America’s Beach Bum

 I’ve been using SwagBucks for several months now and have earned 255 Swag Bucks from search and 2 Swag Bucks (SB) from friends. 

The way that it works is you use the SwagBucks site for searches and occasionally they reward you with Swag Bucks.  The most Swag Bucks that I won was 10 on a single search.  I was pretty excited.

You can redeem your Swag Bucks for merchandise or gift certificates.  Right now I’m saving my Swag Bucks for a big prize…a PS3.  It’ll be a while before I reach the 4500 SB needed to “buy” the PS3.

When you join as my friend [by clicking the image above] I earn a SB when you earn a SB.  I could use some new friends, so if SwagBucks sounds like your cup of tea click the SwagBucks image and become a friend.  Thanks!

I’ve decided to join the Twitter community.  So far I have 12 followers, not to bad for a Twitter noob.  Check me out as I tweet.

I actually found out about the US victory over Spain in soccer while on Twitter.  Pretty cool.

The move for my main site has been complete.  The final files where FTP’d to the new host.  As I worked on the move I made some edits to the site using my vast HTML knowledge.  The next two tasks I want to accomplish are adding content and making the site easier to edit on the global level instead of on a per page level.

I’ve got a couple of ideas for content and I am going to talk with an artist about images for the website.  I’m also researching JavaScript options for streamlining the editing process of maintaining the website.

….for the main website.  This blog stays where it has been.  If you have been visiting the main website you would have noticed that there was some advertising that interrupted the header images.  The company that had been hosting the site decided to add advertising to the websites that they hosted for free.  Although this is pretty common for “free” hosting services to do it was a change that I was not going to accept.  So I started to look for a new free host.

I was able to find a new hosting company that offered free hosting without host added advertising.  So I signed up to give them a try.  I then went to Godaddy to switch the nameservers to those of the new host.  While I was waiting for the Internet to reboot [haha] and send traffic to the new host I began to move files from the old host to the new host.

As of right now I have not moved all the files to the new host but the important ones are in place and the website is back to looking great.  In case you are interested in a free host here is my affiliate link: http://www.000webhost.com/

All gased up and ready to go.  I’ll be picking up the other beach bums soon to begin our spring break adventure.  As long as the weather is warm and the waves are breaking we hope to do a little surfing.

Last year the waves were not very big so I didn’t even get the surfboard out of the room.

The GPS is programmed with the destination, the binoculars are in the glove box and the metal detector is sitting by the door.  My duffle bag currently has my board shorts, a couple of t-shirts and my sandals but more will be added as travel day approaches.

Last Saturday I went and got a fresh hair cut so my tan on my face won’t look funny in a couple of weeks. 

Now to decide on the snacks for the trip…hmmm…banana chips anyone???

The annual trip to Myrtle Beach for spring break is coming up.  I’ve invited fellow beach bum, Beach_Guy, to travel with me and my group.  I need to find my metal detector and binoculars. 

I plan to do a little bit of treasure hunting while I’m down there.  I hope to do better than last year when I found a dime.  Some Spanish doubloons would be nice but I’d be happy with gold jewelry that I could sell at the local pawn shop.

I like to boat watch with the binoculars.  Last year there was not much in the way of boat traffic.  Maybe this year will be better.

More on the trip to come.

Coming soon…Florida’s Beach Bum.  Currently reviewing beach bums from Florida.  Once a decision has been made that person will update the FBB blog.

Tonight the ghouls and goblins will parade the neighborhood.  May they be safe and have fun!

Last night in Grand Rapids Michigan a group of Zombies were sighted walking about town.  It was an attempt to break the world record for a Zombie Walk.  The previous record was 1,000 and the Grand Rapids Zombies claimed to have 4,000 walkers.

It looked like they had a bunch of fun.

Well I was kinda forced to start this blog because I lost a bunch of traffic at America’s Beach Bum because apparently it is not in of it self a blog which is a requirement by the powers that be at Entrecard.  So try to tell me this is not a Blog.  Ok I apologize, don’t kick me off again, Entrecard has been an awesome source of traffic for which I am very thankful.

I will be setting up a new Entrecard account for this blog.  So I expect to see traffic go from 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds