Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Wed
4
Apr
2007

Rough Week

Hey all! Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. Since I wrote my confessional last week, I've been really taking a good long hard look at my habits and why I'm doing them. When I catch myself doing something undesirable, I try to put something more productive in its place. One thing I must rid myself of is the mindless Internet surfing I've been doing. Since this all really got started back when I lost my job, it's been easy to tell myself that I need to stay online to find that job opening. Then I started doing paid blogging and I had to stay online to find the next good opp. Well, I have a full time job and I haven't had but 7 opps in the past 30 days, so I can't use those for justifications for my actions anymore. So in it's place I put the excuse that I had to help get everyone's alexa scores up. Here I go, justifying again. I never gave hoot about PR, alexa or technorati scores before, why now? It certainly isn't that have decent scores already in those areas has brought me more money making opportunities. So, the solution has been to not spend so much of my precious time in front of this computer or if I do, I go to sites for tutorials and stuff so I'm actually increasing knowledge instead of just wasting time.

Saturday was a bad night here in the old mobile home park. When I got home from work on Friday, a whole bunch of people were at the neighbors (whom I detest) helping them move! I was so happy. I had been getting clues that they would be leaving, but no real proof. These people have been a thorn in my side since the day they moved in — loud Mexican polka music, neglecting their dog, kids screaming on trampolines, no respect for anyone, etc. I think the woman was also running an illegal day care. Well, except for a little bit on Saturday to get some more stuff, I thought I had seen the last of them. Well, when I went to go to bed about 12:30 Sat/Sun, it sounded like a party going on over there. Loud music, tons of people, a dozen or so cars in the street, some of them drag racing. Wow, I was not happy. Marcus looked out the door and said he thought they were moving the last of their stuff. Then it got ugly: hooting, screaming, yelling, windows breaking, general mayhem. I got afraid and called the cops. By the time I had hung up with the 911 dispatcher, everyone there had jumped in cars and took off, leaving every light on in the place and the front door open. The next morning, there were definitely broken out windows. When the people looking after the park in the owner's absence came by, they told us the neighbors had been evicted and when they looked in the front door, they place was totally trashed. Like I said, no respect. Since the owners were suing these people for back payments and now he can't resell this one right away, I'm waiting for him to take it out on the residents by upping our lot rents.

One final thing and then I have to get ready for work. My allergies are kicking my butt this year. I've felt so shitty the last two days. Once again, NyQuil could've been my friends had it still a decongestant as an ingredient. The runny nose is so bad it made my nose bleed overnight. Eww. This is not cool.