You know, I’ve been off for a while now and greatly enjoying it. I haven’t really spent a lot of time online, haven’t been wasting away doing a whole lot of anything. I re-assembled a radial arm saw, cleaned a basement, visited some friends and went snow tubing. So this morning I wake up around 6am and I’m thinking how great it is that I don’t have to go to work again today. So I’m bored and want to fall back asleep so I figure I’ll flip on the news. I usually turn on KSTP 5 and check that out; see what’s happening around the Twin Cities and the world.
Apparently we were having a little bout of light snow today and they had to go out live to Jessica Miles to report on it. I was half asleep and didn’t have my glasses on, but they sent her outside somewhere with a microphone and a camera to tell us it’s snowing. That’s when it dawned on me… poor Jessica Miles. Whenever there is something going on they throw her out into the field to report on it. The bad thing is that the time that she is reporting on is from 5am to 7am. There’s really not a whole lot of shit going on at that time. If there was a big fire during the night, here’s Jessica standing outside of a charred building reporting. If it’s -40 out, here’s Jessica standing outside reporting trying to keep her eyeballs from freezing. If the Viking’s did something here’s Jessica standing outside of the empty Metrodome reporting. If there is an ice storm, here’s Jessica standing by the side of the road reporting on the slick conditions.
The point is that probably 90% of the time that she’s out in the field reporting, she could do it from behind the desk. She’s got a great smile and a good presentation but she keeps getting thrown out into the elements. I know she’s a good field reporter, but put her in the field when there’s actually something to report, not snow flurries we can see if we open our damn curtains!
Well, maybe I’m just over reacting. You know I haven’t been to work for a while so I’m kind of lacking on shit to bitch about. On the plus side, I got myself some new DVD’s that I’m going to have to go watch now. I re-joined Columbia House again so I could get some more movies free. I just got 7 DVD’s for under $4 a piece. Of course all that’s going to do is lower my online time even more now. I do have one thing I need to bitch about, maybe I will tomorrow. My lame ass service I get from my shitty cellular company: Dobson Cellular One and their new worthless as shit GSM service that they can shove up their ass as far as I’m concerned. In case you can’t tell, I’m not too happy with them.