Welcome to day 71 of my debt freedom plan
Today, Apple released the iPad. Today for those of us that are paying attention – the notebook computer is dead. Maybe not tomorrow, and I could be wrong due to the fact that there’s something to be said for a physical tactile keyboard – but here’s Jim’s predicition: At the end of this decade all computers will be like this – no keyboard, just a touch screen like the iphone or the ipod touch. the keyboard is dead, I think.
This isn’t a post about the iPad. This really a post about me, and my income, or lack thereof. I think it’s just a matter of time that all personal computers will be like this iPad. It’ll get bigger and like the ipods now – they’re all run on flash memory. Normal RAM is dead me thinks. Prices have been dropping for years, and I’ve had a good time tracking and monitoring those prices but I need to change soon. The iPad today doesn’t take memory at all. It comes with enough, and it’s priced low enough that future models will just have more and more – just like the ipods do now.
Which brings me to today. Today, I’ve started to look for work. Really look. It’s great that I can try to make money online outside of what I make now, but the honest truth is: I’m not. $1 here, and six bucks here, does not pay the rent. It’s fun but I need to do more, and make more and a job just might do it for the short term, if nothing else. It will remove a WHOLE LOT of stress about money as at least there’s a stable income.
So today, I spent too much of my morning surfing job sites and I’ve found one or two that I may be able to do, so the next step is to get a resume. This has been a challenge for me as I have NO idea where to start with resume writing, but I found on my word processing program a few templates so I can use so that’s another problem solved. It was the formatting of the resume that was scaring me. Sadly, you have to play the game and send in a resume in the ‘proper’ format so that’s tomorrows project. I’d love to make it again online and maybe one day I will, or I will continue to in some fashion at a later date, but for now I just want to get that damn visa balance knocked down
Speaking of VISA, I tossed a few hundred their way today which does nothing really – this time next month I’ll have to do it all over again but for now that’s how the ball bounces for the time being.
I do have a story for today: I got an inquiry on somebody wanting to buy ramseeker: the bad news is after a few back and forth’s the offer was $500. I don’t have ‘pie in the sky’ dreams of millions, but there is a rule of thumb to determine the value of a site and $500 was a wee less than street price. It’s a good story to tell though, so here I am.
And, that’s when it hit me today: Its’ not the money. I don’t care about the money past living expenses… I really don’t. But what really rocks my world is adventure. If you know me, not bungie jumping from some mountain top, but to be able to tell an interesting story -every day if possible.
Success, or failiure: the content of the story doesn’t really matter. What matters is to have one. And with the job hunt, I can guarantee that I’ll have one to tell.
The popular saying was: “the one with the most toys , wins”. The popular saying should be “The one with the most stories wins”.
And that is my story for today.
Thanks for reading. 
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