…maybe even a little later but I’ve got to get myself organized in some more straightforward way if I’m going to avoid being in this mess again.
I’m thinking on it….
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Well D-Day is still scheduled for D-Day…
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: unemployment
Welcome to The Carmelite
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, personalTags: blogs, catholic, Da blog children
A friend of mine has just become my latest blogchild. She is a former SEPD teacher locally and blogs under the name The Carmelite.
As indicated by the name she will be writing on the Catholic Church and it’s teaching etc. She has taught courses on the Church at local parishes and at local community colleges and has been a guest speaker locally on Catholic Faith and doctrine.
You can find her first post on the search for God here. Stop by and say hello.
A very friendly invitation to Pa-12
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in blogger for hire, elections, opinion/news, personalTags: 2010 elections, andrew sullivan, pa-12, robert stacy mccain, Roxeanne De Luca, tim burns
Stacy McCain continues to beat the Bushes to find the details in Pa-12 and some of these seem to be familiar:
While I was at Burns campaign HQ Friday, I interviewed a registered Democrat from Fayette County who stopped by the office to pick up a yard sign. This was a blue-collar working man who had voted for Murtha in the past, but who has no use at all for the agenda currently being pushed by Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
Again we have a situation where a district was comfortable with a longtime member of congress and perhaps looking the other way on certain things because he brought home the bacon and had power, but now that he’s gone people will now vote their own interest.
Where have I seen this before?
I was kinda busy this weekend so I missed Robert Stacy’s & Roxeanne’s suggestion concerning PA 12.
I don’t mind doing the drive down there although the election is on my Birthday so the family might be a tad annoyed, but if the time to panic is at hand any kind of thing that generates income is welcome.
So if you want to the DaTipJar to send me to PA 12, that’s great. (Specify PA-12 in the comment) Stacy’s calculations leave out any kind of Hotel or place to sleep but we are talking 10 hours down and ten hours back. Assuming I can get a cheap hotel for $50 a night. If I can Get $500 by the end of the week to DaTipJar then I’ll head down. If by the 8th I have said $500 I’ll pick a day to head there. For every extra $250 a day that comes in I’ll add an extra day. (That covers hotel plus my fee).
It’s all up to you guys. Should I stay or should I go, or to put it another way: Is what I do here worth it to you? Excitable Andrew actually managed to raise $80k a year to blog independently from his readers before he got his Atlantic gig. What would this on site reporting be worth to you?
Is it time to panic? I’ll find out tomorrow
Posted: May 2, 2010 by datechguy in blogger for hire, employment, personalTags: economy, unemployment
Just called in my unemployment and was informed I had no more weeks left. This seems to contradict what I was told back in January. Monday I will be running to the unemployment office to find out for sure. If this turns out to be correct then to say I’m in huge trouble is an understatement. I’ll cut what I can from the budget (there isn’t much left to cut) but from this point we start burning savings and selling off stuff.
The examiner gig so far has paid about $30 a week based on hits. That leaves $510 weekly to try to make up for Unemployment or $770 to make up from my old pay.
I’ll of course keep up my various plans that I’m trying to put into place but unless anyone is dying to hire a blogger/writer at once it’s pretty much going to be come hermit time or massive telethon time a-la Andrew Sullivan before he got his Atlantic gig. And of course anything I can grab I will but I don’t know how much George Bailey I have in me.
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