An Amazing Coinkydink

I do my most productive thinking in the shower (which might explain why my computers are dieing on me) and last night after working out I was thinking about "why I blog". I've been blogging 5 days a week for almost 4 years now and it's not like I'm getting paid or anything. WHY!!

I started to look into my past and realized that a long long time ago, in the egg of time when I was not allowed to cross the street I had my own newspaper. My parents purchased some sort of goopy thing where you would heat it up and spread this . . . .rubber cement stuff flat in a tray.

Then I would take these little letters and make words and sentences. Spread ink on the letters and press them onto the goopy thing. The goop would hold the ink for 10 or 15 sheets of paper and bingo, a little newspaper.

As I got older I used my moms light blue Smith Corona Silent Super which had a black AND red ribbon for typing stuff. However - the wordy time of my life was about to end when spelling became more important. My dyslexia was taking hold and I moved on to numbers and became a numbers person. Numbers are their own language. I can stare at an entire page of numbers and be totally happy.

One thing lead to another and while I was creating websites full of numbers about blackjack and poker I had to use words to explain what the numbers meant.

Don't worry - I AM making a interesting point here, bear (bare?) with me.

The advent of the spelling checker brought me out of a 40 year shell and I had LOTS to say, but no one to talk to! THUS . . . . blogging.

ANYWAY - last night I was contacted by an unknown person who was NOT trying to get me to give him my SSN so I could become rich from his deceased father who just died in a diamond mine accident.

His email sounded somewhat sane and said that Columbus was getting a new newspaper, the Columbus Pioneer and he asked if I wanted to have a regular column. I had sort of a "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" moment. Am I becoming a child?

Why would a newspaper doom itself from the very beginning!! Me?? What do I have to say that has any relevance to anything!!

Does he not know he will have to hire another person to spell check and correct my grammar? Does he not know that I have used up my exclamation point allowance? I will be forced to use a different punctuation to indicate strong feelings??? What else is there!!! damn!! 3 more ARRG 2 more!! STOP IT! doh.

Did you know the exclamation was first used in printing in the 1400s and was called the "note of admiration" until the 1600s. The light blue Smith Corona Silent Super did not even HAVE a "!", you had to type a "." then back space and type a " ' " on top of the previous letter - try THAT on your lap top! HA! (Macs can probably do it as they are superior in every way to PCs).

So that is the news - A new newspaper is coming to Columbus and somehow I'm going to weezle my way into some part of it.

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Weather - When was the last time Southern Wisconsin MISSED a major winter storm. The one hitting the east coast was a near miss and they are getting 1/2 inch of ice and then 3 inches of snow. SWEET!

I was looking at calendar year 2007 and 2008 and I looked back all 130+ years that Wisconsin has been keeping weather records. There has never been back to back years with this much snow. Total for the two years was 97.26 inches precip and 199.1 inches of snow (normal would have been 66 inches and 99 inches of snow).

I bet kids will look back and wonder about how "we used to have so much snow" . . . . .sort of like what I used to say a few years ago looking back when I was a kid.
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In 1789 today was the very first American election. Only white males that owned property were allowed to vote. George Washington won, he ran unopposed. The guy chopped down cherry trees for God sake!!

Also - in 1927 the Harlem Globetrotters play their first game, they won.
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Have a day
Rod