….heard of anything so absurd. Well, actually I have heard some pretty absurd things, but this one is a step above – or below- many others. Firefighters in rural Indiana did not respond to a 911 call about a house-fire because the owners had failed to pay the annual $75.00 fee to the city for …
…putting up a new post yesterday. Obvious to the most casual observer, right? I had every intention of putting something new up, but as the old cliche goes, the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. We had a power outage that started about eight in the morning and lasted until almost …
Since Sunday is book review day here, I thought I’d post the review I just received for my December release, Open Season. This was in Publisher’s Weekly, and I am both humbled and thrilled at the review. Open Season Maryann Miller, Five Star Cengage/Gale $25.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-59414-915-3 Miller spins a tight tale that’s a …
Talk about absurd. Dez Bryant of the Dallas Cowboys took the team out to dinner at an upscale restaurant recently, and the players ordered everything on the menu. They also took home expensive bottles of wine. The dinner check? Are you sitting down? $54,896. An editorial writer for The Dallas Morning News made this comment, “Look, …
No. This is not going to be about curse words in writing. Although we did have fun over at The Blood Red Pencil Blog a few weeks ago discussing the use of certain words. Check it out if you are interested. This is about litter. On my morning walk today, I noticed plastic bottles, drink …
We have a bit of a conundrum here in the United States. According to the FBI al -Qaeda has been recruiting Westerners to carry out terrorist plots, and there is a new imperative to be more vigilant. That includes reporting suspicious behaviors to law enforcement. So, if you see a person in a Home Depot …
Dallas country commissioners recently hired a consulting company that basically told them the same thing that a different consulting company told them two years ago: That the IT Department has serious problems. It lacks vision, management, leadership, and competence. I’ll say. It cost the county $169,250 dollars for that second report. the news report didn’t …