Happy President's day

[susandennis]

There was a silly article in the newspaper this morning about local people who share the same name as former presidents. I really wanted to send the reporter a sympathy card.

I remember well my first job at a real newspaper - the Wheeling News Register. The city editor (read 'boss') was a disagreeable ugly old man with the worst breath on the planet. He was forever coming up with the stupidest assignments. One of them was when he had me get out the Wheeling phone book and hunt for names of famous people and call them and ask them how they liked having the same name as a famous person. As I type that now, I'm trying to remember exactly why I didn't quit then. In fact, I worked at 2 other newspapers after that. Never had a city editor that bad again but still.

Sheri is coming over today with some stuff - ideas, choices, and she's bringing Jake, the handy man. Jake is going to scope out the coffee table and see if we can replicate the raising height and action that the old ugly table had. And he's going to raise up this desk so that I can open up the file drawer which does not clear the carpet, much less my new chair mat.

I have no work on my plate right now but I know it will start rolling in likely this afternoon. So this morning I'm just enjoying the leisure time to straighten and futz and read and stuff. Maybe I'll even catch up some filing - at least the stuff that goes into the top filing drawer - the one I can get to.

Comments

[estis.livejournal.com]

Wheeling WV. Excellent. I have a question to which I am fairly certain you do not have an answer but will give it a go anyway.

Years ago before the tunnel on route 70 and the bypass we used to drive thru Wheeling on our way to and from Ohio. On the top of a very steep hill there was a statue of a man and a horse. Well we never had time to stop and see what that was about (did he jump with his horse off of the hill etc....we assumed it was something to do with the Revolutionary War). So what if anything do you know about this.

[susandennis]

ohmygod I had forgotten all about that dude! He was in my neighborhood but on the grounds of a convent. Wheeling was about 99% Catholic and had LOTS o' convents but this one was one of the cloistered ones - no heathens allowed.

If I ever knew the horse dude's story, it's long gone out of my memory bank now.