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I have been away from blogging for awhile cause . . . well . . .  I just haven’t had the desire to blog or do anything else lately. Life throws me curve balls after curve balls and life even hits me upside the freakin head with the damn ball and somehow I pick myself up, dust myself off and get back into the game. It sucks, cause just for once I would love for my life to go in the good direction. Just for once I want to not have to sit back and wonder what is so wrong with me, what did I do to deserve all this crap that is thrown onto me. But alas. I do not see that happening. I will have to either be content with trying to find the silver lining through all the shit or lay down and die.

It’s been awhile since my last post. I know, I know. I am slipping again. I just don’t have any drive to blog at this point. Things are both busy and boring with my life. Nothing really to blog about, and the things I do have to blog about I don’t want to cause I am a little worried that if I put them out there then it will be doomed caused fate always has a way of kicking my ass no matter what I do. Yeah, sometimes I can be a superstitious ol’ fool.

My laptop died on me the other day. Yep. The second time in a year. My hard drive went to crap. So I have probably lost all the software, pictures, music, movies and other important items that I had stored on there. Now I am left with the decision to try to get it fixed or just buy myself a desktop instead. I have Gateway!

It’s no shock to anyone that reads my blog that I sometimes do paid posts. It brings in a little extra income and it gives me a chance to get some cash for doing something that I enjoy. The sponsored conversation is pretty much just like word of mouth. The only real difference is you are getting paid to give your insight to the product, service or company. And really, where is the harm in that?

If the whole sponsored conversation thing is still not making much sense (don’t know how well I really did explain it) then watch the short little animation below.

We all know how important security is now a days. That includes protection for your computer. How many times have “private” pictures of celebrity been broadcast all over the news, magazines and web because their computer was hacked and the photos leaked.

We all have heard and seen the damage that hackers can do and leaving your computer open to those attacks can be extremely dangerous. So how can one combat these criminals?

Well, one way would be to beat them at there own game. Become a hacker yourself. Actually an Ethical Hacking.

An ethical hacker attacks a computer’s security system on behalf of the owner to find vulnerabilities in the system so that the owner can take the necessary steps to securing his computer and network thus protecting it from criminal hackers.

Sounds more then a little cool doesn’t it. So how does one go about becoming an ethical hacker, you may be asking yourself. Well, you could head on over to EC-Council and take a look at their online classes which are both thorough and flexible.

EC-Council offers the following categories to help you become a Certified Ethical Hacker:

-Security Fundamentals
-Ethical Hacking
-Penetration Testing
-Computer Forensics
-Disaster Recovery
-Secure Programming

All which are live, online instructor led training so you get the class room type teaching in the comfort of your own home. What’s better then learning a new trade that could line your pockets with money (along with helping boost IT Security) in your pajamas?

Unless you have been leaving under a rock for the past few years then I am sure you have heard about PayPerPost and SocialSpark.

What you may not know is that their parent company, IZAE, is holding their 2nd annual IZEAFest.

IZEAFest is a Blogging Conference that brings bloggers, advertisers and other internet savvy people and companies together. This year it is being held at Sea World Orlando! The 4 day event is full of conferences and seminars with guest speakers such as Ted Murphy and Julia Roy. With the last day being a full on take over of Sea World!

Of course I would love to be one of the lucky ones but I will not be in attendance. Money is just too tight right now.

Since I was away from the blogging community for several months and let my domain die I haven’t done many sponsored posts like I was doing before. Not because I wouldn’t love to get back into it, cause I would love to once again bring in a little extra income from something I enjoy doing, but because it’s really hard to find any opps (let alone decent ones) for a blog that has a google page rank of 0 (my old blog had a pr of 4). So when I heard about payperpost alpha I headed on over to IZEA to read all about the latest and greatest happenings and to learn about PayPerPost v4.0. I left my comment on their blog and kept my fingers cross that I would be one of the lucky ones to be picked to try it out. Needless to say I was a little more then overjoyed when I got the invite.

The cool thing about PayPerPost v4.0 is that there is no fighting for opps. PPP assigns you opportunities to take or decline. Which is actually a kinda cool idea cause I remember sometimes waiting hours on the computer, refreshing the available opps page hoping to get a good one.

So, I am hoping this all works out and I can get back into the whole sponsored post thing.

Even though Raven’s birthday wasn’t until this past Monday we went ahead a celebrated it this past Saturday so she could have the weekend to play with her presents. M and I got her the new DS Eye in blue that she has been wanting since she heard about Japan getting it a few months back. She was more then a little excited when she opened it up and immediately plugged it in to charge. It has barely left her hands since then. We also got her the Dragonball Z Wrath of Something or Other (I can not remember the name of it) movie and Naruto Box Set 9. Along with that we threw in a few packs of Dragonball Z cards and the cookie cake that she wanted from the The Great American Cookie Company. Then Saturday night her Aunt Donnie (Donielle) took her out shopping and to eat at Texas Roadhouse. All in all I would say she had a pretty decent birthday.

Raven’s 12th birthday is Monday but seeing how she goes back to school that day (she has been on spring break all this week), M and I decided to celebrate her birthday today. I have to pick up her sugar cookie cookie cake from The Great American Cookie Company today between 12 and 1. I am not going to post what she is getting for her birthday until after we give it to her cause the little snot knows about my blog.

At 3:30 this morning I was sleeping all cozy and sound in my bed. Visions of a naked Ewan McGregor danced in my head. When I was awoke by my husband telling me that a drunk driver had hit my car. I threw on my jeans, shoes, coat and flew out the door. Needless to say the guy was more then a little plastered. He reeked of alcohol and swayed and staggered and slurred his words. Seems he had missed the turn, took out a sign, my mother in law’s mail box and then another sign before hitting my car. He then proceeded to back up (to flee the scene) and got his car stuck in my mother in law’s hedges (I was going to type bush but I figured some of you dirty minded people would take it the wrong way). It was just pure dumb luck that my husband was up that 3:30 AM outside on the porch talking to his cousin Dereck on his cell phone.

As I was out there in the cold, shivering with my husband, my mother in law and the drunk. The following conversation took place between me and the drunk. If the using of curse words offends you in the least people, please stop reading now . . .

[As I was walking over to my car the Drunk begins the exchange]

Drunk: Why did you hit me?
Me: Me? I didn’t hit you! I was in bed sleeping like normal people do at 3:30 in the morning!”
Drunk: Listen Sweetheart [as he stumbles towards me]
Me: Don’t fucking call me sweetheart!
Drunk: I don’t know who hit your car [slurred words] I just hit the bushes there do you have a cigarette
Me:You didn’t hit my car? So it’s just one big fucking coincidence that you are stuck there in the bushes and my car has just been hit?
Drunk: My car has no damage on it. Look at hit nothing.

[stumbles towards my car]

Drunk: Do you have a cigarette?
Me: No and even if I did I wouldn’t give you one! Hell I wouldn’t piss on you if you where on fire!
Drunk: Sweetheart, sweetheart call the cops. I didn’t hit your car my friend did.
Me: We did call the police.
Drunk: My friend hit your car and then took off.
Me: Well then I guess he’s the smart one cause now you are going to be held responsible.
Drunk: Sweetheart listen
Me: Call me sweetheart one more fucking time and I will kick your ass up between your shoulders!
Drunk: Ahhhh, I didn’t kill you. My cars there, your cars there. I’m calling a tow truck.

[Drunk gets cell phone out and calls tow truck company. He either had the number stored in his phone or had it memorize]

Drunk talking to tow company: I need a tow truck cause my car is being high jacked ummm Rt 19 somewhere.

[Hangs up phone]

Drunk: I didn’t hit your car. You got a cigarette. You hit me.
Me: I was in bed you fucking idiot!
Drunk: Hey I’m not being rude. Your human I’m human.
Me: Your a piece of shit!
Drunk: I’m call the cops.
Me: Please, please call them so they can decided what happened here cause the police just love drunk drivers!

[Drunk tripping over tree branches that he tore down when he plowed into my car.]

Drunk: There’s barbed wire here. I’m stuck in the barbed wire.

Drunk: They’ll take me to jail, they’ll take you to jail. They’ll take us both to jail.
Me: You better hope and pray that they don’t put you in the same fucking cell as me!
Drunk: You got a cigarette?
Drunk: You think this would be my first time going to jail?
Me: Wow! I am sooo fucking surprised!
Drunk: I didn’t hit your car.
Me: Oh come on! Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining! YOU hit my car!
Drunk: You got a cigarette?

There was a lot more exchanged between me and the drunk. With a lot more curse words peppered through out the conversation. It took the cop about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to arrive. And in that time the drunk proceeded to say that he didn’t hit my car, I hit his car and that it was just a ding in my bumper.

Needless to say I was a little more then upset.