Farewell

FAREWELL - "Regrets, I've had a few - but then again, too few to mention..." Could've been the appropriate lyrics, should Dubya had had a theme song to his Goodbye speech last night on TV. He did it his way, alright. Our local paper led with a story about his farewell address - and, right next to it, a story about how Oklahomans will remember him more fondly than the rest of the nation and world. He still has a high approval rating here. Go figure.

Gil Grissom's farewell on CSI was sorta anti-climatic too. But, then again, that was just a TV show, not the real life mess we're embroiled in.

KEEP THOSE FLOCKING BIRDS AWAY - Honestly, I was unaware that birds or even a flock of them could bring down an aircraft - which is supposedly what happened to cause the US Airways flight to go down in the Hudson River shortly after take-off yesterday. You have to give the pilot a lot of credit for averting total disaster as not one life was lost. I'll have a lot more respect for a herd of birds in the future - and more fear too. Alfred Hitchcock was way ahead of his time.

HEAT WAVE. Yesterday's high temperature was 22 - at 1 AM. It steadily dropped all day, and was 16 at about 4 PM. This morning when I arose, it was 6. However, it is expected to get to a relatively balmy 38 later today. Tomorrow it will rise to the mid-fifties. In my thinking, it is still better than the brutal summers - where July and August typically see EVERY day between 90 and 105.

Old Fart Mike