Come Adventuring

Last Wednesday I had a very important task to do when I got home. That task was to call the Internal Revenue Service in order to have the $17,000 that they say I owed them removed. A 1099 had been generated in 2006 against my personal Social Security number but I had filed all that income against my business taxes. I didn’t know about the 1099 and the IRS only recently notified me of the owed taxes, plus the penalties they have been charging since 2007.

So this phone call was going to an extremely important one. I arrived home to a very nasty storm outside. What it was really a feeder band for the hurricane that was hitting Texas at the moment. So with everything ready I prepared to make the call to the IRS.

“No service available”

WTF? My phone had no service, Rai’s phone had no service, Abra’s phone had no service. All three dead. I drove up the road to the in-laws. They had cell service, but I still didn’t. The difference being that we had 3G phones and they didn’t. I ended up calling the IRS on their land line. Only took 5 minutes to clarify with them how to removed the tax debt, yet I was on hold for over an hour to have the 5 minute discussions.

Same thing Thursday night. My phone service was fine in Orlando, but in Deland it wasn’t available. So we called AT&T. Another hour on the phone with them, changing conigurations, rebooting phones, etc nothing. So the tech transfered us over to another tech.

The second tech informed us they had just spent the last three hours on calls similar to ours. Seems the hurricane in Texas has sporadically wiped out service in Louisiana, and Florida. Now I’m not sure how that’s even possible since 15 miles south of here I get good reception. They opened a case for us so that the repair crews would look into it.

On Friday I got a text message from AT&T that problem had been fixed. Sure enough, when I got home I had phone reception.

It’s things like this that drive me absolutely mad.

Last year around what October Google introduced its rank spank to a vast amount of blogger who had supposedly had paid posts and links. I say supposedly because my original site Tech Raving got zerod in the first round of the hit.

Tech Raving had absolutely no paid posts and at the time no advertisements as well. So why did I get hit. I theorized because I work for PayPerPost / IZEA. Although after researching a great many blogs outside the PayPerPost system I don’t see where it was strictly targeted towards PayPerPost.

Fine, I got spanked. Big freaking deal as I was still indexed (without PageRank) by Google but the amount of indexing but metacrawlers and the other search engines I wasn’t even concerned about Google. Nope not in the least. Keywords were still moving me forward even if not on Google.

So I set up Come Adventuring here two weeks ago. Just to completely speak my mind outside of technology and the what not. One thing I did however was attempt to make peace with Google by asking for a re-evaluation of Tech Raving.

Funny thing that, Come Adventuring was a page rank of ZERO when I added the sitemaps and no posts. Tech Raving was spanked. Now Come Adventuring is a Page Rank of ONE and Tech Raving is still spanked. Not in the fun sort of way either.

Fine let’s test this theory. I work for IZEA, PAYPERPOST, ZOOKODA, URLBRIEF, BLOGGERS CHOICE AWARDS, IZEA RANKS. Now lets’ see how long I hold onto PageRank. If I lose it now, then yes Googles targeting certain keywords. If not then there is nothing to worry about. Other than Google is way to big for its britches and needs a spanking (stocks) of it’s own.