My Experiences Honest Real Work At Home Reviews: Gomez Peer - Follow Up

My Experiences Honest Real Work At Home Reviews: Gomez Peer - Follow Up

Scrimshaw, fakes and nonsense.

so, we acquired a piece of scrimshaw on an apparent whales tooth that I have been trying to authenticate. I paid for an on-line appraisal which stated and rather rudely that the piece was plastic, a fake, and worth about 20 bucks. Well, okay but, i have done alot of research and found a piece with the exact design on an eBay site that supposedly was un-earthed at some place in England I think not so very long ago and was supposed to be an original but, if that one is original and has been buried for so long, why are there copies? No one could see that piece to make a 20Th century copy, right? and again, I found another piece that states it is a fake, with the same design, again, ? So somewhere is an original of this piece for others to copy. when I researched on a site called "fakeshaw.com" one is mentioned that seems similar but is not as big and has an American flag depicted which mine has a British flag and is longer.....they do not provide pictures, but I am posting ones here of ours because something is fishy[pun!! and yes i know whales are not fish] but I don't know where yet, but I am going to find out! just because. ours is signed with initials j a as the one mentioned on fakeshaw, but the other criteria is not met. the one i saw on the eBay site was very similar to mine, no initials though and the carving was not as detailed nor was the tooth itself defined as well. i of course want mine to the original and all the others copies, but, we will see what else I can find out.

Our daughter has been involved for around 10 years with AKC dogs, mostly GSD and BC. She has become an excellent handler bringing many dogs to finish. Christmas of last year she went into a co-ownership with Mikel Dugas of Dugas Kennels on a GSD dog from Sharobi Kennels up in Washington State. This pup is the finest pup, awesome movement, conformation, the whole package as they say. Last weekend was their first show together. They took best of breed two days in a row and earned two points! Spectacular for a puppy, he is only 7 months old!
The daughter is estatic, this dog could very well be the next Grand Champion, he is that good.
An absolute natural. Pictures at right and on our website....
http://wandercat.bravehost.com/
I'm putting together a site just for the two of them, haven't found the host I want yet.

So yep, the remodel saga continues...three days ago my "crew" was going to replace something under the kitchen sink, not sure what, but they found so much mold and dryrot that they decided to replace all the undersink plumbing but THEN we were out of water for about 36 hrs due to the old galvy plumbing springing multiple leaks when they had to move it around some to get the new in... and all new plumbing starting from the main meter so, no dishwasher, no sink, no water to the downstairs bath, can't do the damn dishes in the tub and they are PILING up! Today Uncle Ralph worked alone on the underbelly, couldn't find this couldn't find that, I did the best I could..."plumbers putty? where'd you put it? no, someone is not moving your stuff, what is this? your welcome. plumbing supplies in a bag? where'd you see it last? what's this? your welcome. plumbers tape? where'd you put it down? this stuff? your welcome." then I hear him singing to himself, loudly as Uncle Ralph does, "a tisket a tasket i stripped the basket", so, no sink basket till tomorrow, not that we need one yet anyway. After that, he decided to go home, don't blame him. He spent all day under the house yesterday putting in new copper, all the old pipes were galvy, and rotten. And yes, Ralph made a pot of coffee that he never drank one sip of, can't figure that out.

POLITICS?

I'm listening to the news this morning and one of, [or maybe both] candidates are broke, oh toooo bad. We have all this hunger and poverty and God knows what else in the world and our own country and these people are spending millions on election campaigns while promising a better future? How and when? I do not understand why they need so much money to run in the first place. I really don't. Especially with the amonts involved, so yep, that's about it for that, and no, I will not vote for either one of the top two. Promises, promises. whatever.

I have been using traffic exchanges for the last month, trying a basically free way to increase awareness of my blog and other websites that I have. The problem being, just about everyone else using this system is only trying to promote "work at home" or "invest now" pages, you see the same ones over and over again, some with different sponsors, some that actually come up with MY name on them asking me to join. I DO NOT like that at all. The ability of software these days is scary. How do they get my name?
So, if all we do is surf other members sites, are we not all really participating on a huge merry-go-round with no one new getting on board? Feels that way, and even if someone does join, it is not to help the others to make a profit but to promote their own site by mindlessly clicking the next icon or button or whatever to "view" the next site.
I have had many hits, but not one sale, I keep track of every site, and am becoming discouraged over this type of "advertising", there are millions of sites advertising the same things as myself.
I have read lots and lots on increasing page rank, but most sites that I would like to link to require a page rank of 3 or higher, which according to the experts you need good sites linking to yours to improve your rank, and how to do that when the good sites won't link without a higher ranking, what a mess!
So, back to traffic exchanges, most of them offer free to join, but then bother the hell out of you to buy some kind of monthly or yearly package, promote the referral programs, promise to pay out on your referrals, almost like the old pyramid schemes. then they show the same ads over and over 'cause so few members[?], though some promise "at least 100,000 or more members", the most hits I've had in day was 125....not bad ? Hah. hits mean nothing with sales, or feedback of some kind.
I shouldn't say all show the same ads, one had many different ads, some I had never seen. But, that site has too many requirements to earn credits and you can't equalize the credits between sites automatically, which I like, you do not recieve a good ratio and has a contest to earn more credits which would require surfing their ads for at least 8 hrs a day....no thanks.
another one has good ideas, but you are pretty much required to click on ads in members sites, the ratio is small and today all I could get the site rotator to do was show me the site urging me to buy more credits, buy more!! No thanks again. If I am not getting sales, why keep on using the system?
I did see two other blogs, took the time to read and comment on them, just because.
Yes, I do want to make money from home, but this method is not working. Not for me anyway, need hits, but need sales, too, not just lookie-loo's, and I'm sure everyone else says the same.
So, no more for me, I'm going to pursue other advertising venues, work on making my sites attractive and appealing, useful and interesting.
Research, research, research. How to be on top of a million trillion others, that is the question.

so today, uncle Ralph is trying to finish plumbing in the bathroom. always out of something even if he has been at the store 10 times, now he needs more copper pipe. meanwhile we haven't any water and i for one am filthy. he does work hard though, i shouldn't complain. but i do....not to him.
the ocean is roaring today, our weather has been so weird. 30 yrs ago i remember being told that "global warming" would be taking effect about now, and that person who taught me that seems to have been correct.
though back then the idea was put forth as the greenhouse effect i think. 30 yrs, long time to remember. or maybe the greenhouse effect would eventually have these repercussions if we didn't stop all the aerosol sprays, plastic manufacturing, etc. i do think that when those discussions were first started, our country went to plastic bags in the grocery stores, and no-one listened to the ramifications of that choice.
always the money thing, cheaper to make the bags and who cares about the environment. of course, the plastic bags were supposed to be a way to circumvent our waste of trees, but evidently we have tripped over a 5 dollar bill to pick up a dime.
aerosol spray's were stopped, and other forms of manufacture that were supposed to harm our environment, we went to smaller cars, better emissions, less impact on natural resoursessupposedly.
now we have massive suvs and the like and we suddenly have a fuel crisis.
remember when we had gas wars back 30 yrs ago? then, too soon after we had all the foreign small cars on the market and all the u.s. based car makers were manufacturing small cars so that we could save our fuel resources? remember? what the hell happened?
why are we still in danger today from global warming, because, and of course only my opinion, we did not cause this problem. sure, our behavior towards our planet has not been great, but do you honestly believe we caused this in just over 200 yrs?
this planet has gone through many changes, many cycles, and we were not around in any numbers most of the time to have affected any of those changes.
there is adequate evidence that the cycles this planet has gone through such as the dinosaurs dieing [and from what?] volcanoes erupting and causing atmospheric changes, meteors striking, causing more atmospheric changes, earthquakes from plates shifting, have nothing to do with mankind but with the normal cycle of life on a planet.
not to say we shouldn't recycle, drive less, concern ourselves more with saving our planet , we should. but all the controversy over our role in this crisis needs to be really looked at, and i mean thoughorly. what is really causing all these changes?
i was brought up to not use pesticides, to compost, recycle, burn what needs to be burned, never plastic or other foreign materials, be as earth friendly as possible by a man who was not a hippie or a fanatic of any kind, just a home-grown farm boy who belived we are responsible for our actions toward our earth, yet i'm sure i use products that should be banned, materials that we can not get rid of, waste food on a regular basis, and generally do not support earth as i should.
yet, i am positive that the person who taught me about global warming 30 yrs ago had the right thought, we are not totally responsible, and need to look to the future and prepare for this to be a way of life, something that is in the natural way of living on this planet.
we haven't come close to even figuring out how we all got here in the first place....
i've read many many sci-fi books on that subject, but who really knows? i really loved the well of souls series, made more sense than most.
anyway, what are we really doing to change the situation, and can we?
this process was in place before we ever started manufacturing our chemicals and additives and whatever else we have that people are using to blame human kind for this current situation.
we should all do the best we can, be careful in our use of availabe chemicals, be careful with what resources we have and try hard to educate our children of the fact that there may be a different living situation in the future.