Random Thoughts

In a little over a week I'll be back where my heart is--Blacksburg!

Today I went to a presentation by one of the five finalists for the position of dean of our college. She opened by using the "word", ecstatical. She went on to talk about "welding a big stick". HIDE ME!

Is anyone else but me perplexed and offended by the term "friendly fire"? How the hell can a bullet coming directly at me be friendly?

When Paul moved to England, he had all his mail forwarded to me in North Carolina. Today I found a postcard for Paul in my mailbox. The label said this:

EXPIRED
Paul Mather
207 Gates Drive
Winterville, NC 24060

That's a pretty odd way to learn that someone has died, eh? Well, Paul didn't die, but his membership in the Lyric Council did. P.S. The zip code on the card is for Blacksburg. Go figure.

I paid a bill to Physicians East last month. The check came back. The envelope said that the address to which I sent the bill was wrong. So, when a new invoice arrived today telling me that my account is past due, I checked the address to see where to send the bill. Of course it's the same address that I used when I sent the last bill. ARGH! As Tony Matusevich (bless his soul) used to say, "I don't mind paying for my own mistakes, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for yours." In the last month I have lost count of how many of OTHER PEOPLE'S mistakes I have had to pay for. And the price I have had to pay is in a commodity I can least afford--MY TIME!

Taxes. INCOME taxes. I owe a pile to NC, but I'm getting a pile back from Virginia and a pittance back from the feds. All in all, I can't complain because I am coming out a wee bit ahead this year. I guess paying all that quarterly tax paid off.

Well, my get up and go has got up and went as they say in the majestic mountains of SW Virginia so Th-th-th-that's all folks!