My 2 year old has perfected the art of putting a kids movie into the DVD player and leaving the room. The FBI warnings bore her so she gets disinterested and leaves. The remote is placed in a distant location usually on the other side of the room by her before she leaves, of course. She has also been born with a special "sixth sense". This sense is the uncanny ability to detect when her kids movie has been turned off or ejected from several rooms away from the television. Once the movie has been turned of of, this sense kicks in and compells her to return to the room to complain. Although she has the special gene for "DVD detection" she has evidently also received the gene that causes one to randomly pee on the bathroom floor without notifying her father. This is quickly relayed to the father by his sense of touch when he walks into the bathroom in his socks.

See the Wicked Miss Copeland post below?

A reporter from the Tampa Tribune offered to pay me if he could publish it in his paper.  Here's his email:

I'd like to use this post in The Tampa Tribune with a story that runs next week on school lunch boxes. I'd like to offer you $50 for it.

Can you please e-mail me at jhouck@tampatrib.com or call me at (813) 259-XXXX?

Jeff XXXXX
The Tampa Tribune
200 S. Parker St.
Tampa, FL, 33606

Never did see a penny of that money. 

I was going to start to call myself a coffee drinker, but remembered that my grandpa has drank black coffee for 60 years and I've had 3 caramel lattes.