Archive for January 31st, 2008

Traffic Help

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Are you looking for another way to increase traffic to your blog? Or are you just starting out and looking for any way at all? It’s a big internet out there and you don’t want your stuff to be overlooked. There are lots of suggestions on the boards and Buzzfuse is just one of many things to try.

You sign up at their site for free, embed some code in one of your best posts and they’ll help spread the word about it. They do ask that you give them some contacts but when I submitted my post I was able to bypass that part. Remember, however, that it would be beneficial to your blog to do so.

I’m looking forward to the photo option coming online. It’s listed as coming soon right now but when it does happen, you’ll be able to upload pictures to the site to let people view. You can already upload audio.

Give Buzzfuse a try and see what happens to your stats.

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Manners

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

For some reason my younger son thinks farts are something to tell everybody about.  Oh, sure he excuses himself (usually) but not with the right embarrassment.  Most often he’s grinning about it.

One typical example:

The Boy: (Farts)
ME: Nice fart (light sarcasm)
The Boy: Thanks! (chipperly) I tuwned away fwom you so that I wouldn’t
fawt at you cuz that would be inappwopwiate.
ME: Thank you.

How am I supposed to teach him that it’s just generally inappropriate to fart when he’s so funny?!

I figure he’s got about 2 more years before this gets really old and I start to ….. I’m not sure what.

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Rehab in Malibu

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Just yesterday I read an article about a vaccine for cocaine users. Apparently the researcher is in the second to last trial stage before he can present it to the FDA for approval. He hopes that sometime in the years to come he can get together vaccines for meth and even nicotine (he says that’s where the money is).

But, really, if you or your loved one is addicted now this means nothing for you. Five, ten or even fifteen years from now is a lifetime away for someone suffering from addiction. In the here and now addiction means a long recovery process that requires hard work and any support a person can get. The best place to start a recovery program is in the relatively sheltered space of a rehab facility where addiction can hopefully be wrestled to the ground because there is no access to the addictive material.

At Rehab Malibu, the program is focused on helping addicts struggling with alcohol and drugs of all kinds to get back in control of their lives. They use a variety of philosophies to make treatment programs that are more tailored and less cookie cutter for the participants.

If you know someone who is addicted, check out this facility as a possible place to suggest they get help. If you are addicted to drugs or alcohol yourself, find someone who can help you make this decision the right way.

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A Big…Block…Wall…

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

We just had a big block wall put up in the back yard. In case you aren’t from around here and think such a thing would be ugly and separate you from your neighbors – it is, it does and everyone just loves them here. We used to have a fence – just a run of the mill (more like run down by a mill) wooden fence. It was falling apart and it didn’t go a long way toward selling the house (yes we’re still trying to do that).

So down with the old fence and up with a new one.

Right out my kitchen window.

Big….

Grey…..

Blocky….

It’s UGLY!

I just can’t decide if it’s uglier than what we had before. Something about this doing things to a house not knowing now or ever if it will help it sell leaves me feeling uncertain (could it be the uncertainty of it all?). I still can’t decide if the painted kitchen is really BETTER than before or just different.

Who knew doing home improvements could be so existential (I hope I’m using that correctly)?

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File Your Taxes ASAP

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Undoubtedly you have heard me talk about what you need to get together in order to file your taxes and for those of you who believe you’ll be getting a refund, I know you have scurried to get things in order. Then again today is the day that those things were all supposed to be mailed by so you may need to wait just a couple more days before you can begin in earnest.

Once you have your W-2s, your 1099s and know how much you contributed to your 401(k) for your Saver’s Tax Credit you can start filling out the forms. Are you going to hop from library to post office and from town to town in search of your 1040? No, because I told you earlier that you want to go online to get those.

What I forgot to tell you about was the handy dandy efile. Sure I get the forms from the IRS web site but in the end I find a program that lets me efile so I can get my refund faster. It’s something I’ve done most of the past 8 years and often the program finds credits I didn’t know existed (like the aforementioned Saver’s Tax credit).

Save yourself some time and money. Skip the search for forms and be brave enough to do this yourself (with the help of a program that asks all the right questions).

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