Brookdale Community College

I made an appointment to bring my car in on Saturday. They told me that the mechanic would call me with a better estimate for the ammount that I will have to pay. From what I’ve read, the part is like $400 and they have to take the entire engine out and that requires at least two people, so it is no wonder why it is going to be around $900. Once it is all said and done though, I will have a nice reliable car again.

I’ve had to get drug tested when I was a teenager, it was one of the many perks of having a troubled youth. I hated having to stand in the bathroom and pee in a cup with a man behind me making sure I wasn’t cheating. Personally I would have preferred the hair test to the pee test, you don’t really have to do anything. I mean just look at the Hair Confirm Teenage Drug Testing Resources, it is a much better than peeing in a cup, especially nowadays that there are drinks that will cleanse your system a day before you go, with a hair test they can’t really cheat.

I love how people trash talk in games, then if you beat them they claim that you cheat. It is called not cheating, but being better than you. Personally I trash talk after the game is over, because normally I have more kills than anyone else in the game. The little kids trash talk is the worse because you have this ten year old cursing at you and its like shut up kid, go do your homework. At least with Halo 3 they gave us the silent idiot button.

There is a game that Krissy and I both want equally for the Wii. It is Mario Vs. Sonic at the Olympic Games. The game looks interesting, and you can use your Miis against Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Tails, basically anyone from either series. The game was recently moved up two weeks, so it comes out in early November, which I might get when it comes out, afterall we have to get our exercise with the Wii.

A lot of people are trying to find the best way to market their business online. There is a lot of competition online, no matter what field your in. The best way to separate yourself from the others, is to deliver it right to your potential customers inbox. With email marketing you can send them all the information they have been wanting, but without the cost of going out and consulting with them one on one. With an email marketing campaign you can also provide current customers with information on the newest products and information that would otherwise need to be sent in the mail, or called to them about, but if you send an email they can go back and look at it later, without even having to leave the house.

An email newsletter is good too, especially for those who like your business, but don’t really know what new features your bringing out, keeping people up to date with a newsletter is a great way to get repeat business if you send it out weekly, or even monthly, it will keep you in the customers’ mind that much longer.

As you have probably noticed, my website is sometimes used to make money through advertising. I belong to a few websites who pay me to blog about topics of my choosing, but PayPerPost is by far the best one there is. Their blog marketing is one of the best that is out there.

I’ve been active with them since about June and I have made over a thousand dollars with them. Now when Krissy first told me about PayPerPost, I thought she was just blowing smoke, because she had made a lot of money with them, but when I tried it I was really surprised about how much money I could make without selling out and writing about things that I normally wouldn’t write about. Yes I wouldn’t word things the way they would like them worded, but I am still posting about something that I would any other time, only I am getting paid for it.

How it works is that you select an opportunity and then you post that opportunity in your blog, if they deny it, you can resubmit and try again, if and when they approve it, thirty days after the entry was posted, you get money sent directly to your PayPal account. It is very easy, and it is a great way to earn some cash.

I love video games. You could probably tell that since I am always talking about Halo, but really I love all types of games. I’ve been looking for some good rpg games, since FFXII wasn’t what I was expecting. The game Magic Stones looks interesting, plus it is free for Windows and Mac, so I might download it after I don’t have so much work to do and give it a whirl.

We brought Bella to the vet tonight because she had an ear infection. We were there for three hours because they were shorthanded and there were twelve people in front of us. Some of them left though, so it might have only been maybe nine or ten. Well we got her ear medication, that we could have probably gotten if we just told them she had an ear infection, but oh well, I’m just glad we aren’t still there.

I’ve been trying to get my link out there more and more the last few days. See the more links I have linking back to me, the higher my pagerank will be. I’ve been thinking about spending some money to do it the easy way with submitawebsite. They offer text link advertising that will allow me to put my link on other websites while paying for it to be there. This way I don’t really have to do anything special, everything is automatic and I have a bunch of text links on other sites that I normally wouldn’t have links on. It isn’t a bad idea, and it might be worth a shot.