FaceBook Parenting

This is how you handle it when you have a teenage daughter who keeps going on FaceBook and bashing her parents.

Her father made this video as a response to her latest tirade and, after posting it on YouTube, put it on her FaceBook wall.

Because the video has had over 2 million views in the 2 days it’s been up, the father went back and put a warning on the top of the description saying that it contains some mild profanity so you probably don’t want young kids who parrot everything they hear to see it.

WAY TO GO, DAD!!

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Lead On Adventurer. Your Quest Awaits.

I had a chance yesterday to play one of my old favorite games, Dragon’s Lair, on he Nintendo Wii.

When this game came out on laserdisk for the old-school upright arcade games back in 1983, you got five lives for 50 cents. I was 19 at the time, and, at 50 cents a pop, I must have dumped a couple of hundred dollars into this game and still, I never finished it until it came out on CD-ROM for the PC. I was only able to finish it then because I had about three hours with no interruptions and I didn’t have to keep pumping quarters into the game.

There are two things about this game that get to me even now:

  1. If you listen to “Dirk the Daring” throughout this game, he sounds more like “Dirk the Scared Little Girl” in a lot of places.
  2. Princess Daphne is the epitome of “Dumb Blonde”. Her little speech when Dirk finds her starts out, “Please, save me. The cage is locked with a key.” What else would it be locked with, a roll of sausage?

For those who have never seen this game, here is a play-through video I found on YouTube.
 

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Been very busy here lately

It’s been incredibly busy around here lately. I mentioned in a recent post that we’re waiting until this weekend to do the Christmas gift exchange because that’s when everyone can be here at the same time.

What that means is that everyone here has been running around like crazy buying and wrapping gifts and trying to keep some sort of a list of what they’re giving to whom without letting the cat out of the bag.

I’d love to know what happened to Winter this year. It’s the beginning of February and not only have we had no snow to speak of, but the closest thing we’ve had to “winter weather” is some really dense fog that caused a truck belonging to an industrial supply company to go off the road when the driver couldn’t see the curve that was coming.

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Thanks a lot, paypal

I don’t know if this is something stupid that paypal does or if it’s something stupid done by an online store I shopped at recently. I just know that it was something stupid.

Picture this:

You’re browsing an online store and find four things you want to buy, so you put them in your electronic shopping cart and click the “check out” link. Let’s assume that your items are priced as follows (I’m making up numbers for simplicity’s sake):

  • $20.00
  • $15.00
  • $25.00
  • $40.00

Let’s also assume that you don’t have to pay sales tax or shipping (again, for simplicity). You check out with paypal and, since your paypal balance is zero, the money is going to come out of your checking account. Paypal hands you a total of $100, so you subtract $100 from your checkbook balance and all is right with the world.

That is, at least, until you get your bank statement a month later and there is no $100 transaction listed but there are four transactions you don’t have written down for $20, $15, $25, and $40. The confusion starts because you don’t remember the individual prices you paid for those items and you’re expecting a $100 transaction that isn’t there.

For some reason, at some stores, paypal hands you one total and then makes several small withdrawals to pay for each item individually. That’s what I ran into this morning. It took me almost an hour to figure out why my bank statement was so screwed up.

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I’m no help

We have a couple of birthdays in the not-too-terribly-distant future and this year I’m trying to be more of a help in thinking up ideas. The problem is that, for some reason, the only suggestion I have been able to come up with so far is a pair of personalized jewelry boxes and the young ladies in question don’t wear jewelry – not even watches.

I guess I’m going to have to keep trying …

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