Nathan W. Ho

For those who don’t know it yet, my recent life has been consumed recently with moving away from my home of 4.5 years (west Michigan) back towards my family. Just today, I have arrived in South Eastern Pennsylvania - which is going to be my new stomping grounds for the forseeable future.

Why the move? In a word: Family. For the last 10+ years, I’ve been the “remote” family member, who had to catch a flight back to the east coast to be with family. I’d make it out to be with my family two or three times a year - and the occasional extra-special occurrence. However, for the most part all of my participation in family events and discussions happened over the ‘net or by phone.

No longer! My family is all within a 4 hour radius of my new “home” - and I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be able to do this.

It’s true that I had to give up a lot to move back east (great friends, good health / few allergy problems, being next to the lake, etc) - but I am more than willing to give that all up for the sake of my family.

The drive out to PA was nicely uneventful - my mom was gracious enough to spend the week with me, helping me prepare and organize everything for the move (doubly so, since I had to work during the days and was only available at night to do things). And extra thanks to my sister, who helped do a TON of legwork on potential places to live.

I’ll be blogging a bit more about the move and the repercussions - but I wanted to blog briefly about something that came up during my drive out to PA.

As my mom and I were crusing down the highway, we noted that several of the semi’s (18-wheelers) had large, fancy advertisement-type paintings. This one in particular had a large painting of some beautiful rooms (a kitchen and a living room). Unfortunately, this type of painting can have a deletirious effect on the driving skills of people passing by.

Not that we had any particular trouble (since we were actively discussing that issue at the moment) - but it occurs to me that these larger-than-life advertisements can be a *REAL* distraction to many drivers. If someone doesn’t have the skills to stare and drive straight, then you’re creating a huge potential for car accidents. In my opinion, most drivers don’t need yet another distraction on their minds.

It’s bad enough when you see all the drivers rubber-necking (and causing traffic jams around traffic accidents and other stationary attention-grabbers). But now people are trying to get them to pay attention to MOVING ADVERTISEMENTS on the road?!?

I swear…..some people are so wrapped up in trying to get us to give them money, that they don’t stop and *THINK* about what kinds of potential trouble they might be causing with their advertisements….

Another reason to be glad I don’t have to drive to work, I guess *heh*

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