Its Your Money

I recently read about a guy that played the lottery and thought he had won about $200,000 and some change when his numbers matched the numbers in his local newspaper. The newspaper printed the number wrong and what the guy actually won was about $3.00.
Well, he's upset and instead of just marking that up to the "shit happens" file, he went out a hired a lawyer to sue somebody.
Now just who is he going to sue? Not the lottery people, they got the number right. If the guy had an internet connection, or had just verified the numbers at the place where he had bought them, he'd have his $3.00 by now. He can try to sue the paper, but newpaper people are smart. They usually have a little disclaimer at the bottom of the winning lottery numbers that says the numbers need to be verified by the lottery commission before they submit a claim. And they most likley printed a correction the next day.
No, the big winner will be the lawyer. He will charge his fee and hopfully this won't make it to trial and will be throw out as frivilous.
I should have gone to law school.

In the my money department, I was playing on-line poker and lost big time (well..$50 is big time to me) One hand that I thought was a sure thing was I was dealt two aces as my pocket cards. The flop came next and showed three 10's. Wow, and full house 10's full of aces, but wouldn't you know the guy next to me had a 10. He was dealt a 10 and a 3 and I was raising pre-flop. Who keeps cards like that?? Anyway, my little voice told me he had the 10 because he was raising to my calls. I must have lost $15 on that hand. ( I was in a $1/2 limit room). I pretty much went tilt after that trying to get my losses back.

Technology Challenged

One of the things that I dislike about working in the IT field is that the people around you that are the Admin Exec's the Exec's all the kinds of people that make up a business, thing that just because you are the "IT Guy" that you everything about anything that plugs into a wall or has batteries. Or that you know about every aspect of every piece of software that was ever written.
The other day I get a call from one of the Executive Admins because her boss set an iPod on her desk and asked her to figure it out. Well, A. It came with an instruction manual that I would have to read, and B. Its not company property so I don't have to do anything anyway.

Another thing that bothers me is when an Executive admin person takes on the persona of the person that they admin for. The exec's are bad enough. I had one tell me that her boss's PC was running slow and they would both need a new one. Ok, we can get you a new PC, and while I'm at it, let me just re-write the windows program and re-wire the network in this 30 year old building. Its never the user, always the PC is the problem.

Technology is not all that baffling. But if you find problems with technology why would you even try the self checkout stations at the Kroger or Walmart. It never fails that someone will scan an item and not put it in the bag and wonder why it doesn't work. They have to call the clerk over for just about everything they scan. Don't put the stuff in your shopping cart until after your last item! The instructions are right there, in two languages!

But anyway..How was your day?

Dazed and confused

The price of gas is back up again. Its the first time I paid over $30 to fill up my tank. Here are some radical ideas to save gas and energy.
All those stores that stay open 24 hours. Lets close them down at 9 pm. With all the stores closing at 9 or if the store is a little bigger like a Walmart, 10 pm, people won't have anywhere to go and they will get their butts at home.
Lets close the night clubs at 1 am. What's the reason you go to a night club anyway. Get drunk, pick up chicks, guys, have a good time with your friends? Face, it you can get drunk way before 1 am, and after you're drunk, you need to be home anyway. And if you can't pick up a chick or a guy before midnight, you might as well just go home. And if you are trying to have a conversation with your friends, the music is way to loud, and don't get me started on the smoke. Besides, ask any police officer, nothing good happens after midnight anyway.

Do You Think I'm Sexy?

Hell yes! I was at a buffet pizza place for lunch yesterday and this woman walks in and she is sooo fine! She is so fine that I'd drink her bath water! She was tall about 6 foot, taller because she was in heals. Black (folks that know me know that I prefer the company of an Af-American woman. My last relationship with a black woman lasted 4 years) and curvy. Her clothes were so tight that they could have been painted on. She had some low rider pants on and a tight, tight top that was almost the color of her skin. It almost appeared as if she was topless. The top was not long enough to be tucked into her pants so she was showing a little midrift skin and had navel piercing. Her pants were cut so low in the back that I could almost see that beginning line where the two halves of the buttock cheeks start.
But I noticed something. One of the managers was all over her. There were other women in the place but as soon as this woman walked through the door, he couldn't do enough for her. Got her tray, napkins, a drink and this is a self service place.
This kind of treatment is typical of beautiful people, men and woman. I have a good friend that I had a short relationship with a few years ago. I think she looks like Janet Jackson. She can be pumping gas at a gas station and strange men will pay for her gas. She doesn't think anything of it, will thank the guy and never see him again. I ain't saying she's a gold digger, but she ain't messing with no broke guy!