Baby is a bit of a dyslexic. It’s been an on-going problem for him for basically his entire life. He’s been through testing and reading programs and what not but he still has trouble with things sometimes. There’s a resource online that offers a reading program developed to defeat dyslexia. It’s dyslexiadecoded.com; Free Help for Dyslexia. The site isn’t entirely for dyslexia, they also help adults whom have trouble reading, for a myriad of reasons including a lack of a formal education when they were growing up. They offer a few courses; Teach Baby the ABC’s, Alphabet Course, Silent Association, Decoding, Basic Reading Skills and Advanced Reading Skills.

Official Press Release:

Dyslexia? Now there is Free Help

Now there is free online help for people who have dyslexia or simply did not learn to read well while going to school. It is a click-?¢‚ǨÀún-learn program. Students and adults may learn decoding, basic reading skills, and advanced reading skills all with the click of a mouse.

The program is called ReadingBySix. It provides a systematic approach to helping people defeat dyslexia and related reading problems. You will notice measurable progress from week to week provided participants are active in their studies and do their assignments. The online courses are virtually free when you give a small donation. If you choose not to donate, they are completely free.

Dyslexia is a distinct learning disability characterized by difficulties in decoding individual words. These difficulties may not show up in other cognitive and academic abilities. Dyslexia results from the confusion caused by the brain?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s inability to associate abstract symbols with abstract ideas. This includes associating letters and words with the sounds they represent. The key to defeating dyslexia is learning to decode English sounds.

You are invited to review the website and take a few of the courses for practice and learn how the program works. Then use it to teach your children or students to read. It can be used for preschool, home school, grade school, or high school. Students, adults, and children can use it. It teaches reading 100% of the time and it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s all electronic. If you know of people who need help, please tell them about ReadingBySix: http://www.dyslexiadecoded.com/

Source: Dyslexia Decoded

Why are some people more successful than others in fulfilling their dreams? Isn’t it astonishing how some people fail all the time, while others turn everything they touch into gold? This is a question at the back of anyone’s mind who just can’t get a break in life. Things brings me to a conversation I was having with Baby the other night.

We were talking about successful sites on the internet, primarily about multi-million dollar companies. Take Paypal for example, when they were first starting out they paid someone a fairly decent amount of money just to create their logo. Using basic text with a few styling’s this person earned quite a bit of money. When Paypal was bought by Ebay, this person earned a few million dollars. He then used his knowhow to be one of the co-creators of YouTube, this site was recently bought out by Google for 1.65 BILLION. No matter what this guy does, he’s earning more and more money left and right.

Then there are people like us, working stiffs who work our hardest and can’t seem to catch a break in life. Turning things into gold are dreams that don’t seem to ever come true. I then came across the Dream Manifestation Wizard. They claim to have a scientific method that manifests your dreams into reality. Manifesting your dreams does not depend on your education, on your ethnicity or heritage, and in no way is it determined by your environment. It’s only a result of your thinking.

This brings me back to “The Secret” where it’s based on the Law of Attraction don’t think “I’m in debt, I need to get out of debt” wipe the term DEBT from your vocabulary completely. Work hard, don’t think about the money that’s going out, think only about the money coming in and supposedly this will balance your life out.

I think the Dream Manifestation Wizard may help you reach your goals, or at least help you in getting closer to them. The only way to get anywhere in life is if you try. Sitting back and waiting for opportunities to fall in your lap won’t help you out in the long run – people are by no means that lucky. Working hard and thinking positively is really the only way to go, I think.

When we get back from the casino, Baby and I are planning on moving the rooms around. We figured that if we have money coming home with us (winnings or breaking even – whichever) we’ll be better off just moving the rooms once instead of having to break everything down twice. We’ve been surfing around the net and making sure to keep track of all of the online coupons codes so that we’re able to get some very solid discounts on the items we’re purchasing.

We’re going to get two new desks, he’s getting two monitors and I’ll eventually be purchasing a fully loaded iMac for all of my design needs. I just need to get my hands on a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS for Mac. I have three disks (some people just hand things to me for no reason) for Photoshop 7 (x2) and CS2. It’s not illegal copies either, full version software in original packaging. While I’m very happy about this, that doesn’t help my Apple dilema…heh.

When it comes to furniture, we’re a small bit torn. While purchasing a few desks from places like Best Buy, Staples or wherever else would be a good resource for office equipment, I find myself drawn to Home Depot, because I’d seriously prefer to build one myself. There’s plenty of room for it and I know if I can build to my specifications that it’ll make life a bit easier. I’m sure we’ll wind up with a prebuilt system though. I’ve been seriously looking into LAN stations but I was unaware of just how expensive they can get, too bad there aren’t any coupons codes available for those sites.

Baby likes the idea of traveling, as do I. The one thing I’m not too keen on is the woods. While I do love animals, I don’t like ones that can skunk you down or rip you up. I also don’t like the idea of bugs bigger than my face. But, he likes to camp and has gone to Pennsylvania a few times to do it. He runs down his list of supplies and is so proud of his leica binoculars it’s kind of funny.

I had no idea what he was talking about but when I came across Eagle Optics and looked them up, it kind of made sense. It’s easy to be proud of a pair of binoculars when you spent over $1,000 on them. That’s kind of pricey for me, I’m used to the Fisher Price ones I was using until recently (Yea, those puppies last!). I did find a few cheaper pairs in the $30 range on this site, that’s more of my cup of tea. :mm tea:

Eagle Optics is a good source for buying things like this because they have low prices, great customer service, an excellent selection and free financing on orders over $200. So if you’re dropping over $1,000 on a pair or two of binoculars, this is the place to go.

So looking through here for a while, I may wind up going with a simple pair from Audubon. They seem to be pretty decent and they’ve got one that’s even waterproof. Oh joy, I can watch the sharks appear closer than they really are…lol

Growing up on Long Island you didn’t hear much about paint ball, I don’t even think there was a place to go to in order to participate. Once I got down here, I noticed an over abundance of shops with paintball supplies, I found myself very interested in this.

We wondered into one of the stores one day and were looking around the cases and I found the TippmanX7 and fell in love, almost instantly. This gorgeous piece of paintball markers is about $430 but there are other places where I can find it for cheaper, that’s the beauty of the internet.

Behind this store was a field covered in more paint than I’d ever seen. They run an active paint ball war zone type of deal that’s open to the public and used rather frequently for those traveling down here in the summer. I don’t quite understand how they can run around in the heavy gear during the summer but more power to them.

We tried it out and I had more fun than I thought I would. I beaned him in the leg a few times. He beaned me back though, thankfully it hit the safety gear. Tuck and roll! It was a lot of fun though, I can’t wait to do it again. I’ve already told him that we’re going to have to setup our own war zone in the backyard and make all the neighbors get involved too…heh.

Baby and I spend a lot of time talking about what we’d like to do in the future. One of our major goals is to travel to all 50 states (by Winnebago) and see all of the little mom and pop places that make America what it is. We don’t care about eating at any major food chains, we want little hole in the wall places that are popular for unique reasons. What we’ve both agreed upon, however, is that if we do go to any highly populated area that’s very well known it’s most likely going to be Orlando because of their theme parks and Disney World because it’s … well … the happiest place on earth.

I know a few people who live in Florida and while it’s a pretty bad state to live in if you don’t like constant storms, it’s worth it’s weight in gold for the beautiful beaches and even more beautiful people. I’ve considered owning an Orlando Vacation Home, I’ve also considered a Villa in Disney because I pay pretty close attention to Disney news and there’s quite a bit going on down there at the moment.

I’m not sure if those goals will ever be met. Things like this usually require a lot of money that I just don’t have right now. If I can continue to bring in a solid $2500 a month than maybe I’ll be able to reach these goals sooner than anticipated, for now it’s just a dream that I hope to have fulfilled one day… nothing wrong with that.