You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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The Fish & Chip shop is not open right now.

No I didn't try going in there I just walked past and noticed it.

Wow, that must've been very awe-inspiring.

i learned that i should not employ my so called friend to work for me.
he thinks i am arrogant and bossy, and i think he could easily be replaced with a more suitable person with a reasonable attitude. he is too aware of the fact that we have known each other for 20+ years, and he is crushingly embarrassed about having to (in his mind) "kneel before me with cap in hand" (whatever that means(he does not wear a cap that i noticed)).

when i tell him what to do, he becomes aggressive and he says i am "treating him like my n****r".
well i am afraid i am the one with the purse, and if he wants to work for me, he will do as i say.

i am not unreasonable. i pay him well for his efforts, and he is annoyed that i earn much more than him without having to do any physical labor (like that which he does for his job that i awarded him).

he rang me up tonight to complain that my attitude to him was contemptuous, and i explained that i did not want to hear any whinging because it is late and i am doing other things.

he became enraged and i suddenly also decided to become very angry about his negative attitude about me rescuing him from starvation and homelessness by sacking a very good employee and installing him into the the "vacant" job.

he is a loser and i try to help him out, but i can not take his attitude.
he thinks i have a "silver spoon wedged up my arse", and he views me with a suppressed hostility. he has always been poor, and his family was also not that well off.

he sees me as a "lord" in my own mind, and he said to me "you place yourself in the position of royalty over me, and you don't deserve it"

me: all i want you to do is drive the blasted truck and get your wage, and then everyone is happy.

him:oh. so you consider "yourself" to be everybody?

me: yes. i consider myself to be everybody that matters in the compilation of what you are going to do tomorrow

him: what?!?!? how dare you presume to tell me "what i am going to do tomorrow ! !!."

me: well i dare to do it because i am paying for it.

him: oh really? you're getting shedloads of profit and you think i'm going to sit back and work for what you're paying me now?!?!

me: i do not want you to work for me. i am only giving you the job because you begged me to "save" you. i have more capable people that are cheaper than you that are all wanting to do it for less than you want to be paid.

anyway, he kept me on the phone for too long arguing about stuff and i just hung up on him eventually.
i know he is desperate so i do not have to argue details with him.

Not only do I know how to convince a ticklish 7 year old to go to school, but apparently it works on her ticklish 9 year old brother.

More humbling. I will just say generally if someone who is poor in a 3rd world country is unhappy, it is because they are oppressed and don't have their basic needs met, not because they can't afford the latest gadget.

I've learned to not give up on myself even when things seem daunting and to not forgo my sense of integrity neither..

i learned today that i do not always learn something everyday.

and if i had not learned that today, then i would not have learned anything today (because i learned nothing other than that today).

i can not learn it tomorrow, because i already know it now. so time will tell what i learn tomorrow.

"what a crazy existence" a part of me protests

I learned today that I must be spending too much time on FB because I really wanted to click "Like" on that post. xD

I learned today that I never remember to throw my dishes in the sink.

I learned that I sometimes fall asleep while meditating.

Not to hang out with NT teenage girls too long.

I've learned some uses of the verbal subjunctive in Spanish today (or rather yesterday, but I've not been able to go to sleep yet since I'm fully awake. Probably the nice weather outside which is keeping me awake, since it shifted from overly warm to cool outside just this week.)

Procrastination isn't the best idea, especially when exams are right round the corner.

Stay home on the early mornings that I'm not scheduled to work.

That even the Covenant's Hunters fly when they are shot by a tank.

i know today that i do not know any more than i knew yesterday that is important.
i learn many new things with every passing minute of my life, but what i learn would be considered utterly insignificant by a normal person.

so what i learn is confined to just private knowledge and i rarely say things about what i see to other people.
when i try to say things to people, all i see is their eyebrows shifting position (which distracts me) when i talk at them about what i have found out.

i could not really care if they know what i know, so i give up trying to tell people things after a short while. if they can not understand the summary, then they certainly can not understand the detail.

it matters not if they do not understand. it matters that i do.