Mid-Week Musings…
My wife and I are gonna celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in a couple weeks, I booked a room at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs! I was talking to a friend, she and her husband took their KIDS along with them on their 20th anniversary trip! I guess I understood her rationale–they have a close family, and wanted to share the experience with everyone. Not for OUR family, though. We can take the kids to Disneyland or something if we want to share an experience.
Incidentally, I got a nice e-mail from a listener telling me all about the ghosts at the Hotel Colorado–[I wondered why the room rates were so reasonable!] I think I’ll withold that information from my wife. Reminds me, though, of a couple we used to know who were really INTO that sort of thing. They actually DID celebrate their anniversary by staying in a haunted hotel! I forget the town–it was somewhere along the Texas-Louisiana state line–but it apparently had a history of ghosts at several locations around the town. There’s even a nightly tour. Sounds like a tourism angle to me, but then again, I’m a skeptic.
Interesting–and encouraging–that this year’s State Fair actually out-drew LAST year’s fair by about 1000 people—even WITH the high gas prices! Just proves that you can’t put a price on getting your annual deep-fried funnel-cake “fix.” Amazing how BAD those things are for you, but we eat ‘em anyway, don’t we?
Saw on the news, that woman in Golden who stole $8000 from the high school football booster club got sentenced to 20 days in the slammer. She took over as treasurer in January ’07, within six months had drained all the cash. I was thnking they ought to make the punishment fit the crime—instead of putting her in JAIL for 20 days, maybe they should strap her to a tackling dummy for 20 varisity football practices…
Tiger Woods is gonna be a dad again, his second child, he and his wife have a daughter, Sam. Tiger, of course, is not on the tour right now, has that bum knee. Think his wife likes having him home all the time? You wonder. “Tiger, PLEASE! Can’t you go outside and PUTT or something?”
David Letterman is featured in Rolling Stone, says he might continue on past 2010 on the Late Show. He does still have the “WOW factor” going for him. As in, “Worn Out (his) Welcome.” Oh, I shouldn’t say that, I guess. He’s still pretty funny, although there’s more of a “bitter” streak that runs through his show now than used to. I think that’s why Jay Leno wins. He comes off as a genuinely happy guy. Dave, “bitter” can be funny, but a little goes a long way, and people get a lot of it in real life.
Lindsay Lohan posted her thoughts on Sarah Palin’s daughter’s un-wed pregnancy. On her blog. Lindsay says she’d like to hear less about pregnancy and more about policy. Would Lindsay Lohan know policy even if she ran into it with her Mercedes? In any event, the 17 year-old Palin daughter will be joining her mom at the RNC in St. Paul, along with the 18 year-old guy who impregnated her. Seems kind of bizarre, but hey, I guess you gotta OWN it, right? What are you gonna do, run away from it, or pretend it doesn’t exist? No matter what you do, you’re gonna get criticized for it.
That’s all for today, thanks for reading!….