The SLUSHPILE Blog

Finally, at last, at last, I’m on the final reviews for my Real Estate courses and should be finished today or tomorrow. That will leave one more curriculum final to take, and then waiting for the certificates to arrive showing I’ve completed and passed both courses, then the state test.
It has taken far longer than [...]

The weekend was busy, as was last week (note my most recent post was a week ago!). So, allow me to just update you briefly before moving on to the main subject of this post.
I thought I completed my real estate courses. I had gone through all the material, was instructed to take the course [...]

Okay, kids, here’s what’s cooking:
First up: I received word from Martha Dougherty (Bits and Pieces, Thirty-Six Years Later, and If Only I Could Talk) that her one day art show on Saturday went spectacularly well. What was even nicer is the reporter she had previously been contacted by drove the hour south from Pittsburgh and [...]

If you do nothing else today, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk
 

Easter Sunday found me on the computer in the evening. We were home from the family dinner and I found that I couldn’t entirely divorce myself from publishing even on the holiest day of the year. I found I was not alone. James Spurr emailed me with some last minute tax questions regarding royalties, and he [...]

Reveiw Date: 04/13/2009
Rating:
Content Rich – Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web by Jon Wuebben, published by Encore Publishing Group (independent publisher), 270 pages (hardback edition)
Market Analysis:
Amazon sale price: $15.56. List Price: $19.95.
If this were a paperback printed on demand: cost per page: $0.013 = $3.51 to print + .90 per cover = Total print [...]

First, the bad news: Choice Books, whom I had sent samples, an abbreviated catalog and a cover letter to last week, has politely declined ordering anything at this time. Darn it.
Now, the good news: remember my thinking that perhaps the 70% discount that Choice Books requested to even consider carrying us may be what other [...]

The funeral for our aunt was held on Tuesday. It was the coldest day thus far this spring, and in a final bow to winter, it snowed. So my memories of that day will include freezing our tails off in the biting wind during the burial site service. But depite that, and the fact that [...]

Over the weekend, one of my kid’s friends was over. This particular friend is over nearly every weekend, to the point where we don’t even notice him anymore. He blends in, and a look around the dinner table without his extra face on the weekend would give me the feeling that something was missing.
This weekend, [...]

So, we’ve had another death in the family. Despite our aunt being 85 years of age, it was unexpected.
Unexpected because she was vigorous, vital and sharp as a tack up until two weeks ago. Rarely ill, always busy, in full capacity of all limbs, mental functions and vivaciousness. Indeed, one did not think of her [...]