Another get rich quick scheme bites the dust.

Well, I tried to buy gold jewelry at garage sales, yesterday. There was nothing but garbage for sale. I didn't even offer anything to anyone. At least I didn't waste any money. Maybe I live in too small of a town for that to work. The selection is rather limited. I did better on Ebay. Oh well.
Bitcoin took a dive. I'm glad because I want to buy in a couple of weeks from now. I'm going to spend some of the money from working at the primary polls for that. If it goes down I'll get a better price. I think it's being held down due to the auction that the FBI will be holding for the Bitcoins they took from Silk Road. They were selling drugs, there.
I'm watching news on the Ebola outbreak. It seems to be slowing down but it could still take out 90% of the human population. I have to wonder if the ruling class is just taking out everyone else. We'll see.
I had some bad news on my bug-out vehicle. Dan said that it needed 6 new tires. Each of them will cost over $125.
I knew that it would be expensive to get that motor home working. I might just forget about the refrigerator. I need to talk to Dan about getting it ready to drive. I might need it earlier than I thought.
I was thinking about going back to school. I could get my BA in social work.
I'm only a semester or two away from it. The Pell grant would pretty much cover tuition and I could hang on to my job at the Peace Center as well.
It would delay my trip to California, but it might be worth it. I'll have to look into it.
I don't know how going to school would work with my snow shoveling and working at the Peace Center in the winter. It would be hectic but I feel it's worth it to get ahead a bit financially.
Well, I'm going to an auction. I haven't given up on finding cheap gold yet.
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Glendon says I can simply buy gold

I was watching Glendon Cammeron on his YouTube site yesterday. He said that he bought a lot of gold jewelry from people who don't know the value of gold, through garage sales.
Maybe I could do that. I wouldn't have to go traipsing throughout the country trying to find gold. I could just go to auctions and garage sales and pick up what people have for sale.
I could finance it with a credit card. I have a Visa card that hasn't been used much. I hate to get even more in debt; but I think it's a good idea to have gold. I just don't trust the currency. That's why I'm planning on going to California and panning for gold.
My plans to go to California took a hit last week. I had to pay $385 to get the fuel pump replaced on my van. That set me back by at least a month.
If I spend money on gold here, I may not get out to California until next year.
I'm looking into shipping the motor home out to California by truck or train. The owner of an RV dealership told me that it might cost $1000 to have an RV towed if it breaks down. If I have it shipped I would not only save on gas but I would eliminate to possibility of it having to be towed. I think a train would be even less expensive than a truck.
Maybe I'll just forget about fixing it up and ship it out to California, first. After all, what I need a motor home for is to live in, not to drive around with. I've got the van to drive around with.
Another thing I have to look into is whether I bought bitcoins during the summer of 2010. I remember reading something about bitcoins on the Internet, then. I think I went through the process of buying them. The computer and hard drive that I had them on died and they probably went to bitcoin heaven. But it's possible that I opened up a wallet on a site named Coinbased. I'm going to send them an email this week and see if they had a record of me, back then. It's not too hopeful.
Well, I've got to go home and unpack some boxes.
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I haven't Posted for a While

I've been bad about putting up new content on my blog, sorry.
Both my van and motor home are sitting at Dan's Standard waiting to be worked on.
The van broke down last Sunday. The fuel pump isn't working.
Dan said that he can't get to it for a couple of weeks; he's so back logged. I just ride my bicycle around town, now.
I need to get the motor home transferred to the RV repair place up by the airport. Maybe he can do something with it.
Another Dan (the bicycle repair guy) told me to have the motor home trucked out to California. That might work. At least I wouldn't have to worry about the motor home breaking down. I really need it to live in, not to drive around in. I'll have to find out how much it would cost to do that. When I was truck driving there were websites that facilitated routing trucks. I'll have to go online and find a cheap truck out to Happy Camp, CA.
I got two old MacIntosh laptops working last week. One of them still has a problem with the audio input and output, but I can work around it with a USB headset. I'll just get external speakers and I have a USB headset for phone calls. It'll be alright.
I'm trying to get the latest Linux Mint working on the HP computer at work. It's a struggle. I got the version that came out in October to work. Now I need to get the one that just came out working. I think I'll have to get it installed and then modify the configure file by copying that file from the working operating system. It'll take a while.
I think I'll continue this later today.

I'm Ashamed of Myself

I should have been cleaning up the old apartment, this weekend, but all that I did was mess with old laptop computers.
At least I seem to have gotten them to work. It's been a struggle. I'm still not sure that they will be stable. Both of them had problems while booting. I don't know what is going on. I replaced the hard drive on one of them and I loaded Linux Mint 17 on both of them.
It turned out that I have to use Chrome instead of Chromium. Chromiun is supposed to be the same as Chrome. It turned out that Chromium won't work with Adobe Flashplayer. That means streaming videos and Pandora don't work with Chromium. I had to download Chrome from the Internet to get them working.
I'm still wondering what the boot problem is. I tried booting one of the machines without having it plugged into the AC adapter. It seemed to work. So I took the other one (which has to have the AC adapter plugged in to work at all) to Culvers. It worked some of the time.
I downloaded an update; maybe that fixed it. It's just so intermittent that it's hard to tell what is causing the problem.
Maybe it's heat-related. Culvers is cooler than my home. I'll have to take the computers to places that I know are cooler. My apartment is quite hot. I haven't turned on the air conditioner , yet.
Well, I know that I need to make more posts. I keep up on Troy at the "Do it Yourself World" on YouTube. I'll have to have more posts to attract more viewers.
That reminds me, (I don't know why) Bitcoins are going through the roof. They had about a 30% rise in the last 3 days. I'm broke so I don't have anything invested in them. When you're broke opportunities abound.
Oh well.
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All is Well with Faye

I called Faye a couple of hours ago and everything seemed to be going well, there. She is throwing a big party so she couldn't talk with me. The fires died down and the smoke cleared so she is happy to throw a party that she had planned for some time. I guess something like 100 people will be there.
Closer to home, the move is still going well. I'm in the clean-up stage, now. Loula was going to help but she didn't show up.
I got the vacuuming done with out her. The vacuum machine broke and I can't find a replacement belt. I'll have to wait until tomorrow. I'll have to clean up the floor and shower. Maybe I can get Mike to help; he owes me for the computer that I gave him.
On a different track, I'm bidding on some gold, in the form of a coin and rings, at a government auction. I hope I don't get too many of the things I'm bidding on since it would deplete my funds.
There are two reasons that I bid on these things:

• One, I can't pass up a bargain. I'm a sucker for things priced below what they are worth.
• Two, I don't want my money in dollars. I feel that the currency will collapse any time, now; and I don't want my money in currency.

Well, that's all that I have for now. I've got to check the auction.
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Pray for Faye

I'm sometimes obsessed with my problems and I forget that others have problems as well.
This afternoon I was looking at the news on the Internet and I found that there are a series of wildfires near my sister's house in Fallbrook, California.
I called her and it turned out that it was worse than I feared. There is fire on three sides of her. She has 3 horses to evacuate. She is waiting for someone with a horse trailer to come and help her get the horses out.
Of course, she sees them as being like her children so I didn't even mention that she should just leave.
 Since I'm over 1500 miles away all I can really do is pray for her. I'm also encouraging any of my followers to pray as well. It couldn't hurt.
I'll keep my followers posted on any new developments about Faye.
On a more normal tract for me, the move is coming along well. I'm almost done. I have one or two more loads and then it's just a matter of cleaning up. Loula said that she would help me today but she didn't show up. Maybe she'll help tomorrow.
I haven't checked Bitcoin prices since I don't have any, now. Gold and silver went up today. That's good for me.
There was a disconnect between gold and bonds today. I think Peter Schiff is right and we are heading for inflation, but only time will tell.
That's all I have for now. I've got to charge up the battery on my Tracphone so Faye can call me if she wants to.
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Update on Faye

She got the horses out. They are on their way to Temecula. Apparently it's safe there.

I told her to leave as well. She said that they were being told to "shelter in place".

She feels relatively safe since the brush doesn't get very big, there. Another plus is that they've re-opened Interstate 15. That's the major way out of there.

She feels that someone is deliberately setting those fires. She thinks there are too  many for it to be an  accident. She might be right; I told he that it could be Al Quida. Now it's too early to know who is behind this but it could be a terrorist action. That's my guess.

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Second Update on Faye

Faye was evacuated last night. She went to Temecula to be with her horses. She slept in her trailer. Apparently the electricity was out for a while. She went back but the wind has picked up and she might have to evacuate again. Your prayers are appreciated.

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The Worst is Over

Yesterday, Gary and Mike helped me move the bed. That's the last of the big stuff to move, that I couldn't move by myself.
We moved it in the rain. It got a little wet. I was exhausted by the time we were done.
I sold Gary some silver. I had a series of overdrafts at the bank. I think they take out their loan money too soon for me.
I've got close to $1000 coming into my bank account this week and I still get overdrafts.
There are two auctions that I'm interested in this week. One is on eBay for some Chinese coins. They are Year-of-the-Horse coins.
I think Faye would really like them. She could give them to her horse lover friends.
The other auction is a government liquidation auction. They have a lot of gold coins that I like to bid on.
I doubt that I'll get any gold coin; they always get bid up at the end.
I also bid on a large bag of foreign coins. I'm hoping that there might be some silver coins mixed in. It would take me days to sort through them.
If nobody else wants to bother with them I might just get that. There isn't much hope with the gold coins.
I'm taking the motor home to Dan's Standard today. I still need to load more stuff in it today. I'm hoping to get  that done by 4:00 or 5:00.
I told Dan that this will help him put his daughter through college.
I was figuring out how much it will cost just to drive the motor home to California and it came to over $700 for gas alone. I better save up some more for the move. I might not get out of here until next year.
Well I need to pack up some more stuff.
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