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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your neuro is in Alberta?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Damn Sigs...

You've been busy. I'm glad you're feeling better.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I got second place today. Took me an hour to get going but I finally did. Finished with 5,900 points.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not going to get my hopes up about anything because I don't believe anyone or anything on any topic these days until it happens, but there may be a chance that somebody I've met recently may have devised a way to monetize the project that I've been working on. It's the first time I've talked to anyone who's had a plan, let alone one that sounds this good.

The best part for me is that I don't really have to consider "trust" as an issue, because from the beginning I've been giving all that work away for free and everything I've done is already out there for everyone. And in addition to that, I've never even put my name on anything either, so it's not as if I'd even be risking losing credit for work that I've never actually taken any credit for in 20 years either. He's not interested in paying me for what is out there. He wants what I bring to the table to continue.

I told him that if he could find a way for me to actually make money doing this and allow me the rest of my life to do the work I love doing, while also allowing me to slow down my output pace to a speed that is reasonable instead of cramming 100+ hours per week to try to get it done so I can get back to "real life" than he'd be my hero.

We seem to share a good deal of overlap in interest in this, and it would appear that our skillsets would be a great compliment to each other. Not only does he appear to have a "business and marketing sense" that I've never possessed, but he also appears to know quite a bit about web development and SQL database creation and management, which are skills I've never bothered learning since I never needed to. But he's not a detail guy, and he really took notice of that with something of mine he stumbled upon recently. He says that he's been mulling over a way to break into this in a way to monetize things but never really found an angle to do so until he found me and realized what I've been up to.

I guess I'm the angle.

I more or less let him know my situation and that, at least for the short-term, my time is cheap and as long as my bills are getting paid and I can start putting real taxable hours on my SS#, I don't need to be making too much to keep me working on this on the side while I get back to real life issues that need tending to, but in case this ever takes off we're going to have to have some legal paperwork done that holds water. I wouldn't ever want to be the wrong Steve in a Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak reenactment.

As of right now, I'm going about things as if we never talked and I'm not getting my hopes up at all. Life has taught me over and over again that you never do that. But if this were somehow to become a real thing, my worrying about losing my healthcare when the "Big Beautiful Bill" gets passed would disappear overnight, and that would only be the start of it. No more working retail overnights for some college dipshit making 4 times as much as me to sit around and do nothing? Who knows? I might accidentally trip and stumble my way back up firmly into the middle class again if things go right.

Wouldn't that be something if I could pay somebody else to finish my house and I could finally move the hell out of this virtual McMansion into a nice small house that only takes 15 minutes to mow the lawn instead of 2.5 hours. Maybe get a car that doesn't require me to constantly learn more about fixing cars for the first time in 20 years?




I'd say "fingers crossed" but we're not even there yet. It will be interesting to see what he has to say going forward. I love the fact that he is obviously very intelligent from his writing and he's not afraid to volley walls of text back and forth along with me. If nothing else, he's great at written communication.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I got second place today. Took me an hour to get going but I finally did. Finished with 5,900 points.

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That's the thing about luck ... it's always turning!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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