hiccup!

So I woke up this morning to find that my brand shiny new website had been suspended. My first reaction was !!!, but upon calling their tech support found out that the reason was fairly simple: I paid for the service with my PayPal account, which is a U.S. PayPal account, but I live in Bulgaria, so the physical address I had on file didn't match their PayPal database, so they flagged the account. I have to call back this evening when the account guys are in the office (they are on U.S. time) and get that worked out. No worries. Same thing happened to me last year when we bought my new computer and put it on my Capital One card. I had to physically call the tech support to have them unblock the transaction because it got flagged as coming from Europe when it's a U.S. card...plus PayPal just did the same thing to one of my clients this weekend. He was in Beijing and issued me a payment through PayPal, but because his account is based out of California (he was on a business trip) they flagged the payment for suspicious activity and he had to call them when he got back Stateside to get the issue resolved. So no worries, it's just a little hiccup in the system :) One of the curses of being in Europe and still having a few U.S. systems in place.

I've been researching a trip to Pokhara, Nepal. I stumbled across it when I was doing some work for a client, and it intrigued me enough that I think we might make that one of our must-see destinations in the next year or two. Spending a week in that setting just looks amazing, and hotels are disgustingly cheap...like 25-30 USD a night for mid-grade, and 50-60 bucks a night for all-inclusive, or 150 USD a night for total luxury. Plane tickets are the only real pricey thing.

A couple of randoms for the week (though they are actually from last week).

Wal Mart selling caskets and urns. Any way to make a buck, eh?

Here's my personal favorite for the month. There's just so much wrong with this guy's thought processes. Why you should be allowed to have mistresses if you make more than 200k a year. Basically this guy honestly believes that women are like a good steak dinner. You have a favorite restaurant that you eat at a lot, but you also like to try different steaks when you are on trips or just for variety. Eating those steaks reminds you why you really love your favorite steakhouse, but you don't want to get bored with them, so you need variety.

What really blows my mind is his advocation for infidelity. The guy honestly believes that it's OK to sleep around...but notice how he only talks about MEN being allowed to do so. A bit sexist, don't you think? And also notice that the more money you make, the more liasons you are supposed to be allowed to have.

There's so much wrong with that article that I don't really even know where to start. Evy's first comment was "sounds like he needs a bullet to the brain", which made me LOL. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm a monogomous guy. The idea of my wife being compared to a steak dinner is just beyond comprehension. She is not a steak dinner. She is the light of my life. There is no way in hell I would ever cheat on her, and I can't believe there is someone out there advocating that "the richer you are, the more you should be allowed to cheat, and your woman should be damn happy you are providing for her in the first place".

Things that make you go "!?!"