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Readers, do you suffer from migraine headaches? If so, you know what to do. The rest of you, here’s something else to worry about.

If you’re with a certain online community using avatars and widgets, then you’re community is subject to infiltration and exploitation. For the last six months I’ve been investigating such a headache. While many disputed I was full of beans, I chose tonight as the night to show this exploitation publicly through Kevin Dixie’s site, Fuelmyblog.com.

Only because of my care for Kevin and Sylvie’s site did I choose to go public with this, since I trust them with much of what I do online…my wife…my stash of BeeGee’s vinyl…you name it, Kevin’s in it.

The rest of you readers not knowing what I’m talking about, it’s better you don’t.  Until you’re online community is socially engineered by someone, you won’t believe it until it happens to you.

Word.

After the upcoming turkey feast in most of the United States, that night will begin the period when many family men start the task of decorating their homes.

The interior is usually handled by the women, while men have always been tasked with handling the outdoor christmas decorations.

Keep these in mind, please friends:

Work with christmas lights; and other powered outdoor ornaments; only after checking their disconnected from their power source. Never work with one trusting the switch being off!

Work with ladders the way they were meant. Check the attached label to make sure it can hold both you AND the load carried up or down. If you’ve never been trained how to use a ladder, check with your local hardware store…and ask them to!

Check your personal protective equipment. Remember that temperature change affects surfaces, solvents, and materials differently. Double check your footwear to make sure that you’re toes aren’t just protected. The flower bed that’s pretty in spring can have black ice not seen when you’re about to step on a ladder’s first rung with a forty pound load.