And On This Farm He Had A Blog

I never get good news from my hometown.

A county commissioner, on Facebook, announces the cessation of funding for "the Art Center, the Actors Guild, a historic theatre, the Veterans Museum, the Homecoming Festival, the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition, the Belleville Homecoming Festival, the Mid-Ohio Valley Multi-Cultural Festival, the Half-Marathon and others".

The reason is that a hotel tax used to pay for that stuff and the hotel business has died.

The reason it died is they completed a multil-multi million dollar road project that completely bypassed the damned city! People told them at the time, "This is bad". They replied, "It will be good for business. Trust us."

They had a hard enough time with tourism as it was.

Parkersburg: We were really something before the trains came and caused the river traffic to die off.

Parkersburg: It's not a sandbar over there. It's an island where people plotted to overthrow the government once. And it has arrowheads and stuff.

Parkersburg: If you can navigate the bypass to reach us, good on you!

I could go on at length about that town but I will spare you.

@jws Truly a case of "pick your poison"

// @nitinkhanna

@jws I've always held that opinion about web stuff. It came out of the oven still doughy.

// @nitinkhanna

@jws This reads like a detailed synopsis on how to drive yourself mad.

@joeo10 That engine has been out of the car three times already. Has bigger issues, still, than homely valve covers. It's not mine though so…it gets bling. :)

Keeps the CEO occupied.

@kdfrawg Used to listen to those clicks and try to figure out how many relays were between us.

@kdfrawg Shuffle is only used for comedic effect on mine as I have everything from death metal, punk, jazz, blues, new age, ambient and classical across all 250 GB.

@kdfrawg This one's cardinal sin was trying to wreck my marriage a few years back, make sidekick an ex-wife and muscle her way in. She has a history of that.

Something's broke deep down inside the girl and it's a shame because she was a friend for many years.

Her former best friend had emailed me a recent pic and even Sidekick, who grew to despise her, felt pity.

I wish I had a magic wand I could wave and make her demons go away but, alas, life does not work that way.

@kdfrawg The car will never be done. I don't even want to contemplate how much money he has put into this thing.

We'll conveniently ignore the GM distributor sitting on the otherwise totally Ford small block.