When I’m in the process of writing today’s program – I got a bulletin it was going to snow.
Well… I don’t believe it… at *little* sleet had only about a 50 percent chance after a faked out precip forecast of snow after 4 AM – or 3AM – Well I hope you didn’t think I was going to wake up and get up to check *that* out. No … I read a story just yesterday that said old people particularly [Of course I wasn’t *sure* they were writing about me… But you never know.] Old people are particularly in need of a good 7 to 8 hours sleep and get up *refreshed*.
I thank them fully for their thoughtfulness… but I do think it’s rather ‘chilling’ to do all that on Valentine’s day. In elementary school (Wasena Elementary – American Indian name – in Roanoke Virginia which made the first and lasting attempt at my education.] I definitely remember the piles of valentine cards the girls collected. In the second third or fourth grades… you don’t think of Valentine cards – as a boy.
Now “Mars Bars” or chocolate covered peanuts… that’s something else. But mushy, cut out hearts and flowers… why the playground terror “Joe” would have rubbed my nose in the gravelly dirt if I had brought him a red heart Valentine on February 14th…. I’d rather stand out in the snow collecting snowflakes – or making paper cutouts of snow flakes – BUT NOT Valentine’s cards…. I’d be counted a sissy.
However…if Betsy Skinker had brought me a card…. I would have felt bad not to have had one for her…or some kind of gift. But I don’t think I ever mustered up the courage.
Now I did get a small penny Valentine my Sophomore year in college… Yes… the cute girl that is now my wife gave it to me… and signed it ‘Fido.’ What kind of a love-dovey card is that? She thinks I didn’t remember… but I did – and do.
Well – we have a little fun with JUST A MINUTE today… so I hope you’re listenin’. And have a HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY.
Cordially, IN HIM
Smilin’ Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
HOW DO WE KNOW IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY
Just a Minute: We know it’s Valentine’s day because we still have the totally incompetent, distant, and disconnected person holding the tiller of the ‘Ship of State’ and instructing his Chief Senate Majority Leader to say he’s not really interested in presenting a budget.
There’s no paragraph of Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” that makes less sense than the present crew at the helm of our
I daresay Mr. Obama himself likely exceeds that record. Why his Administration has gone the last one thousand and twenty days without *ever* presenting a budget. Still he travels the Nation in his own air bus fleet cutting trillions of dollars over the next ten years. That certainly exceeds the White Queen’s record.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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