I’ve spent some time today working on my June theme. Everything template wise is completed, I just have to work in all of the content pages because with all of the alterations I’ve made to the template over the last few months, just to run a theme here it requires about 30 template pages. Yes, I know that’s crazy but oh well.

I’m still not feeling very well but I know for sure that it’s my own fault. Last night I had a little too much to drink (it was a holiday after all) and wound up crashing around 9, waking up around 12 to then fall back to sleep. I think I got about 15 hours in total since last night and while it’s great to catch up on sleep it’s really strange waking up so late in the afternoon and still being exhausted.

The power keeps dipping and I honestly have no idea why. Hopefully the power isn’t going to go out but there’s some wind outside and Baby told me that the power down here goes out pretty frequently. Something tells me that once our rooms are moved around we’re going to be working off battery backups on the surge protectors. He’s close to ordering Kay’s gift, once the money transfers out of Paypal at least. I’m sure it’s already in his bank account at the moment but I think he’s busy Beta testing at the moment so who knows what’s happening. He’s got until the 5th, at the latest, to order for her considering you have to factor in shipping and her birthday is on the 12th. :crosses fingers:

I also need to get some money together for her gift, I know exactly what she wants so it won’t be hard to shop for her. I know I’ve got some payments coming through so I’m not concerned. There’s also a few hundred in my account set aside for birthdays anyway.

Kay works for a complete moron. He bought the company a few years ago and it instantly went from a success to a pile of wood. He knows nothing about how to run a business, nor does he know how to handle employees. People have been fired for reasons as stupid as “They’re too smart for their position”. A girl was recently fired because she knew too much about what she was doing. Some people believe she tapped into something that the owner was doing and was fired because she knew too much about something that’s more than likely highly illegal. The real lesson here is, however, someone seriously needs to stand outside of this place and let the customers know that they’re never going to actually receive anything they order so it would be a smart idea to not even bother stepping foot into the building. Products have been on back order for the last 6 months and most of the vendors even have the company on HOLD because he hasn’t been able to pay the bill. Makes you wonder where the money is actually going, it sure as heck isn’t going to the employee’s considering most of them aren’t even getting their paychecks.

The thing he really needs is something called Executive Coaching, which should be important for any corporation. The Forte Institute is the global leader in the development and delivery of the strengths-based understanding of human personality as it relates to the personal understanding of interpersonal communications. I know it all seems like a lot of big words but their main goal is really team building programs which is very important for any corporation. It’s easier to run a tight-knit business if everyone is working on the same page. Training from The Forte Institute can really help you run your business and your employees with 100% ship-shape efficiency.

PPP is still running their Tuesday prizes. I never got my hands on anything in April, nor have I in May so I’m not even going to bother looking for todays opportunity. They’re giving away a Sony 50″ Grand WEGA LCD HDTV and while that seems like a great prize, I don’t have anywhere to put the thing unless I get rid of the boyfriend heh. I’m not lucky enough to get my hands on gifts like these anyway, even if I did happen to find the opportunity – I’d be too slow about it and wouldn’t get it anyway.

I heard that last weeks op was up for an hour before someone took it. I’m having a small issue with PPP at the moment though. I understand it’s very popular but there are opportunities listed that aren’t accepting any more blogs. And while it’s great that the advertiser got his moneys worth – it’s hard for posties to actually find a listing that they’re eligible for. I don’t mind doing the $5 listings, I do mind that there aren’t even any of those available. I seriously think that PPP should consider altering their database so that if all posts are already taken – the opportunity is removed from the public listing. But hey, that’s just the programmer in me talking. It’s not like it would be hard to code, I just don’t understand the point in teasing people with ops that they can’t even do.

I don’t know, I’m sure eventually they’ll do something about it – who knows.

Everyone POUNCES on the $10+ ops and while those are great to get, most of the time it’s based on topics that NO ONE would naturally speak about without getting paid. While I admit to enjoying paid blogging, I also make it a point to only have an opinion about topics of interest to me. Someone asked me recently if I would have had the same opinion on something if I wasn’t being paid about it and I can honestly say that yes I would. Before I was involved in paid blogging, I was writing up product reviews for everything that I personally found interesting/helpful, there’s nothing wrong with getting something out of it, but that doesn’t mean the payment is altering my views on things either.

Many people go through Wirefly.com to get their cellphones. I don’t blame them either considering they’ve turned into one of the hottest resources on the internet for all of your mobile needs. They’ve got a new Top 10 list, it’s seasonal too considering it’s the Spring 2007 season. Their list includes everything from the Motorola to Samsung. I personally find the Motorola Razr to be the best phone out there but that’s because of the fact that I’ve been desperately eying this phone for the last couple of years. Even though I’m not on the phone very often, one day I WILL own this thing. The list they’ve put up is pretty extensive, and rightly so considering all the phones on there are pretty interesting, help them out by hitting Digg this story! because all hits are good hits and going through Digg is a huge thing these days. I just think it’s cool they came up with the Spring 2007 list. I hope they continue making lists like these every season, it’ll give people an excuse to drool over more technological goodness.

It’s pretty warm outside at the moment. It’s pushing about 90°F and it’s fixing to be one of the hotter days of the year so far, at least by my standards. Considering it’s memorial day, I was kind of expecting there to be more activity going on in the complex. I think since yesterday was a gorgeous Sunday and people typically work on Monday’s that may have played a roll in it. Either way tonight I’d like to barbecue again so I think I’m going to have to sweet talk Baby a bit. Last night he wound up cooking all of the burgers and since he wanted to go out and get more Mai Tai mix anyway – I figure a run to the store wouldn’t be that bad of an idea anyway.