Raising the Twins

Raising twins can be a chore. Thankfully, my mother in law takes them during the day so I can goof off a bit. But she also takes care of my sister in law's two year old. Imagine the older sibling syndrome, only you have two younger siblings drawing attention away from you... yeah, the poor kid has it rough. But my sympathy for him doesn't change the fact that I worry like hell when he's alone with them. I'm not saying he'll hurt them deliberately, but he's pretty cranky and strong and my boys are little delicate 5 monthers. (Yes, I'm showing my bias, sue me! They're my babies)

This morning, while I was getting ready to take off, I see him hunched over C. I was handling X at the time so couldn't do anything. Then I see his hand pressing down on C's belly and it looked like he was prepared to settle the rest of his weight onto it, so I screamed, "D, stop!" He stopped, then started to bawl. He cries at the drop of a hat now, and I can't help but think that its due to the fact that the boys are taking away so much of the attention he used to get as the only baby.

We're a big extended family that all hang out together, so before the twins were here, he had his parents, grand parents, his two sets of uncles and aunts and two older cousins spoiling him. Once the twins came, not only did he lose his role as baby of the family, his favorite aunt and uncle (me and my SO) suddenly have no time for him. Poor kid. Would be nice if his parents took more interest in him too, but that's part of the problem with extended families, the slacker parents can pawn their kids off on more doting relatives who are more than ready to take the slack. But suddenly, all the helpful aunts and uncles have not only one, but two newborns to coddle. Its hard to remember that the two year old needs the same attention as before also, when you have two adorable smiling, puking, giggling bundles to play with.

I can't get through the day without thinking that I might get a call from my MIL telling me one of the boys is seriously hurt because of his older cousin. I'm so bad.

Don Lapre and the Greatest Vitamin in the World

Yeah, if you believe that that's the best vitamin in the world, I have a bridge in San Francisco I wanna sell ya.

Just saw this last infomercial last night while I was feeding one of the boys. This time around, Don claims that you can make over 100 bucks an hour selling vitamins, the worlds best, natch. he even provides you with a website that will do the selling for you. What do you need to spend? Just 35 bucks and you're on your way to making millions. There's even an incentive where you can make money off of people who sign up with Don under you. So, he's actually doing MLM's now too.

It's all bullcrap, of course. If this vitamin was so great, why does he not make the money on his own? He's not making money on the vitamins, he's making money on the 35 dollars you're paying him. and knowing Don Lapre, once you buy into it, he'll probably upsell you for more money. I think in the whole half hour infomercial, he spent about 2 minutes telling you how wonderful the vitamin is, the rest of the time was divided between customer testomonials about how much money you can make and what I call, the breast twins. Two rather generously endowed women in low cut tank tops telling each other how wonderfull the Greatest Vitamin in the World is for making money... not in healing or helping your body, but helping you make money.

Lets check out the BS points:
You can make $1000 for every 20 people you get to buy the vitamin for $40 a pop... that doesn't add up. $40 times 20 is only $800. Add to that the fact that he claims he'll pay your upline (remember the incentive deals) $500 as well as your 1K and you've got Don paying $1500 per 20 people you get to buy. he's taking a 700 loss even before factoring in costs.

The website, where are these wonderfull websites that Don is setting you up with? Surely, someone somewhere would like to advertise their vitamin site? Link em here! I'd love to see what you get with it. I've been running through google and haven't once come across a vitamin website.

Don's staff! If Don's deals are so great at making money for you, why the heck are these idiots still manning Don's phones? They should have smarted up and taken his deals already!

In short, if Don can't even convince lowly phone operators to buy his product and use it to get rich, think about why it should make you rich?

Mesothelioma, damn, that's some scary stuff.

Remember back in the 80s when our schools were full of this stuff? I remember back in middle school, they had us leave school because they were removing the asbestos from the ceilings. I can't imagine if going to class for a few years would make me breathe in enough asbestos to cause mesothelioma. We'll see in a few years, I guess.

That would suck, huh? You go through life, never even thinking about cancer or anything like that, then somewhere along the way, bam! mesothelioma, frikkin mesothelioma, a cancer so ludicrous its name sounds like a foreign desert. "hey, you want some nuts with your mesothelioma?"

I think there are mesothelioma attorneys out there ready to sue people for you. Just great, all we need is some hotshot lawyer coming to... well, not save you, you already got mesothelioma... but'll he gladly sue the big asbestos companies and get his hefty 30% off of your pain and suffering. Here's hoping that we don't get our just deserts, eh?
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How do you get Mesothelioma?
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Coldest Day this season?

Did anyone else's car not start today? I can't believe that it gets cold enough in San Francisco that my father in law's car didn't even start this morning. I had just dropped the kids off and was replacing his battery that he got from Kragens. Good thing it was only 2 blocks away. On the way there, I noticed that the grass around Stern Lake was actually frosted over.

The last time I saw grass with ice frosting on it was over 20 years ago in Farmer City, Illinois, when I first got to America. It was amazing to see because coming from the tropics I had never seen atmospheric water freeze out in the open. (It was actually not winter then, just late fall, the actual winter was something else... my family moved out to sunny California right after that, LOL)

We kept the electric heater on in the boys room last night because I was afraid the wall heat wouldn't be responsive enough to keep them at a decent temp. Their skin is so dry... Aquaphor.

More on Adsense

So, with my stint on an autosurf program and now using adsense, I'm making about 300 bucks a month doing nothing more than surfing and blogging. I could probably make more, Replicate my money making site and have it run different articles and stuff, but then it'd be like real work. and I'm not sure how much of my time it will take to make this into a venture that will pay full time. Right now, its enjoyable because i'm making money in my spare time... barely working. :-) Real work is anathema to me.

But you click on these adsense ads and all you see are people claiming to make 20K a month or 1000 dollars a day, or 30K a month. Yeah, well, smart guy, if you're making 20K a month, why are you shilling your ebook on how to make money with google adsense?

12daily is in real trouble now. It and its trouble with stormpay has made it in the hole with a lot of investors. Stormpay is not releasing funds that it's supposed to.

Adsense

As some of you know, I run adsense on this blog. Not really as a way to make money, but since I had an adsense account, I decided to put in the code. I'm sure I'm screwing my numbers up by not researching on how to do the channels properly, but I'm lazy.

anyway, one of the links it shows is pyramid schemes from financial encyclopedia.com. The link pulls to fe.com with a short definition of pyramid schemes and a two link google adsense ad. Does this makes sense? Why would you pay google to link to such a useless page? Do you think you'll convert enough viewers to click on the google ads to recoupe your investment? Or somehow, a 2 line definition for pyramid schemes will somehow make me want to explore your site? Which actually is hard to do since there are no navigation links on that page. Oh, well, it'll be interesting to see if fe.com will be around in a few months.

Troubles with 12dailypro.com

Well, it seems like Stormpay and 12dailypro.com are having at it. Stormpay is claiming 12dailypro.com is pyramid scheme, (not really since 12dailypro.com only has 1 level of referrals) and 12dailypro.com is saying Stormpay has frozen its accounts and not paying 12daily members. This is disturbing to say the least. I have just recently joined and am only out 2 meager upgrades, but how about the guys who are out mulitple upgrades worth thousands of dollars? And the dudes who have their websites and google ads pointing to those sites, hoping for 12daily to make their fortunes.

Right now, its very unclear if any 12daily member will get their money out of Stormpay. Which sucks, because it looked like things were going well for a while.

As I can see it, the trouble (according to 12dailypro.com) started when 12daily started using Emo as another payment processor. Stormpay basically told 12daily to shut down their Emo links or be penalized. Stormpay then froze their accounts. I wish I could get stormpay's version of events. If you have any information, please leave a comment or drop me an email.

I'll keep you guys posted.