merlyn73

I know that I usually reserve Wednesdays for my weekly update and how my online income project is going, but I decided to share one of my fruits of that labor with you instead. And any of you who are smokers, and would like to get that little "you are probably going to die" annoyance you have in the back of your head whenever you light up, out of your head; you may want to read this post! I have been a pack to a pack and a half a day smoker for about 20 years now. I know, it's stupid. It... Read Full Story

 I think one of the biggest challenges facing anyone who wants to travel the world is wrestling with the reluctance of one's own appetite. If you really think about it, a lot of the culinary staples in American and other Western diets are pretty disgusting. Cheese for example is something you never see many people from Asian countries eating because the thought of leaving cow's milk to rot for months is pretty damn gross. And the thought of taking the most undesirable meaty portions of an... Read Full Story

Well I hope everybody had a great weekend, mine was a bit too busy to actually have time to sit down and enjoy it, but I'm looking down the barrel of this next workday with a little bit more confidence. This week is gonna be a little bit more active than most because I felt the itch to get some writing done finally. Kudos all you fellow bloggers who manage to do this seven days a week, 365 days a year, I don't think most readers realize how exhausting it can be to come up with something... Read Full Story

Our country was kicked in the balls last Friday by Standard and Poor's downgrade of our credit status as a country. Were still at AA plus which isn't too bad (seems to work okay for New Zealand), and the other international credit agencies still have us at a AAA status. So no, it's not an instant thunderous crash to national bankruptcy. But it is a slap in the mouth that the United States cannot afford to ignore, and it signals the need to stop our idiotic family feud that has made us the... Read Full Story

Living in the tropics has its ups and downs. Sure you get nice weather year-round, gorgeous scenery, beautifully exotic locals, and cheap produce. But the downfalls can be many as well and they can range from moderately annoying to out right infuriating. Mother nature hasn't really been subjugated in these parts of the world, nor is she likely to be any time soon. So we denizens of the tropics have to put up with things like freakishly powerful hurricanes, volcanoes, predatory animals that... Read Full Story

Hi everyone, it's time for another installment of something from nothing where I explore the realistic ways of making money online that don't involve you investing anything from yourself other than time. I am by no means a "guru", and I am pretty much stumbling along at this as a skeptical n00b still. Whatever I find that works, I will be posting it here so you can be shared by everyone! I have decided to finally apply legitimate and sustaining effort at Amazon Mechanical Turk... Read Full Story

Okay so the multi-month bender of drunken American history is now over, and were gonna focus elsewhere now to the rarely seen parts of faraway places in our world. Caracas, Venezuela is the most violent capital city of any country in the world. I was actually surprised to hear this myself as I have never been to Venezuela, but I thought that because they had such an iron fist dictator the crime rate would at least the relatively low. But apparently not because last year alone, 14,000 murders... Read Full Story

Well I made it through that bitter week with my sanity intact and my tear ducts completely exercised for the year. And that's all I really want to write about that... I am righteously pissed off about what happened the beautiful country of Norway this weekend. Being of Norwegian descent myself, I feel especially punched in the gut knowing that the perpetrator was Norwegian himself. Angry young man can do stupid things when they get enough of ideological hot air pumps... Read Full Story

I have been trying for the better part of the night to conjure up the humor to continue with part 12 of my back story. Unfortunately however even though the story is from memory, I cannot really find my sense of humor very easily tonight. Not enough to make a silly mistake in my life seem funny at any rate. This isn't a very good week for me, and it's been a July tradition of mine since 2007. My oldest son Joshua turned 12 on Wednesday, and he also shares his birthday with my mother who I did... Read Full Story

So the quest continues, and in the last month I have explored several different methods of making an online income for yourself starting out with nothing at all. Some of these methods have actually borne fruit for me, or at least they appear to as up to now, nothing at all has hit my PayPal or bank accounts from any of these companies. One of the avenues that I've been exploring have been websites called "bux" sites, and these are paid to click websites that offer the user anywhere from a... Read Full Story