I usually write at least a January 1 blog post but never got around TUIT.

Dr. Miller-Meeks is still in the confirmation stages of becoming the Director of Iowa Public Health. I think she’ll do a great job and is actually made for this job. I applaud both her and Governor Branstad for taking drastic pay cuts (by more than half?) to serve our state.

Everyone has been watching the craziness in Wisconsin; I don’t know anything about Wisconsin politics other than the 2010 elections turned what was a fairly reliable BLUE state, purple if not RED. As we painfully learned in 2008 – elections have consequences. I just wish the traditional media would spend more time showing the thuggish behavior of the left – since they seem to think the right is “violent”. Don’t say this public versus private sector union issue is a new thing: Read THIS

Bottom line is there are plenty of regulations to protect government workers and governments don’t show “profits” from which you can negotiate pay increases. Interesting article HERE.

Everyone has been watching the middle east turmoil, wondering what type of governments we’ll end up seeing over there… all very interesting if not scary.

Random thoughts:

I hope to deploy some new graphics at the top of the page soon – a bit nicer looking and professional, perhaps to time with the confirmation of my friend, Dr. Miller-Meeks as the new Director of Iowa Public Health – which I am hoping to be sometime in April.

I think I’m done buying laptops for a while – I want an ipad type toy – we’ll see what comes up – thinking Motorola Xoom.

Iowa Spring game coming up – I’m watching some of the NFL combine where Stanzi, Clayborn, Ballard and Reisner are competing…

Still not in tune with the move to a cloud computing – although I like the commercial with the family trying to get a good picture and can’t without editing… “to the cloud”… my vision of the future is not something I can see very clearly.

I find it odd there is a tremendous uptick of gasoline explosions all over the world – old infrastructure, not well maintained I’m being told… yuck. 5,6 so far in PA, OH, IN and another in Canada.

the end – have a nice weekend