Airline policies juggle larger passengers

Another story off of CNN.com. YES, arlines should charge people for 2 seats if they are overweight. These poor folks need all the motivation they can get to cut that weight. They obviously don't pay very much attention to their health. They are charging for everything now, extra bags, carry on bags. They charge for bags that weigh over 40lbs, why wouldn't they charge for people that weigh over Another thing overweight people are directly contributing to is our health insurance premiums. 1/3 of people in America are overweight. Its easy to conclude that some of these people have insurance, and they will be using it for all their diabetic problems that are associated with their overweight lifestyle.
'"The airlines need to be making bigger seats," said Peggy Howell, a spokeswoman for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a group based in San Francisco, California. "It's not safe to be cramming us into two seats."' I feel sorry for the flight attendants that have to deal with this every day. I cannot believe there is an "association to advance fat acceptance." This kind of goes back to my whole argument about overpopulation. Just like people that have too many babies when they can't afford it, obese people are using a little more than their fair share. You have the right to do whatever you want, until that right infringes onto someone else's rights. And when you have to "squeeze" into a seat, and your body is hanging into my seat, that is infringement on my rights. Everyone should be treated with respect, do onto others....as they say. But just like smoking, or drinking too much, there has to be consequences for over indulgence. This new airline seat policy is one of them. Just think of it this way: Do you pay the same price for one plate of Pad Thai and one plate of Pad Thai with spring rolls? No you don't. Another way to look at it: Is it the same price to ship a CD USPS, as it is to ship an Entire season of Friends? Nope. Also who is supposed to pay for all those Seat Belt Extenders? Me? I don't think so.

Anyone who thinks Global Warming is fake....

....hasn't lived in Texas through the summer months. Haha but seriously, I really don't care if you believe in it or not. Its getting really hot outside. Its been 105 already a couple of times since I bought my handy indoor/outdoor thermometer. I have alot of stuff I want to blog about, MJ, SUV's, Iran, but I don't feel like writing paragraphs on all of this. So for today I am going to relax and wait for something really interesting to come along. Wait, wait, whats that? The oxy-clean guy died, well thats news worthy. I wonder if they are going to dissolve his body in a giant vat of that stuff? I seriously only got stuff that said "oxy power" and "orange oil" after his barrage of infomercials. Kind of like what "vitamin C" has done to all cold and flu products.
To Billy Mays: You are gone too soon, oxy cleaned out of this life like red wine out of white shag carpet.

Engineers vs. Designers

Now when it comes to designing cars, it seems both engineers and designers have a say. And I now see why this movement of "Archtiectural Engineers" and "Design Engineers" is becoming popular. #1, its more efficient. If you want to build a building and have the plans made at the "Architectural Engineering" firm, you can side step having to collaborate with the Mechanical, PLumbing, and electrical engineers. Well maybe not all together, but you will cut much of the time out. Another good thing about it is that engineers usually plan things from A to B in the most efficient manner. Designers plan to make it look the best. But neither really are masters of both. My grandfather told me about an older mechanical engineer that was responsible for designing the conduit pipes that went from a nuclear reactor, to the control room. He said the way this guy planned the pipes, it looked like artwork, but it was also very efficient because repair points and access points were easy to get to. You see the "green" engineer would just do point A to point B, without really knowing how someone would go about fixing something if it ever broke down. Its experience and efficiency, form follows function, as they say. This brings me to today. I believe ENGINEERS designed all the electrical business for my civic. The main relay I had to replace was in a pocket of openess under my dash close to the hood pull. They gave me 1.5" to access the bolt that holds it in. They gave me exactly enough space to have to wrangle the relay through an area between the dash frame and some dash plastic. All of this while I am on my back facing up with the door sill eating away at my vertebrae. And with all this thought as to where they put the relay, guess what? These things still get rattled enough that over time the solder on the circuit boards cracks and causes continuity problems. I, as a designer/failed engineer, cannot wait to design my own car that runs on WVO, gets 30+ miles per gallon, and every electronic piece WILL BE ACCESSIBLE! End of rant.

Two pictures, the blurry brown bit is the frame.

A Sad Week

Ed McMahon - Not of my generation, but he was the #1 sidekick before Andy Richter.(and some might say still #1)
Farah Fawcett - Also not of my generation, but brave to shoot a documentary of her cancer struggles.
Neda - a brave martyr of the Iranian movement.
Michael Jackson - although eccentric and strange at times, still gone too young.

Is it just me or has their been a lot of death this week? Lets hope there isn't any more.

Pep Boys, my new favorite auto house

Well last night I was supposed to pick up a relay for my civic. I called ahead, made sure they had one at O'reilly's which was no where near where I live. On the way back from bike riding, we went to pick it up. Now mind you, I had looked up this part several times, to make sure it was the same as mine, and it would be cheaper to pick one up rather than get a OEM replacement from Honda. Everything looked good from the Intraweb end. Well we show up there, I point on this guys computer screen to which part I want, he happily brings it to me. I take it out, guess what? Its the right number, but the wrong part. Someone has probably returned the wrong part to the RIGHT box. So now they have mismatched parts. No telling how many times that same part has been taken, and then returned because its not the right part for the number. The box looked pretty old. The problem is that neither Autozone or O'reilly's had a PICTURE of it in their systems. Out of the 4 different relays in their system for my car, this one being the most important because it breaks more often, there was no picture of it.
Well thank goodness Borg Warner had a picture of their actual product so that I didn't look like an idiot when I went looking elsewhere for the part. Today I found another one at Autozone for 18.00 more than O'reilly's. Same exact part and number. I said screw it, as long as its the right one I will be happy. I started driving to this Autozone 20 minutes away, and saw a Pep Boys. Hmm, maybe I should check these guys out before I keep going. Sure enough they had 1, and it looked correct, and they even have a price match guarantee! So if I had gone to the trouble to find that one at O'reilly's, Pep Boys would have given me the same part at 5% cheaper than O'reilly's price. The other thing I like about Pep Boys is that they seem OVERstaffed rather than UNDERstaffed like all the O'reilly's and Autozones. Plus they have a service center, and bigger store layout.
On a separate note, if you ever have problems starting your honda when its really hot outside, listen for the clicks of your MAIN RELAY, its probably the culprit. They break a lot and don't allow your engine to get gas from the fuel injectors. You can even resolder the joints yourself if you want. Here's a link.

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/mainrelayoperation/badmainrelay.html

BE SAFE!

Can Chris Brown Make a Rebound?

I guess its reality week for me. But this headline has got me pissed. "Can Chris Brown Make a Rebound?" Who cares, he should be more worried if people are ever going to like him again, much less if his records are going to sell. But this clip from TMZ proves yet again, that "nice guys finish last". Its complete with Brown rolling up in a 1.5 million dollar Bugatti Veyron, then taking some pictures with some teen girl fans. PS:I Hope these girls are out of their parent's house, because if they aren't I would be so pissed as a parent that they are paying this girlfriend-beater any attention. In the real world (outside Hollywood) that guy would have gotten the 4 years in prison, and not some crap "probation" sentence. Awesome example your setting Hollywood. Don't even get me started on Lindsay Lohan's probation for cocaine possession. What is this the 80's?

After watching the video again, I can't get over the anger I feel that all these stupid people have to take pictures with him. This guy beat a woman, and you are condoning it. Give yourself a nice pat on the back.

'Reality TV stars Jon and Kate are divorcing'

Yep I am sure you have heard the news by now. I don't agree with their decision. I believe people give up too easily on marriage now a days. Thats why we have a 50% divorce rate. People don't take it seriously enough because divorcing is so easy. You could bet the farm that if divorcing weren't allowed, only by death, like in some other countries, people would think a lot longer about who they are going to marry.
This is not the case for Jon and Kate, to me at least. Unless one or the other has been unhappy from the start, this should have been fixed. I have not heard anything about them going to counseling or anything similar. As Dr. Phil has said, divorce is only the answer when all other avenues have been exhausted, and there is nothing left to do. No unfinished feelings, etc. That doesn't seem like the Jon and Kate I know. It looks more like two pissed off people who care more about their selfish feelings than that of their children. Unless a relationship is flat out abusive, you should always try to resolve it for your children. Thats my opinion anyway, coming from a single parent household. People always will try to find the easy way out, the easy money making scheme, the road MORE traveled. We really should get on that "road less traveled" every once in a while.
Think it over guys, will ya?

A note about overpopulation and starvation...

The whole sponsor the child thing has been around forever it seems. This poor child is starving to death in some 3rd world country. This is a horrible circumstance. Sometimes I do wonder, though. Why we spend so much money on sending food, why do we not send information and samples of contraception. Maybe we do, I never hear about it. These poor starving people, have TOO many poor starving children. A lot of these countries do not believe in contraception for one reason or another. We really need to change that. Its all a lack of knowledge. Its not just 3rd world countries either, its right here in our back yard. I watch shows, where mom's don't know who their baby's daddy is. "Baby Daddy" should not even exist in this world. It should be husband, or ex husband, or partner for life. These ignorant, ignorant people who don't use contraception for whatever reasons(religious, selfish, etc) are filling the world up with fatherless children. These children won't have a role model, a sufficient childhood, a father figure, any type of equaling male influence. And this is dangerous, for their family hierarchy, and for society in general.
When it comes to starvation, there will be a time when we are not able to keep up with the demand on food, anywhere in the world. Just look at our growth rates. We need to cap off this crazy growth. I like the idea of "baby licenses." You have to pass a test just like driving, to make sure you are fit to be parents. Everyone should have the privilege of having their own baby. I don't think everyone should have the right. Right now its easier to have a baby than to:
A) Buy a gun
B) Get birth control pills
C) Buy condoms
D) Get health care to cover that new baby
Just some food for thought.

On a very serious note....

Neda and her father before the shooting.


Perhaps you have heard about this girl, Neda, who has now given her life for the demonstrations in Iran. I really don't need to talk anymore about why they are doing this demonstration and what is going on over there. I hope you have gotten to see the video that was hosted on many sites of her. I want to talk about why these type of videos are important. A lot of people say there is too much violence on the internet, not enough censorship. Thats probably true about the violence, but what makes it unique is that it is always your choice. Its free, and it can spread like wildfire. Think of what it would be like in America if we were censored like Iran has been, limiting their bandwith so they can't stream videos to the outside world. Without this transparency they could do a lot more harm, now they know people are watching, they know there will be repercussions. They know they will be judged by more than just their God, for what they have done.
The latest report said that the man who shot Neda was a paramilitary volunteer policeman disguised as a civilian. He was on a rooftop nearby and shot her in the chest. I guess it was close to the heart because she died very soon thereafter. What a F*CKING coward, that guy. If this was war, and he was a sniper and she was a soldier, all would be fair. But this is in a demonstration, where people are getting beat up just for being there and showing peace signs. They are not allowing foreign reporters to report. The have their backs against the wall and they are scared, scared of change, and scared of different people getting power. Thank God for the internet and video, and thank the people that are brave enough to tape and upload this footage. They are the new voice of oppression in their country. Thank them.

A quick introduction

Woman FINED 1.9 million dollars for 24 songs

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.download.fine/index.html
I understand where the Recording industry is coming from when they say downloading illegal songs is like stealing. But if it is like stealing it should be treated as such. I am pretty sure if you walked out of Payless with 24$ worth of footwear, your fine would not be 1.9 million dollars. I believe the RIAA is once again trying to make an example of someone. So lets see what the actual maximum punishment in my state is for stealing under $50. Less than $50 is considered a Class C Misdemeanor here, with maximum fine of $500 and no jail time. Wow I really don't understand how it could go from $500 to 1.9 million dollars. Did she murder the lead singer of Linkin Park while she was downloading the songs? I THINK NOT.
DO YOU THINK THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT IS JUSTIFIED?

Those stupid PC commercials

Now admittedly I am a MAC owner, which doesn't mean I am a mac person. I own a PC as well. Its nice to have both. But it angers me how they are using Macs to sell PCs in these newest "find a PC and its yours" commercials. First of all, these "customers"(in quotes because they could be actors)either have stupidly written lines, or they are stupid. What is sadder, is that they are probably actually reaching people with their stupidity. "Oh I like this apple but its 2,000 dollars?!". Guess what? As saying still goes, "You get what you pay for." I am writing on a 6 year old Powerbook G4 that has never given me any problems. And it still looks like the second to last generation of Mac Book Pros. Yeah it cost 2k when it was new, but how many trash compaq, or hp's would I have gone through by now? By the way this only goes for laptops. I am fairly certain I could build my own stellar "Mac Pro" out of Fry's electronics parts and still be thousands under the price for a real Mac Pro. In laptops they just have to be really well made, because everything is all one piece and put together so closely. Its a miracle they don't all melt together or catch on fire sometimes.....oh whats that you say? They do catch on fire, and explode sometimes? Never mind.
I think the argument from "Office Space" says it best. "You only have to wear 7 pieces of flare, but if you want to wear more, we are all for it. There are people who do the bare minimum, and then there are people who want to excel, and go a little further. Do you want to be one of those people?"

I also love how they all talk about how Mac is all about asthetics, and then choose a PC based on the way it looks :) But hey if someone gave me 1500$ to act like an idiot and get a free computer, I would do it too.

The Enertia Electric Bike

This is a good example of "responsible" hipsterness. I am of course answering back at that 1903 Harley Replica road bicycle with the 2 stroke engine I talked about last week.
http://www.enertiabike.com/
The specs for this electric motorbike are better than the 1903, that does come at a higher cost however. Who can put a cost on our environment though? Ok don't answer that.
Price: 12k USD
Top speed only 50mph
Range is 45 miles @ 25mph
0-30mph in 3.8 seconds!
Lithium Phosphate batteries power it. And as always, range, and speed will increase as battery technology gets better.
Its got about the same specs as my 1982 Honda Passport, but mine uses dirty dirty gasoline. I got mine for a 6 pack of wine though, not 12k. I have to say that THIS is a step in the right direction. YAY technology. BOOO big oil!

My Cheapness SCREAMS out with GLEE!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/17/detroit.artists.homes/index.htmlAt this point in my life I would really love a home, and a garage for all my stuff, and I wish places like this existed in my city.
This house, although not in its current form, was bought for a measly 100$. Its in Detroit, yes, probably not the best of neighborhoods, but when would you ever get to nab something so cheap again? This almost seems like a Samuel Mockbee(rural studio) project, in the city at least. The way they are making a community out of this area again is really uplifting.
The only problem I see with places, and communities like this one (E.g. New Oreleans after Katrina) is keeping the bad element out. People get scared and leave their homes, and then the bad element wins. Gangs, crime in general should not exist. As long as we band together as a society to make sure the bad element can't get a stronghold on our cities, we can win. One city at a time, lets convert these criminals to community leaders. "F#CK THA CRIMINALS coming straight from the underground." As soon as crime is more dangerous than the spoils they reap from committing it, it will cease to exist.

Ahhh the art of Tipping

And I don't mean cow tipping, well unless your wait staff is unusually heavy set it wouldn't be considered cow tipping. I am talking about tipping your waiter/waitress, movers, carhop, car washer, etc. I was in a discussion with a friend on how much to tip a mover. First of all, I guess it depends on if these people get a fair wage. But then again, why should you have to make up the difference if they don't get a fair wage? You didn't choose their career, its a free country right? A good example is being a waiter at your local restaurant. They give you 2.55 or some crap per hour. Then on top of that you get tips? Add that all up what do you get per hour per night of work? Maybe 10$ per hour with tips? I don't know. But now compare that to a Barista at your local Starbucks. They get at least 8.00/hr, and they also get tips, albeit not as large as a restaurant but they still get them. They also offer health care, pretty good health care, for anyone working more than 20 hours per week. I guess my point is that if you are complaining that people don't tip enough you are at the wrong job. Its like working for commission and griping that you aren't selling enough. Its your fault. There will always be a steady inflow of teenage kids in High School to work all these crappy jobs, so move on and find something worth while.

And by the way waiters and waitresses, I am not going to give you more than 20% tip. I remember when 15% tip was good enough, now people have made it 20%. Its the same job you have always been doing, you can't say "inflation" because I am giving you a flat percentage that goes up with inflation. 20% is my best and final offer!

Where are the wiper blade refills?!!?

Ok unless you are a DIY'er like me, you may never have to deal with this. But I have been getting wiper blade refills for my car since I have been driving. Now I go down to WAL-MART and see they are only selling the entire blade now. To clarify for the laymen, instead of just selling the little rubber strip, you now have to buy the entire rubber part with blade backbone that all fits on your wiper arm. Next thing you know they are going to make you buy the whole damn thing all the way down to the nut that holds it onto your car. F THAT. These blade cartridgres cost 5$ and up as well. Before you could get 2 refills in a pack for less than 5$. And if you had a car with 2 different sizes you could get a pack of each and have 2 refills. This is just another in the line of consumer numbing business practices designed to waste our money. There will be more to come I bet.

This girl fell asleep while getting a tatoo?!?!

How does anyone fall asleep while getting a tatoo, she must have been snookered or something.
And now she is suing because she only wanted 3 stars instead of 56! Someone's an idiot. This story brightened my day!



http://current.com/items/90211760_starstruck-teen.htm

Movie leaves house a horror ( Kinda feel sorry for this lady but...)

If you watch the video she is an "out of work architect", just like me. And as an architect, if I was out of work and had nothing to do, the first thing I would do would be fix up my house. I would kill for a nice house like that. You can rest assured it wouldn't look unfinished for long. I don't care if I had to fix all the holes with soda cans, it would be livable and cheap! Haha. I bet she could fix her house herself, and send that movie place a bill for labor+parts. That would definitely stick in court. She definitely should get that 13k they promised her, because that is a contract and you can't break those. Another classic case of "If it sounds too good to be true...."

This Kid doesn't look like a Serial Killer (but niether did Ted Bundy)

Several studies have shown that serial killers usually started with animals to be cruel to when they were growing up, then later progressed to humans. Which studies you say? I am lazy look them up yourself. Jeffrey Dahmer was a good example. I believe he even said so in an interview. So what do you think of this kid who is facing 158 years in prison if he is convicted. First off he looks like he is 15 and not 18. He also doesn't look like an delayed kid either, like the woman who was just arrested for killing her friend and cutting her baby out of her stomach. I just don't get why people turn to torture and killing animals. They say its the way they are "wired" when they are children in the developmental stages of their life. So what do you think about this Cat Serial Killer?


Discuss amongst yourselves, I gave you a topic.

There are no words to describe this clip

I actually got this forwarded to me from an email. It almost looks like a SNL skit, but its all painfully real. It is some leader being questioned about their watching and auditing of the bailout money. JUST WATCH:

Why this 1903 Harley Davidson wannabe is stupid

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2009/06/a-2009-take-on-1903.html

First Check this article in the LA Times out.
This is why this bike is stupid:
1) a fuel capacity measured in ounces.
2) a TWO stroke engine, in LA no less. Wow the EPA is going to love that one. Scooters are bad enough pollution wise.(I didn't believe it at first, but scooters and motorcycles pollute more per mile than most cars/trucks)
3) you can't fill the thing up without using a funnel
4) you have to fill with oil because of the two stroke
5) its basically a moped because you have to peddle and pop the clutch to start it.

I have to say that I like the look of the thing, but I would go with an actual tank for the gas, or weld off more of the frame to allow more fuel storage. Give it a headlight, 4-stroke engine, and it would probably blow that 125mpg rating out of the water. My 1982 Honda Passport gets that with 25 years less technology. You can't say that all this would ruin the purity of the cycle because it doesn't look enough like the original Serial #1 anyway.

So here is a big win for the hipster who wants a really unpractical way to say "I don't care about the environment." in LA or anywhere else for that matter.

Last day of the Analog TV Transmissions

Watch that old portable color TV while you still can. Tomorrow most of the stations it can get won't be using analog anymore. Goodbye to watching my judge shows on a 3.5" TV screen while I surf the internet.

Grandma Gets Tasered! from CNN.com

I love the way CNN puts grandma on their title, instead of 72 year old lady. As soon as you see Grandma, you think, "oh man thats cruel." I have to say when I saw the original video of just the grandma talking about what happened, I was hoping the cops would prove her wrong. She looked kind of bitchy to me. Here is the original video before the dash cam footage came out:


And here is the cops side with the dash cam footage:


Yeah she doesn't seem too compliant to me. She sounds non-compliant. He repeatedly tries to get her back on to the shoulder so she doesn't get hit by a car. In the first video she says something about protecting her rights, I don't know if that means lawsuit, but after you see the dashcam video I hope you see he was justified. You also see that everything that she said she didn't do in the first video, she actually did in the dashcam video. Bottom line, you don't try to get away from cops, you don't cuss at cops, signing the bottom of the ticket is not an admission of guilt. It just says you read it. Wasn't it hilarious how polite "yes sir" she was after she got tased. I think she might have been a little buzzed when she got pulled over if you know what I am saying.

#1 Ms California Dethroned #2 Security Guard killed at Holocaust Museum

What the F is wrong with this? How can some stupid dethronement of a california nobody be more impornant than someone dying defending a museum full of at least 1000 people? I don't know how CNN comes up with their rating system that puts stories in the top 10 standings, but why wouldn't someone's death be more important than MISS USA politics. Whatever, I am sure its the people emailing these stories back and forth that influences the ratings. Shame on people!

Here is the current list as of 3:47 central time:

1. Miss California USA dethroned
2. 2 Police: 2 shot at Holocaust Museum
3. 3 Search on for missing chopper
4. 4 3rd-grader vanished after bus ride
5. 5 Search for mattress containing $1M
6. 6 Commentary: Iran gender gap
7. 7 Online reporting aids WWII legacy
8. 8 Crash bodies heading to DNA lab
9. 9 Equator breeds dangerous storms
10. 10 Dealing with tech fatigue

Leno vs. Conan vs. Letterman

So which is it? Which is the one you prefer. I am a Conaniac myself. I have been watching him since the days of Andy Richter. Leno just always seems a little more family oriented, maybe because of his time slot. And Letterman, well I really haven't even watched one of his shows all the way through. I don't know how to describe his show. I guess second rate would be a good place to start. I do admire Jay and David both for being into motor sports in some way. Jay has his massive garage with many many cars to work on. Letterman, if I am not mistaken, still co-owns a IRL IndyCar team. And this year he is backing a BMW GT2 class machine as well. All this just doesn't really translate to his show though. I remember when Paul Schaffer was doing piano during the old SNLs. And he now does piano on Letterman's show, which I guess he has done since it started. To be fair I should really watch an entire episode all the way through before I judge, but I don't think I am going to make it. When Leno comes back in the fall, I will probably watch his show again, because it comes on before Conan. Haha, its like a comedy warm up for Conan!

Been gone a little while

I was away for a family emergency of sorts. And as I drove back and forth to east texas, I wondered. Why do we not have those cars that can go 120mph while being within a car length of eachother? Why are all the trucks I see getting boxier instead of more aerodynamic? I understand trucks always are going to suck coefficient of drag wise, but the fronts of these things are almost boxier than they were in the mid eighties. Check out hte new f-150 and Dodge Rams, you will see where I am going. But back to the 120mph cars. You could draft each car in front of you, and the computers would do most of the driving for you. Lemme find a youtube link:


Wow I don't think this was the same thing, but it might be the same project. This was over 12 years AGO?!? Wow we have come so far. Oh wait we don't have anything like this on the road. All we have is other different ways to make us lazy drivers. Like the Volvo city stopper or whatever its called, that stops for you because you are an idiot that can't do things on your own. Either be fully automated or fully manual, thats what I say. But just imagine setting the course for home and going to sleep and then waking up at home. Like a bus, but your own car. And imagine if this ran or electricity or biofuels? Awesome. But too bad someone has probably bought this technology out since I haven't seen or heard anything about it.

Son of american man REMAINS in Brazil after 11th try

I have been following this story loosely since before the mother of this child died in Brazil during child birth. Here is the short: This man and woman were married, she is Brazilian, she goes to Brazil with the child on a "2 week vacation". While she is down there, she divorces the american man and marries a Brazilian lawyer. According to Brazilian courts they don't know how this could have happened seeing as the husband was not in Brazil to sign the papers. So this was in 2004 I believe. The whole time the Dad is trying to get his son back, because what this woman did was dishonest. Then THANK GOD, this woman died in childbirth, trying to have the lawyer's devil spawn. This was 2008, but the Brazilian "relatives" if you could call them that, refuse to give up custody of the boy still. They now say that the boy is damaged, and letting him go home after all this time would not be good for him! HA. If this is the way the legal system works in Brazil, I never want to go there. Someone would accuse me of something with no proof and I would be in prison for the rest of my life.
Check out the newest of the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/03/new.jersey.brazil.custody/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

I hope the mom is burning right now, and I hope the lawyer joins her soon.

I SOLD MY HEADSHOTS....NOT

I had a 130 people look at my headshots on ebay, but I didn't get any bids. I thought it was priced reasonably, but I guess it was too much for some. Pfft, 20$, no one could spare a 20 spot for my career, and well being? Thanks. I appreciate all of you who posted it to your facebooks and myspaces, but alas it wasn't enough. Oh well I am going to look for more stuff to sell, a broken DVD player, some other trinkets.

Teaching: The next generation

Well I have made up my mind and decided to become a teacher. I was looking for a career change, and I think this will be good for me. Nearly everyone in my family has been a teacher at one time or another. Some of them have been teachers for 20+ years. I have no experience teaching, but hopefully my Bachelor's of Science will be good enough to get my foot in the door at least. I will be teaching Science or Math, or if I could find it somewhere, Drafting. We are trying to get down in the Austin area, but if I can't get a job there I can always get a DFW job for the time being, and hone my teaching skills. I would make the same amount as I would a draftsman, and it will be rewarding to see your students learn new skill sets and retain knowledge. I always wonder in the back of my mind, what I would ever do if a student broke into the school and started shooting up the place. It seems as if that kind of thing is getting more and more common. I hope that we can teach our kids that there is another answer besides a massive murder suicide, when you get picked on at school. I got picked on at school, heck I probably even did some picking myself. But I hope there will be more teachers out there like me, that won't just turn a blind eye, and nip this kind of crap bully behavior in the bud. No one deserves to be bullied.

Outta town for tha weekend

You probably didn't notice that I was gone for a couple of days. Well I was. Which inspired me to write a series of "You might have been from ______ if..."

You might have been from Rosalie, TX if....
You have ever eaten at the Rosalie Store... yes I said store.
You have ever gone to a family reunion or other get together at the Rosalie Community Center.
You have even gone to "Buck's Midnight Jubilee" after the Bogata Rodeo on Saturday night.
You know where Billy's house used to be.
You know about both bad accidents that happened on that curve on 909 going towards Clarksville, involving 2 sisters at different times.
You have eaten at Jim's Country Corner.
You have seen the bright yellow victorian style house on the right going towards Bogata.

You might have gone to Rivercrest H.S. if....
You remember when they closed school because someone put a dead polecat in the a/c system.
You were ever transported from Talco or Bogata to go to school in Johntown.
You remember a coach named E. Wake Wood, and remember him saying "Now you are cooking with crisco!"
You remember a coach named Foos, that actually taught Foosball, or football as some would call it.
You remember a certain english teacher who could not say the word "Subject" and actually pronounce that T.
You remember when the Talco group and Bogata groups would not really sit together in the lunch room.
You remember when a girl was on the football team.

You might have gone to Mt. Vernon H.S. if.....
You ever had to drive to Sulphur Springs to "cruise the strip".
You ever hung out at the OLD Brookshires parking lot.
You remember when there wasn't a Burger King.
You heard the rumor about Winsborro taking the Tiger and sinking it in Lake Winsborro.
You know who the Jordans are and where they live now.
You know who the Ramsays are and where they live.
You have heard of places like "Walleye Park" and have frequented them in the summer.
You know someone who has a lake house.
You have ever worked at or bought something at Tom Scott's.
You know over 4 ways to get to Mt. Pleasant other than I-30.
You know why Dandy Don is important to Mt. Vernon.

Thats all I got, maybe I should pick places I know more about?