They’d gamble $50,000 a day each at the horse races, renting a helicopter to get a better view. At one point there was a waiting list for BMWs in Florida. See, that’s my bicycle near their doorstep. If crime doesn’t pay, how come he’s living in a mansion?
What do you say on Halloween? Happy Halloween? I spent the morning rearranging my Internet café. Everything is along the west wall and it gives the room far more space. It was one of those days when everybody was in the store, so the volume of information exchange is immeasurable. Rose called, the Fleetwood Mac fan. I had to tell her she missed the boat not showing up last Friday. She wanted all kinds of info on her “replacement”. It didn’t make her happy to learn the new gal played guitar and was younger. Hey, you want to be an entertainer, take the lumps. She was gushing all over to try again this weekend. She is welcome to come in for a look.
For most of the day I was looking for work. There are some tech type positions in Ft. Lauderdale. One need only review all the job listings at myflorida.com to realize how badly the core has been torn out of the American economy. It is the worker’s own fault watching the nation invent technologies the average man could not understand. That was still no excuse to spend two generations watching cable TV and they bitching that your job went overseas. Face it, the products that succeed in America are those which don’t require skilled labor to build, sell or operate.
There is a real place that pays for database entry, which is the type of business I would set up on the Internet if I could stand having employees day in and out. The pay is not bad for what you actually do. Remember, I don’t want a full time job, but something to fill in the quiet times during the weekdays. I may give it a try if only because such jobs always lead you to other places where the pay is better.
Ron Paul is in the news again, as I knew he would be once he realized you need a hundred million to become president these days. I hope he gets in and he just might. The only stand he takes which I disapprove of is the Second Amendment To me, people should have the right to bear arms but only, repeat only, if and while they are in a “well-regulated militia”. The average gun owner is a little unclear on the "well-regulate" part.
Don’t get into teaching unless you have incredible patience. That’s in general I mean, but I have a specific type of student that makes the advice double meaningful. These are the people who are so terrible at following examples. I had one guy today who was so pitiful at it he could probably have gotten along with my brothers. He was horrified when I showed him how the systems he blindly trusted were not working. Like his anti-virus, which was running beautifully each week, but had not been updated since August 2006.
Lessons with these kind of students would drive most of us crazy, but it is fun to watch. You see, these people know they are stuck and realize they have to staunch their acquired defense mechanism of criticizing every analogy or comparison, at least long enough to get their money’s worth for the lesson. This can’t be easy. Covering up lack of education requires brains.
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