I wish all you assh*les with the blog comment spamming software would get lost. It’s completely useless to spam this blog or any Word Press blog as they have built spam detection. That is my rant for today.

So today is officially Labor Day across North America (not sure about the rest of the world). Seeing that I work for myself holidays don’t mean too much, however I usually take them off and chill. It’s also the last day of the PNE here in Vancouver. I will be heading out to the Pacific National Exhibition with my family this afternoon (even though it’s freezing could out today!).

My Duracell 4GB flash drive died today, it kept saying that I had to format it but when I tried it wouldn’t do it.

I had some data on the Duracall USB drive but luckily I upload my data information to a web server every day, so no big deal. Anywho I bought a new Kingston 8 GB for $20 from Future Shop this morning. I hope this USB flash drive lasts longer than the Durcacell flash drive.

That’s about it, have a good one….

C.V.

2 shots taken at Renfew school

confused & dazed at Renfrew school

So yesterday was my basic day get up then bike ride to the coffee shop, come back, eat dinner blah, blah, blah. Last night I get home and notice the alarm was acting funny, the yellow “trouble” was on. The last time the  “trouble” light came on was when we got back from Mexico to notice our home had been broken into. Last night was a different reason………

I looked around and everything was secured (no forced entry), so that was cool. I asked the neighbour if she had power, nope. Apparently there was a big B-A-N-G around 3:35 PM and then the power faded into the sunset. Personally I think a transformer blew and that is the big bang that sounded like World War 3.

Anyways……

I was like “sh*t now what am I going to do?”. I figured I would be a good husband, since the power was out and clean up, I would vacuum the floors. Um, vacuums need electricity you cluck. OK I guess no vacuuming for me then.

Actually anything that I wanted to do I needed electricity:

1. Pour myself a glass of cold filtered water, electricity is needed to power the fridge that has the water purifier built into it. Doh!
2. Check my email, um yeah obviously electricity is needed once again.
3. Weed eat the back yard since I can’t do the above, oops you need electrical power again bud!

Anywho the list went on of all the things I thought I couldn’t do. I figured I would call BC Hydro (on my cell phone, cause my land line is DEAD) and see what the hell was going on. I got an automated response on the phone with BC Hydro with a message stating they “are aware of the situation and power would be back at 7 PM”.

I get off the phone with BC Hydro and my wife calls asking if I want a precooked BBQ chicken from Superstore. Little did she know that we had no way to cook food and actually the food in the freezer was slowly defrosting. So yeah I want the precooked bird!!

Long story short, I kinda forgot how much we ALL rely on power. It’s pretty scary how life would be without it. Personally I think I have would started rioting on Rupert Street, here in East Vancouver and looting the 7-11 if the power wasn’t on by 11 PM . Oh and the power estimate was off a little, the power came back at 10:15 PM.

Let me tell you how boring it is to have candles lit up, no TV, and watch precious daylight disappear only to be surrounded by dead silence and blackness. Yuck! BC Hydro, you bastards owe me a Friday night!

** PS: We went to the mall to keep ourselves occupied until the power was supposed to come back on.

Brentwood mall

Sometimes you come out  with a great idea, and you think it will take off. What happens if it doesn’t happen? Well this just happened to me, so now I need to find another way to make it happen. I am always trying new niches and ways to make money online, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. When this happens I have to admit I get bummed out, who wouldn’t?

I usually take a break then plan another way to attack it, it usually works to some degree. Affiliate marketing is all about trying new things out, because you don’t really know what will take off and work until you get in and try it.  The people who make the most money are the guys that have the balls to try new things. Sitting on the sidelines and being happy with what you have is great, but I like to expand.

Making money is like a game to me, it’s a challenge to see how far I can “push the envelope”. Sure I could be happy with what I am bringing in and I am, but I know I can bring even more. I will bring in more one way or another, I’m not too worried but I do get discouraged from time to time.

The reason for this post, hmm I’m not 100% sure. I think I just needed a 1 minute break from the “situation”, then I can think clearly and go balls out again.

PS: Don’t be one of those people who sits on the sidelines because your scared to fail. You should know that by sitting on the sidelines you have already failed YOURSELF. It’s easy to sit on the couch and watch reality shows, but do you have the courage to make something happen for yourself?

* Never give up, failure is only a state of mine. You are what you think you are, change your attitude and be a winner.

I recently got a new Visa credit card and my spending limit is $15,000 per month, fair enough. I checked today and it seems I am pretty close to maxing out my spending limit for the month. I called Visa and paid the monthly amount owing which was like $13,250 or something. That way I would be able to still have room on my Visa card to pay for advertising for the rest of the month. I then figured I should increase my monthly limit. I asked the Visa representative on the phone, if I could increase my spending limit stating that instead of paying my monthly bill before it came it would make more sense to increase my monthly spending limit. I have great credit and no liabilities at all, not even one. Everything  I own is paid in full, 3 houses and my Escalade, all paid for. She states that they cannot increase my monthly spending limit for 3 months…. I was like why? “It’s our policy”, she explains, blah, blah, blah. I can understand that, but here is the funny but stupid thing and I told her this. I said, do you realize that I can apply for another Visa credit card and basically increase my monthly spending that way. Is that not stupid or what?

The reason I don ‘t want to get another Visa credit card is that it’s just more paperwork and credit cards to keep track of, but this is probably the route I will have to take. Or, I can just continue to pay of the monthly bill before it arrives and then I wll have $15,000 available to pay for ads the rest of the month.

To me that is retarded financial institutions, they have a lame rule that you can easily get around and I know they know this. BLah, whatever it seems I always have to fine some loophole to make sh*t work the way I want it to.

And the beat goes on…

Holy sh*t, this coffee shop is blazing hot. One day it’s smoking hot, the next day the air conditioning makes it soo cold that icicles form on my eyebrows.  I talked to Habib (the owner)and he just laughs? Maybe he doesn’t understand what I am saying? It’s damn Hot in here Habib!!

I was thinking that maybe there is a method to this madness. One day he wants to sell cold drinks so he blasts the heat, then he runs out of cold drinks and wants to sell mad amounts of coffee so he cranks the hell out of the air conditioning. Not a bad idea right? Right now I’m sweating, tomorrow I’ll bring my sweater. Even Mr. Colsone (the dude in front of me at the coffee shop) has been b*tching about the fluctuation in temperature.

Ooops tomorrow is Saturday, no worky worky tomorrow. I will be back on Monday and the game will start all over again. Oh the joys of using free wireless internet from a coffee shop. I had to buy a San Pellegrino Limonata to cool off. This is almost as bad as the gas giants raising prices to insane levels. The consumer is forced to adapt once again. Or MAYBE I should stop bitching and go find another place to steal wireless internet from, the cheap weasel that I am….