One Year this Month at Wealthy Affiiate University

One year ago this month, I joined Wealthy Affiliate University. I haven't learned all that is available there, but I have learned the fundamentals of making money on the Internet.

I may not have moved as fast as some of the other students. I thought I knew more than I actually knew. So I made some mistakes that a newbie would not have made.

It is an old hang up for me. I would rather teach than learn at times. I spend a lot of time helping new members, some of which ended up helping me.

Kyle and Carson put up with me all year. Finally, Kyle told me to take a break from helping members to help myself. He said that then I would be much better at helping the new members.

So, I went back over what I had done, started correcting errors (which I am still doing) and started promoting more products by article writing.

I was doing PPC but Kyle told me to concentrate omn article writing for now. PPC does take some concentration.

Anyway, I was using PPC to sell my flagpoles but I'm selling them without PPC now. It is cheaper but not as fast.

Anyway, although the average stay at WAU is about 5 months, I'm going to be there for another year if I don't die in the process. I will be renewing my membership next week.

The membership actually costs me nothing. It pay for its self. But I do save $10 / month on the tuition by signing on for a full year.

If you are new or old to Internet Marketing you could greatly benefit from WAU.

Why not join ME today! When you join, find me as ID tjbooks amongst the members.

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Fly Old Glory!

John

What's Grandpa Jones Cooking Up?

Nothing but wind here in Idaho right now. The neighbor's cows are flying past my window. Well, no matter! The price of milk is lower than a earthworm's hole.

I'm still doing the cooking around here. My wife retired from cooking 15 years ago when I retired from doing whatever engineers do. She does whip me up some French toast once in a while. I don't like to eat before about 2-3:00 P.M. which she thinks is unhealthy. You know, the Good Breakfast theory. Snakes eat once a month! Look how loonnnnngggg they live.

Do you know anybody that likes liver and onions? Sometimes men do. The only way they can get it is to go out for it. They usually have to call the eatin' joint first to make sure they have it that day.

I think liver is the most vile stuff. In fact, because I've had heart surgery twice and have the aortic valve of a benevolent hog, it is on my forbidden food list.

When I was a boy, I learned to eat liver. It was the only way I could get enough meat. My mother's liver was like shoe leather because she knew you should try to cook it to death, anything to destroy it. But dad liked his liver and onions. My six siblings hated it. But I knew that if I could only learn to eat it, like it or not, I could get enough meat that one day. So, I just started eating it. Ugh!

My friend, Don, runs the local market. He puts outdated stuff in these carts and you can grab things at half price. There are always some good sauces in there good for marinating things. Sauces have expiration dates on them, but don't they just get better with age? You can't hurt noodles either and most of the other stuff in Don's discount carts.

Well, I've been cooking liver and onions with some of those marinates. Even though I'm not allowed liver and onions, I just have to have it about once a year. That is all there is to it!

My wife is normal so she absolutely hates liver. She always says, "I'm not going to eat that stuff!" Well, I cook away and put the liver in front of her and she gobbles it down saying, "That was delicious!"

Well, it isn't delicious. That is not a word for liver. The word is obnoxious.

Why does my wife love my liver and onions? Because I disguise it. The liver itself, still tastes like crap, but she doesn't notice that fact. Her taster is not as good as mine.

Well, got to be moseying along. Got to help the neighbor find his cows!

John
Taylor Jones the Hack Writer

Dark Energy: The Hack Writer Reads Scientific American

I’ve always liked cosmology, probably because my father often talked about it. The February 2007 issue of Scientific American has an article by Christopher J. Conselice entitledThe Universe’s Invisible Hand. Christopher is an astronomer and Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. He was at Cal Tech until recently.

I enjoyed the article. Chris explained how galaxies stopped merging and settled into regular shapes, how star formation dropped off, and how dark energy became a major player in our universe. Black holes have become quiescent (but don’t get too close.) All of this occurred when the universe was about half the age it is now.

I often tell my wife my theories on the universe. She politely listens. She has heard me say many times that black holes have to be one of the oldest features of the universe and did not form later by large mass concentrations simply grabbing up ancient matter. Yes, they grabbed up matter but they were already there. I no doubt will be proven wrong on this because I’m not an astronomer or an cosmologist.

I’ve never understood dark energy or its origin. But like my black hole theory, I now “know” what dark energy is. Dark energy is the very essence of the universe. Everything in the universe including the fabric of space was created by dark energy. In other words, all of the energy available to create the matter of the universe was not used up in the Big Bang. My black hole theory was based on what we engineers call incomplete combustion. If there is anything perfect in this universe, other than you and me, I haven’t seen it. Now, Christopher didn't say that dark energy is the essence of the universe. I did. But what was the catalyst for the Big Bang? My article is at
http://ezinearticles.com/?Dark-Energy:-The-Hack-Writer-Reads-Scientific-American&id=470513

Writing 101: Settings and Characters--Who did what where?

You new writers and would-be writers can read free my article at
http://ezinearticles.com/?Writing-101:-Setting-And-Characters---Who-Did-That-Where?&id=464414

Anna Nicole Smith Sideshow

Anna Nicole Smith’s body is stone cold but nobody is allowed to bury the poor woman’s body. Anna Nicole no longer belongs to the world no matter what the media things. She is dead. The sideshow court hearings are for the birds. Give the body to her mother for burial. As to the paternity case, just check the DNA of those who claim they are the father of the infant. The conclusion should be that Don Juan Number 3, or whoever, is the father. Being the father simply means that person was one of many having sexual relations with Anna Nicole. It does not mean he warrants custody or inheritance. These issues need to be resolved in court after the funeral. For now, determine who the father is and let the mother have the body for burial. The fact that Nicole said some unkind things about her mother does not mean that her mother is not her mother. The unkind words may simply have been generated by drug addiction.