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Create a role playing identity.  Create a community as it’s home.   Create a graphic.  Create a blog.

Go find some sucker who has to be nice to you in public or he loses face.  Award him.  Blog about him since you have nothing else to do.  Do this ten times.

After ten times, spam five people a day that you’ve got content/awards, and invite them to join your community.  Sucker people into doing your legwork, give them names and titles, let them feel important.

Wait until you have many people linking to you, giving you PR and Authority in Technorati.  While everyone does their job, include affiliate marketing to ‘offset’ your cost…which is nothing, but shuts up hard working suckers who don’t know better.

Be patient.  Let things happen.  While the suckers work, go make another make believe character, figure out another angle, and go do the process all over again.  Pretty soon you’ll have virtually hundreds of people working for you freely while generating a small amount of cash.  The more models you create, the more penny cash machines will go ching into your bank account.

After all this hard work reward yourself with a cup of Earl Grey, you can find it in the Tea Collection. Be…continental virtually, everyday!

It seems weekly I get constant requests from all kinds of people to provide them free technical support, whether in my face or even calling me at home.

The funniest ones are the ones who I find out don’t have a Windows key on their keyboard.  There’s still tons of PCs out there without one, as well as older keyboards handed down to unsuspecting kinfolk.

“I’m sorry, but without a Windows key you won’t be able to go any further, Ma’am”

“Ma’am, can you look under your desk and see if it fell off and is somewhere under your chair?”

“You’ll need to call Microsoft, sir.  It’s one thing when Windows breaks, it’s another when the key to open them isn’t even there.  There’s nothing that can be done without Microsoft’s consent.”

…or just tell the person to do a (Cntrl)+(ESC) salute, and the Start dialog will immediately pop up.

NOTE:  Windows shortcuts (such as Windows+”D” for the desktop) CANNOT use this as a workaround.  It’s useful for getting to the Start menu when a mouse is absent. Anything more and you’ll need to buy your own thinking cap.

Thirteen years old and puberty’s set in.  No matter how short he keeps his hair, that forehead looks like the surface of the moon I used to look at in the mirror at his age.

Acne treatment isn’t something easy to talk to a teenager about. The eyes avert, the head turns, it hurts a kid honestly. The best thing a parent can do is make available the few basics.

Noxzema, what was considered the ‘go to’ company for years, has gone ‘GIRLY’! Check out www.noxzema.com and you’ll see what I mean. Forget telling young males about this product, they won’t live it down in the halls at school. The shot to the right is from their front page.

The basics:

1. Keep it clean, gently.
2. Tell him to talk to his doctor.
3. Watch the diet.
4. Don’t revisit the subject for at least a month.

For us we opted for a gentle prescription from his doctor, one topical and one oral. These days there’s options available that we didn’t have as parents, so it’s a good bet to check with the doctor…chances are the doctor won’t make it a priority to ask in this area.

Being a veteran of the ‘Battle of the Bulge’, I can sympathize with many people who are downright overweight.

We’re fat, people. Deal with it.

There was a time when I was the picture of beautiful health. Abdomen rippled with gentle swaying muscles, legs tawny and tight the female soldiers dreamed of after viewing me run past them swiftly as a deer. Many times those same legs saved me from the throngs of passionate viewers falling prey to their emotional upheaval.

Alcohol didn’t help. Food didn’t help. A desk job didn’t help. Neither did alli, but since I didn’t try them I can’t say if it could.

Kind of makes me think sometimes…when we fantasize we never worry about the fat, do we now?

I was doing some searching on Thanksgiving recipes a minute ago and realized vegetarians don’t have it as good as meat eaters.

Every time I see something about creating a vegetarian holiday meal I see over worded psychobabble that tries to make the mind believe it’s having a feast…when it amounts to another dish of tofu stuffed peppers.

Regardless of how many colors you have to pick, you’re still going to have undigested pepper skin in the end, literally.

1. Keep it as clean as possible to begin with. Prevention goes a long way with a carpet.

2. If you spill, don’t tear in to it. If using a solvent and brushing it gently doesn’t get the stain out, chances are you’ll need to try something that will. (Elbow grease doesn’t ‘cut it’)

3. Suck it up. If you get a stain ‘reappearing’ after you’ve cleaned it, chances are it was only surface cleaned…you failed to soak or blot up what was under the carpet or in the padding below.

4. Do NOT use heat to dry a stain! No hair dryers or irons! If you need to you can use a fan or floor blower. Heat will help seal in any stains.

5. Get a steam cleaner or hire a professional to do it for you often. Chances are you’re too cheap for the second, so just go get one of your own. (Don’t worry, we’re all cheap around here too.)

The scent of a disposable diaper needed is one that’s not easily forgotten, seeming to linger and stay within the nostrils unwanted.

When someone’s in need of one they’re immediate need or reason isn’t really considered that much. If anything they might get quicker service, but getting help with what is sometimes a required medical need isn’t going to be found in most shelters.

If you’re a service provider and wondering what you can do to help stop the smell…try putting up a sign that says “Do you need help with adult diapers?”.

If you don’t offer, they won’t know you can help.