Daily Archives: June 22, 2016
Putting Down Roots . . .
For A Month, anyway.
A little after 2pm, I went back down to the park office to set up our month-long stay here in July. Once I got that set up I cancelled our two two week stay’s at Conroe and Colorado River for that time period.
One thing I want to check into further is about longer duration stays. At first I thought we could only do an annual lease, but it seems we can also do shorter periods of time.
As I said before, we’re not settling down, but the 3 or 4 months we normally spend in Houston area would be nicer if we didn’t have to keep moving every couple of weeks. I’ll find out more when I go down to pay for our month stay next weekend.
You may or may not have heard of Fiverr. It’s a website where you can hire people to do stuff for you, usually pretty cheaply.
Draw a carton, design a logo, write your resume, put your lyrics to music and sing it for you, write you a business plan for a load, or even do some programming for you . . . or me, as the case may be.
I’ve got some simple but time-consuming programming that I need done. But I’ve also got a lot of website stuff to take care of, So I decided to give Fiverr a try for this. Now Fiverr is called that, because many things are priced at $5. But actually it’s a haggling type of thing.
After signing up, I posted what I wanted done in some detail, and then waited for the offers to roll in. You get them 6 at a time, and as you eliminate ones you don’t like, another one takes its place. Then when you pick one, the bargaining starts. The points of contention are price, # of revisions, and how long to delivery.
My guy started off the negotiations by asking me what the budget was for this project,
Wrong!
I countered by asking how much he would charge for the job, telling him to keep in mind that if it was too expensive, then it would pay to just do it myself.
He came back with $70, but said he would drop it to $60 since this was my first buy on Fiverr. The $70 would cover 3 revisions and 1 Day Delivery. By the time we got finished, we were at $25 for 1 revision and 3 Day Delivery.
Works for me.
Later in the afternoon, I went through a couple of outside bins and finally found my old Winegard Carryout satellite dish power cable. I thought I had saved the old one. This will give me a cable to go with the Carryout Dish I found by a dumpster at Lake Conroe. So now I’ve got a complete set.
In fact I’ve been using the found one ever since, and I can’t be absolutely sure, but it does seem to find the DirecTV satellite at 101.1 degrees faster than my old one.
I mentioned a while back about problems with our DirecTV remotes. All three have developed flakey keys and I was hoping that Strike-Hold would fix the problem. But apparently even a miracle liquid like Strike-Hold couldn’t fix these keys.
When that didn’t help I tried to take one apart, but the cases are firmly glued together, so no luck with that. But I did have luck with Amazon.
I found that I could buy two DirecTV Remotes for $8, with Prime 2 Day Shipping.
A great deal,
So good in fact, that I ordered two sets to have spares.
Thought for the Day:
“After death, hair and nails continue to grow, but phone calls start to taper off” – Johnny Carson
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