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Whirlwind Weeks and Catching Up

July 9, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Well folks last week was a mess.  I don’t really want to get into the journal or this is why I need to be coddled trap, but let’s just say last week was, well, a mess.

My Son was born on July 1st as I have documented on here, and then we spent 4 days in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.  It would have been 14 for antibiotics if my daughter who had the kidney transplant didn’t decide to get an infection herself.  Anytime a transplant patient gets a fever over 103.5 degrees, they worry.  And then they admit to the hospital.

We were lucky that we could get my son transferred to the childrens hospital to at least be in the same building as my daughter.  I didn’t get much done over the week however.  I finally got my computer up there on Wednesday night and was able to do a bit of work and even record a podcast but good grief I am behind.

I did however come up with some good ideas for posts in the near future.  I even started a new ebook that I am planning on giving away with my email list.  I am excited about it, but I need a new title.  I googled my title and got a couple of older blog posts out there.  I don’t want anyone to feel ripped off.

Well here we are then, another week of blogging and creating and no worries about last week.  I am sorry about Fiction Saturday though, you guys are getting ripped off the last month with that one.  There will be more story this week I promise!

Thanks for reading and sticking around, I will have more pics of the new baby on my pics page, check it out!

-Justin

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You only have 24 hours to…

July 9, 2014 / / 10 Comments

I have a question today.  Think about this.

What would you do if you had 24 hours completely to yourself?

The house was clean, the kids taken care of, the cars working, the yardwork done, no work, blog post written, not one thing required of you. Time of year is ideal for whatever you wish to do.  When you get back there is no backlog of anything.  It is a completely free 24 hours.

What would you do?

Me I am torn between sleep the whole time and catch up a bit or go fishing.  I am thinking fishing will win but I will have to sit in the bottom of the boat so when I do fall asleep I don’t end up in the drink.

Please share with all of us what you would do!

-Justin

Up and Disappear

July 9, 2014 / / 3 Comments

I was cleaning out my email the other day and came upon an old message from a system to, well, make money.  Yes I had purchased it.  I didn’t know then the marketing tricks that get used to get newbie bloggers to spring for the system.

It was a system that started at $47 and kept reducing every time I hit the cancel button.  I know We all have been there before.  I didn’t know what I was doing officer I swear!  So I clicked down enough that I end up at $7.  I figured, this could be a great deal to make some money and bought it.

Now I know better, and see that the only person making money was the guy selling the product.  I tried to log into the links from several emails of this course and the site no longer exists.  Not one link worked.  I could only find one reference to it on the net, and it was a sales page for the same course!  I am very confused.

My only course of action was to give up and neglect to eat that combo meal.  I deleted all of the e-mails.  Now I don’t feel bad about that, it just had to be done.  But think of this, if everyone ended up disappearing who would be left?

The greatest blogs and empires have not gone into the nothing and let the world pass them by, they have stood strong and received the followings that they deserved.  That is where every one of us should be working towards.  If you are running a website or a blog or whatever entrepreneurial pursuit you are working on, stay strong, don’t up and dissappear.  Eventually someone will be pissed off at you.

Go do something good today.

-Justin

OOPS! Plans changed!

July 9, 2014 / / 5 Comments

Hey Folks, Quick update. All of my Carefully laid plans of posting and having things ready went out the window yesterday when the baby, so planned for induction on the 5th, came!

Official Announcement: We had a baby boy just before 6am on July 1! I am very excited to have a second son, but I am very nervous as he spent yesterday in the ICU because he decided to inhale some fluid as he was born.

As for all of this empire thing, Press Pause. This is a carefully written Stay at Home Dad post for today, there will probably not be a Man in the Hazy suit tomorrow. Sorry about that. Life has taken it’s toll on Fiction Saturday the past couple of months.

Have a great weekend. For those in the US, have a great 4th of July, remember those who have made our country and those who continue to keep it strong.

Thanks for reading, you guys are all awesome!
-Justin

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