2010 sucks. None of the things I expected to happen in 2010 have happened yet.

[leeroysphitz]

[MorningGlow]

1. I strongly disagree

I have coffee. And a meteorite has not fallen on my house in the first nine hours of 2010. Therefore, it's a good year. :evilgrin:

[leeroysphitz]

6. You got me there. I can't argue against a lack of house smashing meteorites

without flirting with intellectual dishonesty.

[Sherman A1]

11. Agreed & Well Said

Been up since 3:30am Central and already finished the first pot of coffee. Colder than a (insert favorite phrase here___________________) outside. Went out to get the paper (which was pretty useless), the full moon was superb and I haven't seen any meteorites around the neighborhood (although I do watch out for Giant Evil Rutabagas, who do not have our best interests at heart) . Nice display of some frost on the porch windows, so thus far a pretty good year. :bounce:

[The Backlash Cometh]

35. You're two years premature.

[MorningGlow]

36. Bah humbug

I refuse to follow The Gospel According to Emmerich. :P

[The Backlash Cometh]

38. Me too.

The only ones who aren't too worked up about the 2012 disaster scenario, are Mexicans with an understanding of the Mayan calendar.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. I agree.

Very disappointing. Such a WONDERFUL momentum he had going. Right up until he appointed Rahmbo as his COS.

[taterguy]

3. I expected someone to start a dumbass thread in GD

I keed

I keed

[lpbk2713]

4. Just don't say anything about a p*ny.

A lot of people want that word banned on DU. :sarcasm:

[ixion]

5. damnit!

:argh:

...

...

:rofl:

:toast:

cheers. :)

[rzemanfl]

7. It's raining here and all my PMs went and hid in a different folder.

Not a great start at all....

[AllentownJake]

8. I had Pork and Saurkraut this morning

I have Hope!

[leeroysphitz]

9. I'm glad that you have pork and saurkraut but what about the millions of Americans who, like me,

only have off brand english muffins?

[barbtries]

15. leftover spaghetti and meatballs

a perfect breakfast. :)

[madokie]

22. Gas too maybe, huh

The black eyes peas and collard greens are soon to be smelling up our house

12.4 for a low this morning. This last couple three weeks has been like what I suspect the northeastern part of the country lives with all the time in winter but for us here in northeast ok its kinda unheard of. Snow been on the ground for 2 weeks now and most winters we don't even get much snow and when we do it hardly ever stays around more than a couple three days.

[MineralMan]

10. Hmm...you must make those things happen.

For example, I just emailed a fat invoice for a bunch of web site content. 2010 will start off right with a check next week, as I hoped. Checks good; bills bad.

[geckosfeet]

14. Wow. Your clients pay within a week! How do you get them to do that?

[MineralMan]

19. I do a lot of work for this particular guy, who is a web designer.

He pays instantly at the first of the month for the previous month's work. He gets my attention that way, plus priority for his work. Other clients? Not so much.

The phrase on the invoice is: "Payable on presentation." It often works pretty well.

[geckosfeet]

21. I like 'Payable on presentation'. I have been using 'Payable upon receipt' for late

invoices. Otherwise 'Due within 30 days'.

[MineralMan]

28. I don't think it really matters. I was just lucky that this

particular web designer found me. He's great with design and SEO, and his client list is growing fast. However, English is not his first language. He's a competent writer, but not a fast or compelling one.

These days, when he sells a site design to a new client, I crank out the copy for a flat rate for the entire site. I've been writing professionally my whole adult life, and on many different topics, so web site content is pretty much easy and fast for me.

The pay isn't what I was getting when the big national magazines still had freelance budgets, but it's more than adequate for the amount of work involved.

The very best thing, though, is that he sells most of his clients a regularly updated blog, and I get to do those, too. Pretty soon, I'll have a decent set of regular blogs to do every month, which should fill that gaps between writing entire sites.

It's a good relationship. We understand each other and he's very low maintenance as a client. It's all good.

[geckosfeet]

31. Sounds like you have some great gigs MineralMan. I am still holding down a

full time web production job while trying to bang a small freelance business into shape.

[madokie]

25. Back years ago when my brother and I was doing contract work

we had on the invoice, pay within ten days for a 10% discount. It worked too, most times.

and don't ask if we bumped the price up any to take care of that 10% cause I might not tell you the truth :-)

[MineralMan]

27. You do what you have to do...

Prices are always variable.

[MineralMan]

30. If the client doesn't grumble about the price, you don't charge enough.

[geckosfeet]

32. Whoa. I like that. I would use seven days though.

[madokie]

23. but lifes great

Have a great one MM

[MineralMan]

29. I'm working on it. I was retired a year ago. Not so much now.

Damned economy. I had to dust my shingle off and hang it up again. A little fresh paint, and it's as good as new. Oh, well...

[geckosfeet]

12. Come on. Give it a full quarter. If all the countries problems are not eliminated

by the end of March then I vote we declare 2010 a bust.

On the serious side - any year that starts out without cheeny, bUsh and KKKrove in the white house is immeasurably better than the ones that did. The simple fact that they have been evicted is the one biggest success of the decade.

Now, on to bigger and better things.

[barbtries]

13. 2010 is great!

i expect great things. check back in on dec 31

[leeroysphitz]

37. December 31st?

Oh but I want the great things now.

[sellitman]

16. Obama is quiet too.

Haven't heard hide nor hair of him since 2009?

What's up with that?

[JohnnyLib2]

17. Obligatory reply:

Ya whiny whiner!

:evilgrin: :hi:

[leeroysphitz]

18. Yeah, maybe I should have kept my powder dry...

:P

[lame54]

20. Did you expect to wake up in a foul mood?...

because that came true

[closeupready]

24. You didn't SAY you expected anything to happen, and I didn't campaign on that either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qb0vquRcys

[cbdo2007]

26. I expected Obama to pull all the troops out of Afghanistan first thing this morning like he promised

Instead though I guess he'll just do the responsible thing and leave them there until their finished.

[Snarkoleptic]

33. I just checked the back yard and STILL NO PONY! I'm done!!

[leeroysphitz]

34. Maybe your unemployed neighbors had to eat your pony.

Happens all the time.