Want to see a rodent eating Easter candy?

[VIDEO] Here's an unusal video to mark this Good Friday. I've been watching videos over the last few weeks by Shawn Woods. His shtick if you will is trapping rodents who may be running around in his barn. And he has a regular feature called "Mousetrap Mondays". It's even the url for his website mousetrapmonday.com.

On this day Woods share with us footage of rodents squirrels, mice, and rats who are eating off of a Reese's peanut butter Easter bunny candy. He's not outright trying to trap these animals he's probably trying to see what creatures are running around on his property. He also finds chipmunks and shrews running around.

When he does his videos on mousetraps they may be live traps where he'll allow the mice to go free and he's may use traps that are fatal. He has said that he's run into issues with YouTube as he's set up his channel to generate revenue, however, an algorithm has determined his videos to not be family friendly. Especially those traps that are designed to kill mice and recently he's even had to unlist those videos of those fatal mousetraps for those of us who want to see how those various traps work. For public consumption he's forced to edit and censor such videos.

I'd recommend this video if you're having issues with rodents at home. Even though Woods live in a rural area for the most part, even city slickers would like to find away to get those pests that invade our space.

Meanwhile, I hope everyone had a wonderful Good Friday and Happy Easter and Happy Passover

Shane Douglas "shoots" on Dixie Carter of Impact Wrestling

[VIDEO] I had to throw in that extra bit of information not the late Dixie Carter of the TV series designing women, the Dixie Carter who was a personality in Impact (formerly TNA - Total Nonstop Action) Wrestling. Carter had money behind her to take Impact to the next level and she had some good perfomers for the product probably thanks to the man who actually founded the promotion WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett. Regardless what does ECW's Franchise say about her well she was clueless.

His advice spot on in fact trying to be more like WWE - err WWF - is what killed World Championship Wrestling. I stopped watching WCW when I began to see their presentation almost certainly resembling WWF. Why watch WWF-lite when I could watch the WWF itself?

His kicker, well TNA - err Impact - shouldn't be like WWF or anyone else they have to become TNA. There's a reason why fans still chant ECW on occasion. Of course Dixie dismisses this because in 2001 Extreme Championship Wrestling went defunct due to finances. That's not to say ECW didn't have an amazing run which forced the two main wrestling companies of the 1990s to change up their game.

I haven't seen Impact since they changed networks - they were formerly on Spike TV now Paramount Network. It interested me because it offered something different particularly an octagon wrestling ring. However, were there some aspects of the presentation that frustrated me yeah. They made the same mistakes WCW made which was to poach WWF talent and I'm not talking about Macho Man or Hulk Hogan or Kevin Nash who appeared on their programming on occasion in past.

Regardless while I never had opportunity to truly get to know product what I did hope for was in some way TNA could become the new WCW. They had some  former WCW talents working their programs. I won't characterize it as a failure, unfortunately it wasn't a success either. My understanding as of now is that Impact is even behind another organization Ring of Honor. And unfortunately other than short videos via YouTube, I never really had the opportunity to follow their product either!

Sloopin: What's Going on With the House Being Built at Dearborn and Polk?

Now if only I knew more about real estate. This structure represents a single family home to be built at Polk & Dearborn with ground floor retail space. Well now we have one way to generate some revenue in a big ole home that's bound to be expensive.

Find an old building on a main thorofare and attach a home to it. It almost reminds me of this set up I found at Curbed Chicago, an old grocery store with apartments for a family attached. The ingenuity of people and their real estate!

Internet side hustles

Last month I wrote a post about whether or not it's time for a tipjar. As indicated in that post here on this blog years & years ago I had written about the need to utilize a PayPal account - most popular method back in 2005 - to raise money for a series of needs. Now the idea of using a blog to make extra income has taken a turn.

From DuplicateMySuccess.com a post that offers 7 legitimate ways to earn money from blogging. Become a book publisher, develop software, sell resources, ship physical products, promote products, offer skills courses, or offer a challenge. In other words one could always turn their blogs or social media channels into side hustles.

As noted over at The Sixth Ward I have Google ads on that blog. It hasn't made me enough money for me to consider doing it entirely full-time however with a job and the blog with ads it's one way to made some side income amongst others.

As far as DuplicateMySuccess.com those are some good ideas just wonder what it takes to fulfill even one of those ventures. Just got to find one that works for me the best.

The "American concorde"

[VIDEO] To be honest, I've never flown on a plane in my life. It would've been cool to see one of these supersonic airliners built and flying around especially going overseas - another thing I've never done.

Unfortunately I never had a chance to fly a Concorde out of this country. Not only have they been pulled out of service during the past decade, I understand that booking a flight on such planes were expensive. If I wanted to go to England for example it's least expensive to just fly on a conventional airliner.

Today however we explore why there was never an American supersonic airliners. Bottom line is that duringthe 1960s when Americans wanted to win the race for technological superiority but the 70s American excitement changes. Also the concept by Boeing just showed that no matter how good American engineers were, there were just too many challenges.

The plane needed to have a cruising speed of close to Mach 3 (or three times the speed of sound) it also has to be financially viable for commercial airlines to operate. Nevermind the engineering challenges of making this happen.

So at first the American gov't was keen on helping to make this happen, as time went on the will just didn't exist to continue public funding of the time. From any gov't in the world would there be a willingness to fund such a project here in the 21st century? Is it in the best interest of any aircraft manufacturing company to create a supersonic airliner?

YouTube channel to watch

[VIDEO] One of the reasons I became interested in model trains again was the many videos on YouTube featuring model trains. Jim Zimmerlin has over 100K subscribers to his channel because he shared videos of his G-scale trains and he's into cruises. Zimmerlin's most recent videos have been about cruise ships he's traveled on or even about to travel on.

If I was serious about my YouTube channel it would mostly be along the same lines. It would share my interests particularly travel or model trains. I've been trying to find some footage that I had shot on my iPhone of my trip in 2016 to California. Perhaps it's time invest in a real camcorder and then familiarize myself with some video editing equipment.

Of course I have thought about doing videos that were more political in nature, but as it so happens. Politics is important however so are developing hobbies outside of politics. This can include photography, videography and model trains.

Meanwhile I recommend you subscribe to Jim Zimmerlin perhaps after he's done doing videos of cruise ships and his cruises, he'll start posting more about his model trains.