2008

A while ago I signed up for SocialSpark to help make some money off my site. I haven’t made much with them because my blog is set to /wp/ and they won’t take a Real Rank for subfolders, only for domains. They also heavily rely on Javascript which can be annoying if my computer is on for days on end, which it usually is. I also wish the design was easier, like I wish I could view all my friends on one page like Myspace, and also not have to have a separate advertiser profile, with a separate everything. It would be much simpler if everything was tied together.

Despite these things that I don’t like, I do like the overall feel of the site. I like how everyone can be an advertiser and a blogger. I also like how they kind of incorporated everything their company does into this one entity. I think they set up a great thing with PayPerPost and then everyone copied them so they went and did their own new thing which would be harder for other people to copy, afterall who wants to make a whole networking site when you have a paid blogging one. I think it is a good thing all in all.

I finally sat down and watched Fantastic 4:Rise of the Silver Surfer. It wasn’t as good as I would have hoped. I liked the first one, but I thought that it was kind of bland. This one suffers from the same fate. The blandness is actually a lot less with the appearance of Galactus and the Silver Surfer. I always loved Galactus in comic book form so seeing him in a movie, no matter what form he takes, is still pretty cool. I hope when they do the Silver Surfer movie that we actually get to see what he looks like. The whole cloud thing was kind of a cop out.

Sunscreen can be annoying at times. I know you’re supposed to wear it when you are in the sun, but the greasy feeling makes me feel dirty. Plus having it on my neck and head make me feel like I am sweating more than I could be. I heard about this new sunscreen from Screen, Inc., it is non greasy and it is made especially for the neck up.

I might wear it more if it wasn’t always so oily, plus if I wear it more then I don’t need to worry about becoming red with sunburn, which I do a lot in the summer time. Maybe they offer tanning products too so that I don’t have to be as white as I am now in the summer, that would be a great change. I could be tan and dye my hair back to blonde, though that would be a dramatic difference than what I normally look like.

I finally finished initial work I was working on for someone. It isn’t a site that I am used to doing, it is actually a political site that is aimed toward the middle class. The website itself is Middleclasspolitics and it is in the same format as Politico and HuffingtonPost. This isn’t the site that I have been working on for more than a year, but it is for the same people, so it is a start right?

You know the old saying I think therefor I am? What if there was something to that? What if the Law of Attraction could ghet you what you wanted and needed and made you what you thought you were. In a way it can, at least according to The Sedona Method and The Secret.

I am not an expert on either subject, though I have seen the Law of Attraction in work and I much say that is is a kind of metaphysical thing that could be coined coincidence if it wasn’t just too perfect. What I mean is getting exactly what you need exactly when you need it isn’t exactly a coincidence.

I am not quite sure what the Sedona Method is exactly but I am thinking about getting the Free DVD and CD that can how The Sedona Method is the bridge between The Secret and the Law of Attraction.

By now everyone knows what the Secret is. I mean it has been around since the early 20th Century and has only just become popular with the help of modern authors and of course who can forget Oprah? Anything that Oprah touches turns to gold it seems, and the popularity of this book is no exception.

Iron Man opened yesterday. I was never a big Iron Man comic book fan, but I loved all of the Marvel superheroes 90’s cartoons. I think it was the 90’s cartoons that actually got me into the whole superhero thing. I will probably wait until Iron Man comes out on DVD before I see it, but I am already hearing people say to wait until after the credits to see a special sneak peak of a movie that will be coming out in a few years. If you have absolutely no idea what I am talking about then let me tell you this, it is the start of something big in the Marvel Universe which Iron Man was a part of. In fact most of the Marvel superheroes were a part of it at some point, including Wolverine and Spiderman.

My traffic seems to have picked up a lot over the course of the last few days, but I am not really sure why. I am behind on sending out comments to people on Myspace who become my friend, and I don’t even remember the last time I commented a website, which sucks because I haven’t been able to read the ones that I love so much. With the work I have to do with these clients though, most of my time is taken up with them. Whatever free time that I have I am either spending it with Krissy or cruising the mean streets of Liberty City starting trouble with cops.

I know that I would love to have some more time for marketing though. I believe that I could increase my revenue for my site along with repeat visitors if I had an email marketing campaign going. If I had an email campaign then I could let people know when I have something new up, like a comment or a wallpaper, but I could also email them to let them know that I have missed them as a visitor, you know so it stays fresh in their mind. Either way I think that Zookoda would be the best thing for me if I could actually find the time to do an email campaign. With them I could benefit not only as being a blogger, but also as being a content provider. Plus they are from the same company who brought us PayPerPost and Social Spark, so I know that they are reliable and won’t screw me over.

This one post on the main page was a lot better idea in my head. The truth is I need a whole new layout but I haven’t had time to do it. All day I have been trying to figure out this problem that I am having with CSV files, so I decided to get back to it and move on to something else which is done and I am back to where I started from.

Another client is switching servers so I am keeping an eye on that making sure everything does what it is supposed to do until they absolutely have to turn it off, that is if they need to turn it off to begin with. On top of this I have a copy of GTA4 that I haven’t been able to give the time it truly needs to be played and I want to finish up things a lot more with one client so I can play, but the temptation to play is still there.

What is it with women and shoes? Krissy needs shoes, a pair of straight up sneakers, but when her and my mother get to talking about it they get into all sorts of things that I know nothing about. To a man if a shoe fits and you can bare to look at it then you will wear it. For a women it is a whole different world of thinking. What does it go with? What color is it? What does it accentuate? I have no idea why something that serves a purpose has to look so pretty or cost so much.

All I know is that for the last week I have heard nothing, but stuff about seychelles shoes, minnetonka boots, tsubo shoes, and stuff like that. Their conversations are really starting to remind me of Sex and the City.

I thought when we moved down here my mother would pick up a gay man and it would be like Will and Grace, I had no idea that things would get even weirder and things would become Sex and the City. It is funny though, because when my aunt is here and you would expect things to be even more like that show, it turns completely and becomes an episode of Absolutely Fabulous. I took a video once, maybe I should take some more and make it a reality segment. What do you think, Absolutely Fabulous in Rehoboth Beach?

That is a bird’s nest in a tree. Isn’t it a nice sight? It is kind of peaceful in a way right? You want to know the strange thing about the picture? The bird is real, as is the next, but the tree is fake. The bird built a fill nest for its baby birds inside a plastic tree that we have on the porch. How sad is that?

Guys will watch any sports game as long as it is live. What may seem boring on television would actually seem interesting in person. Watching golf live on the green would be more fun than on television simply because you are moving with the golfers and keeping up with them as they take their shots. It is the same for tennis.

I don’t watch many sports on television, but I have gone to my share of high school football games in my day, and they all seem more interesting than just watching a game on television (excluding the Super Bowl). I wish I could go to any big sports event. I think I could find a newfound love for golf if I could go to the World Cup or a love for tennis if I could have Wimbledon tickets.

I have never actually watched tennis on television, I have seen it played live at high school, and I have also played it a bit. I must say that while it doesn’t look fun when watched, it is much like golf in that when you play it is a surprise to how fun it actually is. Either way I wouldn’t mind going to Wimbeldon if the opportunity ever arose.

When I woke up today I had a package from Izea waiting for me. Originally I thought that it was a product for review, but upon openning it I have found a bunch of Cinco De Mayo stuff. Among them was mints, jelly beans, a marracha, a cactus pen, a chile pepper necklace, a cactus shot glass and a cactus puppet. It was really nice of them to send this out, I am glad to see that they think of their posties during holidays.