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"Is it really in the city's best interest to put $1000 on a horse?" Those words came out of my mouth - I couldn't believe it.
Well . . . . . I guess it is. LOL
Let me explain myself - I'm certainly not anti gambling as I have taken road trips around America and island vacations and so forth from poker winnings so me even saying this felt odd.
But when there was a thing asking for the town to sponsor a horse in the Lift Up Columbus Challenge horse race thing knowing that all money might go towards an elevator in the pavilion (the winner has the "opportunity" to donate the winnings). I just do not like this at all from a municipality stand point.
Six horses with the winning team winning $3500 that have the OPPORTUNITY to donate the winnings? just seems dubious. The $1000 will go towards the elevator no matter what . . . . I think. maybe, I don't know.
I still do not like this idea. I'm all for helping fund an elevator but I would much rather just give $1000. Not race for it. I know I know - not really any big difference. But then why do I feel this way. BUT - I hope our horse wins. I wonder if we can "fix" the race for our team to win. Do we even have a chance to pick our horse?
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Had city council last night which was not SUPER exciting (finally) and yesterday afternoon I attended the CDA Business award luncheon where I had a very healthy carb laden diet with pasta and another pasta and some sort of weird white chicken chunks. Wiseguys Auto and Sharrows Downtown won awards for being the last two businesses in Columbus and I had my photo taken with The Mayor for the newspaper (always an honor your honor).
The highlight (as if white chicken chunks could be outdone) was listing to a dude from Kwik Trip. WOW - what a great place. I want a job there. Did you know they get two milk deliveries a day? You can not find fresher milk.
40% of all profits go back to the employees in profit sharing. 5% annually is automatically donated into a 401K and every year each employee gets 1% more ownership of the store they work in which they can cash out when and if they leave (24% turnover each year and 1% at their distribution center). Each year, even if you worked there for 1 month as the lowest paid dude, you get at least a $1000 bonus check.
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This is get'r done week which is always the week before an art fair. I decided to minimize ger'r done week this year by having three art fairs in a 14 days in August. Ale and Arts in Columbus August 3rd, Paoli 6 days later and Fitchburg 7 days after that.
You can make bets to see if I'm still moving. I was jumping in and out of a 5 foot high trailer with wild abandon yesterday when I lifted a folding table and felt a searing pain in my back. NOOOOO!! NOT THIS WEEK! I dropped everything and went into "caring for my back" mode.
That last thing I need is a back pain as setting up my canopy is no easy task. It takes a little work to set up a top of the line canopy which is able to withstand 40mph winds. It ain't no easy-up for sure.
So I spent a good part of the afternoon, night and sleeping time with ice on my back. I'm being a little more careful today and all seems well at the moment.
Ice is the miracle cure for back pain.
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Been hearing a lot of reports on Facebook, mostly just south of Columbus about mosquitoes - just sayin' could be one of those summers!!
OK - gotta run!
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