Random

• BUSY HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Today is Lincoln's Birthday. Sunday is Arizona Statehood Day, Chinese New Year, Transfiguration Sunday, and something else. Oh yeah, Monday is President's Day.

• ON TOP OF THAT temps are supposed to climb for the holidays -- mid-70's. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 80° in some places around Phoenix.

• WIFI TURNS SCHOOL BUS into study hall -- more or less. Prolonged computing on a bus would only make me nauseous. ~ link

• ARIZONA STATE Rep Frank Antenori "has proposed a bill that would make it illegal for the poor to purchase so-called luxuries, like beer and cigarettes and premium cable with their own money, when they're also getting welfare assistance and food stamps from the government." Of course, enforcement would require a whole new layer of bureaucracy. ~ link

• DONATIONS to the Covenant World Relief Haiti fund are now at the $600,000 mark. ~ link

• I LOOKED for the books I needed in two area bookstores on Wednesday. They were not in stock so I placed an Amazon order on Wednesday evening. The books shipped on Thursday afternoon (yesterday). They were in my PO box this morning -- even with the standard free shipping.