Note 783 Night Watch 186 Thoughts

Today I did a thing. I managed balancing my expenses for January 2024. Yeah I know it’s March 2024 lol… I haven’t been keeping up with transactions much because life has been so busy for me over the past several months since November 2023, and I have come to learn that in a lot of ways, it’s easier to sort everything out when a month is over and you can you can see everything in order after the bank has sorted it out. Note that doesn’t mean I don’t look at my spending and income on a daily basis to catch anything weird, because I do. I was in the hole for expenses versus income by -$341 but it’s ok because I’m not broke. I had a lot of things I needed to get, and I didn’t hold back. I’m expecting similar results when I round up my transactions for last month in February 2024.

So it is Saturday evening at 8:17 PM CST, and I’m in chill mode sort of… but I plan to get some work done on something tonight. I’ve been indexing my blog posts on this website at Pad53 for awhile, and I’m going to work on that some more tonight. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but the reason I’m doing this is because this blog is huge, and it’s only going to get bigger over time. There are hundreds of posts currently, and eventually there will be thousands. Having a list of posts indexed in order will be beneficial to my blog readers, and to myself for being able to more quickly browse the information posted here. So with that said, off to work I go.

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Note 777 A Total Of 17 Used Ebooks Bought This Weekend

A great Sunday night here on March 10th, 2024 at 11:54 PM CST. I spent the evening shopping on Ebay for used books. I found, and bought 17 used books on Ebay over the weekend to add to my home library. Buying used books definitely takes discipline, especially when you have limited space like I do, but so worth owning them. There are so many out there that I would love to own. I can’t wait to start diving into my directories and encyclopedias for blogging so that I can share some content from my book collection. I haven’t really looked at the books I’ve collected, and I’ve been collecting used books for at least 5 years now I think, and it’s definitely time that I start using them.

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Note 775 A Rant About WordPressdotcom

I have two things to rant about today regarding WordPressdotcom. The first thing is that I noticed they reduced the amount of storage on the Business plan (now called Creator) from 200GB to 50GB, but the price is still the same. What kind of insanity is that? Second, you are not able to use a video block to display a video you have uploaded to your website media files unless you are on the Explorer plan. Personally I think, and I’ve been saying this for years, that WordPressdotcom does itself no service by limiting features. The only thing they should be limiting is the amount of storage space you get with each plan. If they did that, I feel that they would substantially increase their sales, but it appears they prefer to play games with their customers, and if many are like me, we’re not buying into limitations. I’ve been with WordPressdotcom long enough to have experienced all of their plans, except for the upper-most one, and aside from being able to use WordPress plugins, have noticed no difference in service regarding how my websites act and deliver content to my viewers. So when WordPressdotcom starts limiting features, why should I keep paying for the higher price plans, when I can get the same service on lower plans with less storage (since I’m so far someone who doesn’t actually use a lot of storage most of the time), and just forget about trying to enhance my websites with features they are limiting, and that may not make my website better anyway? Things that make you go hmmm.

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Note 774 Recommended Sellers On Ebay Web Version

It has been a long time since I logged into Ebay on the web. I didn’t realize how much I missed the web version of a platform I’ve shopped on since 2000… yes I said 2000… that means I’ve been shopping there for 24 years… wow. Anyway what I really wanted to say is I noticed they now have a “recommended sellers” block on their home page, and I think that’s cool. I’m assuming these recommended sellers are based off of items you have already bought previously. So I’m definitely going to have to check out some of these, and definitely need to log in on the web version of Ebay more often. I don’t care how good an app is, 9 times out of 10, you will always get a better experience on the web. Also regarding recommended Ebay sellers, I am trying to get into the habit of saving seller’s profiles when I buy something on Ebay, and eventually I hope to make up a list of sellers I recommend here at Pad53 in the lists section of this website.

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Note 745 A Crochet Marathon Is Happening

You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much for a few days. Well I started a new journal on the blog, but you have to manually refresh the posts in that category (Daily 2024) to catch my updates as I write them throughout the day. I also I recently started crocheting a new blanket. I am trying to use up some (or even all) of my yarn stash and make myself some new blankets. I also launched a new website at BusyDT.com that I’m building. So I’ve still got a lot going on. Just less updates on the blog for awhile.

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Note 713 Going Shopping Because I Can

Happiness is realizing there is 1 more pay day coming before the month is up, and you can go shopping if you want to.

This morning I’m going to get some groceries, and see if there are any Christmas trees, and whatever else I may find on sale.

Other chores for today include a post office, and court house run.

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Note 711 Hunting A Good CD Player Boom Box

Every year for myself at Christmas, I always try to upgrade, replace or add to things needed in my every day life… not for just acquiring more things, but to bring new ways of doing things in my life. This year I am working on sound systems I need. I bought a computer speaker sound system, a new bluetooth speaker, and now I’m looking for a nice cd player boombox. I haven’t found one yet that isn’t, and doesn’t look cheap, and that has a good sound. I wish manufacturers would get back into making boom boxes like we had back in the 1980’s, but with more modern features to include a cd player, and a cassette tape deck for those who still play them.

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