I got the new tires put on my motor home today.
I've taken to calling it "The Beast" for the way it drives. It reminded me of an old movie "The Beast". It was about the battle between an Afghan fighter and the driver of a Russian tank. This motor home drives like that tank.
On other news, the Ebola outbreak was called "out of control". I don't think I'll panic quite yet. It seems to be attacking health care people and people who bury the bodies. I don't think normal people will get it very often. It seems to be spread through body fluids.
It might hit Africa hard since they have a lack of infrastructure. I hope it stops there. If it mutates to an airborne contagion it will kill 50 to 90 percent of the human population.
I hope to have the motor home ready to run to the north woods if that happens.
I think that a financial collapse is more likely though.
That reminds me, gold spiked by over $40 last Thursday. I didn't see any real reason for it so maybe it's the long-awaited hyperinflation. Oil also went up on the Iraq crisis. Maybe that's what spiked gold. If it keeps going up next week it's hyperinflation.
I priced taking the motor home to California by train. They wanted $14,000. That's more than it would cost to get a fairly new motor home in California. I told them to forget it.
I'll have to rent a car trailer to tow my van behind my motor home. It looks like that will cost $400 to $500. It will be worth it.
My plan is to go by next March. I'm having trouble financing the move. And I can make money shoveling snow in the winter. That should be enough to get going. Maybe I can hit up Faye for some money to make it happen sooner. I could offer her interest and maybe have her hold my gold and silver as collateral.
I need to do some sort of landscaping to make money in the summer. I need the money to make my move. I do so well in the winter but summers are a waste to me, here.
I've run out of things to talk about for now.
Later
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Shipping the Motor Home is not Hopeful.
I had a lot of bad news, today, about shipping the motor home.
One person I talked to about shipping it by truck said that it had to be shorter than 8' 4". I measured the motor home and it came to over 9'
.
Another place gave me quotes of over $3000.
I still have to find out if I could ship it by rail but I don't know how I would load it and off load it to a train. I guess I would need a crane. That might damage it.
It's not too hopeful. I'm thinking I'll have to drive it out.
I think I'll name it the "Beast" because of the way it handles in the wind. I drove 18 wheel trucks that handled better than this thing. I hope it's just the tires that are causing troubles.
I've been fighting with Linux Mint 17 at work. I got one version to work on the HP and another to work on the Dell. I think I'll leave it there. At least I got the latest form to work with the HP. I tried the same version on the Dell and it messed up Firefox. I need Firefox to work to get Chrome to work.
I've got to get after Coinbased to see if I parked some Bitcoins there a few years ago. Writing these blogs helps remind me to do things.
One person I talked to about shipping it by truck said that it had to be shorter than 8' 4". I measured the motor home and it came to over 9'
The Beast
Another place gave me quotes of over $3000.
I still have to find out if I could ship it by rail but I don't know how I would load it and off load it to a train. I guess I would need a crane. That might damage it.
It's not too hopeful. I'm thinking I'll have to drive it out.
I think I'll name it the "Beast" because of the way it handles in the wind. I drove 18 wheel trucks that handled better than this thing. I hope it's just the tires that are causing troubles.
I've been fighting with Linux Mint 17 at work. I got one version to work on the HP and another to work on the Dell. I think I'll leave it there. At least I got the latest form to work with the HP. I tried the same version on the Dell and it messed up Firefox. I need Firefox to work to get Chrome to work.
I've got to get after Coinbased to see if I parked some Bitcoins there a few years ago. Writing these blogs helps remind me to do things.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Buying Gold on EBay
I gave up trying to buy gold at garage sales, here; so I'm back to EBay.
I found a gold bracelet that has 7 1/10 ounce coins in it. It also has gold chains holding it together. I figured that a 1/10 ounce Kruggarand is worth $150 on EBay so 7 of them should be worth $1050 and that's not even counting the gold chain.
I have a credit card that has $1000 on it. If I can use that I'll bid on it. The bidding is now at $760. It's been listed before and the bidding never got over $700. It is a little ugly. Maybe that's why there wasn't much interest.
I don't know what the reserve is; that's the minimum price that the seller will sell it for. I'll bid $960 because I have to pay $20 shipping and there might be other fees. I don't want to go over my credit limit. I just feel that it's a great bargain.
Wish me well or bid against me. It would be good to get it at less than $1000 or just save my money for any of the multitude of things I need it for.
I'm thinking of going back to college and getting my degree in Social Work. I doubt that I'll ever get a job as a social worker but I would like to have a degree. I've gotten very close to it.
I'm thinking of taking most of my classes at a Junior College in Calmar, IA and then transfering the credits to Luther (here in Decorah, IA).
It would take about a year and then I could go out to Happy Camp, CA and pan for gold. Maybe I could work as a social worker in California or Oregon and pan gold on weekends.
It looks like it will take me a year or more to get out of here anyway. I could finance most of my college with Pell grants and help from government agencies. I'll start looking into it tomorrow.
I've got to get on another computer to make sure that I can use my Visa card on Paypal.
Later
I found a gold bracelet that has 7 1/10 ounce coins in it. It also has gold chains holding it together. I figured that a 1/10 ounce Kruggarand is worth $150 on EBay so 7 of them should be worth $1050 and that's not even counting the gold chain.
I have a credit card that has $1000 on it. If I can use that I'll bid on it. The bidding is now at $760. It's been listed before and the bidding never got over $700. It is a little ugly. Maybe that's why there wasn't much interest.
I don't know what the reserve is; that's the minimum price that the seller will sell it for. I'll bid $960 because I have to pay $20 shipping and there might be other fees. I don't want to go over my credit limit. I just feel that it's a great bargain.
Wish me well or bid against me. It would be good to get it at less than $1000 or just save my money for any of the multitude of things I need it for.
I'm thinking of going back to college and getting my degree in Social Work. I doubt that I'll ever get a job as a social worker but I would like to have a degree. I've gotten very close to it.
I'm thinking of taking most of my classes at a Junior College in Calmar, IA and then transfering the credits to Luther (here in Decorah, IA).
It would take about a year and then I could go out to Happy Camp, CA and pan for gold. Maybe I could work as a social worker in California or Oregon and pan gold on weekends.
It looks like it will take me a year or more to get out of here anyway. I could finance most of my college with Pell grants and help from government agencies. I'll start looking into it tomorrow.
I've got to get on another computer to make sure that I can use my Visa card on Paypal.
Later
Update on EBay bidding
I was out bid. Someone went up to $1000 for the coin/bracelet. I feel that it was worth $1300 so they did well. I ran out of money at $980. At least I didn't spend anything and I can use my money for something else, next week.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
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.
Later
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.
Later
Sunday, June 8, 2014
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.
Later
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.
Later
Saturday, May 31, 2014
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.
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.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
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.
Later
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.
Later
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