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Erin Elizabeth Tipton

6lbs. 3oz. 19 inches long 

Congrats Bro!

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man, time is flying by… Just about 3 more weeks until I’m off to the beach with the family - CAN . NOT . WAIT !!!

FIVE MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob , the nex t-door neighbor.

Before she says a word, Bob says, ‘I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.’

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob , after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, ‘Who was that?’

‘It was Bob the next door neighbor,’ sh e replies.

‘Great,’ the husband says, ‘did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?’

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Lesson 2:

A priest offered a Nun a lift.

She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.

The priest nearly had an accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.

The nun said, ‘Father, remember Psalm 129?’

The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, ‘Father, remember Psalm 129?’

The priest apologized ‘Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.’

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, ‘Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.’

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, ‘I’ll give each of you just one wish.’
‘Me first! Me first!’ says the admin clerk ‘I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.’
Puff! She’s gone.

‘Me next! Me next!’ says the sales rep. ‘I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.’

Puff! He’s gone.

‘OK, you’re up,’ the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, ‘I want those two back in the office after lunch’

Moral of the story:
Always let your boss have the first say.

Lesson 4

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, ‘Can I also sit like you and do nothing?’ The eagle answered: ‘Sure, why not.’

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull.

‘I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree’ sighed the turkey, ‘but I haven’t got the energy.’ ‘Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?’ replied the bull. They’re packed with nutrients.’

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there..

Lesson 6

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.

The dung was actually thawing him out!

He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.

(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.

(3) And when you’re in deep shit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut!

THUS ENDS THE FIVE MINUTE  MANAGEMENT  COURSE

Rain? What's that?

ok, so this morning I woke up to a sound i am unfamiliar with - sounded like a shower out side… hmm… wonder what it was?

Cowboys' New Stadium

http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/

Amazing!

Windy?

umm - is it just me or does it seem like the wind will not quit blowing out here in West Texas? It’s almost like Chinese water torture - it just WILL NOT QUIT BLOWING. I’m not talking 10 mpg either - this is horrible, like 20 to 30 mph DAILY.

I can’t wait for a break from the wind…

Sleep Texting - Dubz gets published

Congrats Dubz!

by Kathleen Thurber
Midland Reporter-Telegram

Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:02 AM CDTWhen James Cross’ wife goes out of town, he admits he’s at a loss for what to do with himself.

While a brief return to bachelorhood can be the opportune time to order pizza and watch the game without needing to balance out the pepperoni with a light salad and ESPN with HGTV, the delineation from the everyday partnership also can be enough to throw a spouse’s whole system out of whack.

For Cross, that can mean a flare of unusual sleep habits that have included the occasional unconscious jaunt around the house to more recently sleep-texting his wife while she’s away.

When his wife Shala was visiting a cousin a few months ago, he said, she sent him a message to see if he was asleep and though he was in fact deep into his sleep cycle, he sent her an admittedly illegible reply —thtroat —, he wrote, but an attempt at communication no less.

“I really don’t have any recollection of it,” he said.

See the full story here

Ubuntu 8.04

So i decided to take the plunge and upgrade my home PC from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. Everything went fine, until it actually installed the files. Immediately, I had no connection to my network (or the internet). Everything showed up like it was supposed to, as far as drivers, hardware, etc.

I did everything I could find to do, including new terminal commands from suggestions in the ubuntu forums. nothing worked. UGG. THANKFULLY, the last time this happened, I put my /home on a seperate partition - so I can install / reinstall without losing any of my data - the problem is I lost all of my apps - alot of which I had compiled, and/or fiddled with to get working. This sucks. Stuff like this is why Linux has such a hard time going mainstream - I mean I’m a true geek, and it gave me trouble - …

I love Ubuntu and Linux for that matter, but sometimes it gets me just as frustrated as Windows did.

No Playoffs for the BCS

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP)—As it turns out, the Big Ten and the Pac-10 weren’t the only conferences standing in the way of a major college football playoff.

The Big East and Big 12 also made it known Wednesday that they were against moving the Bowl Championship Series in that direction, so the BCS rejected a plan to turn the much-criticized system for deciding a national champ into a four-team playoff, starting in the 2010 season.

The league commissioners opposed to the seeded plus-one plan presented by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive during five hours of meetings all said they were concerned a shift to that model would lead the BCS down a slippery slope.

“Even though we could construct barriers at this time, we felt like … there could be easily an errosion of that; more pressure to add more teams with an ability to get to the national championship game as we went over time,” Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe told reporters. “The system is under a lot of scrutiny that can result in pressure to add games. Our league is not favorable to a playoff system as a whole, and viewed this as the first step in that direction.”

Read the full story [here]. 

Ok, what drives me crazy about college football is that the system is broken. The BCS is a frickin’ joke. There are always 3 teams that “could” be the best, but based on rankings (mainly peoplel driven) at least one, sometimes two, teams are left on the back doorstep without a blanket in the middle of the Holiday season.

Playoffs work. Look at the basketball program playoffs. VERY successful. If they aren’t going to fix the BCS, then why do we even worry about rankings or anything else? Just play the games…

So, looks like we’re looking at a screwed up, unfair, and biased BCS until at least 2014.