Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater then any obstacle…

I mean MicroSoft-ville, of course. I hate it when he’s gone, but these trips are the worst cause the kids are gone too. At least I can track his flights. This little jobber from FlyteComm shows everything from time, temp and weather to estimate time left in the air and altitude. Too cool.

I can only hope that the plane isn’t drawn to scale. And it looks like it’s about to fly into a big booger. I think this little plane tracker doohickey is a little more aesthetically pleasing, though not quite as detailed. At least not when it comes to radar weather boogers on the map. It’s the one that comes as part of the Mac dashboard. What’s funny is that while I don’t know who wrote the app (only because I’m too lazy to go look), it’s data is powered by FlyteComm.

So Will went with me to do the kid exchange one state over, to keep me from driving off a cliff, and so we had a lot of time to talk. Well, we get to chatting about the songs on the radio. I’m driving, so of course we’re listening to Sirius 8, the Big ’80’s (or “Oldies Music” to the kids). We get to talking about Bill Idol and “Cradle of Love” came up. So, as a girlie, I say “I bet as a teen you were loving the video for ‘Cradle of Love’”. He says “I’ve never seen it”. Well of course I don’t believe this, because I know he wasn’t raised under a rock, or on the moon. And I’m older than he is, so they had MTV back in the day when he was a kid. And back then it really was Music TeleVision. They played music videos and everything. So I describe the video and he still swears he’s never seen it.

Of course, that’s practically a challenge to me. Finding an old music video, with nothing but Google and YouTube as my tools, can it be done? Well, it was easy. You can catch the video out over at DailyMotion as well as a few other places. This video was hot enough to apparently make a great many teenage boys in the early 90’s stand up and take notice. So now he’s seen it, and he said he could definitely see what all the fuss was about. Still swears he’s never seen it before though. Whatever.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of it’s accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.”

The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path , but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have
been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

So, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

Just because you can trick someone out of some serious amounts of hard earned cash, should you? What kind of person does this?

What a winner. Here’s another fabulous eBay scammer, just like Kelli Filkins, going as Awesome Electronics . Looks like they’ve been shut down, but you can bet this kind of lowlife will pop up somewhere else, auctioning off photos of stuff. Loser.

Too cute!

Be sure to ask him to “kiss”

I Do Dog Tricks

What is she writing?

Photoshop can be so dangerous in the wrong hands.