Truly Random

Sometime's you just feel like you should write something, so here I go. The reason I started this blog in the first place was because I enjoy writing, and felt like I needed an excuse to do it, not to mention a place. I have written some fiction in my spare time, but not lately. I don't even know if it's still around here anywhere. I guess I ought to try to find it.

How did people live before spell check? I'm a very good speller, but a terrible typist. I looked back at that paragraph and it's got more words with red underlines than not. Just think how it was back in the day when you had manual typewriters and had to fix errors with White-Out. How did they (we) get anything done? Especially when making carbon copies.

I wonder how many young people know what "CC:" on their email means. Mine didn't. It stands for Carbon Copy. It's used on letters to show who received a carbon copy of the letter. YOU knew, didn't you?

When was the last time you sent a letter? I know that I haven't in years. I hardly ever mail anything nowadays. I use online banking to pay bills, I use email to communicate, or text messaging. Of course, that's why the Postal Service is suffering. They need to figure out how to get onto the digital bandwagon.

I'd like to write about the Penn State situation, but honestly, I don't know what to say. I know how I feel about it, but not sure I can put it into words well enough to make my point clearly. I think that there is a huge rush to judgement and political correctness going on. For example, did you know that there is a decades-old student-run charity (THON, I think is the name) that many contributors have pulled their support for? Why would they do that? What did the charity have to do with Sandusky? I believe that there is a ton of information yet to come out and that any real reaction should wait. Another example of that: I understand and even agree that Paterno had to go from the university's standpoint, but I was feeling that he was getting a bit shafted. Then I hear on ESPN Radio today that he signed over the deed to his house to his wife for $1 - just this past summer. After his grand jury testimony. It seems incredible to me that all this was going on for all those years, and NOBODY knew it. Why did Sandusky retire in 1999 in his fifties at the prime of his career? This was the year he received national "Assistant Coach of the Year" awards. And why was he never interviewed for head coaching jobs? There's dirt everywhere on this scandal. It's sickening. And there needs to be more emphasis on getting help for the victims.

And yes, I have read the Grand Jury's presentment of the case, so I feel at least informed enough for an opinion.

I guess I did know what to say, after all...