Welcome!

Once I made the decision to start a blog I scratched my head for two days trying to figure out what to call it. I tried many names and submitted them for availability only to find most of them are already taken. I looked up some of those blogs with those names to find that most of them are not up to date, heck, some of them are just blank pages. Using the thesaurus in an attempt to jog my creative side I stumbled upon the word "transmogrification," which is a humorous word for something magically transforming into something else. Seeing this blog, in part, as a personal journey of lifetime growth, the word intrigued me. So being a moderately talented wordsmith I came up with "transblogrification." Quite the catchy little word, isn't it? Evidently some other guy thought so too, for he has a blog under that name which has about three posts-the last one of October 2009. Dirty rat.

I went with HJA World. My full name is Henry Jefferson Acord. Personally, I think it sounds sort of prestigious. It has a certain ring to it. I would use my full name if I were President of the United States or some other high ranking government official. However, as I am just an ordinary, run of the mill kind of guy, I go by Jeff, although the government, my doctors, teachers of classes I take, etc. call me Henry. If I ever publish a book and you are interested in finding it, look for H.J. Acord as the author's name. With a cool name like mine there is so much you can do with it. So, with all these things in mind (and so much more) I settled on keeping my blog name simple. HJA World it is. I reserve the right to change it in the future if I can come up with something better though.

A writer should stick with the things he or she is knowledgeable of, and I will attempt to do just that. The problem is, I am what some call a Jack of all trades master of none. I know about a lot of different things, but usually just enough to be dangerous. The only area I could say I specialize in is my life. Funny how it includes all the different things I am not an expert on.

I wrote a song once about being outstanding in a field. It went like this:

I knew a man outstanding, outstanding in his field.
He got struck by lightning, buddy, he got killed.
Now, I've done lots of thinking, and I think that I'm right--
I'd rather be a nobody, than standing in my field at night!

That is also what happens to people metaphorically when someone claims to know something and do not. Others will roast them good. Regardless, I feel I have some credible things to share with many people. It may be an event or an opinion from my personal experience, although I hope to have some generally useful information here as well. A little something for everyone. Of course, this will take me a while, so give me some time. Big things start out small; long voyages begin with a step. This is my first step and I hope you will tag along to see where the journey takes us.



Jeff