About the only thing I will order at a Starbucks is a cafe mocha.
And it’s always a small, or whatever the fancy coffee drinking world calls a small.
The instant hot water thingy is working quite well in our house.
A very close friend of mine is an editor and recently wrote one of our senators a letter. When he got the senator’s response, he noticed quite a few of grammatical errors and decided to write back and correct the senator. That made me laugh.
More than likely it’s a form letter put together by a college intern, but either way, it cracked me up.
I wonder if it does much good to contact your representative about anything since I suspect they never lay eyes or ears to your communication. Well, they probably get to see or hear a few, but it would be impossible for them to respond to all of them personally, so they more than likely just have their staff tell them them an overview of what most of the communication was about.
I remember contacting several congressmen for a paper I was writing in college. That was when only a handful of congressmen actually utilized the Web. At the time, I thought it was pretty cool having congressional sources for my paper, and was the first student to ever do such the thing in my professor’s thirty plus years of teaching.
The average age that males first see a copy of Playboy or Penthouse magazine is 11 years old.
Something I recently overheard that made me think, “Art is for rich people and college students.”
I really didn’t know much about Joe Medicine Crow, so I had to look him up on Wikipedia, and was quite impressed with this part about how he became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe without really knowing it.
The airport code for Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, is SUX.
The premier of HBO’s Hard Knocks was pretty good. Lots of former Cowboys – Roy Williams, Tank Johnson, and Mike Zimmer.
I think Roy Williams has been on Hard Knocks more than any other player, and Mike Zimmer more than any other coach.
One players wife was packing her husband football cleats and said, “That’s love,” as if what she was doing was a major sacrifice. All I could think of was his multi-million dollar contract he got by continuing to sacrifice his body and time to support her.
I think yesterday’s high was on 93, which made yard work not so bad.
I had a dream that the Cowboys first team didn’t take their time on the field against the Raiders seriously, and something bad happened. I just can’t remember what the bad thing was.
I’ve been really pressed for time this week. All these posts today were done in less than 15 minutes.
Contacting your representative can be highly effective in that, based on statistical demographics, they assume that for every letter they receive, expressing a certain view point, that there are 1000 other voters in their district that feel that same way. Whether the representative reads it personally or it is compiled by staff is not the point… in the end the representative will be presented with the concerns of his district and will respond accordingly or the representative could be in search of a new job come next election (if his district is actually paying attention to his action / reactions).
We have some friends that were trying to adopt from Vietnam. The treaty with VN was scheduled to end and they encouraged their friends to right their representative to encourage an extension. We MAILED our LETTER and got a generic ‘thanks for contacting us’ response.
A few months later we rec’d a different appeal to contacting our rep. We believed in the cause so we generated an E-MAIL and sent it in. A few days later received an E-MAIL response that thanked us for our concern regarding the VN adoption issue and assured us they would look into it.
Apparently there is an automated follow-up system that got confused when they heard from us twice on separate issues.
Contacting your representative can be highly effective in that, based on statistical demographics, they assume that for every letter they receive, expressing a certain view point, that there are 1000 other voters in their district that feel that same way. Whether the representative reads it personally or it is compiled by staff is not the point… in the end the representative will be presented with the concerns of his district and will respond accordingly or the representative could be in search of a new job come next election (if his district is actually paying attention to his action / reactions).
Contacting your congressman:
We have some friends that were trying to adopt from Vietnam. The treaty with VN was scheduled to end and they encouraged their friends to right their representative to encourage an extension. We MAILED our LETTER and got a generic ‘thanks for contacting us’ response.
A few months later we rec’d a different appeal to contacting our rep. We believed in the cause so we generated an E-MAIL and sent it in. A few days later received an E-MAIL response that thanked us for our concern regarding the VN adoption issue and assured us they would look into it.
Apparently there is an automated follow-up system that got confused when they heard from us twice on separate issues.