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The perils of affiliate marketing from home!
By ShowMeTheMoney | January 18, 2007
Its around 10.45 and I am sat typing my next masterplan 
on my laptop in my little office. Suddenly there is an almighty bang from across the road and then another and two puffs of smoke rise into the air in the distance. Its like someone has just fired a couple of cannon. The power in the house goes off. In fact the power for about a half mile area goes off. The wind has brought down the high voltage cables. I have no power again in the house until 9.30pm that evening. My laptop goes flat within half an hour and there is no internet as there is no power to the router.
Ok so my brother comes over at lunch time as he is doing a job nearby. Lets see, what shall we do as there is no power to do any computer work?
Hmm lets fix that annoying leak in the bathroom. There has been a drip from the fresh water feed to the toilet for about three days and its getting worse. He starts to tighten the joint up but the more he tightens the worse it gets. Its now slightly spraying from the pipe. Ok lets turn the water off and fix it properly. Whoops. you know the plumber broke the stop cock when he did the bathroom job about three years agokeep meaning to sort it out but you know how it is..well yes but its not completely bust is itI mean you can turn it down to a trickle right err actually no.Ok so we have a slight problem we have a burst pipe and we cant turn the water off at the mains, not even err like a little bit..
So let me recap for you so far, remember folks I am just warming up here. I have no power to the house, I have a pipe spraying water in the bathroom and I cant shut the water off.
I also have a dentist appointment for 3.30pm. I had some root canal work done last week and its been giving me hell ever since. Something is obviously not right and I need it sorted before weekend. I positively cant not go, if you know what a dying nerve in you tooth feels like then you know why the house could get blow down by a mini tornado and it wouldnt stop me getting my tooth fixed. Whoopsdid I say mini tornado?
Queue the 80 Mph wind gusts. In the space of ten minutes the wind goes totally berserk. Its like something out of that film twister! I knew it was getting bad when some horses came pounding up the track outside the house and took off up the main road rider less! The wind was so bad they were spooked and had managed to get out of their field. Two minutes later the security guard from the nearby factory is knocking at my door, he asks if I know who the horses belong to, a least I think thats what he says as the wind is howling like a frigging banshee. Unbeknown to him hes just had a miraculous near death experience! As I start to open my mouth to answer, half the coping stones are blown off the roof 30 foot above and land about two feet behind him. One embeds itself six inches into the lawn! These are not namby pamby slates, these are three foot long solid slabs. He does not look happy. In fact he looks a bit peeky! He says, f*cking hell, what the f**k was that, ## **ing, *** etc maybe he will get religion, he certainly needs a change of underwear!
Around the back the wind takes out another ridge of coping stones and smashes the greenhouse. Next doors fence looses a few full sized panels and the stables up the track loses half a roof and the side of the barn! Nice!
No power, raging water leak, wrecked roof, smashed greenhouse, unmissable dentist appointment. Roll on Friday 13th
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