Living in a hotel. Thank God for churches or we would be totaly homeless. Managed to beg for one more weeks worth of money from another church. We found an opening in a subsidy apartment but we need to get all the paperwork done to get in.

My wife found a job and got hired, but her actually being able to keep the job with her fibromyalgia will be interesting. But we had to have proof of income to get the apartment for now.

The ex-husb never sent the 2K he was behind for the year so he probably went to jail for 6mos. That means that our monthly $400 income just disappeared as well. I got my second denial for disability benefits so now I have to find a lawyer. I hear that once a person gets a disability lawyer they have it made - it is just a matter of making it until the hearing.

If anybody can send us an extra buck or two - send it to rxhector2k5@yahoo.com via paypal.

Thats all for now - thanks
joe the broke carpenter.

Finally There

Yesterday was the last day in our house. A bunch of people from church came to help us get everything into storage.

We are living in a hotel now - until next monday the 15th anyway.

If something doesnt happen between now and then we will be 100% homeless.

If only the damn disability process went a little faster.

Last Night Here

This is our last night at this house. We have everything packed and ready to go, so first thing in the morning we have to find a storage shed to put everything in. We at least know that we have secured a hotel for 1 week so that took a little burden off our shoulders.

Our new found inventor friend took us to dinner and we talked about some business and manufacturing ideas. What a crazy day. I'm one nights sleep away from being homeless and I end up talking about business ventures over dinner, thats truly funny. At least we got to take a break from the hustle bustle of packing.

Well, it will probably be a while before I get to post again so everybody pray that we make it through the next week and find some real income to find a permanent place to live.

Thanks
joe - the broke carpenter

The End

We faught like hell, but it wasnt good enough. Everything is in boxes ready to go. We have until Monday at 12:00(noon) to have everything out of the house.

Every plan we could come up with fell through. We won our lawsuit against old landlords for $800 and the wifes ex owes her $2100 by Jan20th or he gets sent to jail.

So, thats $2900 we have coming but it just wont be here soon enough - just figures. My wife just got a call about a job she put her resume in for but now we have to be out of this house and wont have access to our phone# so even if she did get the "Your Hired" phone call we dont have anyway to know.

This really sucks - I've been waiting forever for my disability claim but that antiquated system may as well be running on square wheels.

All I ever wanted out of life was to be a good carpenter, but my back went to hell and I just cant work anymore, what the hell does a person do while they wait for disability benefits?

Went to have coffee with a friend of ours today and ran into this really cool old guy that has some really neat business ideas - hell I have some really cool business ideas but I have no time and no money. This old guy was really interested to know that I have some limited computer skills but once again, even a chance encounter with an opportunity to do something I have no time and no money to do anything.

Down to the Wire

Well, we got the official papers to be out by Mon Jan 9th or ELSE. That means anything left in the house is lost. My wifes ex still hasnt sent the $2100 he is behind and the other landlords havent sent us the $800 we won in court.

This is such a pain in the ass. All this money that other people owe us and we are still going get screwed in the end.

We do have some interesting news on the good side for once though. We found a job managing a hotel - two bedroom apartment included. We just have wait a couple days for the "Bonding" papers to go through. Yeah, we have all the time in the world. At least its one option.

My wife got a call about a job she applied for right before xmas, but with this situation we are in its hard to know whether or not she will be able to take it.

Just say a prayer that we get the hotel managment job, maybe if the landlord knows we have found a place to move we can get him to give us a couple more days to get everything moved.

Hopefully we will know more tommorow.

Happy New Year 2006

Here we are at 2006 - the only year I've ever had to start by fighting an eviction right out of the gate.

I have been praying that one morning I wake up and put on my tool belt and start building houses again but to no avail - that prayer has not been answered yet. The good lord must have something else in mind for me.

I can only hope that being homeless isnt part of the plan.

Take care - if you can spare a buck or two make a donation - I even have a new advertising section on the right - send me your logo/image and a link and you boost your web-site PR with another link.

Thanks - Joe the broke carpenter

The end of the road.

I took the only $200 I could round up to the landlord this morning and he refused to take the money. So it will be pretty soon that we are homeless with the kids. We took our old landlords to court - the ones that kept all of our last deposit - and we won "woohoo". So we will have some money coming but not soon enough. We have been constantly late and behind with everything and even though we had our day in court - we won't have the money soon enough.

Our current landlord just wants his money "NOW!!!" and doesnt want to wait for us to be able to collect from the other landlords.

With no resources left I dont know what we are going to do now. If we dont have a steady residence I dont know how I am going to be able to even keep up with my Disability claim.

If anybody has it in them to help - please - I have been humbled and I am begging again. The suck part about it is - it doesnt get any easier the more you do it. IT only gets harder. It is a huge weight to carry. If it were just me and my wife it wouldnt be so bad, but we have children we have to think about here.

thats it for today. Maybe I'll have it in me to write something else later.

Joe - the broke carpenter

Holding on

Kids had a good xmas anyway. We finally stood up for ourselves and took the previous landlords to court and WON - woohoo. The only problem is actaully collecting. They asked the judge if they could have 30 days - yeah, like their broke.

Unforntunately my current landlord doesnt want to wait 30 more days for his rent, so we still have to figure something out. I have one more day to get something together before I go see the landlord. Prayers have got me this far.

I haven't had alot of time to work on my eBook or getting any websites up to make money. I don't know, who am I kidding anyway. It will still take days if not weeks for web sites to get indexed by search engines. Plus I have to figure out how to get everything edited anyway. Hell, even just figuring out how do the links and stuff on this page took forever.

My wife has a valid point, the more time I spend ignoring her and the kids - is more time they all hate this infernal computer. Maybe I should just give up and wait for the Disability. But the stress of not knowing whether I can find some way to hold off the landlord let alone find some other way to pay the other bills too - all the stress is just driving me crazy.

There really needs to be some magic button a person can push that will put everything on hold for a little while so they can at least think about what the hell is going on so they can try to make a game plan.

Every time we sit down and try to figure out a plan or even go through paperwork to get an idea of just where we stand - some other unexpected event happens to stop us in our tracks before we can even get a pencil on the paper.

Oh well, such is life. I will just pray some more and go beg at the churches again. Every day that goes by is one more day that I am closer to getting my disability. Well, if you've managed to get this far and you have anything left after Xmas, try to help me keep the roof over my kids heads. They need someplace to keep their extra xmas stuff.

Thanks
Joe - the broke carpenter

Merry XMAS

Well, the kids had a good xmas thanks to the help of local charities. But we only have until the 29th to come up with some cash for the landlord. Here we are praying for another month, hopefully my disability will go through this time. Oh, wait - it is the holiday season. If you think government moves slow during the regular year you can only imagine the procrastination and paper shuffling that can go on during this time of year.

I have some really cool ideas for an eBook, and for some web sites. If I only had some cash and some time to put my ideas to use. I am trying to get something going using free web-hosting but I still need enough time for the search engines to pick up the pages.

If anybody has any cash left after the holidays LOL - help me keep the roof over my kids heads for another month.

Thanks
Joe -the disabled carpenter
p.s. (look for a donation button somewhere below - I don't feel like making a new one)

One More Time

9:00 seems to be the standard time for delivery of eviction notices. It never fails. You can't get one of these when the kids aren't home and then when they ask why the police came you just tell them don't worry about it. Here it is 4 days before x-mas and I don't need my kids worried about being homeless.

I tried to do some part time article writing and made a few bucks, but part time for me was 20 hours a day and I still wasn't going to make enough to pay the bills anyway. Then I thought I would try to throw up a bunch of "you can make money on the internet" websites but that isn't working out so good either.

I spend almost all my time on this computer trying to figure out how to save our ass and everything else gets neglected. My kids are ignored, my wife is ignored. Nothing seems to be going right.

We have managed to scrounge up a little bit of money here and there, but you can only get so much from so many before there isn't any left and I don't know how much longer we can hold our ground. This is just crappy timing.

Still Here - Barely

For those of you not familiar with my blog here let me get you up to speed. I am a carpenter with a bad back filing for disability. So until I actually get approved for disability the only thing I can do is panhandle on the internet - until we become homeless (I have a wife and kids). I have been trying to get an online eBook sales website running, but it is hard to concentrate on getting anything really done because I am continually spending much of my time looking for resources to save our ass.

I actually have a couple sites up and running - I just havent had enough time to advertise them yet. If you happen to be in the position to help keep a family from becoming homeless - you can look for one of my "Make a Donation" buttons, or even better - I would like to think that you can get something for your efforts, so look at the few opportunities that I have up and running in my links section.

Thanks
Joe - the broke - almost homeless carpenter

Another Crazy Idea

Well, I stumbled onto a bunch of "make money from home" websites. I have seen these things on the internet for years and never thought they really worked. But after doing a lot of searching I have actually found several multiple matching web-sites.

So I can say that I think they really do work, so I decided to try one and see how it goes. Day 1 - Dec 17, 2005 I launched my first internet sales site. It is a freebie at Rxhectors Geocities Website.

If anyone stumble onto my site here and doesn't think that an outright donation to a disabled carpenter is worth thier time, you can at least visit my geocities link above and get something in return for helping me out.

Thanks,
Joe the broke carpenter.

P.S. - if you can help a family in need - we are fighting eviction once again. I have managed to last three months on the generosity and kindness of others. I am still fighting for Disability benefits but until that happens I have to hope my crazy online business works or enough people help me out.

Here we go again.

Well, we made it through Thanksgiving thanks to a small miracle. But alas, here we are two weeks before Christmas with another 3-day notice. All I need is for social security to come through for me and we will be OK. But I don't see that happening in the next 3 days so we pray for another small miracle.

I'm not going to sugar coat anything. I'm a depressed carpenter with a bad back and I can't work anymore. I have no other job skills to fall back on and even if I did, the morphine I'm on for pain doesn't allow me to concentrate on much of anything anyway.

If some good samaritan stumbles upon my follies, please

to keep my kids warm and dry. Don't worry about presents, we have plenty of help in that department but it will do us no good unless we have a roof to keep them under.


Well, thanks for visiting.

Banks Suck !!!

Through all this BS for the last year, I have barely managed to hold on to my bank account. Just recently, I made one too many purchases however. I almost never have cash because I put every penny I get into the bank. It is far easier for my crippled worhtless disabled ass to make a phone call and pay a bill with my visa check card than it is for me to try to physically get to wherever and write a check.

Just the other day my bank informs me that I made one overdraft too many, and even though they charge me $20 for every overdraft they are cancelling my visa check priveledges. I tried to explain to these idiots that I am disabled and trying to get from point a to point b to pay my bills is not very easy.

But to no avail, the corporate world has no cares for the disabled. It seems that even though my bank gets to make extra money when i fuck up isn't good enough for them. I went round and round with those idiots and they just don't get it. They basically told me they personally don't care that I can't get around very easy.

Thats OK, because when I finally do get my SSI income, the first thing I am going to do is fix my old fucked up other bank accounts and then switch to another bank.

As a result I couldn't make my payment for the washer and dryer - Rent a center doesnt take checks, only money order or visa - they were real assholes too. Because I am always late on my payments they like to complain about how broke they are. Shit, if your business can't afford to wait for a payment then maybe you shouldn't fuckin be in business.

This back problem really sucks. I bust my ass for all those years to be broke all the time anyway and now I get to be treated like shit because I can't work. Sometimes it just really fucking pisses me off.

Enough of me whining about myself. If you have an extra buck or two - help me get the kids something for under the tree.

Thanks - the broke carpenter

Graceful

Well, we have stalled our eviction for the holidays at least. I have no idea how I am going to come up with enough money for christmas for the kids but at least I know they will be warm and dry.

I really want to get my oldest his own TV so he can play video games in his room without taking over the living room TV and leaving his little brothers with nothing to do. I went and helped a church with their website and network and made a few bucks today, if only I could stumble into more extra work like that I might survive.

Trying to climb out of a hole like this once you fall in is almost impossible. I finally broke out of my depression and got involved in this affiliate program and I was actually optimistic for a little while. It hasn't panned out like I thought it would, but I haven't really been working on it enough to get anything out of it.

I spent most of the last two weeks fighting off this eviction. Maybe now I can concentrate on my other miscellaneous internet projects again.

A little bit of luck

Well, we actually made some progress and got the landlord to take the money we scrounged up from panhandling. We still have a long way to go though. I re-filed for disability and told them I am fighting an eviction, I think they are going to try and speed up the process because of this but who knows.

I managed to do some part-time stuff from home, like editing graphics and stupid stuff like that, but it's still nowhere near paying the bills. At least we can get a pack of smokes here and there. Yeah, yeah, I know - what the f*** are you doing buying cigarettes. Well number 1) im addicted, number 2) if i don't smoke during this stress I'll go insane. We've tried quiting a couple times with some OK results. Hey it took awhile to get the bad habit - it'll take a little while to get rid of it.

If I can just make it one more month I think the disability will come through for us. I am trying to keep my faith but it gets hard sometimes.

Well, I gotta go see if I can learn how to make a million bucks from the internet. So until I figure it out everybody take care.

P.S. - if you got a few minutes and $10 to spare check out the famous $40,000 pay-pal letter here. Who knows, maybe it will work. I haven't had any responses yet - but I gotta find somewhere to advertise it i guess.

Biggest farce of the year

Here we are, the biggest shopping day of the year. Everyone is going to go shopping so they can numb their senses to everything that going on in our nation. Those of us lucky enough not to have a screwed up back and having to battle the landlord just to have a miserable daily existance will believe that dumping their extra change into the little red Salvation Army bucket once a year actually makes a difference.

If only there were more people in the world that believed this on a daily basis we might actually get somewhere. Yes there are lots of wonderful opportunities out there for people to change their lifes, but with a continually failing economy and an even more failing welfare system things are only going to get worse.

I went to my local Division of Human Services for help and there is no more "emergency" funds available to prevent people from becoming homeless. I was told that since I have filed for Disability benefits that I am a lazy worthless piece of s***, and that if go get a minimum wage job somewhere that my life will be OK.

BULLSHIT - I worked my ass off for 15 years, I worked so hard that I screwed up my back and live in pain from the minute I wake up to the minute I go to bed and this fu**** rotten little pencil pusher who probably goes home and makes his wife mow the lawn and take out the trash is going to tell me I'm lazy.

He better hope I don't get approved for Disability, because the first thing I'm going to do when it happens is spit in his face.

A last resort

Hello everybody thats been keeping up with me. I managed to scrounge up $10 for this famous oprah letter that I have heard so much about. If anybody wants, give it a try with me and lets see how far it goes.

That's Right $40,000 dollars in your PayPal account - IT WAS PROVEN ON NATIONAL TV & IT S COMPLETELY LEGAL!!!

$10 Dollars... That's all it takes...I'll try to keep it short and sweet.

FIRST, PRINT THIS OUT TO FOLLOW

INSTRUCTIONS EASIER!

To get started just right mouse click and copy this whole page and paste it in an e-mail to edit it. Simply follow the instructions below and in 2 to 3 weeks, you will have at least $40,000 dollars in your PayPal account. Most people respond to this program because of the low investment ($10 dollars) and high profit potential. There is no limit to the income you can generate from this (you can do it over and over).

If you follow the instructions, you will reach thousands of people! Honesty, Faith, and Integrity make this system work. I think everyone has heard of "PayPal". Anyone with an e-mail address can join for F*R*E*E*!

If you're not already a PayPal user, the first thing you need to do is sign up for a BUSINESS account with them, or if you already have a personal PayPal account you need to upgrade to a business account, so you will be able to receive payments. Just click the link below! It's really easy to set up and it’s F*R*E*E.
https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=PZKVPAX84DMN2

TEAM WORK MAKES THIS DREAM WORK! LET'S GET STARTED: Send a $5.00 dollar donation from your PayPal account to THE FIRST e-mail address on the list along with a note saying "Please add me to your list". Now send the other $5.00 donation and e-mail to the 5th person on the list saying "Thanks I've joined". Remove the 1st e-mail address and place your address at the bottom This moves the 2nd to 1st, 3rd to 2nd, 4th to 3rd, and the 5th place to 4th.

DO NOT TRY TO PLACE YOURSELF IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT WILL ONLY REACH THE PEOPLE YOU SEND IT TO, AND THEN YOUR NAME WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE LIST! If you do this the way it was designed it will reach thousands by the time your name gets to the top.

REMEMBER TO SEND:

1) A $5.00 dollar donation to the 1st person from the list
with a message saying "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST,
2) And send a $5.00 donation to the 5th person from the list with the message saying: "THANKS I'VE JOINED". This lets the 5th person keep track of progress of the letter and continue to send out more emails.

Here is the list:

1. corebell2000@yahoo.com
2. shelcaugh@yahoo.com
3. maluisa@ch.cablemas.com
4. becca_evans42@hotmail.com
5. rxhector2k5@yahoo.com

1. Now that you have paid the 1st person and 5th person & sent them both an email & a note, place your e-mail address in the 5th place. (Make sure it's the same e-mail address that you used to open your PayPal account). This is the way you will receive payment. OK, the only thing left to do is to mail out at least 20 copies of this letter. It is the job of the 5th person on the list to ensure there are at least 20 "thank you I joined" replies. The fifth person is the guardian of the system! If there are not at least 20 replies then the fifth person will keep sending the letter until there is.

MAKE SURE YOU SEND $5 DOLLARS TO THE FIRST PERSON TO THANK THEM FOR WHEN THEY WERE THE GUARDIAN OF THE LETTER and $5 DOLLARS TO THE FIFTH PERSON SO MORE EMAILS CONTINUE TO GO OUT! As you will also receive gratis - thanks AND THE SAME BLESSING. When your name is on the 1st slot, 8,000 to 15,000 people will send you 5 dollars!

DO NOT TRY TO PUT YOURSELF IN FIFTH PLACE WITHOUT PAYING, AS PAYPAL WILL AUTOMATICALLY NOTICE THIS AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND POSSIBLY PURSUE LEGAL ACTION , SINCE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE PROGRAM, AND THEY ARE PART OF IT!

Keep in mind... the most you spent is $10 DOLLARS! (Remember... what goes around comes around)

TESTIMONIALS:

Mary Gatters, Columbus, SC: I only have one thing to say to you... OH MY GOD! I sent out 142 copies total before 20 replied, like the instructions said. Then I went on a short vacation. When I got back my account had over $32,000 dollars in it already and the money was still coming! I'm still
floating on air (especially with my new car). I thought
the 'guardian' system sounded cheesy, but now I realize it is the formula that makes this letter really work! THANKS!

LET'S RECAP STEPS:

Step 1. Set up your PayPal account, if you don't already have one, and send the top name (1st person) $5.00 dollars. DON'T FORGET to include "Please add me to your list".

Step 2. Send the other $5.00 dollars and an e-mail stating "Thank you I've Joined" to the 5th name on the list.

Step 3. Remove the top name, bump the other 4 names up 1 place each Place your name in the bottom slot - you will receive a minimum of $100.00 or more from your efforts.

Step 4. Keep sending the letter until you get 20, "Thank you I've joined" replies in your inbox.

I know that you have seen this on TV or even received numerous messages about this simple program and have probably just deleted them, I know I have! But for some unknown reason this time I decided to give it a try, after all, only a $10.00 investment!

Please give it an honest effort, you will not be disappointed and will be very glad you did when it starts to work. Remember, all you're going to be out of pocket is about the cost of a couple of coffees with the opportunity of banking thousands of dollars into your PayPal account!

Yours In Great Success & Prosperity!

Joe W

The Last Days

Well, this is our last day before we have to go to court and tell the landlord and the judge that we have no money. So not only are we going to be evicted (which will show up on our credit - not like that really matters anyway). So when and if we get anything together, we won't be able to rent anywhere because they will see the eviction on our report and assume we are bad people.

I hate how this world works. If you ever have even just the smallest problem, it will haunt you long after. I really am at my wits end. The crappy luck just won't go away. I go to church, I help the church and other people out the best I can. Hell, one of our good friends was almost homeless once and we let her and her kids live with us for a year.

Why does this shit keep happening to me and my family. We don't drink, we don't do drugs, we don't steal, we don't lie. We are good honest people. I just have a bad back and my wifes fibromyalgia has been getting worse lately.

Well, if anybody happens to stumble on this you can help me out by sending a donation via pay-pal to rxhector2k5@yahoo.com. I have just become involved in these following programs. I have had a little luck with this one, and I just started this other one , so i don't know if there is any results yet.

Well, take care - hopefully I can write something a little more upbeat tommorow.

Running out of time

OK, so we are down to the last couple days here. We have learned that my wifes ex-husband who only pays his child support when it's convenient has just bought a new house, has a kick ass IRA, and still thinks that it's not his fault we are so far behind because he only pays his support when he feels like it.

We are sick and tired of being screwed by everybody. Our last landlords kept our $750 depost, after we spent hours and hours cleaning, so we are suing them. Oregon law says that we can sue them for double, COOL. But we don't have that court date until Dec27th, we'll be far homeless by then. We are going to sue the wifes ex-husband for everything he owns and ruin his life just like he ruined ours.

Forgive and forget my ass. My whole life I have lived by forgive and forget, turn the other cheek and the meek shall inherit the earth. I'll inherit the earth all right, to sleep on. We have had it. We are down to survival of the fittest here, and all these people that have wronged us in the past are going to start getting their just desserts.

I am usually not vindictive, quite the contrary. I am usually known for being mellow and just letting things go. Actually this isn't even really a matter of vindication, it's a matter of I'm in the worst position of my life because I am just a stupid carpenter with a broken back. Even I could just magically walk out the door and build houses again, I still wouldn't get paid soon enough to save my ass anyway.

I've been screwed by so many contractors it's not funny. They are almost worst than landlords. I've been promised the moon, then asked to sign insurance waivers and sork for a shitty $8/hr. I have left those jobs immediately. But then your screwed because you have to go hunt down another job and tell them how the last guy was going to screw you.

It never ends. Why in the hell did I not listen to my old man. Because when your 16 you know it all. Your immortal, invinceable and you will be a rock star.