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Some Where In The Middle

2011-11-07T14:30:00.001-06:00

Today I'm some where in the middle of being rich and flat broke depending on how you look at it, but from where I'm standing it's more twords the broke side.

Laid up boats and firewatch, what a joke.

2011-09-12T14:33:00.003-05:00

I've been living on this laid-up vessel for going on three weeks now and working on a fleet tug at night. Well there are two guys that are on this thing all the time, talk about slobs. They leave dishes in the sink for days... hell there has been a pot in the sink and a pan on the stove for a week.

Air in my room is fine after midnight but it gets about 90° in it during the day so when I get off the tug at 5am I can get about five hours of sleep before it gets too hot. Even when I take a shower I feel dirty around there, it takes me almost half an hour to shower due to the lack of any real water pressure.

To say this really sucks is an understatement which is putting it mildly. At least working nights it has been really slow in the fleets so i've had a lot of time to do some thinking about money, business, life, and games. I know that I don't really have it all that bad when I really look at things but I can't help but think that life could be so much better if I could make $200,000 - $500,000 or even $1,000,000 a year.

But all that's another story right now

World of Warcraft = Good ole Wasted Time, but I like it!

2011-09-12T14:33:00.001-05:00

I play World of Warcraft a lot even when I should be doing other things like building shelves for the house, painting, working on my online training which I could finish in a day or two if I wanted. I work a fulltime job that keeps me away from my wife and kids for a month at a time but its all good because I get to spend a month at home with them, I just have to get my ass off the.computer more.

Im somewhat addicted to the game but its better than being on drugs. It costs a little but hey when I was single I used to spend $300 or more in one night between casinos amd stripclubs.

Really High Water

2011-05-05T10:25:00.001-05:00

Another view of the area around LM 183.

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Location:Belle Helene Rd,Darrow,United States

High-water LM 183

2011-05-05T10:18:00.001-05:00

This is at LM 183 the River is 37 feet and rising in Baton Rouge. This was taken May 05/2011.

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Creative and Profitable Ways to Use Auto-responders

2010-10-24T13:48:00.001-05:00

An interested visitor who has been strolling through your site has finally come to just what she is looking for and is about to make a purchase. It’s a sunny afternoon, and her cat, which happens to be sitting on the moss under the visitor’s large fifty-year-old snow-rose bonsai tree, suddenly jumps down, and the priceless tree topples over.

In the blink of an eye, your visitor exits your site, and your sale is dust - unless you have had the foresight to utilize an auto-responder that has captured her email address. If you have installed an auto-responder, you can then follow-up with her, and in all probability, make the sale when the poor woman has finished repotting her precious bonsai.

Make Money on Autopilot with Autoresponders

Auto-responders are remarkable, versatile programs that do so much more than just automatically answer your email. Here are a few ideas that will help you to creatively and productively use your auto-responder to transform the casual visitor into a profitable customer. Use your auto-responder to:

1. Publish a newsletter. Certain quality auto-responders will manage subscriptions and follow-up with interested prospects. Your newsletter can keep your visitors informed about your services or products, while building your reputation as a credible expert in your particular business.

2. Publish a newsletter only for your affiliates. Inform them of current sales you are running and of promotional material that your affiliates can use themselves to increase their commissions. Include tips, advice, and techniques that your affiliates can use to successfully go out and promote your business.

3. Write reviews. Cover books, software, music, e-books, movies, etc., and put each review in an auto-responder. Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate’s page in your auto-responder.

4. Distribute your articles. Writing and distributing targeted articles is a powerful tool to build your business credibility, bring traffic to your site, and increase your sales potential. If your articles contain valuable information, many editors will print what is known as a resource box for you. A resource box contains your bio and a brief description of your service or product. It can also contain your auto-responder address. Let’s say you’ve written fifty articles. Put them on separate auto-responder accounts and create a master list that contains the titles of each article, the auto-responder address, and a brief abstract. Then promote your master list. Additionally, include your publishing guidelines so your affiliates can add their articles to your list, increasing the number of writers who are represented in your article list.

5. Create mailing lists. Inform subscribers to your articles when you’ve written new ones that they may want to publish in their own newsletter or website.

6. Automate your sales process. Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message, which has been proven to effectively increase sales. In your ad, put your auto-responder address where a visitor will be exposed to numerous marketing materials. This multiplies the chances of converting visitors into customers. For example, if you’re selling a particular product, put testimonials about how spectacular it is on your auto-responder, and add a detailed, enticing description of your product.

7. Distribute advertising. Let’s say you sell advertising on your website or in your newsletter or e-zine. Set your auto-responder to send the information about rates and how to place an ad automatically to all prospects’ email addresses. Then have your auto-responder follow-up. It can also send notification of any special deals you are currently offering.

Optin Comments - Blog comments to Autoresponder plugin for WordPress

8. Distribute an email course. Each day, have your auto-responder send out another lesson. Just be sure that each lesson has quality content - not a sales pitch. Your content will do the selling for you, and will do it much more effectively. You can include tips centered on a different topic for each lesson, illustrating how your product will benefit the reader. Include the tangible benefits the visitor will reap by purchasing your product. Make sure to include a paragraph or two at the end of each lesson enticing your prospect to consider making a purchase.

9. Automate a reminder about your service or product after a visitor has completed your course. This will increase the possibility of sales from visitors who have taken your course but are dragging their feet about actually making a purchase. You can also use these reminders to promote new products or services, and the products and services of your affiliate programs.

10. Distribute free reports. This gives your visitor an idea of the type of information you can provide and the quality of your product or service. Make sure these reports are not sales letters or you will more than likely lose a potential customer than gain a sale.

11. Create trivia quizzes on your site and place the answers in an auto-responder. Your visitor will then be motivated to request your auto-responder, and you will have a record of the visitors’ email addresses who took your quiz. Or create a contest and have any visitors that enter send their responses to your auto-responder. Your auto-responder can be set-up to send them a confirmation of their entry.

12. Offer a trial version of your product. Give your prospects a sample of your e-book, course, software, membership, etc. People who are exposed to a little taste often end up wanting the whole pie. You can also capture their email addresses when you offer them a free trial from your website. Set up your auto-responder to give instructions on how to obtain their free trial, and then make sure to follow-up to try and close the sale.

Tim Bekker's The Autoresponder Code

13. Link to hidden pages on your auto-responder. For example, a hidden page could be your affiliate page that contains graphics, promotional articles, and text links that interested affiliates can make use of. Inform visitors that they may have free access to your affiliate page by simply requesting your auto-responder. You will then gather a list of visitors who may be interested in becoming your affiliates.

14. Use an auto-responder on your order page. Post a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or discounts in the future. This creates a very effective mailing list that contains the names of people who are already your customers.

15. Put your links page on your auto-responder. It should contain up to fifty links that would be of particular interest to your visitors. Make sure to add your own promotional copy at the top or bottom of this page.

Now that you have proof that auto-responders can be used creatively, see if you can come up with some brilliant ideas of your own!

Here are some auto-responders for you to checkout, these are just the tip of the iceberg because there are so many great auto-responders out and some cost a lot of money. You know how it goes… you get what you pay for.

Dr. Queks Perl Script Archives.
Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager, Followup Email Autoresponder, Earn-it Manager, Tell A Friend, Affiliate Manager For CB.

Introduction to Auto-responders

2010-10-24T12:50:00.001-05:00

If you’ve reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails that threatens to bury you alive every single day, then you’re ready to learn about how easy auto-responders can make you life.

The bad news is that people expect prompt replies to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails (while they’re eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news is an auto-responder is an inexpensive - or even free - method of quickly responding to emails. What these programs do is automatically respond to incoming emails as soon as they are received.

Emails are essential to your business for many different reasons. Most importantly, these invisible email voices give you their feedback about your website - for free! However, if you spend all your working hours answering these emails, how are you supposed to run your business? The answer is simple: use auto-responders. Auto-responders are programs that automatically respond to your emails without you so much as having to click on your mouse.

There are a number of good reasons why you need an auto-responder besides just answering your email. For example, auto-responders can be used if you need a way to send information about your services or products, price lists, or if there are repeated questions asked across large numbers of emails. Maybe you want to offer your site visitors a special bonus of some kind, such as advice or relevant articles. All of this can be handled by an auto-responder. Additionally, you can advertise your business and then build stable relationships with your customers by using auto-responders.

Auto-responder programs vary from software that runs with your email program to a specialized script that runs on your web hosting company’s server. This kind of script may use a web page form or simply operate with your email account. This kind of script is programmed to send out a standardized message whenever an email is received. The message is sent to a particular script or email address.

Some auto-responders can do more than simply send out standardized messages. They can send out an unlimited number of follow-up messages sent at predetermined interval of time. For example, you can set your auto-responder to send out a new message every day for as long a period as you desire.

There are numerous companies who offer auto-responders free of charge. Your website hosting company often provides auto-responders as a free service. If this is not the case with your web hosting company, there are numerous companies who offer this service for a small fee, or free of charge, providing you attach an advertisement for their company to your emails.

To personalize your auto-responder messages, you can attach a signature. Signatures in this case are much like business cards. You can include your name, company, all your contact numbers and addresses, and a brief message.

BroadFast Autoresponder

It’s a good idea to attach a signature to every email that is sent out. This works as a repeated reminder of your business identity every time a customer sees it. The more they look at your signature, the more likely your company will spring to mind when your particular service or product is needed.

You can create a standardized signature that every employee in your business uses, or you can go wild, and let every staff member create their own personal signature. Of course, like everything in life, there are some rules and guidelines to creating a personal signature.

Keep the length of your signature between four to six lines of text, with no more than 70 characters in a single line. Make sure that your email program does not cut off your text! The content should include your name, your company name, your email address, fax number, and any other contact details, such as 800 numbers. Lastly, always include a short personal message about your company. It should be a subtle sell of your services or your products, and possibly your company’s reliability and longevity.

Another specialized use of auto-responders is to create courses that you can then offer your site visitors for free. You must choose a topic in which you are an expert and that precisely targets your potential customers.

Once you have carefully chosen your subject, divide it into a number of different sub-topics. Then offer your site visitor a free 10 or 15 day course, each day offering a different sub-topic. The first topic should always be a welcome message to your site visitor and an explanation about what is to follow. Your explanation should be enticing, getting the point across that you are offering free, quality information that your target audience will find of great value.

With every lesson, include the number of the lesson, the topic title, information about your company and its services or products. At the end, include a few blurbs about the next lesson to entice the subscriber to continue on.

Make sure each topic is packed with essential and valuable information, and leaves the visitor lusting to know more. Otherwise, you may lose them in the very beginning.

Of course, you have to write up your course before you can offer it. Once you have done this, and gone over the material carefully, employing a professional writer or editor if necessary, you must transfer your text to your auto-responder.

There are a number of free auto-responders you can use. Try http://www.getresponse.com, or http://www.fastfacts.net. Or go onto Google and you will find a long list of free auto-responder companies, then just sign-up for your chosen auto-responder. Once you do, you will receive instructions as to how to set it up and transfer your text.

List Building Autoresponder

Email is an excellent marketing tool; it is inexpensive and it is fast. Use it to advertise your business by choosing your email address carefully. Your website should contain different email addresses for different contact requests. For example, use info@yourdomain.com for information requests, or sales@yourdomain.com for questions about sales. It’s a good idea to set up one for the owner, such as president@yourdomain.com. This presents your company in a personal, approachable light and insures that direct contact is provided.

Auto-responders are an effective and powerful marketing tool, allowing you to make contact with thousands of potential customers. This is an invaluable asset considering how many potential customers you usually have contact with before you make an actual sale. Essentially, an auto-responder allows you to automate part of your marketing campaign.

Get Your Own Site and Profit

2010-09-19T00:08:00.004-05:00

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Started a new travel business

2010-06-22T03:53:00.001-05:00

I started a new business, a travel business visit http://www.tvtravel.com/ra9496

I'll also get a shorter domain name, something like www.travelseed.com or www.startraveler.com something easy like that.

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Location:Unnamed Rd,Elmwood,United States

WoW

2010-06-19T04:04:00.001-05:00

Been leveling some of my older toons in World of Warcraft, some that I almost quit playing because they were a real pain to level until I figured out which quests I should do and which ones I should skip and to never play without rested xp.

The toons that I'm working on now are my warrior 59, warlock 64, Mage 66, rogue 48, and shaman 77! Then I'll work on my Druid 70, hunter 72, and priest 41... Which should wrap up all toons on Exodar plus I'm getting better gear for my 80 deathknight and 80 pally.

Oh boy 0400, half an hour to go before I get off of here!

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Proof Read

2010-05-16T00:40:00.000-05:00

It pays to proof read before you post an article on the Internet, because I get in a hurry sometimes and forget to do so leaves me looking like a real dummy by making simple errors such as I when I'm was need like in the post before this on!

I have read a few dozen sites in the past few days and on each one I noticed minor errors which can in somecases change the whole meaning of what your tring to get accross.

So from now on I'm going to really try not to mess up my posts very much, I'm sure from time to time that i'll mess up every now and again.

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Short Time

2010-05-16T00:39:00.001-05:00

I down to just four more days until I go home. I'm finishing up my trip working in Harahan Fleet on one of the tugs. It's kind of fun getting to do stuff that I normally get to don't get to do.

I started working days for about nine days and now I'm on nights finishing out my hitch. It's a real change of pace for me to work on a tug and sleep on a line boat (Larry Strain) when I'm so use to working 6 hour shifts on big boats to working straight 12 on a tug.

Anyway I'm going home to see my wife and kids soon, the sooner the better because I'm missing a lot of my boys baseball games! I'm looking forward to seeing them win a few more games, of course I'm happy to just see then play win or not.

Getting a little sleepy sense we are just about done in the fleet and it's only 12:15 am, come on 5:00 am so I can go to bed and have another day out of the way.

I may take a trip when I get home. Booking everything is simple using the tools on my new website www.traveldistant.com check it out and see for yourself book a hotel, rental car, cruise, flight, and more.

I am also working on a membership site once everything gets running like it should! I'm trying to use WordPress MU to allow members to setup their own blogs, upload photos and videos, download member only content like ebooks, post in the forum, and have each blog served with my adsense and clickbank ads!

It's no small feet but it seems to be working alright in the sandbox but I still have some issues to workout on the homepage and membership side.

Well I guess that's enough for now, I'll post more often now that I have an iPhone which makes blogging on the go simple. So simple that a caveman can do it (as the Giako commercials say)!

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Loosing Sleep

2010-05-01T19:34:00.001-05:00

We are Southbound on the Mississippi River it's a little after 7 and I'm having a hard time going to sleep!

You see I'm on a boat headed to Harahan to be tied-up and we should have been there around 7 am but we had delay in Armant fleet so now when we get there in about an hour or so I'll have been up for 21 hours.

I have to get on another boat when we get there so the sooner the better because it'll take me about an hour to change boats, another hour or two to get to sleep if there is clean linen and no delay providing I can even go to sleep after being on the back watch!

Anyway I have to be up a 5 am or before so I can eat and get on a tug to learn to work the fleet for 12 hours a day for no telling how many days. Well it won't be real long because I'm due off on the 17th unless I get lucky and they let me work until the 20th or so because I need the extra days!

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Location:W B St,Norco,United States

Debt an American Way of Life

2008-07-28T13:55:00.001-05:00

My fellow Americans! Is it just me or does the whole world seem to be a little distressed over the rising cost of fuel, food, and the general cost of living? Also the declining job market, low wage increases, companies leaving the good old USA in favor of countries where they can pay far ten to twenty people what they have to pay one of us Americans... plus they work harder and longer which increases productivity.

Now this is just my opinion and should not be in any way a view of reality, but companies like Fruit of the Loom that closes the doors of companies like Vanity Fair should have their products removed form every single shelf in every single store in America. Their company should be burned from the face of the Earth. After all their are other companies that make t-shirts and underwear.

The companies like this are one of the main causes for the lack of jobs and increase of debt in our country. If things don't get better soon some of our fellow people having a strong need to live may start taking things into their own hands by robbing, raping, killing, rioting, and all of the bad stuff that falls into those categories even more than they do now.

Then you have these software companies that charge your an arm and a leg for their games and systems and some even charge you monthly fees helping to take even more hard earned money form the mouths of our nations children.

Lets take a look at one of my favorite games World of WarCraft by Blizzard Entertainment! Now this is a company that charges you $19.95 to buy their game and then turn around and charge you $14.95 a month to play the bloody thing. Now here is the kicker... they have over 1,000,000,000 people playing this game but to make it a bit easier we will figure on just one million.

Say one million paid $19.95 for just World of WarCraft not counting The Burning Crusade... which would net Blizzard a few million because the stores have to get their cut. Forget about that let's take that same million and have them pay $14.95 a month and Blizzard makes a whopping $14,950,000.00 a month or a mind blowing $179,400,000.00 a year.

Now if they only charged $5 per month they would still make over five million dollars each and every month and that should be more than enough to run something that they already have setup and running. These greedy bastards have had more than their share and I'm adding to their riches at $179.40 a year for myself and double that because my wife has an account so I pay $358.80 a year!

That's more than my monthly rent, water, and trash all combined. They are not the only software company that is bleeding us dry look at Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo they all want way too much for their systems and too much for the games. The systems and the games should all cost half of what we are being charged.

Oil companies are dry fucking us until our asses bleed and we scream in pain! Sorry for such graphic use of terms but it is how I feel and thus needed for accurate depictions of how I see this matter! Companies like Shell, BP, Chevron, and others have made billions over the last few months, it's no telling how much these kind and generous people have made form squeezing every last cent from people around the world.

Oh, and if any company wants me to remove their name from this list I can be bought for a couple hundred thousand to a couple million... maybe! Just contact me I'll be happy to accept free products like games, systems, electronics, gas, cars, houses, boats, whatever. ;)

BlackBerry Curve

2008-07-28T13:22:00.001-05:00

July 17, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I got a BlackBerry Curve and so far it has been a real good phone aside form not having a built in video camera and voice memo which would be really nice. So far I've had no use for the GPS or the satellite radio.

I use it mainly to check my email, check my stocks, make phone calls, keep notes, play a couple of games, listen to music, read e-books, and stuff like that. I would have more use for the video player if I could make my own videos of me and my wife... well it's the truth, the only other thing that I deem worth making videos of are my kids.

Once the new update to the OS comes out some time later this year it is supposed to have video and voice notations capabilities which will be great for perverts like myself. It could come in handy for web-casts and such, or news events like a wreck or shooting.

I only wish that they had more games available along with, the micro SD card slot was easier to get to like the BlackJack that my wife has... having to remove the battery to add or change SD cards really, really, really sucks.

For the price that AT&T charges for the bloody phone it should come with a two gig micro SD card, case with a belt clip, blue-tooth ear piece, and other little odds and ends at no extra cost. That would have been really nice to have had a packaged deal like that... they even forgot to ask if I have a corporate discount, which I do!

I really like being able to sync my BlackBerry calendar with my Google calendar, so I do not need to check my phone all of the time... plus it is a really easy way to share events and such with my wife and allows her to mark events on my Google calendar so when I sync with my BlackBerry my wife and I can keep up to date with events when I'm at work. Things like doctors appointments, the kids school events, movies we may want to watch, a birthday that I would otherwise forget, and other stuff like that.

The one thing that I want the most out of my little BlackBerry Curve is some software for my computer that would allow me to take a DVD movie and make it about 100 to 200 megabytes, make ring tones, make e-books, compile Java games, and so on. One program to do it all would be very nice, be a couple would do... so if some programmer that feels all gun-ho and should create such useful programs please by all means send me a copy of your finished work, I would be happy to like to any such programs from this little post.

So all in all I would have to give the BlackBerry Curve four out of five fingers put them wherever you like. Sorry... I've got a rather odd sense of humor, you'll have to excuse me! I have to get back to World of WarCraft.

Summer Cleaning Fun

2008-07-28T13:19:00.001-05:00

July 18, 2008

Yeah it Summer and time for fun in the sun, but sometimes we get a we get a little lazy, a little wrapped-up in fun, a little to busy to clean out all the old junk at we collect and just lay down with every intention on moving but somehow months later it's still right where we put it down... but now it's been joined by a few friends.

You know the friends that I'm talking about... dust-bunnies, cob-webs, and other little surprises that magically appear out of thin air. No-one ever knows where this stuff comes from, but never-the-less they get there and they need to be removed.

Cleaning during the Summer in just a part of our everyday life and if you do a little each and every day you will have a less stuff to do in the long-run. I rather make a to-do list of all the tasks that need to be done and set a time frame for each task. I try to leave about an extra half an hour to complete each task just in case I need a little extra time to finish a task before I start a new one.

This is just basic cleaning, not organizing, and decorating. It does not take much time, energy, or money to get the job done. A rag, a trash bag, some glass cleaner and Pledge is all that's really needed. Just take a couple of minutes twice a week to wipe the dust off your things, clean the computer and TV screens, throw away junk mail, trash, and other items that have been left lying around the house.

It may only take you three to ten minutes to get everything done unless your a little behind and then it could take a few hours to a few days to get everything back in order. Remember to do a little here and there, but whatever you do be sure to finish what you started before you move on to the next task.

Cleaning is a part of everyday life, I'm not the cleanest person just ask my wife! When I start cleaning I get the job done fast and done right so I can go about my business. I know what needs to be done, I make a plan of how and in what order I'm going to do it and I get it done. It's a real pain sometimes but I know that if it's not done that roaches and other pests are going to have a field-day.

You can make a kind of game out of your cleaning... like say you have ten tasks to do and you set yourself a time limit to do each task, you can award yourself a set number of points, you can even give yourself bonus points if you finish a task sooner than expected. Another thing is set it up where you and your partner if your married rewards each other with sexual delights for each task that is completed with a finishing act when all the tasks are done.

Well that's all for now, I'll have more short and to the point articles to come later this month, but not much later as this month is almost over. I should have had more articles done by now, what happened... damn World of WarCraft!

World of WarCraft (Blood-elf Bandit Mask)

2008-07-28T12:33:00.000-05:00

World of WarCraft is a great game, a little over priced to buy and a few dollars per month more than it should be... but a great game none the less! There are so many cool things in World of WarCraft and even more ways to make gold than you can shake a stick at. the Blood Elf Bandit Mask just happens to be one of those rare cool things that is totally useless bit looks cool, does not bind to your toon, and sells for huge amounts in the auction houses.

Farming The Blood Elf Bandit Mask can be done with both Alliance and Horde characters. It is really easy to do using the Draenei, I proffer Hunters because of the use of pets and ranged attacks make it easier to find the Blood Elf Bandit and kill him in hopes that he drops the Mask.

Just in case your not a big fan of the Draenei other races can get there with a lot of running, some fighting, a couple of boat rides, and a flight of two... maybe even some swimming and maybe even death for some. Why because the Blood Elf Bandit is in Azuremyst Isle and appears at random locations along the roads and sometimes in the woods just off the roads.

The Draenei start close to this area! Here is what I would do if I were going to farm this item... first I would create a human and level to about level six to ten, run down to Booty Bay a neutral town and find a spot by a mailbox.

Next I would create a Draenei Hunter and level to about fifteen to twenty so that you can have your pet and a few skills to make the task a bit easier. At level twenty you can get Aspect of the Cheetah that makes you move a bit faster, this would be a big plus. I should only take you about twenty-four hours of game play to reach level twenty if you do all the quests and kill everything that is in your range.

Once you find the Bandit and he starts dropping the masks try to get as many as you can, take breaks... farm for the mask for an hour or two then go work on your skinning, mining, herb gathering, cooking, first-aid, or whatever... or just have a little snack and a cold drink before going at it again.

I once farmed over twenty of these in six and a half hours with about a five to ten minute break each hour, I was a level 21 Draenei Hunter with a level 20 pet. I was able to tear through the bandit with ease without even getting hit sometimes. I was stupid and deleted the toon before I remembered that it was the one with all the masks... I selected it by mistake and even typed delete, this really happened at about four am after working on another toon most of the night and getting to level sixteen.

That morning sucked because when I got out of bed and took a shower I sat down, logged in, and looked for my toon. I was socked to see my level 21 hunter going, I was blown away be my lose of the twenty plus masks... I figured that I lost around 2000 gold or more.

Any way here is a link to a site where you can find more information on this item, like where to farm it, maps of the area, how to get there if your horde, and so on. It's all really simple and just takes time to farm... you do not have to have a high level toon but it sure speeds things up a bit.

Here are the sites to visit for more information on this item... Thottbot, The Best WoW Gold Guide. This should have you well on your way to making some serious gold or at the very least have some cool looking twinks, have the item enchanted to make it even cooler.

You Know You've Been Playing World of WarCraft Too Much When

2008-07-28T12:31:00.000-05:00

Are you a die-hard World of WarCraft player? Do you sometimes see abbreviations for words in the media, road signs, bill boards, on other web sites, and automatically associate them with terms form World of WarCraft?

If your answer is yes to these simple questions then maybe, just maybe you play just a little bit two much World of WarCraft.

D.O.T | Department of Transportation is easily mistaken for Damage Over Time, a popular effect in World of WarCraft.
When you refer to people you don't like as MOB's.
When you refer to your buddies as my hordies.
When you go to the bank and try to deposit things other than money.
You refer to your co-workers as NPC's.
You refer to your vehicle as your mount.
Chores around the house is thought of as grinding.
You suddenly feel the urge to brake out into an 80's dance.
You go into the grocery store looking for Savory Deviate Delight.
You go into clubs and bars looking for fights.
You go into the Airport and ask where the flight point is.
When you write to people in real life you use abbreviations like... ppl, lol, rotflmao, nube, df, omg, tmi, mats, and the list just goes on and on.
You look for reasons to miss school or work just to stay home and play the game.
Your forty and over weight, don't take a bath but once a week, get off of your computer just to get something to eat (may come from the fridge below desk), use the toilet to take a dump, take shower Tuesdays, and pee in a jug.
Have posters of the game all over your room.
Have World of WarCraft plates, glasses, clocks, watches, tooth brushes, lunch boxes, sheets, action figures, books, and cards.
When on a date you ask your date what WoW toon they are and if they answer the faction that you don't like you dump them.
If you become a hunter in hopes of taming a wild beast such as a bear.
You go into a shop and ask if they have any epic gear.
You spend time thinking of ways to make more gold and forget to pay the power-bill.
You make have thirty level 70 toons and pick on new guys.
All you dream about is how sexy that Blood Elf was you saw a few hours earlier.
You place an ad on a dating site looking for a SBEFM NS WLSAL... (Single Blood Elf Female Non-smoker, who likes sex a lot)! What else could it be... gee people.
You go to the pawn shop to and ask to buy items like Lightbringer Faceguard.
You buy every guide that comes out and refer to them daily.
Your whole life revolves around the Game.
You don't think $14 a month is too much to pay per month to play a game.
The lack of a single player option does not phase you.
You spend real cash to buy weapons, armor, and gold from others or pay others to power-level your toon.
You only go out side when you have to go to Walmart to get another Game Card or the latest expansion out.
You want to make war not love.
You feel that your life is not complete unless your in the game.
The only friends you have are the ones in your guild and you know them all on a first name basis.
You never talk about anything unless you can make a refence to World of WarCraft... i.e. Jim tells you he got a promotion at the pace where you both work and you say that you got promoted three times last night refering to your guild rank.
On reaching level 70 you jump for joy, do a back flip. and run around the house nacked.
You want everyone you know to bare wittness to you soloing a five-man dungeon.
Heving sex wastes your gaming time.
Your kids have to fight to get you to play ball with them.
Your wife/husband devorcies you because you rather spend time playing the game and you could care less.
Your late for a ferual because you had to complete a few quests and hit the next level, then the next, and maybe start a few new quests.
You dress as a Night Elf for your wedding.
Your know all of your favorite classes skill by heart.
You rather play World of WarCraft all day than anything else.
You want the Wrath of the Linch King to be out now and would be willing to pay a lot extra just to get it.
You hang out in message boards and chat rooms waiting for a chance to show off just how much you know about the game.
It pisses you off when a newbie asks a question that everyone should know... even if you asked the same question when you started.
You only have enough money in your account for a little food or Word of WarCraft and you opt for World of WarCraft.
Hell has frozen over and you peel your butt lose from your chair to freshen up a little before you go at it again in a few hours.
You name your real life kids and pets after your WoW toons.
You don't want to hear that your time could be better spent doing something constructive.

Well that's enough for now, I have some more but they tend to get some what dirtier as I go on. So I've optted for the cleaner shorter aproach, it still covers a broad range of things and many of them are true and that's the sad part... funny but sad none the less.

So that's all for now please check back often for more insite into the zanny World of WarCraft mind of this blogger. I also cover many other topics like Guild Wars, Diablo II, Web-design, Making Money, Sex, Business, Movies, Music, Books, Software, eBooks, Life, and much more.

BlackBerry Curve

2008-07-18T09:06:00.001-05:00

July 17, 2008

uTorrent and Other P2P Software

2008-07-16T12:06:00.000-05:00

July 16, 2008

uTorrent and other P2P software can be very useful tools, but they can also be a plague on software, e-book, game, music, and video producers and take the money from the rightful parties. Yes I've downloaded stuff just because I wanted to know if it was worth $200 or more... but that does not make it right and yes it is the same as steeling.

How-ever not all things done with P2P programs are bad, say your looking for a program or a game that is no longer produced and the copyright is long gone, you search online with no success, so you try a P2P program and boom you found it... Should you download it? Damn straight you should grab it while you have the chance, because it is no telling when someone is going to share this classic gem again.

So weather or not P2P is good or bad depends on the user and what and their intentions. Are they downloading legal or illegal shares? Are they sharing copyrighted works? Do they download movies, music, and games that others have worked their asses off on.

I believe that work deserves compaction and if you want to try that $400 piece of software you should check with the authors website to see it there is a trial version for download. Take the album Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park for example, I really wanted to download the album after I heard the song Given Up on the radio the other-day. But I decided to buy the album and rip the tracks to MP3 so that I could put them on my BlackBerry.

A few years ago I would have downloaded it without a second thought what-so-ever, but now I know better I did download a whole lot of music, movies, games, software, and e-books over a two year span. I did not sell any of it, I did not read all the e-books, install all of the software, games, listen to all the music, or watch all the movies... so is what I did wrong, your damn right it was wrong. I figured that I was not hurting anyone, just collecting stuff for my private use.

Did I ever get busted? No, I never got busted, I just got it it my head one day that it was wrong to download copyrighted works and just stopped. I sorted through all the software that I wanted and wrote the titles down on paper, I did the same for the games, music, movies, and e-books. I then deleted all that were copyrighted works and kept all the stuff that was freeware, open-source, trials, or abandon-ware.

I had over 400 gigs of data stored on an external hard-drive along with about fifty DVD's full of stuff. I have now narrowed my collection down to a wee little sixty gigs of freeware, open-source, abandon-ware, and trial software, games, and e-books.

I have also sorted through the fifty plus DVD's of stuff and copied the stuff that was legal for me to have, like copies of my personal data like music that I got from stores, pictures that I have taken, Divix videos that I made using DVD's that I got from Walmart so that I would not mess-up the originals when I travel.

Now if I could have done that with games like Diablo II, I would have never had to buy three copies of the game due to the lack of quality baggage handlers at the airports and bus stations. I even had a laptop screen get cracked due to some jerk-off not letting me repack my laptop after he removed it to check to see if it was a bomb... but that is another topic all together.

Anyway, I looked over my list of programs and searched for freeware that could do the same things, and then removed that item from my list. I searched for the e-books and found that most of them could be purchased for between $10 to $39 or in packages for as little as $10 that included master resale rights. So I brought and paid for just about every single e-book on my list for about $50 or $60 and now have about 400 to 900 e-books, software, and scripts that I have master resale rights to.

Moving on, I destroyed all of the DVD's that had illegal content on them or content that I did not have the legal right to own would be a better term... using the term illegal content makes it sound like I had hacking tools, kiddie porn (I think these bastards should be hung by their genitals and used as target practice, or slowly lowered into boiling oil at a rate of half an inch an hour)... sorry, I got side tracked, it just pisses me off to no end when some one hurts a child no matter the age, it make me sick... but again I'm sorry and that is a topic for another time.

Anyhow, I narrowed my collection of fifty DVD's down to ten DVD's of graphics, music, movies, e-books, and software that I have every right to! Now I still use uTorrent to find stuff that I can not find anywhere else or is no longer published. I like to search through these titles and see just how many titles are on there that are rips right from the big screen. I have never liked that practice either, I have seen two bootleg DVD's that someone was selling for $5 each and the quality of the video and sound sucked so bad that I told the guy that he should take these and shove them up his a**!

Sorry once again for getting off topic, but I'm the kind of guy that has to have good quality video and sound from a movie. That is why I own 500 DVD movies and the only copies that you will ever see in my home or in my bag at work are movies that I own or have owned and went bad, unless I copied them from my DVR to DVD... but most were pay-per-view, so I paid for them also.

I went from downloading stuff that I had no right to just because I did not have the money for it to saving the money and getting it the right way, buy paying for it. However I don't see why some of the software companies charge so much for their software. Take Microsoft Office at around $300 a pop, you can get the some features from Open Office for free, and look at Photoshop... The Gimp comes really close and with a few tweaks and plug-ins it can give Photoshop a run for its money... because it's free. Again not on topic but you can see that there are other options out there and you that there is no need to download copyrighted works from P2P services and such.

I use Open Office, Firefox, The Gimp, and many other free software. Now I do still use Paint Shop Pro 8 and 9 because I did buy them when they had a sell right from the Jasc website (no longer online)... I believe that they are owned by Corel now.

Posting Crazy

2008-07-01T15:02:00.001-05:00

Hello, it has been quite some time sense I've made any posts to this blog, but you should start seeing a lot more posts here and at my many other blogs.

I've been working my rear off on my site We-All-Profit.Biz! It's a membership site still in the works and will be up and running once the guys at PayBox get off their butts and fix an error or even contacting me would be nice... but that's another matter.

But if they do not hurry up I'll have to shell out a few bucks on aMember. It's a little more than what I need or want, but it will most defiantly do.

Also I'm now using Windows Live Writer to make posts to six sites that I work on, it makes it really easy to work off-line and then publish it when I'm good and ready.

Later, and remember that I'm going to be publishing a whole lot more so keep your eyes peeled.

This Has Been a Memo From the Desk of:

Robert H. Atchison Jr.
We-All-Profit.Biz!

Is It Art

2007-08-16T21:38:00.000-05:00

There is one thing that my wife and I agree on and that's the art of Jessica Galbreth it is very, very good. Also the work of Amy Brown , Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell is very good. Also check-out Jen Clower-Brown and Marc Gunn's work... it's worth a look. Well that's about all that I happen to like and all that I can remember off the top of my head.

I think that all of the are very talented artists, please let me know of any good artists that you know of, a link to a website would be great. Well that's about all that I'm posting tonight, got to get up at 5:40 or 4:30 back home.

Later

Fairhaven, MA

2007-08-03T18:46:00.000-05:00

I am having a good time up here in Fairhaven, MA... such a good time that my head feels as if it were about explode. Not from parties and such, I not had the chance. No, it's form sitting all day in a class-room enviroment, something I've not done in about eight-teen years.

I'm going to NMI a maritime school in Fairhaven, I have been here for four weeks and have about six weeks left before I get to go home to my wife and kids. It take a good bit of money to live in a hotel room for ten weeks, I have to make it feel a little more like home... with-out the sex.

I spend a little to much money on music and movies... these are just a few of the things that I have gotten over the last few days!

Music

The 69 Eyes - Angels
Dope - American Apathy
God Head - The Shadow Line
Three Days Grace - One X
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything

Movies

Plus I went and watched Transformers, I was a good movie... I just was I could have watched it with my sons. Oh, and my website is having to take a back burner until I get done with school. If anyone is from Fairhaven, New Bedford, or Dartmouth hit me.

I really like it up here, but I am getting bored... my wife is in Mobile, Alabama over 1000 miles away. This sucks, because she has all the money... because I had to open a new checking account before I came up here and the ATM cards did not come in before I left.

It is a shame that my luck is not good enouth to hit the lottery, a few mil would be great but a few grand would be ok too! Well that is all the rambling that I'm going to do for now... have a great day, night, or whatever it happens to be where you are.

Web Site Update

2007-05-05T17:11:00.000-05:00

My web-sites may be down right now due to busted screen on my laptop. I'm making these updates to this site using a very old pc that I got out of the closet

Just to give you an idea of how old this thing is... and I say thing because it is made of spare parts that I've collected over the years.

Hard Drive | 10 gigs max, main partition 800 megs!
OS | Windows 98
RAM | 398 megs
Processor | Intel Pentium II 200 mhz.

I have to activate the other partition so that I can have more space for some fires... Everything is running fine on the system so far. Planning to update system to 98 SE, or ME.

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2007-05-02T00:11:00.000-05:00

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Atchison World Enterprises

2007-04-29T03:09:00.000-05:00

Atchison World Enterprises is the name of my business and also the name of my websites, well two of the anyway. They are both being worked on a little everyday and should be online and ready for business no later than June 15th. 2007... if not sooner.

The sites will be here and here, bookmark them and check on them next month, feedback by may 15th would be nice.

I don't like long post so I'm going to end this one with a joke...

Newly issued alcohol warnings:

The Toronto Board of Health has proposed that warning signs be placed on all alcohol bottles to tip off drinkers about the possible peril of drinking a pint or two of any alcoholic beverage.

1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to wake up with a breath that could knock a buzzard off a wreaking dead animal that is one hundred yards away.

2. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like an idiot.

3. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to assault you

4. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.

5. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the boss what you really think of him.

6. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burn on the forehead.

7. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some really, really big guy named Psycho Bob.

Source: http://www.ahajokes.com

Something New, but Good

2007-04-29T03:02:00.000-05:00

I have setup a new Blog over at ShoutPost, I like the control that they give me over my Blog... like links being able to open in a new window, layout, and more. Join today!

Also check out FeedBurner... to really get your feed on!

Affiliate Ties

2006-12-27T03:23:00.000-06:00

What are affiliate ties? Well in short affiliate ties are ways to make money by working with a number of affiliates, not just one or two... but many. Oh, and it's not that hard to do. Over the next few months I'll share with you many great affiliate links and advice.

Not only will I point you in the right direction, I'll give you access to e-books and other income sources that I normally sell from my websites... but to my readers they are free.

Thanks for reading my blog...