Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Groundhog Day: Apparently, The Shadow Still Knows
Posted 02-02-2010 at 06:39 AM by case44
Anxious for spring to emerge, this writer will have to hold it in a little longer. And it can be an agonizingly long wait while we get through February. Once again, the world looks on Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania for a certain hibernating creature to make his annual forecast from his abode there. It seems like it's the same forecast every year: Six more weeks of winter.
Punxsutawney Phil is a cute little creature, but why must he make his residence underneath cold, wintery Pennsylvania instead of, say, sunny, warmer Florida? Why can't, just once, we have a forecast of an early spring from Phil? I can't even remember the last time our little furry friend did not see his shadow. He should probably go to different locale each year. Yeah. That's a great idea. Punxsutawney this year, but why not Memphis, Tennessee next year? Or Austin, Texas in 2012? Or Miami in 2013? Heck, if he came to Texas or Florida, he wouldn't need to hibernate. It could be just like the Super Bowl, which the NFL alternates different cities for that annual extravaganza. Same could just as well be said about Phil's residence and faux weather center. Can you say "Load up that Bekins moving truck?"
You know, we need some other uses for our furry PA friend. I'd like to see him brought back out in March for severe weather season. Maybe if he's scared off by a thunder cloud, perhaps we could have more thunderstorms, funnel clouds, hail, and tornadoes than usual. Hey, how about the beach in June? Let's pick a date, so how about June 2?
It's going to be the start of hurricane season, and Galveston would arise as the perfect place for Punxsutawney Phil. We'd bring him out of the sand at Stewart Beach, and if he sees the tide coming, the prediction would be a higher number of tropical storms and hurricanes than per the usual in the Gulf of Mexico. Then again, he could have made a cameo appearance in PA before the beginning of winter, but that's not important now. On we go with the spring countdown.
For now, we've got to muddle through with six more boring weeks of this thing called winter. Come on, Phil, revise your forecast. I mean, we've killed enough bugs, haven't we?
Punxsutawney Phil is a cute little creature, but why must he make his residence underneath cold, wintery Pennsylvania instead of, say, sunny, warmer Florida? Why can't, just once, we have a forecast of an early spring from Phil? I can't even remember the last time our little furry friend did not see his shadow. He should probably go to different locale each year. Yeah. That's a great idea. Punxsutawney this year, but why not Memphis, Tennessee next year? Or Austin, Texas in 2012? Or Miami in 2013?
Heck, if he came to Texas or Florida, he wouldn't need to hibernate. It could be just like the Super Bowl, which the NFL alternates different cities for that annual extravaganza. Same could just as well be said about Phil's residence and faux weather center. Can you say "Load up that Bekins moving truck?" You know, we need some other uses for our furry PA friend. I'd like to see him brought back out in March for severe weather season. Maybe if he's scared off by a thunder cloud, perhaps we could have more thunderstorms, funnel clouds, hail, and tornadoes than usual. Hey, how about the beach in June? Let's pick a date, so how about June 2?
It's going to be the start of hurricane season, and Galveston would arise as the perfect place for Punxsutawney Phil. We'd bring him out of the sand at Stewart Beach, and if he sees the tide coming, the prediction would be a higher number of tropical storms and hurricanes than per the usual in the Gulf of Mexico. Then again, he could have made a cameo appearance in PA before the beginning of winter, but that's not important now. On we go with the spring countdown.For now, we've got to muddle through with six more boring weeks of this thing called winter. Come on, Phil, revise your forecast. I mean, we've killed enough bugs, haven't we?
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I saw a mosquito the other day...
Yay Punxsutawney Phil! Bring more hard freezes to Texas!Posted 02-03-2010 at 03:48 AM by shoe01
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Maybe we can bring him to Texas and create a new town, shoe. We might put it near Lubbock and call it Texsutawney. He could live there and make dust storm and Texas Tech football predictions. Posted 02-06-2010 at 08:48 AM by case44
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Hey, I just want the hot, humid, and buggy season to be a little shorter in S. Texas.
Texsutawney Phil could analyze the personnel of the Tech opponents as well as their coaching schemes and write his doctoral dissertation from there.
If he forecasts dust, he can head back into his hole.Posted 02-06-2010 at 10:04 AM by shoe01
