Over the years I’ve helped several students out here and there. I really don’t mind though. I’ve tutored for free, loaned them a book, gave them a discount on the classes, and I feel went above and beyond what they paid us for. Again, that is part of doing business. But sometimes you feel as if you’re being taking advantage of.

Am I really their personal secretary? They don’t want to look something up so they call and ask us to do it. Then are bold enough to say, can you scan that out of the book and then fax it to me? Huh? You asked me to take 15 minutes out of my day to look something up for them, I did. Then spent another 15 minutes explaining it to them. Now they want me to ‘scan’ the page out of the book, print it out, and then go fax it to them. That is another 15 – 30 minutes. So 1 hour today I’ve spent working for them… all I hope is that they come to our classes for Continuing Education.

Why? Because I’m a nice guy and showed them a little friendship.

The sad thing is that if I would asked them for something that would take an hour of their time I’m sure they’d send me a bill for their time.

I’d asked an A/C person, who had been one asking me for 100 things, to go do a service call on my A/C. He did and charged me more than the average price of an A/C guy for a service call. He did a 1/2 ass job as well. So that was the last time I used him … that is more the norm than not for me.

Maybe I should just be a total asshole from now on?

With the site being down yesterday I was unable to post again. This is starting to happen once per week or so, unacceptable. I’m hoping it will clean itself up, if not I’ll be looking for a new host in the next few weeks.

I made me a Spezi… what’s that you ask? Here is the recipe.

Spezi (German Orange Cola)

Ingredients:

• 2 (12 ounce) cans orange soda (Fanta)
• 2 (12 ounce) cans cola (Coca-Cola)
• 1 lemon, quartered (or cut into 6 wedges)

Directions:

In each glass, mix equal parts orange soda and cola. Squeeze the juice of one lemon wedge into each glass. Serve.

You can also use Diet Cola and Diet Orange…

This posting is actually yesterdays… yes my host was down once again. If it happen twice more with the next month I will be looking for a new host.

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Once you have a domain name then you can build a website, find a host, register it will all the main search engines.  It’s actually not as hard as that sounds. Good Luck!

Ground Hog Day has to be one of the most under-rated holidays of the year. We I say to someone, Happy Ground Hog Day… they look at me and simply go, “Oh Yea”. I can’t even tell you how many times that happened.

My nieces birthday is today. How lucky to be born on a Holiday such as Ground Hog. But nobody seems to celebrate the day at all. I understand this year, 2014, it just happens to be on SuperBowl Sunday, so that is stealing most of it’s thunder. But even when it’s not there isn’t much going on. When have you ever been given a “Happy Ground Hog Day” card. Have you ever seen Ground Hog stuffed animals on sale? We need to come together and unite and make this a better holiday! lol

I’m all for it, email me with any ideas.

I’m turning 50 later on in the month and everyone around me say’s I’ve been acting real strange. I wonder if sub-consciously it’s bother me that I’m turning 50 years old. I have thought about it a few times thinking that 2/3 of my life is over, assuming the average age of an american male is 75 or so.

I guess at some point we all realize that we have fewer days ahead of us than behind us. When I was in my late teens and early 20’s I was Invisible … now I’m just a mortal man. My hair has turned white, my bones and muscles ache more and more, and I eat things because they are good for me, not because I like them.

We’ll I’ve got a 1 1/2 year old daughter so I’ll still be kickin’ for awhile longer. I want to see all my kids up and married and doing well for themselves. lol But isn’t that all parents hopes!

You not only do “You get fucked when you go through the drive thru”. But you get fucked by Subway when you go inside. I sent my son in for our dinner. Subway, eat fresh right? Sure as they “Fuck You at the Counter”!

Subs are $5.00 this month, so I had a coupon from a magazine for “Buy One 6″ sub, with the purchase of a medium soda, and get another 6″ sub free. Cool, I’ll spend $2.50 for a 6″, another $1.75 for a soda but I’ll get the other 6″ free… well sort of. You get 6″ up the ass first. The 6″ sub was $4.25, the medium drink $1.75 and then I got the other 6” for free. Now I’m not a McFuckin’ Genius but I only save $1.00, or actually spent $1.00 more than I should have (I really didn’t want a soda).

Well “Subway Eat Fresh”, you and Jared can kiss my ass! I think I won’t be giving you any more of my $1.00’s. If I’m going to get fucked and least I want it to be a HOT CHICK!

I really don’t mind paying for my food and being fair about it… but sometimes you have to make a stand. I hope my friends and family pass this along as well.

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How many other people watch scary movies and then freak yourself out. We watched “The Conjuring” which all-in-all was a OK movie. Predictable yes, but really OK. Well a couple of my family members freaked themselves out. It like… did you hear that, or did you just see that, or what was that? LOL

Its been a while since I watch a movie that did that to me. Actually I liked it when it happened. I think I know they’re all done at a movie theater with actors and that just takes the possibility of be scary away.

What about everyone else? Do you ever freak and scare yourselves. The best thing to do is go camping in the middle of the woods and then watch a couple horror flicks. I can download a couple to the iPad or something. Maybe that is one of my date-nights with the wife. lol

I’ve been watching the crazy weather in Atlanta. I thought it was funny at first but when I watched where kids had to stay at school all night and people had to stay at their jobs because they were unable to get home I stopped thinking it was funny.

Other cities in the USA are prepared for snow, Atlanta is not. They have no snow removal equipment. The snow really grid-locked the entire city. After watching TV and reading some of the newspapers I feel sorry for them now.

I bet next year or the rest of this year they’ll be way more prepared. Just having an emergency plan set up would have saved a lot of chaos.

Thank goodness here in Florida we don’t have to deal with snow, just hurricanes and storms.  It’s getting a little chili so I hope I didn’t jinx myself! LOL

I teach for a living, not everyday, but when I’m not teaching I’m working with students, and developing courses. The issue is unless you teach it look easy. Hey I just stand up in front of a group and talk all day, and they pay me for that. Sounds easy doesn’t it?

When I finish a day of teaching I’m usually exhausted. When I come home everyone things I’m in a bad mood because I’m not saying anything. Truth is I’m just all talked out and I’m extremely tired. I guess almost being 50 doesn’t help. lol

When you teach everyday I think you body adjust to it. It’s when it’s only 1 day a week or so that your body doesn’t get used to. I think mental exhaustion is almost worse than physical exhaustion.

If you know a teacher out there try and understand it a tough job or at least it is to me sometimes. But, don’t get me wrong… standing in an Air Conditioned room talking all day is much better that working out on a roof all day. I tired not stupid.