Goodyear

So how can you turn a bad year into a good one? Easy, go to Goodyear.

It's no secret to some that being a stay at home father means sacrificing some things. There is only one car, one parent working, one income. So money isn't always available when you need it the most.

It's been a very difficult year and at times things only look to get worse when your economy is getting as bad as it is. But sometimes there's just people out there that make a bad year into a good one.

My tire on my driver side was extremely bad and I've been limping it along to my wife's work and my kids school for the past couple of weeks. Thankfully my wife works about 2 miles from the house and the kids are about the same distance in the other direction.

Goodyear was kind enough to not only fill my tire with air over the past week but to give me a used "new" tire for no charge until we get paid on Saturday.

Here's the kicker to some. The entire facility is filled with Iranians. So for those who think that all Iranians are nothing but horrible people who are hell bent on the destruction of the world... you may want to look at the people a little closer.

Granted there are people who are in control of that country who are relatively dangerous for many of those around them, but so is this countries leaders.

So thank you to those nice men and woman at Goodyear.

My greatest fear

So last night I stayed up REALLY LATE watching the USA Basketball team play Russia. It was a great game but I was up until 4 am. I will be like that for the next 3 weeks while I watch the USA team bring glory back to America in international play.

Anyway, it's about 10 am and I haven't slept much as you can imagine. All of a sudden I hear my kids say they see a crab in the bathroom. I was half asleep so I mostly ignore this. My wife was awake and went to see what was going on. It turns out that there was a hairy desert scorpion, or Hadrurus arizonensis pallidus for the technical nuts that may grace my page. I'm sure most reading this would be like, so what? It's a non lethal scorpion to humans. But then I'd have to respond by screaming like a little girl - so get off my back about it!

So I went into combat mode because my wife definitely wasn't going to get rid of the scorpion. I grabbed my sons Cars slippers and shoved my toes in there as far as it could go. Then I grabbed my Etnies sandals and rammed my hands into them like I was some surfer warrior and slowly snuck into the bathroom.

The battle itself was anticlimactic but it was my first encounter with said desert demon spawn from hell and I did not like it.

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And on an after thought while I was searching google for a good image of a scorpion to post in this blog I came across not only my number one fear but my number two fear all in the same picture. A Scorpion and a Naked French man. That's right, it's an anti AIDs ad where a naked french man is having sex with a scorpion on his back with his venomous tail pointing at the mans head. OH GOD it's spooky.

Job Assessment

As some of you may know, I am vigorously looking for a job. It's been an extremely hard battle but one that I will overcome. Even in today's economy. From time to time I may share my experiences with you, whether it be good or bad. Here is a funny one for the day.

I'm taking my job assessment test with Chase Bank, here is the question and one of the possible answers provided:

Q) A grocery store's checkout lines are all long and the customers are tired of waiting. A customer with a cart full of items gets in the express line. The cashier should say:

A-4) "You have to go to the other line," And frown at the customer, so he knows he was wrong.



Ha-ha, what kind of person would place emphasis on a frown to reprimand a grown man? "Don't come back or you get my sad face!" I swear, these job questions are extremely boring but there's that occasional funny one. Thanks Chase!

Choose a caption

I came across this site where they show you a picture and you have the option to submit a caption. It can be whatever you want it to be, at least I think, and people log in and vote on the best ones. I'll show you the two that I came up with.



"Be gentle... it's my first time."

and

"I'm scared Dick."
"It's okay George, this'll be less painful then your Presidency."


credit: Frog Soda

Inspiration

I wanted to take the time to thank a few important people who have helped me this far in transforming my blog into something I'd really enjoy. So far so good!


Thank you to The Pajama Pundit. Without his wonderful writing, help and professionalism, I wouldn't even have the nerve to stick with something that may be important to most. Thank you //PJP.



Also, thank you to Amanda who has indirectly helped me with a few tweaks in the blog. I recommend that everyone visit her website for help at Blogger Buster. There are so many wonderful resources there and she has such an amazing way with words to make even the biggest computer novice understand and look like a professional.

And last, but definitely NOT least. I wanted to thank Ryan. Thanks brotha, without your help on this, I probably would have slammed my head into my keyboard long, long ago. Thank you for being patient and kind.