Arrrgh. Soon the cyclical summer doldrums to my regular income (ads) will hit and I’ll have to depend on selling domain names much more. That is becoming increasingly difficult, in most areas. Some new arenas have opened up, and I’m working to take advantage of those, but it means revamping websites.

Sometimes it seems like I have a cave full of gold nuggets — but each nugget is encased in a stone boulder, just a bit of gold showing its presence. And the donkeys I tried to harness to carry the boulders up to the surface keep running away to eat carrots somewhere. Without a donkey army, I struggle to carry each nugget out of the cave one by one.

When I get them to market, the buyer needs tools to chop the nugget free of the boulder. This thins out prospective buyers.

So it’s a definite lack of donkeys here slowing me down. (I guess it’s actually a question of mules, not donkeys.) But the market itself is spectacular to look at.