Soap Box 8

Well, the week is half over just as the year is over halfway done and I am still alive, just kidding. Today was a hot one, mid 90's and tons of humidity. After the short week last week, this week seems to take forever to end.

#1 - Who knows, maybe I will just setup an automatic text insertion here to save me time. He did cut the grass this week so I must cut him some slack.

#2 - He is gone most of the time so we aren't sure what his plans are but no sign of a paycheck.

Princess - well she can finally get her panties unwadded as her car is finally fixed and ready to be picked up. Now we just have to coordinate our schedules to get over there and get it once it is paid for. The last big problem to be fixed was resetting the security code in the radio which just happened to disable the whole instrumentation cluster. And no one had saved the original number with the owner’s manual. Thanks VW! Does everyone with a 16 year old daughter go through this? Is there a pill or some magical potion to help parents survive?

Jessi - No call yesterday so we can officially say we miss hearing from her about the wedding plans. We know that she and the Maid of Honor are going dress shopping. Gee, the stores really love her.

Lou spent Monday night with us and guess what? The first thing he wanted to do was ... Bowling.

Wild Mom is slowly settling down though she too is planning on bowling in a Church league. That should prove interesting and a lot of fun for her.

Bro #1 - The day he had all the health problems (blood clot in the eye, 2 small strokes and who knows what else) managed to have three minor car accidents. What we know right now is ... he has no brain clot, no kidney problems, he is diabetic and the numbers are extremely high, he can't work for 6 weeks, he is taking a lot of medicines and is having some bad days.

Bro #2 - His son is getting married in February 2007 and the new couple is moving into their house until they can afford to be on their own. So Wild Mom will become a Great Grandmother ... will it slow her down ... not likely!

Keith - He is preparing to move to Utah this week. Keith and his wife are moving to be nearer her mom ... like right next door. He can't find a job in the local area even though there is a construction frenzy. Gee, I have heard that a lot here about the lack of jobs even though the unemployment rate is 2% and the papers report how owners are begging for employees. As he say's he can always work at MacDonald's in Utah. Surely one of the MacDonald's is hiring where he is at now. I honestly think this is a major league mistake but he has to learn the hard way if he chooses. Good luck.

So they want to ban credit cards use for on-line gambling websites. I believe they think this will stop the gambling and the possible addiction of many people. Then why in the blazes don't they do the same thing for Internet Pornography sites? If you want to stop or control one bad problem then do it for the others. Start with Gambling then do Pornography and then do Spam/Con Jobs. Is gambling a bigger problem than Pornography? Not from where I sit. I don't like either so take them both out and stop the perversion, sex abuse, and domination of the users of this medium.

Today is the first mountain leg of the Tour De France ... I can't wait to see the replay tonight.