Let's go, we're in the money; look up, the skies are sunny; Old Man Depression; you are through, you done us wrong!

After months of cataloging all my song references, months of tweeting with embedded affiliate links, and months of running a banner ad, I finally see the fruits of my labor: I got my first check as an iTunes Affiliate…a whopping $5.74.

Now I just need to add some Amway on the side and I'll be ready to retire...in about 300 years.

So, if I want to shorten that timeframe a bit, then y'all need to be ordering more stuff! (Or not. You're really under no obligation to do so.)

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"Let's go, we're in the money; look up, the skies are sunny; Old Man Depression; you are through, you done us wrong!"	Lyrics from the song We're in the Money by Al Dubin (lyrics) and Harry Warren (music), featured in the movie Gold Diggers of 1933 and the musical 42nd Street

It Keeps You Runnin'

This month marks the fourth year that I've been blogging. Interesting.

If anyone out there is following along, even periodically, I hope they're enjoying themselves. I know I am.

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It Keeps You Runnin'	Song by The Doobie Brothers

Juke Box Hero

Since 2006 I've been titling posts with either lyrics from a song or an actual song title. I thought it'd be nice to document these choices; I'll keep this entry updated with info from new posts going forward.

Update: Starting with posts in 2010, I'm now listing the song reference at the bottom of the post, instead of updating a huge table. I've gone back and appended song reference information to all the earlier posts as well.

(Full disclosure: the iTunes buttons at the bottom of each post are encoded with my affiliate ID, so I get a cut if you buy anything.)

Overall I'm pleased with the range and diversity represented, but I'm a bit surprised at how much Zeppelin is listed. Guess I'm a child of the 70s after all.

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Juke Box Hero	Song by Foreigner

I'm romancin' in my thirty dollar suit.

The blog has a new look, as I've moved it to the spiffy TicTac theme from Dan Cederholm (of SimpleBits fame). It's a very nice template available to all on Blogger.

Most importantly, this new design clearly separates the posts from the sidebar, so the site should be easier to navigate.

Thanks for the great template, Dan!

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"I'm romancin' in my thirty dollar suit."	Lyric from the song $30 Suit by Monkey

Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days

Wow. It's been a long time since I've posted here. If I thought there were any regular readers, I'd apologize.

I've been distracted remodeling my house, which is weird since I'm not doing any of the work.

But while I've been without TV (as I didn't bother to try moving the satellite dish to the apartment in which I'm staying) I've been reading more, and getting more fired up about the many things going wrong these days. So I'm going to start ranting here instead of at the dog, on the off chance it would do more good. We'll see.

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Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days	Song by Louis Prima