President Obama Made a Stop in North Texas. Skip to about 1:13 of this video to watch Kimberly Russell, a laid-off DISD social studies teacher, introduce President Obama. Though she was laid off in May and faces a dire job economy, she looks genuinely happy. I like her spunk. Obama spoke about his jobs plan at Eastfield College in Mesquite yesterday. He said his plan would give 280,000 teachers (like Russell) their jobs back.
Rangers Advance to AL Championship Series. I’m going to be honest with you. I haven’t watched a single inning of Rangers baseball since the World Series. I keep meaning to. I’ll mark it on my calendar. I get all my work done. I get my run out of the way. And then, it happens. I realize that—just like Zac—I’m not able to watch it. (But unlike Zac, I do have a TV. I just don’t have cable. But I have a few channels. But I can’t watch them because the TV’s built-in remote doesn’t work, and we lost the original remote. And for some reason, the universal remotes we buy don’t work. So we’re stuck on one channel, which just so happens to be the History Channel. It isn’t the worst channel to be stuck on, but it doesn’t offer sports.) So I keep missing the games. I’m sure I’ll start bandwagoning and watching and rooting soon. But, apparently, I’ll always love the Cowboys more. (Also, I haven’t watched a single snap in a Cowboys game, either. Same reason.)
Young Girl Fights Cancer, Gives Bears. Autumn Swank is 11 years old and is fighting brain cancer. She received a teddy bear in her hospital room one day. She liked the way the gift made her feel, and so she decided to pay it forward. She collects teddy bears and hands them out to kids (and adults) who need them. Check out the story and then help her out by giving her a bear or two.
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How do you get the History Channel without cable?
Tom, that is a fantastic question. I honestly have no idea.
Built-in remote? Do you mean the channel changing button on the tv? I don’t think a remote can be built-in, can it?
The ALCS is on Fox, Krista, so you’ll be able to jump right on the bandwagon come Saturday. (Assuming you can figure out how to change the channel.)
Yes, yes, the channel changing button, which seems to me to be like a built-in remote.
Jason, I haven’t been able to change the channel for about six months now. Doubt I’ll figure it out by Saturday.
Maybe someone could get Krista a ticket. She has a car, right?
In your paragraph about the Rangers, you have a sentence that ends with the word ‘to’.
Stop the blog. Turn it all off. THERE IS A GRAMMATICAL ERROR ON HERE.
Ending sentences in prepositions is something we should all get into. It is, in fact, perfectly grammatical and legitimate–a practice even the most conservative linguists agree with. Let’s rise above. Sadly, thousands of ill-informed English teachers have instructed students as if they were learning Latin; and that is something with which we should not put.
I realize this is getting to be old news, but isn’t Krista’s sentence just a shortened version of, “I keep meaning to do that.” It’s not the preposition-ending sentence construction our English teachers told us to avoid. BTW, I still think the built-in remote thing is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. I’m easily amused.