HERE'S THE SKINNY

I am finally getting set to leave the Kansas City area and will be heading to Dallas/Ft. Worth tomorrow morning. I'll probably be there for at least two weeks. I am pretty sure that I'll not have access to a computer so this could be my last entry for a while. With that in mind, I'll have to make my Super Bowl prediction now. Indianapolis 35 - St. Louis 3. Some other predictions I'll make for the next few weeks include the fact that I will NOT win the lottery, Topeka WILL remain the capitol of Kansass Mavs owner Mark Cuban will NOT hire me to be a key front office guy or assistant coach for his NBA team even though I'd be an excellent hire and could probably help him make even more money and Punxhatawny Phil WILL see his shadow on Feb. 2.
My next trip home should be on Super Bowl weekend. I'll be in Boise for two days and then it's back on the road.
My buddy Jack is back on the air on WDAY in Fargo, N.D. If you are in that area be sure to listen even though he refused to make the drive to St. Joe's to see me last weekend.

STILL IN ST. JOE

It looks like I will be here in St. Joseph, Missouri until at least next Thursday. It's not so bad, I need to be somewhere other than my home in Boise for my job and since we already worked San Diego, it is here that I must be.
After hearing about Fargo, N.D. from my friend Jack Sunday through the years, I get the feeling that the weather here could be called 'Fargo Light.' The current temperature is 8 degrees. This morning's low was 3 and today we got up to about 14. Oddly enough, the expected high on Saturday is 56. In North Dakota they get a good laugh when they hear about people who think a high temp in double digits is cold.
Speaking of Jack Sunday about whom I wrote last month when he was caught in the maelstrom of corporate radio and unfairly terminated from his job at KFGO. Jack has landed on his feet and will start a new gig at another station in Fargo next week. Jack is agood guy who is tremendously talented and I am very happy for him and his on-air partner, Sandy.
The more I travel and the more radio I listen to, the more I miss my former career as a broadcaster. I'm as good as most of these guys! I also miss my friend Jack. The flyer in my hotel room says that Fargo is just 569 miles away so perhaps he will come down for a visit. I also see that Omaha is 140 miles away, Tulsa 332, Memphis 570 and Des Moines 170.
I'll be watching the NFL Wild Card games this weekend. It seems that every year there is at least one upset in the wild card games so who will be victimized this year? I think San Diego and Indianapolis will both win handily. Because the Vikings tanked so badly late this season I give them little chance. That leaves the Rams as the only underdog that might break through. Watch out Seahawks!

KEEN INSIGHTS COMING SOON

It is sometimes difficult to access a computer in order to update this blog as I am back on the road. My Christmas visit with family in Redding, CA. was good. After that, I flew to San Diego where they were getting battered by all that rain. Perhaps you heard about it on the news. The rain plagued pretty much all of California and Arizona too. We left Southern Cal in a downpour that continued through Arizona and into New Mexico. We drove and drove until we got to Kansas City, where I spent four days before making the short trip north to St. Joseph, Missouri. That is where I am now. This is the town where the outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed in 1882. This was also a major point-of-origin for the Pony Express. I think it was kind of like the current Federal Express tie-in to Memphis, Tennessee only much different. Actually, they say the Pony Express began here in 1860. Many businesses around here carry "Pony Express" in their name.
We are now getting what the weather folks here are calling an ice storm. This is something new for me. We sometimes get freezing rain in Idaho that usually quickly changes to snow, but this is supposed to be an all-night storm that will leave up to an inch and a half of ice on the ground. The morning commute tomorrow should be quite an adventure. It is now about five in the afternoon and about an eighth of an inch of ice has covered everything.
To those who like to check this blog from time to time, don't be discouraged. Soon I'll be making regular entries that feature copious amounts of the wit, wisdom and keen insight for which I am noted around the globe. In the meantime, these travel updates are pretty cool too aren't they?