..do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway,and put our useless junk in the garage.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Christmas School Break
Traditionally schools and colleges take a two + week break during the Christmas holiday season. This gives us all the opportunity to be with family even when that means travel.
In recent years, the "bowl season" has mushroomed to over 30 games, most of them dull and mediocre. Thank you television, mostly ESPN. By the time the BCS national championship game finally began, many of us could care less. Rah, two days before we had the opportunity to see Middle Tennessee State play Miami of Ohio. I'm sure that was a must-see for millions of fans. I was not one of them.
Playing in a bowl game with 6 losses during the regular season is mediocre and shameful. But a way to add four weeks to a school's spring practice routine. Who cares?
Charlie, aka Bill Cherry, spent 8 of those days in a local hospital finally having an ICD (pacemaker) implant. The old heart went crazy from all those exciting bowl games. Got up to 160/minute at rest. Medication did not correct this, so the ICD seemed to be the solution. So I now have this battery and instrument implanted just under the skin on the left side of my chest with tiny wires running all through my heart. If my heart gets crazy again, the ICD will shock it back to normal - I hope.
Just too much excitement from all those wanna be's. I sincerely hope ESPN lost money. If over half of the BCS membership plays in a bowl game, then what honor is in that? There once was a time when only the elite of each season were rewarded with a bowl bid. Now a team has to be really, really bad if they aren't in a bowl game.
It would be hard to take the present bowl system and turn it into a playoff system. Too much money and too much television investment in the present bowl season. Though the time (weeks) between the end of the regular season and the championship game could accommodate a 32-team playoff.
In recent years, the "bowl season" has mushroomed to over 30 games, most of them dull and mediocre. Thank you television, mostly ESPN. By the time the BCS national championship game finally began, many of us could care less. Rah, two days before we had the opportunity to see Middle Tennessee State play Miami of Ohio. I'm sure that was a must-see for millions of fans. I was not one of them.
Playing in a bowl game with 6 losses during the regular season is mediocre and shameful. But a way to add four weeks to a school's spring practice routine. Who cares?
Charlie, aka Bill Cherry, spent 8 of those days in a local hospital finally having an ICD (pacemaker) implant. The old heart went crazy from all those exciting bowl games. Got up to 160/minute at rest. Medication did not correct this, so the ICD seemed to be the solution. So I now have this battery and instrument implanted just under the skin on the left side of my chest with tiny wires running all through my heart. If my heart gets crazy again, the ICD will shock it back to normal - I hope.
Just too much excitement from all those wanna be's. I sincerely hope ESPN lost money. If over half of the BCS membership plays in a bowl game, then what honor is in that? There once was a time when only the elite of each season were rewarded with a bowl bid. Now a team has to be really, really bad if they aren't in a bowl game.
It would be hard to take the present bowl system and turn it into a playoff system. Too much money and too much television investment in the present bowl season. Though the time (weeks) between the end of the regular season and the championship game could accommodate a 32-team playoff.
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