Green

I went outside and looked at the wind blowing clouds across the sky.  I thought about all the solar power driving the winds, and how good it felt to have a warm day with a nice breeze.  It would have been a good day for sailing, if I were near the lake, but I wasn’t so I did some gardening instead.

After sitting on the porch swing for a while, i put on a baseball hat to keep the wind from blowing my hair into my face.  I got a pair of work gloves and went out in the front yard and pulled all the long grass I could get at out of the flower garden.  This was hot work, and I was bent over, so it was not great for my back.  I spent twenty minutes or so clearing away as many of these weeds as I could get then I looked at the sky.

It did not look like it was going to rain again, like it did last night, so I decided to plow up the garden.  I went out to the barn and poured a couple gallons of gasoline into the tractor tank.  I got the tractor going and let it warm up good.  Then I drove out by the garden, unhitched the bucket, and hitched up the plow.  The tractor strained to pull the plow through the garden soil, but I gave it some gas and went in low gear and after half an hour or so the garden was all turned over.  I unhitched the plow and parked the tractor back in the barn.

I had a pretty good time doing the gardening, but it also tired me out a bit.  I went back to the house and made a pot of coffee.  I sat out on the porch on the swing for a while as the coffee percolated and watched the wind blow through the trees.  I thought about windmills and how expensive it is to build a good high-powered wind turbine.  I wondered for a while where people get all the money to build things like this.  I should look up ways to make millions of dollars.

I got a video link yesterday in my email for a video somebody made showing how much money they made in 2007 with all their affiliate marketing businesses.  It was pretty funny, because the face was blurred and the voice was altered to hide the identity of the speaker.  Supposedly this person made over a million dollars selling affiliate products and advertising them on Google Adwords.  He showed his income on one screen and his advertising costs on another and then subtracted to get his net profits.  I thought this was interesting.  Apparently, all you need to do to make a million dollars is set up a website to sell somebody else’s products and advertise your website on Google.  Very interesting.

I’ll probably go back to surfing the web for a while after I finish writing this.  A lot of people have been reading my little article about the new tribe they discovered in the Amazon yesterday.  I have Yahoo to thank for that little story idea.  Maybe I should just spend my time looking up news stories and writing about them.  Apparently, people are more interested in parroted ideas than they are in original thought.  When I have an original thought, I’ll be sure to record it for posterity.

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Filed under: Main on May 31st, 2008