February 2008

I love the new HD receiver I have. I watched Lost in HD this week, plus I have been ordering some free movies on Demand like Robocop and watching them in HD. Now I have had my HD television for a little over 2 months, but I haven’t fully appreciated it until now. I just hope that I can somehow continue to afford it, things should be all right if I continue to post and make money with Adbrite though. Plus my job should pick up soon, I hope. I also picked up a free client for the promise of advertising and future paid work, so that might help as well.

On the latest episode of Lost, Locke and Sawyer are playing backgammon when Locke asks if Sawyer thought that he knew what he was doing. Now I think it is funny because that is what I am often thinking when I play backgammon online. I have been playing for months and I still don’t know what I am doing. It is good thaty I am playing online backgammon, otherwise people would see me looking up how to play at times, and what I need to do to win.

That is my new fansign. My friend Trina made it for me because she loves the site. Maybe it will invoke some of you other people to send me fansigns, or maybe it will bring some horny men here, either way do what you gotta do, I love getting these things, so keep them coming.

When I lived in New Jersey the gas and the electric were separate. The air conditioning and all that was electric, but the we had a gas stove, a gas heaters. Personally I don’t really have a preference between gas and electric heaters, other than price. Gas heaters seem to be cheaper, even with the gas prices on the rise. If I could go back to a gas heater now I would, right now the entire house is electric and very expensive, so a gas heater would save a lot of money. Maybe when we move, if we ever can at this point, it will get better.

It’s been a few days since I last blogged. The last few days I have been watching a lot of movies thanks to the new HD receiver we have, with HBO, Showtime and Starz. I don’t think I’ve watched this much television ever. I want to play some Halo so I am going to go do that after I finish this post. I am tired so I might be heading to bed not long from now, so I will see you guys another time.

In any business you need good customer relations. I mean if your business and a customer don’t get along then that customer will no longer come back to you. It is important for any business to follow this same ethic, but it is especially important for new businesses to follow it. When you are starting out then you will want as many happy customers as possible, this way they will tell people and bring you more business. Sometimes you may not know what is the right balance between bending over backwards for your customers and what is good for your business, so you may want to hire customer relationship management.

A good CRM will also help you with lead management through lead management software and tips. The more leads you have the more potential customers, which means the more money. Having leads when you are starting out can be hard if not impossible. A lot of businesses go under because they don’t have the right kind of advertising and the right leads. Think about it, if you are trying to promote your lawn care business, but the only people who know about it are people living in an apartment, then how does that help your business? It doesn’t.

So Valentine’s Day has come and gone. I won’t go into detail on what we did, but you can go to Krissy’s entry for the details. I am beat today, to be honest I don’t even know why I am up. I should be sleeping for a few more hours. I gotta help Krissy clean the house I guess, company coming tonight, I just want to go back to bed though. Oh well, I guess it could be worse.

Jerry proposed to Katie on Feburary 11, 2008, but he didn’t do it in an ordinary way, he did it on Youtube. Jerry won a contest in which he could propose to his girlfriend in front of millions of people on the front page of Youtube. There were a lot of Valentine’s video contestants, but Jerry’s was the grand prize. In case you are wondering, Katie said yes. I think doing something like that is really sweet. It is unique and they will forever have it documented for when the kids ask how dad proposed. Plus any relatives who want to see the special occasion can just log on at anytime and watch the video.

Well the site was down for a bit this weekend. It was down just now for the WordPress upgrade and it was down yesterday mornuing due to server upgrades. All in all I hope it is for the best. I took much needed time off this weekend from my everyday responsibilities and really just played video games and went to the beach with Krissy. I think I am going to install some WordPress plugins tonight and play some Halo, so if you want to play my name is leprakhauns.

I have been looking into Small Business Loans. I have such big dreams for Lep’s Lair, I think that maybe a loan might be the way to finish the stuff up. I mean I would use a loan to invest in advertising and make more wallpapers and stuff, but it would really help to get this site to a better place.

I have been looking at AFS for Small Business Loans because they have no hidden charges and a low interest fee. Low interest is good because I don’t want to be paying double what I borrow, if I borrow. They also have no application fees. Small Business Loans don’t seem like a bad idea for what I want to do, I just need to see if I will be able to bring in more than I borrow if I take one out.

Tonight Obama won Washington, Nebraska, and Louisiana. I wasn’t aware of the elections today, so when I went to CNN tonight I was very pleasantly surprised. These wins put Obama at 61 delegates behind Clinton. I think the next big state though is going to be Texas, now they may have a lot of Hispanic voters there, and Hispanic voters are more for going with Hillary, but at the same time they also have a lot of white men who don’t like minorities. I am wondering if Clinton being a woman will classify her more as a minority with the voters rather than the man. It will be interesting to see which way they go.

I have always wanted to visit Australia. I mean they have koala’s and kangaroos, two of the coolest animals ever, so why wouldn’t I want to visit it right? It doesn’t hurt that the Crocodile Dundee is one of the coolest movies ever. It just seems like Australia can do no wrong when it comes to things that are cool. I want to check out flights to Australia and see if there are any that I could afford. I could always use a little vacation right? Hopefully something will come through though so that I can have some more money soon, this way maybe I could actually go.