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I’ll Help You Make Money Online But are You Willing to Change Your Outlook? Part 1

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Depression Help Options Covered by PBS Special

Depression Out of the Shadows aired here on local PBS channel WTTW Chicago on May 21, 2008. I stayed home and watched. It hasn’t been quite a year yet since the “event” in my life that took me into a depression spiral that this blog is pretty much a byproduct of. Having the type of deep pain that literally makes you cease functioning in a normal way is what people in the profession categorize clinical depression. But I didn’t get help. I “self medicated.” And before you start jumping to conclusions, it was with vitamins. And it’s hard to believe but I wrote this piece about what actually worked a full SIX MONTHS AGO. Wow! But here’s the really awful thing about depression ; I’m better today, and I can function, but the “trigger” event and all the bad feelings about it are still so fresh in my mind it is as if NO time has passed at all. I still spend a good part of every day, despite how mind crushingly busy I am, in my head going over the events, the fallout, the ramifications and the causes that in MY mind really destroyed my life. That’s depression. I know I’ve got it. AND, I refuse to get help. So the PBS special on depression took a very inclusive selection of Americans to give their story.

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Aaagghh! Hide Your Porn. The Mom Bloggers are Here!

To follow up on my very late Mother’s Day piece from yesterday I thought I’d tackle the issue of mom bloggers or mommy bloggers as I’m hearing a lot these days too. Wow, it’s seems strange as hell to be talking about a “mom blogger” at all. At first. But then you think about it…and it makes perfect sense! Listen I’ve been messin’ around with computers since a little ol’ thing called the TRS-80. Can you take a guess what year that was? I’ll give you a hint it’s in the model number of the computer. And at the time I couldn’t afford the $499.00, or was it $599.00? And my mother didn’t see what I would do with such a thing in the house-of course at the time a lot of NON-mothers couldn’t see what you would do with it. Even ME. But I knew I wanted one because I wanted to build an Iron Man war suit (see how things really don’t change that much) I didn’t know exactly how, but Tony Stark had one so I figured I’d need one too. But blogging in moms at home seem like a perfect match; women like to communicate, if they don’t have an paycheck job but have a family they tend to have this block of alone time during the middle of the day, most that I’ve met enjoy being busy, and they’re like 51.7% of the internet population now. Fait accompli.

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Outback Steakhouse in Calumet City on Mother’s Day

How backed up on various projects am I? Well I’m just getting to my Mother’s Day piece-and my mother’s birthday is in a 3 days, so you can look for a piece on that in about 8 months at the rate I’m going. But yeah, me and mom went to a steakhouse. I asked her where she wanted to go, and they’re a place in Ford City that’s kind of a Chinese buffet about the size of a department store (so it’s really all kinds of food). But I also suggested Outback Steakhouse in the nearby outskirt town of Calumet City . The difference being that since we’re on the South Side of Chicago, Ford City means driving west all the way to Cicero and Calumet City is just driving about 5 miles further south. In other words 10 minutes away, but of course it’s’ like night and day once you leave Chicago. Now this may not seem like a big deal, this choice, but it kinda is. And the reason is that my mom and I are sort of a team (I’m her only son, and my father died when I was 2-and I only found his other kids a few years ago).

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This Blog Got Mentioned on WFMU by Bronwyn C. See? There is Something Good in Jersey

OK get all the New Jersey jokes out of your system because I don’t wanna hear ‘em. I was on the radio. Besides, in this age of internet radio whatta you care where the station is? That’s me trying to use some lingo there. Chicago (where I am) and pretty much the whole state of Jersey (where the Bronwyn does her radio show from) are both famous for having “dees, dat and dem” mob guys walking around. But both are exaggerations. In fact; mafia? What mafia? There’s no such thing. But yeah, a couple of days ago she gave the blog an endorsement and if I’ve done this correctly this post SHOULD have an audio clip. It’s only about a minute long so give it a listen.

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