"A blog to be named later" finally has

after several years with the working title of "A blog to be named later", I finally settled on a new Title, "Arbitrarium"...a place to collect and express my arbitrary thoughts...

Other ways to be Charitable

Given some constraints of my job (i.e. it requires me to work, so I have reduced time), I’ve been searching for other ways to give to be more charitable (other than direct financial giving.)

A friend of mine, recommend, I investigate Volunteering to be a board member at Charity Organization I want to be involved with. I found this to be a fascinating suggesting. It has sat on the back of my mind for a few months now, nagging for some action. So I figured writing it down would be a good first step.

So I want resume my investigation of finding a Charity to serve on the Board of.

See more progress on: Serve on Charity Board of Directors

jumped into the writers Co-Op, published first article on Helium

For those of you looking for a place to write, check out http://www.helium.com, it has an open market place, Debates, writing contests, open articles, etc…so it s a good place to start. There is also ways to earn revenue, based on number page hits on your articles, and the contests usually have a cash prize. Sort of a writing co-op.

I recommend getting an account and start writing…(or better yet, send me a request, and I’ll invite you as a writer…well this is better for me, as it changes my earning profile, if I invite more writers…)

To my point, I wrote my first article a few weeks ago, so if you are feeling brave…

Check it out

See more progress on: Write more

Alive, not sure if I'm well....in the meantime, I've been paid back...many times

well, that was a long hiatus from maintaining my blog...I'm very bad at creating habits, like writing regularly...but I'll try again..

I've also been slack in my Kiva giving as well. Tonight, I was determined to start to knock some stuff off my "To-Do" list. One item, was to re-lend any repayments on kiva as well as give my normal monthly amount (which is several months late...but I digress...) anyway, I noticed that I know have received 20 successful repayments!! So I was pretty psyched about that. 20 loans, 20 repayments. I have several loans in "raising funds" and in progress, but 20 successful cycles made me happy.

I've been lending on Kiva since Nov 2006, so about 18 months. No defaults yet either. 2% delinquency, but heck, such is life.

Other milestones I'm looking forward to, is 100 loans made, but that seems to be some time off in the future.

If you haven't joined the micro lending, I'd recommend getting involved.

3rd Re-Lending, July, August loans

I recieved my 3rd repayment from

“Katiuska Gonzalez”

and her pharmacy business (Thanks!!)

I’ve since re-lent the money.

Anyone who has read my previous posts, knows that I’ve pondered different lending patterns to attempt to help a few more people. I have not chosen a set pattern…but I have tried to honor my original aims, which was 4 businesses a month. I was on Holiday for July, so I was slack, but today, I lent out to 4 for July and 4 more for August. Busy day for Lending!!

Check out my lender page if you are curious

See more progress on: Offer a Microloan to someone on the Kiva site