Short Stuff

by Linda McThrall, editor

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Happy New Year’s to you and yours!

 

Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were warm and memorable, and you are ready for whatever 2012 brings. I know I am. I liked 2011 okay, but it feels like it’s time for a new beginning (as opposed to an old beginning).

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You may have jumped ahead in the pages to discover the Town of Fountain Hills’ activity guide called “In the Loop.” Let’s Go has partnered with the Town to publish the guide every month. The pull-out section gives you lots of ideas planned in the community for the coming weeks. The town’s Supervisor of Recreation Bryan Hughes is responsible for gathering all the information, compiling it, then getting it to us for production. It’s a great team effort, and I am glad to have the opportunity to work with Bryan. Jen Gentry and Pam Small, who make up our production department, did the design work on the pull-out. They did a really nice job, don’t you think? Kudos to everyone on this inaugural issue. We hope you find it convenient and informative and will utilize it when making your plans to take classes and participate in activities provided by Fountain Hills.

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I wonder if you have checked out the Let’s Go Facebook page. If you visit www.facebook.com/myletsgo you will find lots of things to do and see around the Northeast Valley and Fountain Hills. It’s also a place where you can post upcoming activities. While the rules are pretty general, I reserve the right to remove things I deem inappropriate. No bickering about it. Some things just don’t fit the mold for what we are trying to accomplish.

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So, have you come back to the NBA yet? I know a lot of people who are pretty irritated about the lock-out and all the bellyaching by the players and the owners. It is pretty sickening I think. C’mon. Who needs THAT much money? So now we have a shortened season with all kinds of little tirades by the players/owners/coaches/refs/fans/blah blah blah. It’s a game.

I once was a maniacal Dallas Cowboys fan but lost interest after Jerry Jones bought the team and fired Tom Landry. When the NFL went on strike a few years back I just quit. That strike basically was for the same goofiness the NBA players wanted. More money. I left football completely until Kurt Warner took the Cardinals to the Super Bowl, but I’m still not that interested in football. I admit that I have sort of come back a little bit to the Cardinals. They have provided us with some serious adrenaline rushes at the end of the season. And I like Tim Tebow and the Broncos. I kind of pay attention to what teams are doing what just so I can throw in my two-cents worth. I know just enough to sound like I know something about sports.

I like to talk about sports, but maybe my Venus thing takes over, and I get all upset about how people can be so greedy, so violent, so silly, etc. As my maturity has overtaken my more emotional behavior, I just don’t watch any professional games much. I’m not that good at sitting still for very long. If I do, I fall asleep in my chair. Now THAT is maturity. Sigh.