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Never Too Early

There’s a lot of noise these days about whether or not it’s too early to be in Christmas mode. My solution is to drown it out with jolly holiday music!

Scrooge You

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach! ~Ebeneezer Scrooge

Look, if the original grumpy geezer can have a turn of heart that inspires him to live in the Spirit of Christmas year ’round, so can you. Pass the egg nog.

I’ve been busy attending to outstanding business. I tweaked my Christmas site today. I had a stack of external banners hosted through an affiliate network. It seemed a logical and easy thing to do.

Suddenly, the jackass affiliate manager (this dude is really rude) tells me my links are wrong. I’ve had these links on for YEARS and I’ve never made a red freakin’ cent on any of them. Suddenly, this guy chimes in from left field and says they’re formatted wrong?

DUDE!

The banner site serves up these popups that have the banner links in what I presumed to be a cut and paste format. If they don’t have my affiliate ID included, then it’s on them to fix their freaking popups. I will NOT include their banners on my site if they can’t even provide the links in a usable format. No free traffic for you, jerks!

As it turns out, I have my own products to promote in place of those dead-end banners. Instead of random sites who pay me nothing, ever, I have my very own puzzle books on Amazon that people can buy and I can get a couple of bucks per book instead of a bunch of nothing per click. Buh-bye…

I also created my affiliate bonus page for Ken Bluttman’s Puzzle Book Mastery. That took a bit of doing, but anybody who purchases access to Ken’s puzzle generating software through my affiliate link will get access to this course as a thank you gift. The bonus is basically about how I double my output with a simple Windows setting and {everybody groan at once} the click of a button.

I know, that’s the biggest come-on in the Make Money Online world but in my case, it is literally true.

If you want to find out what it is, go ahead and select the version of Ken’s online puzzle book generating service that best suits you.

If you’re not interested in creating puzzle books as a way of diversifying your income 😲 and you’re just nosy, you can PM me on Facebook.

If you ask nicely, I might even tell you. If I do, no spilling the beans or you’re getting coal in your stocking for sure.

The page needs a final tweak, but I’ve got errands to attend to so it is what it is for the moment. Once I add the final touches, I believe it will be just about perfect.

Need 🎁 A 🦌 Little 🎅 Christmas 🎄 Now

12 Hours of Beautiful Christmas Music
Not only have I been waiting for Summer to end,
but also for the Holiday Season to begin!

With all the crap that’s been going on this year, it’s just about time to indulge in a bit of yuletide excess.

• The Summer that nearly never ended.
• The pain and discomfort that still hasn’t ended.
• The economic privation that seems like it will freaking never end.
• The calamitous social and political current rushing around the country.
• The outrageous coup that’s being attempted by the Congressional Democrats.
• The absolute refusal of the Main Stream Media to properly cover any of it.

It’s been a non-stop suckathon!

Gimme some egg nog, fruitcake, random garlands of twinkly tinsel and lots and lots of Christmas music, movies, TV specials…

Basically, anything that is Red and Green is preferable to the year-long 💩show we’ve been subjected to up to this point.

I’m sick of the 🦃🦃🦃 in Congress and their neverending nonsense. The only 🦃 I want at this point is the kind that’s 🍗 roasting in my oven.

I want 🧝Hermie and Rudolph🦌.

I want Bing and Danny.

I want gingerbread and chocolate 🍪 chip 🍪 cookies.

I know I said I was working on living in gratitude for the coming holiday season.

Well, I’m grateful that I’ve gotten this far.

I’m grateful that it’s no longer hot as hell.

I’m grateful that despite our shortage of money, we’ve still managed to keep the lights on and so forth.

It’s not all bad, but it ain’t all that great either.

I could really use a dose of Christmas Magic to take the edge off of how rotten the year has been up to this point.

⛄Must Have Been ☃️ Some Magic🎩

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ~Khalil Gibran

So, I’m making a fair amount of headway with the Sentinels but I really need to be getting on with Bryce & Veronica. I don’t seem to be able to tune into their station yet and it’s getting a bit nerve-wracking. It’s a time-sensitive project and I’m just not dialing in on A Misfit Christmas yet. I’m sure I’ll lock on to it soon.

It took me a while to get the Sentinels talking to me, so I need to let Bryce & Veronica percolate a little bit longer. I’m sure that once I find their voices, I won’t be able to shut them up until their story is entirely told.

So much the better. The story starts dripping scene by scene on Black Friday. Thanksgiving Day will feature an intro and Epiphany will be the wrap-up. Every day from Black Friday through Twelfth Night will be a scene of approximately 1000 words.

Of course, while I’m at it, I also have to set up an email sequence that people can subscribe to so the episodes wind up in their inboxes.

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They’re calling for 🌨️ a bit of ❄️snow❄️ tomorrow night and people are complaining about that, too. Bah, humbug! I’ll take a coating of ❄️snow❄️ over a scorching heatwave that you can’t escape. At least with ❄️snow❄️, you can pile on sweaters and long johns. Have some cocoa ☕ and enjoy the magical acoustics that come with a blanket of ❄️snow❄️. It really is lovely…