Death makes you question a lot of things about life. This is something that I have had to do twice this year. I am hoping that I do not have to do it again for a while.

I feel that death should be honored and not so much of a grievance period. It should be a time to reflect on the life of the loved one. Sure, a loved one would be missed, but you wouldn’t be upset if you were winning the race of life.

Who really knows what is beyond death. The Christians believe that there is life after death, going to heaven or hell. Some Pagans believe in life after death as well, but they believe in reincarnation. While other believe that when you die that is the end.

I do not know of many tribes in the world past and present that do not honor death. The Vikings would push them into the ocean and then shoot flaming arrows onto the floating alter. Europeans and US Americans have a parade, they have the dead lead the parade while others follow. There are many other forms of honoring the dead.

This all reminds me of a poem that everyone know by now. If you don’t you should learn it.

This poem was written by Robert Frost. It should server as a reminder that nothing last forever and time is something that we cannot control.

Every week I try my best to work on 2 memes ASMW and T-13. ASMW is one that I, and the help of some friends started. T-13, well your reading it now. I have been trying to get the word out about ASMW and have has 2 new people join sense we started, we are always looking for more people to join up and share their taste in music. You can stop by ASMW website any time you want to and get the links to other blogs that are participating in ASMW. I also hope that you will enjoy this musical T13.

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I’m sorry about the website outage. I was working on something and got called away and never came back to it. This is what happens with you work more than you sleep. Again I am sorry for not having the site up for those that did stop by while it was down maybe you will return and visit me today.

Much debate has been buzzing around the internet about Google’s PR. There are those that live for great PR and those that really don’t care because they have tons of traffic already. What a PR means for most people that blog is that PayPerPost and Blogsvertise, and other such paid to post ad agencies are based on this PR.

Google’s PR and Alexa Rank have tons to do with how much you will get paid for a post and the number of opportunities that you get as well. When Google decides that your PR needs to be dropped because of the number of links that you have been paid for it hurts. Why does this hurt, because you can’t get paid as much any more.

What is the problem with deleting the old ads? In the case of Blogsvertise, you are not allowed to do so. For the rest of the life of your blog you much advertise for these companies that paid you $5.00. I don’t know anyone that is getting a good end of the stick with that one. It doesn’t sound like much, but if a company today can pay $5.00 for a life time of advertising then they will need to fork over more than that.

I’m getting ready to write Blogsvertise and ask them what benefit of it is mine to have my PR go down when I have to advertise for the rest of my bogs life. This could be years, even decades. I do think that if this was a re-occurring revenue then I would be more quiet about it. Being bought for $5.00 is a bit low for a life time of advertising.

My suggestion to you is to really think about what you are doing and the way that you are advertising. Google will get you for paid advertising, they will lower your PR, if not even drop you out of the running for linking to a site that is known for buying links though bloggers. I think that I’m more than likely going to stop advertising after one month. This will keep the paid advertising down and it will give them what they pay for, and that to me is 30 days of their post being on my site. If they would like to have their post moved to the front of the page or left on my blog then they should pay a monthly fee.