Thursday, the 23rd day of February, 2012

Very uneventful week… The weather continues to be erratic; it snowed for about three hours this past weekend, but it was so warm (in the high 30s) that it did not stick… As I write this, it is a balmy 62˚ Fahrenheit outside and sunny… I believe the plants are going to think Spring is here, start to sprout new buds and growth, and then old man Winter will come back with a vengeance and kill bunches of them as it happened in 2007 and 2010…

Got together with friends on Saturday night for a game night… It was great fun and it was tough… We played this game (don’t remember the name) where you draw cards from three different piles and it could be a trivia question, an activity (such as drawing figures on a paper for other folks to guess the name of a movie) or a third category (which I forgot already!) in which you have to either do sit-ups, push-ups, or act up TV shows… By the end of the night, and after only one game, some of us were spent!

OK, he lives… Robo-Mitt finally gave signs of life on the debate last night… He was witty, knowledgeable, had his facts straight, his timing was perfect; and all those elements combined to allow Mitt to dismantle (it was almost painful to watch) Rick Santorum… Santorum apologized several times for votes he had taken before… Mitt got the audience on his side from the beginning to the point that Santorum was booed several times… I see it happening (you read it here first!): Santorum, after rising to the top and challenging for the leadership of the field, crashes and burns (like Gingrich I, Bachman, Cain, Perry, Gingrich II); that leaves an opening for Newt, like the Phoenix, to rise from the ashes once again gathering under his wings all the ‘cheerful’ evangelicals and Tea Party folks!

Attended Leadership Van Buren Judicial day… Started out with a very informative meeting with Judge Leavenworth, presiding magistrate of our local General Court; he explained his jurisdiction, his case load, his limits, his frustrations, his successes. We sat in on some of his hearings; very interesting. We met with the THP assigned to the county/area, with the DA and visited the Van Buren and Bledsoe counties detention facilities (jails).

Waiting desperately for the base-ball season to start; I believe spring training is just around the corner (the FL and AZ folks will get an early gift!) and then the real action begins… Yeah!

Ben Lomand (the local provider of phone and Internet services) is now offering TV services… Some of our neighbors have already signed up with good cost-savings incentives… I will look into it this coming week and report next week…

Now, some food for thought:

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough

 to make them all yourself." 

 -- Anonymous

So, keep learning, my friends…