So, it's been a while and I have been busy.

My apologies.

long time no post.

because it's been a busy summer...

but school's starting up again, so I'll have a little more spare time. :-D

The Tomato Company

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids.

He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.

The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."

Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.

To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."

Stunned, the man leaves Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives
home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.

By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.

Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over one million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"

"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour."

Which brings us to the moral of the story:
Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also.

Most people walk in and out of your life......but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart.

To The World You Might Be One Person; But To One Person You Might Be the World.

Frogs

Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs.... who arranged a running competition.

The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.

A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants....

The race began....

Honestly: No one in crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as:
"Oh, WAY too difficult!!"
"They will NEVER make it to the top."
or:
"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!"

The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one....

Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher....

The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up....

But ONE continued higher and higher and higher....

This one wouldn't give up!

At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?

A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?

It turned out....

That the winner was DEAF!!!!


The wisdom of this story is:

Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic.... because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you -- the ones you have in your heart!

Always think of the power words have because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!

Therefore:

ALWAYS be.... POSITIVE!

And above all: Be DEAF when people tell YOU that you cannot fulfill your dreams!

Always think: God and I can do this!

Tips for Life

There's some mighty fine advice in these words.

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get o! lder, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.

FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN.. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile whe! n picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

My Mom

(Courtesy of AP)


My mom just got back from the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer in Washington D.C.!!
(She's the one in the front and center holding the huge noodle in the shape of a ribbon.)

My mom is currently signed up to walk in all eight cities this year and trains weekly for these walks which cover 39-miles in two days.

If you'd like to donate to my mom's efforts e-mail me at jeremy.mcmahan@gmail.com

*sigh* May 1st, 2006

I can't seem to get off my mind that I have a paper due in less than 38 hours...

I had my academic advising appt this afternoon after work. It looks like I'm going to be fairly busy these next few semesters to graduate in Spring of 2007. I don't know if it's going to happen, but I'm certainly going to try. I haven't talked it over with my parents, but I'm going to go ahead and register for the 12 units of business classes that I have to take and a Bible course (total of 15 units). I may have to take another semester to finish up, but as it appears now 2007 is going to be my year as long as I pass all my classes.

"Shoot for an 'A'." I can already hear my parents saying it... sure, of course I'm shooting for an 'A'... but whether or not it's going to happen is another story.

I'm getting a new battery for my laptop soon! Maybe it will last longer than 15 minutes.

May the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all.
AMEN.

Interesting day at Work.

So I arrived at work today only to be sent out after the mail. The drive there was uneventful; it was the drive back to work that was "interesting".

Pulling out of the La Mirada Post Office, I thought I had looked both ways, but apparently I didn't see a vehicle on my left... No, I didn't hit it. I just got really close to it... really close.

hehe... i saw it. just a little too late. :-D

the rest of the drive was fine...

After work (around 5pm), I was pulling out of work and nothing happened. Actually, there was this train and some traintracks and my car... so i turned around and went down a different street. To Staples I went and bought a new 512MB USB2.0 FlashDrive. It works pretty well.

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BU. you decide.

Well, I've heard that the shape of BU looks like many things...
let me know what you think it looks like...

BUBBS ADMIN!!!

umm... crazy night... :-D

for those of you who stayed up till 2am tonight, you got to see much of the action/drama which unfolded. for those of you who didn't, ask Jace or Curtis or Sunny-D. It was fun!

MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Unfortunately, at around 2:45am i was "kicked off" (it said my "communication link has failed" etc.). bubbs. ha.

anyways, i've got a couple screenshots, I'm posting the better one below...


as for the paper, well... we'll see if it gets done... i think i'm going to go to bed now..

now it looks like this... erg.

Back at Biola!

Hey all,
I'm back at BU finally! It's great seeing everyone again and catching up on summer activities and all that jazz...

Well, I'd write something longer, but it's almost midnight and I've got to get up early tomorrow to go running.

See ya'll later.
~JLM