This being the last day of the month, I had to sit down and do some accounting and administrative paperwork for my various online ventures. I’ve been earning money online since early 2005, and have done reasonably well since then.
But this month, September of 2008, was my lowest grossing income period in three years. [...]
The House rejected the proposed $700 billion bailout bill by a vote of 228-205 today, which helped the stock market tumble another 700+ points. According to news articles I’ve read, some people are blaming a scathing, partisan speech by House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) prior to the vote, in which she basically blamed the [...]
With several games still on the slate, there have already been quite a few upsets in the college football world today. I should say that there have been lots of upsets this week, as things actually got off to a start on Thursday night when the Oregon St. Beavers took care of then-No.1 USC [...]
I have a friend who works in an automotive plant near San Antonio, TX. Gil’s job is to load steel coils into huge press machines, where the material will then be punched out into various auto parts. The steel coils weigh upwards of 1,000 lbs., so it’s very dangerous work. In fact, Gil told [...]
I came across a new (for me) meme that looks pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s called Friday Fill-Ins, and gives you several incomplete sentences that you must fill in however you see fit. The filled in portion will be in bold, with the original snippet in regular type. Here [...]
There are many instances of parental child abduction around the world, where a child is taken away from the home by one of the parents. Usually, this is the result of broken marriages, and in a majority of cases, the abducting parent is the father (I guess since custody rulings often go in favor of [...]
You know, I’m getting really tired of wasting my Sunday afternoons watching the Bears give games away in the fourth quarter because of the offense’s inability to sustain drives and the defense’s inability to play tough for 60 full minutes. Actually, after discussing the Bears’ problems with friends and co-workers, we’re pretty much all [...]
I usually don’t watch awards shows, but I do TiVo the Emmys because this particular ceremony doesn’t have much in the way of filler (such as musical numbers and so forth). I’ve already set everything up to record tonight’s broadcast, which begins at 8pm on ABC. Why Tivo? Well, to fast forward through most [...]
For those of you who follow Oprah’s Book Club, she has recently announced a new selection. It’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski — a novel that I’d never heard of until it was picked for the club.
From the synopsis I read, Edgar Sawtelle is a “retelling of Hamlet” set in [...]