Life Would Be Better Lived Backwards

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An Old ManYou’d start out dead and get it out of the way. Then, wake up in an old peoples home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you’re generally promiscuous and you get ready to start school.

baby.jpgYou go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a baby, and then………. you spend the last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters every day, and then, you finish off as an orgasm.

I have to give credit where credit is due: http://www.bestoday.com.au/sick/archives/000894life_would_be_better_lived_backwards.php

What They Don’t Teach You In School!

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This is so true, it’s actually from the book “Dumbing Down our Kids” by Charles J. Sykes, 1995, and is directed at high school and college graduates.
Rule 1:
Life is not fair – get used to it
Rule 2:
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself
Rule 3:
You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both
Rule 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss
Rule 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity
Rule 6:
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them
Rule 7:
Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room
Rule 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life
Rule 9:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time!
Rule 10:
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs
Rule 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one

Malware warning

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Sorry about that! Somebody managed to insert some malware in just about every post on this site! WordPress security flaw? Possibly … but I think I’ve purged every last bit of it, so there shouldn’t be any more problems, once Google gives the site another quick scan.

Happy Christmas, Dad.

It’s Not Easy Being a Blogger

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I’m discovering that its not easy being a blogger. For one thing Life gets in the way! Life seems to keep you from from many of the things that you like to do. Another thing is I’m noticing that its getting more complicated having your own website. I think they are doing that on purpose! I’ve just moved my site to a new hosting company and I had to jump through many more hoops to get this up and running.  Thank god I have a kid (young adult now) that knows this better than I do. I don’t know how any old fart like myself could do it without having a brain fart at the same time.

I do love spouting off now and then as you know so I hope I’ve got everything all set again. Thanks for reading and here’s blogging at you!

TruGreen and Customer Service

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I’ve had TruGreen service for two years now. When they first came out I decided to try them out but only had one condition. They had to call me before they ever came to provide a service. I wrote it on the contract. So without fail for the two years we have had them they have kept their word and called. The main reason behind this was at times money can be tight and I would tell them not this month and they were fine with it. If I hadn’t done this they would be out every three or four weeks doing a service that “I needed.” Everyone I’ve ever knew that had a lawn to take care of fertilized their lawn at the most three times a year. TruGreen can and will do you as often as they can. I wasn’t happy with their service last year. They spilled some fertilizer on a small area on the front yard by the street and killed it and it was never fixed. They came out and threw down some seed but with what they spilled, nothing will grow there for a few years I think! Their service technician promised last year that if we used him again we would see all the open areas fill in and there wouldn’t be any bare patches at all. Looking out my window right now it looks like my lawn had been mined or maybe I had a goat that just ate patches of my lawn. I had decided I wasn’t going to use them this year. I was going to do it myself and I needed the exercise anyway.

So while at work two weeks ago, Grandma calls and said the TruGreen came and did a service on the lawn. She said that she didn’t expect it as in the past they always knock on the door to announce that they are there and didn’t this time. They are supposed to warn us because of our dogs. I guess its not good for them, as they warn us to keep our pets off of the yard. I called and spoke with Sonja from True Green and informed her that I didn’t request the service. She said “didn’t you get our post card”? I said no I usually get sales flyers the day after the sales end with our great postal service. But thats ok as I don’t need a postal worker going postal on me. Haven’t heard of a TruGreen worker going “TruGreen” on anyone yet?
She apologized and said she would inform her manager that I didn’t request the service and to discontinue any additional services. But what do you think happened two weeks later? Of course, I get a bill. So I call again and this time I speak with Gloria. I’m a pretty friendly guy but I could tell she didn’t like me. She immediately offered to cut the bill in half. But I have a problem here. Why should I be forced to pay for something I didn’t want and didn’t request! She didn’t like that and basically told me that they would forward it to a collections agency to get after me. Wasn’t that nice of her. As I said I’m a pretty easy going guy and I’m sure there were other possible solutions. I would have been willing to work out with them but now I’m mad and I’m not going to take it! So begins my internet tirade against the evil empire of TruGreen! I WARN YOU HERE AND NOW DO NOT BUY THEIR SERVICES. TRUGREEN WILL TRY AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU! Thank you very much to all my readers and I look forward to your comments.