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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.

I have been looking at Citizen watches lately. I really want a watch, I don’t have a cellphone so when I am out I have no idea what time it is. I don’t remember the last time I had a watch, it has probably been over ten years since I had a watch. If Eli Manning can be an ambassador for Citizen watches then I could be persuaded into buying one. The other ambassadors I haven’t heard of, but that is mainly because I don’t watch many sports. Either way I just know I want a Citizen watch, maybe I can convince Krissy that I should have one.

The few weeks without my Xbox 360 has me playing my Wii a lot more. Now they say all you need to do with a Wii is move your wrist, especially when playing the tennis game, but I swing my whole arm and really get into it. If Krissy and I go at it full force it can get very tiring and that is just playing a game. If it were real tennis with running and actually hitting a real ball then I don’t think we would be able to last ten minutes.

We watched a couple of tennis matches on television since getting back into the Wii Sports. It doesn’t look easy what they do, and only the best of them go on to Wimbledon. Maybe one day I will be able to get to Wimbledon, not by playing of course, but by buying Wimbledon tickets. Of course by playing would be cool too, but with my knee, I don’t think I could ever play one match as good as they do, let alone a whole bunch of games. Like I said though maybe one day we will go and watch Wimbledon live and when that day comes I will be sure to write about it here.

My 360 showed up yesterday, and late last night (early this morning) I plugged it in just to play some Halo. I had been playing Grand Theft Auto so much before I sent it back that I felt that I needed to go back to my XBox roots and put in some time on Halo 3. Plus it doesn’t help that I had been watching Red Vs Blue and trying to think of ways to have my own Machinima series. Maybe one day when you come here you’ll see a video of a new internet series, but for right now I don’t know. It isn’t that I have no ideas, it is that I don’t have the time right now to put them all down and try and figure out if each one would work and if they could be strewn together for a series.

That is a picture of Mary McCormack as Mary Shannon in USA Network’s new original series In Plain Sight. The show is about two marshals who enlist people in the witness protection program and help them with their new life and leaving their old life behind. It is called In Plain Sight because where better to hide someone than right in the middle of where a busy city? A spy is taught to hide in the most inconspicuous place possible, right in front of people. The picture I put up above is somewhere on their website, see if you can find it. It is right in front of your eyes so let’s see if you can find it easily or if it takes you a minute or two.

The more I see anime and manga, the more I get into it. In high school I didn’t really understand the appeal of it at all, and now I can kind of see why so many people like it. I might go to my first anime premiere for Bleach the Movie on either June 11th or 12th in Salisbury Maryland. If I wanted to see it in Delaware I would need to travel up to Newark, but with the price of gas outweighing the price of tax I would go over to Maryland.

The main character in Bleach is Bleach which translates to “First Guardian” or “He who protects”. If I could choose a name I would probably choose something that translates to The Irish One or He who is Irish. I don’t know what the Japanese Manga translation would be though.