Thoughts on earning money

I’ve heard things on XM radio about getting your debt transformed, heard it over and over and over for a long time, so I decided to look into it today, just to see what it was about.

It’s not anything I’d want. I can figure things out fine if I want to.

Which led me to other pages online. Work At Home to earn money online … it’s just not my thing, not at all. How about the easy way, blog and get the information for how THAT can pay you … no thanks. My blog is just that, MY BLOG. My BLOGS in fact. I fund them, household money. My thoughts, no one subsidizing, no anything but honest what I’m thinking, what I’m doing, what has happened, what I have, what doesn’t work, how to fix something, blah, blah, blah.

That’s just it. I don’t regularly “blog” at all. I don’t read other’s blogs either, since $$$$$$$$ has hit so many these recent years I find it annoying to go to blogs that are setup with so much junk their content is behind a cloud, and I prefer sunny clear blogs. I have a cynical view of earning money … work = $

I prefer work to be valuable, something real is created. For me, my work is real, at home, and not a paid job. I am part of a family, my husband earns the money, that’s where mine comes from, I’m subsidized, you could say, but it’s a family unit thing. That’s quite different from a COMPANY/COMPANIES subsidizing someone. I mean this: My hubby works for someone doing things for them to make money, and he earns money due to effort. But it’s REAL world effort.

I would love to do something to earn some side money, but I already know what it would have to be. Artist-like, making blank books, embellishments, altered art, digital art, clear stamps, etc.

This is doing something with value, IMO.

I’m not knocking others doing things I don’t value. I do not value them and that is that. I just truly know that I am fully uncomfortable with online earning, just as I was uncomfortable with all the things my Dad used to do in the 1970′s & 1980′s –mail stuffing, get-rich-quick schemes … and other junk.

I know that “stuffing envelopes” is what some people do for extra money, but I’m just saying I don’t like it, it’s a lot of “work” for who? You, working for some company stuffing stuff into envelopes. It would be one thing if it were this, one thing if it was that. It’s up in the air, not necessarily bad, not necessarily good, not worth the paper cuts and dry hands first off (something I’m prone to.)

The other thing is phones bug me. I don’t want to be in the position to HAVE to call anyone. I have been through lots of phone work in the past, my last being something so hateful it has driven me to disdain phone work, any that isn’t just my immediate family.

So much is sign up free online … oh, to cancel, you have to CALL us. Ick. Ridiculous.

I’m all over the map here, talking about lots of ways you can earn money online … lots of different other things … all involving working at home … I guess I’d love to be paid for something I MAKE, and that is that. So I’m no good to earn money without putting effort and money into something. It’s the old adage, “You need to money to make money.” Amen.

I’m modern and old fashioned. Nothing new.

Anyhow, I have to figure out dinner, get my children doing their chores, educational stuff instead of playing, etc. If I want to earn money, I’ll do something that’s fun, and it ain’t fun trying to keep track of complex offers, sit and do something that has no value to me except money and time. Nope. I’m totally a “create something” person, artist, let me make something, and if you buy it great. I haven’t ever sold anything like that. I’m more talking about the future, as I have more time to create as things as the children get more self-sustaining, and hubby gives me the tools I really need to do more.

BSOD after Sleep, Windows 7 x64

My Toshiba Satellite A505 laptop has worked fine until yesterday. I had an occasion where the laptop went to sleep, and upon waking it up and entering my password my desktop showed briefly, then a BSOD occurred.

I didn’t look for the dump file. It had never happened before, hoped it was a fluke. It was, until just a little bit ago, when it happened again.

I looked online for anything written on it and it’s a plague with no specific answer for many computers. Simply though, the answer of take “sleep” off of the power options that are saved. Meaning, don’t let your computer sleep. Just let it run out of power if running on battery, or keep it plugged in. This is problematic for me as I’ve loved using my computer with it’s huge battery without being tied to a power cable all of the time. It’s worked fine this whole time I’ve had the laptop since March 2010. Except for twice since yesterday. The thing about it is some Microsoft updates installed on the 16th. So I used System Restore to put me back to the 15th.

I did change my power options though. I just am unhappy about this issue, don’t want ANY crashes. I have Fedora installed on this computer (dual-boot) but don’t use it as ACPI issues keep it from letting me know how much power, or how little I have, or about impending power off’s. This Windows 7 issue then, on a laptop which I like using the battery with, is secondary to the Fedora problem, but similar. At least, in theory, it will still tell me to plugin soon or else. But I have loved shutting my lid and knowing that the next day I’ll have enough power for an hour or two or three. No more, if I don’t want those dratted BSOD’s.

I’ll test it out without letting Windows Update re-update my computer. But that will be a test I’ll not be able to stay with. How to find a solution, I don’t know. The last thing I want to do is search forever for a BSOD problem when all I want to do is use my stupid computer!

Windows 7 is way better than Vista was for me (on a different computer.) I’ve had problems nil on Win 7 until now. About 6 months of computer bliss. Now what? Slave to what Win XP would do to me … miserable. Vista was moreso a sluggish pest of aughhhhhh! Than BSOD for me. Whatever. I don’t like errors, especially when it wasn’t anything I did. I didn’t install anything. Just regular old Windows Updates. Whoa, maybe I did. FLASH asked to update at some point recently. So I’ll see what happens.

Testing Using Windows Live Writer to post here

I am trying Windows Live Writer on my Windows 7 laptop. I have used a similar product some years ago, but always seemed to prefer publishing directly from my blog admin section. I decided it’s worth it to try it out again to gain perspective on how different it is now, and how beneficial it might be to use sometimes. I do see the value of it in case I want to post something on a private blog & the same thing or something similar on one of my public blogs.

 

Smoky

 

Picture added via Windows Live Writer. I chose “Borders, Instant Photo” … this is a kitten of a feral cat that has adopted us. Smoky is nearly 1 year old (Apr 20). We had the kittens in our house since they were very young, they were born under our house. We tried to find homes for them but couldn’t. We got them all spayed/neutered in January, they have flea collars and 1 yr. Rabies and now are living in our backyard. Prince, Aurora, Marie, Smoky, and Tiger Lily. Smoky is pictured above. They love it outside more than being inside. We had to let them out since we have 5 fully adopted cats in the house and can’t keep 5 more in the house, and that feral cat has a new litter of which I am trying to keep at least 2 of, keeping them very much house cats from birth since their mother tamed enough to bring her into the basement & laundry room to birth and raise them. We are keeping her in, if we can, to get her spayed soon. The kittens are a month old today. So cute!

Fedora 12 on my Desktop

I’m typing this post in Firefox on a new install of Fedora 12. It’s my first time installing a linux distro. I’ve used a Knoppix CD before, and have wanted to install Linux, but just hadn’t until I finally got the bug to upload my last.fm .scrobblerlog and didn’t want to not load it to Libre.fm, which I had done a dump from last.fm and upload to libre.fm in mid-2009 — once after that I hand fixed a .scrobbler log to load it to Libre.fm, but that was a mess. A big mess. Took several times to re-do the list and reconnect (Python is how one loads data to Libre.fm) I liked using Python, and want to learn more of how to use it, write in the language for usefulness, etc.

I looked online to find someone who’d made a Python script to change .scrobblerlog to be accepted by uploading to Libre.fm, but the only thing I have found, over and over, is one thing, a bash script on a linux forum. So that was what eventually got me to install Linux. I chose Fedora since it’s a good thing.

I have a Dual Boot install. So I have new Fedora 12 and old WIn XP SP3.

The one thing I haven’t gotten done that I want to is to get my wireless networking card to work in Fedora. I haven’t tried too hard. I have to find the key anyhow, it’s in my router at least, which I can access since I’m plugged in with an ethernet cable for now. If I can’t make that work, then I’ll have to leave the desk by the router for the time being.

One thing that was troublesome in this is that my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse worked through install up to a point, but not after reboot, and I’d whizzed through a screen that I needed to get logged in to the system, and couldn’t do anything but get a wired keyboard and reinstall. Which was fine, it’s not like Windows that would have taken an hour to install. :rolleyes: