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New Giant… Finally!

Wow! Seems like I’ve been waiting forever, but I did make it this time!

I suppose it really hasn’t been that long, I’m coming up on my first year Squidoo Anniversary, but it feels like it took longer. It’s weird, but for some things it seems like I haven’t been a part of Squidoo for very much time, but as far as waiting to become a Giant, it’s been way too long.

The good news came after being removed from the Amazon Associates program due to Rhode Island passing a new law meant to collect sales tax from internet sales. So far it doesn’t appear to affect any of the other affiliate programs that I belong to, or being on Squidoo. Many of the merchants who dropped their affiliates in New York State, aren’t ones I have relationships with. Other merchants just registered with NY, and started collecting the tax. Amazon did, but for RI, North Carolina and Hawaii, they’ve decided to punish the affiliates over their disagreement with these laws.

I do most of my Squidoo’ing on my Laptop, which is about a year and a half old now. The cooling fan began to get noisy while I was still doing the final updates on my Lenses. It held up long enough to finish, but now I’m reducing my time with it until I change the fan. When the fan begins to run, it’s a steady buzzing, and the vibration feels weird on my wrists while I’m typing. Before I opened it up, and blasted some canned air into it, it would be too loud to run while the TV was on. At least I know I can handle replacing it myself – I’ve never replaced a laptop fan before, there’s a lot more to getting into it than it takes to get into a desktop.

Plans for the future will include working towards the 100 club, not sure if I’ll actually apply before the next deadline, but I think I already have my next Lens planned. The one about John Wetton has become too big. I could easily divide it in two parts.


5 Comments »

  1. MiMi said :
    July 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Congratulations again, Dan. It sure is exciting, huh?

  2. squidbitsandpieces said :
    July 6, 2009 at 3:34 am

    I knew you’d make it! Congratulations on becoming a Giant

  3. aj2008 said :
    July 7, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    I am so proud to have croosed that Giant threshold at the same time as you Dan. Congratulations!

  4. Treasures By Brenda said :
    July 7, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Congratulations! (And hope you are successful in replacing that fan so that you can work on your next lens.)

  5. mulberry said :
    July 9, 2009 at 2:25 am

    Congrats!

    I think your next lens may enlighten us on replacing a lap top fan??

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