Have a happy and safe fourth of July weekend, everyone!

Still busy.

Plus, I’ve discovered I like playing with Adobe Photoshop’s radial blur tool. Make things move fast! Or look like it anyway.

Pretty simple. Just a matter of choosing the percentage of blur and moving the center around. Too bad it doesn’t let you move the center around over the actual image or at least a thumbnail of it. That would make things much easier! As it is, you have to approximate and guess. If you’re wrong, undo and try again!

There are ways around it, of course. Ways to cheat a bit and make it easier, but still it would be nice if Photoshop incorporated a preview into the radial blur filter as they do with other filters.

Full speed ahead!

No time to stop!

By the way, if you have a chihuahua or are considering getting one, please check out my review of The Ultimate Chihuahua Care Handbook.

It’s too bad about Billy Mays too. After watching The Pitchmen, he looked like he was a really cool guy. Here’s a video of him ordering from the McDonald’s drive-thru. I like how he starts his order, “Hi! Billy Mays here…”

Been working on a client’s web site as well as my eBook today.

I’ve written about 5,000 words for my eBook today. If you count the wee hours of the morning before I went to bed, I’ve written more than that.

The Twitter section alone, which I finally finished today, could probably be its own eBook! And, who knows, I may still add to it! (Probably not, unless I remember something I meant to include!)

Technically, I’m down to two sections and some miscellaneous parts. But, there are some sections I have finished that I’m going to be expanding. So, much more work to do!

Putting the index together for this thing will be a real time-consuming challenge too!

Be berry, berry quiet… I’m hunting successful Internet marketers…

During this past week of unofficially filling in for Speedcat’s craziness, and perhaps taking things to the next level, I’ve been getting back on track to working on my eBook.

I had a bit left to do on it, but wanted to wait for feedback from people before finishing it off. Well, here’s how that went…

Before I had the eBook ready for proofing, I had three people lined up to take a look at it. Once the eBook was reading for proofing, I only heard back from two of them. The one, I sent a copy in early to mid April; the other was sent a copy in early May. Didn’t hear back from either of them.

Found another volunteer proofreader in early May and sent a copy. In mid-May, I contacted one of the first two volunteers, who asked me to send it again, which I did. To date, I’ve not heard anything back and have also not heard back on any of my messages to this person. In mid-June, I found out that the third volunteer had unexpectedly passed away. (She had a heart attack at age 37!)

Actually, after learning about her unexpected passing, I started to get back to work on the eBook again. That’s something that really makes you realize that life is short and time’s a-wasting…

So, I’ve been back to work on my eBook. And, you’d think that because I was pretty close to 99% finished before that I’d have it wrapped up in short order, but you’d think wrong. And that is because I’ve been adding more and more content to it. I don’t want people to end up paying sixty bucks for a 25 page report that says, “Hey, go make a website.” I want something that will be useful and that they can put to use right away. So, I’m adding… and adding. I want them to feel like they’re receiving at least twice as much value as they paid for.

And, when I’m done, I’ll proof and test read it myself!

In the meantime, I’m also on the hunt for any successful Internet marketers that don’t mind sharing a success secret or two…

So, you want to make big bucks blogging? Well, here is the path to fame and fortune, starting with a blog.

1. Change your name to U2 because you too want to be rich and famous.

2. Start a blog under your new name.

3. Get lots of traffic and make some good money selling ads.

4. Get sued by U2 for trademark infringement and probably several other legal violations.

5. Lose your case. Badly.

6. Move into your friend’s basement.

Oops. Your friend lives in a trailer park? So much the better for your story!

6. Move under your friend’s trailer.

7. Share food with the raccoons.

8. Write a book about your experience.

9. Rewrite the book after the raccoons ate your first book. Be sure to mention this in your new book.

10. Get your book published.

11. Appear on Oprah.

12. Cry. A lot. Be careful not to jump on Oprah’s couch, though. It would just make you look like a lunatic.

13. Sell hundreds of thousands of books because of your appearance on Oprah. As the author, that will entitle you to royalties probably in the neighborhood of tens of dollars.

14. Sell the movie rights to your life story.

15. The movie soundtrack will feature songs by U2, making them even richer.

Congratulations! You have helped U2 make millions more because of your blog!

Happy happy happy!

It’s been raining all week.

There is a pause in the rain at the moment, but more will be coming.

More rain and scattered thunderstorms tonight and into the morning.

Some may be severe.

Rain, rain and more rain.

Mix ‘n’ Match spam headlines…

Beware of imitators! This is the original push a button and collect money!

Oprah certified 3 simplistic steps and local women looking for free alarm quotes from homemade organic tomatoes.

600 bucks a week for barely working an hour learning about different heath care fields.

Never make another credit card payment as seen on CNN and ABC News!

How to protect your family in just 5 minutes while your $7,500 credit line is approved by what retailers don’t want you to know in this unique web offer!

Order medicine over the internet because your bedroom doesn’t smell.

Find your future as a teacher: term life with no physical with a free glucose meter.

Learn about the exciting world of photography and she will see your advantage!

Your manliness will never be ruined with personalized Father’s Day gifts.

Cell phone glitch purses a perfect combination of price and quality for top schools with CSI degrees. Grants now available in every state!

Now, I’ll use Google to translate that into French and back from French into English. Let’s see what we get…

Beware of imitations! This is the first press a button and raise money!

Oprah certified 3 simple steps and women for research free quote house alarm organic tomatoes.

$600 per week for just one hour of work on learning different areas of health care.

Never make another payment by credit card as seen on CNN and ABC News!

How to protect your family in just 5 minutes while your $7,500 credit line is approved by what retailers do not want you knowledge in this unique web offer!

Ordering drugs on the internet because your room is not smell.

Find your future as a teacher: life without physical free glucometer.

Learn more about the exciting world of photography and will see your advantage!

Your manhood will never be ruined personalized Father Day gifts.

Cell-money glitch for the perfect combination of price and top quality schools with CSI degrees. Grants available in all states!

I like “because your room is not smell.”

At the risk of making Michelle as giddy as a schoolgirl, I took down my Retroyears blog today.

Just shy of a year old, but I figured, with analog television going the way of the dinosaur, this would be a good day to take down the retro blog too.

Not that it’s that big of a deal. The blog only had a single post–the welcome message!

Of course, I’m certainly not ruling out bringing it back as a site or blog someday, but, in the meantime, I don’t know that there is much sense in keeping it up with nothing on it.

For the time being (as soon as the changes kick in), the domain will redirect to the Antiques category on this blog. So, Michelle should be careful not to get too giddy…