For All The Parents -

I thought you all might get a kick out of these.  You might also want to try out one or two of them -

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/people-who-are-really-nailing-this-parenting-thing

JAMES AND FRIEND AT BIRTHDAY GALA

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY, JIMBO.

HAPPY 45th BIRTHDAY, TERRENCE

The Boston Tragedy: An Open Letter to All of Us

Feel free to send to anyone.

Feel free to write the idea in your own words and send it to everyone you know.

http://www.mo-kenyan.com/2013/04/the-tragedy-in-boston-open-letter-to.html

SOMETIMES THEY JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK!!!


So, my continued frustrations with my financial situation has me contemplating several options, none of which seem to be as nice as "winning the Lotto", but since the Lotto Gods continue to either ignore, and/or laugh at me, I press on.  Today I renewed my query into the idea of either being a mystery shopper, or getting paid to take surveys. Seeing as my kids and their issues tend to keep me bound to my house, I opted for the survey thing.  I consult Consumer Reports and they reveal a few of the more reputable options.  One they choose, seems to be like a head hunter thing.  You pay them a flat fee, and they hook you up with companies that legitimately pay you for taking surveys.  I read the whole page, and when I find the fee is $35, I almost close it down right there.  However, I see that the surveys pay $10 each, and liken this fee to any other fee, book, haircut, interview lessons, one would invest in to acquire a job.  I want to be safe, so I decide to pay by Pay Pal. 
     Now, I do not have a Pay Pal account, but it didn't matter, because Katie's account came right up.  No problem, right?  After running the gamut of all my wife's known passwords, and striking out, I decide to create my own account; getting real bold here, ain't I?  So I fill out all the pertinent information, nosy minds want to know, and get to the part where you enter your credit card.  Although my hands are shaking, I cringe and enter in my Visa number, and code, take a deep breath, and hit ENTER.  It immediately rebuffs me, saying, "I cannot use the same credit card as used by another existing member.  I assume Katie is using this card, so I change to our ONE other card.  I hit ENTER they say I have entered the wrong CSC code.  I double check and enter the correct one.  I hit ENTER again, and am again rebuffed with the same explanation as I once had before, about another user having this card.  I back out all of my information and slam down my laptop's lid.  I'M DONE!!!  Someone up there just doesn't want me to work.   I wish he'd tell me what he DOES want me to do:)  I just want to be rich and famous...I'm already good looking:)

Timothy Doner 17 Years old

Teenager who taught himself 23 languages - including Swahili, Pashto and the African dialect of Wolof - mastering each one in just a few WEEKS

THE FULL LIST OF 23 LANGUAGES

English                               French
Hausa                                Wolof
Russian                             German
Yiddish                               Hebrew
Arabic                                Pashto
Farsi                                  Mandarin
Italian                                Turkish
Indonesian                         Dutch
isiXhosa                                   Swahili
Hindi                                          Ojibwe
Persian                              Croatian                 Spanish

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306647/Timothy-Doner-The-incredible-teenager-taught-23-languages-including-Swahili-Pashto-Wolof-plans-stopping.html#ixzz2Q3mnVDxh

WEIGHT-BASED AIRLINES

A Samoa airline is offering a new reason to drop extra weight before your next trip: Tickets sold not by the seat, but by kilogram.

That means the average American man weighing 195 pounds with a 35 pound bag would pay $97 to go one-way between Apia, Samoa, and Pago Pago, American Samoa. Competitors typically charge $130 to $140 round trip for similar routes.

Cyclists are like Goalies - When they do 'bad' they feel 'shame'

Ok, I know that cycling is an obscure sport. Which is why I need to be the one to point this out.

On the podium in the Tour of Flanders, Peter Sagan (young, brash but also very talented rising cycling star) pinched the bum of one of the podium girls. Ahhhh stupid youth...

Sagan caught in the act

So I'm not going to get into a debate regarding whether this was to be expected from a 23 year guy (who probably had a couple drinks post race) presented with hot, scantily clad podium girls after spending the last several days crushed together in a peloton of gaunt, sweaty guys.

One of the more talented (and wiser) gaunt, sweaty guys - Andy Schleck

Yeahhhhh.... it's not appropriate behavior for an athlete, but I don't know that I had much better than a crude sophomoric behavior at 23 either.

Anyway - his (somewhat creepy) apology video is pretty hysterical if you compare it to the opening scene of the hockey movie Slap Shot - where the goalie talks about being put in the penalty box and feeling 'shame'.

Here is Sagan's apology:

And the scene from Slap Shot:

Although I'm not sure why a Slovak accent sounds so close to a thick French-Canadian accent. But at least they both feel 'shame' for doing bad.