I've got some bad news for everyone. The Shit has Hit the Fan. Most people are still trying to figure out if they can reverse the fan or block the shit, but its happened already. There is too much momentum bringing this economy down and we are slipping over the edge.



You need to look at your situation and see what side of the fan you are on and whether or not you can dive for cover or at least cover up with a garbage bag before you get plastered.



Here in the SouthEast United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee) not only are we getting nailed with the freeze of credit and the tanking economy, but we have no gas. We are literally coming to a stand still.



The latest word is that we now will not see gas until mid October, about 3 weeks away.



Imagine what you would do if you could not fill up your car(s) for 3 weeks.



Could you get to work?

Could you get to the store?

Could your kids get to school?

Could you get to the hospital?

What would you do with your garbage?

What would you do without mail?

What would you do if you called 911 and no one came?



These are all real questions that we are facing down here after just a couple weeks without or with very limited supplies of gas.



We've got 3 more weeks to go!



With that in mind, if you live in a bordering state to the southeast, you better be ready for this too. Florida, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama all of your local petroleum companies are going to look at the lack of supply here, see the demand and the opportunity to make more money and they are going to ship some of that gas here, taking away gas from your own state and simultaneously raising the price of gas nationwide.



The shit is hitting the fan in more ways than one right now. The economy isn't in a tail spin, it was blown out of the sky. Are you prepared for what's coming next?



No goods on the shelves at Christmas? (40% of retailers have lost their credit and can't buy goods to sell)



Lack of Fuel



Inflation



Reduction of your Credit Card Limit (This is coming next folks. If you rely on your credit cards, your limit is going to get chopped very soon.)



401k plan that has been cut in half (you might have relied on this for emergency withdawals in a bad economy or if you get laid off, but these are dropping in value and if people pull their money out, that's just going to make the market worse)



Losing Your Job (Your company may be outside of finance and mortgages, but I've got news for you, your company probably relies on credit or relies on customers that have credit and might also rely on things like gas. Are you prepared to join the ranks of the unemployed?)

Here's a nice piece from WordCamp this weekend featured on CBS 42. Yours truly is featured in the video, several times.



http://www.cbs42.com/…87449.html



Note to self, go by more Pomade before you give a frizzy interview. ;)

I'm at the Bottletree on 3rd in Birmingham, Alabama for the last session of Birmingham WordCamp #wordcampbham . We've got about 16 people here in this last session after eating a great lunch at Dreamland across town.

I'll be hitting the road in about 30 minutes as I head back to Charlotte, NC and start my search for gas along the way.

Hope you are all having a great weekend yourselves and I'll talk with you soon.

This morning my career is taking me to a local park in Birmingham, to look at this guys butt. For those of you that read my blog, There's Something About Harry, that first line might almost sound like something out of the movie, of similar sounding name.

'This guy's butt' is actually a massive iron statue that was shown at the St Louis World Fair in 1904 symbolizing the Roman god Vulcan.

We're having our WordCamp meetup in the park this morning with presentations on making WordPress dance, and my own on using WindowsLiveWriter to power and manage many different blogs and blogging platform.

Well, have to get checked out and on the road. I'll check in with you soon.

For those of you interested in LiveWriter (free download btw) I'm gathering together some of my training materials at my site http://softduit.com/…ng-skills/ . I will be publishing video from the presentation sometime soon as well.

I'm getting some great background on WordPress from one of the original guys Dougal Campbell ( http://dougal.gunters.org/ ). He's going to talk about where its going soon.

We are running out of gas here in North Carolina. Don't Drive Here! You won't get out!



For the very few gas stations that have gas, they are selling people $20 in gas at a time, or a little less than 5 gallons at about $4.19.



I'm supposed to drive from NC to Alabama tomorrow, no idea what it looks like in SC, GA or AL but heard last week that TN was out of gas already!



My Fellow Americans, We are screwed! :)

Houston we have no free wifi. That's bad for business yah need to get with the program.

Jody maroni's in vegas airport and they are open late! Red Eye tip!