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My 13-year-old son came home from his bowling league this bright Valentine’s morning and dropped a ziplock baggie full of candy hearts on top of my Macbook on top of my chest as I lay on the couch.

I reached into the bag of colorful goodies - and what to my wondering eyes did appear…?

These three candy hearts. No, really.. that is their message!

Sigh, is this Valentine’s Day trying to tell me I should love more than, um, my job?!

A friend just popped my blog url into a beta site called Typealyzer - a cross between Myers-Briggs personality test and digital calligraphy. (They call it “automatic personality analysis of blogs and online texts.”)

Typealzyer found the blogger at writingseo.com (me) is a Duty Fulfiller (the picture shown here came with the diagnosis):

The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever.

The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be left alone and to be able to work in their own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.

The Myers-Briggs personality Type that Typealyzer assigns to Duty Fulfillers like me is ISTJ. Funny, I’ve taken that particular test in years past and was diagnosed then as a ENTJ... I guess I’ve (d)evolved…?

I just LOVE this caveat on Typealyzer:

“Note: writing style on a blog may have little or nothing to do with a person´s self-perceived personality.”

What’s your type?

It’s the dog days of summer (what does that mean? Does the season wants its belly rubbed?) - and I tote my MacBook around from home office to hammock to client boardroom and back… all the while dodging my loafing teens and frenetic preteen fighting over access to Facebook and MSN.

I’m a good mom; I scream at my kids to Get Outside and Get Some Freaking Fresh Air Right This Instance! I mean, I have to stay attached to my keyboard; they don’t - so why would they want to? (First sign of generational gap right there.)

Websites to keep your kids busy this summer

See, if I was a really good mom, I’d be recommending websites for them to visit this summer. Such as Funology.com (science, yeah!), GamesfortheBrain.com (ooh, kids love educational play) and Seussville.com … ok wait. I am not going to slam that one - I am as big a Dr. Seuss fan as they come.

Serving up these sites and others for the anklebiters is the advice of an article at Xomba.com - and they should know. Their tagline is ‘Show and Tell Has Never Been So Rewarding,’ nicely evocative of childhood. It actually reflects their business model of users writing articles and commenting/voting and reaping 50% of Xomba’s Google AdSense revenue.

Hmm… maybe I can get some child labour happening around my house this summer (especially my 15-year-old who’s too lazy to put his shirt on and go to a job interview, and my 12-year-old who needs a job like a border collie does, but is too young. Of course, my daughter, 16, is working - the malls are open all summer long): I can get them cranking out articles on Xomba and reaping those Adsense returns!

Just think how impressed their Information Technology teachers will be come September when they write those ubitiquous “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essays.

It’s a Saturday and I’m sun-baked from all day at the local Little League season-opener… so please forgive me, readers (and you, too, Dr. Seuss) for my indulgence here:

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