Update May 7

April and May have been a good month for ole Tim Freeman. I ended up getting a job so it has taken out time on my writing. Not a bad thing, I see it as a good thing. I am making solid money now instead of relying on small pocket change income from my endeavors around the internet. Already got a raise and working on another one because I am in the process of being promoted.

Not bad huh?

Clout Level 5

I haven't been writing much for !Yahoo/AC this month. Not that I have been slacking off but I have been hooked on NBA 2K11 for a little while now. I checked my page views over the past month to see then plummet to around 4-5 page views a day. Not top of the line by any means. Slowly adding to my total of view. My clout level is now at 97% of the way to being clout level 5. It adds no bonus or more per 1000 views. Just the fact of getting it alone is great for me. A sense of achievement for myself. Don't take it the wrong way, I would love to be at level 10 right now, and pulling in a couple thousand views a day. Yet at my writing level and time spent writing, I am not up to par with those types of articles. I guess they are out of my league for the time being.

Getting Life Back Into An Old PC

So I have been wanting to game for some time now, and I have been able to play some games. The loner computer I have right now is an old dinosaur of a PC, as you can tell from the specs below.

Most applications and games now require at least 1GB of RAM to run. Along with a crappy integrated video controller from Intel. This things runs about as slow as can be. My gaming rig was a pretty decent build.

Equipped with:

• Phenom X4 9100e Processor
• 750 GB Hard Drive SATA
• 4 GB of DDR2 SDRAM 240-pin PC2 6400/800MHz
• 2 GB Overclocked EVGA GeForce GTS 250 PCI-E Graphics Card.
• MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum nForce 750a Socket AM2+ Mother Board

The bad part is, it will not boot up. I replaced the mother board, but it didn't do much good, still no boot. Changed out power supply and still no boot. That really only leaves the RAM, mother board, processor, and power switch. Since you should be able to boot/post with no RAM being seated, but get an error post. That rules out the RAM. That leaves the processor/w heat sink and fan, and the power switch. I tried to short the power switch on the mother board but it still did not create a boot. That leaves me to believe that it is the processor.

So I will start off by trying to replace the processor since I have no way to test it on another working pc that will match the socket.
Update: Feb, 11 2011

Found out it was only a power supply issue all along. Replaced with a 550 watt PSU and now I am back on my gaming pc. This makes me a happy customer. 

February Goals

February I will try to spend at least 5 days a week writing something. I need to set a goal for this month. Something that I can expect myself to fulfill. I don't want to set my goal to high though. I guess just go from what I done last month. Though I don't exactly know what I should set them at. I only wrote for 10 days last month. I will start small this month so I don't feel bad at the start if I don't reach my goal.

Page Views = 1500
I choose 1500 because I obtained almost 700 in 10 days. I think 1500 should be obtainable goal to reach with full 28 days at hand.

Articles = 40
I have 20 now. 40 shouldn't be so hard to get. With 28 days to write, that would amount to 1 a day for 20 days, with 8 days of not writing. 8 days to not write is cake. I might even write on the off days, to see if I can surpass my goal.

Goals are set. Lets see how well I fair.

January's End

Well the month of January is over. I have been writing since my birthday, which was on the 21st. I managed to pull in 689 page views on my articles. That makes my estimated performance balance at around $1.03. Not bad if I don't say so myself. Only 10 days of writing and roughly around maybe 4 hours of research and writing was put into them.

I didn't really have a goal set for the month of January, I kind of just jumped back into writing without setting any goals for the month. Plus the month was about over anyways. I did manage to get 3 new fans. Doesn't make much of a difference, but it still helps knowing people want to continue to read my work.

My clout level reach 60% into the next rank, still sitting at rank 4. I need 2175 more page views to get to the next rank, based on page views alone. I also get a bonus of 1% per article that I produce. While this helps some, its not helping as much as I would like it to, but I don't have that many articles published yet. I do have 20 articles at the moment, so my bonus should be at 20%, which is not all that bad.

I will be setting goals for February. I will post them later on today odds are.