Wonders Never Cease
So I got up quite early this morning (thanks to Rennie's strange need to eat at 5 ay em!) and as I was feeling quite chipper and awake I decided to log on to my school classroom (to check my grade) and do a bit of blog reading before work. I logged on and - lo and behold! - my website was back up on my own Internet connection! I'm not even going to pretend I understand what was going on there. I just don't get it, but perhaps one of you smart people out there will weigh in with your technical expertise?! (I mean, aside from teh obvious explanation that Comcast is... well... difficult.)
There are few things that irritate me more than technological things that do not work as they should. This drives me BATTY, particularly when there is no discernable way for me to fix them. And it is apparently not my week for technology: aside from the the whole "not seeing my own website" fiasco, I've also been treated to the Blue Screen of Death on my work computer (causing me to miss a deadline for a report I was putting together) and just this morning I encountered more problems with my Adobe Acrobat installation. Now, my Acrobat 7.0 Pro install has always been somewhat testy but this morning it just wouldn't work. I'd choose the files I wanted to combine and then wait. And wait. And wait some more.
Eventually I just gave up in frustration and sent the files I wanted to combine as individual files to my intended recipient. Because really, after futzing with the darned thing for more than 20 minutes I would sooner have jabbed a fork in my eye than tried again to get it to work.
I do not know what the trouble is but I imagine the solution will involve searching on the Internet and Adobe's Support site looking for random articles that might clue me in. All I have to say about that is: Boo. BOO HISS BOOOO.
So in other, less-technical news: changes are afoot here at Chez Zee.
First of all, I am nearly finished with my diploma program at the Art Institute!! I turn in my final project a week from tomorrow and then the only step after that is some kind of portfolio review via WebEx (an online conferencing service) on Monday. And then? I'm blessedly free of any regular time-sucking commitment (other than my regular job) until January 7 (when I start BACK to school). This is a good thing. SO good.
And secondly, I've hit bottom. That is, I have become so freaking sick of owing someone else money I want to scream! I have been in debt somehow or another since my freshman year of college and I am DONE. FINISHED. NO MORE. The majority of my debt is the result of having moved across the country twice in one year; the rest of what I owe is the result, basically, of me being stupid and irresponsible. Not budgeting. Thinking I 'deserve' to have whatever I want whenever I want it.
Well, no more. I am working through The Total Money Makeover program created by Dave Ramsey to get myself back on track and get everything paid off as quickly as possible. And I'm posting it here to make it just a bit more real. (If I tell the whole internet I'm commited, right?)
What this means is that I'll be making some changes in how I live and spend money, as well as how I earn money. And one of the things I've been considering is is putting ads up on this-here weblog. While I currently don't pay much to host my site, it's nevertheless costing me money. I do need to have a hosting account in order to host test versions of websites I create, so getting rid of it isn't really an option, but I figured that if I could generate enough revenue for the site to support itself I'd been in a better place overall. Every little bit helps, is my logic.
And besides, being paid to blog seems like kind of a cool idea. I mean, I'm already blogging, so why not leverage that a bit? I've toyed with the idea off and on over the last year or so and I figure now is as good a time as any to give it a try. I mean dooce.com displays a number of ads on her site and she now brings in enough revenue that she is basically supporting her family.
I doubt I will make that much money but I'm giving ya'll fair warning that you may start seeing these on my sidebar and/or RSS feeds. Nothing garish or totally obnoxious; just a couple strategically placed, tasteful ads. And if it ends up being more trouble than it's worth, I'll just drop them.
So that's my plan; hopefully things will work out!
Comments
Pssst. Blogherads.com ;)
We'll get you all hooked up.
Posted by: Jenny Lauck | September 14, 2007 10:23 PM