Jeff Keeping It Real!

I awoke to over 25 past, present, and future post missing from Fam5.com.  I went on a long and exhausting search for missing post.  I searched high, I searched low, I searched miles of code but to my amazement I found nothing.  I found no traces that would lead me to answers of the missing blog post.  I called my son in and said Brandon we may need to call CSI to help out on this one.  He said, “you know Dad there may be another explanation.”  I asked him what he meant, he said ”Turtle Bay is exploring Are we alone?”  We continued to search for answers but this time we searched for the unexplained.  We even sat down with the family and watched E.T. the movie.  This gave us hope we devised a listening device to help find Aliens.  We even bought some Reese pieces candy and laid them out over night.  

Here I write about our alien encounters and still no evidence of what happened to the post.  We have decided it had to be the aliens.  Why not blame them?  It seems safe and more fun to blame aliens.  Of course, I doubt it could be that we were notified by Tammy’s home-based business that we are not allowed to link to her website.  We’re also not allowed to mention the name of her home-based business and post recipes. 

It was fun while it lasted and Brandon sure got a kick out of the idea that aliens just might exists.  I only hope that aliens are reading our blog and would leave comments.  We do not discriminate here at Fam5.

If you have an alien experience I would love to hear about it. 

If your like me you wonder what all the  blogging terms mean.  Upon my miles of travel on the Internet I came across The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary.

Are you puzzled by strange blogging terms and unusual blog abbreviations and blogging acronyms? Then this post will get the Blargon Demystified. This article attempts to simplify some common blogging terms organized into a simple blogging glossary.Are you puzzled by strange blogging terms and unusual blog abbreviations and blogging acronyms? Then this post will get the Blargon Demystified. This article attempts to simplify some common blogging terms organized into a simple blogging glossary.  

Here is just a small example of the terms and how they are laid out at The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary.

BLOGGING

• Weblog- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.
• Blog – short form for weblog
• Blogging - the act of posting on blogs
• Blogger - a person who blogs
• Blogosphere - The Internet blogging community

I found this list to be very comprehensive and easy to read and gave me insight to the blogging world language. 

Do you find a list like this useful?

On my way to work this morning I noticed the truck in front of me had some thing going on in the front seats.  I continued to look a little closer and noticed this lady was combing her daughters hair while driving her to school.  That made think about the many distractions of driving.  Like this lady leaning over to the passenger seat coming her daughters hair while the truck was moving.  I would imagine she takes her eyes off the road 2-5 seconds many times while preforming this task.  Then later down the road I looked to my right and there was a gentleman reading the newspaper and driving.  At this point I am wondering to myself how in the world any of us make it work with all these distractions.  At the next stop sign I looked at the other three cars stopped to see what they were doing.  One car there were a couple of guys banging there heads like they were at a Metal Death concert.  Straight ahead was a lady putting on eyeliner and to the right a gentleman was lighting a pipe.  Made me kind of laugh and shake my head and then I took a look at myself and here I had my two hands up on the steering wheel typing a text message, No, No, No.

  Here I was thinking to myself about all the distracted drivers around me and I was one of the distracted drivers myself.  I guess the point to all this is we need to start paying attention to the road and less on the distractions in our on vehicles.  Here are some simple yet effective ways to be safe on the road.

• Go hands free on your cell phone (will be law next year in California).
• Don’t read while driving instead listen to the radio.
• Get up early to get your makeup on and be ready to drive to work.
• Count to three when a stop light turns green.  This will insure everyone is through the light and you won’t get t-boned.

Do you have some pointers you would like to share?

Have a great weekend and be safe on the road

JB

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