Conversation With A Six Year-old

[My daughter said she wasn't feeling well when it was time for her to go to Sunday School today. I checked in with her mid-way through class to see how she was feeling. This is approximately how the conversation went]

Me: "Feeling ok?"
K: "Yeah, lots better."
Me: "Good. We should hang out."
K: "...and, play 'tackle time'?"
Me: "Sure! Awesome."
K: (thinking hard)... "But... we should play at home, 'cause that wouldn't be very reverent to do at church."

Oh No

Oh, no.

 

I just deleted an email that was forwarded to everyone in West Virgina, everyone in the Mountain time zone, and all employees of Nabisco...

 

It's my undestanding that Bill Gates himself received this email on his top-secret GMAIL account and was so astonished at, that he promised to pay everyone who reads it $1.00 and also would pay $1.00 for everyone they forward it on to (since they have a new software they just launched that tracks such things).  Bernie Madoff got the email on his Verizon Wireless Web-enabled phone and immediately forwarded it to everyone in New York, claiming it was bea sure-fire moneymaker.

 

Also, the person who sent it to the person who sent it to the person who sent it to the person who sent it to the person who sent it to me knew of a person who knew of a person who knew of a person who knew of a person who got a mysterious check co-signed by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and for $9,346.98 three weeks and two days after he forwarded this very same email to everybody in his address book (which happens to be the same week he rescued the Mrs. Fields' cookie recipe from being stolen, and single-handedly supressed a violent vigilante uprising in Nigeria through helping their Minister of Foreign Aid to escape the country through a small wire-transfer of $17,346.22).

 

The problem is, the President of Argentina apparently got this very same email (it has been circulating for THAT LONG) and called it "junk", then his son died eight days later!! "Of course, this is a hoax," I thought, until I was stunned to learn that The son of former Argentina president Carlos Menem was, indeed, killed in a helicopter accident in 1995. WOW. I don't know anybody that was using email in 1995 except russian hackers, Al Gore, and Strongbad. Also, upon further research, I have learned that a lot of famous people's parents must have deleted this email too because a lot of them have died, too.

 

If you have anything you never told me, that you have to get off your chest, now is the time... because my days, it appears, are numbered.

Bread Lines Spotted in California

Fox News reports that bread lines have begun popping up in California.

Many say a depression doesn't have to be great, that the economy can sink into a milder depression. The Salvation Army says it's happening now, and in San Diego County, people are standing in line outside a Salvation Army waiting for donated bread.

Salvation Army director of communications Suzi Woodruff Lacey said they are seeing people from all walks of life: "white collar, blue collar, people who have lost their jobs, people who are in danger of losing their homes."

Bread lines were regularly seen in the 1930s during the Great Depression, when unemployment peaked at more than 25 percent and the stock market lost 90 percent of its value. Today, California's unemployment rate hit 8.4 percent.

BUYER BEWARE Baymont Inn, Salt Lake City Doubles Price, Attempts Fruadulent Charges

Consumerist reports a scary incident occurring at The Baymont Inn in Salt Lake City (2080 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT):

 

Snip: "The Baymont Inn in Salt Lake City quoted Ryan a price of $739 for his stay, but when he arrived, the hotel manager claimed the rate was $1,400. The manager refused to lower the price, even after a desk clerk verified that Ryan had been offered the $739 rate. The manager finally relented after telling Ryan that the hotel would recoup the loss by taking the difference out of the clerk's salary. Two days after Ryan checked out, he discovered that the manager had tried to charge over $2,000 to his credit card.

 

They quoted me $739 plus tax on four occasions by three employees before I arrived. When I went to check out they tried to charge me $1400 almost double what the told me the price would be. When I said that is unfair... the manager than began to demean me as not being smart enough to be worth his time because I was a lowly mechanical engineer not a computer science major.

 

The employee (Sloan) that originally quoted $739 was right there and told the manager that I was telling the truth.

 

The manager (Mohammed) then told me I was a lying and that he would not honor what his employees told me. During this time he was very hostile to me and tried to guilt me into paying the $1400 by telling me he was going to take it out of the employees (Sloan's) pay.

 

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I  just want to warn people not to stay at this hotel. I also will not be staying at any Baymont Inn / Windham Hotel owned property again. This is not how I wanted to spend the last morning of my ski trip."

How Are You Treating Mobile Users?

"91% of the planet keep the mobile phone within arm's reach 24/7. It is literally the last thing we look at before we go to sleep and again the first thing we see when we wake up." - Morgan Stanley Report