Ramblings of the Mildly Insane

So I’m not addicted to my AdSense stats or anything and I don’t log in every second to check my stats, I pretty much leave them to do their thang, buuuut I do have the Firefox AdSense Notifier plugin.

This morning when I logged in I had some money accumulating and thought to myself ‘this is going to be a great AdSense day for me…’ and around 1pm I open up Firefox and sure ‘nuf I saw a big fat goose egg across the board - clicks, click through rate, click %, and the biggie - the money.

To be honest, I started to panic and fired up my Thunderbird to shoot an email to the Google team asking what I could have possibly done to get kicked out of the AdSense program…but, eh hem, I came to my senses and just decided to do a bit of troubleshooting before I went all belligerent on anyone.

Turns out I wasn’t kicked out, they just updated their AdSense policy (read about how this may affect you) and I just needed to read over it and agree. They also have a new interface for the stats (me likey) and that’s what was causing my stats to show up as 0 in the AdSense notifier.

Today has been a day…mild rant lay ahead.

I was supposed to have my bathroom re-done. The guy who was contracted to do the job seemed a little flaky when I first met him, but I understand how stressful business can be when you have a lot of work to do, so I figured it was just a one time case of bad time management on his part.

When he finally did show up for his first scheduled appointment (i.e. to survey the bathroom and give an estimate) I swear he looked like he stepped straight out of the Soprano’s t.v. show with his unbuttoned shirt and slicked back hair complete with New York accent - all he was missing was a whole lot of gold chains and a concealed weapon. Despite all that, contracts were signed and I thought I was gonna get a new bathroom in a few days time…until all the excuses and delays started.

I thought the heavens had finally smiled down upon me when he called Wed. to schedule the ‘demolishon’ for today 8am-12n. I stayed up all night getting as much of my work done as possible so I wouldn’t be disturbed by the noise and I’d be able to take the morning off.

I didn’t get to bed until 3am and turned around to wake up at 6am specifically so I could prepare for him and he didn’t show. He didn’t even call me until 10am to explain he wouldn’t be able to make it until after 12noon - WTF?? If this was the first transgression, I could let it go as I consider myself an extremely patient person, however, this was his 6th (not to mention the time he was supposed to start, but cancelled and never even called me to let me know).

If it wasn’t one thing it was another, but now, here it is 3 weeks later and still no sign of having a bathroom remodelled in my forseeable future. I just had to let him go. Now, I’m left with an empty bathroom and I’m singing ‘where have all the good contractors gone’. Gaaa, what a day. At least I got all my work done for the weekend so I can focus on my personal projects.

It just dawned on me that I have a personal blog and I have not yet posted any pictures of my cat…I posted a picture of my pig from yesteryear that I don’t even remember, but not pics of my precious fuzzy baby…well, here they are (and yes, that is a milk bone collar).