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I'm Going---Out of My Mind---And To Minnesota

I had such big plans.  I had thought I would be able to pack, coordinate, and orchestrate yard sales, moving plans, packing, and all the other assorted things that go with making a major move, and still be able to keep up with writing blog posts.  That's not happening.  So, until I get the move taken care of, I think I'll be taking a break from writing.

See you soon--

Article Marketer Basics

I wrote a blog post a couple of months ago about signing up for Article Marketer.  Since then I've been using it for two of my clients (there will be three of them any second, now) and I've learned a few things that might help you compose your articles before submitting them that will keep you from being as frustrated as I was at first.

1. If you have Word 2007, don't compose there!!!!  Any specially formatted text (like those pretty quotation marks, or when 1/2 turns into the cute, little thing you see in real, printed books) won't change to ASCII text no matter what you do to them. (I'll probably do a quick blog post on how I sort of got around that but not today.)  Compose in Notepad.  Then you can copy and paste it into Word to see if it finds any misspelled words or possible grammar problems and

Laugh Out Loud

Just to keep things lightened up a bit, I want to share something that pops into my head at the oddest moments, generally when I need a laugh or when I’m thinking about rocks.  Today happened to be one of the days I needed a good laugh.

Last year I was watching an episode of Renovation Nation on Planet Green.  Steve Thomas, the host of the show, was helping a skilled stone mason install a floor and Steve had a brief conversation with this man about the particular stone they were using.

The stone mason said this particular stone was mined locally, keeping transportation costs to a minimum, an environmentally friendly issue.  He went on to say that this particular variety was a mica known as schist.  This particular one is part of a group of schists in the Massachusetts area known as horst.  Seriously, that’s the name of it. 

It gets better.  This is the schist that underlies most of the University of Massachusetts.  Steve Thomas observed that their graduates got an education on a rock solid foundation of horst schist.

Now you can share the giggle and pass it on, as I often do.  No sense keeping it to ourselves.