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Many updates on many sites

 Hello!

 So! I am doing a whole bunch of updates in the background. A few fun blogs and then on a few of the more normal type sites and blogs. Fun things over there that need so much art. So Much Art.

For here the updates are just going to be more posts. I have quite a few things that I want to post reviews for and then some more Work Stories. The reason work stories are so few is because my current job is very cut & paste of the same thing over and over.

I have more things to review but the posts are slow to write. I want to just say that it came in on time and it works but that feels a bit empty. So after that I want to have just a little more info. I'm only going to post the good things. So unless I get something spectacularly terrible, it'll just be good to neutral reviews.

I also want to share videos that I'm watching on YouTube. Mostly It's going to be Minecraft and Liziqi and adjacent style of videos. Again, I'm not going to have much to say about them.

It's much easier for me to blather on about potentials with numbers. Like view, post or interest rates. I have a few posts ready that go over interest from savings accounts. It's minor data but fun for me to type about.

Then there are the... other sites that I have. They are mostly just for reference for various interests. The story based ones are either still in the writing stage or got back tracked to the writing stage from loss of notes or hard drives. The one with the videos hit a terrible snag due to burnout but it has a little art that I can do and then I can get it going again.

And then there is the one that is currently bi-weekly short snips. Too short to be stories but a lot can be said in a few lines. This also had a file vanish but I think i might have a backup. I don't know for sure but if I don't thats fine. They are pretty easy to get typed out as long as I'm not trying to only crank them out. This blog-thing also will have a fictional newsletter of sorts. 

This will eventually be a weekly thing. I want to also get shorter bits for an additional post for during the week. Like fake adds and random updates. 

And also get a weekly horror scope going. Yes, pun intended. I was thinking of just sporadically doing one sign a week but a clump for all signs would be nice. Like on a Wednesday. Maybe I'll do a string of lucky numbers each day. I have images for each sign so that would be the only part that would take time for making sure it's formatted right. Not counting figuring out all the little quips that could go with each so that it's not just a string of numbers? One of the reasons this is still a work in progress.

So, several things brewing and soon more updates will be had.

Interest Based Income - part one

 Interest Based Income

What I mean by this is earning enough money from your interest based savings account with a bank. I'm going to be tossing around a lot of numbers but the base interest I'll be using will be 3%. It's not the current interest rate but it's the one I'm going to use.

The thing I will not be getting into is going to be the taxes. If you earn $10 you will get a 1099-INT and you will just file that when doing your taxes. File your taxes. It will effect you yearly return. Thats all i have to say on taxes.

The basic amounts that I will be working with are going to be as follows:

$100

$1,000

$10,000

$100,000

$1,000,000

These are the big break points when talking about interest. When you have the small amounts it feels like it's not doing anything but that can carry over to the larger amounts also. The most common way people talk about earned interest is as yearly amounts.

Per Year

$100 = $3

$1,000 = $30

$10,000 = $300

$100,000 = $3,000

$1,000,000 = $30,000

Where I'm from, $30,000 is a full time minimum wage job. 

What you also want to focus on is the per month interest because this is what you will be able to budget with like an additional paycheck. This means that you will want a savings account that will pay you per month and when they pay you will be at the end of that month.

Per Month

$100 = $0.25

$1,000 = $2.50

$10,000 = $25.00

$100,000 = $250.00

$1,000,000 = $2,500.00

The monthly breakdown is how you can see when it makes a difference. $25 doesn't feel like it can do much but that $300 at the end of the year could be a nice cushion or treat.

But $250 a month? That's a bill. It could be an extra payment on a credit card. It could be a car payment. It could be a persons grocery bill. It is a small amount but it is a small amount that will make a difference. If you are able to save it then that extra $3,000 a year is definitely a good amount to have saved up for emergencies or fun.

Will it fix everything? No, but I have had a surprise car repair bill (thanks to chipmunks making a nest in my car and eating the wires) and it was just over $3,000 to fix. I would have been much better off it i had been able to just pay it off with cash instead of using a credit card. The interest I was paying on the credit card was insane.

This is what people mean by wanting their money to work for them.

This is why my ultimate personal goal is going to be to try and get $500,000 because that will be $15,000 per year or $1,250 per month. Which doesn't sound like a lot but it is. For me it would cover my mortgage and car payments. At my current spending it would very much fix everything for me.

I'll be going over my personal reasons in part two.

 I will close with saying that if I had $2,000,000 in the bank I could very easily live off of the estimated $5,000 a month interest. Even if I was paying for my own health insurance.

To be honest I would probably keep my day job just so I wouldn't have to deal with tracking down my own health insurance and then I could keep my 401k. But thats going to be a part three I think.

 Part two was about some personal math.

interview with Liziqi and it's subtitled!

 

Just found this interview with Liziqi and it's subtitled! I'm watching it right now.

Liziqi is back!

 New 李子柒 Liziqi videos! This is not a drill!

 

 

 

 

I am so excited that she is back! And I am hoping everything is going well for her. Her last upload to YouTube was three years ago. Yesterday she posted two  new videos and then today there was a third!

Because I am in the US I don't know all the local details but what little I have heard is that she was able to do a legal action against her old agent/distributor/?? for control over her brand. From what I heard this is not an easy thing in her country. Last year she made an announcement that she was back and I'm very happy that she is.

Liziqi's videos are very cottagecore idealistic fantasy China edition. Do I still binge watch them? Yes, yes I do.

This time I hope her experience goes much better and that she has as much enjoyment from making her videos as /i do when watching them.

Protien powder review - Dymatize Hydrolyzed Protein Powder, Mocha Latte, 25g, 20 Servings, 5.5g BCAA

 Yeah, don't mix boiling water into this right off the bat. It will not end well. And by not well I mean it absolutely gets messed up and glorpy and grainy. I let my mistake sit in the fridge for two days and it was still a mess.

 Unfortunately I really couldn't get past that first mistake fast enough because I wanted to try adding it to pancake mix. I have done that with another protein powder and it makes for the best crapes. So I'm sure this would have been an interesting little hint of scent and flavor.

However by the time I was ready to experiment with it again (and to take a friend with me) I found it was past it's use and had to dump it. I'm sure a Dunkin lover would like it but for me it was just not working.

 

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 Full item name as seen on Amazon -

Dymatize Hydrolyzed Protein Powder, Mocha Latte, 25g, 20 Servings, 5.5g BCAA

Please remember that the Vote is not done yet

 Please remember that the Vote is not done yet and could take several days to completely count all the votes. The 2020 vote didn't finish counting until Saturday. There is hope.

Do not make their fight easy. Do not give in and let despair claim you.

I saw too many people do this in 2016.

There are going to be recounts.

There are going to be investigations.

There were bomb threats called in in voting areas. There were SWAT-ings at schools that did polling.

Hope.

Just hold on to it.

Tonights Vote

 I am going to be posting about tonight's Vote.

Also, do not look into the squirrel incident. I made that mistake and no, you do not want to do that. I only reach a few paragraphs and I will never be able to bleach them from my mind.

So! Numbers will get posted about as they happen tonight.