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I'm supposed to be doing an assignment for my Employment Law class right now, but the school's website is down and I have to submit it online so I decided to post an entry. I had something really cool and unexpected happen yesterday. I have been waiting for my grades now for about a month and on Thursday I finally got my first grade -- an A- in Military Law. That's about what I expected so I was pretty happy with that. Anyway, I have been dreading getting my grade back for my Commercial Law class because I didn't think I did very well on the final. The more I thought about it the more I was convinced that I would be stuck with a C- at the worst and a B at the best. Realistically I was thinking I would get a B- or a C+. Well yesterday I got an email notification that my Commercial Law grade was available, so I opened the grades page and saw that I had gotten an A in the class. What a freaking relief! There was one section of the final that I thought I might have completely missed, but I guess I must have done OK. I'm still waiting on two grades -- Sports and the Law and Evidence. I think I got an A or A- in Sports and the Law. Evidence could be anywhere from a B to an A, so we'll see.

The Answer to the Missing Dollar

The answer is in the way the question is worded. You cannot add what one person HAS to what someone else has PAID and come up with any kind of a meaningful number, you have to subtract.
Each man has paid $9. The bellhop has $2. Difference
$9 x 3 = $27 2 $25
The hotel clerk has the other 25 dollars.
To look at it from the standpoint of the original $30.
Each man has $1. The bellhop has $2. The hotel clerk has $25. Total
$1 x 3 = $3 2 25 $30

The Missing Dollar

OK smart guys, this is one of my favorite riddles. When I was a supervisor at MyFamdamily.com I held a smart guy contest for my team and I gave them this riddle. The most memorable (albeit incorrect) response was "Why are 3 men getting a motel room anyway?" I will post the answer tomorrow.

Three men went to a motel. The motel manager said a room cost $30, so each man put up $10 and went to their room. A little while later the manager realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellhop back to the three guys' room with $5. On the way to the room the bellhop couldn't figure out how to split the $5 between the 3 men, so he gave each one of them $1 and he kept the other $2.

This meant that the 3 men paid $9 each for the room for a total of $27. Add the $2 that the bellhop kept = $29. Where did the other dollar go???

The Many Faces of Jay

 
 
 
 

Lord of the dance

I'm a little bit worried about Jay and his current career path. First, he seems to be training for riverdance. Lindsay and I have been watching the DVD's of Alias lately, and when the music to the credits is playing, he jumps up from whatever he is doing and begins dancing like Raquel Welch. He stomps his legs furiously and spins around and the whole time his arms are straight down at his sides. For those of you (Mom) who missed the Raquel Welch reference from Seinfeld, I have included a helpful exchange from the episode below. Jay also seems to be training for the strong man competition or to be a stunt man. He loves trying to push things around -- the heavier the better. His favorite objects to push include his high chair and the shopping cart. He is slowly working his way up to pushing things like vaccuum's and lawnmowers and then maybe our car, etc. Since our return from Utah he has shifted his training focus from pushing to climbing. A couple of days ago I heard him in the kitchen banging what I though were pots and pans (a favorite pasttime of his)so I didn't think much of it. When I walked into the kitchen, I found him on top of the kitchen table banging the cooling rack (Lindsay had just baked cookies) on the table. If his future career options are limited to riverdancer, strongman competitor or stunt man, I think stunt man would be the coolest.

Malcolm: Are you familiar with our star, Raquel Welch?

Kramer: Oh yeah, she's fantastic....

Mr. Graham: She's a train wreck.

Malcolm: There's a big tap dance number just before Jean Harris leaves the school to confront Dr Tarnover.

Mr. Graham: It is a gut wrenching scene.

Malcolm: But, Raquel Welch doesn't move her arms when she tap dances. It's very distracting.

Mr. Graham: There's lot of this [swings his arms] in tap dancing.

Kramer: So, you'd like me to teach how to dance?

Malcolm: No, we want you to fire her.