Got home from work just about an hour ago…a little after 9PM. This posting everyday thing is hard after a long day like today.
*sigh*
I’m going to bed.
until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO - day 18
The best part of bowling night tonight was being away from the negativity that is work right now.
Until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO day 17
…in Pontiac’s history.
Today a no-reserve auction was finalized that sold the Pontiac Silverdome for just under $600,000. A building that cost over $55 million to build.
Not only was the Pontiac Silverdome the home of various cool events and the Detroit Lions, it was my place of employment for over 13 years.
The worst part is all the arm-chair quarterbacking going on now… apparently everyone knows a better way to have handled the situation. The building was costing the city about a million dollars a year in up-keep; that now becomes someone else’s problem. The building isn’t on the city’s tax rolls and was not generating any property tax; that too is about to change. And yet, everyone has an opinion of how it should have been done differently.
City officials have had (at the very least) since 2005 to remedy this situation some other way and that hasn’t happened. It’s been on the market since about 2002; it hasn’t sold. So now people are in an uproar… a big ole giant negative uproar.
Here’s a couple of reminders for folks who are biotchin…
- December 2005 - Resolution taken to city council to begin negotiating a development agreement after proposals were received, reviewed and developer selected. “Resolution not adopted”. At the time I believe the amount offered was close to $20 million dollars.
- Promoter withdrew proposal (originally submitted in 2002) {gee, I wonder why **cough**pussyfootinaround**cough**.}
- 65,000 residents; less than 4,000 voted in the mayoral election just this month.
- Yes, the building cost over $55 million to build and you have now sold it for just under $600,000. You keep bringing that up. You must have forgotten the $24 million dollars the Lions paid to get out of their contract in 2001 or the $12 million you had in the bank at the time. Your elected officials pissed away all $36 million of that money. And that doesn’t include the annual subsidies the Silverdome paid to the city.
Oh what short memories we have.
Please Pontiac, what is really needed right now are some positive vibes. The negativity, bitching, complaining hasn’t gotten you anywhere yet, how about trying something new.
Sorry for the dark post… I have a heavy heart tonight.
Until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO - day 16
My husband is too funny. I’m sitting here on my laptop and he walk in and says “writting in your captain’s log”…nice title I thought.
I went and shot some pics of my friend’s band last night. I haven’t been through them all, but here are a couple of shots to give you an idea. I like the way they turned out.
Hope you enjoy.
Until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO day 15
It was a beautiful day today. So much so, I couldn’t get Hunter down for his nap. So we decided to go to the store… but he feel asleep in the car - great… so I head back home.
I carry him into the house and he wakes up….
“Mom? I thought we were going to the store.”
So I explain that he feel asleep, but he wants to go to the store anyway… I’m not playing this game.
So he is still up.
I’m going to see my friend’s band tonight; it will probably be a late night for me. And an early morning for me in the morning. Hunter doesn’t sleep much past 6:30 any more, especially when Hunter hasn’t had a nap, he will be up early tomorrow… so will I.
Until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO - day 14
Today I am posting my 12 of 12. This is Chad’s deal and it’s really very cool. You take 12 pictures on the 12 of every month and then Chad puts all the links in one post on his blog. It’s very cool to look through people’s days from all over the world… you really should head over and check some out.
On to my day… it was a day off for me.
8:35 AM Frost on a plant hanger, I thought it looked cool.
8:36 AM Two right feet… my foot prints in the frost on the deck.
10:50 AM Just left Starbucks and now I’m on my way into Borders to just look around (yea, right).
12:53 PM Just leaving the hair cut place - new do pic later.
6:03 PM The love of my life…
6:03 PM The men of my life, on our way into Chili’s for dinner.
I do love this shot of Dad and Bug.
7:29 PM Here you go… new do
7:33 PM It’s dark out so now I bring you my last desparate shots to make sure I have 12 for the day… here’s Willow.
8:16 PM facebookin’ (told you I was desparate)
8:31 PM Hunter watching TV in his favorite pose.
9:10 PM Froggin’
9:58 PM Bloggin… nAbLOpOmO calls
Well there you have it, my day yesterday.
Until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO -day 13
I went and looked at a Droid today.
Damn you Verizon.
All you do is feed my addiction to gadgets.
There should be a patch for that.
damn.
until tomorrow… (12 of 12 pictures)
~S
nAbLOpOmO - day 12
And you have been given 10 days of crappy posts. Well, it’s not called crap-o-rama for nothing.
Happy Veteran’s Day and thank you to anyone who has servied our country, their families and friends. Your service means I get to be free; I don’t have words for how much I apprecieate this freedom.
Tomorrow is the 12 and you should know what that means…. 12 of 12!!
Plus I don’t have to work (but I am going in for a bit - I’m a dork like that) and I’m getting my hair cut. Should end up with at least a few good shots.
I’m hoping for some more in depth posts in the latter part of this month.
Thanks for haning…
until tomorrow…
~S
nAbLOpOmO - day 11
… are long. Work 8 to 5:45, lunch didn’t happen. Bowl 6:30 to 10:00. Too tired to blog, please enjoy this video, it’s on of my favs:
Sorry about the commercial - no control here.
Until tomorrow,
~S
nAbLOpOmO day 10
I’m sitting here watching Phineas and Ferb with my son. Regular posting will continue tomorrow.
nAbLOpOmO day 9.
Until tomorrow..
~S