So, I need a new net connection, I just do. This one is slow as hell and, honestly, I don’t see the point in trying to work on a PC if it takes me 20 minutes almost to do something that should take me 4 or 5 minutes at maximum, do you? Why am I paying $55/mo for this crap? It’s supposed to be fast, uh, it’s not fast. It’s supposed to be stable, they had a stability guarantee, don’t ya know, but it’s unstable as hell and I can’t connect to something as simple as gmail half of the time and that’s just driving me *insane*.

I’m thinking of going with Charter High Speed, not only because of the prices and the promise of real High Speed Internet service, but also because of the possible free gas card, plus I could enter their Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway and win one of thirty free laptops ( New HP Compaq Presario C770US Notebook’s, actually ) with built in Wi-Fi and you get a laptop backpack from NEOtec with it if you win! Head on over to Charter.com to check out their rules and enter their nifty giveaway, I don’t suppose you could possibly be sorry, especially since you are getting a gas gift card if you buy High Speed from them. I wonder if they’d set up out here in the boonies? I need to check that out…

Tagged with: High Speed • Internet Access • Laptop

Posted by Faith on at 12:25 am

I don’t know how I managed to do it, but I got into a mini argument today about weither or not you should give your life up for your children. Now, while I’m all for being their for your kids and loving them, trying to raise them right, is it just me or will you resent your kids if you give up your life for them?

Let’s pretend you have the means to stay home, have no life or friends, and not work at all for a minute. This constitutes spoiling your kids and I can’t get behind that. Plus if you do end up resenting your kids, who have you helped? Not the kids, that’s for damn sure, and not your relationship with them, either. You could also easily throw away your home, marraige, self esteem and sanity doing this, it just doesn’t make any sense. Things like this have to be balanced, that’s all there is to it.

The person who told me about this said that it was idealism, and while I think to a point that’s true, I also think that maybe not having kids herself may be on the road to making her idealism unrealistic to an extreme. But I suppose we’re all guilty of that, and I do get where she’s going with the point – you should love and never neglect your children, but you do have to provide for them and for yourself, because you’re a person, too. If you’re not a happy mom, you won’t have happy kids.

Tagged with: Children

Posted by Faith on at 12:14 am

Well, I’ve actually been turned on to a cover song that I actually like – and yes, this is from the same woman who swore she’d kill Joss Stone for covering “Fell In Love With A Girl” and plans to make good on that threat some day. But this song is different, this song is moody and gothy and very, very late 90s me. It sounds, for you Buffy fans, like something you might hear at The Bronze in season 2 – and what’s this song? It’s “Sally’s Song” from The Nightmare Before Christmas, expertly and heartbreakingly covered by the amazing Fiona Apple.

It inspires me, and I rarely get inspired by music these days, especially since most music consists of Disney Channel rejects claiming to have intact cherries and messy hair, when in reality neither of those things are real and/or intact. I miss the days before Avril was considered ‘punk’ and before Britney was a sparkle in Michael Eisner’s eye. Someone give me back my The Verve, please. The Cranberries, anyone? Nickel? Third Eye Blind? Cibo Matto? Anyone? You suck.

Tagged with: Fiona Apple • Halloween • Music • Sally's Song

Posted by Faith on at 6:02 pm

It seems like everybody I know is in business for themselves these days and needs or has a merchant account. Especially online. I mean I run a graphic design website, a couple of friends of mine run an online boutique, another friend has her own small time clothing line, yet another writes and sells custom comic books. Heck, I even work for a webhost that’s in business for themselves. But even my boss, who’s a politician running for another term as district representative also has two start up pizza fast food franchises on the side and one thing I’ve noticed seems to be in big demand is the ability to accept credit cards, especially with an economical merchant services.

Getting a merchant account these days isn’t as hard as it was when I started out, as it turns out. These days you can get a free merchant account, with no fees or contracts at all, and it’ll do wonders for your business. Heck, you may even get a free credit card machine out of the deal so that you can start to accept credit cards for your business if you check out OnlineCheck.com. These days you just have to have credit card processing or nobody’s going to do business with you, which you’ll find out right quick if you’re in business ( especially online ) and try a no CC’s policy.

Tagged with: Credit Cards • Online

Posted by Faith on at 5:27 pm