Comments | tgolebie: spring update.

tgolebie

spring update.

Apr 21, 2007 19:40

I'm back in michigan for the summer. The weather has been weird. When I pulled in about a week ago there was about 8 inches of snow on the ground. Today it was 73 degrees. Tomorrow it will be 80 degrees. We're busy getting the campground ready for the season. Many sticks and branches to pick up from the winter. The river really did some ( Read more... )

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cleo_middlesex April 22 2007, 04:16:18 UTC

holy crap! that's some update! congrats on your house selling. that's gotta be a major worry off your mind. it's such a cute house, and you did a ton to improve it!

hope to see you this summer!

Speaking of houses. tgolebie April 26 2007, 03:28:01 UTC

When would be a good time to shoot down for a visit and see you, the kiddies and your new place? I'm anxious to see how good it turned out. The last time I saw it, it was just a bunch of boards nailed together.

Re: Speaking of houses. cleo_middlesex April 26 2007, 13:32:50 UTC

anytime. well, we are a little busy this weekend and next sunday but otherwise, anytime is good.

buhbulls April 23 2007, 02:39:48 UTC

Holy crap that sold fast. Consider yourself lucky though, you are lucky to sell that bugger as fast as you did! Did you get what you were asking for it? I hope you did!

rjwhite April 23 2007, 18:44:02 UTC

Wait- you'll be based in Mich, then?

Also- heard this year is the last for Auction.

scottecook April 23 2007, 22:44:52 UTC

Yes.... it was the last Auction year. BK told me... still talk via e-mail now-and-then. Do you know why?

cleo_middlesex April 23 2007, 23:54:39 UTC

do you know why, or are you asking? i'd love to know. i'd also love to chat with bk via email;)

rjwhite April 24 2007, 00:45:06 UTC

I am guessing that the return on the investment is probably lower. It takes a lot to run a 5-hour-a-night television show for a week, probably fewer people calling, huge segmentation of the audience due to cable, compared to 30 years ago, etc. Probably a lot of reasons, the chief being that it just doesn't pull in as much dough.

They moved to a lot of canned pledge drives, too with automated phone systems.

Yeah, I just emailed Mr. Kinney today. He informed me that Dick is also retiring in the next week or so.

I realized on the way home that I started volunteering for WKAR in 1987 or 88... 2004 was my last time as an Auction host. I spent a heck of a lot of time working on stuff there- high school volunteer, contestant on "Quizbusters," student production employee, pledge/auction on-air host. Very weird.

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scottecook April 23 2007, 22:45:21 UTC

You putz... there goes my freeloading... :)

Congrats on selling it!

Thanks tgolebie April 26 2007, 03:25:32 UTC

Why thank you. Keeping fingers crossed that everything goes through.