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Piggybob personal accounting system

October 30, 2006 by Tricia

Piggybob – don’t you just love that name? Yes, but what is it? Piggybob is a personal accounting software program that I just found as I was surfing the net. It’s a user friendly personal finance and time manager.

With this software you can keep track of all of your income and your various expenses in a simple and easy manner. It looks like it’s easier to use than other programs that I’ve tried such as Microsoft Money. You simply file in the pop up boxes when you want to add an expense or add income and the system keeps track of your finances for you.

The software also comes with a calendar to which you can add anything from friends and relatives birthdays, important meetings, appointments or due dates for bills that must be paid. You can also set reminder alarms for any of these calendar related events.

This software looks like it would be great for anyone from someone who wants to keep track of their finances at home to a small business owner. You can download a fully functional 30 day free trial from the website and see for yourself if this simple personal accounting system suits your needs.





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology Tagged With: accounting, event calendar, personal finance software, Piggybob

No sleep and yet another Doctors appointment

October 30, 2006 by Tricia

There are some people I’m getting sick of seeing. Know who? Doctors. I have yet another doctors appointment at 10 this morning. It’s only the pain doc that I’m seeing. I think she just wants to see if some new meds she gave me two weeks ago are working (not yet).

She’s been talking about putting me on yet another type of medication for my pain. This ones a bit controversial. If she does give me a prescription later today I’ll tell you what it is. It might be interesting to see what my readers think about this drug.

Unfortunately it’s 5 a.m. and I’m still up. What else is new. I can’t sleep at night because of the pain, but if I don’t sleep a bit I’ll end up being in even more pain. Vicious cycle. I guess I should try to go to bed and sleep for about three hours or so, and then get up for my appointment.

Wish me luck! I’m probably going to have a sucky day since I’ll be so tired.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: appointment, controversial, doctor, Doctors, doctors appointment, ER, GI, medication, meds, pain, pain doctor, readers, sleep

Write a disclosure policy for your site

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

I just came across a website that will help you create a disclosure policy for your website. I think this is a great idea for anyone that has a blog or website, particularly if you use your website to help you make some money. Do you have ads on your site? Do you take a fee for links in your sidebar? Do you get paid to write posts? If you do, then you might also be very interested in writing up a disclosure policy.

I just created my own Disclosure policy using the Disclosure Policy Generator. The generator was very easy to use – 6 steps I believe.

Simply choose the statements that best describe your sites policy get to the end and click finish. Then all you need to do is copy and paste the disclosure policy that you’ve pasted into a post or a page on your site. You can change the wording once you copy the disclosure that you’ve created to suit your sides description better. I might tinker with mine a little bit but if you’d like to read it it’s in the sidebar on the left under “Other Pages” – > Second Thoughts -> Click on the + sign beside the words Second Thoughts and you’ll find all the pages on my site – along with the Disclosure Policy. Read it and let me know what you think of it. I think it’s a great way of being open and honest with your readers.

Filed Under: Blogging, Web and Technology Tagged With: disclosure policy, honesty, transparency in the blogosphere

Creatures that visit my garden

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

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A snacking gray squirrel. Isn’t he or she cute? As long as the squirrels are eating bulbs that they’ve dug up from my garden beds, my strawberries, digging holes or climbing on my bird feeders – they’re welcome. Otherwise I don’t want them in my yard. I guess you could say it’s and on again off again war.

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This is a Pink Spotted Hawks moth.

This is what tomato hornworms turn into after their done munching on our tomato plants.

This moth really did look like a small hummingbird as it flitted around my garden a couple of years ago. I’ve seen a few of them every year except for this year. I’ve only ever seen them at dusk or after dark.

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What kind of creatures do you have in your yard? We have several people on GTS that are from Australia – can you show us some of your garden wildlife sometime?

Don’t forget to visit As the Garden Grows for another GTS post.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: backyard, garden, Gardening, gray, Green Thumb Sunday, pink spotted hawks moth, plants, Squirrel

Online Safety deposit box

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

Now this is something I might be interested in. I always worry about “what if’s” – What if someone breaks in? What if the house burns down? What will happen to our important paperwork if something happens?

Most people use bank safe deposit boxes to store their important paper work such as their will, the mortgage agreement for their home, insurance policy paperwork, and the deed to your property, but what if you could also store a copy of your most important paperwork in the first truly secure Online Safe Deposit Box? If disaster struck, wouldn’t it be handy to have copies of all your policies and paperwork in one safe and convenient place?

You could even keep a copy of your passport or important cards and I.D. that you keep in your wallet, then if you were on vacation and were robbed or lost your wallet you could access this information from just about anywhere you are in the world. You’d just need to log on and download your information.

If you’d like to try this you can get a free small-sized online safe deposit box for one year or you could upgrade your account and get a larger permanent box for as little as $3 per month. The company states that this service is completely secure and encrypted with servers in multiple Countries.

I’ve never heard of a service like this but I can imagine all of the possible uses for an online safe deposit box. Great idea.

Filed Under: Web and Technology Tagged With: Online Safe Deposit box, secure, store important papers online

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