You know you live in a small community when there is controversy over a popcorn cart. Oh, it's a part of Columbus history for sure and a wonderful yet tragic story, but controversy?
I'll just say one thing. The "City" has not decided on one thing yet so keep the "city" out of your controversy. I got rather . . . . animated at The Friends of the Popcorn Cart post that cuts down city government and I will ALWAYS defend the government (as it stands at this moment). It pisses me off when someone who has no working knowledge on how things actually work make accusations about our ineptness. It makes my blood boil because from what I have seen is that Columbus is moving in the right direction and actually gaining momentum.
We have a 9% greater equalized valuation over the previous year, 30+ new homes have been built in 2 years and the government actually has a vision of what will happen 9 years down the road. NOT just dealing with NEXT year which seemed to be how things were before 4 years ago .
We continue to fix roads AND infrastructure which had been ignored for years so when I hear complaints about "how can we be counted on to do the right thing because we let the auditorium sit" . . . . WELL, PERHAPS are are bigger priorities? $2.5 million does not grow on trees.
Good Lord.
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Speaking of refrigerators. The proper temperature for a frig is 36 degrees and the proper temp for the freezer is 0 (zero). I had assumed the freezer would be like . . . . below freezing BUT NOOOO! I guess now.
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The Columbus Library (a Carnegie library) was recognized as the 2nd Best Small Library in the Nation! WE'RE NUMBER TWO, WE'RE NUMBER TWO!! HOWEVER - #1 have a stuffed bear so I believe Columbus needs a stuffed elephant to honor the elephant we used to have in the deer pen many many MANY years ago. Or perhaps we could take one of the deer trapped in the pens as a mascot. Change the name of our high school from the all too common Columbus Cardinals (Cardinals is a default when you can not think of anything else) to the Columbus Deer Trappers or something.
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Pic-n-Save continues to reboot and yesterday was moving day with all knew shelving and cold cases and flooring. Plus, LOTS of 50% off items that will no longer be on the shelves. GOOD stuff too. Actual stuff you want to buy! BRAVO Pic-N-Save.
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The Cleveland Indians won their 21st game in a row. Before the streak they had a .552 winning percentage. The chance of a .552 team winning 21 in a row is . . . . . rather small. Something in the 0.00038082% range. However - they are now a .616 team so their chance of winning 21 in a row NOW are all the way up to 0.00038123% So yea. much easier now.
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This weekend we saw on average 10 minutes less of commercials in NFL games. Meanwhile 46% of the teams that played did not gain 300 yards. Up from 22% last year. The reasoning? Offensive lineman talent is lacking.
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Martin Shkreli - that asshole pharmaceutical guy convicted of fraud . . . . had his $5,000,000 bail revoked. Reason? He put out a $5000 bounty on anyone that will pull Clinton's hair. This was considered as bad behavior by a judge I guess. picky picky picky
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Then there is Equifax who spent $500,000 on a lobbyist to convince the government to loosen the laws to limit the liability in case anything bad happened. . . . . TOO LATE!
OOPS - just wandered off and never finalized this LOL
