My web site earnings are slowly climbing again. I am far from my $90+ day high, but I am back over $25/day average and still climbing. My recipe site is slowly growing traffic. My other sites are growing too. I am thinking about putting up a fitness site. I need to spend some more time writing posts. It was just very demoralizing when after Google had pretty much abandoned me, that MSN pretty much dropped my main earning site as well. I moved to the new domain, and was slwly getting traffic from both Google and MSN. MSN pretty much stopped sending me traffic again, but at least I am getting traffic from Google. I still have my other sites. My travel site is doing pretty well.
Nice thing about having multiple sites on different subjects is that when one goes down, another is likely to be going up.
I was listening to the radio this morning, and was hearing about how some people are fighting to protect an old building. Apparently Walgreens wants to tear down the Stagecoach Inn in Chili, NY, and build a store. And some stupid people are fighting to protect the building. Why? It’s just a building! Apparently it’s not even in that good of shape. Somebody built the building a long time ago. It was a business. They probably didn’t build the building as a landmark. It was a business! But that business is gone. Now a new business wants to build a new building. But the stupid people would apparently rather have an old crumbling empty building than a business that is actually doing something! Get a clue! It is just a building! It is not the Statue Of Liberty! If everyone thought like these people, we would still be living in the dark ages!
I found a book listed on Amazon, and attempted to buy it. But then I got a message:
“We’re sorry! An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we’re already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly. If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
There is also a button that should take me to the home page, but I get the same error when I try to go to the home page. Basically Amazon’s web site is down, and has been down for about an hour now. How much money are they losing in this hour? I am guessing a lot of money! I am surprised I have not even seen a mention of it on CNN’s website. It seems like an online store the size of Amazon being down for an hour might make at least a blip on the news radar.
I love eBay! I currently own an HP LaserJet 4 that I bought on eBay a couple years ago for around $30. I also have another LaserJet 4m that I bought on eBay for $15, but it turned out to have a burned out fuser. I have neve bought toner. The toner cartridge that with in the LaserJet 4 last a long long time. When that ran out, I simply grabbed the cartridge out of the 4m that I have been saving for parts.
I have been looking at starting a small home publishing business. I want to be able to print two sided pages, so I want duplexing capability. After some research I found that the LaserJet 4 (and 4m) were not capable of duplexing. That didn’t come until the LaserJet 4+ and 4m+. So I started watching eBay. When looking for something large and heavy, I search for local auctions to save shipping. I found an auction for a LaserJet 5si that included a 2000 page sheet feeder. I knew I could get a duplexer for this printer. But I called and asked whether the printer would print duplex. They tested it, and said yes it would. GREAT! It already had the duplexer installed! The starting bid was $99.99, and there were no bids. They had a buy it now option for about $300. But I watched, and set up an automatic snipe bid of over $175. I ended up winning the auction and got the printer for $99.99 plus $10 pickup fee, and NY sales tax.
I drove to the place after work, to pick it up. I drive a 2000 Honda Civic, and was concerned whether I could get the printer into the car. I had read, and knew the printer would separate from the sheet feeder. I though that it would fit. When I saw the printer, it was bigger than I thought. But I decided it was still worth a try. The printer just sits on the sheet feeder, and they were easily separated. The sheet feeder wasn’t too heavy, and fit into my back seat. The printer itself was very heavy. The two guys from the place I bought it from, hefted the printer, but realized it would go into my back seat as easily. I said try the front seat. They got it onto my front seat, but I couldn’t close the door. We rotated it, and I could close the door. I had about 1 inch clearance for the gear shift.
I drove home holding the printer, to keep it from bashing around. When I got home, I unloaded the sheet feeder, and carried it up the stairs to the computer room. I carefully extracted the print from my front seat, and set it on the garage floor. I removed the two paper trays, and the toner cartridge to lighten it some. Then I carried it up the stairs to my computer room. I managed to bash a knuckle on a door frame along the way, and was bleeding. I set the printer on to the sheetfeeder, and then retrieved the paper trays and toner cartridge. I didn’t have time last night to hook it up. It didn’t come with power cables or the parallel cable, but I already have some of those, and pulled them out. With the size of the printer, I am not sure where I am going to put it. I am looking at buying a wireless print server, so I can place the printer across the room.
In reading, I found this printer is a workhorse, and is designed to printer millions of pages. I think I got a great deal!
I was at the library today, and glancing through the donated books that they sell, I found a set of a dozen Don Lapre books. They cost me 50 cents each, for a total of $6. Probably a lot less than the original purchase price. Glancing through them, there is stuff on setting up 900 numbers, classified ads, and selling stuff via auctions. I doublt I will do most of this stuff. I do sell stuff in auctions on ebay sometimes. But there is doubtless some good ideas in there that I can use. I saw there was a small section on writing classified ads. This same material would be usefull in writing internets ads such as Google Adwords, wouldn’t it? There is bound to be other usefull info in there as well. It wont take a lot to earn back the $6.