Wow, got my first spam on my gmail address. I put it as my contact address on a couple of the work at home boards, and someone decided to just spam me from it. Bad form, bad idea. I won’t be contacting her or anything, just hit the spam button. Google wants to know what spam looks like, after all. I hate to do it to an email from another work at home mom, but if she doesn’t know better than to spam, she’s going to get into trouble anyhow.

I put up a new section on the website. It’s tips on saving gas. Seems pretty relevant with the way prices keep climbing, and there are so many ways to try to save. My big suggestion relevant to the rest of the website was, surprise, telecommute at least one day a week. Depending on the commute, that can be a pretty good savings.

Ahh! I got my mods added to my discussion boards to make them more search engine friendly. Boards still seem to be working, so I guess I did it right. It was rather tedious and involved, but I think it will be worth it. More food for the search engines!

Now I need to get some work done for my website update customer. I’ve been neglecting her due to all the extra transcription needing to be done.

Life. Isn’t it just great when it’s hectic?

Well, I actually have Ariel home with me for once this week. Finally got her down for a nap. With everywhere she’s been going this week, she’s been taking naps at 3 instead of 1 or so, so today she didn’t want to go down until 3. I really prefer the earlier nap, but it looks like I’ll have to work at getting it back, because she certainly wouldn’t go down at 1 today!

I added a new page to the website - yes, I do get most of my work done when I’m avoiding transcription. It’s a matter of what I personally love to do versus what I do to make an actual living. It’s just a page of resources to get started as an affiliate, an add-on to my other getting started in affiliate marketing pages.

Just started a new blog, as such, for my newsletter. I’ve been wanting to do that for a while.

YES, I’m procrastinating!

This feels so weird… I get another day with Ariel out of the house so that I can work. Brent took her out to his parents because he’s going to be helping them with a patio cover. He may grumble that my need to work makes it hard for him to get things done on his day off, but that’s how it needs to be at times like this.

I didn’t do as well as I hoped yesterday, only 600 lines. Still better than most days. We had a power out that interfered a tiny bit, not 400 lines worth, but still… it knocked the cable modem out, which I don’t strictly need for transcription, but it’s my only link to my favorite internet medical transcription resources, so lacking it can put a bit of a damper on things. It was out for more than an hour. Then at about 10:30 last night, I hit a dictation that kept hanging up on me, and rather than call it in, I called it a night.