I think I have mentioned that I started all this blogging because I was looking for a way to supplement my income, both to pay off bills so I could retire and to supplement my retirement income. I believe I am now an official web addict.
If anyone thinks that online business is a spare time project, forget it. Maybe after you have become rich and have a thousand sites out there, but even then you have to stay up with the times. Reading, socializing, revising, researching, writing. These all take time and a lot of it.

I am lucky. I really enjoy this. I am learning something new, plus to be a success, I have to learn even more. I was correct – my previous experience in web site building as a novice. my knowledge of the various PC applications, and my use of the internet searching for products and for information all gave me a basic knowledge. What I am learning now is overwhelming. I can only imagine what it is to people who don’t have that background – not that it cannot be done successfully.

What amazes me is the amount of knowledge of the Internet and its world to absorb. Each search engine, each social site, each bookmarking site, each feeder site, has its own personality. It’s like going from city to city or learning to ride a bike, drive a car, drive a tracker, etc.

If my blog starts to look more like an advertisement, this blog really isn’t. I do get excited and want to share things with other. Things that impress me, or things I think others will like. It’s a deviation from my original intent. Maybe not. This blog is an outlet for me about things I am interested in and things that matter to me.

If any of you are on the web 2.0 sites like Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Mixx, BlogCatalog, redit, myplace, etc, look me up. I am usually under the handle of Joyntheir.

I am sitting here in my warm house listening to the rain and thunder and wind outside. It will be freezing tonight, so the roads will ice over. It’s a funny day – half spring, half winter.

This is the first day I have had in quite a while just to sit, relax, and not run anyone around nor babysit (although I love my babies). It feels good to leave the world for a little bit and enter into the e-world for a while.

I have several lines in the water at this time of my life. Each line needs attention – some of them are quite demanding. And in the midst of it all, this is flu season.

Do you ever go to work and cannot concentrate on it because your thoughts and interests are else where? All I can think of while I am there is that I would like to quit. I am in a group that pools $2 a week for lottery tickets. We have won small amounts – but we all want to get the big pot so we can leave our jobs. Sad, isn’t it. In fact, that is why I joined the group. I didn’t want to come into work one day and be the only one there. lol.

Today I am here, at home, facing 3 glorious days to type on my computer, clean house, (dishes, clothes, etc), with no one to take care of but me. Now, if I could get my mind to forget the to do lists for a while – - – -