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It's here, it's here! Horror Day has finally arrived. Embrace the shadows, savor the blood, revel in an all-encompassing moment of absolute dread.

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Throughout history special events and moments of great significance have peppered the landscape of our calendar year. We pay tribute to days as jubilant as the birth of Christ on December 25th and as heart wrenching as Patriot Day, September 11th. These days hold such power that they stir our deepest emotions and color the cloth that is the fabric of our being. But to paraphrase an old cliché: Every demon must have his day. Thus, the Horror Writer’s Association has dubbed Friday, October 13th a national day of Horror!

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Once every summer, large companies and corporations gather their employees for some fun and good ol'stress relief in the form of a company picnic. The outfit I work for is no different. Well, except that I work for a large nursing home/ retirement community, a place were people go to spend their final days before dying. God knows that the staff is in dire need of fun and stress relief.

Management tried to pick it up a notch, if you'll pardon the expression, by turning into a staff play day. We had relay races, limbo, volleyball, and a dunk tank. Now who can resist a dunk tank, especially when you toss in administration.

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Work is stressful. Work is a pain in the ass. Unless you've settled into a chosen career, one you were guided towards by some infamous beacon of utter bliss instead of grinding out a hard eight like most of us wage slaves, you really have to be motivated to climb out of bed and go to work. So why is it that every place I've ever worked at has some blundering jackass on the payroll? Is it a test of company loyalty? Is it their way of weeding out the burn-outs as they search the crews for potential managers or corporate advancement?

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Twice this week, the immortal Stan Lee, the bard who created Spider-Man, the X-Men, and other great comicbook legends, graced the TV with his brash brand of tulmultuous television. First he invited us to witness the birth (or after birth) of a new superhero named Lightspeed. Before I go off on a tangent this made for Sci-Fi movie had all the excitement and fun of unsalted soda crackers. To wrap it up in a nutshell a soldier is hurt, gains super powers, and beats the bad guy. The plot was thin, the acting stale, and the hero was fat! Yuck. Nuff' said.

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"What if?" This is the catch phrase of the Sci-Fi Channel. It is the tool that propels writers into the realms of the unimaginable, the muse that sparks great tales in speculative fiction. It's what makes the Sci-Fi Channel so much fun.

As they have evolved from running a constant stream of syndicated programs, re-running some guilty pleasures such as the Incredible Hulk and the Twilight Zone, they have given us some powerful television original to the network. Newest to their infectious brand of shows is Eureka.

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I know what you're thinking: it's summer time. The sun is out and baking the land to a golden bronze. So why is this lame-o bitching about it getting hot? Because I live in the pacific northwest where heat waves top out at 85 for a day or two before droping back into the 70's followed by bursts of rain. That's how we do summers around here. Until now.

My family and I went to town for a few groceries and hit the first major chunk of asphault about ten miles from home. The local bank thermometer read 99 degrees. I thought it was screwed up but my van's own thermometer confirmed it. Three miles south and we hit Marysville, a small city about thirty miles north of Seattle. The fricking temperature hit 101! After stepping out of the van I was hit by a wall of heat that stole my breath. We spent a good two hours shopping for three bags of groceries, just to take advantage of the store's A/C. It helped but only for the moment.

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Music fans of the world, tell me this: is anyone watching this show? With all the reality TV out there to choose from one could choke on their remote, but occasonally there comes one that almost inspires watching. Rockstar premiered last season with 80's icons INXS looking for a new lead vocalist. I fell into the show towards its end and found some talented singers hitting all the right notes. This season they have formed something of a super group looking for that right person to front the band.

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Payperpost.com offers a unique opportunity to companies via the hottest commodity to hit the internet: bloggers. By way of the constant stream of chatter created by bloggers, companies can get there products, goods, and services noticed just by offering a few dollars to a blogger in compensation for a link on their blog-just like this one.

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"Come join the party! Take a few minutes to answer a simple survey and get paid! It's absolutely free!!!"

I may just be the last kid in the boat but just in case there are a few more suckers out there like me... avoid online surveys! This waste of time and energy should be snubbed out with an iron boot. Here's the catch: you sign up to answer simple surveys with the pretense that with each successful completion you get paid. Most survey sites pay very little per survey if there is no cost (out of pocket from you) for answering a boatload of questoins, such as "are experiencing hair loss?" or "are you suffering from diabetes?". But that's not the clecher. While answering one survey they include enrollment into other online surveys. Join up with them and get paid as well. That's where one of the problems come in. You sign up for another survey then are immediately transported to that site to compete theirs.

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Onlinediscountmart.com offers many wonderful items for your home and garden. Asthetically pleasing sculptures, sootheing decor, and many pieces that are more then just eye catching... they are engaging! If you are looking to spruce up your home or garden with unique furnishings this is the place to shop. But there is a hidden treasure at their online store. Scroll down the window and take a look at their Quoteable Quotes.

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Aside from the relentless blogging, I spend a great deal of my time writing in different medias. I have published articles, reviews, interviews, and some short fiction. Recently I published a short story available as a PDF from http://www.silven.com. They produce role playing material mostly but set out to tackle the fiction market. Sales were slow, as to be expeced but the feedback was pathetic. I wondered if anyone actually read the story or lined their hamster's cage with it.

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Preparing for the birth of your child is a task that needs more then nine months to complete. You buy all of the clothes and furnishings, you stock up on diapers and formula, and when the time comes you haul out your hospital bag complete with clothes, medical information and maybe even a camera. But when you get to the hospital suddenly there isn't time to spend playing with the camera and setting up those less then glamorous shots of a wife in labor.

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After months of spewing my abnormal thoughts and reluctant gobbledee-gook, I finally made some money from blogging.

First, I have to thank the Classy1 for her tip. She lead me to a site called http://www.bloggingads.com where I submitted my blogs for their review. In about a week they agreed to let me advertise a product, my previuos post. I followed their guidelines (almost, I forgot to include a keyword in my blog title) and in two days made $5.00 from the blog! I haven't made a single penny until now.

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June has always been the busiest time of the year for weddings. Summer love flurishes like the blushing brides that stroll down the aisle. Don't let that special feeling wane with the passing of June. Tell her you love her with a diamond engagement ring from http://www.Danforthdiamond.com and she'll never forget how special you are. Visit their on line store for that engagement ring that says how

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