WOW, what a week it’s been!  I’m sitting here at my desk, trying to gather my thoughts.  Rather than gather them, maybe I’ll just let them spill out onto the keyboard…

I am very proud to be from Denver, after the spectacular week of festivities connected with the Democratic Convention.  Now, I’m not a Democrat–I’m an independent, leaning GOP–but I thought the whole week was fabulous, and very exciting.  The city did a great job of planning for this, and everything went off smoothly.  The Obama speech at Invesco was an amazing exclamation point for the who week–who’d have thought 85,000 people would show up to hear a speech?

Not to get political–in fact, all politics aside–I thought McCain did a great job of stealing the spotlight with his VP choice!  Think about it–if you went to any of the news/info sites like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, instead of seeing a photo of Obama standing in front of 85,000 fans, every site had a photo of the Governor of Alaska!  Amazing!  To me, this says two things about the media.  1)Their attention span for any story is only as long as it’s “the” story, if something better comes along, they immediately drop what they’re doing and chase it.  2)They often really don’t know what they’re talking about.  I have to laugh when I think of all the wasted air time spent seculating about Mitt Romney vs. Tim Pawlenty vs. “dark horse” Joe Lieberman!  All the “experts” were totally FOOLED!  Not ONE expert even suggested the Governor of Alaska was even being considered.  Makes you wonder just how much actual research they do for their stories…

Someone might say, “Well YOU’RE part of the media, aren’t you?”  True, but I don’t have the time or the inclination or the contacts necessary to gather news first-hand.  I have to rely on other reports, sift through what I find, and pass it along to you second-hand.  The pre-speech performer line-up at Invesco is a good example of this.  All week long, I was talking about Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen performing at the show–because that’s what the news sources were saying!  But they–and I–were wrong!  I don’t feel that bad about it, because I was just trying to pass along relevant information from the best available resources.  I just wish the sources were a little more accurate sometimes!

Anyway, now it’s onto Labor Day weekend.  I was thinking that me and the family might head off somewhere for a little road trip, but it just hasn’t materialized.  We may still take off for a night.  Or, we may just putter around the house–we still haven’t completely moved in!  Maybe we’ll paint a room, or–even better–finish caulking the master bathroom floor.

Hey, that reminds me.  I have to tell you, I actually re-installed a toilet!  We had to remove the toilets from the bath when we tiled them.  They’re fairly easy to take out, but I was a little concerned about putting it back in correctly.  It was pretty easy.  Makes me want to kick myself, though.  When we sold our home in Dallas, one of the things we had to fix after the inspection was the toilet.  It was an older home, and the anchor bolts had rusted to the point that they didn’t securely hold the toilet to the floor.  I was not confident enough to want to tackle this, so we had a plumber come in and do it.  It cost $250-which I didn’t think was that unreasonable at the time, but now having done it myself, I think it’s OUTRAGEOUS!!   Pay me $250, and I’ll fix your toilet ANY day!!

OK, I guess that’s enough for now.  Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend.  Talk to you on the radio….