chatter from the Library Monkey

Now to get back on track

Tom Hamilton is not as enjoyable when he announces a game that the Tigers lose. Which is what is happening tonight. I was able to tune in 1100 am and get a scratchy Indians’ broadcast. What is frustrating about those kinds of broadcasts is the fact that to hear the play by play you have to have the volume way up. I would guess the play buy play is 40 decibels, but the static is 87 dbs.

I’m up early, after a rough night. I didn’t roll the futon out. I have most of my blankets in the school town so it was hard to stay warm. That led to a stiff back. That could also be because I shoveled some snow or because I didn’t do any exercises.

I’m tuning into the local talk show and am reminded of the nuts that live in my town. They are complaining about tases right now — and I think the taxes are too high, at least for the average person. Seems to be several problems: 1) people don’t want less services; 2) people all have their favorite services (being it snow removal or youth programs); 3) there are two factors in taxes — a) property value and b) tax rate.

The hot news is one town wants to hold back an assessment. Sounds good, except if you lower the assessments (or even keep them flat) only matters if you don’t raise the tax rate, which means you have to cut spending — which no town official wants to do. Like baseball, I think there should be incentives for taxes.

hmmm, I had written more, but the transfer from one computer to another didn’t work. I suspect it might have to do with pulling the USB memory out of the computer without saving it. la te da

I think that will keep thing short because of that.

The Tigers win tonight (Saturday), so they are back to rolling

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