Today I was really surprised when I got a chat message from Yvonne from our business networking group. She and I had chatted several months ago about how I enjoy blogging and I had approached her about me working for her as a copy writer for her Internet marketing enterprise. Yvonne very politely turned me down, without any hesitation whatsoever, so I guess she just wanted to keep all of her work close to her chest and not hire any outside help.

So, as I was saying, I was surprised today when Yvonne messaged to me that she had heard about my recent challenges and she thought that she was doing me a favor by suggesting that I might be able to make some money by signing on with a pay-per-click advertising service. She sent me a link to the Home page of a pay-per-click website, and I did look around at the website for a few minutes. I’m always interested in the types of financial opportunities are available. Being a blogger, I really did not look at the advertiser page because I didn’t feel like I was trying to sell a product, rather I read the publisher page to see how it all worked. For folks who have high traffic on their blogs, I can see where they could monetize their blogs in that way, but when I look at the stats for my own blogs I really don’t think that I would be making any significant amount of money myself. But I will forward the information on to my brother who has a very highly visited web page – I bet he would make a fortune!

Today you can Google “criminal defense attorney los angeles” and found numerous options to check out on the World Wide Web. Any attorney worth their while, in my opinion, will have a website with a lot of pertinent information for you to check out. It’s like a super duper sized Yellow Pages of the 21st century and you gotta love all that the Internet brings to us these days. When you are in a sticky situation, such as being accused of a crime, the more you know, the better off you will be.

So we have agreed to keep our eyes open for a good mattress sale to try to get a good price on a new mattress. We’ve always slept on a king mattress, and even though our family and friends can’t seem to understand why we can’t seem to sleep on a smaller bed, we just know from experience that we just don’t sleep well on anything less. We’ve found that finding a king mattress sale can be challenging; it seems to us that more queen and double beds seem to go on sale than king size. So it may be a while, but it is important to get a new one as soon as we can.

The only catch is that if we are going to take the truck we have to try to do the errands on a day when it is not going to rain, or bring some tarps along with us to cover up what we put in the back of the pick-up truck. Of course, if we are going to take the sedan, that is not as much of a worry, but then the storage space is a lot more limited. I prefer to drive the truck anyway, but my wife doesn’t like driving the truck at all. So there is always a little bit of a negotiation and compromise going on there too.

Since I’ve been building the garage/shop in the back yard, I find myself making frequent trips to Home Depot to pick up something that I need to finish that up. From the outside the place looks pretty well finished, but there is still a lot to do inside the building. For example, I want to set up electricity in there for several outlets and lights, so I need to run the wiring and install the receptacles. I’d like to put in a couple of ceiling fans, too. Probably should insulate the place so I can work there in relative comfort regardless of what the weather is doing. And I need to dig a trench from the house to the shop and lay some cable in a conduit pipe in the trench so we can run the electricity out there.

With so much work still to do out there, I’ve asked my wife to keep her eyes open for any online coupons or discounts at home depot that we can use to help bring the material costs down. I am well aware that we are already over budget on this project, and I want to minimize the extra expenditures as best as I can.

My folks have gotten very proficient on using the Internet. They are not the type of seniors that are known for shying away from today’s technology. They are embracing it and using to the best of the abilities. I’m so proud of them for being that way. They have taken their time and taught several of their senior friends on how to use the Internet in many ways. So my mom was looking for tips on how to keep their home and property safe and they have decided to go ahead and have ADT Home Security come out and install a good quality security system for them. I’m so  glad to hear it and I really hope that it makes them have more peace of mind so that they can spend their “golden years” having fun in the sun and on the water rather than worrying about some jerk breaking in and possibly hurting them while trying to steel all of the things that they have worked so hard to get.