DIY

If you want something done right, do it yourself.  That has been true since long before I heard it spoken out loud.  I was swiping through the Groupon app on my phone yesterday when I got home from work, and I saw the opposite of DIY:

By the time I went back in a few hours later, it had been removed.  I guess it was an inter-office joke that the Groupon folk had going on, and the rest of us weren't supposed to see it.  If I remember correctly, it started with the employee flying to wherever your mom lives, surprising her with breakfast, taking her shopping or for some other kind of entertainment and having a catered dinner.  The employee would sit in for family photos, bring a present and otherwise entertain your mother for you.  

Funny?  Yes.  Necessary?  Hell no.  But for a brief time, this prize could have been yours for the low, low price of $25,000.  Heck, I'll go hang out with someone else's mom for $25,000.  Just not on Mother's Day- I have plans that day.  

Jeff is en route to Dallas as I write this.  He should be at my parents' house this evening.  It will be very good to have my big brother around for a week.  Of course, Mom is happy we'll all be in the same place at the same time, so I guess none of us needs to scrape together $25,000 for a stranger to head out to Richardson.  What a relief.