Thursday, May 20, 2010

Avoiding The Void.


I've had lots of story ideas for "Another Day" lately, but I think I'll just use my time in more productive pursuits, such as sleeping and watching TV. After two years, a couple of hundred blog entries, and hours at the computer, I've created no audience for my cyber-ramblings.

Writing this blog is a bit like the wanna-be artist in the family who paints bad portraits of sea scapes and mountain vistas, and then foists them off on friends and relatives. Said relatives are then forever obliged to pull them from the closet and hang them in the living room whenever the "artist" plans a visit. Such is stuff of bad TV sitcoms.

I'm not going to do that to you anymore. See ya later.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Welcome, Natalie.

Daughter Samantha had her baby this morning. Natalie Rose weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and is 20 inches long. Mother and daughter are doing fine.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Four Dead In Ohio...


Forty years ago, tomorrow, four students at Kent State University were shot and killed by National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest. I don't have any pithy remarks to make, and I won't dwell on how quickly the years have passed. It all seems fresh in my mind.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Unemployed? You Are Not Alone.


I love little search engines like this one, provided by the newspaper in Long Beach. Just plug in your favorite community and see just how many people are out of work. The media tends to report gross figures for the counties, but here you can really see the numbers by city.
Click on the blog post headline, or go here:

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_12651877

Lemme give you a hint here. Check out the numbers for Berdoo County perennial losers Muscoy, Adelanto, and San Bernarghetto; you'll be shocked. None of them match Cabazon in Riverside County, thank God, where over 35 percent are unemployed.

Why Is It...


...that Caltrans (meaning the taxpayers) went to the expense of widening I-1o through town, only to then block off massive strips of the right hand lane to provide unneeded accel/decel lanes at the offramps?

...that Redlands is spending money for a revamp of the bricks and park on State Street, when the city is in a serious monetary crisis?

...that the Redlands cops allowed transients to illegally occupy a house on Alabama (clearly visible from the street) for months, until one of the tramps decided to burn it down?

...that the city has taken no action to prevent Edison and its contractors from killing city trees, especially since the city has no money to remove said trees once they die? And does this open the city to lawsuits should one or more of these trees fall over and kill somebody?

...that the Facts can be so blatant in its support of the local Tea Party folks and the proposed Super Walmart, while never writing an editorial on any subject in months?

...that the local cops, who continually cry poverty, are allowed to drive their patrol vehicles home, and leave them there, for days at a time?

...that Redlands continues to lean on its citrus and philanthropic heritage, while doing nothing to add to the city's long-term viability as a pleasing place to live?

...that nobody ever questions if the public wants the dozens of police cameras placed all over town to monitor us?

Just thought I'd ask.