Will's Blog

One thing I can not stand is people always talking about their facebook or twitter account. Wow there is way more in life then sitting in front of the keyboard. Why not go meet the person or at least use skype and do a Video chat. No it seems that people want to be social but only behind the keyboard. I myself do not have a twitter account. However I will be getting one. For who you ask, my dog. That is right. Mattel is making a device that hangs around the dog and updates twitter on what they are doing. I am not getting this because I am nerdy, but because it is to damn funny that my dog will be able to do what so many non-social people do….

I was at a restaurant the other day, and there was a young lady requesting scramble eggs at the omelet station. Did not think much of it. But when the chef went to put her eggs on the plate, she got all mad. She was like ‘oh no I need those cooked more’ and was very mean to the chef. My first thought was, you should have ordered them as scrambled hard if you don’t like your eggs runny. What ever, maybe they had no idea or do not get out much, But then when the chef did put them on her plate, she just walked away and did not say a word. We really have a lack of manners in our society now-a-days.

Many people have lost their social skills these days. I am sure it is from sitting in front of face book or my space, never leaving there home. Maybe because of this, they don’t know how to behave around others. My parents thaught me manners and to show respect. I feel that some days I am the only one that remembers this. I mean I get phone calls and the person does not even say good bye anymore. They just hang-up. Is this what our children are learning? I know my son will have good manners and respect for everyone.

I find it hard to believe that most cars today do not have turn signals installed. I mean is this really an option that no one could afford. As it seems that more and more drivers have no idea what to use these blinky lights for, I happened to come across a bumper sticker that gets this topic problem to the point.

I find it funny that our local news channels have to give weather titles. Just this last week, we had a pretty good snow fall. Wavy TV10 is calling it the “Winter Storm 2010″ What? So guys, what are you going to call it if we have another good snow weekend, “Winter Storm 2010 Sunday” I mean this is stupid. The media loves to make things bigger then they seem. I guess they are just running out of things to talk about.

So as I spend my great moments thinking in the office upstairs, I noticed that my toilet paper roll was smaller. Not by the amount but by the size. Come on, are times really that hard that you had to cut 1/2″ off of each roll now. This is crazy. We buy Quilted Northern toilet paper, as you can see in the picture, the roll to the left is my normal and the roll to right is the new one. It went from 4.5″ to 4″…. How sad! This also brings me to my next question. Does the paper go over or under. Well after doing some google searching, I found that over is better. The bottom line looks to be less waste. Hm, well if you now use the new Quilted Northern, I guess it really does not matter as they already helped you out by removing 1/2″.

I have to go see this….

So three times we have placed a to-go order with Quiznos in New Town (Store 8870) and our order is never ready. We call 30+min in advance. But this time was the kicker. We were told that they were busy helping customers. Wow, what are we, just chop meat? Okay so no problem, thought I would make a small comment on this location. Okay maybe a big one. But get this, I sent the comment in on Dec 17, 2009. Still to this day have not heard anything. So just wanted to pass on the bad service that this location has. They lost my business and my companies business!

So what is up with females these days. It seems that girls want to dress for the summer above the waste and for winter below the waste. Does this make any sense to anyone. Why? I have to say, that maybe if you got a pair of rockstar sunglasses to go along with these boots, it would bring the whole package together. But for now, who you fooling.

So I always thought having a child in home school was a dumb idea. But being that I have a son/student and a wife/teacher, I see both sides of problems that we have in our schools. First, states are way to busy looking at teachers papers. Yes as a parent we want the best teacher teaching our child. But a paper does not prove that the person is a good teacher. I mean if the states are only worried about students getting good scores on there SOL’s then hell, I can teach out of a book.

The bottom line is that I understand what the SOL’s are designed for, but teachers/schools/states are so worried about kids not learning anything that they are only teaching what the child needs to know to pass. Second is funds. To start, I feel teachers should be paid more then what most get now. Teachers are very important to the development of your children. But as it turns out, that most are worried about loosing there jobs or cuts to there departments and can not focus on the real problems that our children are having. Just today I read that 80% of the Virginia school board is aware of cutting jobs and lowering pay. It really is sad to see this happening as this affects all of us even our children. Good teachers should teach and have fun without the worries of SOL scores and money. Again, SOL’s are useless information if all the teacher is going to do is teach right out of the book. They should just do the test for the student.

So now it seems that home schooling maybe a better way for are children to get a better education. As we don’t have to worry about the above problems. However social interaction is a very big part of going to school and should not be left out. But wait, if everyone did home school, then we all should create a school with the same ideas. Oh wait, we already have that, it’s called private school. This is nice if you can afford it and keep in mind that private school need to run like a business for it to stay open. So yes there are problems there too. Does the circle ever stop. I mean the only one that is really getting hurt by this is our children.

Believe me, I will be sending my child to a private school as long as we can afford it. I feel that he will get a better education then what the state has planned for him. Keep in mind, that there are a lot of different types of private schools and who over sees the education. Not to be biased, but I think my wife works for one of the best private schools around. As they focus more on family and arts. It seems that no public school these days care about arts or others, just what ever is in the SOL test. Again just my 2 cents as a parent and husband to a teacher.

So after linking one of my daily sites, “The people of Wal-Mart, I came across this site and had to share. The site is called “ThereIFixedIt.com”. Way to funny. Check it out by visiting http://thereifixedit.com/.