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What I’m planning to read

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Seems to me that in this economy everyone is trying to sell something. Recently Janice offered to lend me a couple of books that she recently bought online from the goodwill thrift store for cheap that are a combination self-improvement/earn money kind of books. She told me that even if I didn’t want to make my living in sales, everyone is always selling something to someone! One of the books is the book by Dale Carnegie titled “how to win friends and influence people.”

I’ve always wanted to read that book, so I was pleased to accept the offer to borrow it. I’ll let you know how I like it.

Too funny!

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I’m a big fan of Weird Al, so when Randy shared this video on Facebook I laughed like crazy. I want to share this video with you as well. Too funny!

Spell check and grammar check

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My brother has been encouraging me to try to make money by signing up to some of those pay-per-click advertising companies. He told me that he makes about $70 a month passive income on his blog. Well, that sounded rather interesting so I asked him to send me the link to the Home page of the company that he signed up with. I found the site to be most intriguing, but I was concerned about some of the errors that I found on the Publisher page. They were minor spelling and grammatical errors, but I noticed them and I had to wonder what impact those errors would have on the clientele of the company.

I didn’t find any errors on the Advertiser page, though. Just finding the few that I DID find on the other page was a really great reminder to me to run everything that I type through a spell checker and a grammar checker. I’m glad that WordPress has spell check; I wish it also had grammar check. Most of the errors that I find on most pages are simple things that a grammar checker would find, like when to use the word accept and except – they both sound the same but mean different things and are spelled differently. A spell checker wouldn’t find either one of those to be a mistake, but a grammar check should.

Quitcher complaining

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One of the things that really aggravates me about some of the people that I’ve friended on Facebook is how many of them complain that they are looking for work and can’t find a job. When I reply to them that there is a job opening near them someplace, or tell them about a work-at-home opportunity that they could follow up on, they reply that they aren’t “interested” in doing that type of work. Well, friends, if you really are sincere about needing a job, then you would go out and apply for that job. Work is not supposed to be FUN, if it was FUN it would be called PLAY. In these unstable economic times, if you don’t have enough money to pay your bills, then it is time to roll up your sleeves and put on your big boy/girl pants and take any job that will pay you some money. And then you work that job while looking for your dream job to come along. In the meantime, at least you have a paycheck coming in!

Born at night

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Somebody has been trying to trick me into switching my website hosting service. I’ve been getting emails that my hosting is expiring and that I need to renew it through their webhosting company. Sadly, this domain slamming trick has been attempted on me before, and I was smart enough to not fall for it. The first time it happened, I was sent a notice that the service was expiring in just a couple of months, and I was being pressured to click on their link and “renew” right away. But upon close inspection I realized that my service was not due to expire for almost a whole year, and it was with a different company than the one that was trying to get me to “renew” with them.

From what I understand, this is not a new problem, but I don’t know how I can get these types of companies to stop trying to trick me into doing business with them. This kind of behavior really ticks me off. I’d like to tell these folks that although I was born at night, I was not born last night, and I am not that easily tricked!