Lucas Blackwood » Opinion

Fireworks

Lucas — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:40:13 +0000

Next week we will be celebrating the 4th of July, which is one of my favorite holidays. Watching the fireworks is always a “blast” and it is a nice 3 day weekend. I can only hope that this heat wave is done and over with by the time it rolls around, it is playing havoc on so many people. I just ain’t right.

Iced Tea

Lucas — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:24:54 +0000

I don’t know what I’d be drinking if we didn’t have iced tea. I was brought up on iced tea and have always preferred tea over coffee. I’m real glad that McDonalds has some great sweet iced tea on the dollar menu. That’s a bargin, with free refills to boot.

April Showers

Lucas — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:22:02 +0000

Well we haven’t held true this year with the old saying that April Showers bring May Flowers. I sure hope that we do get some rain soon, my well is acting like it is running on the dry side and that isn’t good news. I wonder who pissed off Mother Nature this year. We have had nothing but wacky weather for so very long, it’s getting old.

Alice In Wonderland

Lucas — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:19:11 +0000

I have promised my niece that I would take her to see the newest version of the old classic tale of Alice In Wonderful. The only reason I have consented to do so is that I am a Johnny Depp fan and I hear that he has done a good job in this new film. Guess we will see this weekend.

Good Music

Lucas — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:26:00 +0000

Lately I have been hearing some good music. I’m especially impressed with a new release by Robert Earl Keen. If you have a chance to hear him, I hope you will give him a listen and let me know what you think.

Telecommuting – just for management?

Lucas — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:17:59 +0000

From time to time I see an article that sings the praises of telecommuting. I think that telecommuting is a great thing because it saves the employees a lot of time and money when they don’t have to drive to work. The only problem I’ve run into is that some companies only allow telecommuting to a select few management employees, and refuse to allow non-management employees that opportunity. I know quite a few people who feel that they could do their job just fine from home but their company won’t allow it. It seems that the company doesn’t trust the non-management employees to do their work if a manager isn’t standing right over their desks breathing down their necks.

Get over it already!

Lucas — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:18:41 +0000

I was reading an article about how important it seems to be to a lot of people to define Barack Obama as half-white OR half-black or all black or bi-racial or whatever. What is IS is a very well educated political leader that has been elected to be the next President of the United States. The color of his skin should not make any difference. The races mixed in his blood should make no difference. What he SAYS and what he DOES SHOULD make a lot of difference. So I think we should all just get over this debate and wish him luck in fixing this country’s troubles, because he is going to need all the luck he can get!

The times they are a changing

Lucas — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:19:23 +0000

Daylight Savings Time begins today. I set the clocks back last night before I went to bed. I really wish that the country would just pick one time and stick to it! This business about “Spring Ahead and Fall Back” is just really hard for my poor body to adapt to! I really don’t like the changing back and forth at all! And I’ve heard that recent research suggests that even though the reason for doing the changing is to save energy costs, which have not happened. The energy costs in the summer have actually increased due to Daylight Savings time, not decreased.

A bad place to work

Lucas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:06:42 +0000

I have had three relatives working at different “X”-Marts in the past couple of years. (Note: I am saying “X”-Mart but that is not the “real name” of the store – I don’t need any lawsuits so I’m changing the name to protect myself! Let’s just all say it’s a big company that most people know about.

I keep in close touch with them, and I have heard many horror stories from all three of them about their problems working there. I am going to explain this in three different posts to follow, so each one will get the proper “treatment” in my blog. I want to impress on you all how awful this company is to work for!

Sentencing in China

Lucas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:05:22 +0000

I was really surprised to hear today that the China courts have sentenced two men to death, and one woman to life in prison over the tainted milk scandal in China. I had not heard much about the case recently. The fact that I had not heard much about it makes me realize exactly how much goes on in the world that we don’t hear about here in the USA. I don’t like feeling uninformed!

I wonder if that makes us egotistical? I wish we DID hear more about those types of things. I understand that we have a lot of important news going on here, but there are channels that dedicate themselves to news 24/7 and I have often watched them and just seen the same stories repeated over and over. I’m not talking about the “headline news” channels, either. I think we, as a country, could do better about that kind of thing.