Yesterday I had a Spring Surprise. I was out on Squidoo and noticed a billboard on the right hand top of the page was featuring five Zazzle products, and one of them looked very familiar. It was one of my art designs that I had done a few years ago called "Mondrian 2", which I had done in the style of Mondrian.Then I was on another site and saw a different Zazzle billboard, which was vertical on the right side of the page and there it was again. Then I got an email from Zazzle that one of my pro

I got a phone call last Thursday from a gentleman who said that he represented the XYZ Carpet Cleaning Company that wanted to make inroads into our community. To accomplish this they would clean the carpet in the room of my choice or a couch or chair for FREE. All I would have to do is to recommend their services to friends and neighbors. This sounded fair so they set up an appointment for 10:30 am this morning.After making the appointment I googled their company name and came up with some scary

I was going to call this "Creating A Squidoo Lens in Two Hours or Less For Dummies", but I think it's already out there on the web. I woke up with an idea for a lens this morning titled "MOFA - Museum Of Floral Art". It is #4 in a series of Squidoo lenses that I've done in the last year or so.(1) Images are important to a lens and I needed some good pictures of Floral art. So I went to Google and did a search for "floral art", baroque floral art, art nuveau floral art, van gogh sunflower

Now, I'm not an expert in this but last October we were organizing our garage and I found a little metal box. It was combination locked so I took a flat blade screwdriver and pried it open. Much to our surprise it had a wallet full of $2 bills and several zip lock bags full of silver dollars, 1/2 dollars, and miscellaneous coins.I took a few of the silver dollars to a local reputable coin dealer and he gave me top dollar for them. There were two types of silver dollars in this find: Morgan a

I really think we are. In my case, I'm an artist so I need to make art. I'm also a music guy - so I need to practice and play gigs. I'm also the Dishmeister and am in charge of many small KP tasks around the house. I'm also the cat juggler (kidding) and have to make sure they get their treats and 4pm can feeding. (On a movie that I worked on at Universal, they actually had a cockroach wrangler).I'm also on the computer a lot, trying to learn IM from WA and maintaining my blog