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This blog is where I express myself to the world or at least to those who might stop by to read what I post 
. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers.
I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
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And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!
Thanks.
Carlos
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. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers. I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me
)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
My pride is wounded but...I get to eat this weekend!
Posted 05-30-2009 at 09:54 AM by carlos123
One thing I neglected to mention in my previous posting about how my circumstances are changing for the better is that my web hosting account is now past due enough to where it will be suspended on Sunday (it's 30 days past due).
I had put aside $30 (3 months of hosting payable every 3 months) in my new bank account to pay it and had been talking with my friend about giving him the money that he might pay it through his PayPal account or otherwise using his own bank debit cards. But his disappearance and the hardship that he faced yesterday put quite a stop to my plans on how I was going to get the money in my bank to my hosting provider.
You see I have no bank debit card of my own that I could have used to make an internet purchase. I mean I do have one but it is practically unusable to me as the account tied to it has gone hopelessly into the red as a result of a company coming in, when I did not want them to do so, and charging me anyway. Causing that account to accrue charge after compounded charge into the red. Such that any money put into it now would have been swallowed up whole in a hopeless effort to catch up.
So anyway I had set aside the $30 in a new bank account ready to pay my web hosting company but ended up not being able to do so through my friend.
I wrote the web hosting company (who I have been with on and off for years) and they are fine with the account being suspended on Sunday and then being reactivated again on Monday or Tuesday. Well...maybe not fine but certainly it is not a big deal such that my account will be cancelled outright and such that I will not be welcomed back as a customer.
To make an even longer story short....
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As a result of the graciousness of my web hosting company I withdrew the $30 and am now eating on that $30 for the weekend until the hundreds of dollars coming to me make it to me on Monday!
Once again the timing of everything has allowed me to squeeze by and eat!
The only loss was to my pride in that I did not want to go into suspension under my hosting account. I have a Christian forum that I started there, my window cleaning business web site, and a couple of somewhat important email addresses that will all cease to work for a couple of days but I can live with that. Oh and the database that I have been using to make telemarketing calls will also becoming inoperative...hmm...maybe that will cause my telemarketing job to come to an end but maybe that's a good thing too given that I haven't made any money from it either.
In the long run, no real harm will be done and I do need to eat this weekend.
You know I don't think I could arrange circumstances on purpose to be what they turn out to be with respect to how the timing of all things seems to constantly work itself out to allow me to make it through one bad circumstance after another.
It's like I am on the edge of a cliff constantly...about to fall off but I don't quite ever fall off.
Needless to say...I believe the hand of the unseen God, my heavenly Father, is what alone keeps me from falling headlong into utterly hopeless circumstances.
Now if I could only learn to fly...
Carlos
I had put aside $30 (3 months of hosting payable every 3 months) in my new bank account to pay it and had been talking with my friend about giving him the money that he might pay it through his PayPal account or otherwise using his own bank debit cards. But his disappearance and the hardship that he faced yesterday put quite a stop to my plans on how I was going to get the money in my bank to my hosting provider.
You see I have no bank debit card of my own that I could have used to make an internet purchase. I mean I do have one but it is practically unusable to me as the account tied to it has gone hopelessly into the red as a result of a company coming in, when I did not want them to do so, and charging me anyway. Causing that account to accrue charge after compounded charge into the red. Such that any money put into it now would have been swallowed up whole in a hopeless effort to catch up.
So anyway I had set aside the $30 in a new bank account ready to pay my web hosting company but ended up not being able to do so through my friend.
I wrote the web hosting company (who I have been with on and off for years) and they are fine with the account being suspended on Sunday and then being reactivated again on Monday or Tuesday. Well...maybe not fine but certainly it is not a big deal such that my account will be cancelled outright and such that I will not be welcomed back as a customer.
To make an even longer story short....
....As a result of the graciousness of my web hosting company I withdrew the $30 and am now eating on that $30 for the weekend until the hundreds of dollars coming to me make it to me on Monday!
Once again the timing of everything has allowed me to squeeze by and eat!
The only loss was to my pride in that I did not want to go into suspension under my hosting account. I have a Christian forum that I started there, my window cleaning business web site, and a couple of somewhat important email addresses that will all cease to work for a couple of days but I can live with that. Oh and the database that I have been using to make telemarketing calls will also becoming inoperative...hmm...maybe that will cause my telemarketing job to come to an end but maybe that's a good thing too given that I haven't made any money from it either.
In the long run, no real harm will be done and I do need to eat this weekend.
You know I don't think I could arrange circumstances on purpose to be what they turn out to be with respect to how the timing of all things seems to constantly work itself out to allow me to make it through one bad circumstance after another.
It's like I am on the edge of a cliff constantly...about to fall off but I don't quite ever fall off.
Needless to say...I believe the hand of the unseen God, my heavenly Father, is what alone keeps me from falling headlong into utterly hopeless circumstances.
Now if I could only learn to fly
...Carlos
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A gift for you Carlos
Posted 05-31-2009 at 05:30 PM by Pink flamingo
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That's beautiful Pink Flamingo! Thank you! That almost made me start crying....
You know I was thinking about my circumstances of the last few months...ever since I got to San Diego, now that my poverty is about to come to an end...well...at least for this coming week or two.
And it struck me that all along it may have been God's intention to prevent me finding other ways to make a living than I have found.
You see my overall goal and desire is to head to South America and to make a living over the Internet. If I had found some local job at a burger joint there is no way that I would have pursued working over a computer like I have.
If I had been able to get around by bus there is no way I would uncovered the jobs that I have working as a consultant over the computer. No way.
I would have been too busy making...well...a more normal living.
But now...when all is said and done, if things continue as they have (this last company made a comment to me "...excellent work!" with respect to what I have been doing for them so far)...it may be possible for me to head to South America much quicker than I had thought possible.
If I can get one or two more companies to give me computer work and if I can continue to be able to do it all over the Internet there is no reason that I -have- to do it from San Diego. I can just as easily do it from South America or anywhere else in the world that has internet access.
So my desire may actually come true in a way and with a speed that I had not even imagined being able to do. Using skills I have.
That didn't dawn on me till today when I was pondering my last hours of poverty and what had happened to me these last few months.
It's...well...a bit astounding when you think about it. How all things have worked out for my good.
Mind you it's a bit early to tell if the blessings I have experienced and will experience in the next week or two will be cemented into my life as stable blessings but I have every reason to believe that they will.
I do excellent work. People are seeing that when I get the chance to show them what I can do. And word is bound to get out resulting in even more work.
Thanks again for your encouragement!
CarlosPosted 05-31-2009 at 07:52 PM by carlos123
