Sounds like a great name for a Noize band. Anyway, here you go...

Tell me this wouldn't make you wet your pants if you were a kid...
 
Even so, it's pretty darn scary!



(At first I thought it was an elaborate animatronic...but SPOILER...


 
...look at the legs!)

I've been checking out some get rich quick sche--er, business opportunities online and have found that some folks have had some luck with paid blogging. Of course, you can only make real money having a well-established and high-traffic blog. However, apparently you can easily score a quick fiver for only 5-10 minutes worth of work on even a relatively obscure blog.

The problem is, I don't want to be a total whore about it; I'm not going to write a review on something I know nothing about and fib to make a few bucks. It's going to take a little poking around in these pay-for-posting sites to see what types of "opps" (opportunities/products) they want blogs about. If it's something I know a bit about, I have not problem for "pausing for a commercial break" to pop something in to make a few bucks.

Obviously, Myspace is ill-suited to this type of work. I'll probably have to whip up something on Blogger and get a whole new blog going. Maybe I'll post a link over here and hope the folks that visit here will check it out. I'm not sure what the blog is going to be about, but I have some ideas. I'll let you know when more details surface.

Again, I'm not expecting to generate any significant amount of dough from this, but having an extra $50 a month would be cool!

Works better for me than Obama, quite honestly.

Yeah, the economy sucks...I'm just glad I have a job at this point!

However, life is not easy. My rent has gone up $100 is the last year, and I did not get a cost-of-living increase this year. I live pretty frugally as it is, but now it looks like I'm going to have to cut back even more.

My thought is to throw a last bit of change at paying off my car completely, and then I can (legally) drop my insurance down to the bare minimum. That ought to save me at least the extra interest I pay every month on my car loan.

I've already started to change my food-purchasing habits to healthier fare. Not only can I get more meals for less out of freshly-made food, it's more satisfying and better for me. The pre-processed crapola has a tendency to pack on the pounds while you absent-mindedly shovel away sugar and salt. Just in the last three weeks, I've lost about 7 pounds just eating better and doing a minimal amount of exercise.

I tried looking at other apartments in my area, and sadly I'm still in one of the cheaper places for the neighborhood I'm in. I could get a better deal moving into more of the ghetto-esque parts of Portland, but I'm not too eager to do that. The only reason I can think of for the dramatic increase in rent lately is the fact that LOTS of people are likely renting due to them not being able to afford housing. With high demand comes high prices, and Portland is a fairly popular place to move to these days. I'm determined not to be forced out into some podunk satellite town to endure white trash and soccer moms. Call me an elitist...

I'm also investigating the possibility of getting some kind of part-time job...preferrably the stay-at-home variety. I kill a lot of time on the computer as it is, so perhaps something in that vein? There's tons of freelancing types of sites out there, but it's a matter of getting your foot in the door and establishing a reputation. Even something brainless that gets me an extra $50-$100 a month would be helpful!

I'm not sure I want to take the chance of moving to another job at this time. I have done this before with the promise of a long-term commitment, only to get shafted once I got there. Getting a job at all is so difficult these days it seems just a bit too risky to make a move at this point. This is only the second time in the last 15 years that my job has passed on the cost-of-living increase for everyone, so hopefully it's just an anomaly.

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cramps-lux-interior-rip/

I was a latecomer to this band...here's the first song I heard by them:

This is pretty clever...