Boyd Kraemer was speaking to the City Council with one of his pep-talk speechs (I believe . . I can only imagine . . . OH OH was the CDA meeting last night? Did I miss it?) and he was talking about city streets and repairing them. Seems many people want them repaired and would embrace being taxed for the repairs.
Wait - would they? Well there was a survey that went out to 1137 random citizens (I was one) but get this - only 447 were completed and returned. That is total BULLSHIT! 39% were returned? I want a survey to see who could not spend 10 minutes to fill out an important survey. Can people not read? No one! NO ONE can complain about the city doing whatever the hell they want to do. It just pisses me off when I see 690 surveys were tossed out and not looked at.
And Todd wonders why the town can not get it's act together? There ya go. OH - everybody can come out for the 4th of July Parade but spend 10 minutes to fill out a survey? Sorry! way to busy. I know people that would have LOVED to take a survey. Maybe next time they should only have people that want to respond, they are the only ones that care. Fuck the rest of the non-responders.
sigh - got that off my chest!
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I picked Elwood up in Madison Saturday and as normal we took a drive into the country between Sun Prairie and Columbus. I get some nice shots from time to time on the drives. I took this after climbing a 15 foot embankment.
Did not come out as I imagined but after tricking it out a little it became blog worth at least.
Anybody see the ending of the football game last night? If you did you witnessed some brand new technology in action. The 2nd week this technology has been in place it was use to decide a game - what luck.
What you saw was the final 2 point conversion where the current cameras could not get a perfect shot on whether the ball had crossed the goal line. Enter new technology. 32 brand new cameras the size of business cards (but thicker I would think) are located around the stadium in entrance ways and corridors and all focused on the goal line. Then if needed they can stitch all the images into one for a perfect shot on where the ball was. Worked out fantastic last night!
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also watched Hawaii Five-O last night and I liked it. Pretty action-y but Jin from LOST is a star along with Grace Park from Battlestar Galactica (the best Scince Fiction show ever) with Scott Caan (son of James Caan) and some other Navy Seal dude!
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I'm not going to mention poker - QUADS? really? You had QUADS? sigh! at some point my opponents have some big ol whoop ass coming their way. I'm getting tired of sets killing my hands and now QUADS?
OH - I'm due!
Rod
Out
Yes... I am one of the pissed off citizens who did not receive a survey.... Grrr!!!! What they should have done is sent them out to the random citizens and then posted something in the paper saying, that if you didn't receive a survey, and wanted to participate, then you could pick one up at city hall or something. Would have been nice for those of us who actually wanted a SAY in what happened in our city!
ReplyDeleteI got a survey and I did fill it out with comments, too!
ReplyDeleteYou go Rod! I think the majority of people who live here are just trying to get by and are too tired to fill out a survey and it seems most of them don't care, like to complain but don't really want to be part of the solution- or do any work to help fix things...ahhhh apathy!
I knew there would be a lot of unreturned surveys but COME ON! more then half?
ReplyDeleteApathy is running rampant!
Great Blog!!
ReplyDeleteYou Go Rod!!!
I would feel the same way.
Maybe a letter to the Mayor and City Hall might work!
Nice photo,but you probably didn't even have to trick it out. I bet it was nice on its own.
I hope you all are enjoying some of this warm weather. we could do with out the humidity thou~
Have a Fanfabulous day!
Rod for Mayor!!!