I am MOST DEFINITELY in the wrong line of work!

In November, I will be speaking to Texas Occupational Therapy Association. While I am a little bit nervous, it is a good kind of nervous-the kind that is exciting and makes you try to do a good job.

Of course, I turned to the Internet to find more information and sharpening my speech. I went down all sorts of rabbit trails, because it was fun. My sense of self-discipline took the back seat and everything.

Then I accidentally ran into this website.

The pitch is absolutely irresistible. It makes me want to plunk down $2600 instantaneously. I would love to make speeches for $3000 a pop!

For now, it simply isn't in my budget.

  I will have to make do with:
http://www.learningforlife.org/exploring-resources/99-720/y10.pdf

http://www.speechtips.com/how-to-write-a-speech.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/3026982/work-smart/10-lessons-every-presenter-should-learn-from-americas-most-iconic-speech

and

http://www.toastmasters.org/

Sheila's birthday luncheon…

Mom and I were stumped about what to get this dear lady for her birthday. She has most of the things she wants right now, at least that things within our budget. Granted, winning the lottery would've made her birthday perfect, but I'm not sure how to arrange that for certain.

We decided to take her for lunch. She thought she might like shrimp fried rice. Although we don't normally enjoy going out, this sounded like fun. We're finally decided to go to Main Moon Asian Bistro. It was fairly close. It was clean and welcoming. The food was quite reasonable and quite tasty.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Mom liked it. Best of all, Sheila was pleased.

Email addresses, the Klingon language, and other random stuff…

Yes, I have done it again. I have yet another email address, this time it is at "Starfleet.com." I do not intend I'm giving this email address out here, but if you know me… You can probably guess what it is.

It is moving some of my silly and fun things out of my main email area so I can do what I need to do instead of getting distracted. Hey, at least I'm pretending to pretend to be an adult…But…My identity here means "language-learner." My signature here Means "always learning…" If I ever wanted to look like a part of the warrior race, you might see resembling Warrior Stokkar <<http://www.hotink.com/warriorgallery/33.html>> since they modified a photo of me… I think you might get a grin from <<http://wiki.qephom.de/En/EmailDiscussionForum>>, which explains about an email list dedicated to learning Klingon. That's short version is To subscribe, send email to tlhIngan-Hol-subscribe@kli.org <mailto:tlhIngan-Hol-subscribe@kli.org> It is not unlike the Latin and Greek study groups online at <<http://www.quasillum.com/study/index.php>> I'm not really good at learning languages, I have the attention span of a gnat on crack cocaine, but I enjoy them. I would like to learn Latin so I can read "the old dead guys," and Koine Greek. It is hard to do any of them when you dedicate about 5 minutes per week… ;-) I also use this to play games. I am planning on signing up for Starbase 118 when things settle down a little bit. <<http://www.starbase118.net/>> So now you know my dark secrets… -- reH jIghojtaH

Colonoscopy is in the rearview mirror, so to speak…

I'm fine. I'd guess that I could show you the pictures, but I won't.

Some days are planned well, and then…

I may not have moved quickly enough. We may have lost the domain name "ziontomball.org". I'd say there is a 60-80% chance that this is true. On May 15, this website may temporarily disappear.

However, I have managed to get "ziontomballtx.org" and will order and setup hosting for that later this week.

Onward and upward?

It was a good visit… We are in recovery mode

I need to do this more often. I created a video that was right here, but I don't see it now. That's OK, it was hidious! I did not know that I could stick the utterance, "uhm" so often within a 1 minute video!
Trying again…

Camelot - Lusty Month of May - Rachel York