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Apr 20th
I’m beginning to get a tad bit frustrated with marketing. I’m doing everything I can really think of to advertise my business. I’m paying for premium advertising on Google. I’ve sent out direct targeted mail advertising to people who REALLY need my services.
Even just now I paid for an ad spot in our local “Pennysaver” publication. At least I only have one competitor there, and I am not at all worried about them, because they suck.
I’ve been running ads daily on Craigslist. I’ve placed fliers around the local college. I’m currently printing out a bunch of 4×6 ads to distribute around town myself.
At least the 4×6 cards seem to cut down on my printing costs more than the direct mailings do. But what is going wrong? Is it the economy? I’ve had literally one phone call regarding my services, and I was so excited I quoted a ridiculously low price. He sounded interested and told me he would call back. Of course, he didn’t. Here’s some more of the ads I have placed.
The 4×6 I am currently printing:
Not bad for a basic color ad if I say so. Hell, it’s even a coupon! Then there’s the fliers from school which has been doubling as my craigslist ad:
Do you have any idea what it costs to print ads like this? Certainly cheaper than paying a printing company to do it for you, but man, I am going through enough ink cartridges to make a decent income off of being paid to recycle the used cartridges.
I’m even advertising the service of being able to install/reinstall Windows/Linux on netbooks without cd or dvd drives in them. That’s a bitch to do and I know a lot of people need it.
So why am I not seeing results? What else do I need? I damn tv commercial? Or is the economy just that bad right now? One thing is for sure. There’s no jobs here, and I need to make money.
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Mar 31st
Tomorrow is my court date. I’d like to tell you I’m confident that I will succeed. I would like to tell you that I have a solid legal defense. I’d like to tell you that because I am innocent, therefore I will be found not guilty, or my charges will be dismissed, etc. because that is the right thing. I’d like that.
Unfortunately, that’s not how life really is. People get wrongfully arrested and charged all the time. I’m not the first, and this isn’t the first time I’ve been arrested for something I am innocent of.
Why me? Why does the government see fit to fuck with me? Am I an easy target because I can’t afford decent legal representation? I know I’m not dumb, so it can’t be that. I do or say dumb things from time to time, but so does everyone else.
Why was I arrested for this? Were cops that night just THAT damned bored? Why didn’t the guy with the loaded shotgun next to him get charged with that? Why was I charged with some technicality bullshit when they had no other reason to hold me? What crime had I committed? What did I do that I have to repay society for? I think society owes me, if anything.
So now I lose more money. More extortion from the state. So many things that we have to pay for. I have to pay for a public defender. Aren’t those supposed to be free? You know, because people can’t afford an attorney?
The government is whacked out. If you want to own a car, you have to have insurance. Insurance is the one thing we buy that we’re afraid to use because our rates go up. It’s nothing but a form of gambling, and the government extorts us by saying we HAVE to have it. To get insurance you need registration. To get registration, you need insurance. To simply own a car and not drive it, but have it just parked on YOUR property, you have to have both. Why? What sense does it make to pay registration and insurance on something that doesn’t get driven? If you don’t pay, they take the car and then charge you more money for them taking it. What kind of bent world are we living in?
I’ve moved my other car around so many times I sometimes forget where it is. Every time I move it to another city and then that city threatens to tow it out of my friends driveway. Seriously, what the FUCK? It’s not hurting anyone. It’s a 2005 for fucks sake, it’s not an eyesore. It’s not wrecked. Who is complaining about this car? Well, plenty of people have.
Fuck YOU, America.
And now I hope and I pray, afraid for my way of life, afraid of going to jail, for doing nothing wrong at all. And all the while, while the state invests taxpayer money, my money, YOUR money, into prosecuting me, they do nothing to stop the serial killers like the one that took the life of my mother when I was only 4 years old. I bet even back then they couldn’t wait for the day when they could arrest me for whatever they wanted.
Back in 1999 I was arrested by Holly Hill P.D. more times than I can count. The charges? Loitering and prowling. What was I really doing? Walking down the street, en route to a friends house. Apparently being out after dark is an arrestable offense in Florida. Not once did a charge stick to me. Every time, dismissed. Well the state seems to want to pursue this one, despite so many things they did wrong. They falsified information, tampered with evidence, and flat out lied to make their case. And apparently, I’m the criminal. Right. Sure. Whatever you say.
Not like I really expect better with politicians of today. They just keep getting worse every year. We’re long past due for something new. Bush has to go, and he needed to go 8 years ago. We need to pull our troops out of Iraq and back home. What the hell are we even doing there now? We got Saddam, right? WTF? A thousand internets to the person who can convince me that there is a good reason we are there that justifies the spending of the money and lives, and that is benefits America in any way.
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me from just killing myself (other than my girlfriend of course) is my fear of what will happen after doing so. Heaven? Hell? Nothingness? Reincarnation? Maybe I should be a cat in my next life so I can not give a shit about anyone or anything and still get everything I want. Because we all know cats don’t care about anything. Especially not you. You’re the food source, catnip source, and sometimes the source of petting. Don’t kid yourself if you think you’re more than that.
I spent most of the night taking out my aggression on stupid Horde assholes with my rogue, completely destroying them on the battlefield because it makes me feel better to kill them. Soon I will become more powerful than they can handle. That will be the day.
But of course this rests directly on what happens Tuesday. Once again fucking up my entire sleep schedule to defend myself for something that never happened. Rest assured, if I am somehow convicted of this, the moment I have even a little bit of freedom to do so legally, I am out of this fucking country for good, renouncing my citizenship, and taking all those I care about with me.
How can America expect support when they’re such douchebags? And this is coming from an American.
Go figure.
On second thought…
Go fuck yourself.
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Mar 28th
Yeah, so I’m basically fuckin bored right now. I’m probably going to resort to playing some good old fashioned Super Smash Bros. I just finished playing Starfox 64, which I beat, despite it being infinitely difficult toward the end. I seriously don’t remember the game being that damn hard!
I was playing WoW earlier but I got bored of that. Horde are douche bags in PvP, and it seems the Alliance doesn’t know how to play at all, so I end up getting gang-raped by about 30 other players at once while the guys on my team just stand there looking like retards. I really don’t see the skill in ganging up on people. Not like they need to, since Blizzard clearly favors the Horde anyway, and they are far more overpowered than we could ever hope to be. And we just keep getting the shaft.
I remember a day when Warlocks were OP, and nobody could beat them. Then things got balanced out a bit. Now we get owned hardcore. Or at least I do. I never seem to stand a chance, and I’m a good player, in very good gear. I just don’t get it when I’m supposed to be “overpowered” and I get two-shotted by a Horde player… it’s kind of a kick in the nuts.
The server I play on is over 70% Horde. That’s right, 70%. That means 30% of the server belongs to the rest of us. Most of that 70% of horde are level 70 players, most of them in t5 or t6 pvp gear, and they have nothing better to do all day than hang out in low level quest areas and kill lower level players and camp out on their corpses so they can’t play their game.
Now I understand, people, that we decided consciously to make characters on a pvp server, and we knew what would happen, and we have to live with that. But it doesn’t stop me from making the assertion that not only are the Horde douchebags… but Blizzard is just making them bigger douchebags by giving them so much power. I know they favor them. But the fact remains is that most players that play this game play on the Alliance side. That means that the majority of us, PAYING customers, are getting fucked in the ass in-game.
Is it fair? Of course not. Should they be getting buffs because there are less of them? Not as long as we have to accept them camping low level players. If we have to deal with it, then nerf em to hell and let them deal with it. I don’t mean make them weak. I mean make it “balanced”. Take away racial benefits that are overpowered for PvP and give them something more pve oriented.
The problem with this game is, and it is evident through recent patches, is that the entire game is now PvP and arena-oriented. Not everyone likes Arena, and battlegrounds aren’t for everyone. I love to pvp but I hate Arenas because I am always the first to die before I even get to do anything. The entire force of the other team decides that I need to die first. Am I that dangerous? Not with all the nerfs to fear. Fear only works about 25% of the time now, and always breaks early. Warriors get immunity. Undead get immunity. What do I get immunity to? Oh, right… nothing. I have to rely on SKILL, not gear or racial traits to survive. And when I do, I hope it bruises their egos terribly. And I DO win from time to time.
Blizzard, if you’re gonna bitch about balance, then balance the fucking game. Stop nerfing players and taking away their abilities. Just give buffs to those that need them and stop screwing around with our survivability, especially when it affects our pve game.
I’m also pissed off that the newest patch literally broke the addons I rely on the most to help me level. I’ve lost most of my desire to do any quests now, or do much of anything. What’s worse is that the most important addon in my arsenal, QuestHelper, is no longer in development, so it will never be fixed…
Yeah yeah, I can QQ (it means “cry”) all I want, but nothing is going to change. They will continue to fuck over the Alliance until one day I decide to say fuck this game and move on to something else. I guess when that happens I’ll eBay my account for some decent cash. Who wouldn’t want a couple of nicely geared level 70 characters? (soon…)
So fuck it. I’m going back to the old school. Nintendo.
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