SOOOOO busy lately. I’ll survive and as Tim says on Project Runway, “Make it work!” Sucks that I got a flat tire today. Thanks to Brad T. for coming out and helping me change it. I’ve got to find a moment tomorrow to get that fixed. *sigh*
I need a drink, a long bubble bath and a massage!
*sigh*
“Carry on…”
*sigh*
(Yeah, AGAIN!)
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
If you agree, pass it on.
If you can read this – Thank a teacher!
That is all. All the reasons don’t seem quite clear yet but I can’t seem to let out a cleansing sigh right now. I hate drama….
Please remember as you read this that nothing’s official yet.
I got the inspection done on the house today. For the most part, the house is okay. Their job is to look for anything and everything that is wrong and let me know. This can be quite overwhelming when you hear it verbally and I’ll get the official written report tomorrow.
Seems as though the foundation was originally layed slanted. One side of the house is about an inch higher than the other but there aren’t too, too many cracks in the walls. There is settling as in all buildings, don’t get me wrong. I know this. It’s just that it really doesn’t seem right now. Not sure what I’m going to do…gotta wait until the official report comes in. I did get the inspection and seller’s disclosure from the last sale of the house so I’ll take a look at that as well.
So, I went from that back to work and into a crappy rehearsal. HATE, HATE, HATE!!! I should know more tomorrow. Just needed to start the venting process.
I love my car. It’s not in the best visual shape always (I never seem to have time to get it washed and cleaned properly) but I live out that car and it takes me where ever I need to go. I mentioned in my TMEA wrap-up that I had the brakes fixed on my way to San Antonio. I didn’t mention that on my way home, I was hearing some strange noises from the front end. I know that when you get new brake pads, there is an adjustment period while the new pads marry to any grooves that my be on the rotors so before I called my mechanic, I thought I’d give it about a day or so do those “natural” adjustments.
On Monday after the convention, I had parked my car on the “driveway”/loading ramp of the band hall. I went in to work, did some stuff and headed back out to run more errands. My car was parked in just a way that I saw what was making the noise:
Can you see that piece of The Honda hanging under the passenger side bumper? ARGH! That wasn’t there on the way to San Antonio…only on the way home. And I heard that noise from the moment I left the hotel…the 4 Star Wyndham St. Anthony Hotel where I paid $20/day to valet my car!
So, when I got back in my car, I called the hotel and spoke to the valet manager. He told me that because I’d left the hotel without making a claim, there’s nothing they can do. I’m stuck with the damage!! That’s just ridiculous. I called and talked to the hotel manager then the owner of the valet company. They’re going to take a look at the pictures I took (you can see them all by clicking on the picture above) and make a decision from there. The hotel manager was the most appologetic and said that he didn’t want this to keep me from staying at their hotel again. With my luck with valet parking, I think I’ve decided where ever I stay, no more paying for someone to screw with my car. Did you ever hear about the time the Marriott Riverwalk hotel lost the key to my car when I had them valet it? Enough with random people driving my car.
I’ll let you know how this turns out….
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