Today is Grasshopper No.4’s birthday. He is “umtieight years old”. It coincides with Anne Furst’s birthday who was his babysitter back in Sheboygan. Anne is more than umtieight years old.
Today is Grandson Nevin’s birthday.
A sincere Happy Birthday to all.
Grasshopper No.1 and Grasshopper No.5 chipped in to buy your Mom an electronic birthday gift. It arrived magically by UPS and it is intended to revolutionize the way your Mom records and stores television programs. The VHS/DVR recording device allows transferring old VHS tapes to the new DVD format. Of course you can directly record programs on DVDs. My calculation says three machines we have hooked to our TV downstairs get replace by one new unit. That means having to learn a completely new system. Boogada, boogada! Mature people don’t like having to let go of systems that work and go to “new” systems. It should be interesting.
Grandson Tommy is playing Summer baseball. This week the teams are going to do “real pitching”. Up to now all the parents have done the pitching. Look out Nolan Ryan.
The economy rebounding is dependent on our country’s ability to create new jobs. Obama and the boys have decreed that our country will build no more coal plants. If a coal plant is built it is at risk of being taxed for high carbon emissions. Today, Bucyrus Erie in Milwaukee has been awarded a huge billion dollar contract to supply equipment to help build a coal plant in India (half way around the world), not the U.S.. Bucyrus needs a temporary loan from our “Export Bank” to provide funds until equipment can be built and shipped. Bucyrus Erie has been turned down by the Washington “establishment” for an Export Bank loan because it is bad for the world “green” movement. It means 300 Bucyrus Erie employees will probably lose their jobs. Do we have a great jobs program or what? What am I missing?
I see that France made one of fastest exits from the World Cup soccer competition ever. They had a good team but couldn’t score and they couldn’t agree with each other. What else is new?
Love,
Dad