16
Jan/12

The view from the coffee shop window…

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I decided that I needed a day just to forget that I had anything to do. Mostly because of the lack of sleep that I got this past weekend after finding out that the vital organs of a friend of mine decided they were tired of working all of the time, so they decided to take some time off. And as we all know, life is a cruel boss, so the world told him and his organs to GTFO. And so, the world lost a good man. We just didn’t find out for two weeks. And when we did…it was just weird.

The crazy part is that he was only a couple of years older than I am. I’m only 33. That scares the living crap out of me. And so, here I am, exhausted from a lack of decent sleep, sitting at Sweet Eugene’s with a Chai latte and a piece of the most amazing New York style cheesecake you could ask for. In a way, I’m hiding from everything, sitting here using their wifi praying for a good rain to come and wash away all the things.

I feel like I can just sit here and not think. Although I do feel a little out of place with all of the college students and hipsters in this place. They are checking email, working on spreadsheets, and doing research. I’m downloading music and writing this blog post.

So, today my stress level is a bit higher than I’d like to admit. Once again, life has decided to keep me on my toes by saying “Hey, Wess, I’m a financial thing! I’m here to screw up all the things, now that you’ve got them almost in order! Woohoo!!!”. Yeah, kinda like that.

I need a freaking vacation. I really don’t know what I would do or where I would go, but for some strange reason I just want to go spend the winter months in Ruidoso or Albuquerque. Random, I know, since I’m kind of partial to my Texas. But I just want to feel free for a while. Just a little while.

But I’ll just take the rain…if it would just rain…

 


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3
Jan/12

First rant of 2011!

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So, it’s time for a rant.

Yeah, I’ve got nothing.

I’m sitting at Sweet Eugene’s trying to come up with good ideas, but I’ve got absolutely nothing. I’m trying to drown out the crappy coffee shop music and foreign conversation with Joe Jackson and Anita Baker, but it’s not really helping that much. I kind of just want to close my eyes and sleep.

No. No I don’t want to sleep right now. There’s nothing in me that actually wants to get rest…I just want to not be terminally bored. Easier said than done, I know. But I’m sure I’ll think of something sooner or later.

*** Fifteen Seconds Later ***

Yeah. Still nothing. Meh.

 


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29
Dec/11

How to Have Fun at Work

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I love getting off work two hours early. I had a few vacation hours accrued that I had to burn off before the end of the year and it was a “use them or lose them” situation. But what made the work day even better was that it was slow.

And by slow I mean dead. And by dead I mean that it was more dead than Kim Jong-Il. Thank you, SwagBucks, for helping me spell that name correctly. Like it matters. I’m sure he won’t get upset because…well, because he’s dead.

So instead of spending the whole day digging through open cases, desperately trying to find something to call people about, I spent a lot of time reading Hyperbole and a Half and spamming my co-workers with links and waiting impatiently to hear the impending laughing fits that were muffled by the cubicle walls.

And then I started thinking…what should I do with the rest of my day? I mean, I was going to clock out two hours earlier than normal. That’s a lot of time to kill in my world. There was only one solution: the coffee shop!

And that’s where I am right now. Sitting at Sweet Eugene’s, pirating some Frank Sinatra (and probably some kind of punk rock as well) and typing this blog post.

But sometimes the cozy atmosphere and amazing Chai lattes just are not enough to make me chill out. I figured that I should fire up paint and try to do my own self-portrait…more or less.

Anyway, this is what I came up with.

Wess Stewart

OK, I don't have green hair. And I'm not that skinny. But whatever.

It was so much freaking fun that I will do this again. And the hair matches my iPod. Win.

What does your cartoon self look like?

 


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23
Dec/11

Moving Closer

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Thanks for the article from Isaiah Gaines

Moving here to be closer to my sister’s family was the best decision I’ve ever made, to be honest with you. I worry a lot about not having as much impact on my nieces and nephew since I lived s far away. I love them to death so I bought a condo and switched my job (my company had a branch out there in California) and that was the end of that – new life for me as the best aunt in the world! I got home security systems Santa Ana for the house and a dog to boot and I’m just really happy with how things have turned out. I love that I’m able to see my extended family on a weekly basis and I know my sister really appreciates all the sacrifices I’ve made to be near her and her family. I don’t think I want kids of my own but that’s okay – I don’t need them when I get to play mommy to my sister’s kids, you know!?

 


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22
Dec/11

MyPoints uses ShareASale and Logical Media

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Have you ever wondered what affiliate network does MyPoints use? I sure have.

I love MyPoints. I really do. I’ve been a member of that site since way back in the day. I remember when they used to send out free CD’s (which is how I ended up with my Nerf Herder cd…if you haven’t heard it, shame on you).

As an affiliate marketing wannabe, I can recognize that MyPoints uses the same system that we do at least to some extent. They build a huge membership/mailing list, then they send promotions to the members. The offers are often sent with incentives to click them (usually 5 points), which add up and you can trade them in for cool things…I usually go for the Amazon gift cards.

So where do they get these offers to promote?

MyPoints gets their offers from the same affiliate networks that we do.

I knew that the offers looked familiar…I had seen a few of them in some of the networks that I use. But today I got my confirmation.

I checked my email and clicked the MyPoints link as usual…but this time there was a delay between the redirect and ending up on the offer page.

http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?u=*****6&b=******0&m=****4&afftrack=*****************&urllink=www.*********.com/shareasale/begin?destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.*****.com%2Fecards%2Fchristmas%3Futm_source%3DMyPoints%26utm_medium%3Dema

I thought it was a good idea to edit some of that out…just seemed like the more ethical thing to do.

As you can see, for this particular ad they are using ShareASale. I don’t really need to go into any further detail about this.

In addition to ShareASale, I have also found that MyPoints uses ads from Logical Media and NeverBlue Ads as well.

There’s really not a point to this post, just thought this was cool and wanted to share. It’s interesting to know that those of us who are small time affiliate marketers really are swimming in a pool full of bigger fish. Fight hard. Make money.

 


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