I just got the bed room set, too. It was a gift from a friend of mine and replaced my old set that was over 20 years old. The new set is oak and all matching, with a bureau, two night stands and a dresser.

At 3 am, my cat woke me up by head butting by back. He wanted to be petted. I obliged him for a moment, then thought that it had been a while since I spent any time with him, so I rolled over and started to scratch his ears and back. Soon he got bored and wanted out of the room. I struggle out of bed and, without my glasses, opened the door and backed up, only to slip on the floor and fall back first onto my foot board, cracking it solidly along the seems. I thought I would wake everyone in the house. Because it broke along the seem, I can probably reglue it and the bruise will heal, eventually. Just not the type of night time adventure I needed.

You see, the reason I even bothered spending time with my cat was that it is part of my obligations as a pet owner. I signed up to be his owner and I feel that I have the responsibility to spend quality time with him to make both of our lives enjoyable. But when I have a lot to do and time is short, he gets short cheated and that is when he wakes me in the middle of the night because he knows he has a captive audience.

I was reviewing websites of some of our affiliates last week, plus I have been spending time on the forum, commenting on some threads that involved web site marketing, and I happened across a site that was having problems with the program structure, making the site un-readable. I contacted the owner to let her know of the issue and got an ear full about the difficulty of maintaining a web site yourself and how limited her time was to the point she thought of just giving up and taking the site down. I could really feel for her frustration. I tried to help, although there are so many programs for setting up web sites and I am not familiar with many of them.

Today, I tried to help another of our affiliates with some special programming he wanted done. He, too was frustrated and in the end, got the information up on his site, but in a round about way that he will have to go back later and fix.

I taught myself how to program web sites. I never learned to write raw code like some, which can handy cap me some times. I use a program that cost well over $400 and do not recommend that the faint of heart bother using it. But I now have over ten years experience working with web sites. And, although my job has no real programming demand, I still like to make my own web pages and mess with the coding to get the desired results.

We all have a lot of jobs to do. Never give up because of the learning curve. Otherwise, you will end up feeling guilty at 3 am because you have not paid enough attention to an important obligation and end up breaking your own bed.