The past few days I haven’t been posting, because I was studying for an accounting test, which went horribly. I studied a lot but my mind got too tired on the test; unfortunately, I forgot a key formula that counted for 20 points .

Failing that test really has distracted me from doing anything: After my test-on Tuesday- I went back home and started watching Heroes. I felt so bummed out that I just couldn’t do anything else, but watch that show, so I finished both seasons in 2 days.

I feel like such a loser for putting so much effort into studying, but still doing poorly. I really can’t do anything until I see the score.

I hope my future is brighter.

Yeah.

I’ve been e-mailing business around Austin for the past couple days for a business project I’m doing and here’s the response I got from the Albany Chamber of Commerce:

“Thank you for your invitation. Unfortunately we are getting ready to take the Fort Griffin Fandangle to the LBJ Ranch and are pretty well booked up during that time. Good luch with your fair.”

What is the Fort Griffin Fandangle? It’s an outdoor musical based on the pioneers of West Texas and includes cowboys driving a trail herd, a stagecoach chased by Indians, and buffalo hunters and gamblers.

Now I understand why some people up north think we all ride horses and wear cowboy boots. Doesn’t the Albany Chamber of Commerce have something better to do?!

I just read a story about a Norwegian movie director, Harald Zwart, who said he was honored that his film Lange Flate Ballaer II was pirated.

The movie was filmed in theater the day it was released and put on a Bit Torrent site in Norway. He was honored because of the fact that some one thought the movie was interesting enough to smuggle a camera in and go through the trouble of posting it on a web site. His one argument that really made sense to me was this: “Some forms of piracy are unfortunate, but I would rather one beat the pirates to it instead of hunting them down.” Law enforcement should spend more money fighting other crimes and admit they have done horribly with laws against pirated movies and music. One suggestion was to release movies online as soon as they’re released for a fee. Say you charge $5 to download the movie off line (before a DVD is released by the way). That’s cheaper than going to the theater and buying a ticket, you can watch from the comfort of your own home, and the quality would be…

 
I’m sure you guys have all drank bottle water before. Have ya’ll heard of Nestle Pure Life? There’s nothing special about the water but the labels are worth something: Collecting them can help schools get much needed equipment and give the students field trips. The only thing is, you need a lot of points to actually get something. It takes around 600 labels for a football and a 32 bottle package cost 4 dollars; that amounts to almost 19 dollars, which isn’t bad for a football.

 

I drink a lot of water-32 bottles a week. Even though it’ll take me ages to collect enough labels, I’m going to do it. It doesn’t cost me anything, besides taking out the labels, and it feels good to do something positive. I don’t think there is a deadline for these labels to be turned in, so I’ll keep collecting until around this time next year. By then I should have enough points to actually give a school something!

 
I encourage ya’ll to start drinking Nestle Pure Life water and collecting points! Bottle water…

It’s been a little over a month and I definitely seen improvements with this blog.

 
March Progress:
ALEX Rank: 630,000, moved over 400k this month.
Page View: 300 a day, 17% returning readers ( thanks!)
Google Index: Over 800 pages

 
There have been ups and downs with this blog’s traffic, but I’m seeing some consistent results. I’m getting most of my traffic from search engines-mostly Google- and I’m loving it. Since I write about everything, that gives me an upper hand when it comes to ranking for keywords. The max hits this month per day was around 1700, that was due to m3forums and the ranking for “Audriana Playboy” on Google.

 
Future Projections:
Right now I don’t have time to tap the social networking sites for traffic but I’ll definitely do that int he future.
I want to rank 400k or lower Alexa in April.
I want to get over 1.5k indexed pages on Google.
Start pay per click traffic to this site.
Post more financing related topics.

 
This site is going to undergo a makeover soon. Right now the banner doesn’t make sense; a little girl holding a balloon is really random, even…

ATT is without a question the worst service ever. They have an incompetent service staff and the most annoying automated voice message system. It usually takes me 20 minutes to pay a bill, which is absurd. They have so many different phone numbers and all of them lead to the same stupid voice system. I called tonight to try to pay my freaking bill over the automated message phone, but it wouldn’t let me: I was directed to the billing department and it was closed. Then I called to try to speak to a live person and that took almost 20 minutes. The representative was really rude and extremely unhelpful. I asked for the direct number to pay a bill and she couldn’t find it. GREAT, you work at ATT and you don’t know their numbers. It turns out you can’t pay your bill over the phone unless the business offices are open. I don’t get it because you pay over an automated system, why would it matter if it was during business hours or not.

 
I’m really fed up with ATT. If you want the worst service possible- my parent’s ATT…

Firefighters are so honored and admired in this country, yet they don’t get what they’re owed? I’m not sure exactly why I have been seeing firefighters all over Austin this weekend begging on the streets beside homeless people, but it must be that they are not funded like they should be. I don’t admire firefighters as much as most people do in Texas, but I do respect them. They work hard for little pay to make sure we are safe, but there’s no way that this kind of job-including begging on the streets in the hot day and rain-can be attractive to younger people that see it.

I’m at my little sister’s bday party at  ITZ. Imagine an indoor carnival filled with little kids running around and being surrounded by a sea of noise, that’s ITZ. This place is pretty nice; it’s built in a Home Depot store, very spacious and high ceilings. However, the service is really horrible and inconsistent. Our party host didn’t have a great attitude and wasn’t friendly. She even asked the children(all around 13) if they wanted to listen to Lil Wayne for the party music. For those of you who don’t know Lil Wayne, he is the best rapper alive but his lyrics are full of adult content and innuendos, definitely not suitable for kids.

The atmosphere around this place is lively, but a little much. There are plenty of screaming kids that are constantly running around; i’m actually scared someone will knock my laptop over.

The people that come here have very diverse backgrounds. From individuals that dress suitable for rap concerts, tattoos on their arms and dragging shorts, to the indie crowd,  people that wear very tight jeans and handmedown tshirts. I’m not saying this diverity of people is bad, but i’m just not used…

I ordered a pizza today from Hungry Howie’s at 6 PM. I wanted to have some thing to eat during the UT-Stanford game (we won!) and at about 7 I was really getting hungry. I thought they might be getting busy during the game and called to check. The guy informed me that the idiot who took my order didn’t put it in the computer. Obviously I was mad and very hungry, so I got it for free. He told me that if I came to the store it would take 10-15 minutes rather than 45 minutes for delivery. The place was not far so I decided to go.

I got there 20 minutes after I called and my food still wasn’t ready. The guy told me my pizza was ready, but my bread sticks weren’t. There were already about 6 other people there waiting (all ordered at least an hour earlier) but I decided to wait what he said would be 10 more minutes. He then tried to charge me before my pizza was ready and I reminded him of my free pizza. Now things got really bad. Apparently the guy realized he…

I wrote a post about contract law and apparently it caused a lot of controversy, mostly with people that know nothing about law. I sent my article to my professor, who is a licensed attorney, and she agreed that it was correct( except for the 70,000 requirement for Federal Court, it’s actually 75,000); therefore, I highly doubt there is anything wrong with my article besides the diversity requirement for the Federal Court. But I receive emails and comments telling me that I’m completely wrong.

 

I want my hit back.

When you look at your traffic log, please remove 1 hit from todays hits (March 24, 2008). I accidentally clicked on the link from the eBay thread on M3Post.com forum.

Oh, and I disagree!

Wow, you come across as a completely arrogant, abrasive douchebag on the m3 discussion.

Enjoy your nights alone, and crying yourself to sleep over fighting other people’s battles when you’re completely wrong.

 

 
What a great method to argue: First you criticize the writer, then you say the article is wrong but say nothing to support your argument. When you send me emails…