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1. Healthier Living - Eh, I need to get back to walking this week.

2. Cleanup - I can’t find a shredder that I like that isn’t $300. I’m trying to figure out whether or not I’d actually like to spend that on a good home shredder that doesn’t shut off every two minutes.

3. Website Growth - It’s a very solid July. Much better than last year’s July, and I’m hoping August ‘07 will kick some serious ass!

I really don’t have much to add, but I came across the site and think its amazing. My two favorites are the Earth Rise and the Earth-like clouds.

Check it out.
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1. Healthier Living - Um, no comment after the weekend. The Nachos were worth it though.

2. Cleanup - I brought a ton of stuff to Goodwill last week! Hooray, that’s finally done! I still need to tackle my office closet, and I think I’m going to start looking at renovating the office to open it up a bit. It’s to cluttered and tight right now, so on the short list are cleaning up the closet, getting a new computer desk, removing the old entertainment center, removing the coffee table and finding some comfortable chairs.

3. Website Growth - It’s a very solid July. Much better than last year’s July, and I’m hoping August ‘07 will kick some serious ass!

I’ve recently decided to ditch my personal email account that I’ve paid for for the past few years in favor of Gmail. I used to access my old account with Mozilla Thunderbird, via IMAP, and that’s worked fine for a while. I decided to check out Gmail again, since I’m tired of spend $25 per year on my email account, and because I don’t really like the Yahoo interface, or the Hotmail interface. I found out that I’ve been pretty stupid in delaying my email address change.

First of all, Gmail is fast. I mean, super-fast. And, labels (which I realize are now in Thunderbird) are WAY better than my old style folder system. Multiple labels, multiple sort views, it just kicks ass. I have the power of Google to search through my email. Sure there are some advertisements, but who cares? I hardly notice them, and to be honest, once in a while they show me a product or service I might actually be interested in.

The detractors will tell me that my privacy is at risk. It might be, but so is the email that is downloaded to a local machine if someone really wants to take a look at it. In fact, Scott MacGregor’s main argument at this Wired.com article is, “Some users want to have their data local for privacy and control. Furthermore, you can integrate data from different applications on the desktop in ways that you can’t do with web-based solutions, unless you stick to web solutions from a single provider. For example, you can use your Outlook address book with Thunderbird. We’d like to continue to expand the kinds of data you can share between Thunderbird and other apps (both web and desktop applications).”

Okay, those are good points, but I think most users out there really just want to check their email. I don’t need to integrate my Mom’s Zucchini Casserole recipe, with anything on my computer. I just need to save the email and figure out where it is at a later date. Labeling under “Food” in Gmail has me there in a couple of seconds, without having to fire up my computer. Plus I can grab it from my mobile phone if necessary. Maybe I don’t get it because I’m not a power email user. I don’t get 100’s of emails each day to my personal account. I keep it simple that way, but then again, I think a lot of people do. So really, for the average user, like me, web-based email, especially Gmail’s superior interface, is perfectly fine.

Now if I could just get my email subscriptions to update from my old email address.

It’s a new edition… hooray!

1. Healthier Living - Bad weekend. Bad Hardee’s! BAD BAD BAD. lol. Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled food this week.

2. Cleanup - The walk-in closet is looking mighty good. And the bedroom drawers are slowly getting cleaned out. It feels good to get a lot of this crap out of the house!

3. Website Growth - July ‘07 is slightly behind June, but I’m getting some solid numbers. Go figure. I’m sure next month will open up some traffic again.

Well, it’s been half a year. So far, I’m pleased. A lot of things are coming together nicely in 2007, after a hell of a rough start to the year.

1. Healthier Living - So far, so good. I’m working more fruit into my day, time for some more veggies. And I realized over the weekend that I need to get more good protein back into my diet. My brain has been a little mushy lately and I think that’s why.

2. Cleanup - This is the week for the first go around of Goodwill stuff. The old computer monitor and my old, old, old Sony stereo (that still works) is headed out the door too.

3. Website Growth - July ‘07 is slightly behind June, but I’m getting some solid numbers. Go figure. I’m sure next month will open up some traffic again.

*** In bonus news, I finished installing more CFLs in the house. I put a daylight version in my master bedroom, and for a lot of people I think it might be too “cold” of a light, but I like it. Nice and clean. Eventually I need to replace that ceiling fan with a unit that can take more than one bulb, since it’s still a little dim in there for my liking, even with a 60 watt equivalent. I’m also testing out a new air filter in the A/C unit, one with Arm & Hammer Baking Soda in it. We’ll see if it’s any better than the hogs hair version.

1. Healthier Living - It’s July 5th… time to get back on track.

2. Cleanup - Goodwill stuff will be going out the door next week!

3. Website Growth - June ‘07 was the best month in the history of ScalpEm.com. Go figure!

Hellllll yes… it’s Roller Derby time in Tallahassee again. If you haven’t been, you’ve got to check it out!!! My first match was an experience, to say the least. This time I’m going prepared, with Skate Over Her Neck T-Shirts and a hankering for a suicide row seat. So go get your tickets early at CD Warehouse, and be prepared to see the likes of Puertoriccan Poision, Convictina, The Great Wall of Gina, Bitchie Cunningham, The Termanatrix, The Roxy Horror Ripper Show and Rum Runner (and all of the others, I’m not intentionally leaving you out!!) at the North Florida Fair Grounds.

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Venom just puked over the balcony, I think it’s moving…