What! No E-mail?
An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning).

After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day." Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb. flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than two hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit.

Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night.

And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business.

By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the internet from the very start!"

After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"

Moral of this story:

1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

My father played country music, so that's what I was raised up with. I started playing drums in grade school and by the fifth grade I was playing in clubs in my fathers 3 piece band. I played the guitar in a talent contest in sixth grade, and then started playing the piano in high school. I got to play drums on an album before I graduated high school, then played organ for a church after high school. I now have an accordian, keyboard, piano, organ, guitar, fiddle and a trumpet at home. I've been blessed with being able to play anything I've tried. I've also written over 100 gospel songs, and about 25 country songs. I like any type of music you can hear the words to, and even some classical. I don't like rap, hip-hop, or opera. I've been on television twice, radio too many times to mention, I've done 5 albums, either as a musician or a back-up singer. I've been a member of 4 quartets, and still sing with my wife when I have the chance.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Back to the Future: all John Wayne movies: Matrix: Star Trek: and Star Wars: Under Siege: Die Hard: Sixth Sense. (yes I know these are all old movies - but not only do I not have much time for movies now - - I'm not sure they are making many movies I want to watch)