Almost forgot you.
Actually, I was quite busy and just didn’t get around to it. Either way, Happy Birthday, big fella!
Archive for October, 2006
Rules for teenagers
Oct
16
2006
My wife forwarded an email to me the other day of a list of rules that Bill Gates supposedly shared in a speech to a group of high school students. How true that is, I don’t know, but the rules in the email were pretty good. I’d seen them before in another form, but thought they might be worthy of a post here.
- 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.
In the news today
Oct
13
2006
Not much to talk about lately. But today was a particularly interesting day for quirky news stories.
- Canadian Troops have to battle 10-foot marijuana plants. They tried to burn them down, but downwind soldiers suffered “ill effects”!
- A youth baseball coach who allegedly paid an 8 year old to bean his autistic teammate with a baseball has gotten up to 6 years in prison. This was so the autistic child would not be able to play in an important game. What a shagged up world, eh?
- In Florida, a father is being charged with aggravated child abuse in the “torture, malicious punishment and unlawful caging” of his own son. The child spent most of the last three years locked in his bedroom with video cameras locked on him. He was allowed to use the washroom once per day. The child’s mother said “We’re very protective.” (shakes head in disbelief)
- In Alberta, a man just won a lawsuit against the RCMP to keep $18,000 in cash he found in his mailbox. The money was dropped in the wrong mailbox, so the man turned it in to the police. When the people in the household of the right address refused to acknowledge the money was theirs (hmmm…fishy), the RCMP were unable to press charges but refused to return the money to the original finder. Makes you wanna be super honest, eh?
- Buffalo, New York got hit with 2 feet of snow yesterday!!! This set a new record for October snowfall… the old record was 6 inches on Oct 31, 1917! They can have it. So far, we’re still sleeping with the windows open.
Well, that’s it for the quirky quickies. Some weird shit happening these days.
I can’t drive 55!
Oct
07
2006
Wow! Fifty-five years! That’s quite a long time!
Happy Anniversary, Harry and Mary, my dear parents-in-law.
Happy Anniversary Jim & Lois
Oct
05
2006
I don’t have a photo (or at least I can’t find one right now), but today marks the umpteenth anniversary for Jim and Lois. I don’t know how many years it is, but if you ask, I’m sure Lois will say it feels like more years than it’s been!
Take it easy folks. Enjoy your day!
