Before I tell you any stories, I have some unseemly gloating to do.
If you should happen to type my zip code in at Google, an admittedly unlikely eventuality, you would find my MyZip site at #3, right after the Google map and citydata.
This gloating is not only unseemly, but completely pointless. Ranking doesn’t affect my MyZip income, and as far as I know it doesn’t affect MyZip — I mean, obviously they want to be able to sell advertising, but I can’t see them in those meetings saying “You know, one of our more obscure bloggers in the south ranks for her zip code. This proves that your ads will be seen by millions!”
The thing is, I have spent a year now anxiously watching numbers like these and gloating over them, and now I have nothing to gloat about. Gloating over the store’s numbers is just sad. We’ve had record sales online this month and traffic is higher than ever before, and I am just waiting around for the website to be closed down, at which point I will I suppose delete all the blogs. No gloating there.
I do however have a couple of clients. Pretty soon I will be able to gloat over them. Until then, I will have to do my unseemly gloating here. 
You see the worst of me, you know. If I am going to whine or gloat or be fractious, this is where I do it.
Yesterday did not include any whining.
I applied for four jobs, got my resume from The Resume Wizard (not in that order, but still…), did my various blog postings, met with the computer guy and did his news releases, snagged a couple of Vine items and reviewed the remainder of the previous set, finished Client #1’s keyword analysis, did some tutoring, made a proper meal for my family, folded laundry, and made the ribbon sticks for the Pentecost liturgical dance, which you see here.
For an unemployed person, I am pretty busy.
Today I intend to do the computer guy’s blog post and some necessary work for my cooking show business, and then go check out the basement of City Hall, armed with my resume. I hear that said basement is papered with job postings. I may finish buying vegetable garden plants, what with The Wall Street Journal saying that stockpiling food is now the best investment around. I will also get to the gym and to the grocery store since tomorrow I will be at a handbell clinic all day.
That is another story.
Returning to add that the basement of City Hall was a great place for people with a very different skill set from mine. I would like to be an Urban Forester, more even than a Manifester 4, but I just don’t have the background for it.
You know, even if you stockpile food, you’ll still be eating it in the end. You’re not going to be selling it.
But perhaps I’ve missed the point of an investment…
Go, you! You’re entitled to gloat, in my opinion.
@ozarque – Thank you.
I think you’re easily as busy unemployed as you were employed. What will you use the festive ribbon sticks for? (PS: I’ve moved here (princess_smartypants) so the FP xanga can be more easily associated with the FP website) 🙂 Oh, another thing, I added a spot for recipes — it’s own whole page — or should it just be a column on the front page? But do you think it’s ok to filch recipes from the Williams-Sonoma catalog since I don’t like to and never do cook.
@formerprincess – The ribbons are for liturgical dance — or at least, for a bunch of little girls running down the aisles twirling ribbons around. Pentecost has images of wind and fire associated with it, so it will nice and symbolic and also very cool.
Moving was a good plan, I think, if only for your own comfort level. A column would actually be better, since you don’t have a lot to say there, and you want people to go to your front page. And no, you can’t filch them from a catalog, but you can take them from out of print old cookbooks your granny left you. Or with permission from copyrighted sources. I can help you with that if you need more assistance. Also, if recipes are not good (they’re just a main thing your target audience looks at online), you might offer entertaining tips or something like that.
@chanthaboune – I think the idea there is that you buy it now, relatively cheaply, and then when the price goes up again, you will still be eating the cheaper stuff and not spending more on the more expensive stuff. So you can buy a half gallon of gas.
They’re talking about this over at Ozarque’s place.
it was slightly odd when I heard Matt Lauer tell me to stockpile food this morning. odd that it’s announced at the same time that our rebate checks are coming earlier then expected.
After reading this, I went to Google and typed in my own zip code to see if my blog ranked at all. It did! It was the fifth link for that zip code, rigth after: a page about population statistics in my zip, a page of county information, a page telling what movies have been filmed here, and a list of all the registered sex offenders in this zip. Granted, that’s some tough competition…
@universehall – Good for you!