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radio, rant, trivia, water

Wacky Wednesday

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This morning was the normal weekly radio show. I didn’t have a lot to say since the main topic for the week has been water rights. The EPA forced treatment of our water under the new standards will force us to waste (not use in any constructive way) at least 15% of the water we pump from the ground. That means that although we thought we had sufficient water rights to cover the projected growth in usage for the next 35 years, we now need to begin looking for more water to buy to cover our depletions much sooner. I know that people who don’t live in the water short American West don’t have a clue what I’m moaning about. Those who do are going “yup, been there and been burned by stupidity of easterner’s laws before too.”

One of the nice things about doing the radio show is that things here in “small town” have been pretty calm, so I don’t get the raving lunatics calling in. It’s more the attack of the rabidly apathetic – you can’t get them to call for any reason. That means I get to blither on about topics of my own choosing. Sort of like rambling to your self on a blog – you don’t know until later who was listening/reading and only then when they comment on it. For small market radio, the rule of thumb is that if you have 100 listeners, you will get around one comment in the next week. I wonder if there is a similar rule of thumb for comments on blogs. Have you heard of one?

Time to get on with cleaning up the kitchen. I left the dishes after supper and now have to do them before bed. I find that when I’m batching it, I have a tendency not to do things like the laundry and dishes if I don’t do them right away. On the other hand, I’m enough of a neatnik that I can’t stand having the mess sitting around. So I have this internal dialog going on in my head between the angel of neatness and the imp of sloppiness. Add to that the trio of me, myself, and I all babbling at each other and the conversations gets a bit hard to get a word in edgewise. And of course Molly the dog feels free to contribute here two barks as well. Which might explain why I’m so incoherent at times! {*grin*}



Speaking of raving lunatics, what is the one thing least likely to happen to a U.S. citizen on May 22? That was the question we used to give away the dozen donuts on the trivia show that follows my meandering on the radio. My pre-air prediction was < 3 minutes and 2 callers. I hit it on the nose. Leave your guess of the answer in the comments. I will include the answer in tomorrows blog entry.

council, election, politics, radio

And now …

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The city council meeting last night was not too bad.  It ran a little long, but it didn’t turn into a 6 hour marathon like they sometimes were before I became mayor. Thank heavens for small miracles!

Today was a Wednesday, and like every other Wednesday, I have a show on one of the local radio stations early in the morning. I am a brave soul and take all callers on an open mike (live, no less) about issues or complaints in the city.  Generally tends to be pretty quiet since things got under control a few years ago, so now I mostly use it to keep the community appraised of what happened in the council meeting and the issues of interest to the area. I am not noted as being one to call a spade a “portable entrenching tool” and my approach seems to work well with the people here.
The League of Women Voters gave a program on the ballot issues this year at a local church this evening. I was there to address the charter amendments for the city on the ballot this year. This is one of the longest ballots in local history with initiatives and proposals covering 46-59 and L-O on the state part of the ballot and a similar number of items related to the city charter on the municipal side. Add in the presidential, congressional, and county commisioner races and the ballot is beyond hefty.
One major concern is that people may not be able to complete their ballot in the statutorily allotted 15 minutes. We are all encouraging people to take their crib notes with them to the polls, utilize early voting, and use mail in ballots. Because of the presidential race, local congressional races, and all of the above, voter participation may be very high (some predictions in the >90% of all registered voters range.) This should be interesting. I’m certainly glad I’m not a county clerk who has to make sure all this runs smoothly and certify the results rather shortly after the vote.
I’m off to make my crib sheet for the election before I forget all the good information from the League analysis. {*grin*}