I May Not Be Right

 

I'm silly at heart... and a die-hard X-Files fan =P

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Eclectics, Political Activists, Writers, Readers,
Creators, Theorists, and Trustworthy People with an Open Mind.

Hi - I'm Trisha. Nice to make your acquaintance =)

I'm a new media publisher. If you have no idea what that is, go ahead and poke around MasterNewMedia.org for a while.

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I don't know exactly when it happened, but sometime ago I decided to secede from politics. On either side of the coin, you have idiots in "independent media" that are using the very same tactics as major media outlets to spread a message.

Chew on this excerpt for just a moment:

A survey of the carnage: The Charlotte Observer will cut 123 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce. The Miami Herald plans 250 job cuts, 17 percent of workers there. The Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky. is dropping 17 positions. In Raleigh, N.C., the News & Observer is cutting a total of 70 jobs, 16 of them in the newsroom.

Doesn't that make you fear today's U.S. economy? Notice how he is using percentages to make it seem larger. Even if it is only on a subliminal level, these kinds of facts are going straight to your fear gland.

What if we instead looked at some historical data? I bet you would find relatively similar numbers. He does have one valid point, however:

But not all will suffer equally. As the Lexington Newspaper Guild pointedly observed, McClatchy gave CEO Gary Pruitt an $800,000 bonus last year and just hired a new corporate vice president, even as the company's stock was spiraling downward...

Nevertheless, the point of this article is to point out the necessity of independent media. Yet all of those fear-inducing numbers don't have to get brought up.

The reason is simple: corporate media is corrupt.

• Never have my own place again. It's too hard to move out.
• Minimize my things to that which will fit in a few bags.
• Always have toiletries, a snack, a bottle for water, and a knife.
• Must have: a laptop.

I'm currently "stuck" in Atlanta, GA with halafax. Not that I mind it at all - well, the part about being with him, at least. Atlanta just has a negative vibe. Not quite my cup of tea.

Minneapolis, on the other hand - I fell in love with the city on first sight. From the plane I saw all kinds of rivers and lakes. So watery. So beautiful.

Then once I got to the ground, it almost felt like home right away. It just felt so comfortable. Sure I still got stared at, but that happens everywhere. The looks were different though.

Curiosity, instead of scorn.

Welcome, instead of "stranger alert."

I soon came to discover that "my kind of people" are plentiful in Minneapolis. Not to mention the city is just absolutely gorgeous. The downtown is the biggest I've ever seen (mind you, I've never been to NY, NY), and the architecture is just stunning.

Housing prices are comparable to NH, downtown at least, but a little less expensive. Yes, I'm seriously considering it. Like I said, I fell in love. The air is cleaner, the city is meticulously clean, public transit is awesome, most people get around by bicycle, and everything is right there at your fingertips.

I've always thought of myself as a coastal bug, but Minneapolis changed my mind. Sure the winters are rumored to be absolutely awful, but again comparable to NH, and the summers rarely get over 90 degrees because of the lake effect.

So I've been thinking about the possibilities of that the last couple days while kicking back with halafax. It's been a nice relaxing couple of days - just what I needed. My feet are back to their normal size, and things are coming into perspective.

So what if I've got $4.42 to my name for now. That will change soon enough =)

Is it right?
...does it matter?

Probably not.

It's time to let go,
and just hold on.

I just figured out why my hair could take being dyed every 30 days...

I drank a lot of coffee (like, 8 cups a day), ate a ton of tuna (with heavy mayonnaise, which is eggs), preferred turkey over any other cold cut, and snacked on peanuts and dry cereal.

All of which are high sources of Niacin and Biotin.

Lately I've been having heavy hair loss. Come to find out, it's because I dropped my "bad habits." I haven't had a single cup of coffee in over 6 months, I don't eat tuna nearly as much, turkey replaced it but it's not as good as tuna+mayo, and I try to stay away from the peanuts and cereal.

Funny how that works...

Lately I find myself writing here when I'm stuck.

Too much is on my plate. I'm at that crossroads again. The things that make the most money are also taking up the largest amount of my mind space... not clear enough to take on what will propel me into my future.

Too much is foggy now.

I know it will all make sense soon. I know it will all fall into place in a couple of weeks. That is my pattern... but is it a pattern I can break? I don't like this periodic limbo...

Kyle, Brian, I'm talkin' to you... mainly. But if you're reading this and you follow, can you let me know what's up?

Last night at about 2am, my 'net connection shit the bed. I figure it's no different from the 7 other times I've had this same issue since getting Charter in February, so I start the process.

You know - recycle the modem, and if that doesn't work, call Charter and wait on hold for 20 minutes so they can recycle the signal. Well, that didn't work this time.

So this tech has me go to 192.168.100.1 to check on my modem's signal strength. Now, I'm also on a dynamic IP, which I think is why my connection randomly shits the bed and needs a good kick in the... signal.

Well, last night my "Receive Power Level" was pretty happy, hovering around 0 dBmV (apparently -13 to +13 is kosher). However, my "Transmit Power Level" was maxed out at 55 dBmV. Closer to 30 is definitely better. FYI, my modem is a WebSTAR DPC2100R2.

The earliest they can send a tech to check on my wires is May 1st. I don't think it's that because, without touching a thing, I am typing this right now. It's a nice gift to wake up to 'net access, let me tell you.

Currently, my "Transmit Power Level" is 49. A little earlier today it was 47.8. I have already set up to get Charter Business, which will double my 'net bill, but gives me a static IP and a static tech - one go-to guy. Which, so far I'm none too happy about because Eric seems to be clueless about this stuff.

I'm debating on whether I should go ahead as planned and trade my modem today, or buy a real modem. I'm not sure whether it's my connection speed that's the issue, which is 5M by 512K. I could upgrade to 1G by 3M at almost double the already doubled price, which might solve yet more problems... or might not.

So help me out here. What's the real problem?

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It's not even the end of April yet, and I've already more than tripled what I earned in March. Of course, half of April was basically wasted in terms of earnings, and totals half of what I earned in March - or, 16% of April's earnings.

That is thanks in large part to my virtual assistant (as I tweeted earlier, if you're curious about getting a virtual assistant, check out http://tinyurl.com/5bpf2m & http://tinyurl.com/5bhk8j)

I've been working on releasing several ebooks and courses - one at a time of course - but I've been doing a lot of reading in preparation. 6 ebooks this week already... and that's on top of earning about $800 this week... all thanks to the free time afforded by having a virtual assistant.

I just can't believe how much I've gotten done. It's insanely awesome!