I will be ripped off by the UPS store no more...
Ill try to keep it short I went to a UPS store in Phoenix years ago and was going to be charged 70 to ship a screenprinting frame I wound up boxing it at home and shipping it USPS for 16 Since then I had been hesitant on going back to a UPS store because of the unbelievable price gouging I went to this particular UPS store a while back to try to ship something to China that was over 100 but that was understandable shipping to far off lands is costlyThis most recent visit I needed to fax some documents to our next landlord for the house we are renting I wasnt told how much it would be and I didnt think to ask because I figured how much could a fax cost a guy in 2013 When the cashier said 871 to fax 8 pages I nearly fainted I exclaimed Wow I could have bought a whole fax machine for 20 An older gentlemen said Where would you find a fax machine for 20 dollars like they had just been invented and its some strange technology that no one understandsFurther research shows that the cheapest I could find is 28 on Amazon I exaggerated by 8 I could have however gone to the goodwill picked up any old SCSI or serial scanner for a buck or two and scanned the docs and faxed them using any of the free fax services or taken pictures of the docs with my
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I still say that if anyone really knew how to parent there would be one book, not 300,000
I hope you realize thats child abuse is what was exclaimed from her heiness the 13 year old who way way on her high horse Seriously now Shes doing much better these days but for a while there she was telling the grown ups in her life that she knew what was best for herself I think a comedian said it best once if we let the kids do whatever they want theyd spend all day watching TV and diddling themselves But even with this logic and reason still floating through the aether there are parents of my generation that let their kids make all of their own decisions and think dicipline was so uncomfortable for them they dont want to hinder their children like that Which is madnessI do have to say before I make too many people upset I am not a biological father That said I never had that overwhelming overcoming feeling of euphoria in the delivery room that magically made that baby more important than any logic or reason for the rest of your life That being said I have an excerpt from the Arizona Revised Statute to explain in great detail exactly what child abuse isARS 82012 Abuse means the infliction or allowing of physical injury impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety depression withdrawal or untoward aggressive behavior and which emotional damage is diagnosed by a medical doctor
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Smart or Stupid? Where does intelligence come from?
I titled this special for the kids because whenever they do something pretty much anything theyre doingI ask Smart or stupid and let them decide About 99 of the time they answer frown and stopthrowing sharp objects at each other But that brings me back to a place my mind likes to wonder at timesWhere does smarts come from Where do you get the smarts from Obviously obviously there are smart andstupid people on this Earth more of the latter unfortunately If you feel like pondering somethingphilisophical read onI think I have boiled it down to 3 major elements of where someone would get intelligence fromMemoryCongnitive reasoning skillsExperience
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Thinking before you act - preventing bad things
This blog is currently a work in progress I started this blog when I was watching a couple shows just thinking of how a little bit of forethought could have prevented serious injury pain or deathReal Interrogations Season 1 Episode 2Callie Jo StoddardAlaska State Troopers Season 1 Episode 1Broken back in the middle of tundra no where
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