Thoughts about blogs

     Have you ever heard an acronym several times but really don’t know what it means, yet you are way past the point of asking someone and it’s not like you can look it up in a dictionary.  It happens with names all the time.  Someone at work: ”hey Aaron” and I am like “hey!” (lots of entusiasm so they don’t catch on.)    Then you try to be clever and sneaky so you say “let see, how do you spell you name again?”  They respond with a weird look ”D…A…N.”  then to cover your stupidity you lie ”yeah, I know a Dan who spells it with two Ns – just wanted to make sure. ”  At that point you just want to gag yourself.  

When people ask me how do you spell Aaron,  I either say “e..r..r..a..n..d” in jest or say “just like it is spelled in the Book of Mormon.” It is a great opener for talking about the gospel.  :)  

Anyway, I had heard the word “blog” a lot, but I never knew exactly what it was.  Then my brother Matt emailed telling us that his wife Elizabeth had started one.  Being an English major, he defined the word: “a blog is a contraction between the word web and log.”  Thanks Matt for disabusing me of my long held notion that a blog was some sort of spherical substance that ate everything in it’s path.  If that were the case,  I would have forbid Kira from starting a blog, at lease not with our kids around.           

 (Note: Large vocabulary words used above to overshadow my ignorance)

Well, Kira and I decided that we don’t need to spend time talking anymore–we can just read each other’s blogs.  I’ll get home and ask ”how was you day?” In response she will just point to the computer so all I have to do is walk over to the computer, turn it on, pull up the internet, log on to her page, find the most recent blog, and read the words “I had a good day.” It is so much easier then traditional communication. 

 But seriously it is fun to read my wife’s blog I learn new things about her.

    

It is funny how our blog stats look like an economic market chart.  I can’t help but feel that somehow I am losing money when my blog stats are in a “bear market.” ( falling).  Its funny I always mix up the bull and bear markets.  They both seem formidable.  When I see a rising market, I think “oh that is a bull market” and then I think “no wait,  bulls are bad(they impale people) so that can’t be it.” They just need to change it.  I think they should change it to a Dove market and a Voldemort market.  That way there is no question which is good and which is bad.  How about it economists?  Harry Potter is big enough you could probably get a way with it.  Unless of coarse Voldemort has a change of heart, turns over a new leaf in book 7, and becomes the hero.