Oh boy, I'm exhausted!

Well, that's it. I know how to get onto the front page, and after a day of doing a lot of liking and commenting and clicking and cleaning out my profile comments, I made it there. That's Bubblews, of course. I'm always on the front page here with every new post. I'm starting a series there about getting free or cheap tickets on airlines, coupled with how to achieve elite flyer status. You know...

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Shoot!

A package arrived this morning from Florida: a Canon Rebel T4i digital SLR camera that I'd bought on eBay for a little bit more than I really wanted. Plus express shipping.I'd be quite happy with it, save for the fact that I bought one - second hand with a spare lens, a bag and a heap of extras - for a bargain price two weeks ago.So now I have two. One is labelled 650D but it is the same model.The...

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Just call me Numbers

When I started out on Bubblews, I also started some spreadsheets in Numbers - that's the Apple spreadsheet product - and I've been reasonably religious in keeping them up to date. I can make a steady $50 redemption each week, and my figures are just under $1.00 a post. I write more, I get paid more, I guess.I also look at other writers.I see a few making over ten dollars a day, and one making over...

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How do we get paid?

I've been looking at my dashboard for my old Blogger blog (Car 58, where are you?) and I see I have $27.00 in my Adsense account. Unfortunately I need $150 to be paid, so I have a way to go, obviously. It looks like Bloggers with Adsense accounts get paid directly by Google - is that right? Or does Preferred Writers Group AKA Eden Jaid receive the money directly and it is then distributed through...

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Coming back to Blogger

It's been four years since I left Blogger and moved to a WordPress site. I used to run a blogging empire from the driver's seat of my taxi, pulling out my MacBook Air to sign on and register a new domain between customers.  Had a taxidriving blog on Blogger. It's still there, if anybody wants to have a look at Car 58, where are you? where you may read the night thoughts of a night cabbie. Well,...

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