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Alright, Em….

Super powers: ability to discern intent. Super fast, so he can zip from case to case easily. Ability to see the bullies insecurities, so he can give the bullies a taste of their own medicine. Ability to convey a sense of self worth. Neverending supply of lollipops (er, suckers. Sorry.) Ability to make anyone laugh.

Obviously, the scenario is the school playground, or whatever. The super hero can sense when bullying is about to take place, bullies the bully so he learns his lesson, cheers up the kid that was about to be bullied, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Is that enough?

Try jumping it again, and this time make sure that your cables are getting a good connection.

Ever notice that when your turn your ignition key to ’start’ all the electrical components in your car (lights, radio, fan, etc) turn off? The starter motor needs all the juice that the battery can provide, and so everything else in the car gets turned off when the starter is engaged. The switch that does this is the starter solenoid, and the clicking noise that you hear means that the starter solenoid isn’t getting enough power.

If you try jumping it again, it might work. It’s possible that you have other more serious issues, but make sure that the jumpers had good connections before you give up.

Check out Gary Chapman’s book “The Five Love Languages”. Quite often we express love the way we want to receive it, which might not be in a way that someone else can “hear”. It’s not easy, since it involves learning to communicate love differently thn you are used to, but it can be very rewarding also, since your partner can also learn to express love in the way that YOU want to hear it.

In brief, the five love languages are:

Quality Time
Acts of Service
Gifts
Physical Touch, and
Words of affirmation.

Of course, their might be other issues to work on, but learning the way your husband wants you to say “I love you” and he learning the same about you can have a wonderful impact on your marriage.

Tell them you need to take the rest of the week off. It is your reputation that is going to save the day (or possibly ruin it.) If you have a reputation as a hard worker, they’ll take care of you. If you have a bad reputation, it won’t matter what you say.

Someone’s life is worth WAY more than $300 bucks. As far as paying for her crimes, I bet her life is pure unmitigated misery…even when it might seem like she’s having a good time.

If she is really willing to change, focus on getting her the help that she needs. Start by getting her family involved. Hopefully they really care about her…then get her to rehab. After she gets out, she’s going to need to make new friends.

And by the way, kick the boyfriend in the groin a few times, and then tell him to get lost. He loves her a lot, I can tell.

I use blue tooth as an adjective, not a noun. So, you would ask your friend “Do you have a blue tooth headset”, while you would ask the store clerk “Do you have any blue tooth headsets?”

I would suspect it’s an overheating issue as well. If you’ve got it in one of those desk cupboard things, take it out, first and foremost. Make sure all the fans are operational and that the computer isn’t covered by a thick layer of dust, especially the fan vents. You may consider adding an extra fan to the case if the problem persists.

I think the problem is on her end, Jerry… We know what you were thinking–What was SHE thinking? She obviously didn’t care a whole lot about what you thought of the situation, so what motivated her? What need was she trying to meet?

She might have been lonely, or has low self esteem…there are lots of reasons why she might have been so aggressive. But as I mentioned, the problem seems to be on her end, not yours.

Whoa.

Why do you want to go to Yale? Going to Yale would be a great accomplishment, but what about the 50 years of your life after that? It seems to me that you are focusing too much on the short term. Figure out who you want to be, and then if Yale is a stepping stone along that path, then great.

Book the round trip flight, and when you get to your destination, cancel the return flight. Usually, you’ll get a credit that you can use valid for up to a year on a flight on the same airline.

Make sure that the PC2 to USB adapter works. I hate those things…

There has been a virus going around that causes this…it goes by various names. Run your antivirus program to see if that catches it. You may need to download Malwarebytes malware program (go to cnet.com, click on the download tab, and type in Malwarebytes into the search field) to get rid of it. Download the program onto a thumbdrive, start the infected computer in safe mode, and then run the install from the thumbdrive. Obviously, you might need to use a different computer to download the program.

Here’s what I would do: ask your boyfriend to introduce you to her. If he’s uncomfortable with it, then you have some serious thinking to do. If he agrees, then it’s possible that he doesn’t think it’s anything more than friendship.

Couple of quick suggestions:

1) Find out why he’s putting on weight. There could be stress or something that is causing him to overeat. Once you find out the root cause and fix it, the problem may go away all by itself.

2) Point out that healthy eating goes way beyond looking good. Feeling good and being healthy are excellent advantages as well.

3) This might be sneaky, but it might be okay to put him in situations where he is uncomfortable with his own body–thus giving him some good external motivation to change. For example, if you decide to go to the beach together, he might decide that it’s worth it to change himself so that he isn’t embarrassed.

4) Bottom line, though, is that he might never change. Is this guy someone you would be happy with? If not, then move on quickly. It’s unfair to do anything else.

It could be worse…somebody else could be biting your lip…