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I have a couple of old websites that I keep up and that take in some passive revenue from.  That said they can be a pain in the ass when you don’t keep up with the script maintenance.

I am facing the music now.  One of my favorite sites that I use as a general soap box that has both a front end blog and a back end forum, is on the fritz.  I got an email from my hosting service to tell me that there was a complaint that my site was hosting some malicious script.

It turns out that one of the scripts or addons that were installed on the site was out of date, and now there is a bunch of stuff simply not working.  However I think that I am going to take this time and restructure the entire site.  I am not taking entire advantage of some newer addons out there that may enable me to tie the different functionality of the site tighter together.

That is enough rambling for today, I have to get to bed and be up early tomorrow for meetings.

And the pic is just there to remind me to relax and just get the shit done, sometimes you just need to breathe.

It is starting to get to the point again where I need to re-focus both my life, my work and my business.  It really seems that I am doing this pretty often lately, but I am still young so shoot me.  I have been reading the Empress and I feel for her.  I have set some easy goals for myself and I still think that they are something that I am going to get to.

However, there are some things that I am really getting behind on, my day job just didn’t allow me the time.  One of the biggest things was to complete the Black Ink 2 training.  I started the seesions, I started building a site, I even started gathering some great content.  The niche that I was planning on entering was the Online Conference/Meeting space.  This is a space that I see getting bigger, and especially in the turblent economic times.  When money is tight people start to look for cost effective means of sharing information.  Why fly when you can sit there and hold the meeting face to virtual face.

One of my goals to get to before the end of the calendar year is to start having a positive cash flow on InnovativeMeetings.  I have already invested time and money into the site and I don’t think that I can simply flip it and expect to get much out of it as it stands now.  My other goals are not involved in my online business space.  They are to get my LEED AP Certification and P.Eng.  These are two things that will really help my engineering career, and will help me earn the seed money for my online business ideas.

The only way that I am going to be able to reach these goals is to learn how to write specs for out sourcing and learning how to manage that with minimal time commitments.  I have worked on this before and have had some cautious success with it.

I can’t believe that it has been an entire month where I didn’t write a damn thing on this site. WOW

It has really been crazy around here.  The first week of September I was on Vacation in NYC.  If you have never visited New York, do it soon.  It is really a blast and you can do it on the cheap.  The shopping, Central Park, the shows and the people are amazing.  We have been there twice in the last 12 months.

After I got back from there I worked a 60 hour week and then headed to the IEEE sections Congress in Quebec City.  This was a great trip, I was able to hang out with a lot of great people and meet some new friends.  IEEE is a great place for Engineers to network and meet people of the same vein.  Engineers are a odd bunch they usually have to have two lives, one geeky one at work and a “normal” one at home.  When at an IEEE event you can sit down with a beer and talk about sports and the LHC.

I even had time inbetween meetings to tour around the city. Old Quebec is the closest that I have ever been to an old European city.  It has made me decide that I Old Europe is my next adventure.

And then last week I was in Minneapolis to visit a generator manufacturer and get some classes in.  It was a decent trip that involved a very convoluted trip from Halifax to Minneapolis, but that is a story for another day.

I didn’t have a lot of time to spend touring the town.  I was staying directly across from the University of Minnesota, and that place is huge.  I ended up working in a coffee shop across from the hotel, which was a lot of fun.  I talked to some of the students, not locals since I don’t think that I talked to one person who was actually from there.

And then I spent last weekend and this week trying to get everything settled, put out some fires and figure out where all my projects stand.  I finished that by the end of the day today, so now life should be reaching something closer to normal.

So what is next?

Well I am back to developing my business plan.  There are some courses that I have to finish and then I am going to get back to developing my latest project.  I still have the intention of reaching the modest level of $500 of passive proft by end of year.  Currently I am at $200 so it is entirely doable.