Moved Out
Well Teresa and I moved out of my apartment from the Grand Imperial in Hackensack. I had more then enough to be able to afford it however I wanted to save more money for my trip coming up. In the process of moving out, I had thrown away or sold nearly everything I’ve owned. I’m down to a suite case and backpack. Eventually I’ll only be down to a backpack however my job requires me to wear business casual (ssucckkss) so that was extra clothes. Where am I now? Just across the street! From an ad on Craigslist, I found a one bedroom for more then half the rent I was paying before and that doesn’t even include all the utilities I use to have to pay. It’s a top floor pent house condo. There’s beautiful view of NYC out of my bedroom window. The family I’m staying with is making me feel at home pretty quickly. They have a 5 year old son which is just like taking care of Cristian all over again. As soon as I get home, “Hey Mike! Want to play Wii?” lol. Extremely nice and I’m grateful of what I have here.
- This is when we moved in. July 2008
Slick Deals on Hotel Rooms
With enough research and patience, you can get things for free. Between Teresa and me, we were able to get 7 free hotel rooms in local NJ area, NYC, Atlantic City, and Washington DC. It’s just about every single weekend till I leave in May for $0. It’s an amazing deal and I wish we did this sooner. I listed out all the free rooms on my calendar on the right.
Side Trips
Well I have two trips coming up before I leave. First one is Washington DC from April 3rd till April 6th. Thanks to Teresa that did all the research for this though. Next we have Atlantic City for April 18th. Since we have a free room, might as well just go. Pretty excited for both of these!
Business
Traffic on Art of Backpacking is picking up rapidly. Because of this, I had to purchase a new host. The cost was $100 for a full year. The only issue I had with this is that it’s a shared host and not dedicated. I guess once we become too large for the host itself, it’ll require an upgrade but we have a long way to go for that. So far djskylab.com is moved over to Bluehost. I’ll move AOB over to Bluehost as soon as I backup everything. During all of this, GoDaddy.com had a deal for a new domain that cost $1 for a year. I couldn’t say no so I registered nightlifevibe.com. Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time creating the website. I decided to use Joomla for it’s CMS but now I think I regret it and should have gone with WordPress MU. It’s a bit late now since the community grew. I’m in partnership with Eddie G which is helping out quite a bit with the community itself. The forums are pretty entertaining. As for DJSkylab.com, new widgets were added and plenty more updates will be on the way especially now since I got more power with Bluehost.
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