EVER WONDER??

Sorry I haven't added anything in awhile.  Been pretty busy lately, and am getting tired of disconnects, slow pages, ect...  Will have cable modem access in a couple of months.  Ever wonder why they make a man's bike with a straight bar across it, and a woman's bike with the slanted bar??  To me, I think they got them backwards.  It is very painful when/if you hit something (being a guy and having been there before )  I think they should do away with the straight bar completely, and make the bikes unisex, just like alot of bathrooms are now.

I don't know,  I just think it's stupid, and I Wonder Why they did it that way.

Ever Wonder??

You know how you go to a store and they say they have the guaranteed lowest prices??  Well, I've been thinking.   People could get there stuff for free, or be paid to take the stuff.  Somebody who had the time, and gas (which isn't cheap anymore), could make out like a bandit.  All they would have to do is go to the first store and find an item they want.  Then, go to the second store (that also guarantees lowest prices), and find the same identical item.  Take the price from the lowest store and go back to the other one.  Tell them the price and have them drop their price below the other stores.  Then back to the other store and do the same thing.  Just keep going back and forth until you either get paid to take it from them, or at least get it free.  They do guarantee the lowest prices, don't forget.  It makes me wonder why more people haven't done that.

FRIED BRAIN IS OVER!!!

Well, I went to my dad's this weekend, and we talked.  It has been decided.  I will be moving in with him, the end of July.  My niece, who is also my roommate, will inherit just about everything that I own.  My dad has just about everything that is needed already.  The only things I will be taking is my clothes, bedroom tv, and computer.  Everything else is staying with her.  She is quite happy about getting everything.  She is 19 and doesn't have much to call her own yet, BUT she will.

Like I said before, it will be strange, but it is what is needed and has to be done.  Every one of my siblings is glad that I am doing this (some even expect me to do it).  I figured, I am doing this as much for him as myself.  Only time will tell how it works out.  Told dad yesterday, that once the money starts rolling in over there, I will be getting internet access.  I will be without it for 2 or 3 months :-(  He said that he really found no use for it.  He could never really get into it.  But, once I said that I didn't care if he used it or not, and that we were still going to have it, he started to get alittle excited :-)  I'll be doing alot of teaching on the subject (to him), and am sure he will be on it quite a bit, in the end.

I'm glad the decisions have finally been made.  Now, we just have to start getting things ready for them.  Time is running out pretty fast.

Ever Wonder??

Ever wonder why the smallest line at the checkouts is usually the slowest??  When I'm in a store and am ready to have my stuff totalled, I will look at the lines (just like everybody else).  I hurry and get in the shortest line.  By the time I get done purchasing my items, I realize that the person I would have been behind, in the longest line, has already been served and is gone.  Somehow the longest line seemed to move faster.

This has happened on numerous occasions.  So, I tried a new tactic.  Get in the longest line.  Wrong!!!  When I did get in the longest line, It DID take the longest.  What's up with that??  I know this has happened to other people too.  I know that sometimes it's because the person in front of you decides to pay their entire total in change, or they haven't even started to write the check, until they get their total, or that they seemed to pick up everything that wouldn't scan or didn't have a price.  But, what about the other times??  Did ya ever wonder??

Fried Brain

Well, here it is 4:10 in the morning.  Thought I'd get another ever wonder segment in.  My head is usually full of them.  But, this morning my ol' brain is fried.  Had to do lots of thinking yesterday.  My mother passed away at the end of January, leaving my father all alone.  I have 6 other siblings, and am the only one that is single that will stand up to my father.  Growing up, if dad said the sky was green, you agreed, or pay the concequences (typical Irish temper).  I must admit, I used to despise my father, until about 20 years ago.  I got out of the military, and found out I am very pig headed (Just like daddy :-) ).  We used to have tremendous arguments.  My mother would have to be the mediator.  After awhile, we both finally decided that we were both stubborn and would have to live with it.  Now dad and I are the best of buds.  We actually respect each other.

Anyways, after mom's passing, dad asked me to move in with him.  I told him that I couldn't right now cause I have a lease to fullfill.  Besides, dad lives 100 miles away, so I'd also have to change jobs.  We talked a bit and decided to wait until it got close to the end of my lease before we decided anything.  He called me a couple weeks ago, and told me he was planning on moving into an apartment.  He couldn't afford the upkeep on his trailer, especially since he is in over his head with mom's funeral bills.  He actually sounded like this was something he was looking forward too.

The other night, I was talking to one of my sisters (she lives 4 miles from dad), and during the conversation, I brought up about me moving with dad.  I also said that I wouldn't be moving in with him, since he was going to be moving to an apartment. 

WELL.  Yesterday, dad calls.  He says that he didn't know that I was thinking about moving in.  His mind is starting to go.  He doesn't remember alot that is said.  I reminded him of our earlier conversation, but he said that he didn't remember.  I then told him that he said that he was moving into an apartment.  He told me that he didn't want to move.  He felt he had to.  He is starting to go down the tubes with the upkeep, and the bills. 

To make a long boring story short.  He decided not to do anything this week.  I will be seeing him this coming weekend, and we will talk.  I will probably be moving in with him the end of July.  It will be strange.  He doesn't agree to my lifestyle.  It is something that is not spoken of.  Mom was always the one with the questions.  Dad just doesn't want to know.  I just hope he is getting to the point, where he can at least open up about it, a bit anyways.

So, the move is what I was thinking about all day yesterday.  Weighing out the pro's and con's.  Been doing it since the funeral, and am still doing it.  I'm 99.99 percent sure that the move is going to happen, but won't know 100 percent, until next weekend.

That is why the old brain is fried.  I hope to get it going, and will put some more ever wonders up here.

Sorry to bore you so badly, but had to get it out. :-)