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My feel good story ...

I was in charge of Project Graduation for my kids HS, and as a fundraiser, we served kids lunch at summer school. It was district wide event, with ~ 2,000 kids, some of which were on various school lunch programs. I asked the administration for a list of kids who were eligible for assistance, which, of course, they were not allowed to provide. Those hungry kids, and a 1,000 of 'em showing up with 20's, gave me anxiety.

I wrote a note on the back of my business cards, and asked the volunteers to give one to the kids that pulled out a bunch of change to pay for lunch. 

We raised over $20,000 serving lunch, and $100,000+ over the year. We quit our fundraising efforts in early April, as we had already exceeded our budget, and I knew some of the other schools were not quite as fortunate.  We rented Dave & Buster's for an overnight lock-in, had 90+% participation ~ 650 kids, and no one got hurt.

It was the money we didn't make that made me feel the best.

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In some ways, it's a pretty remarkable world we live in.
 
I ordered a special LED light for my camera from Amazon. It cost 21 dollars. When I ordered, Amazon indicated that it would take three weeks to arrive. I'm in no rush, so no biggie. 
 
This morning I got an email that it shipped.  Amazon says it will be delivered sometime between Feb. 26-March 10.  I wondered "where is this that it actually is going to take almost four weeks to get delivered?"  So I checked my orders on Amazon to view the shipping status. It says "Package shipped .... from Dongguan, GUANGDONG China."
 
So for 21 bucks I can order an LED light, somebody in China gets the order, puts the light in a box, puts the box on a truck, that truck goes to a harbor, the box gets unloaded onto a ship, that ship sails across the ocean, the box gets unloaded and put onto another truck, that truck drives to a distribution center, somebody unloads it and puts it on another truck and so on until some random guy gets it in a delivery van, drives past my house, stops, unloads it, and puts it on my doorstep here in Texas.
 
Without getting into the ecological ramifications of all this, I'm feeling powerful and mighty this morning and, per the teachings of Ray Wylie Hubbard , keeping my gratitude higher than my expectations.
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21 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:
In some ways, it's a pretty remarkable world we live in.
 
I ordered a special LED light for my camera from Amazon. It cost 21 dollars. When I ordered, Amazon indicated that it would take three weeks to arrive. I'm in no rush, so no biggie. 
 
This morning I got an email that it shipped.  Amazon says it will be delivered sometime between Feb. 26-March 10.  I wondered "where is this that it actually is going to take almost four weeks to get delivered?"  So I checked my orders on Amazon to view the shipping status. It says "Package shipped .... from Dongguan, GUANGDONG China."
 
So for 21 bucks I can order an LED light, somebody in China gets the order, puts the light in a box, puts the box on a truck, that truck goes to a harbor, the box gets unloaded onto a ship, that ship sails across the ocean, the box gets unloaded and put onto another truck, that truck drives to a distribution center, somebody unloads it and puts it on another truck and so on until some random guy gets it in a delivery van, drives past my house, stops, unloads it, and puts it on my doorstep here in Texas.
 
Without getting into the ecological ramifications of all this, I'm feeling powerful and mighty this morning and, per the teachings of Ray Wylie Hubbard , keeping my gratitude higher than my expectations.

Yeah, it is crazy what we can get right away. And some of it we really need. Like the coconut tree I just ordered.

But you better go to the climate thread and talk about the ecological ramifications before the Greta Gang see this post. :) 

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31 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yeah, it is crazy what we can get right away. And some of it we really need. Like the coconut tree I just ordered.

But you better go to the climate thread and talk about the ecological ramifications before the Greta Gang see this post. :) 


I'm just a spoke in a great big wheel
A tiny blade of grass in a great big field
I feel like a number

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1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:
In some ways, it's a pretty remarkable world we live in.
 
I ordered a special LED light for my camera from Amazon. It cost 21 dollars. When I ordered, Amazon indicated that it would take three weeks to arrive. I'm in no rush, so no biggie. 
 
This morning I got an email that it shipped.  Amazon says it will be delivered sometime between Feb. 26-March 10.  I wondered "where is this that it actually is going to take almost four weeks to get delivered?"  So I checked my orders on Amazon to view the shipping status. It says "Package shipped .... from Dongguan, GUANGDONG China."
 
So for 21 bucks I can order an LED light, somebody in China gets the order, puts the light in a box, puts the box on a truck, that truck goes to a harbor, the box gets unloaded onto a ship, that ship sails across the ocean, the box gets unloaded and put onto another truck, that truck drives to a distribution center, somebody unloads it and puts it on another truck and so on until some random guy gets it in a delivery van, drives past my house, stops, unloads it, and puts it on my doorstep here in Texas.
 
Without getting into the ecological ramifications of all this, I'm feeling powerful and mighty this morning and, per the teachings of Ray Wylie Hubbard , keeping my gratitude higher than my expectations.

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1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:
In some ways, it's a pretty remarkable world we live in.
 
I ordered a special LED light for my camera from Amazon. It cost 21 dollars. When I ordered, Amazon indicated that it would take three weeks to arrive. I'm in no rush, so no biggie. 
 
This morning I got an email that it shipped.  Amazon says it will be delivered sometime between Feb. 26-March 10.  I wondered "where is this that it actually is going to take almost four weeks to get delivered?"  So I checked my orders on Amazon to view the shipping status. It says "Package shipped .... from Dongguan, GUANGDONG China."
 
So for 21 bucks I can order an LED light, somebody in China gets the order, puts the light in a box, puts the box on a truck, that truck goes to a harbor, the box gets unloaded onto a ship, that ship sails across the ocean, the box gets unloaded and put onto another truck, that truck drives to a distribution center, somebody unloads it and puts it on another truck and so on until some random guy gets it in a delivery van, drives past my house, stops, unloads it, and puts it on my doorstep here in Texas.
 
Without getting into the ecological ramifications of all this, I'm feeling powerful and mighty this morning and, per the teachings of Ray Wylie Hubbard , keeping my gratitude higher than my expectations.

"LED light for my camera."  Seems like an odd product choice to replace the term "vibrating butt plug."  No matter, we're all glad that it's showing up pronto to take care of your needs, and we don't judge around here.  You do you, brother.

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