November 2007

I cleaned the office today, it is still crowded, but it isn’t as bad as it once was. It is filled with stuff like boxes, and air conditioners, and my old monitor. I may be getting rid of that soon though, someone is interested in taking it for their Mac. At least that is one less thing in the office, then maybe I won’t be getting the 360 charging cord tangled in stuff.

One good thing came out of cleaning the office though, Krissy is actually sitting in here working with me. I am fine in here by myself, but having Krissy here and being on my own desktop is a definitely a good thing.

When we were in New York, I forgot to bring my copy of Dreamweaver 8, so I downloaded a demo of Dreamweaver CS3. Up until then I had no idea that CS3 was out. I really like the new Dreamweaver. It loads just like the old one, but it has advanced support for AJAX and CSS. It has all the latest CSS improvements installed, plus the layout is more customizable this time around. The AJAX support, I cannot say how good it is simply because I don’t know. I haven’t played around with AJAX much, but I might be doing that sooner rather than later, especially for some of the things that I need to do for work. I might download Photoshop CS3 to see if it works better on my computer than CS2 did.

Everybody buys things online, from clothing to bathroom fixtures. There shouldn’t be any problem with that, there isn’t any need to go out and find the right product, go to the store, pick it up, hope you can get it home, if it is big. The problem with buying things online is that there isn’t always protection with the product, sometimes it is a take it as you get it kind of deal.

One company is taking a stand against that kind of attitude. iFLOOR is offering a $1,000,000 warranty protection, regardless of if you bought it online or in the store. This isn’t a manufacturer warranty, in fact most manufacturers aren’t giving any warranty if you buy flooring online, and that is illegal. That is why if you buy from iFLOOR and you take the warranty, they reserve the right to sue the manufacturer on behalf of the consumer. This means that you don’t need to shell out the money to sue them, iFLOOR will, but in the meantime you have a warranty on your floors. It is definitely a good day in the flooring world.

Depending on how much work I need to get done today, I am planning on sitting down and watching the Spiderman 3 DVD. While I am watching I will be taking notes and writing the summary for it and putting that in its own section. I will also be taking screen shots and making pictures, maybe putting them up in the pictures section, I am not sure yet. One thing that I would like to do is take pictures of anyone who is in the comic book and put them on the characters page, such as Dr. Connors and Robbie Robertson.

Krissy and I want to get into making pottery again. I used to make bowls in high school and then sell them. It may sound corny, but it was really fun. I originally did it to get out of English, but after I had so much fun the first time, I went back again and again. In order to do it, we would first need a nontoxic clay. A lot of stuff in most ceramic clay makes me break out in hives, so whenever I make anything I either wear gloves, or find children’s safe Ceramic Clays, or even nontoxic Modeling clays that will harden in a kiln would do.

We haven’t just been talking about pottery though, we have been looking for a lot of things to do together. I mean after we move into the place and we have the money there, we don’t just want to be sitting around playing video games. She suggected we go and buy some arts and crafts materials, so we can paint and draw together. I don’t really know how that is done together, but I am willing to give it a try.

[Edit]The money listed here is only what I have made off my website and is not the only amount that I pull in. I have a dependable client in that I am working for, and I also have other sources of income coming in. [/Edit]

I had a pretty good month this month, but honestly I think this might be my last good month for a while. Google changed the way Page Rank is done, and a lot of people got screwed by their new system, I was one of those people. So while I can’t say how much I will make in November, let’s just hope that it is enough to stay afloat. Now onto the totals.

The September 2007 total was $652.71. The totals for October 2007 are as follows:

Loud Launch: $30.00
PayPerPost: $593.86
Blogsvertise: $20.00
Smorty: $36.60
Text Link Ads: $5.25
Adbrite: 16.92
Private Advertisers: 4.16

The total for October 2007 is $702.63. Now that definitely isn’t something to sneeze at. I have joined Smorty this month, so hopefully that will continue to add a few dollars here and there, and I have also joined Shopping Ads, but I am still unsure if I will be keeping them or not, so I am holding off on putting that total up, besides it is very insignificant.