Ok.
So I got roped into trying Sara Angel's (if that is her real name) 'Process at Home' system for 197 dollars. The idea of processing rebates at home in my spare time appealed to me, and according to her site people do actually make a bit of spare change doin it.
(ya .. right)
Once into her 'module 1' .. I was offered an automated process to setup a website to sell products from. ??
What does this have to do with processing rebates at home?
Flag goes up .. this isn't what I signed up for.
Ohh kayy .. since I am a dweeb, I went ahead and signed up for it.
It was a mistake.
I had to come up with a business name, put out another 40 bucks or so, and quick like a bunny was pointed at Go-Daddy dot com to come up with a domain name.
Go-Daddy was easy to use and in a jiffy, I was thru that process and 'my' website was up to sell other people's products.
Huh?
This started feeling like a bad dream.
I get to the step in 'module 1' to watch the videos .. another flag, it's all about selling other people's products and some of the video's didn't WORK,
..umm -raises hand- .. I did not come here to be in SALES ok?
Ok .. I got an email on the 2nd or 3rd day, pep talk from 'Angel' herself, she used the 'commitment' word. Grr. I hate when they do that.
I buckled down to the task of advertising other peoples products and really gave it a try. I know I know, economy is in the toilet, Christmas is here, no one has any spare to spend on anything, I mean ..even I was broke ..I had gas money for the car and that was IT and I was lucky to have THAT.
-sigh-
I am beginning to rant.
The 'system' is NOT processing rebates at home.
That's like saying selling cars is a business of counting hundreds of dollars of your money. No mention of what it takes to sell a car, what your commission is, and all the other details that go into being a car salesman.
At this point I started feeling ripped off.
I stopped after 7 days of setting up sites, paydotcom, clickbank, scrambling to get affiliated here and there and everywhere, and now I am getting email spammed from every get rich quick scheme all these guys that know 'Angel' want to 'sell me'
(to put it mildly)
I feel like I have chummed for sharks.
Where's my 12 gauge?
I need a bigger boat.
I am in the process of cancelling, asking for refunds, and backtracking all the 'stuff' and undoing everything today. Wife is on the warpath, we are both done with *THIS* .. did you know, there is an FBI Internet Fraud unit?
-evil grin-
I do.
Now.
It's not just for the letters from Nigerian Senators.
The good .. I learned about blogging. I like it.
I like Google's blog spot.
I can clutter it up with *MY* stuff, and decide who else's stuff I want on it.
The bad.. there are a lot of theives and liars out there.
It's like wading through a sewer hoping your hip-waders are high enough and proof enough to see you to the other side.
I especially like the customer service calls where the guy in India interrupts you while you are trying to answer his questions to ask another question.. I am rapidly developing a 'system' of my own .. I talk to them like I would my grandson ..
..he's two and it takes him a little while to comprehend also.
Hope your New Year *ROCKS* .. later I am gonna have to log onto World of Warcraft an shoot somethin with my Dwarf Hunter.
(Dwarf with a gun, .. what's not to like?)
Yes.. I cancelled my Age of Conan Online account, went back to World of Warcraft.
I actually missed it. The Ozzie Osborn commercials .. he really 'has' been on the crazy train for longer and *is* the Prince of Darkness ..cracked me UP!!
-GE
Monday, December 29, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
The 'Cruise'
'Looks up from the screen'
Oh MAN .. it's 6AM already!! .. I need *SLEEP*!!
Happen to you now an then?
Did that last nite, I got 'sucked in' runnin into Tokyo Bay in early 1944 in my Balao Sub ..'Run Silent Run Deep' got nothin on me :) (altho I enjoyed Clark Gable in all his roles, this one was a paradigm of Clark Gable)
The game you ask?
Silent Hunter 4 by Ubisoft.
I think Kathy is gonna keel me quick one of these days for doin that whole 'stay up all nite' just playing a 'Game!'
Of course, it beats our early years of marriage, when I useda go 'cruise' Friday and Saturday nites. She hated it most nites.
Finally talked her into comin along, years *that* took!
Ahh .. 'The Cruise' ..
I always loved the cars and the people that ran 'em were a fascinating mix.
Will have to write about the Types I ran across, that would make a whole series in itself :)
The outright pleasure of listening to the highly syncopated mechanical music and base that goes right through your middle .. the Hemi, the Rat, the Mouse ... aye.
I was there.
Central Avenue, Phoenix.
Summer of '69, many returns there over the years when I was home on leave from the USAF.
Sad to see the demise of Cruising as we used to know it.
Van Nuys Blvd,
Man I would have loved to live there, only made it down there rarely,
..it was a SHOW every time.
Fremont Street, Las Vegas.
I did a burnout stationary with line lock on right there on the cobblestones just to stop that nimrod in his QuadraJet equipped Trans-Am eggin me on to race off every lite!
...NO ..
Your Trans-Am was NOT up to any task my 440 Duster could put to YOU :)
You couldn't see across 4 lanes at the stoplight when I finished,
..got a standing ovation and more than a few 'Day-YUM, now THAT's a BURNOUT!'
.. and the two cops at the McDonalds both gave me thumbs up :)
My '71 Duster, 440 powered, didn't play nice with others, FUN!
Built, Painted, Welded on, Lettered, Bracket Raced for almost 20 years, Cruised here an there an everywhere by me :)
Was always a good time, now and then you would hear about someone gettin their car really messed up, usually doin something extremely stupid.
Sometimes they'd get messed up themselves.
Darwin at Work.
I thought I was Invulnerable.
The Fact that I am still here Proves It -grin-
-GE
Oh MAN .. it's 6AM already!! .. I need *SLEEP*!!
Happen to you now an then?
Did that last nite, I got 'sucked in' runnin into Tokyo Bay in early 1944 in my Balao Sub ..'Run Silent Run Deep' got nothin on me :) (altho I enjoyed Clark Gable in all his roles, this one was a paradigm of Clark Gable)
The game you ask?
Silent Hunter 4 by Ubisoft.
I think Kathy is gonna keel me quick one of these days for doin that whole 'stay up all nite' just playing a 'Game!'
Of course, it beats our early years of marriage, when I useda go 'cruise' Friday and Saturday nites. She hated it most nites.
Finally talked her into comin along, years *that* took!
Ahh .. 'The Cruise' ..
I always loved the cars and the people that ran 'em were a fascinating mix.
Will have to write about the Types I ran across, that would make a whole series in itself :)
The outright pleasure of listening to the highly syncopated mechanical music and base that goes right through your middle .. the Hemi, the Rat, the Mouse ... aye.
I was there.
Central Avenue, Phoenix.
Summer of '69, many returns there over the years when I was home on leave from the USAF.
Sad to see the demise of Cruising as we used to know it.
Van Nuys Blvd,
Man I would have loved to live there, only made it down there rarely,
..it was a SHOW every time.
Fremont Street, Las Vegas.
I did a burnout stationary with line lock on right there on the cobblestones just to stop that nimrod in his QuadraJet equipped Trans-Am eggin me on to race off every lite!
...NO ..
Your Trans-Am was NOT up to any task my 440 Duster could put to YOU :)
You couldn't see across 4 lanes at the stoplight when I finished,
..got a standing ovation and more than a few 'Day-YUM, now THAT's a BURNOUT!'
.. and the two cops at the McDonalds both gave me thumbs up :)
My '71 Duster, 440 powered, didn't play nice with others, FUN!
Built, Painted, Welded on, Lettered, Bracket Raced for almost 20 years, Cruised here an there an everywhere by me :)
Was always a good time, now and then you would hear about someone gettin their car really messed up, usually doin something extremely stupid.
Sometimes they'd get messed up themselves.
Darwin at Work.
I thought I was Invulnerable.
The Fact that I am still here Proves It -grin-
-GE
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Online adventures, or, just how the heck do you *do* that?
I have been delving into Internet based income ideas, trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I am *such* a dweeb.
I initially got the set of books from Robert Allen on 'Multiple Streams of Income.'
One of the stories about picking people right out of the unemployment line in St. Louis and following them through a 90 day Challenge really reached into me.
I felt every up and down as I read it. A lot of hard work and a real life-change engineered their success.
Could I do what they did?
Yes.
With just an e-book for a guide?
Not a chance.
I am lousy at charging into a wilderness in my shorts.
I need to have the tools to do the deed.
Next up, got hooked into 'Process at Home' with Sara Angel. Hmm.
Rebate processing ..looked simple enough.
Spent the extra for the neato website setup tool.
Once I logged in and started reading we were off to the Races big time.
I have to:
1) Put out ads everywhere for other people's products
2) Setup a bidness/choose a name
3) Sign up with Go-Daddy and buy a domain
4) Search products and..
.. holy COW wait a frik-kin MINUTE!!
Where is the rebate processing? Where is the simple idea?
To say I felt a little 'rushed' .. well .. lets just say it looks like its gonna take longer than just a few days, ok?
Tomorrow I will spend most of the day sending ads out for the stuff I decided to promote from Commission Junction ..ya .. you gotta get an account there, too.
And I probably left out another 20 or so steps.
Instead of pounding my head against a wall (which is what it feels like some days) ...I stumbled across Ken Evoy's Master Affiliate book.
It really opened my eyes.
I am still in the process of it's 10-day program, suckin in as much as I can, slowly getting a handle on what I need to do. It's a free download on his site ..how easy is that?
In my travels I stumbled across his Site Built It .. this is the most eloquent solution to the problem of how to setup a manageable website that I have run across.
The other e-books offered also do a great job of explaining the arcane science of what to do, what to do.
I feel like I am decompressing from Sara's ordeal.
Turns out the bottom line is do what you know. Any one of us knows enough of something to be a 'guru' ..and that's the basis for settin up a place for others to learn from.
Tomorrow I am gonna Prune down to 3 core ideas I have some passion about, research which has the best potential to produce both fun and profit ..cliche I know, but it is what I am after.
Right now I gotta take a coupla aspirin.
Mebbe log onto Age of Conan and go wack the *CRAP* outta somethin with Oott, the Barbarian.
(always good for a few laffs .. he's got a big AXE and he knows how to USE it :)
-Frank aka GE
I am *such* a dweeb.
I initially got the set of books from Robert Allen on 'Multiple Streams of Income.'
One of the stories about picking people right out of the unemployment line in St. Louis and following them through a 90 day Challenge really reached into me.
I felt every up and down as I read it. A lot of hard work and a real life-change engineered their success.
Could I do what they did?
Yes.
With just an e-book for a guide?
Not a chance.
I am lousy at charging into a wilderness in my shorts.
I need to have the tools to do the deed.
Next up, got hooked into 'Process at Home' with Sara Angel. Hmm.
Rebate processing ..looked simple enough.
Spent the extra for the neato website setup tool.
Once I logged in and started reading we were off to the Races big time.
I have to:
1) Put out ads everywhere for other people's products
2) Setup a bidness/choose a name
3) Sign up with Go-Daddy and buy a domain
4) Search products and..
.. holy COW wait a frik-kin MINUTE!!
Where is the rebate processing? Where is the simple idea?
To say I felt a little 'rushed' .. well .. lets just say it looks like its gonna take longer than just a few days, ok?
Tomorrow I will spend most of the day sending ads out for the stuff I decided to promote from Commission Junction ..ya .. you gotta get an account there, too.
And I probably left out another 20 or so steps.
Instead of pounding my head against a wall (which is what it feels like some days) ...I stumbled across Ken Evoy's Master Affiliate book.
It really opened my eyes.
I am still in the process of it's 10-day program, suckin in as much as I can, slowly getting a handle on what I need to do. It's a free download on his site ..how easy is that?
In my travels I stumbled across his Site Built It .. this is the most eloquent solution to the problem of how to setup a manageable website that I have run across.
The other e-books offered also do a great job of explaining the arcane science of what to do, what to do.
I feel like I am decompressing from Sara's ordeal.
Turns out the bottom line is do what you know. Any one of us knows enough of something to be a 'guru' ..and that's the basis for settin up a place for others to learn from.
Tomorrow I am gonna Prune down to 3 core ideas I have some passion about, research which has the best potential to produce both fun and profit ..cliche I know, but it is what I am after.
Right now I gotta take a coupla aspirin.
Mebbe log onto Age of Conan and go wack the *CRAP* outta somethin with Oott, the Barbarian.
(always good for a few laffs .. he's got a big AXE and he knows how to USE it :)
-Frank aka GE
My first blurb on my blog :)
I was there at Udorn during the Fall of Saigon, April, 1975.
Aircraft were coming in from every direction all day long.
It was a miracle there were no mid-airs, heaven knows there were more than enough opportunities.
Set of choppers came over the middle of the runway while 4 fully loaded F-4's were blastin off to support our troops near Saigon. Hectic day.
I was in the USAF, an ECM troop. Young man's game crawlin all over F-4's there, it was my honor to be part of the 432nd.
I also crawled all over F-105G's, B-52's, A-7D's an such here and there.
I got the *heck* out at Castle AFB, too many poodle-pumpers, nowhere near enough fun.
Third day *there* my Supervisor calls me into his office, tells me I don't act like a Tsgt, that he was going to do everything he could to make sure I did not remain one.
Well. What can you do. (This is SPARTA!!!)
Oh yaa .. What *Can* You Do?
I told him if I got up on his desk and took a dump, I'd be acting like a Tsgt because I *was* one and if he wanted to take a stripe to give it his best shot.
I had no reason to take any prisoners at that point, yanno?
After a year and a half of a running battle with that 'person,' I finally came to the Day I Got Out.
First Sgt. told me I was throwin my career away. Had 13 years in. I popped open my briefcase and said: 'Yes, it's tough .. I have to decide which of these 3 jobs I want to go to.. think I will go work the B-1, because I know none of you are going to see it for at least another 2 years! Oh, and .. I will make more than my CO does doin it.'
Polite way of sayin 'Bite Me' ..yassir .. I was a troublemaker.
Coupla years I will be starin right at the big 60th birthday. It just blows me away how fast the years have gone.
You know what the biggest changes are?
I don't burn nearly as much rubber as I used to :)
Tuning a Holly carb or 'runnin the valves' on an L-88 are lost arts.
I have a son-in-law who never saw me race.
-shakes head- ..man .. I can't believe it was 1991 when I made my last pass down LACR in my 440 Duster. I wonder what Bernie is doin now that his track is gone? Long time dood.
Even my daughter is nearing 40 no less!
I got into video game 3d art for almost a decade when aerospace went belly up in the '80's,
..Air Warrior Lead Artist. Good times. Lousy management. Wasted days of effort.
Electronic Arts bought us and shut us down. Unreal.
Spent some time at Papyrus on their NASCAR 2002 and 2003 titles .. it was awesome to work with an art director (Dave, dood!) who knew what was goin on for a change! ROFL, then we got bought by a french company, bunch were shown the door, I got out while I could.
There were years where if I didn't have bad luck I would have had no luck at all.
Moral of the story?
Trust your judgement.
Set goals, press on, don't let others wrap you in their chains.
Watchout for people who tell you 'You CAN'T do THAT' ..they have huge chains wrapped all around them and they want you to have some too.
Life is for the living of it.
Take Big Bites.
-Frank P. 'Gray Eagle' Williamson
Aircraft were coming in from every direction all day long.
It was a miracle there were no mid-airs, heaven knows there were more than enough opportunities.
Set of choppers came over the middle of the runway while 4 fully loaded F-4's were blastin off to support our troops near Saigon. Hectic day.
I was in the USAF, an ECM troop. Young man's game crawlin all over F-4's there, it was my honor to be part of the 432nd.
I also crawled all over F-105G's, B-52's, A-7D's an such here and there.
I got the *heck* out at Castle AFB, too many poodle-pumpers, nowhere near enough fun.
Third day *there* my Supervisor calls me into his office, tells me I don't act like a Tsgt, that he was going to do everything he could to make sure I did not remain one.
Well. What can you do. (This is SPARTA!!!)
Oh yaa .. What *Can* You Do?
I told him if I got up on his desk and took a dump, I'd be acting like a Tsgt because I *was* one and if he wanted to take a stripe to give it his best shot.
I had no reason to take any prisoners at that point, yanno?
After a year and a half of a running battle with that 'person,' I finally came to the Day I Got Out.
First Sgt. told me I was throwin my career away. Had 13 years in. I popped open my briefcase and said: 'Yes, it's tough .. I have to decide which of these 3 jobs I want to go to.. think I will go work the B-1, because I know none of you are going to see it for at least another 2 years! Oh, and .. I will make more than my CO does doin it.'
Polite way of sayin 'Bite Me' ..yassir .. I was a troublemaker.
Coupla years I will be starin right at the big 60th birthday. It just blows me away how fast the years have gone.
You know what the biggest changes are?
I don't burn nearly as much rubber as I used to :)
Tuning a Holly carb or 'runnin the valves' on an L-88 are lost arts.
I have a son-in-law who never saw me race.
-shakes head- ..man .. I can't believe it was 1991 when I made my last pass down LACR in my 440 Duster. I wonder what Bernie is doin now that his track is gone? Long time dood.
Even my daughter is nearing 40 no less!
I got into video game 3d art for almost a decade when aerospace went belly up in the '80's,
..Air Warrior Lead Artist. Good times. Lousy management. Wasted days of effort.
Electronic Arts bought us and shut us down. Unreal.
Spent some time at Papyrus on their NASCAR 2002 and 2003 titles .. it was awesome to work with an art director (Dave, dood!) who knew what was goin on for a change! ROFL, then we got bought by a french company, bunch were shown the door, I got out while I could.
There were years where if I didn't have bad luck I would have had no luck at all.
Moral of the story?
Trust your judgement.
Set goals, press on, don't let others wrap you in their chains.
Watchout for people who tell you 'You CAN'T do THAT' ..they have huge chains wrapped all around them and they want you to have some too.
Life is for the living of it.
Take Big Bites.
-Frank P. 'Gray Eagle' Williamson
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