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Well, summer is pretty much here.  (Come on we all count Memorial Day weekend as the real start of Summer).  For most people that means relaxing at the beach, grilling and pretty much just getting a tan after a day at the office.

Not me….

See, I do get to relax.  Every weekend I go to Kymer’s Camping Resort in Branchville, NJ.  I’ve been up there for 20 seasons, every weekend from April 1st till November 1st.  It’s nice to have a place up in the woods.  It’s very relaxing.

However when you own an online store you really don’t get time to “relax”.  I may be away from the computer and the internet when I’m up there but I still get all my sales sent to my cell phone so I can make sure I’m keeping up with my customers and making sure that they get what they need in a timely manner.

Now, on top of that we have Castle No Fear.  A gaming community that wants more games.  I have “plenty” of new games to add, problem is, I don’t have the time to add them since I’m still working on getting as many products added to the store as possible before the Holiday shopping season starts in September.

September?

Oh yea….that’s the start of the Holiday shopping season when you own an online store.   Crazy huh?

Anyways, between going away on weekends, adding products, processing orders, adding games, managing an internet radio station, attempting to blog on this site, and being a husband and father…..I need a clone.

Even without one though, I couldn’t be happier.

~NFM

I work hard, every day.  I add products to the store, I advertise, I push my mind to a point that I end up giving myself a headache from staring at the screen and trying to think of awesome new creative ways of getting people to check out the store.  However……the other side of me….that’s competitive.

First I had Siarlis (a member at Castle No Fear) get ahead of me in gamerscore on XBOX 360.  I couldn’t believe it!  I was supposed to be the top guy there!  So…I battened down the hatches and played anything I could that I had to try and get back ahead of him….and I did it too…

Now…I have another friend who tosses me a real challenge….

When the XBOX 360 came out I was outside in line from 8PM in the cold rain on that November night.  In line with me was DarkestOne another XBOX Live gamer….we both got our 360’s at the same time….launch systems….

Now he’s cracked the 30,000 gamerpoints mark…and I “just” cracked the 25,000…..

I must get ahead of him!!!!!!

The Race Is ON!!!

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Wow….I’ve been gone a while haven’t I?  Yea….I saw that coming a mile away.  I get so involved in so many different things that for some reason I never have time for me.  Yes….this site is supposed to be “me”.  The drivelings of my mind….well….here we go again.

Let’s start with why I disappeared…..again.  My last post was back in June of 2008.  The campground (Kymers Camping Resort) I have been going to for 20 years would be in “full swing” at that time.  That means I would be there every weekend.  In other words I had no “spare” time.

During this time though I did more work at the store Serendipity Deals adding more products and categories….and removing crap from a shitty supplier.  Speaking of….if anyone out there is planning on starting their own online store….STEER CLEAR OF DOBA.  I can’t stress that enough.  Wait…on second thought….you would then be competition wouldn’t you?  In that case….by all means….go get screwed!  However….my Doba rant is enough for another post all on its own.

How about the Castle?  Castle No Fear had one hell of a year last year getting tons of new users and we have over 1100 games for you to play for FREE.  I try and add about 6 new games a week now…typically on Fridays.  Stop by and have some fun.  We upgraded the gold system (which we refer to as Dole) as well as the arcade…and added an AWESOME casino to spend your not so hard earned dole on.

Let’s not forget that Fired Up Radio also celebrated it’s first birthday this passed February 1st!  Wooo!  Go drama free radio!

Oh….yea….my latest triumph?  After a stale, stagnent year with NFMDesigns.com I finally destroyed the “brick wall” page that I had that was difficult to read.  I dropped Joomla from the site and installed Drupal 6.1 and now it has new life!

So….expect to finally see some more activity at these sites as I’m on a full press (I know I left out “court” but I hate basketball) to bring my madness to the world!

(queue evil laugh)

~NFM

Today, April 22nd 2008 is my two year wedding anniversary. I’m a lucky guy. My wife and I will be going out to dinner tonight…nothing fancy actually. Just a “sentimental” dinner at “Cheeseburger in Paradise”.

What?

Yup, on our honeymoon two years ago we went to Universal’s City Walk and had dinner on the outside porch of Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville” and the live performer sang our wedding song for us while we ate….so since that was a good memory we are going to have dinner at another “Buffet” themed place.

Other than that….what have I been up to since back in February?

Well…I’ve been adding products to Serendipity Deals like a madman! Over 670 products and counting now! Also did some other advertising stuff with Google Adwords and Google Base so by all means check it out! BTW, if you want a 5% discount on your purchase use coupon code “NFM” without the quotes….some restrictions apply.

Today was also another amazing feat! For the hell of it I decided to check out the search string stats for my other site Castle No Fear to see what keywords people were using to find the site. I found that the most popular search this past week was “Rock Band DLC April 22″….so I went to Google to see where we were on the list against all the video game news sites. To my surprise (at the time of this writing) we were the #1 spot on the list out of about 730,000 sites! NUMBER ONE!!!! That’s amazing! That is one heck of an anniversary gift from Google I’ll tell ya…..lol

Well…till next time….have fun!

~NFM