I don’t plan to make a habit of making a day by day play by play, but since I learned something, I thought I’d share.

The day started innocently enough. Was 10 minutes into my commute to work. I work 31 miles away but takes 45 minutes due to traffic. Wife calls me on the cell; she’s having chest pains and her left arm is numb. I turn around and head back, calling the office telling the boss I won’t be in today. Always a chancy thing, calling off for work with them. Anyway, a family friend watches the kids while I rush her to the ER. Her blood pressure was, at worst, 158/111. EKG says nothing, so they give her a nitro pill. After a few hours, they release her, telling her to get with the family Dr.

I take her back home, get the kids, and stay home the rest of the day so she can rest. The kids eventually take a nap, so I start working on my blog and my other online efforts to make some income. Got into the SlashMySearch and see some offers to make money by filling out those surveys online. I figure a buck here and there isn’t something I’d turn down, so I sign up. Big mistake. Supposedly this one service says they’ll pay $1 after you sign up into your paypal. I sign up, check paypal, nada. They offer different surveys for different amounts of money. I select one that pays $30 for Blockbuster. The survey is 1 page long, but to get the cash you have to sign up with Blockbuster’s online service. I wouldn’t have minded, but they wanted my credit card #, and oh heck no, that wasn’t going to happen. During this time, my email starts to get hit with spam like you would not believe.

So the moral of the story? Take a nap like everyone else, don’t sign up for spam.

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