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It has been rough financially for everyone lately. Krissy is suffering hard and has been doing paid surveys to make ends meet. She has been making a decent amount with it so it doesn’t seem like a bad way to make some extra cash. Personally I am surprised though because a lot of those survey places are scams, but I guess if you find one that pays you and doesn’t stiff you then you should stick with them.

I found a legit one that I might sign up for, though I don’t know because I should be spending my time working and not doing surveys, but if it makes me money then it can’t hurt right? It is called getpaidtotry
Click here to begin. You can get $20 just for signing up so it might be worth it, but I think I am going to tell Krissy about it first and see what she can make. They seem to have a lot more higher paying opportunities than some of their competitors. Who knows, maybe you could make a living off taking surveys, though I doubt that is possible, but the extra money would help with those rising gas prices right? More money for gas used to sound ridiculous, now if it went below $4 a gallon I would be in awe.

What may be the world’s oldest blogger died on Saturday. Olive Riley who was 108 years old when she died was the webmistress and blogger of The Life of Riley. She would blog about the differences of kids today and when she was growing up, she would even post Youtube videos of herself and her friends. I came accross her blog not long ago and originally thought it was a joke, now I see that it is no joke and she really was the world’s oldest blogger. I wonder if her wisdom will remain on the internet for years to come, for people to learn from, or if it will simply disappear into the proverbial tubes that run the internet?

I just tested my Bills IQ and I have to say that I am surprised. I never thought about many of the things that they had asked me on the test, I guess because I am still relatively young and don’t think about retirement or anything like that. After taking the test I realize that I need to get my credit cards paid off once and for all. They are all right for emergencies, but when you have to maintain your credit, they can be the one downfall you have.

I guess my first thing to do is see if I can do some Debt consolidation, this way I can just send out one low payment with a lower interest rate than I have now. I really need Debt relief, especially if we plan on moving. It just sucks because my income seems to be the only one right now, but that is really no one’s fault. I wish we lived closer to the middle of the US though, I found out my friend in Texas is only paying 394 dollars a month for a one bedroom apartment all utilities included. I thought Texas was just as expensive as here, I guess I was wrong.

Unfortunately I do not live in Texas so I need to figure out how to pay everything off. Maybe I need to look for Debt help, though I really don’t want to.

I am stuck here because my water pump blew and I need a serpentine belt. I have an appointment on Tuesday to get it done, but it just sucks that I need to wait until then, especially considering I made the appointment on Tuesday. The mechanic comes highly recommended though, so I can understand why he couldn’t take me until then. It is just sucks not having a car, though Monday and Tuesday I guess I will be preoccupied with E3 conferences to even notice. Monday is the Microsoft one, which is what I am most interested in since Bungie has been hinting at something, and Tuesday is the Sony and Nintendo one. I am interested to see what Nintendo has to bring to the table since Reggie was teasing E3 back in April. Hopefully it will be something as big as Wii Fit. As for Sony, I can’t imagine they are going to do anything more exciting than Home, and that doesn’t excite me at all. I know they are rolling out Achievement like things known as trophies and that all games will eventually have them, it might prompt me to buy a PS3, especially if I can display my trophies online.

If you put a vw turbocharger in a Volkswagon it is going to run and sound better. The reason it runs and sounds better is because it increases the amount of air entering the engine and in turn gives it more power. I thought about putting one in my Beretta, and I would if I had the money, but right now I don’t. As it is I more than likely need a new Serpentine belt and I hear it would be a pain to install it myself, so I would need to get that installed. I love my car and there is so much I would want to do to it, even if I could afford a new car, I think I would just keep spending money on getting mine upgraded and fixed. I would love it if I could get a new paint job, make it black with flames, put in some racing seats and a nice stereo system with built in Ipod dock and CD player, maybe even a built in computer. Of course all this would be nice, but I need the money first.

E3 2008 is one week away. Last year Nintendo announced the Wii Fit, this year I am hoping that they announce more compatible games for it, like Tony Hawk. Bungie has been hinting at E3 in their latest podcast, so maybe we will hear about a new game from them, or maybe see something from the Peter Jackson Halo project. I know I am going to definitely be checking out every bit of Halo Wars screen videos there are, though I don’t know how well an RTS is going to be on the 360.

I am also hearing rumors that Microsoft will reveal a motion sensored controller similar to the Wiimote, so maybe that will be announced. I just hope none of the big three announce a new console because the console wars are still going strong and taking it to another level would be horrible in this economy.

Krissy says that my car is making some odd noises and starting to die. Now while my Beretta isn’t my first car, it is the car that has lasted me the longest. As of right now we are on vacation so hopefully we will be able to make it back home safely, if not we may need to figure out a way to do a car rental, but that might be difficult considering you need to be at least 25. Advantage is having a 50% discount on Luxury and Convertible car rentals, I hope they have that when I turn 25 because I might just rent a convertible for the hell of it.

The place we were looking into has been rented out so we need to come up with somewhere else to live. Since I am sick I haven’t really been out much, I have been mainly sleeping, but I don’t want to do that today since I have some work to do. I am kind of happy that the place isn’t available, it was kind of small and there wouldn’t be a place to have Sectional Sofas, which I find to be the most comfortable. When have you ever seen Sectional Sofas where you don’t just sink in and can fall asleep? Plus they are good because if you do fall asleep, someone else can still be sitting on it too. I guess we are going to have to keep looking for a place, there might be a few out east, but they’d be more expensive. I guess we’d just need to wait and see.

I saw Beast with a Billion Backs last night and it was good, I don’t think it was anywhere near as good as the first movie, but I liked it. I checked out the preview on the DVD for the next movie, and it looks like it is going to be Dungeons and Dragons based, which is all right. I heard the last one is going to tie up a lot of loose ends, in case they don’t make anymore after it. My guess is that it will involve Nibbler and possibly the Brains and what is meant by when Nibbler said to Fry that she must be the other. If it doesn’t tie that up, then I don’t know what is going to happen.

I do not agree with the views Glenn Beck, for one I think Bush is an idiot and for seven years he was giving Bush the benefit of the doubt. Secondly I don’t think I have much in common with Conservatives at all, I am more Liberal than Conservative, but I think I am more in the Socialist, Communist territory. While I don’t like the idea of the Government knowing your every move, I do like where the government takes care of you through Social outlets, like Universal Healthcare and whatnot. I am toward Communism because I think that as an idea Communism is great, but when practiced it fails miserably. I guess I am a Socialistic, Communistic Liberal with a hint of Conservative, even though I don’t want to admit the Conservative part.

While I do not agree with Glen Beck, I do enjoy listening to his views and what he thinks is wrong with the country. It is nice to get an outsiders opinion on the issues. He is having a show in Dallas on July 17th which is going to be broadcasted to select movie theaters that day. I might see if I can see the show on that date, depending on if there is a movie theater showing it near me or not.

Krissy and I went over to Microcenter yesterday and I saw all of the Mac stuff they had. A lot of them had real mice and keyboards hooked up to them and not the defaut ones that are so small I feel like I am going to break it. They had a better music keyboard that hooked up to the Mac than they had last time and if I had the money I would buy it, unfortunately I don’t have the money right now so it is going to have to wait. Being on this for the last week made me realize what a good machine it is and I definitely want a Mac now. I just need to pay off the first one before I can even think about getting a second one.

Krissy told me about a job at her aunt’s job where it starts at $75,000 and the only requirement is that you have a Cisco certification. To me that sounds like a lot of money and I would take it in an instant, if I had that certification. The sad part is that even though I would take it no one else wants it. The starting pay is pretty low for that certification.

Hearing that makes me want to just get my Cisco Certificate and then take a job like that. I know about basic network security, so having a certificate doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch. Now I wish I would have just went and got some certifications instead of going to college and dropping out. Oh ell, I know one day I will both graduate college and have all the degrees I want. It will just take some time.

I am actually kind of surprised that Cisco certifications pay so much, I thought that A+ paid more, but I guess since you are dealing with security with Cisco that could be the clencher on why it pays more. I don’t think it costs much more to get though, so the turn around as far as money paid to salary paid is better. I guess it has to be when you want people to secure the entire network a business revolves around, otherwise people might mess around and pretend to know what they are doing and then get fired, but by paying more they are securing a competent individual to be behind your network.