PINKS! in the fleshy raceway. You like Drag, you know you do!
Category: Sports
One thing that's crossed my mind while borrowing my parents' SUV was how absolutely hoop-tee my 1999 Mercury Tracer is. Replace the engine with a nitro-injected 6V monster, and it's totally prime for Drag Racing.
There's a new show on Speedtv, called PINKS! that features everyday people such as myself putting their rides on the line in a flat-out race.
Watch some Drag Racing Clips for a thrill. Then set your DVR for the all day PINKS! marathon on Speedtv November 23. I'll have it ready just in case any of my relatives decide to bitch about politics over Thanksgiving.
After the marathon, watch the premier of PINKS! all out. THe actual race takes place in Arizona, and if you have a car that runs in the "nine's" (NOT 8, NOT 10), think about racing -you could win a lot of cash.
Day after....is it really happening?
Category: Life
So, I've had a busy time these past few days....
Not really work-busy -- that was the thirty hours spent driving and sampling wine on Friday and Saturday. Since then, it's been all life-busy.
My parents went up to visit my Grandmother for her birthday. They left on last Wednesday morning, ad allowed me to borrow the Explorer while they were gone.
They got back lat last night.
Oh, and I had my youngest cat neutered yesterday. He was only miffed for a little bit.
As always, I'm interested in looking at mortgages. It's such an intimidating step, buying your first house.
I've been to a few home-buying workshops, and I get the solicitations all the time ... how am I supposed to know what's a lgegitimate fee and where the hidden snake is that'll snap my arm off in three years?
Also, there is no golden egg. Don't go through mortgage refinancing as leverage to pay off your debt unless you change the behavior that got you into debt.
Good Lord, even if you have a fully-funded Emergency Fund (3 to 6 months of expenses), and are actually debt-free, mortgages and home loans can kill you if you don't know what you're doing.
My advice is: don't go for the deal that looks too good to be true. It is too good to be true! This site, www.personalhomeloanmortgages.com, offers a wealth of information on the entire mortgage loan process.
Browse their forums with confidence - ask questions about anything and everything that concerns you, post problems you've experienced, and know the site uses SecureTrust so your information is as safe as possible and your info won't be farmed out to phone banks and spammers.
They also offer an extensive directory of mortgage broker when you have that money saved up and the debt paid down, and are ready to buy a home.
By the way, the [PPP] up in the title means I found out about this topic through PayPerPost.com and am being compensated for my words. Check it out if you blog, and mention me: ellisbean AT earthlink.net
Fourth and Long .... I'm gonna rip the sports metaphor right outta your head!
Current mood: blah
Category: Sports
So, again: why am I awake?
why? And I have the answer: I just can't quite onquer the world by sitting at my computer, but the attempt takes up a lot of time.
That's my thing. Been meaning to update my other blog. I have about 20 drafts just waiting to be polished and pushed into the world.... fly my little darlings. First, back to Civilization III.
Enough about me. You know what time it is!
4th and Long (a Ray Ray Production)
Favorite quotes: "It's like, uh, first kiss, first time you shoot an animal... you know, it's gotta be like thos guys hitting the beach on Normandy or something."
The random cleavage shot is absolutely out of place. Or perfectly in place, to get this totally misleading screen grab.
Why am I blogging for PayPerPost? Why do I need money? [PPP]
Category: Blogging
As you know, I occassionally write blog posts for PayPerPost. I get paid to write something regarding an "opportunity" hosted on PayPerPost [PPP] for an advertiser.
I choose which opportunities to take, how often I take them (up to 3 times a day), and what I write in the particular posts. I consider it a great motivator for me to write, a veritable "shadow" brainstorm of ideas for me to riff on.
Thus far, I've earned about $500 through PayPerpost - since. By no means am I a top earner (they're over $2000 now), but i don't blog regularly enoguh to do so. Nor do i especially plan to increase my blogging. I was at one point, but now I'm just exhausted and getitng increasingly burned out.
My job does that to me.
I've used the money so far to assist me in paying off (well, paying) the enormous debt I manage to accumulate. It also helps fill in the gaps when my regular job - which pays commission - doesn't pay very much. That's most of the time so far, btw, and that's pay for course, so the millionaires tell me.
In short, PayPerPost is a great way to make money. It isn't quite delivering pizzas, but my day job is living in my car, so delivery as a second job is out of the question. PayPerPost is very much like my daqy, in that the harder I work at it, the more I earn (although PayPerPost has yet to promise to order a lot of wine from me only to cancel the next week ).
No, it's sitting here, typing away, writing witty things and not-so-witty things on things I have opinions of and being paid up-front to do so. It nearly is what I thought I'd be doing now when I much younger.
By the way, the [PPP] up in the title means I found out about this topic through PayPerPost.com and am being compensated for my words. Check it out if you blog, and mention me: ellisbean AT earthlink.net
I thought I had it rough. The constant driving to and from between Austin and Houston, the lack of sleep, the need to be salesman, delviery guy, bookkeeper, IT, warehouse manager, getting paid to blog, and yada y yada...
Hot Tamale has it worse. Except she lives in Orlando and not Houston: the Devil's Armpit and she works for PayPerPost - a way cooler company than mine, I think. She has a desk, too...
Anyway, things are hectic over there in PPP land now that they've got an extra $3 million to fuel efforts, and amassive surge in us "posties". Watch in shock as she lets out her frustration and anger:
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I'm biting my lip to resist doing that stupid male "Oh, yeah? Well, look at mine - it's totally WAY bigger!"
Instead I have to say, wowsa. I knew life in the office could be utterly nerve-wracking, but if her job I had when I was 22 (I was doing that failed start-up thing), I'd still be where I am today. Just a little bit wiser.
The wine from Argentina finally arrived on Wednesday morning at 5 am. An hour late, and about the time I arrived at the warehouse in Austin. That meant I left here at about this time (2 am) and drove to Austin from Houston.
This container was a doozy. 450 cases loose, not on a pallet. We had to use good pallets, load them with the loose cases, and then get them down and put the pallet away in the warehouse. I should mention that we don't have a truck-level dock, so we have to use the forklift to get the pallet (once loaded) down to ground level, and then use the pallet jack to place the pallet.
After packing these pallets and getting them down, there were another 450 or 500 cases (of a different winery) on pallets. The space in the container is too small to use a pallet jack for the first couple of pallets, so we have to use this heavy-grade chain, loop it around the support blocks of the first pallets, hook the chain to the forklift, anf then pull the pallets to the edge of the container where the pallet can pick up and "deliver" the pallet to the warehouse.
After that, almost everyone else took a nap. I loaded my car and drove back to Houston to make deliveries.
I'm not meeting the container tomorrow, but I'm doing more deliveries.
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