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I’ve uploaded my resume to The Perfect job. This is a domain I’d intended to develop a better job search engine around and still may. Right now I’ll slowly add information to help people decide they want to hire me and then maybe some job resource information.

Both bank accounts are drained (await $100 from paypal to reach one of them, awaiting $175 in checks from a client, awaiting $200 in rebates from Motorola–otherwise that’s it).

No milk in the fridge. The kids are drinking Koolaid for breakfast today. Must scrounge $10 to pay for Tommy’s prescription today.

a) clean up kayak and sell it TODAY

b) pickup friend’s computer for repair DONE

c) visitCall the IRS DONE

d) cold call every real estate agent in the United States

e) take Tommy to STAR DONE

f) answer 2 ads in the job section of the newspaper

g) update LinkedIn

h) give Plasma

i) Find out information about Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

j) Find out information about Temp Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

k) email the developers already contacted

l) contact more developers and extend services

m) Upload resume to ThePerfectJob.com DONE

m) install network card in computer for repair DONE

n) evaluate and repair computer

o) send marketing info to overseas referral

p) evaluate how much work will be involved in setting up the template affiliate sales site DONE

q) put together Amy’s sand and water table DONE

q) send Comcast sales tax refund

r) throw away 2 out of 3 dead monitors DONE

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 2am and again at 4am but neither time could I pull myself from bed but I was close. I want to return to bed now but I cannot and will not! My stomach is in knots. I have to get some money in my account today. I am considering scraping up change in the house just to make a deposit. I fear the bank closing my account worse than most anything else.

Today I have plans to visit the IRS office. This should be interesting.

Time to rouse Tommy.

We just returned from the reception for David Fisher. His son Ben was obviously upset but was just being such a man. He held his composure better than I may have been able to do myself. The service was open casket and Noah handled himself very well. He became somewhat upset and tucked his hands deeply into his pockets refusing hugs and definitely refusing to step up to the casket with either Ben or myself. Ben was thrilled at Noah’s presence. When they saw each other Ben lit up. Noah did a good thing tonight and it was hard. He is such a good child!

All adult focus now turned toward preparing for the receiving of our recently passed friend. The children’s focus is torn between screaming for the adults, singingly loudly and repetitive to drown out the screaming, and being totally self-absorbed in video games and telephone calls. Sprinkle on a little anti-cleaning and you understand our moment in time.

• Applied to Home Depot online.
• Spoke to someone about a sales job selling appliances (sounded like door to door vaccuum cleaner sales). I said I wasn’t the right person.
• Applied to the Knoxville News Sentinel for an Online Sales Coordinator position.

Ok. My skin is crawling off my skelton right now. Can you imagine what it would feel like to have a thousand ants crawling over you. Yeah.. that’s me right now. And I haven’t even overdone caffeine today!

I think I should take a 7 minute juggling break and finish it with a glass of decaf hot tea.

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a) met with “barter” client DONE

b) finish Home Depot app DONE (took forever!)

c) clean kayak and complete sale

d) cold call realtors

e) answer a Good Samaritan

f) answer news paper ads (dry one this week.. maybe the sales section) In process

g) post resume on The Perfect Job

h) update LinkedIn.com profile

i) David Fisher’s receiving DONE

j) create http://templates.sidesigns.com for reselling html templates on an affiliate program. These are the templates that will be applied to the content management system

k) apply for online sales coordinator position DONE

l) Prepare call list for tomorrow so I can hit the ground running on sales

m) Prepare script for making calls tomorrow

n) investigate Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Do we qualify?

o) Investigate Temp Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Do we quality?

The legal firm collecting for the TSAC student loan called me today to tell me that despite my request the autodraft couldn’t be stopped and will go through today or tomorrow. He strongly recommended finding a way to “not bounce a check to the federal government.” The statement was funny because if you read the full meaning into it the read should be “don’t bounce a check to the federal government but bouncing checks to other people is ok.” I don’t want to bounce checks to ANYBODY!

So I dropped in on my “barter” client and learned that he really wants to only do barter and only if its not terribly expensive.

Maybe I can get some cash for the kayak today. I’ll miss my outtings on the lake more so now that there is no hope of returning to them but we do what we have to do. One day I’d hoped to take that kayak down the intercoastal water way but if that were ever to happen I should be in a state that I’ll be able to afford a new kayak anyway. Of course dreams like that and hiking the Appalachian trail are things that should be fulfilled when you are single and in your 20s anyway. I am not certain I could enjoy a 6 month adventure unless my family was with me.

My brother reminded me of a bird incident.

My father, whose degree was in biology, taught me to respect animals with certain exceptions like moles (in my early teens I was asked to go check the mole trap and usually that required putting a shovel through the wriggling creature). Snakes you never kill. When I was 12ish, once in the woods with a friend we came across a snake and stomped it dead. We received no punishment over a slight scolding because it was a Hog-nosed snake and we had to deal with the stench the whole way we carried it home.

The bird. So, I’m near 14 years old and moving. My best friend and I take my bb gun out to the woods (in New Orleans, Kenner actually, this amounts to roughly a field of 12 feet tall weeds with bike paths) and we are shooting at rabbits and dragon flies. I don’t mind the rabbits because they just run away. Dragon flies were cool to shoot because they were so abundant you didn’t feel like you were killing something. It was akin to swatting a mosquitoe. Of course, dragon flies were color coded too. The green ones were easy kills. Blue a little tougher. Orange very hard. Red near impossible to get. Shooting at the birds bothered me. It’s my turn to shoot and we see a black bird up in a dead tree. At my friend’s urging I draw a bead on it. I aim true and then decide I’ll miss on purpose and just scare it off. So I raise the bb gun so that I’m point above its head. I breath in then with a slow exhale I squeeze the trigger and thwack! As you’ve probably guessed, I nailed it! The bird goes from sitting upright on the branch to hanging upside down. Its wings fall open to look like this black upside down cross with what looked like blood flowing from both wings. It hangs for what seems a long time then it falls bouncing on every branch in a way that would have made the Warner Brothers (someone should tell them their home page does not work in Mozilla) proud. It was a horrific scene. I tell Dad the story and he explains to me that it was a Red-winged Black Bird and is a protected animal. I felt badly.

Red winged black bird in weeds