David Penman:  

I guess it's time to add some tidbits of info. I worked for 22 years as an independent contractor distributing newspapers for our local paper, Minneapolis Star Tribune and USA Today. With the price of gas and the internet impact on newspaper sales I decided it was time to get out of the business. While I have been doing eBay since '98, it hasn't been a real source of income and it's still not, but that's my goal. In the meantime I am working for Amazon.com as a customer service rep. Got on there October 2007. It's a love/hate relationship. I love the analytical fix the problem nature of the job, as you have to solve the customers problem, but sitting in a cubicle for 10 hours at a shot has it's drawbacks. I'm used to moving around. Busy days go by fast, slow days creep. You get the point. It is a great company to work for. My wife has gone back to school and earned a second degree in German and she is working on a teaching degree as well, now working as a para-educator part-time. My oldest daughter, Kristin is in her senior year at University of North Dakota, majoring in music education and elementary education and minoring in sign language. She's busy alright, but doing very well. She successfully auditioned for concert choir too. Alyssa is now a sophomore in college. She was homeschooled up to now. We have found that she excels in the classroom and most of the classes we were concerned with she has already taken at home. So she is attending full time plus 1 class at home. She has a full schedule and we don't have any problems with her doing homework, she loves her classes and her teachers. We had to convince her to drop 1 class because we felt the load was too much. Since when do you have to keep your child from taking too many classes. She loves math and will be going to University of North Dakota next year. Jonathan is in the seventh gra...Expand for more