Wednesday

Not much to report today. Still no spinning.

2 advises me that our second base of operations in Italy will be Verona. Now we need to complete our planning/schedules. I actually stopped at Border's after work tonight to check out their books on Italy travel, but didn't find exactly what I was looking for. Most of the books were either on the whole country, or on Rome. I'm thinking that I'll order something from Amazon more specific to the areas where we plan to spend our time.

The voters of Davenport soundly defeated a proposal in a special election yesterday that would have provided funded state college education for all high school graduates. The concept is economics driven, the idea being that people will locate to the town for the benefit of their kids' college costs being automatically taken care of. Places like Davenport that have suffered from declining enrollment and "white flight" have tried out this idea with mixed results. Voters here seemed turned off by the "something for nothing" nature of the program.

I was glad to see Kurt Warner re-sign today with Arizona. His was a situation that had tongues wagging on either side of the equation. His god-squad-ness gets a little wearisome, but he seems honest, and has consistently shown up. Arizona management did the right thing in bringing him back. At a minimum, he gave them two additional home games this past season. The revenue from those games alone likely approached $50-60 million. If they can keep those receivers together, the Cardinals can have another run at things next year.

Tired tonight. Sleeping last night was a bit of a battle. My living room couch first, then the bed. Back to couch around 0300. Then to my basement daybed around 0430. Not quite the recipe for for restful sleep.

RevKev has had some humorous entries this week about kids on planes. Lost shoes. My list of entries could go on for a while.

All for now. Thanks for reading.

BCOT