So far all is quite on the contract job front. I have contact Metro paper again after another rep. left a few voice mails for me, I figured I'll give them one more try. This rep. so far know what she's doing and so far are on the way to getting an ad in this weekend's paper.
I have started a new blog over on livejournal the address is: http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottpenton/415.html
I still will be updating here on blogger too so stay tuned. :)