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Archive for May, 2008

Whether you live in the USA, Canada or over in UK land, chances are you or someone in your family is preparing to celebrate that annual day dedicated to paying homage to dear old dad. Gifts are generally expected, and for the average dad, this isn’t too much of a problem for their loved ones. But what about the guy who has "everything?" The guy who’s into land investment as a hobby because the rest of what he does makes him plenty of money? The guy who always has a prime piece of land for sale?

For the golfer dads there is a digital scorecard that tallies performance on up to 10 separate golf courses, including how he stacks up against his golfing buddies. That ought to keep the competitive spirit alive.

If money is no object, why not get Dad an authentic standup video game machine loaded with hundreds of arcade games? Whether he once loved to ply Pac Man, Centipede, Galaga, or Donkey Kong,  It will even play all his favorite music from the 180 gig hard drive.

Or if he’s a star-gazer, why not get him the ultimate sky tool? Using GPS technology, MySky is a point-and-shoot device that locates planets and stars, has tutorials and teaches you as you aim it at the sky. Traditional telescopes can’t do that. Neither can the naked eye.

Over the past year I have developed more online friendships than in the previous three all put together. While I don’t presume to say that I truly know any of them, I am coming to know them as well as can be expected without meeting face to face.

Between interacting on Skype, on teleseminars and on webinars, we hear one another’s voices. This means we can catch the tone, sense the excitement or suspect the insincerity (yes, it happens). And the camaraderie and support I have received from individuals, both whom I can name and those I cannot, has been invaluable. I would love to participate in a live event where we were all able to gather and interact face to face.

Once weekly a few dozen of us gather to brainstorm and share our biggest immediate challenge. To show how thorough these discussions go, I had to leave the room for several minutes, when I left someone had brought up the subject of offshore merchant accounts. It seems her credit card processor temporarily shut down her account when a product launch suddenly went viral on her and she had too many transactions. I returned to the discussion sometime later and by then they had outlined an action plan and offered alternative solutions.

That kind of interaction and support is worth its weight in gold!

I have never been a fan of working hard, though I would never be one to take a shortcut.  I am a firm believer in the thought that shortcuts get back at you, so I want to do it the right way, in the shortest time as possible.

So in my quest to make things easy, I have been looking for some quick and easy web design software to make my task of coding a site less of a nuisance.  I know that there are such products on the market, but I have some criteria that needs to be met before I lay out the money and purchase it.

After looking at many different pieces of software, I think that I have found the answers to my prayers.  The software that I am going to buy has a build in web menu generator, so I no longer have to fool around trying to code it by hand.

I will be trying my first site out tonight – I hope it is as easy as pie!

Before I attended law school, I decided that I was going to study criminal law. This all changed shortly before entering the school. After thirty years of marriage, my father decided that he did not love my mother anymore and served her with divorce papers.

I was so angry with him for putting her through everything that he did and I stood firmly by her side through the whole thing. He had a great lawyer, Eric K. Johnson, and he got way more than he deserved, leaving mom with very little left to survive on. I hated him and I decided that I was not going to sit back and watch other helpless people go through this.

I changed my major and decided that I was now going to become a Utah divorce attorney. I actually love what I am doing, as I know I am helping other women keep a piece of their dignity when everything they ever believed to be true fails them.

My boyfriend owns a pawn shop with his dad and uncle here in town. They’ve been open for several years now and still only have a local number.

While this isn’t that big of a deal since their customer base is mostly close to the shop, they do have some customers who come from the south of town and this puts them outside the calling area of the shop.

They are considering putting in a toll free number to help with this problem. Because they also are a certified gun dealership and broker agency for the state, they get inquiries from all around the state and through out the country. More and more often new people are calling to obtain information on getting guns and an 800 number would be great to advertise with along with the fact that new potential customers won’t have to make a long distance call.

If you’re put off by hard water, by the slightly metallic taste that iron leaves in well water. If you hate the rusty stains inside your sinks and tubs and toilets. If you’re post-menopausal and you know that too much iron in the diet is a leading cause of heart attacks in women after menopause. If all of these issues are concerns of yours, then make certain you do your due diligence in researching the best solution for your household’s water needs.

There are a number of options that are available through local companies, so when you do Internet research, here are some terms to consider using: water softener system, reverse osmosis system, plus the most important search term: i.e. – the name of your town or the nearest city. Cities are the more likely location for companies specializing in water treatment for your home. In fact, geo searches are hot and highly competitive these days. Happy searching!

My boyfriend’s uncle spent a lot of years working on contract for the US Government in other countries. I don’t know exactly what he did there but it was secretive and paid him a lot of money.

He was probably overseas about 15 years total and came back with the rest of his life paid for pretty much. However, he met some women along the way and took a gamble on marriage that didn’t pay off. He lost some to alimony and child support.

But he was and is a fighter. Rather than live with less money, he began trading commodities and playing the stock market. Apparently, he knew the right people or understood the game well enough because he made money. More than he made working for the government!

He is no spring chicken now, but everything is paid for and his son’s life is taken care of also so he has no worries.

He also has no plans of another woman in his life.

The human capacity to act selfishly and underhandedly, with multiple hidden agendas and motives, continues to be a source of amazement and dismay to me.

I just read a post at a popular Internet marketing forum about a problem a relatively new marketer was having with his sites. He had contracted with a new webmaster to oversee his websites. Then after the arrangement was made and he’d been paid a percentage of his fee up front, he insisted that he would only continue working for this marketer if his sites used dotnetnuke web hosting.

The furor this raised on the forum in question was pretty amazing. People were appalled that a webmaster would reveal after the fact that there were extra conditions.

I just keep asking, "What was he thinking?" It begs the question, doesn’t he realize that marketers talk to one another and he had just lost credibility on a forum that boasts thousands of members? Talk about burning your bridges!

Your father in Southern California has had a bad fall. He will need extensive rehab before he regains enough mobility to get around on his own. Even then, his confidence will be low and his fear of falling will be high. What’s a good daughter to do?

You do an online search for Orange County physical therapy, that gives you far too many choices. How do you go about choosing?

You ask friends for recommendations or horror stories. Finally you narrow your search to two groups of 3. Five out of six have that dreadful industrial cleaner smell. The fifth raises your hopes, as it smells normal.

You talk with relatives of current residents. You scope out the security. Is someone at the nurse’s station at all times? Are residents having to wait to get help?

You revisit some of the smelly facilities. Their residents and families seem happier. You bring an air freshener to your dad’s room when he moves in.

Our city has a big fundraiser every year for the children’s hospital and the one we had this past year was absolutely incredible. The foundation put on a big city-wide Amazing Race and we had so much fun. The clues were great and it was very well put together.

I have always been a big fan of obstacle courses and I thought that it was great that this was essentially a really big one. I loved figuring out the clues and doing the events in order to receive our next clue. The people who put it together were obviously very talented ad creative.

The hardest thing we had to do was go to an amusement park and proceed to try and climb up the inflatable slides while they were wet. It was definitely a lot harder than it looked. Our team of ten came in second place and I don’t know when I have ever had such a good time.