Date (Approximate)
Subject
2/16/1996
It's been rumored that I don't "suffer fools gladly." I guess that's true. But some days are worse than others.
2/19/96
It happens every once in a while: an administrator gets an idea and thinks he'll make it a reality in order to justify his salary. Here we had a couple of folks on the school board that decided to give an old idea a try.
4/1/96
The City of Aurora, Illinois, where I live, enacted a law that made car stereos that could be heard more than 75 feet away illegal.
6/7/96
I spent a few weeks trying to sort out this domestic problem, you see, and I guess I resolved it on paper. Here's why some of my neighbors still don't talk to me. No loss.
7/12/96
The day this article was published, something like 23 inches of rain dumped on our area overnight, making that summer the "summer of our lives" indeed.