Bought Maxcoin

I moved some money into a different exchange and bought something called Maxcoins. They are a crypto currency promoted by Max Keiser. He has a show on RT which is  Russian news station, on the Internet.
So far, it's doing OK. I ended up paying for an upgraded account on the exchange. It was offering a small percentage of the fees incurred by all of the members. I felt it was worth a try. It only lasts for 14 days so I'll see by then if it's worth the $25 that I had to spend for it.
I started the day being down in the dumps. Before I got out of bed I was thinking about how poverty has defined me all of my life. Every time that I traded something on the various markets that I've traded, I've been trying to break out of poverty.
It's always a trap. The stock market, options market, commodity markets are just ways of transferring money from the poor to the rich. Nothing has worked; not even real estate.
I sometimes feel that we are slated to stay in the class that we are born into or move down.
This makes preparing for the financial collapse that much harder. In fact, I feel that it is a lost cause.
One of the things I was thinking about, this morning, that put me in a negative mood was that I'm too poor to meet a suitable woman.
Not only is poverty a major problem but being a survivalist narrows the field of potential matches considerably.
I found a matching service on the Internet named "SurvivalistSingles". At least I can find women with similar outlooks; and maybe they won't consider me to be a total nut job. Unfortunately, I haven't found any near me on that site.
I was just talking with a guy named Mike. I found out that he was a lawyer. He works as a barista at Java Johns. He told me that I have to fill out a claim form to get my money out of Delphi for the bonds that I bought years ago. I'll have to send a letter to Wilmington Trust and get the form. Maybe I can finally get my money from Delphi.
At least there is some hope and a direction to go in to get my money out. Maybe there is hope after all.
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Well I'm out of the RV

My bid expired  on the RV in California. I don't think I'll make another offer as it's too hard to go get it. It's too far away.
It looked like a nice RV but I don't know what the engine is like or anything. I don't know how I would get it off of their lot in a timely fashion. I called Faye and she assured me that I couldn't count on her to help in any way, shape or form. I knew that I couldn't count on her for anything. She did help me financially a year or so ago, when I needed the engine replaced on my van.
The only way I can see that I'll get an RV is to wait for my brother to die. I'm in his will so maybe that is my only hope.
I guess I could load up the van and take off in it, next summer. I would have to live in a tent or hammock but I could travel around and metal detect on beaches and look for gold. If I lose my job, I think I'll do that.
Crypto curriencies are taking a dive, today. A company named Mnt Gox is having troubles getting people's money out of crypto currencies. That's causing the whole market to dive. It will take me about 3 days to get my money back to Bit coins but I'll do that next week as I see this as a buying opportunity.
It's snowing today but I haven't really shoveled much. I'm waiting for it to stop a bit. It's not obliging. I may have to just get up and get to shoveling. When I get my RV and go traveling I won't miss the frozen North. I think I'll go to Arizona and New Mexico. I've had my fill of snow.
It looks like I'll have to go out and shovel.
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My RV is Up in the Air

I made an offer of $600 to a guy selling a motor home in California. He sent me a message saying that he would take it if I could get it moved within a week.
I don't have the money to buy it yet. Payday is Monday. Maybe my sister, Faye, will help out. She doesn't live far from there. Maybe I can get it towed to an RV repair place.
I need the RV for two main reasons:

1. Bug out vehicle for economic collapse.
2. To live in while I search for gold.

I feel reasonably certain about the economic collapse. It might not happen until 2016 but it will be the biggest collapse of history. I want to have food and stuff stored up for that eventuality. This will give me a lot of options.
I also want to go prospecting for gold. I could also metal detect on beaches, and metal detect old, abandoned towns.
Well, its snowing so I'll make some money, today. Later, I'll make some phone calls. I'll keep you posted on how it works out.
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Thinking of Leaving

I've been thinking about quiting my job and leaving ever since I've been sick. I just dont't really want to go back to work. I'm too conservative to really enjoy working at the Peace Center.
I want to get out on my own and live off-the-grid. I would like to try my hand at prospecting and metal detecting. I would rather have an RV but I guess I could live in my van.
I don't know what I'm waiting for. I could leave this March. I still have the chance to make more money, shoveling snow. It's too cold and snowy to pan for gold in the mountains and Northern California.
I would like to go to Happy Camp, CA and join the "New Forty-Niners". That's a club in Northern California that prospects for gold. Their membership fee is $3,000 so that might be out of my range.
I could also join the "God Prospectors Association of America". They have the right to pan for gold in hundreds of claims across America. They only charge $69 for an annual membership. I guess that is the way I would go, for now.
Well, I've got to go home and straighten out my resume. I've been putting it off for a week, now.
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Still Taking Time off From Work

I called in to work today. Maybe I'm just lazy but I didn't feel like working. I would really like to say to heck with work but I need money to get my RV and move off the grid.
I started watching a video blog on YouTube named "The Do it Yourself World". It's by a guy who is actually doing what I want to do. He has a homestead that he has brought old RVs to, to use as shelters and sheds. Apparently he has had people donate RVs to him.
I don't know how he got the land. It's apparently in upstate New York.
Right now, he's in Australia. He's showing people, there, how to set up off-grid power and water systems. His church sent him there for free. I think they were concerned that he would freeze to death in the winter.
He gets a lot of items donated to him by his viewers. Things that he needs seem to arrive in a nick of time. Today I was watching a vlog when he got a log splitter just as he needed to split logs.
Maybe I should throw caution to the wind and take off in my van and find some cheap land and a cheap trailer. I need to research where there is cheap land. There's none around here. Farm land goes for over $10,000/acre. I've got to get away from here. I've had my fill of the winters here, anyway. Maybe I can find something in Arizona, or New Mexico.
I don't know if I have the energy to actually homestead my own place. It would be better if I had a young, energetic wife to help with things.
I tried homesteading by myself back in the 80's. I was always broke. When I did come into some money I used it to trade commodities. I thought I could multiply my money that way and do whatever I wanted. It was a delusion. I lost everything again. I always lose everything when I send my money to Wall Street. Even real estate has been bad for me. I never learn. I guess that is part of being crazy.
Well back to homesteading. It makes sense to me to be off the grid. I feel that the world's currencies will collapse, soon. If I have my own water, power, and food sources, I should be alright. I feel that I only have two or so years before it's too late.
I'm not making much progress in this regard. I have quite a bit of gold and silver, but that is about all the headway that I've made.
You can't eat gold or silver. I have to wonder how much actual utility they will be in a real "Shit Hits the Fan" situation.
Maybe I can trade some of the gold for an RV and land. Maybe I'll run an add in the local classifieds web page about that.
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I've been sick

I came down with a virus last week. I went to the VA clinic last Thursday. It wasn't really too bad but I've been weak and feverish for a week or so.
Julie, my boss, thought that it might be heart trouble so I went to the clinic. It was just a virus.
I'm still losing with crypto currencies. I bought something called Peer-to-Peer coin because it was doing so well in comparison to the others. I'm down about $20. At least the crypto coins don't move so fast that you lose everything. In fact, they move so little that I don't know why I bother with them. The thing that always catches me when I trade is a strong down move. There are time that I wait during a down move to not sell just before an up move. But if it keeps moving down I sell because I don't want to be caught by a big down trend. Then of course, it moves up and I end up paying more to get back in. I think my real trouble is over-trading.
I've got a good notion to call in sick today because I might be contagious. I went to church yesterday and had a coughing fit during the first hymn. I walked out because I thought I would be coughing all through the service. That could happen at work today.
I think I'll call in sick and work on my resume. I need to get it done and Kelley Smuztler at NICC is helping me with it. I'll call her and get some help today with it.
Not much else is happening. I'm still too broke to make much headway in preparing for the financial collapse. I might buy a silver coin today. I like the Canadian Maple Leafs. Maybe the American Eagle as well. I'm concerned that they might take them away during a currency collapse. But what can you do?
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Watching the "MainePrepper"

There is a vlog on YouTube that I subscribe to called "The MainePrepper". I recommend it to anyone, He's been talking about the coming currency collapse, lately.
I like what he says about Wall Street. He calls them crooks and manipulators. That has been my experience as well.
I think I've lost about 100% of everything I've invested there. I'm always trying to prove that I'm smarter than the average person and I just make a fool of myself by investing in risky things. Even bonds have proved to be risky for me.
Part of the problem is that some book or something on the Internet convinces me that we are facing economic collapse and I have to get on the rich side of the economic divide very soon or it will be too late.
A major part of my problem is the delusions of grandeur that I have concerning Hollywood starlets and me being a major player in world affairs. That is all part of my being schizophrenic. I don't have these episodes very often but they mess up my life like crazy.
I'm driven to make a lot of money because I want to prove myself worthy of the women that I believed I had sex with. At the same time I'm convinced that there is a limited amount of time to climb into the ruling class.
I've spun my wheels my whole life. Every time I try to make money I end up in deeper debt than I was before.
The survivalist movement is turning out to be similar to Wall Street for me. I don't feel that a poor person has any hope of actually preparing for the economic collapse. We just don't have the money for it. I've got some gold and silver but I don't have the room or money to store things like food and water and ammunition.
While I'm on that topic I would like to say that spending on guns and ammo is probably a waste of money for a prepper. I doubt that we'll get to a total breakdown of society any time soon. The money may be worthless but we'll probably have water and food and police and such for quite a while.
It looks like we're in for a gradual decline in our living conditions. This month the price and availability of propane has been impacted. Some states are rationing propane and the cost has doubled recently. The stock market went down and I'm expecting it to go down again. I had trouble buying gold, last week.
I'm thinking that instead of a sudden total collapse what we'll see is a gradual bit-by-bit collapse. It's kind of like putting a frog into a pot of water and gradually raising the temperature until he boils. If you put a frog into hot water he will jump out immediately; whereas if you raise the temperature gradually he will eventually cook.
On that note I'll sign off.
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