Of course, I'm not working ANY day, so of course I'm home on this Presidents Day! But as I think back, it is quite likely this is the first Presidents Day I haven't had to go to work since I quit teaching school in the spring of 1978! In all the years at the Capital Journal, and even back when we owned the Onida paper ourselves, and in the last three Januarys at the Custer paper, Presidents Day was just another Monday workday. Oh wait, I do remember one Presidents Day---in 1997, I skipped out of work and rode up to Bismarck with Paul and Sharyn Forney to go to the Governors' boys basketball game. We got blown out not only by the Demons but by the referees, so I probably should have stayed home to go to work. . . . . .
Dylan is spending this week with his father in Rapid City, so it is very quiet around here. Hopefully he is getting well without being near me, and I am getting well so I don't make him sick again, or vice versa, when he returns next weekend. . . . . .
How desperate and pathetic is it on the part of the Clintons' mutual campaign for the presidency that their attack on Sen. Obama today is whether he plagiarized a speech delivered by one of his supporters, the governor of Massachusetts. . . . . . I just saw an interesting poll result on MSNBC: The Texas poll (the primary there is two weeks away) in a state where the Clintons say they must win, shows it Clinton 50%, Obama 48%. Interesting! . . . . .
Our prayers today are for Hill City wrestler Dusty Swanson, who was paralyzed in a match at the regional tournament in Fort Pierre Saturday, and his family. He's a great athlete; track especially. I remember him well since Hill City is only 11 miles from Custer where I wrote high school sports for the Chronicle for more than two years. He was flown from Pierre out to Rapid City Regional and may be moved on to Denver later. As of this afternoon, he was still paralyzed from his chest down. . . . . .
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