Cooled off

Well the good news is that I'm feeling much better since my last post on here. I'm coming off of a four day weekend feeling recharged thanks to the Nintendo Wii and Beatles Rock Band. I'm just saying, whether you need a guitar player or a drummer...I always score in the 90th percentile...so think about it. I wish we had recorded video of the 4 drunken fools singing Come Together. It was epic.

Back to work today.

Now that I'm not doing middays anymore, I have something I can focus my time and energy towards. Every year our station picks a charity and does some kind of community service for the holidays. Last year we did a canned food drive in honor of Brenden Foster, we called it Brenden's Wish. Great cause...great intentions...complete cluster fuck when it came to execution. I wasn't going to let that happen this time around.

I pitched the charity idea at a meeting we had recently. Considering I was the most prepared, they kind of had to pick mine. So we're going to be doing a "Change for the Children" campaign for the Sacramento Children's Home. I went this morning and toured their facility...it reminded me of a run-down summer camp and made me sad for the kids who live there. Their residential program is for the extreme of extreme cases of abuse and neglect. The kids are in custody of the state and have been tossed around to several foster homes with unsuccessful placements...thus, landing at more of an institution than a home.

They are currently facing a $750,000 cut in funding due to the disaster that is commonly referred to as "our state budget."

So that's what I'll be focusing on until the end of the year.

Other things I'll be looking forward to: American Idol starts in January and that's all I can think of for now.