It’s sad that someone thought they needed to rob a bank to get the healthcare they need.
Bank Robber Planned Crime and Punishment
Good-bye Grandpa
A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, “God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and good-bye Grandpa.”
The father asked, ‘Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?’
The little girl said, “I don’t know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do.”
The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.
A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this, “God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and good-bye Grandma.”
The next day the grandmother died.
“Holy crap” thought the father, “this kid is in contact with the other side.”
Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, “God bless Mommy and good-bye Daddy.”
He practically went into shock. He couldn’t sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock.
He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.
When he got home his wife said, “I’ve never seen you work so late. What’s the matter?”
He said, “I don’t want to talk about it, I’ve just spent the worst day of my life.”
She said, “You think you had a bad day, you’ll never believe what happened to me. This morning my golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson!”
Do it Anyway by Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
There are several stages to learning. The first is Unconscious Incompetence. This is not knowing you don’t know or can’t do something. For example, a baby doesn’t know he can’t do a back tuck because he doesn’t know what a back tuck is. He can’t even think about a back tuck because he has no concept of what a back tuck is. The next stage is Conscious Incompetence, which is knowing you don’t know or can’t do something. An example of this would be me attempting to do Marcel’s job. He’s a rocket scientist, I am not. I understand the job is to get space ships, satellites, and rockets in the air, but I wouldn’t be able to get it done.
The third stage is Conscious Competence. is knowing you know or can do something. This is most people’s golf game. They have to work at it and concentrate on it, but can be good at it. The final stage is Unconscious Competence. This is when you know longer have to think about what you are doing. An adult walking, the Love family tumbling, Dougie or Miggy stunting are examples. They’ve done these things long enough that they continue to do them well, even when not thinking about it.
I’m not sure why I wrote this, but I hope it lights a candle for someone.
World IPv6 Day
Wednesday, June 8th, is World IPv6 Day. This is a day many major internet companies have decided jointly run a test on the future of the internet. The test is running Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), instead of the existing standard of IPv4, to see if anything breaks. Google estimates very few people will have any issues, guesstimating about 1 in 2000 people. Google has set up a Test Site so people can see if they are ready in advance. Google also published World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines. with more information.
IPv6 is necessary because we are running out of IPv4 addresses. If you aren’t familiar with IP addresses, you can think of them as phone numbers for everything that connects to the internet. If IPv4 is our existing 10 digit number, IPv6 would be like having a 12 digit number, which greatly increases the options for phone numbers. Since we’re using more devices to connect to the internet we need to have more number options.
Andre