Archive for October, 2010

Banks deal with you as it benefits them

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

I was forwarded an article about a local woman whose bank, Bank of America, foreclosed on the house she and her family lived in only three months after her husband drowned in the river adjoining the property. Meanwhile, in other parts of Bank of America, foreclosures are being halted all over ...

Positating the negative

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Our county had our annual Fall Festival today.  After trying in futility to corral all kinds of parade traffic, and after doing some hearing tests for the Lions Club, I went around to the vendors inside.  I ran across someone I had done some website work for before. It speaks to ...

Yakezie do yes

Friday, October 8th, 2010

There's a new network of go-getter bloggers in town, and it's called Yakezie. Since I have only a week left to be included in the current Yakezie Challenge, it's time to make a decision. Allow me to paraphrase some dialog from a movie from my youth: Either you Yakezie do "yes" or Yakezie ...

Do you have to subscribe to your fire department?

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

In the town where I grew up, the fire department had to respond to calls.  The reason I remember this is because our middle school had a fire drill and the fire department showed up.  It turned out that someone forgot to call them with the drill schedule, and even ...