New Hubpages account

Hey guys,

Well, I've now taking my jibbersh and gone pro with it. This blogger deal just wasn't cutting it for me. For those of you that do read this, I thank-you, but the fact is, this entire blog is sitting out in cyberspace. It receives no traffic, no matter how many things I link it to, the visitors just do not come through.

I now have a hubpages account, and before you say anything, I agree, I will receive less adsense money from a hubpages account than I would from a blogger adsense account. But let's be honest, 100% of 0 is still 0. At least with Hubpages, it will be a 60/40 split of SOMETHING!

So far, things are off to a good start, I've already made my first $1 on Week 1. It's not a lot, I agree, but you have to realize that it took me almost 2 years before I made my first PENNY with my youtube videos. So, $1 on the first week with only 5 hubs written, I'll take that all day long. I'm trying to make myself realize that this is a time thing, yet again. I'm trying my best to write what are called "Evergreen" hubs, that aren't related to current events and will therefore be relevant forever. So, as time passes, they should receive more and more views, and slowly but surely make their way up through the search engines. Time will tell.

Anyways, for those that still read these things, I will post the links here. Who knows, maybe I'll get some traffic from randomly posting back links into the outer realms of our world, but as of right now, I highly doubt it.

Here is the link!

http://franksg384.hubpages.com/

Thanks guys! Happy reading!

From my email

Hey guys!
 
I usually don't post things that I receive in my inbox at work.  It's those funny stories that make their way around a thousand times, and everyone has at one point heard the story or talked about the story, but you think someone hasn't, so you forward to your 50 friends, and so on and so forth it goes.  But this story that I got today, I've never heard before, ever.  So, I just thought I would take the time to share it with you, and document it for myself because I would like to remember it also.  I also found a lot of humor in this story, because I feel like it could possibly very easily be my story, and therefore put me on the front page of the Anderson, SC Newspaper (FINALLY!).  It's really funny, and left me covering my mouth to NOT LOL in a quiet office setting.

Somehow in my mind, all of this gets linked back to my facebook picture album called "Lawn Mower Difficulties."  My constant struggles with that piece of machinery is the only thing in my life that I can relate this to.  I don't know how to upload an entire album, so I'll just post the pictures here for everyone to see, and the story that I am referencing will be below them.

I also made a short film about the difficulties with just trying to do a simple task such as sharpening the blades on it.  So sad.

Enjoy!

Gil

 

Here is the story below from my email, as promise. :-)

For those of you who have a lawnmower and want to install an Electric

fence:'what-Not-to-do' is printed below....

If you have ever used an electric fence or know someone who has one you

should read this.

The language used is a bit salty, but 'he tells it like it is' without

cursing.

This was sent by a retired dentist.

We have the standard 6 ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I

heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To

make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a

single wire along the top of the fence.

Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for

26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. Long ground rod, and drove it 7.5

ft. Into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in

the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel

push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for

a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire

and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way.

It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand

and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the

charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an

upside down cow on fire on the cover.

Time stood still.

The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side

of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower

ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs &

Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally

at one with the engine.

It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of shit lawnmower were

fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to

differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3

different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of

bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back

and BAM BAM BAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there

were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together. It was

like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto

the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't

let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences. But Dad

always had those piece of shit chargers made by International or whoever

that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled.

This one I could not let go of. The 8 ft. Long ground rod is now

accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom

soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and

take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping

run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it.

Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest, I think 'Oh God

please die... Pleeeeaze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy

cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor

waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing

in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day.

He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own

stupidity I had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire.

I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me,

out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned.

There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then

another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the

ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in

the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire.

Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:

1 - Three of the fillings in my teeth have melted.

2 - I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek

(not the left, just the right).

3 - Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as

you might think.

4 - My left eye will not open.

5 - My right eye will not close.

6 - The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little

session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was

better than new after that.

7 - My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.

8 - I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of

the number 4 (still don't understand this???).

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I

appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make

sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I

can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT

gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to

triple check before I mow.

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Intro to my Trucker Interview Playlist

Hello everyone!

I have some exciting new!  I have recently started a "Real-life Trucker Interviews" playlist on my Youtube channel.  It will give you an in-depth, real life view of what it is like to be a Truck Driver on America's roads and highways.  I ask detailed questions and get GREAT answers from the men and women who do the job, live and work in the field, and choose to share a split second of their lives with you.  I'm hoping to do more and more as time goes along, but as of right now it is a bit hard to get people to give me an interview.  I don't really blame them, because would you really get in a car with a funny looking white boy while the engine is running and he's holding a video camera.  Yeah, me neither!

Anyways, so far this has been a lot of fun, and I feel like this is one of the few times in my life that someone could really benefit from my videos, and people could learn from it and know what to expect if they were to make this a career choice or new a change in life and are looking into other professions.  I look forward to meeting everyone and making lifelong friends, and so far, this is what I have to share with everyone. Enjoy!

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I have also created a facebook fan page.   Click here to view it.  That is where everything will load and fall.  Everything goes thru that page first.  It is the beginning of the funnel system.  My youtube videos automatically load there, this blog automatically posts there, and all that gets funneled down into my twitter account.  It's a pretty good set-up if you ask me!

Thanks again guys, and check back soon for more updates and fun videos!

Gil

A update on.....well.....everything.

Hello Everybody!

I don't have too much to report. I do have a few new things going though. I've kind of remodeled my website a bit. Everything just looked so cluttered, that I removed most of the things on the right side, and put them in their own categories called "My Pages". These are clickable links that you can click on and go to separate pages. I now have separate pages for my facebook, twitter, and such things. Check it out by clicking this link! I've decided to really, really tackle this whole blog deal. I'm going to give it my best shot and see if it really works. I'm earning a few nickels and dimes through my adsense account, but I have realized that maybe I set up the ads incorrectly, and I've basically placed all new ads on the tops and the sides. Hopefully they now work. It's just not right when you have ads placed on the sides, and they haven't changed in over a year? So I'm thinking my ads code was messed up or I didn't link it correctly. Either way, the ads now show up in my adsense account, and hence my analytics account. So we should be good to go!

I've been doing all the reading that I can in my spare time to try and really get this blog to take off. It is going to take some work, but if I can just get the ball rolling, we should be good to go. I've decided that instead of just blogging, just basically to be blogging, I've decided that quality seems to be the ticket. The same goes for my youtube videos. I'm going to actually attempt to have a theme and make something worth watching, rather than just random moments of me talking into the camera. I'm still going to do those, I don't know what they are called, "life update" moments where I'll just say a few things, but basically, I feel like I need to start putting the time back into my videos so that the quality will be there, and people will actually have a reason to subscribe and stay entertained. So we'll see! I do however have a few to share with you if you haven't seen them already.

This one is about a random Sam's Club experience I had. The video explains the rest!



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This one is about a random experience I had with my damn dog, and the trickery that he plays in my life, almost non-stop. I'd hate him if I didn't love him. And I think he knows this.


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I recently re-modeled my wife's bathroom while she was away at a Respiratory Conference down at Myrtle Beach.  I did all this while staying up until 2 and 3 am after a full day at work.  It took me 3 full nights to do everything that you see.  It was QUITE A JOB!





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And last but not least, this is how I felt last Saturday morning, as the first thing I had to do when I wake up, was chores.  Have you ever had one those days?  Don't forget to give me thumbs up on all videos if you agree with me! haha!



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