Gonna be some site consolidating going on soon. I’m gonna keep the other 3 domains I have active but I wanna make them all accessible here in one place by domain masking the like-named categories that I’ll create when I get around to it. But that’s only if what I wanna do works. My host provider said it can be done so we’ll see. I’d also save a good chunk of cheddar per month from not having to pay to host those other sites.

I managed to get the video ads to work using the JW media player v4.1. Once the code is set up, it’s just a matter of copying certain info and pasting them into the appropriate spot. Probably in the next few weeks or couple months I’ll convert the Video Articles, Exclusive Video, and Secure video content to running ads. They’re not intrusive at all but I’ll take whatever revenue comes my way since running this site takes up a lot of time. Putting the code into the mp3 players is another issue I need to email them about since they gave me an example that works on another site with another player skin that I don’t use. I need to know if it’ll work with mine or if I need to change skins to make the code work so I can make the money from it.

I’ve renamed the Free Money category to Revenue Sharing since that’s what I’m actually doing rather than just giving money away freely. When I get time, I’ll post more offers so we can all get paid. I’ve expanded the Deals and Discounts section to include Promo Codes and Presale Codes categories. I’ve made a decent amount of money from doing this so I’ll be further expanding it in the future. Answering questions and posting related links on Yahoo Answers for people looking for tickets, info, or presale codes for whatever event proved to be an invaluable source of getting clicks and getting paid. I was even chosen a couple times as ‘best answer,’ but I guess I posted too many links and got suspended from using their service.

I got a lame email telling me my account was suspended cuz I violated their community guidelines and terms of service. Wasn’t like I was spamming or anything. Motherfuckers asked questions, I gave answers along with my affiliate links so they could get what they were looking for. And a lot of them did and made me some money. Yahoo never told me why they suspended my shit even after I emailed them back to ask. To them, suspension means account cancellation. So fuck them. Fuckbags couldn’t even give me a straight answer as to why my shit was suspended. They’re already struggling against Google and now I know why. Cuz their customer service sucks horse ass. I love their services but their service sucks if that makes sense. I just created another account to bypass their shit and learned that if I’m gonna be answering questions, it helps not to do it with my primary account. Just in case some asshole decides to report me for whatever reason that Yahoo won’t bother to tell me what the fuck it is, I’ll be in the clear and just keep creating dummy accounts. It ain’t like they ain’t got enough of those anyway. What’s one more?

All this time I was using MS Paint to gank pics and text from sites and shit and Vista has what they call a snipping tool that lets you select whatever’s on your monitor screen and save it as a .jpg, .gif, or .png. So much time wasted in the past and I’m just now finding out about this on my own and it was sitting on my computer the whole time. Well, at least I know now.

I was recently scalping tix at Brighthouse Stadium on UCF property and finding parking was initially a pain in the ass. I took a backway into UCF and the cops wouldn’t let me go through without a parking pass. I knew that was complete bullshit so I took a public street and found my way to free parking that wasn’t even that far away. It was at a Winn Dixie that’s been closed down on McCullough Road behind a gas station, pretty much right across the street from the stadium. I saw motherfuckers pulling into joints charging out the ass for parking that was further away and I rolled up in that bitch and the lot was damn near empty and the shit was free. I couldn’t even believe it. Why the fuck would these idiots pay for something that’s free in a worse location? I don’t understand people sometimes. They complain about not having money and blame it on the government and banks and shit. Ever looked at your own dumb ass before? And your idiotic spending habits? Blame your damn selves first for your shortcomings and misfortunes! Then point fingers, if you can, once you’ve accepted accountability for your own stupidity.

Most people are hurting right now, I’m not. If things continue to go my way, I’m moving into a house next year. And now is the best time to buy. Talk about good timing. Credit card companies are lowering people’s credit limits, cancelling their cards, and raising their interest rates. My credit limit keeps going up, I get incentives and bonuses to use my cards, and I just got approved for an American Express a few days ago (which I’ll admittedly be flossing the shit out of) and they don’t just hand out cards to anyone. And not even 3 or 4 years ago I was a pathetic loser with no car, no license, no money, no place to stay, no job. I’m living proof that people can turn their lives around. The real prob is that people are resistant to change for whatever reason. Fuck death and taxes, the only guarantees in life are death and change. Neither can be stopped and if you don’t hop on the change bandwagon, you’re gonna get left behind. And that’s exactly what’s going on right now. People’s stupidity and resistance caught up to them.

It’s reality check time. The Bush Administration is the absolute worst in US history, no question. But you can’t blame him cuz you signed off on a loan you knew you couldn’t afford. Can’t blame him cuz your mortgage’s interest rate went up even though it was stated in the fine print that it could/would if you bothered to read it. Can’t blame him that you’d rather go out and socialize wherever instead of putting food on the table. Can’t blame him that you had a kid at a young age with someone you’re not with anymore and now you’re struggling to make ends meet. Can’t blame him you decided to get a new car and make payments instead of getting a used car that would’ve been paid in full in no time. Can’t blame him you bought an SUV cuz it was trendy and now you’re stuck with the piece of shit and can’t afford gas. Can’t blame him you don’t have any money cuz you got laid off but have too much pride to flip burgers or stock store shelves. Can’t blame him your credit sucks cuz your bills are past due but you live beyond your means. Can’t blame him that your savings interest rate sucks when there’s plenty of competition out there with much higher rates but you don’t wanna do your homework.

I can go on and on and on. Greed is one part of the prob. But that greed wouldn’t be there unless there was a sucker motherfucker to fall for whatever they had to offer. Banks, just like any other business, exist to make money. Can’t make money without customers. Anyone with any business sense knows that the customer ain’t always right and in a lot of cases are pretty stupid. That motherfucker you know with all that money and fancy clothes and shit is probably shitting and pissing money every time they hit the bathroom. Yet they keep up that front that things are fine when they’re not. When people own up to their bullshit, that’s when good change will truly and finally occur. Admit that you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know how to save money, how to spend it, or how to improve your situation. You want a handout? I damn sure wouldn’t give you one cuz at the end of the day, you really created your own mess. Already gave your ass a handout and you pissed it away on bills that are still past due rather than stimulating the economy. Gee, what a surprise.

Just cuz a motherfucker is offering you a great deal don’t mean you gotta take it. You know what you can and can’t afford yet so many of you just keep on putting yourselves further and further in the hole. Hiding and parking your car away from home so it don’t get repossessed. Burning down your house to get the insurance cuz you’re about to get foreclosed on. Stealing from the job cuz you don’t get paid enough and your skills are non-transferable to what people are hiring for so you’re stuck. Still buying cigs, beer, and weed like they’re life necessities when your damn baby is wearing paper towels for diapers. And whose fault is all that shit, huh? Banks? Government? Lenders? No, nuh-uh, they ain’t the prob. You’re the fucking prob! You think about that shit.

And here’s a perfect example of why I’m not hurting right now. Regular readers know about my misfortunes a few years back. No license, no car. When I finally saw the light and decided to turn things around, I got ‘em both back at the cost of thousands, but I still got ‘em. Car insurance was a fucking premium for me cuz I had so many points and had to carry an SR-22. Only one company would insure me so I had to go with them. I paid in full for the year and the next year came around. My rate went down slightly. This year’s premium came up and my rate went up and I wasn’t having that shit. I could’ve settled for what they were offering and bled money but I knew I could get a better deal. It would cost a little time to get quotes but it was worth it in the end.

I lowered my premium from damn near $2,000 a year to not even $800 a year. I wasn’t gonna be that fuck nigger and settle for what a motherfucker was giving me when I knew I could save money with a little research. There was some difficulties along the way that I’m not gonna mention here, but let’s just say I made the right choice to save myself some money. Now think if that was you or someone of less resilience. Would you have just settled and paid what the original company had to offer cuz you have a history with them? Or would you be willing to take a leap and shop around for a better deal and start a new relationship with someone else? I’m not lumping everyone that reads this into a category. I’m just using general terms. To sum it all up, I’m saying that change is gonna occur no matter what. You can either let it affect you adversely and react accordingly (the type of person I used to be) or you can be proactive and take the initiative to make the coming change work in your favor or have less of an adverse affect (the type of person I am now).

I took a solo trip to Medieval Times and it was entertaining but I don’t think it was worth full price by any means. Not in the mood to spill about it. I did take a lot of video. I also upgraded to Adobe Flash CS4. I converted the video and the file size was huge and the audio was out of sync. I tested other files and all of them had the same prob. It wouldn’t even convert .mkv. So I switched back to CS3 and the only real loss in functionality is not being able to convert .mp4. No biggie. Don’t have a lot of those anyway. Plus CS4 doesn’t support .srt files either that I know of. Maybe it does but I wasn’t gonna keep it installed to find out. It’s history until they fix the syncing issues.

That about sums up what’s been going on with me lately. I would talk politics here but that’d take an enormous amount of time to do that. Specifically, the recent McCain rally in Minnesota and a Palin rally in Ohio showcased the absolute ignorance and stupidity of white Americans. Not all, but some. And it’s just sad and pathetic that there are people that still think along those lines and are that stupid. I didn’t think that level of stupidity existed anymore but it does. This is the age of information and these dumb crackers, whether McCain/Palin likes it or not, are his voters and supporters. Any logical thinking human sees that shit and has to think, “And they want me to vote for him?” You’d vote for McCain knowing that those people are who helped bring him to the dance? That support and are representative of the GOP that’s brought this country to its lowest point since forever? It’s ridiculous. He has to be regretting that shit. I’m gonna cut this short but I told my friend I’ll be waiting to hear McCain’s concession speech and I meant it.

Next up for me is to get my first ebook out. The bigger site updates are gonna take a back seat to that now. So stay tuned.