Some people here on tagged have chosen to make their profile private. That's fine I understand. However when someone sends me a friends request without sending me a note I look at their profile. If their profile is set to private I can't learn anything about them.

How do I know if they're someone I'd like to get to know or if I have anything in common with them. If you want to set your profile to private at least start a dialog first. Chat a bit. Sometimes you don't want to go on a "blind date". Take a few minutes and say hi first. Sometimes when I read a profile something moves me or seems interesting sometimes not. Some pofiles have nothing on them.

You never know who you might meet. You may end up building a life long relationship if you just let a little bit of you show. 

Growing up my mom instilled a strong sense of manners, being polite, being careful of what you say. I understand being nice. You don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

On the other end there's being brutally honest. Can you be too direct? Is saying everything that's on your mind a good thing? I think a balance is the best thing. There was a time I always wanted to say the right thing, don't make waves. The problem is you can quickly get yourself into trouble. Sometimes just a little sometimes a lot.

You may find yourself in situations that you could have avoided if you were honest in the first place.  At this point in my life I'd prefer hearing the truth even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear. Sometimesthe truth allows you to move forward and even develop some great relationships. They say the truth shall set you free, I say the truth can make life so much simpler.

ridiculous you thought your brains must of fell out? I just had one those things happen. My furnace isn't self feeding so I have to add water to it. Mind you I've been in my house for 5 years-5 winters of adding water to the furnace.

This time I added water went upstairs and moments later had water shoothing out of my bathroom heater. For some reason I thought turn off the water main. Went in the basement and heard more water, it was shooting out of the top of my furnace. Shut off the main and the water stopped gushing.

In my head I knew that shoudln't have helped because there's a secondary shut off just to my furnace. Anyway I bothered a couple of friends to take a look at the furnace. It turns out after I addded water to the furnace I opened up the shutoff valve instead of closing it.

Well at least I didn't need a new furnace. I'll have to hear about that day for awhile but that's ok I'm happy that's all it was. If you have one of those days don't worry about sh** happens. Here's a little home tip, with a ball joint shutoff (it's a lever instead of a shutoff like a faucet) When it's in line with the pipe it's wide open. That lesson I won't forget.