Wedding Update: now a week out, we are pretty much ready to go. Abbie is finishing up decorations and putting together the program which I’ll go have printed this week. Outside of that its time to get all our vendors together and go over the schedule and of course pay them all. Hopefully everyone involved comes through on all this. Come next Friday it’ll be time for Abbie and I to just enjoy it and not worry about everything.
Job Update: the railroad has called back about 135 guys in the past few weeks (leaving me about 45 out). though this is no indicator that the economy is turning but rather just the railroad covering themselves during the peak business months. overall the carloadings are still down 18% from this time a year ago. a few other factors are bringing some guys back, like the new rail safety bill Bush signed last fall went into effect which limited how many hours a month and how many days in a row guys can work. so more manpower is required to cover the same amount of hours. also the company is instituting a new safety program which needs some extra guys to make it happen. anyway i may get to work a little this fall, but i still don’t think its going to completely turn till late next year. pretty pathetic, it should not be this way but we have a moron in charge of our economy so I have to suffer.
at the end of that article it talks about how local lawrence businessman/huge ukans booster Doug Compton is demanding his 3 pts./game son get to walk on at ukans. this of course follows a long line of very rich white kids getting to walk on at ukans in order to continue an easy pipeline of money to players (whoops is that my satchel of cash i left behind in the locker room?). Doug Compton has also given jobs to players parents, notably the morris’ twins mother and cole aldriches father. Doug also payed for the emergency flight to xavier henry’s house a few weeks back to help deliver in full the payment to the henry’s after xavier’s father carl started balking at bill self for not being on board with the henry’s. what a disgusting program they run at ukans, truely a school completely sold out for winning. and yet the peon hawklets continue to shell out thousands to sweet lew for the right to sit in a dank urine and stale popcorn smelling “armory” not caring at all and mostly oblivious to how the strings are pulled.
Global Warming Update: In Kansas City today we had a record cold night with temperatures reaching 59 degrees and projections for 56 degrees overnight. This continues to be the coldest year in decades. Cap and trade! Cap and trade!
Presidential First Pitch Update: shortly after 9/11 President Bush threw out the first pitch at yankees stadium during the world series with the eyes of millions watching, thousands cheering, straped up with all kinds of bulletproof armor, and calmly fired a strike down the middle to a properly positioned catcher.
President Obama on the other hand coming out to a mixture of boos girl armed it and short hopped the pitch to a catcher positioned on top of home plate. stick to the court barry.
Some Essential Pre-Wedding Updates
Wedding Update: now a week out, we are pretty much ready to go. Abbie is finishing up decorations and putting together the program which I’ll go have printed this week. Outside of that its time to get all our vendors together and go over the schedule and of course pay them all. Hopefully everyone involved comes through on all this. Come next Friday it’ll be time for Abbie and I to just enjoy it and not worry about everything.
Job Update: the railroad has called back about 135 guys in the past few weeks (leaving me about 45 out). though this is no indicator that the economy is turning but rather just the railroad covering themselves during the peak business months. overall the carloadings are still down 18% from this time a year ago. a few other factors are bringing some guys back, like the new rail safety bill Bush signed last fall went into effect which limited how many hours a month and how many days in a row guys can work. so more manpower is required to cover the same amount of hours. also the company is instituting a new safety program which needs some extra guys to make it happen. anyway i may get to work a little this fall, but i still don’t think its going to completely turn till late next year. pretty pathetic, it should not be this way but we have a moron in charge of our economy so I have to suffer.
Ukans cheating update: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/jul/02/gary/
at the end of that article it talks about how local lawrence businessman/huge ukans booster Doug Compton is demanding his 3 pts./game son get to walk on at ukans. this of course follows a long line of very rich white kids getting to walk on at ukans in order to continue an easy pipeline of money to players (whoops is that my satchel of cash i left behind in the locker room?). Doug Compton has also given jobs to players parents, notably the morris’ twins mother and cole aldriches father. Doug also payed for the emergency flight to xavier henry’s house a few weeks back to help deliver in full the payment to the henry’s after xavier’s father carl started balking at bill self for not being on board with the henry’s. what a disgusting program they run at ukans, truely a school completely sold out for winning. and yet the peon hawklets continue to shell out thousands to sweet lew for the right to sit in a dank urine and stale popcorn smelling “armory” not caring at all and mostly oblivious to how the strings are pulled.
Global Warming Update: In Kansas City today we had a record cold night with temperatures reaching 59 degrees and projections for 56 degrees overnight. This continues to be the coldest year in decades. Cap and trade! Cap and trade!
Presidential First Pitch Update: shortly after 9/11 President Bush threw out the first pitch at yankees stadium during the world series with the eyes of millions watching, thousands cheering, straped up with all kinds of bulletproof armor, and calmly fired a strike down the middle to a properly positioned catcher.
President Obama on the other hand coming out to a mixture of boos girl armed it and short hopped the pitch to a catcher positioned on top of home plate. stick to the court barry.