"Have you heard about Zak".
Zak is one of the other two original Sun Prairie Home Brew Club members and a very very good friend and "Have you heard about" is never ever a good thing to see on a text.
I said no and waited . . . . .
Saturday night Zak hopped onto his motorcycle and was riding home on Packers Avenue when a drunk driver pulled out right in front of him. Zak went flying over the car and his helmet-less head hit the ground. He's in intensive care as of this morning at UW TLC with two skull fractures and we are all praying.
Once again Wisconsin's weak drunk driving laws take affect. Slap on the hands, talk to you when you get your second OWI and third and fourth. OH - I'm pissed off at Zak also - no helmet?
Same with bicycles - you say "I have never fallen on a bike -why bother with a helmet". Because of drunk drivers!
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The dust up I had Friday was about HLPC is trying to make a house that was in the news 2 years ago and purchased by the city of Columbus, the Library and private donations and ALL OF A SUDDEN, after 2 years of not saying anything, they want make it a historical landmark which would nix a long term plans for our 1912 Carnegie Library.
I REALLY think people who complain about government literally have no clue how government works and how long it takes and what LONG TERM plans actually mean. I believe the current group of people in City Council REALLY have plans in order. There ARE long term plans in motion. Just because you don't see something does not mean nothing is in the works.
You can't believe government and business are run the same way. You can't snap your fingers and make it so. When planning a fire station you plan 5 and 6 years down the road. One step at a time. You have to wait for bonds to mature, loans to get paid off and HOPE there are no natural emergencies and ear mark money. You have a vision of what needs to be done. Unlike 8 years ago when there was ZERO vision and council was shooting from the hip.
Same with libraries and ESPECIALLY National historical libraries. Just think how many things will have to be submitted to the National Forest Service (yup, you read that right) on getting anything next to the library. Think how long that will take under the current administration in Washington who is trying to dismantle National Forest Service buy getting rid of all it's employees and cutting the budget.
And instead adding an addition the idea was floated about moving the library? Any idea how long that would take? Maybe a square brick building the cheapest possible because . . . nobody reads books anymore right? Well, over 1000 books a week come out of our library and library are not about books anymore.
Nuff Said.
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So while I was downtown I took a few more images. This first one was with a 150-600mm lens and I was standing half a block past the old Joydeoos (or however you spelled it)
And this one of the Clock Tower
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New things coming downtown? Another Asian restaurant and another pizza place are rumored downtown.
Oh and be on the look out for jig saw puzzles of Columbus coming soon to many businesses in Columbus.
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You can not get the Columbus Journal delivered by mail and it's MUCH cheaper. We tried to re-up online but Madison newspapers website is so poor and lacking information we gave up and will just let it cancel out.
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Purchased some sour milk from Pic-n-save produced by Kemps - it was still 2 weeks from must sell by but it was sour. Got 2 free gallons of hopefully non-sour milk. Maybe some day we will get another grocery store as PnS only have about half of what we need. You never know.
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Maine used to export 12 million pounds of lobster to China - that number is 2.2 million pounds this year. NOW? Canada exports 33 million pounds of lobster to China. Who needs America food.
The average America eats 10 more pounds of chicken a year compared to 10 years ago.
almost EVERYTHING you buy on Amazon is made in china and of course what you buy have very very few safety requirements needed to sell in brick and mortar stores.
For instance 3,644 toy were analyzed on the site with 2,324 lacking choking-hazard warnings. 1,412 electronics listed that either didn’t meet industry safety standards or couldn’t provide information to prove they did. 44 motor cycle helmets did not meet safety regulations.
Customs and Border Protection officials imposed a lifetime ban on visiting the U.S. on a Canadian woman caught with CBD oil at the border.
And then there is the stock market run by the Mad King. STOP listening to the daily people .
"We wonder, if you only listened to the news of the world situation and did not know the level of the stock market, where might you guess that it would be? As of now, the S&P has pulled back about 7% from its all-time high, and yet to many investors it may feel like a lot more. As we have heard, this is one of the most “unloved” bull markets in history.
You may also recall the Wall Street adage that “bull markets die in euphoria,” which is a situation that we have witnessed on many past occasions. The last euphoric period that we recall was in the late 1990s, but that was so long ago now that much of that period has been wiped from our memories by more recent events.
The current bull market could be headed to much higher levels of bullish sentiment, but it could still take many years to get there. On a technical basis, the ten-year bull market remains intact and moving higher in a rising channel that spans around 20% from the top to the bottom if the trend. The wide channel allows for much short-term movement within the overall uptrend, and we would expect the volatility, and the mixed data and opinions, to continue for quite some time.
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