A look at the last week

  I made a couple of good videos for YouTube.  I have been getting very nice comments about my videos.  That is a surprise.  There are a lot of people that like to name call and just say bad things.  But I been getting some nice comments.  That is great.
  I think I am seeing a trend of making a few cents each day from my YouTube videos.  That is nice.  Right now I have earnings with YouTube of $62.66 but that is since May of this year!  Right now my goal is to make $3.00 a day. That would be a $100.00 a month. That would feed me well for two weeks. 

  Ken is going to be coming over on Sunday for turkey.  His mom is making a turkey. That will be nice.  It will be the five of us. 
  Russell has been going in at 0100 or 0300 hours or later in the morning. They have him coming in at all sort of odd hours.  He should be working only 20 hours a week but they work him extra all the time because he is a good worker.  But he is not making much money and he is often having to walk to work and sometimes home.  It is an hour walk.  A couple of times he has had a dog trying to attack him.  One tore his pants one morning. 
  He needs a better job but is is lucky to have a job right now.

  Jimmy loves his new Samsung Intercept.  But he has been playing one game on it for days.  He has not even turned on his desktop computer.  He just plays that game on the cell phone.  He uses his WiFi connection.  He says the battery last one hour playing the game! 
  I plan to get a Samsung Intercept when I can afford one.  It would be great it Virgin Mobile came out with a better phone for their service but I do not expect them to do so for a long time. So one of these days I will get the Samsung Intercept. 
 
  I been watching what I eat.  My feet have very little swelling now.
  It is still hard for me to get around because of the injury to my right foot. It hurt when I walk outside.  It take me forever to get anyplace as I limp down the sidewalk. 
 

  I went with the streaming only service of Netflix now.  No more DVDs for me.
  I also signed up for a Pro account with Hulu.  I am not sure why I did it.  I should just cancel Netflix, Hulu and other things and get cable TV.
 
  I use Skype for my home phone service.  I sometimes think about cancelling the service.  But I only have 300 minutes on my cell phone a month.  I use less than 30 minutes a month on the cell phone.
  I have Google Voice but I never use it and not sure what the heck to do with it.
  
  When I paid the cable Internet bill the other day, I use Charter, I saw that they list Ultra60 (up to 60 Mbps down).  I have the Plus service (16 Mbps down).  They have  Lite (1 Mbps), Express (8 Mbps), Plus (16 Mbps), Max (25 Mbps) and Ultra60 (60 Mbps).  I checked and they do not offer Ultra60 at this location.
  I am paying $44.00 a month right now for Plus service.  One of these days I will move up to the Max service.

Comments

[Argent009]

I'm on Comcast's 50mb service, I'm lucky if I see 20mbps with it most of the time though.

Google Voice isn't a VoIP service, what it is, basically is a way to consolidate your phone #'s with one main master number. You pick a # and assign it to all your other phones (Cell #, Home #, Skype #, etc etc) and when someone rings your Google Voice # it rings all of your phones, so you can be reached no matter where you are. I only give that # out to people I want to be able to reach me no matter where I am. Otherwise I just give my cell #.

I looked into Hulu+ and I'm not impressed. Their selection is okay but you still have to sit through commercials. If you already have cable there is absolutely no reason to get Hulu+, especially if you have a DVR and can record your shows. Netflix is another matter altogether, I use that all the time. No commercials, inexpensive, lots of things to choose from. I also dropped down to the $7.99 streaming only plan. I wouldn't put a disc in my player that came through the mail in a paper envelope, that's asking for trouble. :) But streaming is nice. They're a tad behind on most movies and shows but there's plenty there to keep most anybody happy. I've caught up on a lot of TV series I'd never have seen otherwise using Netflix.

[Jim Howard]

I pay for 16M down and rare to see that speed.
I have Google Voice set up if a call comes in to my Skype (home) number and I do not answer it transfers it to my cell phone number. I do not give out my cell phone number.
Seems like a person could do more with Google Voice.

[Argent009]

It's all about consolidating really. People have multiple lines, home, cell, skype, work, etc. That's where it becomes useful really. If you just have skype and your cell, you're not going to realize it's potential very much. I link it to both Roy's and my cell phones, the house line (Vonage) and Skype, but I only give that number to a very select few people because obviously I don't want all our lines ringing for something like "Oh, what ya doing?", "Uh, nothing", "Yeah, just called to say hi, well bye!" :) But I give it to my doctor, the pharmacy, my mom, one of my sisters, one online contact and they know it's for emergencies only and that's it. 99% of the calls that come to the house phone I ignore because they're either scams or telemarketers, honestly I'm considering dropping that phone entirely. At this point, the cell is all I need really.

[Jim Howard]

I also do not give out my phone number. Just family and Rx and doctor's offices etc.
I sometimes think I should just go with the cell phone. I would have everything right there. Right now I have 300 minutes. I never use any of them but if it was the only phone I had my ex-wife would use up the minutes each month calling me. So if I do go with just the cell phone I will upgrade to unlimited minutes.

[Argent009]

Unlimited is expensive isn't it? At that rate wouldn't it be cheaper to have something like Vonage for all the calls you don't want to actually answer or pay too much for? That's pretty much what I do. The house line gets calls from everybody, I just let the answering machine take it and if it's someone I know I return the call. It also has voice caller ID, if it's someone in the phone's directory it tries to say their name. I say tries because, have you ever heard one of those things? They're worse than Microsoft Sam, they can't manage to pronounce one syllable names. If Roy calls from his cell, it says "Call From Ru-ey, Sail". Ugh! :)