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When COVID started popping up in the USA last year, I took note. The more we heard, the more nervous we got, not so much the family as a whole, but me for sure because my son and I are both asthmatic. When we finally caught COVID a year later, in April of 2021, I made sure to keep track of my symptoms so I could share them with other people when I was feeling better. Here's how it went. (read more)

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As a rural area living, World of Warcraft playing, raid healing priest, finding a solid internet connection is something I feel like I know a little bit about. We've lived in our current house for more than ten years, and in that time we've been through as many internet companies, all who promise gameable speeds and latency, few of whom actually delivered. Hopefully my trial and error can save you some time and frustration. I'll also be covering four specific companies that I believe everyone reading this will have easy access to. Here's what I know about finding the best internet for rural areas for gaming. (read more)

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I thought about writing this post in chunks, separate entries for each part of my "journey", but in the end I've decided on a single post with distinct sections. You can scroll down to find a specific thing you'd like to know about, and you are certainly welcome to ask questions. I will post the videos separately so you don't have to try to navigate a half hour of me talking about all the different aspects of surgery/recovery/therapy/medication, etc. All right, let's dig in! (Read More)

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If you're reading this post looking for reasons why your Google Adsense ad serving has been limited, I don't have any answers for you. I do have theories, my own story, which you might like to read, and an alternate provider to get you back up and running. All of this happened to me in quick succession, so I can say for certain that if you're getting a notification about Adsense invalid traffic concerns, there is hope to get that revenue stream going again and you can even get customer service to go with it. (read more)

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In February of 2020, my family and I headed up to ski for a week in Colorado as we do each year. We're accomplished skiers, at home on the slopes, no worries. This particular year, because my son was interested in snowboarding, we decided to take a snowboard lesson as a family. That decision, and a fall that should have been completely unremarkable, led to a year of surgeries, heavy medication use, and eventually in early 2021, dealing with an uncomfortable physical withdrawal from Gabapentin. (read more)

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I've been playing World Of Warcraft for 15 years, since roughly a few months after the first iteration came out. I've played every expansion except the most recent (it's 2020 now and Shadowlands is due to come out in a few months), and using Auctioneer has worked in every single expansion without fail. The best part is that making gold like this keeps you in epic mounts for all of your alts, good gear, pots, flasks, enchants, etc. and requires only about ten minutes a day at the most. It's really that simple. I started on the server in April of 2020. A friend gave me 4 Runecloth bags and 3 gold to get me started. From that 3 gold (which I paid back in a few days), I made more than 6,000 gold (I say 6000 because that's what I know I have on my characters now as far as mounts and gold, but it's quite likely much more, probably around 10,000) and have never stressed about gold in WoW at all. I'm leaving the game in October of 2020 and just gave away 3,000 gold to guildies, leaving myself with a few hundred gold, plenty to rebuild my empire when I come back in a few years. (read more)

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I love Disney. For my mom and I it really is the happiest place on earth. Each year we plan a trip together, just us, and we hang out for a whole week. We ride all the rides, visit all the parks, take a side trip one day to Universal Studios, and park hop til' we drop. So, when COVID 19 became a thing early this year, I had it in the back of my mind that things might be different, but honestly, seven months into the changes, I never thought it would last this long. Our original plan was to go to Disneyland over in California, holding off on Florida until they've completed the rides they've got going up (Tron, Guardians, etc.), but when June rolled around and California still had its "closed" sign hanging at the state entrance, we cancelled the plans and rebooked for Florida. (read more)

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I love World of Warcraft, it's a great game. I've been playing off and on since it came out 15 years ago, and while I do take breaks, some of them years long, I always come back. Leveling that first toon is wonderful fun, full of adventure, especially when I came back to Classic instead of Retail, but after that first toon...I'm over the leveling process. Any shortcuts I can find will be utilized, up to and including paying people to boost me, and collecting a ton of coins so I can get those last two levels in record time. We're talking 10 minutes, for two levels, that kind of record time. (read more) 

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That's certainly not my most flattering picture, but since the malar bags (puffy under eyes) I got after my last Botox injection have mostly gone away, I needed to tilt my head to let you see them. This is NOTHING like how they looked a few weeks ago, but I couldn't bear to take a picture at that point, being too worried that I'd forever disfigured my face after getting Botox injections in a site on my face I never had before. (read more)

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If you've read any of our other Disney tour posts, you know how much we love tours. We enjoy learning more about what makes the parks tick, how they operate, things they used to do, but don't do now, why things were built a certain way, everything. We LOVE the magic that happens in the places the average visitor doesn't get to see, and believe us, there's a lot of it! (read more)