I married an engineer. He’s kind of a nerd, but he’s not bad to look at and a good provider. And, I can manipulate him. I needed to distract him one day, so I threw in front of him an equation I read in the paper: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

That kept him busy for an hour, just long enough for him not to notice I was on my laptop working out a little problem.  I had smashed in my front bumper on the car, the old car, and we weren’t carrying collision insurance on it anymore.  He’s kinda critical of my driving, and yes, the accident was due to my talking on the phone while driving. So I just didn’t want him to see what happened or know that it was a $430 repair. For a week I had to be sure to pull into the garage so the way it was parked covered the damage. I managed to cover the expense “off the books,” so to speak, by getting a car title loan from Car Title Loans in Gresham, which was easy to do from my laptop. I paid it off from my own slush fund and he never knew a thing about it.

So the bottom line is if you marry an engineer, math problems are a great way to divert their attention.

The average life span of a major league baseball is seven pitches.  Seven. And I figure they each cost about, what, $30, so that’s a good $400 a game.  No wonder tickets to see the Portland Beavers are so expensive.  And don’t even talk to me about watching the Blazers.

My kid, he likes paintball.  We go to watch the Naughty Dogs all the time when they’re in town. And now that we have a roller derby league team, the Rose City Rollers, the wife wants to go there.  We’re real sports fans.

But wouldn’t ya know it, I got a bum leg from an accident a few months ago, so I can’t go to these events now. I’m just trying to get back to work, doing my therapy.  It’s been a tough go, taking disability and then having a lot of hospital costs. I was short of about $1200 last month, and wasn’t sure how to swing it. But my kid, he’s a smart one. He took me to a car title loans place on the internet, Portland Car Title Loans.  They gave me my money, almost $1500 all told, and I figure I can pay it back as soon as I get working again.

I told the kid we gotta go stand outside the park at PGE Park and catch some foul balls and home runs if we want to buy tickets there. HA!