Email Barrage May Lead To Tendinitis
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DAVE’S WORLD
By David Howell
I am thankful that this election cycle is almost over, the last minute push from both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has my email inbox overflowing. Last weekend I had over 40 emails desperately seeking financial contributions from both sides. The wave of emails kept coming Monday and I think I am going to have tendinitis from hitting the delete button before the week is over.
I don’t know how my email got on the candidates’ lists, but I figure they have plenty of money to spend campaigning without my help. It’s time to elect a president, move on and get along.
My apologies if you have stopped by the Herald office and found the door locked. I have been running a one-man show for the last two week after Mel’s husband had a medical emergency. She has been out tending to him. Keep her husband, Del, in your prayers, he is doing much better and will have surgery next Thursday.
Mel has been with me since we started at the Herald in 2004, and I am fortunate to have her. She likes to joke about the many hats she wears at the office – sales, graphic artist, bookkeeper, receptionist and whatever else needs to be done. She is absolutely one of the best graphic artists in the business – few small newspapers have someone with her skill set when it comes to graphics. Mel is also one of the most organized people I know, and that is a major asset considering organization is one of my (many) weaknesses!
Mel and I miss Betty almost every day. Few people work 60 years at one job, and Betty’s institutional knowledge of the business and everything else in the Valley was unrivaled.
Traffic started flowing across the Gums Crossing bridge mid-afternoon last Friday and there was no one in the county more elated than District 5 Supervisor Gaylon Gray. The opening date had been promised, but there was skepticism after an earlier projection didn’t happen.
Gray also said he was thankful for all those keyboard warriors out there on social media, it turns out there are more bridge engineers per capita in Yalobusha than any other county in the country.
All joking aside, I know it was tough fielding questions and criticism on a daily basis for over five years when Gray was doing everything he could on this project. People are quick to lump our local elected officials in the “big guvment” category, but in reality they are very passionate about selflessly serving their constituents.
The guys had a lot of fun with Jerry Daum last Thursday at the Old Man’s table and he took it like a champ. If you missed last week’s column, I wrote about Jerry getting in the wrong vehicle when he left the lunch table the week before. It was an honest mistake, a white Subaru identical to his was parked in front of the restaurant. The owner had left her key fob in the vehicle and Jerry got in it, pushed the start button and headed home.
When the lady noticed her Subaru was missing, and another one similar was parked next to where she had parked, it didn’t take long to sort out the details and the vehicle was returned to her.
Jerry shared a few more details about his crime last week, explaining that when he pushed the garage door opener when he got home in the “borrowed” car. The door would not open and he assumed there had been a power outage.
That was on Thursday, Oct. 17, and a couple days later he pulled into his driveway and the garage door would not open and he briefly panicked as he checked to make sure he was in his car. This time there had been a power outage, and he was in the right vehicle.
And for full admission, only hours after the paper hit the streets last Wednesday I almost got in the wrong car outside the Herald office. I thought I got away with it, but when I surveyed the parking lot I spotted Frank Hyde watching with a big grin. Busted!
