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The Briz pawnshop in downtown Vancouver, Washington specializes in musical instruments. Over the phone they estimated the could lend me $150 for them, but that won't be definite until they can inspect them. Both are in mint condition though.

I'll use the money to promote my business, mainly postage for junk mail to potential clients, as well as printing of business cards and PO box rental.

Yes I now live in Vancouver now - but I still work in Portland. No one needs to know that I work from Shari's Restaurant and Pies. If I purchase a $2.35 coffee, I get a power socket, wifi and restroom all night long.

Plus I get to flirt with a special lady. ;-)

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A great many - not just here at SN - have harshly criticized my amateurish website design. While presently it's an experiment, it's inspired by the websites of many world-reknowned coders, such as Ward Cunningham and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Somewhere I found a free webhost that specializes in technology professionals. I don't recall the URL but those guys are definitely Rocket Scientists. Every last one of them has a website just like mine.

At least my website has a logo.

The actual response I've received is entirely from hard-core techies. My experience is that those folks are the best clients.

I used to get a lot of work from non-technical people, such as some marketing chick who made bank in the dot-com boom, but every last one of those people gave me grief - including the sole owner of a $200,000,000.00 hedge fund.