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Wednesday, August 27, 2003 ( 8/27/2003 02:35:00 PM ) DN News from here. My Univega bicycle has been stolen. Again. Vigilante justice is being planned. The house sale isn’t happening. Fortunately, we’ve been able to cut down on recent neighborhood annoyances. Two kids aren’t allowed to play with ours (yay!) anymore, and two others have gone back to school and are hanging around much less. The Harley-Davidson shop is busy expanding directly behind us, but it seems they’re orienting the entrances on the far side of the block. The service areas will still be facing us across the alley. They are cleaning the alley up some, too. So, with some better privacy fencing (& earplugs), they’ll make pretty good neighbors. I fully support the recent union vote at Special Metals (aka Inco Alloys, or just “the nickel plant”). The company has said they would not reorganize, but try to liquidate (it’s in bankruptcy), if the union voted down the new contract. The union said, “We don’t believe anything they say.” Aside from pension, health insurance, and wage concessions, the union members couldn’t stomach the prospect of executive retention and performance bonuses that had been permitted by the bankruptcy court. I can barely stomach it, either. Special Metals has only owned the company for a few years. It took maybe three years to drive it into the ground. Why do they want to keep those key employees again? Say goodbye, Huntington, to one of your ten largest employers. The $91M annual economic loss is going to be hard (even if that amount is a bit overstated). Huntington has a Rhodes scholar! Lindsey Worth of Huntington High School was named this week. Our whole family is back to school. I’m teaching again, the kids are starting first and fourth grades, and Tom is working in Kanawha County schools doing what he usually does: installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting networks and computers. # ( 8/27/2003 02:34:00 PM ) DN I personally think the courts were doing about as well as usual without stone monuments. Ten Commandments Monumuent Moved Out of Sight (washingtonpost.com): "Ten Commandments Monumuent Moved Out of Sight " # Friday, August 22, 2003 ( 8/22/2003 01:50:00 PM ) DN Politics in the Zeros and another. I think Schwarzenegger winning the recall/election will cure Californians of wanting Schwarzenegger to be Governor. Maybe they can have another recall in 2004! # ( 8/22/2003 01:49:00 PM ) DN The Left Leaner at LeftLeaner.com :: Politics and Popular Culture and another. # ( 8/22/2003 01:49:00 PM ) DN DubyaSpeak.com >>> We record the damage. # ( 8/22/2003 01:49:00 PM ) DN Help, I've been sucked into the world of political blogs. Here's one. # Tuesday, August 19, 2003 ( 8/19/2003 09:53:00 PM ) DN Sweet and spicy. That's you, and not just the fresh-pressed apple cider you'll be tasting, lounging on a rustic farm bench in the autumn sunshine, enjoying the fall foliage of New England at its peak while wearing this red delicious ponte knit 2 piece set, with lettuce edge cuffs and a lively scoop of a neckline. Its classic lines take you straight to an elegant dinner in a fine old Yankee inn, a pleasant walk away from your understated four-star B&B. (S, M, L) Burnished gold-washed apple pin sold separately. You, in the Coldwater Creek catalog's alternate universe. Low profile. With or without your drugstore sunglasses, you can pull it off, getting through a parent-teacher conference, milk run to the supermarket, and the McDonald's drive-through without anyone noticing you at all, in these off-the-rack size 16 jeans, in dark denim. Add a men's Beefy T, any color, from any outlet store, and you'll be under the radar. Reality. # ( 8/19/2003 01:21:00 PM ) DN And what do you say to people who call you a liberal? Using Liberal as a negative epithet will apparently never end. Bill Simon in the Calif. recall mess is calling Schwarzenegger a liberal, and yesterday, John Kerry, being interviewed on NPR, was asked, "And what do you say to those who are calling you a "liberal from Massachusetts"? I was rooting for him to answer, "What's your point? That's what I am." Of course, he gave some narcolepsy-inducing reply instead. I consider myself a liberal, but what I really want to be is one of the liberal elite. # ( 8/19/2003 11:03:00 AM ) DN Let's just say I was going to buy gas in Charleston It's funny, well, perhaps sad, how badly (or well) two people can miscommunicate. Around here, Tom and I do it all the time, and it's almost never by accident. No, we usually do it for the sake of argument (a term first used by one half of a married couple, tensely: "But honey, let's just say, for the sake of argument, . . . . " The things we do to generate a spark. We don't care if the house burns down.). Last week, Tom was in Canaan most of the week. Friday evening he came home and, after looking at the local papers, said that the Clarksburg news hadn't mentioned Bob Wise's reelection announcement all week. We moved on to discussing my own trip to Morgantown on Monday to pick up my son & nephew, who were being driven halfway home from the Eastern Shore, where they were finishing their vacation. Tom said, "Whatever you do, don't stop for gas in Charleston." I thought to myself, Why would he think I would stop for gas in Charleston? Does he think I'm stupid?" I said, "Why would I do that? I'd never do that. I'd get gas at the Go-Mart in Milton, or here in town before I left." We talked for 10 minutes about how to avoid getting gas in Charleston, although I'd never realized that I should be avoiding it at all costs. Saturday morning, apparently after the AP picked it up, the Huntington paper carried the story of last week's Charleston/Campbell's Creek sniper killings. Oh, so there was a reason I was supposed to not get gas in Charleston! Tom said I distracted him from explaining himself by starting an argument, instead of meekly asking, Why not? Well, I managed to fill 'er up elsewhere, and had an uneventful trip. I believe you could pick your nose the entire way from Charleston to Morgantown, and back, with no one to see. The only thing out there are trees and orange cones. And occasionally someone hauling machinery to hypothetical road crews. # Thursday, August 14, 2003 ( 8/14/2003 12:14:00 PM ) DN I need one more sweepstakes for the week. Home Depot - $1500 in merchandise Lowes - Dodge Ram truck - are they really worth $35K? # ( 8/14/2003 09:23:00 AM ) DN Colonial Holiday (just us and 100,000 fellow vacationers) Here's a few pics: Mystery Hole: Nada. Took five pictures - but they all came out solid black!! Ooohh. Hawks Nest: Nada Monticello: "" Williamsburg, Jamestown, etc.: 
the classic Williamsburg picture 
One-eye Kate 
Only pretending to carry that water. She can barely lift one full pail, 
Yorktown 
Musket Man 
So very colonial # Wednesday, August 13, 2003 ( 8/13/2003 03:16:00 PM ) DN I just discovered that since Wise isn't seeking reelection (see Charleston Daily Mail), JIM HUMPHREYS may run. I can't stand it. I'm going to have to quit watching network TV in 2004. It's too easy to googlewhack with any old words. I've been trying off and on today to do it with only a pair of four letter words. So far not even close. # Tuesday, August 12, 2003 ( 8/12/2003 04:32:00 PM ) DN Googlewhacking: The Search for The One True Googlewhack Check it out - I found one in five minutes. Rockfish antinomianism: East Coast hardshell Baptists # ( 8/12/2003 02:02:00 PM ) DN 4. Maybelline - a NYC shopping spree!! # ( 8/12/2003 01:58:00 PM ) DN Vacation is over (frown). Pictures to come. My nearly new nikon charger didn't work for the first two days of vacation so I didn't get pictures at Monticello. What I've been doing today. I decided (after reading The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio) to start entering sweepstakes. I'm going to try to do 7 every week. So far today-- 1. Brita - $25,000 kitchen makeover - and does my kitchen need it. 2. Coppertone link to an Orlando vacation 3. Healthy Choice - Bahamas vacation I need to find some where you just win money. # |
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