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Business trips, man are they a pain. I am in the process of a trip that is basically 4 hours of work, but it is going to take in the order of 3 days to complete it, and since I am alone on this journey I don’t have a lot to do. I am lucky that my next town is going to be a place that I know people and maybe even get to stop in for some supper, but I am not getting my hopes up just yet. I am in Newfoundland, and you can never tell when the weather is completely going to turn on you and be stranded. That said, it is looking good that I am going to make it through the next part of the trip without much headache, it is the flying out that I am worried about.
As far as that goes, the day job is really eating into a lot of my web development time. I have had very little time to spend on HoserLife and even less on HoserNews. I was able however to get someone to write a column for me. Its name alone should be enough to stir up comments, if you want you can read the first Cunt of the Month here.
Speaking of HoserLife, I am building a very cool app that is targeted to the people that want to manage their life better, especially their fitness part. I am building it with CakePHP and am finally getting somewhere. I was spending a lot of time trying to work out the whole process in my head, but last weekend I decided to just get to it and I am finally starting to see something. There is still a long way to go before it is ready to go into BETA even, I still haven’t figured out the name, but when I do I will be sure to start creating some buzz for it. While it is in ALPHA I am going to have a few friends try it out for a month and then do some mods to it and release for BETA. I think that I have about 200 hours before ALPHA and since I can barely spend 2 hours a day there is a long way to go, especially since I can’t work on it on the road.
Anyway, I think that I am going to go downstairs and try out the lounge, who knows maybe I will even try out some poker tonight, I have been on a big downswing so maybe it is time to go big or/and go home.
Man is the market ever starting to piss me off, I saw the start of the down turn fairly early on and was able to insulate myself somewhat to hold on to some of my gains during the first part of the year. But now I am not sure what I am going to do so that I will be able to see some gains for this coming year.
Since most of my market is in the US, a recession is not going to work out well. I am going to have to hope for th ebest, but realistically I am not expecting to see much growth in my online revenue in 2008. Therefore what I am going to have to do is try to find ways to lower my costs. Become a more efficiently run enterprise.
First thing that I am going to have to do is to find a better CC. The best way to do that would be to compare credit cards for a number of different companies.
Second I am going to have to find some way to keep running and investing into my company. Since revenue is going to be a problem I am probably going to need some sort of loan. Now over at Beat the Quote they have a lot of information on UK secured loans, but since I am in North America I am not going to be able to take much advantage of that. However if you click here you can find out what they do have to offer in your area.
And Thirdly I am going to have to think about taking on some more freelance work if my own ideas don’t pan out. This has been something that I have been thinking about doing for a while. I have a lot of expertise in some very profitable niches that I think that I could become a very good writer for. And on top of that, there is not a lot of writers that can write on this subject, especially on DP.
All in all I am sure that 2008 is going to be a harder year, but I hope to see an over all growth, and stay on track to be completely independant by the time I am 30, 4 years 
Cheers
