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Interesting Threads This Week At The Netpond Board |
| July 23rd, 2007 under Interesting Threads At The Netpond Board. [ Comments: none ]
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Next version of Windows: Call it 7
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How hard should you work before calling it quits?
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And those are just a few of the threads this week at the Netpond Board that we wanted to point out to you. There are many many more. And if you have any questions or even would like to share with the others on the board start your own thread in the right section. Questions are always welcome so ask away. We hope to see you on the Netpond Board.
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Declan McCullagh to Deliver Keynote Address at Internext Summer 2007 |
| July 23rd, 2007 under Industry News. [ Comments: 1 ]
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CHATSWORTH, Calif. – AVN Media Network today announced that Declan McCullagh will present the keynote address at the company’s Internext Expo, scheduled to take place Aug. 3-5 in Hollywood, Fla. McCullagh is the chief political correspondent and a senior writer for CNET’s News.com and since 1993 has been covering free speech, politics, and the Internet from a libertarian perspective.
On the opening day of the three-day conference, McCullagh will address the role the adult entertainment industry plays in maintaining free speech and how the industry can affect the political process. The one-hour presentation will take place from 11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3.
“The political situation in Washington, D.C., and the states makes 2007 a crucial time for free speech on the Internet,” McCullagh said. “I look forward to joining everyone at Internext this year.”
An award-winning journalist, McCullagh has served as the Washington bureau chief for Wired.com and a reporter for Time.com and Time magazine. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and George, and he has appeared on numerous radio and television shows. He also has taught two First Amendment law courses at Case Western Reserve University.
Additionally, McCullagh was one of the plaintiffs in the 1996 challenge to the Communications Decency Act and has won a free speech award from the American Civil Liberties Union. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, an intellectual property litigator.
“Declan McCullagh is one of the preeminent journalists covering the intersection of technology and politics,” said AVN Online Editor Kathee Brewer. “There are few who are as respected, knowledgeable, and fun to read as he. I’m sure Internext attendees not only will be entertained by his wit as he recounts harrowing tales from inside the Beltway, but also will leave the keynote presentation with a renewed sense of urgency to exert some of the power the adult entertainment industry can and should have in the political process.”
Online registration for Internext Summer 2007, a business-to-business show for the adult entertainment industry, now is available on the show’s official website, Internext-Expo.com. Prices for the all-access pass are $250 during the early registration period and $300 after June 13, 2007.
Internext Summer 2007 will be at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa. The entire property has been reserved for this exclusive event targeted toward decision-makers and top executives from all disciplines within the adult entertainment industry. Only registered attendees and industry professionals related to the show will be allowed on the resort’s premises.
The new theme for the show is “-”One Industry. One Goal. One Event.”-” - and it aspires to gather content producers, distributors, webmasters, mobile companies, and technology manufacturers and developers together for three days of intensive networking and deal-making.
The all-access pass comes complete with a complimentary lunch on the first day, entry to the show floor, three-day educational program, live domain auction on Saturday, and other scheduled events and parties. Interested attendees should register at Interenxt-Expo.com and reserve their rooms at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa by calling (888) 627-9057.
Premier sponsor for Internext Las Vegas 2007 is PussyCash. Contact Chris Lebrun for information on available exhibiting, sponsorship, and advertising opportunities at (818) 718-5788 x161 or chris.lebrun@avn.com .
About Internext
Internext is the world’s largest business-to-business online and digital media adult trade show. The biannual trade show is held in Las Vegas each January and in Hollywood, Fla., each August. Internext originally was conceptualized in 1997 to provide networking and new business opportunities for the adult online market. Our goal is to provide the optimum forum and access to support products, services, information, and education for webmasters to succeed online.
About AVN Media Network
AVN Media Network is the leading independent authority in adult entertainment, covering the industry In Print, In Person and Online. The AVN Media Network includes the monthly magazines AVN, AVN Online, and GAYVN, along with the bi-monthly AVN Adult Novelty Business; the leading adult industry trade shows AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Internext, and the AVN Adult Novelty Expo; the consumer show Erotica LA; and online content through the AVN.com, AVNOnline.com, and GAYVN.com news and information portals, along with cutting-edge industry e-newsletters. AVN also hosts the annual AVN Awards ceremony every January in Las Vegas as well as the GAYVN Awards every March in West Hollywood.
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This Weeks Sponsor In The Spotlight: Traffic Cash Gold |
| July 23rd, 2007 under Sponsor Spotlight. [ Comments: none ]
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Traffic Cash Gold
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Their top 5 converting sites for the period July 9-July 15 2007 were.
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Traffic Cash Gold was founded in 1996 and is one of the programs other affiliate programs are measured by. They have a wide variety of niches for the adult webmaster to promote. They have thousands of free hosted picture and movie galleries with exclusive content and they add more on a regular basis.
If your looking for a program that offers a little bit of everything this is it. They also provide a wide selection of content for building your own movie and picture galleries. There is also a nice selection of banners to promote their program with and they recently added a RSS Feed to promote them with.
They have their own webmaster board where web master questions are answered quickly and offer above average webmaster support. If you like you can check them out at.
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Social Networking - Eeks! By Chimera |
| July 23rd, 2007 under Interesting Articles. [ Comments: none ]
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In our jobs I guess that is a funny term to use. Many of us are the furthest from social creatures. We are locked away in our offices or bedrooms or living rooms, working our tiny fingers to the bone, typing and mousing our days away.
Some of us are unsocial by nature and some of us driven by a shiny vision of our personal networks and empires taking over the world or maybe just a tiny corner of the net.
Some of us have an external balance as well, perhaps a spouse or children who though they take time from our obsessive building, also provide a balance for us. They drag us from our computers kicking and screaming out into the real world. They are part of our social network.
In my case I have a sister (god help me). Who though beloved by me, believes that because I am self employed I can attend her church four times a week with her, go for drinks twice a week, go to the three birthday parties her friends have a week. Yeah, I figure her friends are all aging faster than anyone else because there ARE three birthday parties a week.
I also, she assumes, have time for the one mandatory picnic a week, usually with the glowy eyed people with the Charles Manson stares from her church (an exaggeration but very close to truth), and taking her dog to the vet, her cats to get neutered, answering the door and paying for the repairman of the week (this week it was a plumber) and in my spare time I can work.
Oh yeah also lest I forget, there is the once a week casual get together that ends up with her inviting some guy from work over (usually an idiot) and mentioning she has her own date coming to watch movies and I must entertain her acquaintance who has something in common with me, his hobby is computerized radio controlled cars. Oh yeah that is a real killer evening.
Well, no one can say I don’t have opportunities to network, albeit mostly unwelcome.
However, apart from this there is also the term networking in our jobs. I come to this finally after my personal litany of woes because of a casual statement made by redglow at a netpond show.
When talking about posting on Netpond, we were sharing our “first times”. Hers, to me was the best. She said she read and read and read until she knew less than nothing and then was ready to post. Smart huh? Well I thought so.
This statement came in the middle of a webmaster social networking opportunity. Why would I mention this? Well, because our jobs are solo mainly, unless you work in one of the “office” situations for a large sponsor, and we don’t honestly know each other. Unless you have gone to one of the conventions where I hear getting naked and pissing in the pool is not unheard of, you don’t know much about the people you do business with. Yet, doing business with other webmasters, trust is an important component.
Anyway, the netpond show is my weekly webmaster social networking opportunity. We gather on IRC type to each other get to know one another a bit and little gems like the one redglow gave us, slip out. They give us an idea of each other and our personalities. We listen to Sleazy’s topic of the week, clown around and get to know a little about the personalities behind those nicknames. It is our chance to social network in our community with people we share a lot in common with.
I can hear you saying but…but…I do just fine without that and it takes TIME. Sure it does. It takes time and can pay off in the long run. How so? Increased trust even a smidge, helps a lot in this business. People know your name and know you are not a total idiot (maybe partial, but not total) and they have a “connection” with you.
The boards work the same. You post, you try and help or you put forth your view. You ask questions and hopefully are not too silly. You are in essence social networking. Your name is there and hopefully you are treating it well by the things you say.
So, how does this pay off you ask? Let me give you one very tiny example.
After the Netpond show I got into a situation where a person I was doing some odds and ends for needed a theme replaced. It was important this wordpress theme be simple clean, good looking, and come with support. Easy you say? Well maybe, but this person needed something proper for their sites, unique and correctly coded for all browsers, and not costing 750+ dollars, the theme was to go into the moneymakers. So how can I choose who to recommend, how do I make sure this person gets treated right and the coders are going to deliver? There are a 1000 coders out there and many must be good, right?
Social networking is the answer of course. People whom I had gotten to know through the boards and through IRC at the Netpond show. People whom I had a firm connection with and had seen their work and knew they delivered what they promised and when they promised it.
That was my payoff for social networking. On the other hand because these guys are good, they don’t have time, they stay busy and yet because I spent time with them and had a connection they agreed to do this small project. Also because the person for whom I needed this project also posted on the boards and though she posts rarely, she does so with good sense and kindness it helped sway them.
Problem solved. I could be sure everyone in this transaction would be treated honestly, sure the coders would deliver exactly what was asked for because I knew them personally. I had seen the lengths they go to finish on time and as requested. I owe them now, but that also is part of social networking. A favor done here, one owed there they all balance out.
Everything hinged on nicknames that were known, reputations that were built, friends that were made. Familiarity and in this case friendship with the coders made me secure in being able to say “Yes, they will give you what you need and it will be right the first time and they will give it to you in the time frame they say they can deliver”. Social and business networking.
Familiarity with me, made the coders say “Ok, we will do this” even though they are overworked and pressed for time.
This is a tiny thing because I am a tadpole, yet it was important to me. I am pretty positive the whales in the pond do it much the same way. That personal connection is important, not essential, but important.
These relationships are not built through a single post, or an hour spent at the Netpond show once a week but those parts were integral to it. You develop social and business relationships and you grow that way, or you struggle on your own and miss so many good friends, and nice and talented people. Because we work alone doesn’t mean we have to be socially isolated.
Goodbye for now, I need to go and figure out a new disease of the week, there is a picnic with the glowy eyed church people this afternoon and I really don’t have the time!
Peace-Chimera
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Best wishes Thomas & get well soon mate! |
| July 16th, 2007 under Board Quotes. [ Comments: none ]
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As you all know Thomas is the editor of the NetpondNews and he is in the hospital undergoing bypass surgery today, we all send out our best wishes that all goes well and for a safe recovery, for more details and to add your well wishes please visit this thread here at Netpond. Thanks - Haui
Quote from this thread here:
Thomas,
My sincerest best wishes for a successful surgery and your quick and safe recovery. Please do take your time in healing properly and dont push yourself to come back too quickly or too soon. Your health is of the utmost importance. Please take care.
Big D
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How did you learn to get in top of search engines? by Bald Bastard |
| July 16th, 2007 under Interesting Articles. [ Comments: none ]
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Trial and error mainly, link lists were my biggest motivator, as they never listed my sites, everyone was telling me too submit to this and too submit to that, I’d spend hours doing sites that I thought were great only to never get listed. Search engines were picking up my pages and sending me traffic so after a while I just concluded that I could never get a site listed anywhere so I’d just keep on building for search engines. Then along came DMOZ, a directory that did not require a link back, so I would build and submit to DMOZ and interlink these sites to my own network. It was a understanding of page rank before I ever heard of page rank that kicked off my sites.
There are a few basics that you need to get your head around and for that you need to look at your pages from a bot point of view and have a limited understanding of how they work.
The first thing a bot will do when it visits your site is look for a robots.txt file, in this file you can tell the bot about areas of your site that you DON’T want it to index. if you want your whole site indexed then don’t worry about this file or just have it blank, personally I prefer to have a blank one. Here’s mine http://www.baldbastard.com/robots.txt In this I’m telling archive.org to go away and instructing all other bots to leave my stats and shit folders alone. But on 90% of my other sites it’s just a blank txt file with nothing in it.
Most bots need to be told what your page is about, and to do this you use meta tags, the most important being the title tag, which every bot will read, then you have the description and keyword tags where you can add more information on what your page is about. Then a bot is going to look at the content on a page, where content means text. So at its most basic a page would look like this http://www.baldbastard.com/shit/000.html When a bot reads your text its going to analyze the page to see if any keywords or themes are repeated and thus conclude that’s what the page is about at the most basic level.
Its more than likely that the keywords in your page are used on other websites, when people look for a search term on a search engine site they will return what they consider to be the best pages, and to do this they rank all the pages they have found with that term in them. The most common way to rank a page is to look at how many links a page has linking to it. This works backwards as they look at the page linking too you and then who’s linking to them. Thus a link to your site from a page that also has a lot of links pointing to it is considered better than a link to your site from a page that has limited or no links pointing to it. They also will look at the text in and surrounding the link to your site, since many sites linking to you will only use your domain name in the link title, it makes sense to have a key worded domain, that way links just containing your domain name will be targeted for your main keyword.
Many webmasters will try to manipulate the results of search engines and to counter this the bots will also look for indications of this manipulation. Algorithms are written into the bots to spot these, the algorithms are continuously updated, general things they will look for are: over use of keywords, different content being shown to bots and surfers, unnatural linking. Last time I heard anything it was said that Google Bot had over 30,000 of such rules.
Generally if you have great content you will have no problems getting good back links. The longer these links point to your page the more rank they will pass to it, and if the page linking to you also gets more links over time its quality will improve and this will filter down to your page.
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This Weeks Sponsor In The Spotlight Silver Cash |
| July 16th, 2007 under Sponsor Spotlight. [ Comments: none ]
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Silver Cash
Silvercash offers a variety of high paying programs with many niches. Silvercash also just released of a new line of True Widescreen Hi-Def sites as part of the Silver Sinema Series. These sites are designed in 1024 x 768 format, and are loaded with EXCLUSIVE Hi-Def content and crystal clear Hi-Res images.
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How to choose the right keywords and where to include keywords on your page. by Haui |
| July 16th, 2007 under Interesting Articles. [ Comments: 1 ]
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Keywords
How to choose the right keywords and where to include keywords on your page.
Relevant, targeted keywords can get you to the top of search engine rankings, help you attract visitors interested in your web site’s content and targeted traffic means better sales conversion ratios = more sales = more $$$ for you.
1. Keyword Research
Visit the tour of the niche pay site you want to promote and write down what they offer and what special features can be found there. Describe in your own words what the site is about or how you would recommend that site to your friends.
Ok now we have a list of possible keywords we can use, let’s analyze them, find how often they are used and what combinations the surfers search for as well. To do that we go to: The Keyword Suggestion Toolthat allows you to select countries and export to five different file formats. The most searched for keywords will appear on the results page including their search count. You can then export them in: TXT, XLS, INI, XML or CSV. and type in the first keyword.
Lets say we choose to promote a big tits site that tool gives us back the following number showing how many times each term was searched for during the last month:
Ok now we have even more possible keyword combinations and we do the same as well with the other terms we came up with while studying the pay sites tour.
So lets see how much competition is out there for those keywords, for that we simply go to http://www.google.com/ and it will give us the following results:
| Search Term |
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| big tit |
2,520,000 |
| big natural tit |
671,000 |
| big black tit |
2,100,000 |
| free big tit |
2,190,000 |
| mature big tit |
1,430,000 |
| big teen tit |
1,810,000 |
| big blouse bra tit |
156,000 |
| big tit sex |
2,280,000 |
| big tit fucking |
1,910,000 |
| big tit picture |
1,400,000 |
| free big tit picture |
1,790,000 |
| big tit gallery |
1,690,000 |
| big tit lesbian |
1,560,000 |
| big tit porn |
2,000,000 |
| big tit movie |
1,590,000 |
| big search tit |
942,000 |
| big tit amateur |
1,700,000 |
So we see that even do the term “big tit” is searched for alot it also has alot of competition out there so we better choose or find terms that are searched alot but have less competing pages online. In this case I would choose “big natural tit” and probably for the next page the same but in plural “big natural tits”
2. Where to Include the keywords in your pages
1) Title tag (this is the most important one)
2) repeat the title on the page with H1 tags
3) In the regular text of that page (remember search engines love text, so always include some paragraphs of text on all pages!
4) In text links on other theme related pages / web sites pointing to this page
5) In the URL: domain name or folder name (sub dir name) or html file name ( big-natural-tits.html )
The following are used by some SE’s and not by others but it I do them on most pages anyway.
6) Meta description tag
7) Meta keyword Tags
Rename the pics or banners using keywords ( big-natural-tits.gif )
9) Alt tags
10) Be creative and always remember searchengines love text!
3. SE resources and related links
Search engine resource sites:
http://www.searchengines.com/
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
Search Engine Submissions:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.php
http://www.bjorgul.com/
http://www.htmltricks.com/submit-to-search-engines.htm
Search Engine Forums:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/home.htm
http://www.jimworld.com/apps/webmas…in/Ultimate.cgi
http://forums.seochat.com/
This is s system you can apply to any business or problem solving process and a good way to plan for your next web project, I call it:
A.P.E.C.
A = Analyze
Analyze the market see what sells and what those clients are looking for. Your personal experience and networking with your fellow webmasters will help here. Also the sponsors websites have good resources for researching and its important to know what ya wana sell so look at those tours.
P = Plan
Set up a plan, put your ideas on paper and think what empire you wana build, how to interlink, where to set up fullpage adds mouse traps and what group of related niche sites ya like to work with. And how you like that traffic flow and filtered. Also plan for a variety of traffic sources, don’t put all those eggs in one basket.
E = Execute
Nothing else but hard work here build according to your plan and improve it with new ideas that grow along the way.
C = Control
Its important to check your stats, see where traffic comes from, what search words lead to your page and if they are represented by what you sell there. See witch of your SE strategy works and how to improve, see what sponsor site sells with what traffic. Analyze trends. This will help and is part to start it over again and do A.P.E.C once more and each time a bit better.
See also Netpond’s own Search Engine Optimisation Forum for more updated info and ask any questions there!
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Interesting Threads This Week At The Netpond Board |
| July 16th, 2007 under Interesting Threads At The Netpond Board. [ Comments: none ]
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How many pictures do you use in your blog posts?
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Is living in Canada better than living in the US?
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Template Usage on Free Sites
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What would you do? Drama?
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Introducing myself and asking a heck of questions
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What’s The Best Use Of Your Time To Improve Your SERPs?
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And those are just a few of the threads this week at the Netpond Board that we wanted to point out to you. There are many many more. And if you have any questions or even would like to share with the others on the board start your own thread in the right section. Questions are always welcome so ask away. We hope to see you on the Netpond Board.
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Why I Like Being The Boss, By Chimera |
| July 15th, 2007 under Interesting Articles. [ Comments: none ]
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Today I was going to list the 10 top, 5 top, well anyway the reasons I like being my own boss. I said that was going to be my topic but I woke up this morning out of coffee. My dog has chewed up my bathroom rug. The flowers on the porch took offense to Uncle Charlie’s 4th of july spewing on them and up and died and my sis is out of town but calls every 5 seconds. And I have a pile of work on my desktop that would make the most hardened workaholic turn pale if he had it facing him.
Speaking of hardened workaholics, Thomas, one of my dearest friends is in the hospital and the only saving grace there is he is at least being watched over by family and doctors.
Today, I am having trouble remembering why I like being my own boss.
However I am going to try and list all the bright and rosy reasons I like working for myself.
First off is I can set my own hours.
Wait. I work from 8 am to 3 am often sometimes more, so what is good about that?
Ok, well I can take a day off when I want.
Thinking about that, nope, it is bunk. I work 7 days a week 32 days a month, or I would if there were 32 days in the month.
I can do what I want.
Sure I can. That is after I finish everything I promised to do and need to do and fix up everything that is broken. Let’s see, that will be in 2009.
I am thinking hard here people, help me out!
I have it.
I can take all the company pencils I want!
I can use the telephone anytime I want for as long as I want and no boss looking over my shoulder. I mean if I need to call someone I can.
Bull corn. The last time I called anyone was in Oct of 2006 when my electric went off due to a blown transfomer. I hear about my poor phone habits everytime I don’t pick up the phone when my sister calls (every 5 seconds).
Ok, so if I’m such a bad boss why do I work for me?
Ahh that is a much better question.
I like working insane hours. I enjoy seeing projects through to completion and love the challenge of learning all the ins and outs and seeing things that were previously unclear to me come clear. I am a hard boss to work for but I like seeing the results.
So what if I don’t get coffee breaks? It is not like I can’t take them when I choose or take all day off.
I am doing something I love though so tend to forget time and just work until I am done or the words are too blurry to read.
I love being busy.
I no longer have to hunt for tasks to make that clock go by faster or look busy to my boss. There is always more than enough and all of it I chose to do.
I like being able to reach down and pet my dog or having to dump that pesky cat from the keyboard. They are stress relief, and give my office a happy feeling.
I like seeing my words transform take on a life of their own to be read and dismissed, or enjoyed by others.
I like having the sci fi channel on tv all day in the background, or tuning into twisted tunes and listening to “Cows With Guns”. The offbeat suits me and if you try and get that in a structured office working for a boss other than yourself most times it’s not gonna happen.
I like having icq and skype on, and being free to use it to ask and answer questions. I get a lot more done that way, and when I get stuck I get new input into projects. My friends have dug me out of more than one hole of my own making that way.
I like owning what I do.
I think that last point sums it all up. Whether my work is good or bad or indifferent, I own it. It is mine and it will either make me money or not, but it is mine. That goes for whether I am using my words myself, or selling them, they still define me in this business.
I think that possibly the last point is common to us all.
Whatever we do in this business at least, we own it and we are known by it, good, bad or indifferent. It keeps us going and makes or breaks us.
When you sit down and decide to write your top ten, five, oh nevermind just whatever reasons you have for working for yourself don’t forget the prime one.
You own it.
Now, I think I am going to turn off my computer, turn off the cellphone, dispose of the chewed up bathroom rug, zip down to the store and buy some more coffee and then walk next door and plant some new flowers.
After all, I am second in command. The cat is really the boss.
Take life easy - Chimera
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