Sometimes I like to share email that is worth a second or third read. This is suppose to be something Bill Gates said at a graduation. I usually check stuff first, but it sounds legit.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

And my favorite:

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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Not too much new. I went to the chiropractor and he suggested 20 treatments-let’s see 20 times $50 (no insurance help) is something I can’t afford. We’ll see-maybe a couple of more times. He cracks my neck and pushes on my spine and then I lay on a table that has massaging balls that run up and down my back. I have a chair pad that does the same thing. I’m not in pain. I still have the tingling off and on that runs around from the right back. I think that pushing may be aggravating. I have found that I’m not really that hungry the last few days. I’ve been busier, but it’s not like I am starving. I waited until 6 last night to eat 1.5 pieces of leftover pizza and I really wasn’t hungry. I think I was a little empty in the middle of the night. And I think I lost 2-3 pounds. Maybe it’s helping my digestion?
Sean bought a GPS system that was dirt cheap yesterday. Linens and Things is closing and he got a $200 one for $60. He is having fun figuring it out. It would have been nice to have one when we went to NYC as we were a little lost. Not that we would drive in there again-lol. If we went again, we would park in the Meadowlands in NJ and take a bus in.