If You Want This Pony You Have to Walk it Home...and we did!

"Where does my drive come from"? Along with some recent family illnesses and deaths it's given us family members a chance to reflect on old times. Going through old photos and sharing memories always helps in these times.

Reflections
I have been chatting online with a cousin I haven't seen for years. We've shared some good ole times, and some that weren't so good. Each of us have been able to reflect on the benefits of both and how it has  molded us into who we are today. We call ourselves survivors. We look at our families as a whole, from generations back as being survivors. Are you a survivor? (by the way, I love watching the reality show survivor. Just thought I'd throw that in there. Go Russell!)

We can't haul it you have to Walk
When I was 8 yrs. old I spent the summer with an

Don't Fear Success with Lack of Courage ~ Share Your Goals

Fear is a lack of courage. Short and sweet, let me say it again. Fear is a lack of courage.

Sharing My Goals

So far I'm somewhat pleased with this blogs progress. I recognize this, and I am NOT pleased but I know I can do much better. Believe it or not my style and content can and will improve. I recently published a post about Blog Goals and improving your blogs success by setting clear goals.

Frolicking Friday ~/~ Let's Romp (visit and follow on twitter)

It's Friday once again. For this blog that means it's time to take the opportunity to get away from the usual bs and visit and compliment other sites/blogs. Below you will find a list of these that are not only interesting but inspire me as well. The information provided below the site/blog describes it by the author and or by my personal assesment. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. If so leave them a comment and let'em know. So Start Romping!

                           Catharsis of the Bogue
This blog is about me and writing. The main reason I started blogging was to get me writing and working on my book. Now, I think it is going to be a blog about

How's Your Blog? Compost or debris of Dust...full of Dung

What is Compost
The basic concepts of composting are simple. Almost any organic material will eventually decay, or compost. This process can take a long time. By completing a few simple steps, composting can be done in a much shorter time frame. In addition to speeding up the process, working to create mature compost allows the resulting compost to be much healthier than if it was left to happen naturally. There are advantages

What is Speek? Do you currently have a need for Teleconferencing, try it for Free

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I'd like to invite you to register for private beta version, (a website or software project released to users for testing before its official release) of Speek by trying it out for Free and provide them with feedback.

Why Speek?
Do you currently have a need for teleconferencing? Tired of not getting hooked up to those important meetings on time. Speek is a FREE Web-based teleconferencing system that dials out to cell phones, landlines, and voice-over-Internet applications like Skype and

Always Remember Your Little Sperm won you a Gold Medal

Today, yesterday and even tomorrow, you may not win the race you entered. But NEVER forget and ALWAYS remember that YOU were once the fastest and most victorious little sperm out of millions that won the most significant race of all and for that you received a Gold Medal. We may not all be Olympians, but we're all Gold Medalists!

Tunnel Vision vs. Happiness.. Life is a Two Lane

Where the Hell are you
How did you arrive at where your at? By being who you are or who you think others want you to be? No matter what your successes or failures are in your life today you made a decision. A decision that got you to where you are. The Good The Bad The Ugly. A beautiful thing about life is

Remove Your Retweet Button on Your Site

I'm Hardcore
Most of you know that I'm pretty blunt. I say what I think, and speak my mind telling you like it is. Don't make it always right, don't make me better. Probably turns plenty off. But that is me and I'm a firm believer in telling it like it is. If I don't like you, I tell you. I don't sugar coat too much. I lose friends by this but I've gained more by being true and honest. I can apologize for my wrongs

Today's Friday Frolicking is called 'Fridturday Frolicking'

Today is, well let's pretend is Fridturday, I usually try to get a post up on Friday that is titled 'Frolicking Friday Let's Romp'. Things don't always work out as planned for whatever reason. Things come up, family members get ill, hangovers occur etc.. Of course it's a learning curve for me now to realize the importance of having a post in draft. Not just any post. If your running a continuation or weekly series type of post then it must be scheduled as well. So to satisfy my error I wanted to do this post even though it's now Saturday and we'll just pretend it's Fridturday. Okay......fine with you? Here's a list of influential bloggers as well as some that are just fun to read or check out to see the next series of photos and what not. I hope your find them as interesting as I do.

                               PotPolitcs.com
44 year old slacker currently in San Antonio,believe me there’s a million other places I’d like to be. I’m originally from NYC and have ties to Key West, Rochester NY and NYC. I believe in trying to do my best as a friend so if your looking for someone to network with COME WITH IT Thanks.(and they smoke the competition) Comments on this blog describe him better, go check it out. Very helpful in all he does. I will be paying more attention to this guys motivation in life and blogging. Thanks John

                        The Change Blog
Hi, my name is Peter and welcome to my corner of cyberspace. I started blogging in 2007 to share my story of personal change. To cut a long story short, I know what it is like to be depressed and drifting through life without purpose. My wake up call came in 2006 when I received the unexpected news I was to be a father. This news was the catalyst for me getting my life in order, and these days I am happy to report that life is great.

                            Blogging For A Living
Jennifer is a full-time freelance writer and problogger in the lovely and rainy Pacific Northwest plus mama of an amazing eight year old boy. Besides blogs, her writing background includes copy for non-profits, web projects, national magazine articles, proposals and other business copy. Jennifer can be found blogging here at Freelance Writing Jobs and Blogging For A Living. -- Deb Ng also writes there. Drop her a line at deborahng@gmail.com if you’d like for her to share what she’s learned with you. Both of these women provide healthy blogging advice. Please check them out if you haven't already.

                             A Meaningful Existence
Here you will be able to find various articles on self-improvement, productivity, money, health and fitness, career and life, amongst other topics. Why did I start this blog? A friend of mine told me that she was tired of just existing. How sad I thought, if only I could help her to have a more meaningful life. Not in the sense that she would have to give up everything and go live in a commune and pray. I hope you can learn from this blog how to have A Meaningful Existence.

                                  6Aliens
I love to write and in particular I love to write about self development, life hacking and geeky stuff. I love being able to explain things in terms of things like sci-fi films, computers and all things nerdy. I really hope you enjoy your time with 6aliens.com As with anything “the more you put in the more you’ll get out” so jump on those comments, send me those emails and RT those posts. Let’s have some fun.

Follow Up: How the Forum has Increased My Blogs Traffic SEO

So what you joined
Recently I joined a forum. So what! Well if your a entrepreneur or infopreneur then you know what the benefits of doing this are. If your not then click exit. If your wanting to learn and take suggestions then remain.

Benefits of
Some of the benefits that you can gain from forums are not only SEO. Don't let the search engines fool ya. There are a lot of forums SEO qualified out there that do more than convert traffic to your website. Forums can and are used for conversation places. Places to meet people in your niche and with a lot of people who can relate to questions to your website. People who may have the same relevant questions you have. Some as simple as finding Keywords related to your niche or product if you will. Some as simple as where should I place my ad or how should I link to a certain product. It's all there but you must participate.

Main Reason People Don't Benefit
The main reason people don't benefit from forums is that they join and don't participate. WTF! Why would you join something and then don't participate. If I joined a pyramid, lest just say, I joined a pyramid didn't pay a dollar, just joined. Then I expected to be placed at the top of the list. Do you think my name would appear for the next payout? Hell no it wouldn't. I would have to participate to be included in the list to get the next big payout. If you have a pyramid that let's me join and not pay to reach the top I'll suck your balls. I'm not gay but I'd think about getting to the top somehow if your payout is large enough. Get my point?

Don't Take my analogy
Don't take my analogy of pyramids as a real time example. I certainly do not agree nor do I participate in these type of schemes. When I receive an email requesting such it's considered spam and filed away just as that. My point is, if you join something believing that you will benefit, reach the top, be king of the hill, you must be willing to do your part.

No Requirements
Most forums at least in the beginning don't require you to pay to join, or participate. They are created to see who and what is real. I want to know if your real in what you say on my blog comments instead of just providing my site with a link back to you, and you taking advantage of my true and true commenters. My comments are important to me. This doesn't mean you have to join my forum, it just means that if your willing to succeed then your willing to go to any lengths. Were talking about forums here but we could be talking about anything. The most important thing is 'What lengths are you willing to go to, to succeed'? Forums are second nature. What lengths are you willing to go to. Comments get you back links and traffic but are they converting? Don't buy into me, I'm not selling anything. I'm looking to you for suggestions, not advice, suggestions. I hate advice. So tell me @IBLOGGFORMONEYANDMAKEMYSELFRICHDUDE!

Don't Be a Pick Pocket or Piss Off Infomercial Blogger

Don't be Lazy or Dishonest
Let's get something straight. I'm not obnoxious (not always), not filthy rich, or lazy and I'm not too good to be sitting here right now. I don't make six figures a month or even a year at blogging. I don't make promises I can't keep and I don't try to sell you a Bonzai Chopper Kitchen Helper or a Bun and Thigh roller. My buns are fine and I can chop my own damn nuts. But there is some problems I need to solve as a blogger.

They do work and So Do I
Though the bun and thigh roller and the bonzai chopper probably work. I wouldn't know. I'm a hard sell and I don't like infomercials anymore than I like blogfomercials. They both may promise quick and easy results and for the lump sum of $19.99 or for an additional .99 cents you can, just for today, get both. Hell They'll even throw in an ebook and show me how to use them. Most of the time this makes me feel like they ran away with my money leaving nothing for me. So, to avoid such a situation, I have to make sure that I am not being ripped off for such a great deal I got.

How to assure no Ripoffs
The best way I can assure I'm not being ripped off when making such a purchase is to do my research. I can turn on the tube right now and  look for an infomercial. I can do a blog search for make money blogging. I can and will find both within seconds. An infomercial and a blogitformoney site. Those paid programming shows used to be on at late night only. Not anymore. They're irritating and really I don't know anyone who watches them. In my opinion they are a ripoff. So are a lot of  'I make money blogging schemes'.  

If you want to Make it 
I need to be honest. I know nothing about making money online. I make a few coins here and there and they'd probably be better off served by donating them to good cause sites like Give A Brick or another gent  Travis A. Morgan who's just an average dude bringing the message of Truth. To me these sites have established a social proof by what they do. At the same time never underestimate yourself as a blogger. That's the worst mistake you can make. People will pick up on this right away and you'll find it difficult to establish any trust.

After or during my research I need to obtain and create trust with the seller. As a client I want assured that I will be given what I buy. I also want them to have my trust by letting them know I will be their long-term client and that I will make sure that they are paid for the project. If his/her company is part of an expanding business whether online or underwater I don't care. I will play in all their projects providing it delivers. Providing I'm not ripped off.

Solve Your Blogs Problems
Some of the problems that bloggers have are straying from the basics. I'll outline a few below and I'm just as guilty as anyone, but the lasting bloggers who remain true to these make money. Not necessarily by blogging or from their blog but by following these and selling themselves prior to selling any product. 

• Give a Helping Hand
• Be Proactive, Set Clear Goals
• Got Bloggers Block, Find Your Niche 
• Develop good Relationships, leave comments
• Don't just buy and read, Use it
• Pay attention
• Ask for Help
• Promote a true product including your blog
• Be Honest, don't lie to me

Over the past few months I've certainly realized that this blog has it's problems. I assure you that it will continue to have certain problems. It'll never meet everyone's expectations. We are not the same and I don't try to please everyone. I won't promise you a rose garden and I'll continue to do some sponsored post. It pays for a little of my time and  Internet fees. If that irritates you fine, click the little x in the top corner when you see them or search for a post that fits your niche of wanting to learn or gain, or get a laugh from. I assure you it'll be here somewhere.

Provide what you say
Lazy is what I am not. If I visit your blog, providing I believe in what your saying or if I disagree, as long as your honest, I'll leave a comment and let you know. I'll always promote my blog and it's post. I'm willing to give a helping hand at all times. I just don't always have the answer but I'll point you to someone who does or that I think does. So pay attention and ask for help. Usually there's help in the links I provide in my post. If it's not a paid post then those links are provided for your benefit to give some help in blogging. What do you think? Got some problems, need some suggestions or can you add to this and help me. Your comments are needed and welcomed. If you read this far you got time to comment. 

Comparing a Blog and a Whale surviving on Plankton

A few months ago I put together a post about The Open Seas of Blogging. It was pretty much where I saw this blog at the time or better yet how I felt about it. How I felt it was like a small raft out in the wide world web and that no one would ever find it. I'd get lost and drown. Today I can see that this was because of the way I was promoting it or the lack thereof.

I'm learning and it's growing
I shared with you about all the hard work I was putting in and learning from reading probloggers and how they push some of the following.

• Good Content
• Reliable Links
• Variety
• Provide Value
• Encourage Participation
• Have a Plan
• Hustle
• Use Social Media (i.e.Twitter)
• Be Consistent
• Good Design

I shared how I felt like small fish in a big sea and hoped to be a whale someday. After All there is a ton of blogs out there and many more being put together as we speak. Some are the same as your niche some fit your buddies way of doing things. They may or may not survive. If you read the previous post I linked to, you'll see where a woman had been blogging for three yrs. and loved it. Spent a lot of time investing in her blog then just gave it up. She said it was no longer fun for her.

How I'm learning, How it's Growing
For beginners the above bulleted list should say at the top have fun with your blog. Sometimes I get off the beaten path and let my tail get close to a rudder.(oh shit that was close) Not always a good idea but fun. I've also found a really neat group of bloggers who have been willing to help me. Some know it, some don't. I've learned from a few by the success they're having and a few by the mistakes their making. I learn from the mistakes I've made. And I keep plugging forward. Below are some of the ways this blog is growing.

• Providing better content
• Socializing
• Communicating
• Commenting
• Interacting
• Reaching Out
• Having fun
• Hard work
• Being consistent
• Having a plan

As you can see the two list are very similar. Somebody somewhere is not leading me astray. Will I do every single thing they do to achieve what they've achieved? Very doubtful, because my goals for this blog isn't the very same as theirs. I am developing a plan and putting together some goals for success and will outline them on here soon. They will be for this blog and my success and that doesn't include monetizing necessarily. It's not really a good domain name to monetize nor the niche I want to go with for that. It will be to prove that this blog can achieve success with a lot of hard work and promotion, while having fun along the way.

And Remember the Whale
Whales are very large social creatures. They've been around for millions of years. Their songs can be heard for miles under the water and last for different periods in length and are sung for different reasons. They communicate this way and they survive on plankton. Plankton is the small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers. But it's crucial in providing life support.

I'm singing songs with this blog, I can be heard from one side of the ocean to the other. Provided I promote it in healthy groups, it will find the plankton it needs to survive. So no matter how small or how important you think your visitors are or your social promotion is. If you keep at it, your blog will grow and so will you. 

Easy Fix for Bad Ju Ju When Using Commentluv - at least for me

For the last several days I was continually getting Bad Ju Ju when using Andy Bailey's CommentLuv plug in. I use blogger (of course you know that if your here) but when commenting on other blogs using WP it really doesn't matter as long as you create an account over at ComLuv.com. Whatever site your visiting must have it enabled to be able to use it or have the plug-in etc.. though. Duh.

Bad Ju Ju Just Happened
Here is the error message I kept getting. I searched for an image to better provide you with the description, but couldn't come up with one. So instead of putting Andy's model image on here, (ooooweeee) I decided to use a descriptive image that shows the way it should look when no bad ju ju is happening. That's what we want to see anyway when using it right? So below is the image of a correct form and underneath is the explanation of what I was getting and how I easily fixed it. Maybe it'll work for you, maybe it won't. Try it and let me know. It was really simple and too easy.

Above is of course what it is suppose to look like when leaving a reply or commenting. The message I was getting kept saying:  bad juju just happened, click the red arrow here --> . The top red arrow would have been pointing to the bad ju ju, and the lower one would have said: Banned for having 3 feed errors, fix your feed and visit http://comluv.com/member/unban-url/ to remove the ban

Not Yet Fixed
Here again this is my fix and hopefully will work for you. I checked my feed and I didn't need to make any corrections because they matched. I went to the unban page and entered my url again and for a few days continued to get the same results, banned. I emailed Andy and he got back with me within 10 minutes, great response time Andy, now your committed! Ha, just kidding y'all, don't expect it because I say it, we are all busy at times. Anyhooo I made one other small correction with the feed, (read fine print on site about certain feeds) it says-- feed.feedburner.com-- in my feed so I replaced that with his direction of using this instead ---feeds2.feedburner.com placing a 2 in there. I had not noticed anywhere in webmaster tools stating anything about the update or new feed, but I did it anyway.

Keep reading it really is Fixed
Well that didn't matter because low and behold it didn't fix it! Well OK what the hell do I do now. I really like Comment Luv. It has increased my sites viewing for traffic by providing a link on blogs I visit. My motto is "Don't Give Up, Don't Ever Give Up! by the inspirational Jimmy Valvano.

Guess what, I noticed that I had placed my website address in the comment forms on the blogs I visit as http://www.leesdykstuff.blogspot.com/ . WRONG. #FAIL I should have been leaving out the three www's and instead it should have been http://leesdykstuff.blogspot.com/. Now if that is how your feed is listed in your burner and on Andy's Comment Luv site then great it should be working, but if yours is like mine then check and see if you've made the same mistake. After I changed these I get no more Bad Ju Ju, no more errors saying that I'm banned. It works fine now. Simple Huh? Try it and see and if your getting these errors, look and make sure your putting your site url in correctly. Hope it works for you. Let me know if this helps. Now go spread the Luv!

Installed intense debate

Want to see if it is working correctly. But doesn't show that I have any comments even when there are several. WTH

UPDATE: Seems to be working correctly for me guys. How about you? On a few occasions I have had to click comments to get to the comments section. Fine, we always have to do that right? Then if it opens up into the default comment for blogger I've HAD TO CLICK THE POST TITLE  to get to Intense debate comment form. (what a pain). Then scroll down and bamm the new comment form is there. I've also noticed that to use Intense debate on blogger you have to go into the post options in the editor and prior to publishing post you need to open that up and click allow comments. I hope this doesn't continue like this but if so then it's still better than blogger comment form. Just hope I remember to do this each time because I have CRS...

Improve Your Blogs Chances for Success: Set Clear Goals

Improve Your Chances at Success
If you don't currently set goals to help you improve and achieve your blogs success maybe it's time to start. I first started blogging because I was bored. I began to do it for fun and without clear goals for success. Some bloggers do so for fame, fortune, fun and some simply just to rant or for the publicity. One huge advantage in obtaining success is being able to set clear and worthwhile goals and work towards achieving them.

Always Know What You Want your Blog to Achieve
This will also do your blog and performance a lot of good. It can prepare you for the challenges ahead further down the line if your goal is to supplement your income or even make a full time living as a blogger. Currently I do make a small income from blogging but with the time I put in and the challenges it has presented I have begun to realize it's not only something I enjoy doing but that if I want to make it full time then I need to set some short and long term goals. If I don't know where I'm going, then any road will take me there.

What are Goals
In short goals are what you are aiming for. They are measurable and time targeted objectives. They give you a sense of direction and through motivation a desire to achieve them. Setting goals means your making a commitment. Goals are essential. They make you get off your ass and do them. Setting goals for your blog helps you measure progress. Setting clear goals helps you to be able to visualize this progress. 

Setting Goals for Your Blog
Don't do like I did and just start blogging and if you did then it's time to set some goals. Beyond needing a niche, having the correct domain name, and providing quality content, you ultimately need to know what you want your blog to accomplish. Stop making excuses. Goals will help you to accomplish your blogs success.  
   
Basic Goal Setting
Even if you consider yourself to be quite productive now, the chances are you could get even more done by taking just a few moments to work out what your goals are for the day ahead.

• Set Goals Within Reach
• Make sure Your goals are Important to YOU
• Set Time Frames for your Goals
• Be Realistic don't Over set your Goal
• Make sure they are Achievable
• Prioritize, Write them down
• Make sure they are Challenging
• Be Specific

Goals you set which are too far out of your reach, you probably won't commit to doing. Identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. Set a time frame for the goal: for next week, in three months, or by the end of the year. Putting an end point on your goal gives you a clear target to work towards. Everyone will benefit from goals and objectives if they are realistic and achievable.

In setting goals for your blog you Must believe in yourself. Self-Esteem is important to reaching and fulfilling these goals. It also takes commitment. Prove your commitment by sharing your goals with others. You can't hide if you share with others. It also takes self-discipline and energy to accomplish. In the next few weeks I will continue to post about goal setting. I will also share my goals for this blog and how I am obtaining these, both long and short term goals. I hope you will do the same. Take the time to leave a comment and or tweet this and share with your facebook friends if you think it's important.

Walk the Dog or Pet the Putty

What do you do in your quiet time? Do you even have any quiet time for yourself or are you too busy walking the dog and forgetting to pet the putty. Who are you and how does that relate to the way you blog? 10 minutes of meditation at the beginning of each day and a thank you at the end of each day for me is very important. But I need much more quiet time than this to maintain my sanity. Self discipline is very important for a full time blogger.

Take Time to Be You
I say this speaking as much to myself as to you, and if anyone knows how important this is I think I would. I was a counselor for several years and burnt myself out to where I wasn't any good in helping anyone any longer at that time. Then I took a job at an aircraft company where I put so many hours into my work that I forgot to take time to be me. To not only enjoy my job but to enjoy a life outside of my work. And not only did my work efforts suffer but I burnt myself out again and quit that job too. Just walked away. Ask for my last paycheck and said, "here's my I.D., sayonara, adios amigos." (it was a six digit income). #fail

It's OK to Walk the Dog -AND- Pet the Putty
Maybe some of you see where I am going with this because your already there. If your not you will be or you may just walk away and let your blog die. The most important thing that I have discovered recently or remembered is that I need to constantly find some balance. I need to take time out to pet the putty -- enjoy my life as I blog --  taking care of me is important. Finding some leisure time whether it be put my monitor to sleep and watch a sporting event on the tube or take a stroll along the river. (I'm not much of a movie fan but attempting to try some more of that as well.) I love to go out for a walk or jog or run and ride my bike to relieve some stress. I don't know about the rest of you but blogging for me can be stressful just like a lot of things in life today. I am one high strung individual who puts his all into whatever he does. Sometimes this is detrimental for me. I fall asleep thinking about titles for my next post, wake up thinking about my post titles. Shit this is a little too much.

It's Not That Hard
Oh sure I want to make money but I don't want this to be my life or what my life is centered around and for me it really isn't about the money. It's about who I am and my personality that needs the balance. I've made six figure incomes before and it's not about money. Money hasn't made me happy, happiness is an inside job, it comes from within. So I ask you are you walking the dog or petting the putty? It's OK to do both as long as there is a balance between the two in life.

How do you relieve your stresses? What besides family is important. Each of us need time for ourselves in order to maintain a perspective in our daily lives. Tell me what do you do?

Should Schools Have a Group Therapy Class Requirement?

In today's society, with the surge of social media, I ask you. "Should Schools Require Group Therapy?" Let's break it down into terms of today's social interaction. When I was a youngster a child if you will, I didn't have the access that children today have to such a mass Social Media. Let's face it. Most of

Frolicking Friday ~/~ Let's Romp

It's Friday once again. For this blog that means it's time to take the opportunity to get away from the usual bs and visit and compliment other blogs. Below you will find a list of blogs that are not only interesting but inspire me as well. The information provided below the blog describes it by the blog author. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. If so leave them a comment and let'em know. So Start Romping!

 
                               Writer's Addict
Writer’s Addict was founded on the idea of how I over­come my daily prob­lems and relate that to my reader’s. This is my first blog and I would love to hear feed­back on my posts and what you think. It is impor­tant to me to hear your opin­ion on what I write so I can find bet­ter way’s to present and relate my posts for you.

                            Mad Tomato
About This Tomato -He is Mad.-He is from a distant galaxy called Lycopersica.-He loves Blogger and Wordpress and other cool stuff online. He is Fascinated by Earth’s technology. He Digs Arts and Web Design. Thinks ‘funny’ is the most commonly misused English word. He Flies a red space chopper that runs on coconut cream and stolen kitchen utensils. And more..

Brandon Writes The Wrongs

I'm Brandon, and through this blog, I will display my thoughts and various opinions on life and what not. Some posts will make you laugh, while others might make you feel like threatening my life. (True story). I like to believe I am a sarcastically realistic 17 year old guy who is full of wit and won't hesitate to tell the truth. Trust me, you don't want to miss out.

                          Shoot Me Now!
If you only KNEW how many times I’ve fallen down in public or dropped glass jars in stores! Might as well blog about it, right? Written by a mom, coffee addict, gastroparesis suffer and all around klutz, including everything from humor to random musings.

                         The 3D Student
Heather says,  I’ve been studying 3D Animation since 2007 and I’ve loved every second. Prior to discovering 3D, I was actually headed along a totally different path. I was home educated from the end of second year in high school (I was 14 years old), until I turned 16 and started college; a general Higher Computing course.

Blogging It's Apples and Oranges Don't Complicate It

One of the most important things I am learning in blogging is to not complicate it. Having visited more than 1000 blogs in the last few months in this journey of mine, I've learned that one of the most important things is to be myself. Bottom line, be MYSELF.

Why Be Competitive
It seems that most of the sites, blogs if you will, that I've landed on lately appear to be

What to Do With my XSitePro2 Website Design Software

Recently I received a Bonus Commission that included a Full Version for XSitePro 2. It included the details for downloading and registering the software on my computer. Along with the product key for registration. It seems like a really cool place to design a new website. You can check out some of their features here.

My Positive Experience With TurboTax

This is not a paid review nor is it solicited in any way from TurboTax. It's me taking the opportunity to share my experience with you regarding online tax preparation.

The Rules Aaah, the Rules -- Gotta 'bey "The Rules'!!

photo credit-Julie Samuelson, The western times

It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, KS when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina. Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became overheated and melted, letting a metal support drop down and grind on the rail, creating white hot molten metal droppings spewing down to the rail. A very alert crew

Would Some of Your Partners be Willing to Link to You

Anchor Text holds
Link quality is one important factor, but another important factor is link anchor text. You can't always control how others link to you. Most people refer to a site, let's say your site, by your offical name Lees Shizzle Blog for example. Now that is not my domain name and it is an error I made from the beginning of building this site. When most people think of this site they think of Lee's Shizzle, NOT leesdykstuff. Don't make

If Content is King then Links Are the Kings Biatch

Get Hooked, Get Linked Up!
Relationships are the key to any successful blog. Communication tops this next. Links crawl in here some where. Guess where. At the top of these. Don't believe me then don't provide links and see where your blog goes. If you don't have links or you don't provide links, you don't have big daddy google crawling your site.

How orgasmic are you 
The beauty of the blog is that it is

Richard Pryor Your Stir Crazy Blog...

                            
Wayman, Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Akroyd...they all showed up to learn something from the Comedy God. When he was in his prime Richard Pryor was the Shizzle. "There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at."--Richard Pryor

Want to Stir Crazy Your Blog do ya.

It Get's Personal When It Comes to My Success

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It's Personal With Me
Having a dream job is much more than just having the dream. I always say that's where it starts though. Nothing worth having is accomplished easily. It takes hard work, dedication and never giving up. It becomes personal with me. It reminds me of a quote I've memorized, “To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” ~ Bernard Edmonds

Frolicking Friday ~/~ Let's Romp

It's that time again. Below you will find a list of blogs that are not only interesting but inspire me as well. The information provided below the blog describes it by the blog author. Either from their site or from a list at the Do Follow Blog Directory. (which by the way provides information about No Follow and Do Follow and is a great directory to take a look at) I hope you enjoy these, So Start Romping!

What a Great Way to Promote Your Business or Organization

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Safety Magnets
I took a look at our refrigerator just now, go look at yours. It's obviously a very important spot for our reminder magnets, fun photos and calendar of upcoming and monthly events. What I didn't see that I realize is extremely important is any Safety Magnets.

The More I Read From ProBlogger's the More I Love Lee's Shizzle

The More I Read From ProBloggers the More I Love Lee's Shizzle

That statement could be construed. And in fact I want to construe it if you will. Earlier today I smiled at someone. It was one of those so called evil smiles. You know the one where you attempt to be sending a certain.....uuhh let's say go to hell message, yet it appears they just tickled your fancy. Sometimes they get it sometimes they don't. It depends on who "they" are.

Having only been blogging for a short time I feel this Little Blog that could has made progress. For this I do owe the pioneers of blogging or 'ProBloggers' some credit. I was actually about 4 months into blogging before I even knew what the term problogger even referred to. I thought it was just someone coining the phrase as a domain name. And it was but I didn't know this. It's also been given to other highly qualified individuals in their own niche who has/is making a living blogging. 

How to Keep Your Internet Up in Our Microwave Society

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I Like it Fast, Microwave Fast
I don't know about you but I like it fast. I like my system to be able to do what I want it to do right now. "I want what I want and I want it right now." That's todays approach and our overall mindset isn't it? OK so sometimes you want things to go a little slower but not with your internet connection. At least not I. Speed, it's all about the speed. So stop waiting and get going.

Don't Call Me I'm on the Computer
When I first began using the internet back in the late 90's early 2000 it was pretty neat for me to be able to sit behind a huge monitor and watch the progress bar slowly pump that green line from one end to the other. I thought, Wow! Now this is the Shizzle. It wasn't long before my patience began to wear thin and I knew there had to be a better way. A better way to watch video's, download pictures or even simply get my computer to boot. That was with Dial-up. By the way don't call me either because "I'm online and don't want to have to be bothered or start over once your silly gossiping has ended." What a pain starting over was!

Do More Online Save Time
There are plenty of options available but I want to be able to open my email and watch the video you sent  without being able to take time to go get the coffee cup refilled. Don't you? My connection to the world begins with my Internet and the Speed. From banking to playing games it's very important and if you want to catch up Charter is a good place to start. They're reliable, secure, and once you’ve had it, you’ll see why DSL is the new dial up. They’ll even install it free to get you going. Hop on over and check out  Charter’s Facebook page whilst your at it see what others are saying.

Do You Follow Blogs Using That Thingy

Do You Promote Follow Yet Not Follow

Does anyone follow blogs using that thingy in the sidebar anymore. I know I am just as guilty of promoting my blogs and not following others as much as anyone. It's not always because I don't like your blog or that I'm to selfish to do what I promote. A great deal of the time it's that I get caught up in your content and by clicking your external links that I'm off and running or I just simply forget prior to exiting.