Hi everyone!
I am not quite an early riser™ but I intended to be™. I will fill you in on the passed™ few days goings on. It has been very interesting and in some way enlightyening. I beleive that good things are very near™ and that I might have found a way out of this mess™ and a new start so I can repay every dirty penney™.
I started Thursday to take a long hard look at alot™ of the advise™ that has been posted here over the last few months. Maybe it was because I thought I could find a way out of the foreclosures/short sale mess or maybe it was my own stubbornness, but I failed to see the true wisdom being offered here. I am blessed™ to have had so many of you offer solid advise™ and honest heartfelt words of encouragement and wisdom. I am now past all of the haters™ here and I am in a new frame of mind.
I looked at all of the advise™ and prioritized it in a meaningful way so that i could start with the most important tips and work down from their™.
So, on Thursday I went to Whole Earth Foods and bought a day’s supply of organic, carbon neutral, non-animal tested, soy-based Ramen Noodles to begin my journey. On my way home I thought that some ground beef might make the noodles a bitt more tasty so I go that to™. After preparing the Ramen according to the package directions, I cooked the ground beef and dined. Afterward I could feel the nutrients surging into my sinewy frame and I began to meditate. I decided to tackle the broken window in the Jetta first since I now had insurance. It was all good. I must have meditated™ for quite awhile™ becuase when I oke up it was dark.
I wasn’t sire what time the junkyard closed, but I new™ I should hurry (great peace™ of advise™: don’t be late). When i got to the junkyard there weren’t any people their™ but I just figured that it was a Thursday so maybe business was slow (perhaps I could help them with a new business plan that would get them instant results and improve their bottom line?).
The entrance gate seemed to be a bit stiff, but I found that with a good hard shove from my shoulder I could pop it open almost immediately. As I went looking around I found it hard to locate the exact parts in the dark and I couldn’t tell what time it was because I don’t where™ a watch.
All of a sudden, I heard a loud noise and then in a flash, a dog grabbed my arm. It was a large german shephard with big teeth. A neighbor must have left their gate open and this canine escaped!
After a few exciting minutes I was able to free myself and run out of the junkyard. I fully intend to contact the owner and let him know about his dangerous neighbors and maybe he can do something about it so it doesn’t impact his patrons.
Anyway, I now have several large wounds in me left arem that are getting very red and swollen. Someone told me thta is a natural healing process™ and I shouldn’t be concerned. I feel blessed that the human body is so capable of regenerating itself from injury. I have nothing to fear about this natural process.
Any way, after I returned home from my unsuccessful attempt at gatting a new window I continued my meditation™ and emerged from my level III state about 10:30 Friday morning. I was very hungry so I cooked som emore ground beef but I couldn’t remember where I put the ramen. Just as I turned on the stove I remembered my modified vegan™ lifestyle and quickly shaped the ground beef to look like carrots. It was very tasty and I think the pseudo beta carrotine will do my body good.
I spent the rest of the day installing CMS accounting management software modules 1, 2, 3 and 9 to help me get my finances organised™. A friend of mine works for a large CPA firm in Sac and let me “borrow” the installation discs (these modules alone totalled 27 disks) to make an “archival copy” of the software. (I read the fair use and licensing agreement and I am comfortable that since I am mostly using this as an archival backup I will not be violating any portion of the copyright).
I am currenly having difficulty getting ahead of the learning curve™ as this software is very complex. My chart of accounts on the general ledger could well be in excess of 2,500 accounts. I hope to have it fully operational by Memorial Day.
Since I did not yet have a vehicle, I called Dave in Davis to see if I could once again help him evaluate the BioBunny™. Dave said yes, I could evaluate it for the weekend, but he was in the Mexican Food used oil phase, and I could not use any oil from Chinese foor restaurants. I told him that was sweet™ and I thought it was all good™.
I picked up the Bio Bunny™ and immediately started out on amission to fing a fillup. It took almost 3 hours to find a restauranteur who spoke enough english to convince them to let me have their used oil. Finally with a full tank I was road-ready again.
I was off to the Verizon store because my new Binford 9000 web based internet/video/real time web sync server-phone was not configured correctly. I picked it up last week while this site was down and I consistently couldn’t get above 3.9 giga bits per second throughput to the T1 node I have leased.
The tech rep suggested increasing the phone’s memory to 8 Gigabytes. That would use up all but $39 in my checking account, but he said if I did thta he could reduce my monthly rate to $699, with unlimited minutes. I think that was a good choice because one of the many featured of the phone is real time pinging of new posts and since it is waterproof I can moderate in the shower. That alone should increase my efficiency by about 30%.
I will complete the details of my weekend later as I have to spend the rest of the day researching which newspapaer subscription plan (and which paper) would be best so that I can start studying the classified ads to see about starting to get the process of beginning to perform the initial phase of a lengthy eliminations process of starting to look for a job.
I already know that a W-2 job is out, so I will make a note™ to only scour the portions of the paper that I ultiately select for those listing of the most promising professional paths that I should select.
I am considering a subscription to either the LA Times (huge circulation numbers) USA today (color), Chicago Sun Times (delicious writing), SF Chronicle (kindof™ a long commute) or maybe the Roseville/Antelope Observer. Someone said their™ might be another paper in the Sacramento area, but I was talking to a guy who said he heard their™ wasn’t for about 5 years now.
What are your thoughts?
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To try and track expenses better™ I went to Borders and bought some books on C++ programming. I know it sounds like an expense I shouldn’t incur right now but I am looking at it as an investment in my future. I beleive that if I channel my 9 to 5™ efforts back into my computer skill set.
Once I decide whick of the nine books to prioritize into first place on the reading list (I may not be able to get to that this week because I am still networking my team of highly skilled professionals™) I will begin reading. After that, I am envisioning making some sort of an arithmetic version of a pad of paper.
Stay with me on the technical details. It would consist of rows and columns that could be filled in with numbers (in my case expenses) and labels for essentials™ (such entertainment, cable TV, stereo equipment, web hosting, etc.) along with the ability to do simple arithmetic, like addition, subtraction etc. If I can make this work, I feel it will be a very lucrative endeavour. I think that the computational world is on the verge of needing something like this.
I have already begun making a list of names for it (since I am a big picture™ person, the marketing isde must ever be overlooked or it will falter and the product will never materialize).
Here are some suggestions:
e-paper™
Electro-pad™
Note-a-calc™ (I think that one sounds to™ complex)
Handy scratch™
Math-o-matic™
Calc-u-lose (Like cellulose fibers, but it calculates? get it?)
Anyway, I will have much more free time to work on naming my invention soon. Many of the members of my team™ have chimed in with suggestions, but I have asked for the sake of avoiding any copyright or trademrk infringements that they submit them in a sealed envelope that will be opened later. In the mean time, I have placed them on the top of my mail pile which signifies their importance in being on th every top. Once again, I beleive in the “touch it once” philosophy of organisation™.
I feel blessed to have been struck with such an idea of greta importance. I think that my row and column concept will be a hit. $384 for tose books was alot™ but in the end, I could make thousands off of my efforts.
Today I saw a new number on caller ID (instinctively I pressed “ignore” on my cellphone). After the voicemail message was recorded I retreived it (along with 19 from Cashcall™ this morning alone). This was from my broker, ExcelsiorTrade™. It seems that since my stock has been going down I was receiving a margin call.
I am not really sure exactly what a margin call is, but it sounded like I either have to bring in more money or I have to sell some of my stock. Since I am down I do not want to sell (buy low and sell high, right?), and after going to Borders I am in no position to put any more money in the account. So I wonder if I can just let this go maybe 30 days late and then call an negotiate some sort of a schedule to put the money back in in installments. Since they only charge $0.99 per trade they don’t sound like they have alot™ of overhead so I am sure I can reach some reasonable person to work out a deal. I know what you are saying, I should have read what I was signing and I should have had a beter understanding of what buying on margin is, but it was an impulse buy (Amy the realtor™ told me abut it and I just pulled the trigger). I will make a note™ to do better due dilligense™ in future deals.
I will post a picture of my new Binford 9000 web based internet/video/real time web sync server-phone shortly. The problem I am having this afternoon is getting the right resolution set. The maximum resolution is like 11.8 Giga Pixels (it was originally developed to have applications in outdoor advertising, underwater photography and geophysics), but at that resolutions, it will swamp my server. At maximum resolutions, it will produce a 30 x 55 image (that’s meters) in true 256 bit color. Once I get the resolution issues resolved I will post a picture.
Anyway, I took a roadtrip this weekend to clear my head. I have been swamped and overwhelmed so It felt good to get a way™ from the rat-race. I drove the Bio Bunny™ to the Stockton Asparagus Festival (what could be more modified vegan™ than a festival celebrating a vegtable?). It was very fun to see all of the arts and crafts, the displays (Pulte Homes and K&B Homes had especially impressive displays; note to self: their product looks superior, maybe I should buy one and attempt a flip with one of my new hard money sources?). I fully intended™ to sample some of the asparagus dishes, but I accidentally™ got in the wrong food line and wound up in the “Asparagus Beef Sandwich” line.
It was a tasty and wholesome blend of tri-tip and asparagus (modofoed vegan™, right?. Later in the day I was hungry again and I thought I would try a fire roasted corm on the cob. Again, I misjudged™ the line and wound up next door at the Korean BBQ booth where I enjoyed Korean BBQ beef on a skewer. I figured itas all good™ bcause I had intended™ to eat the corn, and didn’t fully appreicate™ that the line I was in didn’t offer vegtables. At least their™ was alot™ of protein!
The one booth I did get right was for fruit smoothies. The sign advertised “Nutricious, delicious hormone free, free-range berry smoothies”. I Admit that at $8.00 it seemed a little steep, but since I was paying cash their™ was no way to incur a $30 overdraft fee™. Sweet™!
At the end of the day I was very tired and decided to drive home. Because I was unfamiliar with Highway 99 (I had only drive it twice to visit the Modesto property™ months after I purchased it (so I could see what it actually looked like), I made a wrong turn after dark near Mack Road. I didn’t get back home till after 11:00PM and missed one of my networking meetings. Now I am sure some of my highly trained professional team members™ will be disappointed that I didn’t fully respect they’re™ time. I made a note™ to appologise no later than Thursday. G™ was mad that I didn’t take her and that I didn’t call. I explained that in my haste to get out the door I forgot to take the phone manual with me and I could not use the retinca scan or fingerprint biometric features to unlock the phone. I had 36 voice mail messages and 29 unanswered calls. I have to get more organised™.
At any rate, I spent the balance of this afternoon reading the dust jackets of my new library of C++ books to decide which one I should put on the top of my reading list.
Any thought on other C++ programming resources?
