Girl Scout Cookies

 There are a lot of over rated things in the world that people rave about. I put girl scout cookies right at the top of the list. 

If the girl scouts want funding why don't they just get the lines picked up by major grocery stores?

If you want to teach them business skills there is marketing, product placement, distribution, manufacturing all parts of building skills. Why focus on just training them to become micro MLM people?

Cause they cant, those cardboard cookies would get destroyed on a shelf next to Sweet Martha or TRex.

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But I still buy a few boxes every year to support s few peoples kids, I just turn right around and donate the boxes while I stuff my face with something else.

Training and Experience

 I have a hard time taking advice from people who are in such different places. At the gym I was getting lectured by the 24 year old professional trainer. 

When I was 24 I ate anything I wanted staid in excellent shape with only moderate exercise and a club night life lifestyle. It was easy. 

I asked if they had someone who might be older with Kids someone who would have more experience and be able to offer more help with what is best given my situation and for some reason this was taken as highly offensive? 

Is it wrong to want a coach who has found success on the road you are on?

Angel Hair Pasta Racist?

 Was cooking some scampi last night and my daughter picked up the box of angel hair pasta and started playing with it. 

She pulled out a noodle and asked why they called it angel hair pasta, I said I didn't know. 

She held the blond noodle up against her dark brown hair and asked if it meant she couldn't be an angel cause she had the wrong color hair?

We are sticking to spaghetti next time

Wider

 I wonder if peoples feet got wider during the pandemic. With less shoe wearing to the office or going out if they just kind of spilled sideways? Maybe because people got a little fatter too?

I have just noticed a lot of people walking awkwardly in dress shoes at a few events recently.

Also wondering if dress shows will become a relic 

Stuck

 Today while at the bus stop with my kids I was shocked and appalled to watch my son stick his tongue to the stop sign pole. 

In a horrifying second I took the lid off my coffee poured it down the pole and he detached. 

little bit more blood than I was expecting. 

I went home made at my wife that she banned Christmas Story in our house cause I felt like he definitely should have known better....but then I thought how.

TMI - Sound Reaction

 I have a special water bottle that I use almost daily and for some reason the sound of filling said water bottle instantly makes me want to pee. I fill waters for the kids or in other bottles without the same reaction. I fill my special water bottle in different dispensers without the reaction. 

It is some combination of our fridge dispenser, the shape of this bottle and the sound it makes that is such a reaction almost without fail I don't get to fill it all the way up before running to the bathroom.

I am somehow afraid this sound will be honed in on and used as kryptonite against me at some distant point in the future. 

Missing the Point

 I always love the holidays the drunken political armchair expertise that goes with them. 

Slight nerve got touched when I said it might be in the nations best interest to fund college for everybody.

"That is socialism. Why would we pay for people to go to school? I had to pay my own way. I had to pay for my own kids and now you want to make it free? You going to pay me back? Why cant everyone just go to trade school and earn an honest living?"

I was hoping the following points might have won them over 

1. College was way more affordable in previous generations.

2. You should want the world your kids and grandkids to live in be better. 

3. If other countries invest in education and get people degrees without becoming indebted or have a $100k barrier put in their path where do you think the US will be in 20 years?

4. Trades are important but so is a lot of other stuff that requires education.

Don't get me wrong the university system needs a major overhaul. We have to do a better job at teaching people to think and solve problems. But what makes me nervous for the whole of us is it seems like most people don't want to think any more.

Not sure how we fix this but seems like you would want a stockpile of smart people around.

Letter to MSP Board

It would greatly increase numbers if the schools adapted some incentives for families and kids to go get the shot. 

If we reach x% vaccinated we will stop the mask mandate in the schools

If we reach x% vaccinated we will stop the quarantining of class rooms or individuals 

While we have chosen to vaccinate our kids many families are not going to because there is no upside or added incentive. 

What are we reaching for\trying to get to and what happens when we get there? 

We are missing a vision or end state. 

Best regards, 

Something About this Time

 It is the middle of October. I walked around the neighborhood with my kids yesterday. Sun was shining. Warm on the skin. Listening to them chat back and forth. Exploring the world, this pine cone, the shape of this stick. 

There is nothing to justify it but I have an enormous sense of peace. I feel calm and happy in a way I never knew would be possible. 

I am on the cusp of another massive change I feel like I should be scared and nervous but I have never felt as balanced and centered as I have in this period of time.

No One Is Coming to Save You

 No One Is Coming to Save You 

It is up to you to get in shape

Get your house in order 

Get your life right and make it happen