There’s talk of losing a day of home mail delivery. Could be a Saturday or a Tuesday. Now, one of my brothers is a mail carrier and nobody wants to see folks losing work and income because of this potential change, but, speaking just for me…I may not mind one less day of mail. At this stage of [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Mail Call
January 29, 2009
Not A Game Guy
January 28, 2009
On FirstNews, Wednesday morning, there was a story about video games being a more popular purchase by families than DVD players or those Blu Ray things. I’m just barely past the Beta-Max stage when it comes to video. DVDs still strike me as rather exotic. This Blu Ray stuff just annoys me. For me, Blu [...]
Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 27, 2009
Okay, for those of you who are sticklers, I am several days late in acknowledging our furry friends of the squirrel persuasion. It usually falls on January 21. It was founded by a wildlife rehabilitator back in 2001. The best way to celebrate, according to the founder, is to put out some extra food for [...]
Do Argue With Me!
January 26, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BLUE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE TEAM!!!
This past weekend, January 23-24, the Kansas State Debate Championship was held in Topeka and it was a great couple of days for the debaters from Blue Valley High School. For the first time in the history of the 6-A competition, one school, Blue Valley High, won both the two-speaker [...]
Harmonica Boy Returns
January 21, 2009
It is a telling indictment of our educational system, but I do teach broadcast courses at Johnson County Community College and have for many years. Tuesday evening’s Broadcast Performance class was the first session of the Spring semester. First of all, we went over the class schedule and rules such as: Rule One: Try not to laugh and point [...]
