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16th September 2007

School Taxes Made Complicated…

Here is a story from the Daily Herald. (PDF)  It outlines a way of making school taxes fairer and I have to say that I agree with it totally, except in one point.  It make it more complicated and it makes it so there is more accountability which means it will cost twice as much for the administration of it because government doesn’t make anything easy.

What do you think?  Do you think school taxes are fair?  Do you think that retired people are just paying for there own children’s educations even if they are long out of school?  Do you think it is fair for non-parents to pay for the schools of other peoples kids?

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8th September 2007

Ketchup Dispenser…

20070908_00309a  Have you all seen these things before??  They dispense ketchup and mustard sort of like milking a cow.  LOL…  These were the dispenser’s at the market we went to today.  I have never seen anything like them before.

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5th September 2007

Corel Paint Shop Pro Tech Issue…

I finally stopped using Paint Ship today and have reverted to a free photo editor. 

The reason…not because it is a terrible program, but because it takes up all of my computer resources and when I hit edit on my second photo it opens a whole new window of it instead of opening the different image in the already open screen of it.

It has gotten so it literally takes me 5 minutes to get this all stopped as it is using almost 90% of my resources. 

I don’t have a super computer, but I do have a 1 GB of RAM, so it isn’t the worst out there either.

I have contacted support and they send me back a canned message, I reply to the canned message and they send me another canned message.  They basically tell me to reinstall the program…I assure you there is nothing wrong with my install.  I obey though and still have this issue. 

Oh how I envy those with real Photoshop…I need so much money though to have all this stuff I want.

Do any of you all have this issue??

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2nd July 2007

Spreading your Beliefs…

So, I don’t usually talk about religious issues on here.  Honestly, I don’t usually think about them all that much.  I know what I believe and it doesn’t matter nor concern me what you or anyone else believes.  Therefore, I have no issues at all.

Well, last night a lady from MBL messages me and start in about religious issues right off the bat.  I should have stopped messaging her from the beginning when she insulted me for having short hair.  Yes, long hair is a gift from god and so I am a terrible person for letting gods gift go unappreciated in me.

Another highly interesting thing about this person who uses MBL is that she didn’t have a blog. I asked her about that and she replied “What is a blog?”.  I ultimately told her how to sign up with blogger to spread her message and maybe have someone coming to her to get the word without her having to hunt the next victim down, because she is highly insulting on her mission to spread it without being approached or almost asked.

So, she was equally as insulted, as I was even though I had not intended to insult nor do I believe she intended to insult me.   Yeah, I am okay with people who are highly religious of any background.  I am also okay with people who are not.  This is a highly personal matter either way and in my opinion none of my business.  Especially from strangers….

Well, anyways this all got me thinking about beliefs today.

I never revealed any of my beliefs to this woman except telling her that I was not religious.  I attempted to change the subject at least 4 times.  I know I should have just ended the whole chat session and added her to my ignore box.  I was bored though, so I let her spew bible quotes.  I asked her how old her daughter was.  I asked her what her favorite food was?  She  never answered.  She asked me how long my hair was? What religion I was?  What the meaning of love is? I told her that my husband was of the same beliefs as she was and oh this made her mad.  She didn’t like that I was of different beliefs than my husband nor that we were married at all.  (Note here…she has no idea what I believe.) She asked me why I go married?  I told her I love him and he loved me, so we got married.  She thought this was inconsiderate and essentially that I should not be married.

What I am wondering is how widespread is this belief system.  Am I truly blind to the way life is lived by others??

Am I the minority that thinks beliefs are private?  I also think that people of different beliefs are equal to me and not lesser of a person.  I don’t really care what the sexual issues, political issues, or religious issues are with a person when I meet them.  They are free to have sex, vote, and pray any which way without offending me, so long as they don’t involve me.  

Or….

Am I the majority and most people don’t really care about these issues?

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26th June 2007

Amish Trends…

Stan has a chair being delivered today on a horse by the local amish guy.  Anyways, I was wondering? There seems to be a trend amongst the amish around here to have ponies and miniature horses to pull their buggies.  Do you think a small horse eats less than a big horse?  Do they do this for economical reasons?  I mean if I had to rely on a horse to carry me and anything I wanted purchase wise.  I would have the biggest horse there was, the SUV of horses if you know what I mean.  I don’t drive an SUV, but I would if my vehicle were a horse.  It leaves me wondering if this ia a country wide trend among amish people everywhere?  Get the smallest horse possible to pull the buggy.

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17th June 2007

Question…

I have been reading this website for over a year.  I used to leave comments and all that like I do at most of the sites I read.  Well, recently the owner of the site made it password protected so that only people with the password could get to the actual content. (I could probably get a password, but I haven’t asked.)

Yeah, you would think this would be the end and I am out.

Well, the feed still works perfectly and I get everything that she writes all the pictures and everything, through the feed.

Do you think it is wrong for me to keep reading?

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15th June 2007

Too Much Truth…

Well, I guess I am going to give you all the sneak preview of my new site.  It is looking good, but there aren’t that many articles over there yet.  I was going to wait until I had 50 to tell you about it, but I can’t wait that long.  I am trying to write one article a day and taking quite a bit of time on them.  I am really trying to make these well researched articles unlike I do for this site.

Here I sort of just tell you about me and as you have figured out there isn’t much research in that.  I am just sort of floating by, day to day.

Oh, so this new site is located at www.toomuchtruth.com.  Check it out, comments and all that.  It does have the no-follow removed from comments, so you will get credit and all that.  It also has Adsense which is something that I don’t usually use or advocate using.  I am going to have Nia doing some writing soon…. I also offered to allow one of my old neighbors to write, but I don’t know if she will or not. 

Well, today was productive beyond that even.  We got the barn cleaned or rather Adam did.  We went for a short walk. 

We got the bills paid, yeah I paid 3 of them late even though I had the money for them to be on time.  I think this is the first I have ever did that.  I just left them sitting there because I didn’t feel like adding up the checkbook.  Isn’t that really sad.  I hope they don’t hit me with huge late fees, but I am afraid I will end up paying for this, so that will be my lesson learned.

 Adam is still complaining about the price of the locksmith to put our new locks in.  He tells me that I have bad timing and what a rip off, but it is already done.  What does he want me to do??  We won’t have to get it done again ever probably…I mean locks aren’t something you buy on a regular basis.

20070613_01201p Kyra is getting so cute.  She is learning so much so fast now.  She is going to be talking in full sentences sooner than we think.  I am trying to just enjoy all the little crazies that she says and does now instead of looking forward to later dates.  She is hilarious most of the time. She has been doing this shocked look quite a bit now at new things.  It makes me laugh.

I also have added a full page for my driver news section on this site on my top bar there.  It just leads to the category page, but I am getting more and more other bus drivers in here.  It is seeming so cool to get so many prospective’s from other drivers, so don’t hesitate and go back in those and read up.  I would love to know what you would have done or any thing on any of those.  I think reading what people do wrong in the newspapers is a great way to learn what not to do for everyday with this job.

I only put disciplinary news mostly.  I don’t mess with the accidents or criminal trials, so even the opinions of parents and the likes are appreciated and maybe we can learn from each other.  Anyways, I thought I would mention that.

I am going to hit bed early tonight actually.  I have slept well for the last few nights which is amazing.  I have also did quite a few sponsored posts, with it summer I make way less money and those are handy even though pay very little.  Hope you don’t mind them….I try to make them interesting on there own as well.  Good Night…

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22nd May 2007

Student Pees On Side of Road…

Wow!  I wasn’t going to post again tonight because I don’t have any pictures from today.  It was just to busy.  However this news story just stood out to me, so I have to post it really quick.

This is a story of a girl who gets anxious on the bus and it makes her have to go to the bathroom.  The bus driver let her go outside the bus and go to the bathroom within view of the bus and other students.

Yeah, this is amazing to me.  I have only had two students ever ask me to go to the bathroom and both times I just told them that they had to hold it because there was no place to stop.  I am very very sure that this is what I would have done in this case too. 

I honestly can’t believe that this driver allowed the kid off at an unauthorized stop.  They push that on us so hard I guess, so maybe this is a more relaxed district or something.

Anyways, what do you think?  Do you think that the child is scared for life and needs counseling?  Do you think this is just a money making opportunity for the parents?  What do you think should happen with this driver if what they are reporting is completely correct?

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16th May 2007

Glasses???

My husband is all self-conscience of his glasses.  I tell him he looks fine in them, but he doesn’t believe me.  So, you be the judge…. Do you prefer him with or without glasses based on these photos?  Not the photos themselves…you get it.

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16th May 2007

Presidential Hating Bus Driver Question!

Do you think the bus driver that gave President Bush the middle finger in front of a load of students should get her job back?

She has petitioned for it back. Here is the MSN story.

I personally am not sure she should, but I am really on the fence. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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