What’s in YOUR September 1?
Happy September 1, everyone!
It’s ADHD Month this month. I don’t know if that means awareness or flareup, so be prepared for both in yourself and others. Now where was I?? Oh yeah…
It’s also Fall Hat Month. Iguess there’s an awful lot of fall hat fans out there to get a whole month. 
Let’s talk international: It’s International People Skills Month, International Self-Awareness Month and International Strategic Thinking Month. Just think strategically about becoming self-aware of your people skills…with people everywhere. No pressure…
It’s also National Honey Month and Pleasure Your Mate Month. Yes, together. What a coincidence!
It’s Self Improvement Month, something else to do while you tackle all that international stuff.
Keep in mind it’s Shameless Promotion Month. All month. Only 30 days though, darn it.
Remember it’s Sports And Home Eye Health & Safety Month. You stare at a computer. This is important. And don’t play sports while you do it.
It’s International Enthusiasm Week this week. You’ll need it from the looks of things so far, huh?
And for today’s inexplicable days of note, there’s Calendar Adjustment Day (tilt a little to the right?), Chicken Boy’s Day (no comment), Emma M. Nutt Day and thank goodness…
…National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day.
Ask WAHumor: How To NOT Become A Work At Home Hermit
A concerned reader wrote Ask WAHumor recently to ask “How do you keep from becoming a work-at-home hermit?”
And WAHumor replies:
There’s a huge temptation to become a work at home hermit. You can always find or create more to do, almost everyone who doesn’t work at home doesn’t “get” you from Mom to the mailman and you can easily let little things like hygiene, grooming and wardrobe (either formality or totality) fall by the wayside.
Your pets won’t care; they’re just glad to have you around so much. Your family and friends might care, especially when the household budget is eaten up with industrial-strength air fresheners and you’ve greeted Aunt Myrtle at the door more than once in your slightly unkempt birthday suit. Any and all delivery people will definitely care after the first shanghaiing for an hour-long cup of coffee to fill you in on what’s happening in “the world out there”. Not to mention the soggy, rotting pile of mail and packages piling up on your front step as they drop your goods, ring the bell and sprint back to their respective vehicles like Olympic hopefuls.
So how CAN you re-enter the real world?
It’s simple. Realize you get more done better by spending less time doing it. That, and back away from the computer. Or take it with you.
You’ll find some cool ideas for not only getting out but taking some much-needed breaks here in this post from Nicole Dean’s “Expert Briefs” column, Making Working From Home More Fun
Too much computer time can actually wear you down in a big way, because the brain’s designed to rest and recuperate a lot more often than your computer. Blast “Hip To Be Square” by Huey Lewis and The News – face it, you are but it is – and dance around the house wailing along into your favorite hairbrush. Read the Cliff Notes for War and Peace if that’s your kind of thing. Then…leave the house.
A walk would be nice right about then, a marathon practice run a bit much. Check out some nature, whatever you have. Adjust for weather conditions as needed, but get out. Be sure to change from the birthday suit first.
If you really got to be connected, downsize with a smaller portable computer or a web-capable handheld device. Even just the change of scenery and a little moving around is worth it! Feel up for breaking out in a bigger way? Head for a wifi equipped coffee shop for a while, with whatever you’re bringing waiting ptiently in the seat beside you. Only operate more than one machine at a time if none of them have wheels.
What do YOU do to NOT become a work at home hermit??
The WAHumor Sunday Comic: WAHly Meets The Treadmill Desk
Not wanting him to miss out on his daily walks rain or shine, WAHly’s loving wife WAHnda gets a treadmill desk for his birthday. Beware new gadgets…
WAHly by Dan Reinhold
Copyright, WAHumor.com
Self Defeating Spammers?
Is it just me or are spammers becoming self-defeating?
I’ve seen several emails with the word “spam”, usually in caps or framed with quotation marks or asterisks or whatever just before the obligatory outrageous claim/announcement.
I must admit I find it less than inticing to open something that reads “SPAM: Please collect your million dollars.” It’s like a con man telling you before his pitch that listening to him may be hazardous to your wallet.
Here’s a few I’ve seen lately:
*****SPAM***** TOYOTA CAR INTER.PROMOTION PROGRAM (Nice to see Toyota is taking good care of their public image )
(SPAM?) From Mr. Adamark Luwis (Are they not sure??)
And my personal favorite…
Spam: Spam: Spam: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Hmmm, maybe I’ll open that one anyway.
Granted, some are labeled as such by software…but NOT all.
Seen any good ones lately yourself?
How To Make Money from Blogging, By Your Local Gvernment
From the “You’re kidding…right??” department:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is known for lots of things like broken old bells and ex-printers who invented funny-looking woodburning stoves. Now it looks like it’ll be known as the first ever city to enact the dreaded and downright ditzy Blogging Tax.
If you’re one of the many hoping and/or struggling (or not struggling) with how to make money from blogging, just think of it as one more piece of the puzzle…the big expensive one.
Well, to be brutally honest, it’s not a tax. It’s a requirement to purchase a “business initiative” license if you so much as claimed a single dime made from blogging and/or blogging related goings on.
Here’s a quick quote from an interviewee straight from the article:
…Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she’s made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it’s a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.
In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.
“The real kick in the pants is that I don’t even have a full-time job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a handful of money is outrageous,” Bess says.
It gets even better. Seems a couple of city officials are proposing a revision of the tax as it is now, which charges the victim for the license and taxes whatever income they make, however ridiculously small. Their proposal would still slap ‘em with the business initiative license cost, but NOT tax the first $100,000 of income derived from it.
What a deal, huh?
Read all about it right here:
http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/19/blogging-business-privilege-tax-philadelphia
And save those pennies made from your blogging…just in case.
A Weekday Work From Home Cartoon For You
A “special guest” work from home cartoon from the fun folks at CallCenterComics.com:
Jamming on…the iPad??
From the “Yeah, but what ELSE can you do with it?” department”: Jordan Hollander plays “Eye Of The Tiger” on the iPad.
Eat your hearts out, geeks.
Thanks, Urlesque!
The WAHumor Sunday Comic: Who DO They Call?
Ahh, the many meanings of working at home…
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The WAHumor Sunday Comic: The Caller
We all know a caller, maybe two. They’re the ones that come asking for PTA volunteers, etc., etc. And you know WHY they call…
Hug One On System Administrator Appreciation Day
Is there a system administrator in your life? Do you know what they are??
Well, I’ll admit I don’t know. I do know a former system administrator and you’ve met her here on WAHumor.com. Her name is Lynn Terry and she deserves a hug for that and lots more!
You can find her quickest on Twitter as @LynnTerry or send a cyber-hug her way on her forum, SelfStartersWeeklyTips.
Read her guest posts and her interviews about her cool Private Brainstorming Group and using humor for business online:
Behind On Work? You Need A Catchup Day!
The Home Of Internet Marketing Help
The WAHumor Online Business Humor Series: Lynn Terry
