or maybe a different one?
So far have dad very little luck getting any widgetbox code to work...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
So now what?
With gas prices breaking the $4 barrier across nearly the whole country and food prices skyrocketing in response - what is next? When Katrina hit - we knew gas prices would jump - so much of our oil production is in the gulf of Mexico that it didn't take a genius to see what would happen. Gas prices jumped to $3+ and once oil production got underway, they dropped back. No one was happy about it but we understood. Now with $3 a gallon gas a fond memory of the "good ole days" - no one is bothering to to make excuses about why gas is going up up up... no one is making predictions about when it will go back down - if it indeed ever does.
So now what happens? Food prices go up because the trucking industry has got to keep up with rising fuel costs. People that were just barely making ends meet are totally screwed. They need gas to get to work, they need food to feed, cloth and house their families. I suspect we are going to start seeing more extended families living under the same roof for one thing. There will be an increase in cheap transportation - from public transportation to bikes, motorcycles and scooters. Already Aldi is seeing drastic increases in sales - so we're going from name brands being priority to just getting as much food for our money as we can. The fastest growing segment of crime? Stealing food.
More long term effects - people that were doing okay but not great. If they have been putting money in their 401k - they will stop doing that. You can't save for retirement at the expense of feeding your family. What about people with adjustable rate mortgages? Ouch! They are getting a serious double whammy. Not only are they paying more for everything else - but their house payments are going up. So the housing market drops and suddenly people are trapped upside down in mortgages they can't get out of. What do they do?
Where does it end? It depends on why this is happening. Is it political? I'm serious - we are in a presidential election year and in the middle of what looks like an artificial inflation in gas prices with it's ever expanding ripple effect. Who will ride in and save the day? Will it be just prior to the election? If so - who gets the great PR for saving the day? Never mind that it smells like a setup and mostly likely whoever does save the day was guilty in the first place. Just like any good TV detective will tell you - you have to follow the money. Who stands to profit most? Who has the means to pull off something like this? I don't have any answers but I'm thinking if we pay attention - we'll be able to get a pretty good idea...
In the mean time - stock up on long shelf life food. If your not already budget consious - get that way. Start thinking and planning ahead because in spite of what I said about when will this end - I doubt it will just poof away overnight. There are pretty fair odds that we are in for some tough times for a while here. If you have extra - please - support your local food pantries. With it being summer - be aware of your elderly neighbors - especially if they are on fixed incomes. They most likely can't afford to run their AC even if they have it. It's time to stop focusing on "me" and start working together and taking care of each other.
Peace,
Carol
So now what happens? Food prices go up because the trucking industry has got to keep up with rising fuel costs. People that were just barely making ends meet are totally screwed. They need gas to get to work, they need food to feed, cloth and house their families. I suspect we are going to start seeing more extended families living under the same roof for one thing. There will be an increase in cheap transportation - from public transportation to bikes, motorcycles and scooters. Already Aldi is seeing drastic increases in sales - so we're going from name brands being priority to just getting as much food for our money as we can. The fastest growing segment of crime? Stealing food.
More long term effects - people that were doing okay but not great. If they have been putting money in their 401k - they will stop doing that. You can't save for retirement at the expense of feeding your family. What about people with adjustable rate mortgages? Ouch! They are getting a serious double whammy. Not only are they paying more for everything else - but their house payments are going up. So the housing market drops and suddenly people are trapped upside down in mortgages they can't get out of. What do they do?
Where does it end? It depends on why this is happening. Is it political? I'm serious - we are in a presidential election year and in the middle of what looks like an artificial inflation in gas prices with it's ever expanding ripple effect. Who will ride in and save the day? Will it be just prior to the election? If so - who gets the great PR for saving the day? Never mind that it smells like a setup and mostly likely whoever does save the day was guilty in the first place. Just like any good TV detective will tell you - you have to follow the money. Who stands to profit most? Who has the means to pull off something like this? I don't have any answers but I'm thinking if we pay attention - we'll be able to get a pretty good idea...
In the mean time - stock up on long shelf life food. If your not already budget consious - get that way. Start thinking and planning ahead because in spite of what I said about when will this end - I doubt it will just poof away overnight. There are pretty fair odds that we are in for some tough times for a while here. If you have extra - please - support your local food pantries. With it being summer - be aware of your elderly neighbors - especially if they are on fixed incomes. They most likely can't afford to run their AC even if they have it. It's time to stop focusing on "me" and start working together and taking care of each other.
Peace,
Carol
Monday, June 9, 2008
New free traffic websites
Sorry for the big gap in posts - it has been crazy busy here lately! Mix in a nasty fight with the flu that seemed it would never end, a week in the hospital, working crazy hours at my day job, and the launch of four new free traffic websites and you start getting the picture of what a crazy life I've had lately.
Before I get into the new websites and all that I want to tell you how I ended up spending a week in the hospital for something that was so easy to prevent it is just crazy. First I have to admit - my eating habits are wicked bad. I'm a long time computer geek, am single and always busy. So food for me is something I toss in the microwave and munch on while working. I came down with the flu first and followed it up with a nasty cough that came very close to going into pneumonia. During all the time that was going on, I had no energy but was still working constantly and eating worse and worse. By the last week before going into the hospital I had stopped eating. All I was doing was drinking soda and propel. I finally went to the ER because of the cough and they gave me cough syrup with codeine... turns out I'm allergic to codeine. I started getting really confused and lost my short term memory. I don't remember much about a couple days there but it was getting worse and worse. Lucky for me my friends realized something was going really wrong and they came to check on me and ended up calling 911. After nearly a week in the hospital they started me on B1 and within a day and a half my brain started clearing up.
By the second day I was able to be released from the hospital. I've been through all kinds of tests trying to figure out the reason I ran so low on B1 and the only explanation they can come up with is malnutrition.
I think the thing that scared me the most was B1 deficiency hits your brain - which means you can't save yourself. You have to have someone else realize there is a problem and act on it. I've always depended on my brain - my day job is a UNIX server admin - troubleshooting is my bread and butter. I have to be able to think and remember. It took a couple weeks on B1 before I started finally feeling like my brain was coming back up to speed. Now it has been just over a month since I've been out of the hospital and I don't miss a day of taking my vitamins. I'm trying to eat better, sleep more regular and stuff like that but even just the addition of a good multi-vitamin plus an extra B1 has got me feeling a good ten years younger. And it was so very simple to prevent if I had any idea it was happening.
Now, looking back I can see symptoms going back at least a year but much more seriously over the 3-4 months before I went in the hospital. I noticed my memory getting worse - I assumed it was because of age. I turned 40 last summer so I really thought that was what was going on. Wrong. So if you take nothing else from this - find a good multi-vitamin and take it. If your memory starts going downhill - try some B1 and see if that helps. It's an easy fix - I think a bottle of B1 was like $3 at walgreens.
Okay - so that was my public service announcement - on to the rest of my update...
Like I said - I have four new sites - two traffic exchanges and two text ad exchanges... I launched WhyClickTraffic.com and WhyClickAds.com
before my hospital stay and TrafficWolves.com and TextAdWolf.com a week ago.
I love the script the traffic exchanges run on. I knew the first time I surfed an exchange with this script that it was the one I wanted. It has a progressive surf ratio so the more you surf, the more you get for surfing. You don't have to use credits for banner or text links - they are in rotation as long as you have credits in your account. There are surf contests and lottery drawings and random credit give aways. It's just a great traffic exchange for surfers - which is why I had to have it! Check it out for yourself at WhyClickTraffic.com and TrafficWolves.com
My first text ad exchange - WhyClickAds.com - has a special offer going for the first 300 members - we only have about 85 more openings before this special is gone for good... you get a free pro membership, 3 solo ads and 1 banner with 1000 credits - just for signing up. (Hint: there is also a special offer on the member page that you can get a free gold upgrade at http://www.WhyClickTraffic.com as well).
My newest text exchange TextAdWolf.com is running on the very popular script like TextAdProfits.com made famous. I'm getting ready to start a big referral contest there so keep your eyes open. But until then - if you sign up, then click on advertising and enter promo code startmeup you will get 3 solo ads and 3 banners with 1000 credits each, plus 1000 extra credits.
So that is, believe it or not, the short version of what has been going on here the last several months. Hopefully your life has been much calmer than mine!
Peace & Much Success,
Carol
PS Take your vitamins!!!!!
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