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I think the main difference between Harry Houdini and today’s magicians like Criss Angel is the technology used in their tricks. Today everything is more advanced, plus people aren’t in the same mind set as they were in the 1800’s so magic has had to adapt with the thinking of people.The more complex people think, the more complex the magic has to be.

I have always loved magic, I used to love watching the masked magician revealing the secrets of magicians, I wish he hadn’t unveiled himself, but I believe him revealing the secrets allowed for magic to advance in new ways. I have seen some of Criss Angels things, and I have discovere how some of his tricks work. Just because I know how they work, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to go to the CRISS ANGEL Believe show. It is Criss Angel along with Cirque Du Soleil, so it has to be nothing short of amazing. I think I am going to enter the contest to try and win two tickets to the show. To enter all I have to do is text ‘Believe’ to 22122. It may be a long shot, but it is worth it to try and get tickets to the show.

I just took the domain name scorecard from Network Solutions and I really didn’t score that good. I mean granted I don’t actually have a brand of my own and my website is looked at as a business second, but still, my highest score was in the Extension Score category and it was still below fifty percent, which isn’t good, but as I said it isn’t exactly a full blown business per say and I look at it as a business second, if I even look at it that way at all since I am still on the fence about it.

For a full blown business though, the scorecard can definitely help. It will analyze how your website and all the websites you have registered through your business are actually helping the business. It is a very impressive tool and I am surprised that no one has thought of it before. What it does is it will tell you alternate ways of your domain name and explain how your competitors can take the misspelled domain names and make money with them. Since you don’t own the misspelled names then there is no copyright infringement so it is perfectly legal for them to do that and a lot of businesses do it so they can outsell their competitors.

I plugged everything into the computer I was going to be usiing as a video capture/server and it wouldn’t boot. It seems that the motherboard is dying or already dead, though it might just be the graphics card, I am not really sure. See the computer will boot, but with options that the BIOS is out of date then it will freeze or reboot itself and the video will not come on screen. I am thinking I will need to buy a new motherboard to replace this one, but I think I would rather just buy a new whole computer, I am not really in the mood to starttrying to build a computer when I have no money, with my luck it will die and I won’t be able to get my money back.

We will be heading to New York soon, but we do not really have the time or money to take a Trusted Tours & Attractions tour. Besides we aren’t really going up to the city, we are driving right passed it and going to the Island. Eventually I would love to take one of the New York City tours I have been hearing so much about. I have been checking out online travel guides to see what is in the area we are going to and maybe seeing if I can go out and find something to do while Krissy is with her girlfriends or sister, this way I won’t be stuck inside while she’s gone.

Eventually I will be taking one of their tours, I hear they are really good and I plan to travel a lot in the futureso finding things to do in San Francisco and other major cities won’t be a problem if I take a tour of the city. I have already signed up for their newsletter because you can win a GPS system just by signing up. A chance to win a GPS is a good reason to sign up for the newsletter if you ask me.

We have been talking a lot about moving again and we have come to the conclusion that we might just leave some furniture and buy new. Mainly what we would be buying is new Office Furniture, this way everything matches and we can have a nice set to do work with when there’s work to do. It would be nice to have matching desks and book cases for once, instead of furniture that has been picked up in random places. I would really like a nice solid oak L-shaped desk with a really tall hutch, though I am sure that would cost a pretty penny. New Office Furniture sure would make a big difference, maybe we will see how much money we have and then decide which would be more cost effective.

In the 40’s and 50’s a man could be the only member of the household working and be bring home a salary that would take care of 3 to 4 people. Nowadays it takes two people at least, sometimes working more than one job to just make ends meat for themselves. If you have a child at home then you are pretty much screwed because you need to buy things that you wouldn’t necessarily pay for if they weren’t around, like a babysitter or daycare, plus diapers if need be. A mother barely spends any time with her children nowadays, they are usually raised by a nanny or a family member who doesn’t work. Sometimes even an older sibling is taking care of them while the parents are working.

There are legitimate ways to make extra income from home, and if you do that then you have more time to spend with your family and raise your children. I think the easiest way to make money at home is to run a blog and put paid advertising on it from SocialSpark. This month I have only made about 50 dollars extra from them, but your earnings depend on how popular your blog is and what your interests are. There are people currently making a few hundred dollars a month just with Social Spark. Think about what you could do with a couple hundred dollars that you make from sitting at home. Maybe you could cut out that second job, or cut hours from your day job. Either way you are getting to be where you belong, with your family

Marvel released information today that they are trying to get Spiderman 4 finished and out into theaters for May 2011. If they do that then Marvel is going to be ruling 2011, with Spiderman, Captain America, and the Avengers movie all happening months apart from each other. I know that Sony won’t want Spiderman to appear in an Avengers movie if they aren’t the ones producing it, but I wonder if Marvel will pull their weight and put some Avengers references or even characters in Spiderman 4. Personally I would like to see Venom back and Iron Man, or even War Machine coming to help Spiderman with Venom like they did in the Spiderman cartoon. I realize that is just wishful thinking on my part though.

Krissy and I have been discussing web hosting the last couple of weeks. Basically we are trying to find the best cheapest reseller and possibly even personal hosts out there. We are trying to cut down the cost of the webhosting bill, or even bring in more money from it as it stands, with the ability to add new stuff later on down the line. Nothing has been made final yet, we are still looking at hosts and the ups and downs of them and what the reviews say and of course the price pays a huge factor into something like this so it is all a factor in what happens. I guess we need more research before we can decide anything.

So I have been pricing everything I will need and also been measuring the space that I would need to use for the computer, which isn’t much, the case will pretty much stay where it is with the LCD above it. The problem is that where the monitor goes always seems to have a lot of stuff on it, so hopefully that will change, or maybe I can get a swing arm for it for a reasonable price, though that is something that I will need to look into while in New York when I can run into Microcenter and Best Buy, but so far the cheapest I can find is $40, which is more than I would want to spend so it may just not happen.

I fully support stem cell research, whether it comes from a dead fetus (miscarried or aborted) or from an umbilical cord of a new born baby. I think that there are a lot of Cryo-Cell Innovative Stem Cell Solutions out there that are just waiting to be discovered and I believe that we should be funding this either way. Yes it sucks that a fetus is dead for whatever reason, but isn’t it better to use it for something much bigger than itself if it could help someone than just throwing it away?

In the long run you will be saving a lot of people, including possibly one of my favorite actors, Michael J Fox. Even if you forget the famous people, with Cryo-Cell’s "Protect Baby, Protect Mom" you can help a mother and child and possibly their entire family for years to come. Isn’t that reason enough to support this and to follow through with it? There is a "Protect Baby, Protect Mom" Special Limited-Time Introductory Offer going on where you will be able to find out more about this revolutionary thing. If you are against it or are a skeptic I urge you to find out more about it because one day you might be sitting there with Parkinson’s Disease or some other horrible condition and you will be asking people for help, but without the research and support behind this, it wouldn’t be available to you.

I am trying to put music on my iPod using Media Monkey, but it isn’t working. I hate iTunes, especially on this computer, when I get a Mac I might use iTunes because I don’t know if Media Monkey would be available. I do not know when or how I will be affording this Mac, and I don’t know if Krissy would let me turn this computer into a server (considering it really is her computer), but maybe by the time that comes I could buy a big Mac and have the extra hard drives in it and I wouldn’t need to use this as a file server, instead make it a web server and get a T1 line. I would need all the businesses to be booming for that to happen though.

I don’t really do much heavy cleaning, Krissy handles most of that. When the office gets dirty I will clean it up, but I never go into full cleaning mode, I don’t have the energy to do that, Krissy does though. She is anal retentive though, everything has to be clean for her to be at ease, she can’t just shut the door and forget about it, she needs to clean it before she can forget about it. I don’t really understand it, but all the more power to her for having the drive to clean like that.

She cleans so much that we need a new vaccuum. We have looked into a lot of them, and have pretty much narrowed it down to a Dirt Devil. They have good suction and they are Energy Star , so we won’t be using much electricity when we run it. That is definitely a good thing with the electric company charging so much down here, we need all the extra money to put gas in the car. Either way, we will probabkly be picking a new vacuum up sometime this week, which is good because I need to vacuum the office, Bella got her bnone fragments all over the place.