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What About Social Spark

I was invited to join SocialSpark when it was in beta.  It’s a sponsored post site with a community spirit run by IZEA.  It sounded like all the good things from PayPerPost with some great improvements in disclosure and using nofollow tags so pagerank didn’t get obliterated.
I was really excited to see the opportunities and […]

When Begging Fails

About a month ago I added one of those scratch back tip jar thingies to the blog and since then I’ve had exactly zero takers.  I know what the problem was in the beginning… I set the minimum tip to $5 because that’s what it said the minimum was on the setup screen.  After realizing […]

Back to School

Well, it’s official.  This August I’ll be returning to school (again.)  As some of you know I’m a volunteer firefighter and EMT here in my hometown.  I’m going to college to earn a degree in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and more importantly, become a Paramedic.
For anyone not in the know, an EMT provides basic life […]

Down, But Not Out

For the last few days this blog and ALL of my other sites have been working intermittently at best.  Each attempt to view seemed to get a different error message.  The friendly folks at 1&1, my host, told me they were aware of the problem and working to fix it.  Silly me, I thought that […]

Growing and Going

Our little guy had his nine-month checkup today, and all is well.  Doc would like to see a little more weight gain which we’ll accomplish with a slight change in diet.  It’s amazing how he’s growing and developing… there’s something new every day.   We still can’t convince him to crawl in the conventional way.  Instead […]

Election Pet Peeves

Election years always seem to bring out more pet peeves in me.  Probably because the annoyances and reminders are everywhere.  For instance, all those signs poking up everywhere ‘vote for this guy’ or whatever create a sea of plastic and print.  How hideous.  It’s not even like you can read 2″ print at 60mph […]

$7 Secrets - Review

Make a lot of money, a little at a time?
Anymore it’s rare for me to actually spend money on a ‘make money online’ program or income opportunity. But something about $7 Secrets got my attention so I decided to give it a whirl. After all - worst case scenario - I’d have a […]