I’m not a meteorologist, so the subtle differences between partly sunny and partly cloudy are lost on me. That’s why Umbrella Today? is the perfect weather report.

Just enter your zip code and you’ll get a simple YES or NO answer as to whether you should bring your umbrella with you today. You can even set up text alerts throughout the day to let you know if you should grab your umbrella or not!

* My husband discovered this website and was super excited to show me this morning, so I have to give him all the credit.

It’s not a big secret that the economy sucks and people are struggling with their finances. Being the resourceful people that we are, bloggers are looking for ways to make more money from their blog to compensate for higher costs. The video and white paper below show how Dragon Naturally Speaking works and how it can help bloggers make more money.

In addition, bloggers can get 25% off Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard!

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This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these extra earnings will pay for the software itself.

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with High PayPerPost Earnings

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn if you wrote for PayPerPost.com. Now at PayPerPost.com, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.

PayPerPost.com offers up opportunities, they call them opportunities, but you can also think of them as piecework or a job, and these “opportunities” typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general, the average article at PayPerPost on a high earning blog pays about $28. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more.

Now if you are paid $28.00 to write a 200 word article, which breaks down to about 14 cents per word. That is about 200 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com. I mentioned that only for comparison purposes, because PayPerPost.com limits you to writing three articles per blog per day. That means that you can’t write there all day long for your single blog. (If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.)

But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles at PayPerPost for fifty minutes straight, earning 14 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, and then you could earn a $245 dollars per hour at PayPerPost. Now obviously, there’s not that much work there, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $245 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $28 per Opportunity.

So bear with me with this example.

So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money and PayPerPost?

Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon Naturally Speaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $805 per hour more!

Reminder – This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $245 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

• 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
• 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

Dragon Naturally Speaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

• promoting your blog,
• networking with people,
• researching other projects,
• taking on other work from other networks
• building up a new blog to command $28 per article!

You can pocket your $245 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon Naturally Speaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.

Your average part-time blogger may easily afford to pay for Dragon Naturally Speaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon Naturally Speaking in less than 30 minutes worth of blogging.

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

To read more, the full white paper is available at: http://www.softduit.com/mavenmappersinformation/category/software/dragon-naturally-speaking/

Mike promised me that we might possibly, maybe go to IKEA tomorrow if the weather is nice and he has an easy night at work. I know there’s a lot of variables there, but I love IKEA and I’ve been trying to get him to go back since the last time we were there in 2003. I’ll bribe him with sexy lingerie if I have to.

Since we’re going to be renting for one more year, I wanted to spruce up our bedroom and found a few things that go with our new bedding.

The LACK tables are perfect night stands, and for only $12.99, we can buy two without batting an eyelash. The LYKTA lamp in turquoise matches an accent color in our bedding perfectly, and they too are only $12.99! We have nothing above our bed, so I thought these decorative wall stickers that look like picture frames would look pretty funky. I also wanted to get a laptop desk like the DAVE with legs that will tuck under the front of the couch so I can pull it close like a desk.

So, if Mike’s in a good mood and the weather is warm and sunny, I can get everything on my list for about $100!

I think anyone who has a digital camera with video capabilities has a video like this one, taken while trying to capture the perfect family photo. I love that we’re all standing there frozen like door hardware in the middle of Times Square for a good 10 seconds before we realize the camera is on video.

Michael Phelps has 14 gold medals, holds seven world records, is the GQ Man of The Year, and yet he took home “Caz”, the hot tranny mess Palms cocktail waitress, for Thanksgiving.

Now, I realize he’s a titch of a butterface, but there’s no reason for him to settle for a skanky Vegas hostess! There’s lots of successful guys with hot girlfriends and wives. Look at Donald Trump and Billy Joel! How about Bruce Jenner!

Debbie Phelps and her Chico’s blazers must have been thrilled.