Investment | The Habitation of Justice

Y’all ready for Daylight Savings Time?

Lincoln Adams | March 13, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

Penguin holding cymbals over polar bear

:ggrin:

Well I’ll lose an hour of sleep, but at least it won’t get dark at 3 o’ clock in the afternoon anymore, which gives me more time for geocaching!

Sunday also marks the last day I’ll be using this 8 year old computer too. My spanking new desktop rig should be arriving Monday, when I will then begin the process of migrating all my content over. Oddly enough despite 8 years of data, I haven’t accumulated much. It only took me a few minutes to transfer everything I had over to my external hard drive, which I’ll then move again to my new PC. Wheeeeeeee!

And soon I will have a new GPS addon for my iPod, and a new MacBook too! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! :banana:

Seriously, my thinking is I need to get all my out of control spending in now before the dollar completely loses its value. Amazingly enough, that checks off everything I had on my Blogging Badass Wishlist too, except for a leather jacket and a motorbike, but really let’s not kid ourselves here. A dweeb like me on a motorbike? Pffft. Maybe I’ll just rent one instead. I could go out and grab a leather jacket though, but I want the girl of my dreams to pick that out for me, which means I won’t be getting that either.

Sorry if I’m being dull today, there’s really not much going on in my life now except for the new computer coming in. I’m treating it as an investment that will help me get my creative juices going and market my blog, but also finally have fun playing the latest games too. Mostly I’ll be gaming though. :ggrin:

Since my money is tied up in getting these new toys, I won’t be able to travel anywhere for a while until May, when I’ll need to take my car in for the 60,000 mile service, and I sure as flipping floopwhocks am NOT gonna get it done here. The local service centers would probably put the engine in backwards (on purpose) and that would pretty much be the end of my beautiful ride. So instead, I’m going upstate to Kingston to get my car serviced there. Kingston has a service center with an excellent reputation, so if there’s a chance to avoid any headaches and get my baby nicely cleaned up, they’re my best bet. Afterwards I may head off to attend a major geocaching bash, but it’s a 6 hour drive from there, so I may opt to head to Lake George instead for the weekend. We’ll see!

Is my life exciting or WHAT?

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Invest Two Dollars, Get Back One!

Lincoln Adams | November 30, 2008 @ 7:55 pm

I’ve been spending the weekend exploring ways to bring more traffic to my site, which took me into the brave new world of domains. There’s an industry out there built on the notion that if you purchase enough old domains that once amassed a ton of backlinks and redirect these domains back to your website, it will give your site enough juice to bring in serious traffic.

The problem is, this whole domain business smacks of the stock market and gives me a bloody serious headache. There are literally hundreds of thousands of domains that expire (or are about to expire) every day, and sometimes you have to bid on them if they’re in high demand. Theoretically though, if you invest enough money into enough valuable domains, the dividends will make it worthwhile over the long run. So say I spend $1,000 on domains. If (and that’s a big IF) it brings in enough traffic that I end up making $500 a month in revenues as a result, I will have eventually gotten back what I invested after two months, and then some.

Here’s the thing though: every investment I have ever made in life has been a monumental failure with a capital F. Whether it was school or life or internet projects or relationships or whatnot, whatever I have purported to do in life has always resulted in ultimate FAIL.

So with that kind of batting average, do I really want to spend thousands of dollars grabbing up all kinds of domain names in the hopes that they will collectively bring me the kind of traffic I’ve been looking for?

See, that would work for other people, but not for me. Somehow, the laws of physics and economics all stop at my doorstep. You ever seen the show Lost? Well consider me the island. Once you’re on my shores, you can just forget about everything you’ve ever thought you knew about how the universe worked, because it’s all been rendered moot here. I am a walking wormhole of anomalies, a glitch in the system. :blink:

That’s why I’m kind of hesitant in blowing thousands of bucks on this new experiment, especially when I’m so close to paying off my debts too. I just want this blog to work out so badly, and the more I think about things and about finding another job or another career, the more I’d rather be out of the workforce altogether and be self-sufficient and self-employed, that way I can live anywhere and go anywhere. I don’t want to be stuck at one job in one place forever and ever. I need to MOVE, baby.

So, I don’t know. I think I’m just gonna leave this alone for now, and once all my debts have been squared off, I’ll come back to this and maybe think about making smaller investments instead of going all out, and see if it goes anywhere. I’m just so sick and tired of my 5 visits a day traffic that I’m just chomping at the bit to get SOMETHING going. Gaaaah. :wall: