Working at Mechanical Turk is going well, Tom said after his first day on the job. This thing’s been around for 4 years now. How it would’ve helped to have known about this back in the motel! Even when he was first laid off. He doesn’t expect it to pay what a regular job pays, but it’s looking like it will generate a hell of a lot more extra money than the paid emails/surveys ever could.

As for me, I just might get paid for journaling after all, LOL! I always did say I wanted to get paid for my work too, though it wouldn’t be the journals themselves I’d be paid for. LiveJournal has this thing where if you upgrade for $20, AdSense will insert ads into your journal and you make money every time someone clicks on them. I’m not sure I want to do this. I’m going to take my time and think about it. I don’t like paying to get paid, but if I’m going to get paid more than I paid, it might be worth it.

I’ve tweaked my diet routine again. Actually, I tweaked the exercise part of it. Rather than lower my daily calorie intake, I decided to up the daily calories I burn. I’m burning 30 each hour that I’m awake on the bike. So if I do at least 14 of these hours that’s 420 burned! About one of my two main meals. If this fails to get me out of the rut I’ve been stuck in – fine. I’m not lowering my cals anymore than I have. So if it doesn’t work, then I’ll stay in the low-mid 120s.