It’s moving day! A new apartment on the other side of campus opens up at like 4:30

My grandmother is 88. She had an aortic aneurysm a few days ago. It was bad.

Except she is at an amazing recovery at 24 hours than many 40 year olds take a week to reach.

Her mother (my great-grandmother) died the earliest in her family at 85. Her father (great-grandfather) died at about 100. This is back when people didn’t normally live to 100.

Of course, there is a history of heart problems for the other 75% of my genetic line.

Comedy Central had this TV benefit called ‘Night of Too Many Stars’, where a bunch of comedians go on TV to have a phone-a-thon for an autism charity in New York. Pretty cool.

As part of the deal they auctioned off a 2009 Toyota Corolla S model. With leather interior and all the other fixins.

It sold for $17.5k on eBay (this auction won’t stay up long)

The MSRP for that car is over 20k

I believe (don’t quote me on this) you only get a tax credit for the amount of money you spend over the value of the car. So the people who bought this thing didn’t even get any tax benefit from the purchase.

They just got a nice car for well below what they would have otherwise paid for it.

Too bad children with autism won’t end up with more money

So, American Idol finished another season.

I wanted to try out for American Idol, but my singing just isn’t up to par with what it would take to ‘go to hollywood.’

The only way to get in front of the judges is to either stand out to the producers (you sing as a group in front of a producer before they send you to see Randy, Paula and Simon) for your singing or for being hilarious to look at. I know I would never stand out for my singing, but if I can make myself look stupid enough I may very well be able to get in front of the judges. Of course, the producers would be totally pissed off when I would go in there and not act like I had acted for the past 2 days, but it would be a fun experience.

I useto be ‘into’ that show, but it just lost all of its appeal once it started getting… repetitive. OK, so there are young people in America who can sing very well, but do we really need to have a televised competition to figure that out? I mean, most of the winners have gone on to be rather successful, especially Kelly Clarkson, but I always found it amusing that Jennifer Hudson was voted out in the middle of the finals one of the seasons but ended up winning a Golden Globe and Oscar for Dreamgirls.

Actually, I really haven’t even watched that show since I was in high school. And I don’t remember it all too clearly. I remember William Hung though, and how satisfying it was to see some dude that they made fun of end up making more bank than most of the top 10. It isn’t that he represents the asian stereotype, it is that he represents someone who genuinely wanted to be good at singing and the show did nothing but insult him. It was a pleasure to see him succeed.

The ‘reality show’ that I have been watching lately would have to be Britain’s Got Talent. You can view it on YouTube if you aren’t in the UK, and last season’s winner, Paul Potts was just amazing. This guy who is the ultimate amateur opera singer, who has it as a passion but doesn’t think he can turn it into anything big, goes to show his talent to some producer and blows everyone away. I mean, he is the ultimate embodiment of ‘that guy you just bought a burger from could have an amazing talent if only someone would notice.’ That is what is so freaking cool.

I came home today and went through the mail and found a letter addressed to my sister, Samantha. Besides the fact that she almost never goes by Sam, the letter was from an old friend of the blog, Gregory S. Strine, Division Manager from Vector Marketing.

Now I don’t really want to get in to why Mr. Strine’s company is a total scam. I’ve done that before. But I figured I would post that another one came to the house.

There was a commenter on one of the posts that said that this company orders something in the order of 6 million letterheads a year.

Anyways, here is the text of the letter. I just bolded things that were bolded in the letter.

Dear Sam,

Due to our company’s continued growth and expansion, we currently have openings for summer work. We would like to invite you to apply.

- Excellent starting pay (their bold, not mine)
- Full and party time openings with flexible scheduled
- Training provided - no experience necessary
- Valuable resume experience (right… -nick)
- May continue during school in the fall
- Conditions apply (of course)
- All ages 18+
- Opportunity to advance

We are filling oepenings for Milwaukee, Mequon, West Bend, Brookfield, Oconomowoc, Franklin and surrounding areas. You may apply regardless of your major, current work schedule, class schedule or previous work experience.

I look forward to meeting you and explainin the details of the position. To schedule an interview, please contact our receptionist at (414) 359-1980 Monday through Saturday between 9:00am and 6:00pm.

Sincerely,

Gregory S.. Strine
Division Manager

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Ships from zip 47150

You would think they would remove our address from their mailing list, since I keep posting their letters verbatim with the names and phone numbers left on. I would LOVE for them to file a DMCA notice against me… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Vector, send a C&D/DMCA order so I can post that online too