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Currently, I operate several eBay shops in different categories as a full-time job. In my spare time I like to indulge in writing mobile game guides and reporting on my reselling activities. I occasionally write guides related to Get Paid To sites like FreeCash and Swagbucks, but less than I used to. I previously hosted wikis for: Apex Girl, Road to Rich, Dark Brides, and Passion Pit. In an effort to return this site to Family Friendly skies, I have removed such content.
Gaming

Sort Joy

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Last Updated: Feb 15th, 2026

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Swagbucks Link: https://appm.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1672676/sort-joy?rb=69384823

Table with goals (spending in chart below)

Time Limit: 30 Days

Spending: 6 partially reimbursed purchases.

(Spending chart here)

The difficulty doesn’t seem to increase much outside of level gimmicks and the occasional super hard level.

There seems to be a bug with a handful of levels being functionally impossible without a powerup but the team seemed grateful last time I reported one.

Other than that, I’ve mapped out harder levels by hand to know which block comes next in generators etc and it’s made things a breeze outside of occasional levels I simply can’t manage on my own.

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The game has some very dismal reviews by users. Sentiment is pretty dour. There is some hope from Reddit though where several players report reaching Area 13 ($10).

Areas

Sort Joy is broken into Areas which are compromised of blocks of levels, starting with 15 levels for Area 1.

This chart shows the level progression for subsequent each area in Sort Joy.

1: 15

2: 25

3: 50

4-11: 75

12-19: 100

20: 150

Timers

You are initially given no limits on completing levels. However at level 14 of Area 1, a timer limit will become active.

In further stages of play, levels will include 2 or more stages that must be completed to advance. If a timer is active on a multi stage level, it will not reset between stages.

Boosters

Players start with a few booster items to clear the game board faster. Ads may be watched to gain additional Boosts.

Occasionally, on the Home Screen you can watch a series of ads spaced 2 minutes apart for Coins and Boosts. Seems to pop up every few days.

The game is reliant on advertising and micro transactions for revenue so you will see many ads and offers to spend money.

The frequency of boosters earned through ad views will decrease over time. Around Area 17, the availability of Boosts from ads seems to disappear.

Similarly, the ads that increase Coins after clearing a level also go away.

General Posts, News

Adobe Cloud Storage: Bug or Deception?

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After some sleuthing and head scratching I noticed an issue with the way Adobe Storage manages data in the cloud.

Free accounts receive 5GB of storage space which can be exceeded under certain conditions. For example, uploading multiple files at once which exceed the limit.

If further uploads are attempted after hitting the limit, a red message bar will appear at the head of the page, notifying users that they have run out of space and must either upgrade their account or remove files.

So far this is pretty normal as one might expect of a cloud storage service.

The Bug

However, the issue is that many users find that the storage overage message does not go away or nor does it decrease in size as files are permanently deleted from storage.

This has likely led users to paying for a subscription to increase the storage capacity of their accounts as a way to bypass the “bug.”

But I don’t think it is a bug. I think this is an intentional effort by Adobe to drive users to subscribe. It’s a money machine. Just my opinion.

My Answer

Adobe cloud storage appears to be associating the entire amount of storage overage to all files present when the limit is exceeded. If even a single file remains, all limit overage will be attached to the single item.

I have successfully recreated the issue and fixed it using the method provided below.

After encountering the storage bug, I deleted all but a single 12mb file from my cloud storage. The message read that I was 2.71GB over my 5GB storage capacity.

I was planning on using the remaining 12mb file to create a Short for YouTube after I cleared the storage bug.

I would expect most users to have files in storage that they would rather not have to delete, whether for business or personal use. It’s quite common.

The red bar remained in place after permanently deleting the files, and the overage amount (7.71GB) did not change.

Rebooting, clearing cache, and cookies, had not effect. Following the instructions provided by Adobe Support members also did not clear up the issue.

Since I had a copy of the video file still on my hard drive, i went ahead and sent the last file to the Trash. Then I navigated to Trash and selected the file and Delete Permanently.

You can see in the image above that the system had relegated the entire 7.71GB storage limit overage to the single remaining file in my cloud storage.

An after I deleted the final file, my storage was cleared and the overage message disappeared.

Travel

Raleigh-Durham International Airport, NC

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Article updated on 1/19/2025 to include additional footage from the RDU Observatory Park.

With some free time at the airport while awaiting a relatives arrival, I took some photos of planes and the sculpture, and easter eggs in the airport entrance and waiting areas.

I had a bad experience with the parking area and got lost, then got charged extra. I was there for about an hour and a half, but I was charged for 3 hours.

RDU Observatory Park

On my return to the airport to drop off my relative, I got to take some much clearer shots of the planes at Terminal 2.

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North Carolina
Daily Writing, Errant Literary

Another 30 to go

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What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

Given my relative health and current medical conditions, I think 70 is a conservative estimate. My father is in his 80s and my mother is mid 60s, both have lived varied lives with very different upbringing.

I think older generations have been able to achieve longer lives due to diet and exercise in their formative years.

Science has revealed that many of the modern wonders I grew up with have not been particularly healthy choices. So, living to 70 is probably the best I can mange.

This isn’t a happy conclusion, as it reminds me that I am running late on normal life experiences like marriage and procreation.

My life up until this point has been a struggle to escape poverty. Realistically, that won’t happen in the time I have left in this world.

Once my family has departed this realm, I will be alone and without my safety net. There is still so much knowledge about living that I do not possess.

Knowledge is generally what gives the edge to people when circumstanes and situations come up unbidden. Those with some ken of how things work are far better equipped to handle the unexpected.

They come out on top when challenges occur. I’ve managed to scrape by; but it is a losing game, and I am running out time.

Daily Writing, Errant Literary

Live Proactively

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What could you do differently?

But that’s a difficult ask this far into my life. I’m pretty set in my ways at this point.

Barring a second life altering occurrence, any significant changes are unlikely. I had such an event back in 2020, and it did lead to significant changes in my life.

Life altering events are rarely a good time. Hopefully, the next one that comes around won’t hurt too much.

Side Hustles

Got Scammed

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I recently had an item returned on eBay, pretty standard, I have free returns enabled for all items.

Unfortunately, this time the buyer swapped out the item for a similar one and then initiated a return. I’m a bit leery of eBay policies, so I won’t post the buyers name here. I have reported them though.

The item sold was a two pack of black and color ink for Canon printers. When I got the return shipment arrival notice, I issued the refund without concern. I didn’t check the returned item until the next day.

That was my mistake.

The BLACK ink cartridge was swapped. The buyer even returned it in a hard case with an orange sticker on it. The one I shipped was sitting in an open plastic wrapper with a Yellow/Green seal on it.

Weighing the cartridge also revealed it was 0.8 oz lighter than a full unit.

What I sold (no case)
What they sent back (in a case)

My loss is the dollar I paid for the ink plus the return shipping cost of $4.76. I can still probably sell the color cartridge on its own and I can recycle the BLK one for a small return.

It still is disappointing, I don’t recall any other times I had a bad buyer.

I’ve had odd returns certainly, like when someone sends and offer or haggles over the prices in chat and then returns it saying they ordered by mistake.

I mean, like, just imagine someone pulling that crap at a yard sale. “Oh, yeah I didn’t mean to buy that.” What? After you spent an hour haggling the price down!

Daily Writing, Side Hustles

An ad for this site

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If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

My billboard would be a post advertising this website and the gaming guides and available on it. I bet I would get a lot of traffic with kind of visibility a billboard could provide.

I’ve had some success with YouTube ads for my referral links with MyPoints, Swagbucks, and FreeCash.

My site review for Inbox Dollars was also very effective and my net earnings from referrals for that platform are currently $766.33. With each platform, I earn 10% for the lifetime of the referred account.

This means the people who signed up with my link earned $7,663.30 using the platform. That’s just from Inbox Dollars alone. It’s closer to $10k if you include the other sites.