Daynotes On A Budget, V6.0

I did mention this to my wife, but a week ago last Saturday, February 15th, marked the 37 anniversary of the date upon which I offered up to my wife the ever so romantic proposal to marry me.  I do suppose that whole thing demands context... So we met in the fall of 1987.  I had attended the wedding of some friends and watched the Minnesota Twins win a World Series.  I had also run a business selling and building lofts for students at the university I attended.  The business came about through sheer dumb luck, as I believe it's called, because a good friend of mine and I broke the unwritten rules.   That's a much quicker story - we decided we were going to improve our upcoming dorm rooms by building better lofts.  The rooms we had obtained, on the third floor of Benet Hall at St. Johns, were, like most dorm rooms, quite small.  These rooms were eight feet wide, fifteen feet long, and twelve feet tall.  Each room was dual occupancy, so as you ...

Well, it's been a month, or so.  I've been working on resumes, and otherwise trying to avoid the news.  As someone who wants to be a good leader, I can say there are quite a few bad examples in the world, and the best thing for me to do is to simply note that a lot of what's being done is not how people who wish to be known as good leaders behave. So that's enough about that now. As a kid, I can recall the summer of 1972 when most of the cartoons I WAS allowed to watch during the day were pre-empted because someone was holding some sort of hearing about a fellow who had done things that I gathered he shouldn't have done.  Turns out that the fellow who was doing bad things was the president, Richard Nixon.  For some reason, other members of his own party, which was a quite different Republican party, had decided they weren't going to turn a blind eye. I also recall rather vividly a Saturday Morning back when I was 5.  I was allowed to go out to the living room, w...