tradition, change, and whose is bigger

Have you heard the story on Cynthiana’s new city commission? Well, the long story is at The Cynthiana Democrat. The short story is as follows:
Mayor Jim Brown is temporarily out of commission (pun half-intended). Brown fell ill on Christmas Eve. The old commission selected Jack Keith as Mayor Pro-tem. In a special meeting of the new commission all hell broke loose. Commissioner Mark Mattmiller claimed he should now take the seat. Commissioner Amanda Moore agreed. Commisioner Keith says he should stay as mayor pro-tem. Commissioner Jimmy New agreed.  Cynthiana only has four commisioners, with the Mayor breaking split decisions.
Oh. Crap. Continue reading “tradition, change, and whose is bigger”

Cofflubreak & a Dead Commission

This morning, on WCYN’s Coffeebreak with Rick Chasteen…
Guests were Crystal Caudill & Spencer Cathey of WEDCO. Topics of discussion bounced from finances, civic activities, community health, and so on.
One point of discussion which I found entertaining revolved around influenza. Rick had noted that it had seemed that there hadn’t been much news on the flu this year, and that it seemed that within recent weeks word of flu related illness had increased. Crystal advised that the local Health Department still has enough vaccinations in their stockpile for anyone interested in receiving a flu shot.
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Digital TV changeover: The disaster everyone's ignoring?

Oooooh. Slick. I stole a headline from an article and made it my own by making it a question, rather than a statement. I so smart.
I’m sure that somewhere you have heard, read, or seen stories and rumors of the dreaded DTV transition. You’ve likely heard people panicked in some fashion over not being able to watch TV unless they do a ton of upgrades to their entertainment system. Heck, I nearly got into an argument at a Christmas dinner over someone’s misconceptions of the DTV transition. (see here: http://twitter.com/kg4vma/status/1078226274 and here: http://twitter.com/kg4vma/status/1078227108)
Honestly, I’ve been enjoying the confusion. Reading and listening to the mess has been very entertaining, and has even brought me several laughs. One of the latest articles I read is included amongst those gems. Continue reading “Digital TV changeover: The disaster everyone's ignoring?”

CyntheticMedia.com » Blog Archive » boredom

In reading back through my old posts, i found this entry:
CyntheticMedia.com » Blog Archive » boredom.
In that entry, I mention that my GDS index was reporting 83,053 searchable items. As of right now, my index is up to 788,501 items. The main reason for such a huge jump (other than it’s been a few months shy of two years) is that I had, at one time, mapped to Sullivan’s “public” folder and had GDS crawling it.

My New Year's Resolution

This entry originally started as, well, something entirely different. After giving it some thought, I realized I could turn it into a resolution for the new year. Here’s hoping that I succeed.

I haven’t written anything worth reading in a very long time.
It disturbs me.
I really don’t know why it bothers me so much, considering I have maybe five people who actually stop and see what I’m up to, or what my thoughts are. Heck, I probably have more people checking out what I have to say via facebook than through this.
Still, I hate the fact that I haven’t found it easy to say anything.
I’ve decided to try and go back — starting with my first entry (which was imported from my livejournal account) — and read everything I’ve ever shared to see if I can somehow rediscover my voice.
I hope that with the new year I will be able to return to sharing my thoughts and delivering messages that I’ve found interesting or important.