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what to do with the weekend?

Last summer i planted some corn to see if the stuff would grow and it did.  No, I didn’t actually eat it – events conspired to keep me from it, but I’m sure it was delicious.

This summer I want to expand my garden to include beans, peas, maybe some squash.  The kids want to plant some melons and maybe some tomatoes.  I think Ben wanted to plant some potatoes.

This weekend i need to test the soil to see if it needs an amendments / fertilizer.  I saw some articles that stressed how important it is to make sure the pH is correct.  I don’t mind deviating from recommendations, but I think  I should at least know what the state of the soil is before I decide not to follow someone’s advice.

I need to expand my meager plot so it can accommodate all the goodies I plant.  No corn this year.  It grew just fine, but I think the minimum amount of space it requires is more than I want to devote to it.

I also did some research and determined that I should do my planting in the middle of May except for the peas.  They get started two weeks earlier.

I hear it will rain all day Sunday.  I was thinking about reading that “Angels and Demons” book by Dan Brown.  It comes after “The Davinci Code” and it looks like there’s a good movie version coming out soon.

The girls are all signed up for softball.  Chloe has a new glove and we bought a couple of softballs so we can practice.  We can try getting them warmed up for the season.  I saw on their website that the season doesn’t open until the city officially opens the fields at the end of April, depending on the weather.

Otherwise, I think it promises to be a quiet weekend.

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genius

Maybe two years ago a financial advisor took a look at my portfolio and recommended “rebalancing” it.  Me?  i liked it the way it was, but he made a compelling argument for diversifying my holdings.  And since “diversification” has always been rule #1 with me, I went along with it.

Originally I had some money tied up in a great little company who repairs and maintains oil equipment on the gulf coast.  I did ok with them after Katrina kicked the oil industry around.  So he split that up in to several blue chip stocks whose reliability was unquestioned:

Bank of America: I lost 85% of my original investment

Federal Express: I lost 60%

And that original company?  Well, it stopped shooting through the roof and since I split my holdings up its worth $57 more.

Oy… that advisor couldn’t have known what would happen, but I really regret not staying with my original inclination.

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$1100?!

Ok, who would pay $1100 for the blogrilla.com domain?  Not I.  Apparently the website WebsiteOutlook.Com thinks blogrilla.com might be worth a pretty penny.

It also estimates that I could make upwards of $1.61 every day based on ad-revenue.  Interesting thought.  What if I included some advertisements on my website?  Maybe I could make $48 every month.  That would certainly pay for my web-costs.  I’ve tried including Google’s advertisements in the past and never made a dime on it.  On the other hand, maybe I was doing something wrong.

Here’s the trick: I have seen the statistics from my hosting company and at least half of the visitors to this site are crawlers/spiders from the search engines.  It really gets very little traffic.

Nonetheless, I am looking for some alternate means of income.  I have this website and a couple of others – none of them half as interesting as a defunct blogrilla.com.  But my hosting company has offered me a wide range of eCommerce tools.  Its practically begging me to come up with a way to at least cover the expenses of my website.

Any ideas?  I was thinking of something entrepreneurial.  An online business.  I thought I would sell something.  But what?  I don’t have access to anything that’s particularly cheap.  I don’t do any handicrafts or anything.

There are some websites that sell risque t-shirts.  I can come up with dumb things to put on a t-shirt as well as anyone else, I bet.  But do they make money?  I know someone who makes t-shirts.  I should talk to him about working together on something.

What else?

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