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Santa Got Run Over By A Reindeer

October 23rd, 2008 by

Randy

OOPS!

Santa Gets Side Swiped By a Reindeer

It’s a little known fact that I am a Santa Helper during the Festive Season of Christmas. I have my own web site, Santa Claus ATL.com and everything. I even have my own Plaxo Group, the The Southern Society of Santa.

Okay, enought horn tooting. You’d think that an upstanding Santa like me would get a little respect from the deer population. I’ve been driving car and sleigh for nigh on 52 years now and I’ve never had a run in with a deer. Well, last Sunday night that changed!

I was tooling down my local country highway. I’d been to the local Wal-Mart for one reason or another. It was about 10pm give or take a few minutes. All of a sudden and out of nowhere something from the road disintegrates my side mirror and makes that horrible sick noise that comes from a car hitting something animal. YUKK!

So, being the good citizen that I am, I call 911 and report the incident. Shortly a very nice Sheriff’s Lieutenant rolls up and surveys the situation. He says that I’ve been in contact with one of our local deer trying to cross the road. No blood, just hair and dents on the car. My side mirror was smashed into the driver’s window and that left a star pattern in the glass. I’m thanking the heavens that the animal didn’t decide to meet me head on. That would have totaled my little gray Scion.

Now it seems that deer accidents are becoming fairly common, according to the Sheriff. I do know that it’s hunting season here. If I was a deer I know that I’d be a little spooky. There’s also a lot of new construction in areas that were rural and wooded. It seems to me that most, if not all, of the construction is non-residential. Every one wants to put their business on the main road. Understandable, but what’s going to happen to the fauna that habituate those areas. That’s their living ground. The place where they eat, sleep, and procreate.

So it seems that unless we do something to control commercial/residential growth, were going to be killing or maiming more of the game on the roads. Which costs us a bundle in damages. Insurance or not, we’re going to pay out of pocket one way or another; in more ways than one.

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Monitize Your Blog!

October 7th, 2008 by

Randy

This post is for all you bloggers out there. I know that many of us do it for fun, for therapy, or just to do it. If you’re going to blog anyway, why not make a little money from it? Read on, because I have found a great way for us to do what we enjoy and make a little dough in the process.

Let’s face it, starting and running a blog is tough! That is, if you want to do it the right way, the spam-free way. There’s just SO MUCH to know.

You can’t “just write good content” and expect to be successful. You’ve got to know about search engines, about social media, about traffic, about how to turn your blog into a money making machine, and the list is seemingly endless.

There’s no doubt, it’s probably the most difficult lesson for any aspiring blogger to learn.

However, the biggest problem is that most books on the subject are filled with outdated advice that might have worked at some point in the past, but are practically useless these days (I’m not naming names here). And the new stuff is either so inaccurate or so complicated that it makes your head spin.

That’s why I was really excited when my friend Ken told me about Blogging in Action. Talk about a breath of fresh air! I’ve heard of the author before, as his advice has been the secret resource behind a number of successes over the past few years. And let me tell you, this book delivers.

It’s got some eye-opening ah-ha’s and is packed with solid, no fluff advice. This is the same advice that until recently was only available to those with fat wallets.

The newly released Blogging in Action is the easiest way for any aspiring blogger, whether they are a total newbie or an experienced pro, to take their blogs to the next level. This is the only blogging book you will ever need! You’ll understand when you see this package, it’s HUGE!

Look, we all know that blogging is quickly becoming one of the things that MUST be done to make any business successful. I’m not talking about just any blogs, but solid blogs. This package will take you by the hand, and show you exactly how you can easily create a respected, profitable blog.

Get it while you can, I did!