Caution! Nice to Live (in China)

thanks to Allen for telling me about this one…

In Chinese “hua” means language and Abby has her own language that I dubbed Abby-hua because I’m so smart and all

Anyway, her past best Abby-hua was calling leaves “giraffe noodles” and now she threw a new one out at the dinner table the other night when she was asking for a kleenex and called it a “booger napkin”, made me and the grandparents laugh hardily!

DIETY SKELETAL UPDATE:

…an update on the “Does God have bones?” question that she asked last week, she has been on a 2-day straight roll of asking questions about God. Really tiring because most of my answers are, “I have no clue.” which is not very satisfying to a 4-year old.

Greetings everyone, this post will be incredibly long and boring to most of you but there are a few who are interested in my stock options trading, some of you are even studying the same trading system.

Tomorrow starts the beginning of my trading with real money after a year and a half of practicing and studying with “paper” money.

My immediate (2-4 years) goal is to have enough money in my brokerage account to generate a monthly paycheck that would give my family the ability to retire.

and this all begins with $2500… click on “Read the rest…” below to read my plan and how this works.

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I was watching 101 Dalmatians with Abby and out of the blue she pops this question on me:

Does God have Bones?

it’s a good question, care to try and answer that one?

Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.

“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

and I heard that Obama turns into a werewolf when the moon is full. Here’s the link to the full article. but WAIT, there’s more:

Josh Fry, a 24-year-old ambulance driver from Williamson, insisted he was not racist but said he would feel more comfortable with Mr McCain, the 71-year-old Vietnam war hero, in the White House. “I want someone who is a full-blooded American as president,” he said.

I didn’t know they could test your blood and see what country you are from. These people are advanced.

OK, LINK

I had a free movie ticket to use last night and would have normally gone and seen a documentary or some independent movie but this time I went and saw Iron Man. It seemed that for once an action movie had more good reviews than hype which is not usually the case so i decided it was worth the risk. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. At first I couldn’t get over the fact that Robert Downey, Jr. was going to be the super hero but it actually really worked to the movies advantage to have an actor that didn’t really fit the hero role.

OK, usually there is a concert that is in town when I am in Dallas that makes the long trip from China worth it and this year I just found out Tom Waits will be here June 23, 3 days before I leave back to China! Check out this brilliant press conference with the legend.

So, there are people that believe that Obama is a Muslim and honestly I can’t help believe that they are looking for some kind of reason (they can say out loud) to not like him besides their REAL reason which is the fact that he is black. Anyway, this Wired report which is supposed to be funny is, I have concluded, SAD. Click below:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/hoax-anti-obama.html

A few of you have expressed interest to know how Abby did camping because of her bug-phobia. She did great on her first camping trip and never had a freak out. I was extremely careful when setting up the tent to keep it zipped and never have the light on in the tent without the doors zipped up. She was super excited to sleep outside. I even let her fall asleep by herself in the tent while I went and sat by the fire and chatted with some of the other dads. But she called me about an hour later because of the music blaring from the live band that was playing across the lake. When she called me and I went back into the tent about 11pm she was dancing in the tent. Then there came a cool front with 40mph winds the rest of the night that kept us awake. But all in all it was a way fun trip and I was glad to finally take Abby on a camping trip. She’s ready to go again!