Thanks for the replies guys. I am a complete Raspberry Pi and Linux novice. I just really followed the online tutorial to set the Pi up with MinePeon. Somewhere along the way I read about using ssh to remotely access the Pi and figured I would try it just for the learning experience. Right now I have both keyboard, mouse and screen hooked up.
Everyone was a noob at one time. I'm very new to the Pi and Linux, after a few months it well start to make sense. Learning the new "speak" is the hardest part. I always thought pacman was a game, only to learn it's a package manager.
If you have the Pi hooked up to a monitor and keyboard/mouse you don't really need to do ssh. Sooner or later you well want to use the second usb port on the Pi for something else, that's when ssh comes to play.
Google 'putty ssh" it's a windoze compatible program to ssh and offers some nice options.