Quick Summer Updates
I'm sipping the coffee and chewing the Flaming Hot Cheetos and Babydoll keeps poking at me "do a post, do a post!" And so I better do a post. :) Here are some early summer updates on my adventures on and off the internet.
Summer Content Sales Slow
Aye Carrumba! I am in the quick-sand and sinking fast. Sale for my products have dropped in almost half. I've tried gaming classifieds a hundred ways from Sunday and nothing is working for me at this time. I chalk my slide up to two larger factors: the summer and also catering to newer players. With summer comes sunshine and the beach and BBQs, and much less computer time to farm the WoW gold or chase the skirts in SL. Almost all of the retailers I've talked to this month are telling me their sales are either flat or slipping. I also think SL is not getting the same amount of press coverage it was four months ago and press coverage equals free advertising which equates to more new sign-ups. When kids go back to school, things will begin to grow again and peak at the end of the year with the seasonal cycles. We always used to hit this summer slowdown in the internet adult sector as well.
Frisky Pirate In The Eighties
Last month I fedexed all my old paper photographs to a company in Arizona called DigMyPics. The service they offer is picture and slide digitizing. I thought about doing all our pictures at home but it would of taken months and I would of been way cranky. I decided to try DigMyPics and they were awesome. It took maybe three or four weeks from start to finish and you end up with a DVD of all your pictures scanned at high resolution but you can also order a CD of the pictures at a lower, more web friendly resolution. When you get back all your old pictures and start looking at them, you immediately think "what was I thinking, did I really have all those bad hairdos?" hahaha I should do a mini album of all my bad hair. I found one picture that is a favorite...it is the Frisky Pirate, the early years. That is me in the 80s molesting the fair lass "Stella"...her floor and my floor were having some college hootenanny event and sipping the wine. I enjoy my make-shift masking taped patch in that pic. ROFL And not often do the ladies get to see me prancing around in my fine leopard-skin jumpsuit, but I will show it to you just this one time.
How To Email Your T-Mobile Cell Phone
I think you can email almost any cell phone, the hard part is figuring out your cell phone provider's secret email words. I wrote T-Mobile support two days ago to get how to do this trick on my sidekick. If you have T-Mobile and want to send a 160 character or less email to your phone...the format is 17775551212@tmomail.net but change the number at the front to your number.
House Updates In RL
Me and Sanchy sold our house in Upland a few weeks ago...yay! We also decided to cancel the purchase of our new home. Sadly this was a costly mistake, taking almost all of our deposit, but we really did not feel right about the deal and decided it was best to admit our mistake now and move forward. We then debated should we look for another new home to purchase or should we consider renting a home closer to downtown with a pool...we decided to continue our new-found gypsy lifestyle and found a sweet house with a pool, in a nice private area that is close to chips, salsa, and margaritas. We will be moving at the end of July...so much damn moving! We are anxious to feel settled in once we get there. I really enjoy the hot weather here...it is not for everyone since it is pretty dang hot, but the sunshine is addictive.
World Of Warcraft
I could not resist the call of the grinder's gold...and I started my account back up so I could get one of my 60 rogues to 70 over the summer. So far I feel completely lost and completely lonely as all the members of my guild are long gone and it seems the days of the auction house when people used to solicit people to join their guilds is long gone too! I'll have to make a few new friends and get out there and grind away. Back when I used to play, if I was playing alone I simply ignore all quests and grind my lips off to level. This is boring and not much fun but fast lol but these days I seem to enjoy questing more than I used to since the rewards seem a lot better in the 60-70 range so I'm questing away with thottbot open at all times. I wish a new game would appear that has all the fever and excitement that WoW had in the beginning. I think such a game is still 2 or 3 years away as WoW will have to wind down more.
Those are my stories! :)
