The wife is away for the week, it is now Thursday and I have been out of the house once each day to get those dam cigarettes from the shop. Now if I just bought a few packets at a time it would be Thursday and I would not have left the house since Sunday.

Really between Monday and Friday I am a recluse - at least at the weekends I get out hillwalking, a real raver!

I just came back from the shop and I realised while there I would have been happy to stand and keep talking to the shop assistant for 10 minutes. I am people deprived... you sad git.

It has been a great week though - two sites I have been working on have come into the first page and the numbers have jumped - good to see the work paying off. But all week I have been sitting here in front of my beautiful machine from about 8am till midnight - having a good break for my evening meal and everything else eaten or drunk sitting here.

When I wake in the mornings I have my coffee with a laptop on my knees reading the stats from yesterday - I've done that for the last two years - on holiday I wonder what to do with myself for the first few days and I am sure I have withdrawal symptoms - we are off to Canada for three weeks in a couple of months and the main thing on my mind is do I buy an Apple while I am there...

There is no hope.

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Realised today ... I've been in Dublin 2 - 3 weeks now ? ... and what have I done with other people .. not a hell of a lot ...

I AM NERD ... HEAR ME TYPE ...

ok I talk to a fair few customers on the phone every day ... but not exactly friends as well apart from one or two.

Do I go out ... not really ... Tesco / centra don't really count .... I also realised ... I don't think I've been out in dublin by myself (this evening as I jumped on the bus into town ... I realised the last time I was in dublin alone was about 3 - 4 years ago) ... DAMN .... thats just scary

I think its the dilema of the "freelancer" though ... a lot of us are in the same boat .... join a club ... (do something) ... at the moment I'm trying to find a few people for pétanque (boules) in and around dublin ... had a lot of fun in galway over a beer or two .. and pétanque

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easy done. and lol @ you and your "beautiful machine"

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Now now ... they are all "beautiful machine"'s in the eyes of god :P

(hell I've an excuse I was out for pool and beers)

Hi Camino,

I know how you feel.
Nowadays I've left the 100+ hour weeks behind to something a little bit more normal.
Maybe you should think about outsourcing some of your work or developing a network of specialists that you can rely on.

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Micky - make hay and all that sh*t - seo business is crap (business through the floor) and I am building my own sites, have tried the outsource route a few times and paid for quite bad writing - it often seems like an attractive route but the sites that do well are the ones I write myself - I want three of me!

And hey, I have a lunch with a human planned for today, cool.

I hear you Camino! If the girlfriend hears me tapping on the laptop one more time while shes asleep next to me in bed, I'll be waking up with 2 black eyes. It's like a compulsion to be on the internet, whether its work or research, 24/7, laptop, blackberry or I've even found in shopping centres I like to use the kiosks to see if anything has changed in the serps! Nerd, Uber Geek, call me what you want but I do have one redeeming thing in all this and thats the missus. She kicks me in the arse and makes sure I get out to socialise and get a bit of sunlight on my face!


On the outsourcing thing, it took me a while outsourcing copywriting until I found one whoose copywriting I'm happy with. It's usually $20 to rewrite a 500 word page or $100 to write a 1000 word sales page. A bit expensive compared to the standard $5 you'd pay in outsourcing to india but still cheaper than here and the quality is consistant.

At the beginning, it was like there was 3 of me doing everything, design, content, seo and sales. It's taken a year and a half to put the right relationships in place to outsource certain aspects like content writing, link building etc but it can be done.

I still get the odd rush of panic would somebody elses work be up to my standard. Then I have to look at the life/work balance and realise it's worth it. Whoose going to remember in 100 years?

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