This is a little tiny site that if you are not familiar with blogging then you are going to learn a few things today. Maybe! Just like any other “Social Website” Twitter is a smaller version of a Weblog. In a way. You can get a free account with Twitter and that is reason enough to go there and sign up. With your new Twitter account you can post short messages about what you are doing in your life, game, daily activities, and so on and so forth. ::ALERT:: NOT TO MENTION ::ALERT:: it will keep the game from having to be worked on all the time by the creators having to clean up caches filled with garble instead of normal game play and that means FASTER play for us with Less Down Time!!!

Here’s where it comes in handy for me and some of the Mobsters and Heroes, and any other APPS that we play on MySpace! This Twitter board refreshes in real time. You type a message, everyone that is following you gets an update.

How is this helpful? Well, every post you put on there, (bulletin to your Mob, Guild, etc.) does not cost you $$$$$. I know some of you have been there when that $1550 would have made the difference between if you could get 4 more $1,000,000 properties that pay out $10,000 each or 5 more.

Another benefit, especially for someone like myself, is that I can easily and quickly go through my past messages sent by the game and see who beat me and who did not and I can get on the ones that did not to have them join us or be defeated so I Can get some more $$$ to buy more properties, so I can have more money so I can buy more equipment, so I can beat more players, so I can get more money so I can ….. you get the point. LOL

Keep this in mind when youa re posting all of your activities on the Games Boards, Thee is a reason that it costs money. So you won’t use it like its a chat room. Posting on those message boards only slows down the game, for everyone. It’s built on a Java platform so everything slows it down.

I’m not saying that you HAVE to use Twitter. Your grown up so do whatever you want to! I’m simply making a suggestion so that thee is a history of events for us all to read in our own time privately or however we do it. I personally get the updates on my iPhone with Twitterific and Twinkle. Apps for the iPhone that do cool things! You can use Twitter with almost any mobile carrier, and I am almost 100% sure that there is a link on the sign up process and the home page after you sign up that offers the free updates by phone.

So WHY Twitter.com

1. It’s Free to Post as Often as You Like
2. You don’t need a license to drive Twitter
3. All your friends are doing it
4. Mobile Updates for FREE, and mobile POSTING for free!!
5. Cat like reflexes let you update your Guild, Mob in REAL TIME
6. You can customize your page with backgrounds and colors, and it’s easy to do
7. PLUS Private accounts Made Even Easier on Twitter
8. Also … Get updates through RSS (Really Simple Syndication - Google it if you don’t know what that is)

Twitter.com will help us to keep the boards clear and the game running faster and better and we will still be able to see the goings ons of everyone in our Guilds that need help or have something to say or just want to post the daily, hourly, Add List, Train!! LOL

There are chat rooms and messenger and what not but I suggested twitter because it’s free, it looks good, it updates in real time, and you can Follow everyone else in your group and they can follow you. AND the posts are there for you to delete and redo and keep track of for as long as you want them there. Want to add to the ADD Train? Delete the old one and post the new one ON TOP of everything else so that it is the MOST visible! Then you know everything that is going on in your circle with up to the minute updates. It’s that easy!!

Enjoy Twitter and get your own account today! Then post it on your My Stats Page and everyone can follow you to VICTORY!!!!

Erns Tweets…. Heroes … Mobsters

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Funny how that works. Just when you think your not living up to your potential, you go and take a couple diet pills and get an ataboy from the boss. Very nice!

This unnamed company has always been perfect with ordering, shipping on time and billing when they are supposed to. But for some crazy reason they are really messing up these last few months. We order so that when we run out of the product that there is another one in hand by the time we are in need of it. This way we don’t miss any treatments. It’s pretty important to stay on a set schedule when it comes to these things.

Well this is the month that broke the camels back. When we saw a 15 day early charge on our account and 27 overdraft charges because of that one unexpected charge, we said “No more auto pay”, at least not for them. Auto pay is so nice to, especially when you don’t want to hassle with calling 20 different companies every month to make $5 and $12 payments that could easily be set up to be paid on time every time.

But … there is so much crap to move that I don’t think I want to pack all of this up and drive a big ‘ol truck all the way across the world. Let someone else deal with all that! I want to be lazy and just fly out with a few things then just unpack when we get there.

Although the thought of moving is nice and getting out of the dry hot desert is also appealing, I don’t see us being able to go anywhere until a few very loose ends are tied up! Tied up!

After installing, or should I say re-installing, Window$ XP Media Center, the glitches began. At first they weren’t too much of a hassle. I got most of the bugs worked out and my laptop was as easy to use as the first day I got it. Everyone remembers their first day with a new computer. They are always so much easier to use arent they? Well after getting all the drivers installed and making sure all the Window$ downloads were in there, all 1200 of them, I started noticing that there are little things like the WiFi that would Just stop working for no reason at all. No setting were changed and nothing was turned on or off by me or anyone that used the laptop.

After some careful consideration I decided that one last time of re-installing an OS was going to be necessary. Well … this time Ubuntu was the OS of choice. Never again will I make this mistake. If you don’t know anyting about Ubuntu don’t try and use it as your only or primary OS on your laptop. ALTHOUGH I will say this, when I installed Ubuntu and restarted, removed the install CD and fired it up for the first time, everything worked. EVERYTHING!!! There was no need for searching for the drivers for the video card or the booming laptop sound system drivers. The laptop was 100% ready to go immediatly after install. THAT was pretty cool. The only down side for me is that I have never used Ubuntu and I am somewhat new to the whole coding your computer thing so getting some of the Admin level “things” to work is impossible for me. I’m going to stick with it though. Everything on my laptop just seems like it is running better and to be honest I like having the extra room on the HD since Dell was stingy on the HD space and only left me with a 60 Gig HD.

I did a few minutes research led me to believe that no one really tests put their installs correctly. Everything that I read told me I was not goi g to get this app working. Well here we are and so far so good!

I kept getting an error that said there was an inability to connect the XML-RPC file. I tried out several of the fixes listed in the help forums but none made any difference at all. So what did work you say??

Well I will tell you. If you ate having trouble using you’d iPhone to update your blog then try this ……..

In “Settings” ~ “Writing” make sure the box is checked for the XML~RPC file then check your Theme. If the app doesn’t work with your theme then use the Default theme on your blog until WP App is installed, and working, then change the theme back when you are dome.

If I send a cabana boy can I get a trinket ??

So recently, about two weeks ago, the permanent teeth started to poke through and the baby teeth had not made it out all the way. Being as loose as they are however, every senior member of the family has taken their turn trying to “pull” them out. Understand that these teeth have had dead roots and have been loose for over 3 1/2 years. Since the slide incident. I have urged and enforced a little game that kept him wiggling his teeth during every TV commercial while he was sitting around watching the tube. They had gotten looser since the beginning of the game and to be perfectly honest … when I was 6 I string and door pulled 3 of my teeth and all of my teeth turned out just fine.

SO … I told my little tough guy that I wanted to try and give it a shot and see if they were in fact loose enough to come out with a little coaxing from a piece of string and some muscle. WELL … it just so happened that the teeth were ready to come out and they popped right out like a couple rockets out of a launching pad. His initial reaction when I tied on the string was to be scared … what 6 year old wouldn’t be right … but when the first one popped out like nothing was holding it in, and nothing was for a very long time, he was so excited.

Now .. for all you everyone going OMG right now keep reading. I called the dentist that we took him to when he cracked his face on the slide who was very nice and helpful at the time of injury. His recommendation at that time was to pull out the teeth since the roots were already dying and would be completely gone within a couple of weeks. On top of that the roots to not re-attach themselves. He also gave an option of pulling the teeth and adding in a set of fake teeth that would be attached to his outer teeth and would have to be pulled when the new teeth, the ones in question today, came in because there would be no room for them and they would come in behind the baby teeth. You follow? Then of corse the option my sons mother chose, and I WILL get into that in a second, was to leave the teeth, the dead teeth, in there and hope for the best. Her reasoning for leaving the dead teeth in there was so that he wouldn’t talk funny and kids wouldn’t make fun of him for talking funny. Seriously. I’m not even joking. Understand this .. with the option of leaving the now unrooted teeth in there that the possibility of infection and abscess were very possible and something that we had to watch for every day for over 3 1/2 years now.

When I called this dentist today he advised that if the teeth were loose that we should give pulling them out a shot and not to try “too hard” but also not to be overly easy on them. He actually remembered our son, from notes I’m sure, and the situation that we were in and would be in further in the future when the new permanent teeth started to come through. There are not may dentists that would recommend pulling your own teeth, but when they are baby teeth that are loose and ready to come out anyway, there is no problem giving them a little encouragement.

I also read an article while searching for other parents that had this problem and I found some very interesting information. If your child has “Shark” teeth as they sometimes call this apparently, then you are in luck. This is perfectly normal and your child is not the only one that this has happened to and on top of that this is NOT an emergency. Keep an eye on the teeth that are coming in. If they get through the gums behind the baby teeth then watch how far out they come and how long it takes. If they make it out and the baby teeth are not loose then get your kid to the dentist. If the teeth that are coming in are pushing out the baby teeth still and the baby teeth are loose, watch for the signs that the baby teeth are getting looser and if they are make sure you are sure that the roots are all the way resorbed before you start tugging on them. If your kid is in pain because of the huge teeth coming in then take them to the dentist.

Some things you should know.

This is more common in the lower teeth and not in the uppers. The only reason this happened to my son was because of a stubborn and slightly over cautious mother. If his teeth would have been taken out when the dentist recommended it then we would not even have noticed any difference when the new teeth came through.

In the front two bottom teeth this usually happens around age 6. Be cautious because around age 11 it could happen again with their farther back molars also on the bottom. It’s not uncommon so don’t freak out.

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I have something I want to share with you that really makes me wonder if kids don’t really see more than we think or realize in our action and in what we say. Out loud!

So I was plugging away on the computer and my youngest son, who is only 16 months to date, wanted to sit next to me at the desk. Now I have sat him on my lap many a times so that he could watch the computer screen with me while I was talking to his Mommy on IM and working on websites or some cool flash or whatever else I was doing while he was up and being a boy.

Check this future hacker of America out ……

I figured I would give him his own little corner of the desk today and I set him up with a keyboard and access to the side slide out thingy and to my surprise he placed his thumbs on the spacebar and his fingers as close as they could be to the home keys on out. (He still has little tiny baby hands)

This is a random image from a trip we took to go and see Q’s cool room and all the toys!!

Very nice … How amazing is it that at 16 months he has taken notice where my hands are placed on a keyboard and he doesn’t hunt and peck like his older brother of 6 years who refuses to pay attention to little things like hand placement but has leaked out an almost cuss word a time or two. Still these two boys are so bright. They are our little shinning stars.

A couple other things we are thinking about is to have a few hats mad with the site names on them and we would auction them off to the highest bidder on like eBay or something. That way there would be some kind of build up to the sale and the advertising would just come naturally. Maybe. The brainstorming is non stop around here to try and get more visitors to the sites. One way or another we are going to make these affiliate sites pay off for us. They are supposed to be hands free .. at least that what sold us to them in the first place. A ton of work up front and then some nice easy hands free income. It’s turning out to be more of a full time job with all the switching and moving of this and that for the new codes and whatnot. Yeesh .. if it was made to be easy, this sure is not what my idea of easy is!!

I’m not a big fan of the spam generation. I swear that if they haven’t found a new way to advertise to the masses by now, then they are wasting their time. With all the spam blockers and email guards, filters and what nots there messages don’t even get seen.

Another great place that I can’t even visit anymore because of spammers is CraigsList.org. Try to post something on CraigsList.org in your local area and see how many spam messages you receive in your inbox, or junk mailbox. The spam is really getting out of control. Isn’t there an ACT or a Law somewhere that prohibits the spamming in some state in the United States? Maybe we should think about getting that across the world. I mean really …. who reads that garbage anyway? I know that there is not one person I know personally that will bother wit wasting their time checking through the Junk Mailbox let alone taking the time to actually read the messages.

Ever since I got on the internet … yeah a long ass time ago … I have been plagued with spam in my inbox. Even in our postal mailbox. It’s advertising yes, but if you don’t put your email address in a form saying that you want to receive that information then you shouldn’t be receiving that information. I mean … I’m still young and I would hope that I don’t need to know the best price on viagra yet. Or how to make her happy tonight. It’s just out of control. I wish there was something I personally could do to put a stop to the spammers. I guess one voice is not enough no matter how loud that voice is, the words still fall on deaf ears.

Maybe instead of creating a billion dollar spam blocker software industry you could take a few minutes to decide on how to actually STOP SPAM from happening in the first place.

Nino decided it was time we went to Mt Charleston and had a little hiking and overnight camping adventure. And an adventure it was. Right from the time we left the house there were issues. One of them being hiking boots and the other being my inability to pack an internal frame backpack. I thought I had plenty of experience in packing up my stuff but for some reason this internal frame thing was kicking my ass.

Nino forgot his hiking boots at the house, even though we had plenty of time to get prepared for this trip, they remained in the house for this trip. There was no way we were going to attempt the mountain hike with sneakers, tennis shoes for those of you not from the East Coast, simply because the rock fallout would have broken more than just my toe. Oh yeah .. I got a broken toe courtesy of some bad footing on the way down. It feels much better than it did, and much better than the 3 blisters on my heals … thanks.

By the time we spent 4 dehydrating hours climbing this easy Trait Canyon Trail, we made it to the top with barely enough time to get our tents out and get some water gathered up for dinner and the trip down. (Thanks Nino for being a trooper and getting all the ice together) My feet were dead and they had just enough feeling left in them to be bandaged up and hobble over to make dinner and melt some ice. (Remember to bring more gas next time) Those big camping pans helped to fill my camelbak a couple times for the walk down.

The next morning I wanted to see some of the sights that I heard about the night before. However, I couldn’t move ten steps without feeling the sensation of falling over in pain. Well, such is poor foot preparation. My bad! (Don’t forget Mole Skin next time) I did get to see some of the sights but missed out on the major ones because of the pain still being there in the morning. Even after several Alieve it just wasn’t in the cards.

We headed down the mountain and that only took like an hour and ten minutes. Dang!! I didn’t see it while we were walking but the trip down was actually really fast. We got to see some crazy fools climbing up the rocks! Koo Koo!! I used to do that but now that I can’t stand on a chair without freaking out .. no more! Maybe one more time though to show Nino how it’s done. I must be crazy!

The only bad experience I can say I had with this trip is …. There was this guy that was heading back down the mountain when we had just made it to the top. He was all “Guess what I did” and “Why Why Why” and then wanted to talk about some girl that was walking down the mountian and how he talked to her for like an hour and how hot she was. “Did you see her .. Did you?” What a douche that guy was. All night I was thinking “Man I wish my feet wouldn’t have hurt so much so I could have stuck my foot in that jerk offs ass.” It’s sad to think that some people are climbing in nature to go dating. Go to a camp or something jeez.

All in all though I loved it up there. So quiet at night and so dark. If it wasn’t for that bobcat attacking Ninos tent in the middle of the night, everything was safe and sound atop the mountain.

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I have been losing weight and feeling better about the size of my butt for weeks .. months now and I really like the results that I am getting. I want to lose a fw more pounds but I can see that even if the exercise and dieting stops for a couple days that the pounds are going to rush back on. Phentermine may be the answer I was looking for these past few months. Im glad I ran across consumerpricewatch.net when I did. Now lets go shopping.

I don’t know what is wrong with my brain these days but I am forgetting more than I care to. Maybe I should sit down with old friends and reminisce now and again. Or maybe that is why I don’t talk to them as often as I should is cause they are so far away and thats what we all wanted. Hmmmm … What a weird week this has been chasing memories and not being able to recall people from the past. I need a better camera to keep track of these things.

I knew it to .. as soon as I opened it up I say that one lonely memory stick in there and when I checked the amount of memory I was right again. 256 .. not a byte more. Ya know how sometimes you just know things? Yeeesh .. so this thing has been sitting in my house for weeks now taking up precious space and stinking up the area where my iMAC resides. Maybe from now on I only do over the phone diagnosis that way I won’t end up fixing everyone junk PC’s. Usually I just tell them to buy a MAC and that will fix all their problems with computing. But some people are so stubborn.