Well I said on Monday that I was changing. I have been too. This is day four of my diet, a non-hyped low carb diet. This isn’t a diet for everyone, and frankly it has to become your complete life. I have been on various diets before and this is the only thing I have ever been able to do long term. Faced with that and knowing I carry the family fat gene, there was very little other choice.

Oh I know some of you are going to say that low carb diets don’t work. Others will say it is unhealthy. Other will try and share their plans. But none of that matters. Everyone has a path to weigh less and the one thing every weight-loss guru will tell you from Jenny Craig to Robert Atkins; from the South Beach guy to vegan mystics spouting mumbo jumbo, that one thing they will all tell you is don’t be dissuaded by the non believer. Here is how I know this is the right path for me. Read the rest of this entry »

• I am sooooo not a morning person. *yawn* #

Once again it is the holiday season.  Whether you celebrate this time of year as a secular or religious person it doesn’t matter when you are celebrating it with kids.  The younger they are the more interesting the season becomes,usually.  Personally I am hoping for a nice quiet Christmas for Sarah’s first.  Liam’s first Christmas had all the the drama I need from my children.  After having spent his first six weeks of life in the hospital and coming home with a feeding tube in his belly he made our first thanksgiving memorable since it was mine and  Katy’s first Thanksgiving since getting married too.  Christmas was the really memorable moment though.  After having been home with his feeding tube for almost six weeks without problems just before bedtime on Christmas the little shit reaches down, grabs his feeding tube and gives a good hard yank.  Out it came.  If you have never been to the emergency room on Christmas, let me say bring something to read, something to sedate yourself with, and be prepared to wait usually for the most incompetent people working in the department.  We will see how things go this year.

Tis the season for something else, Google will be updating their page rank within the next week or three and I want to give all our readers and social networking friends an SEO gift.  I am opening up the blog for a special series of posts on babies first christmas.  I am not restricting it to christmas though or only this year.  If you have had a baby in your life and either you or the baby has had a momrable Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or any other you celebrate this time of year you are welcome to sign up for contributor account, write a post linking back to your site and even avail yourself of links in your profile.  Register for an account and write a short post (100 words) or as long as you like.

[ad]One of the biggest questions that comes up for bloggers is how much should I charge for advertising.  The answer is as simple is it is complex.  Not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but selling or buying advertising is a lot like doing the same for cars.  If you don’t have to ask how much either one costs, then you probably can’t afford it.  The corollary to that is if you don’t know how much your ad space is worth, then you probably shouldn’t be selling it. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo Wii

In the wake of today’s Black Friday deaths at Wal-Mart and Toys-R-Us I really am glad I didn’t have a car to go anywhere in today.  I still didn’t have any cash to buy things online today. but that is another story all together.I can’t say I am looking forward to risking my life for any video game, much less take my family out to do the same with me, but that is what millions of foolish Americans did today.

Where many people rank out to shop for products from ads that were available yesterday I much prefer to avoid over crowded and understaffed stores by comparing prices online which are usually better even after shipping is paid.  Even when it works out to be a few bucks more expensive, I can guarantee when I put my order that I the item was in stock (if purchased through an honest online merchant that backs shopping cart service against inventory) and that I didn’t have to wait in line all night in the freezing cold. Read the rest of this entry »

• yay supernatural! <3 show! #

News Company is a blog that makes a go at presenting the news in summary.  I wasn’t sure what to expect when I found my way to a blogspot blog trying to do the news, but was pleasantly surprised.  This is some of the oddest news I have seen in a while and frankly odd is much better than the continually sucky news that says the economy is going to crap out worse than we thought.  Personally, I would  like to see and economy news story that says the government is going to go to Las Vegas and play the craps table with sevenhundred billion dollars.  It seems less risky than giving it to irresponsible companies.  Personally I would much prefer them give every adult a government checking account with one million dollars in it and a year to spend it.  This would certainly give the economy the boost it needs, help us back to being a nation where only one parent has to work full time, and give let the consumers decide who sinks and swims in the financial markets.

Here are just a few of the latest headlines from United States news UFO Appears over Sacramento.  In health news we find man loses penis in prison and gains $300,000.00 to me this seems more like and economy news story.