Restaurant Week Toledo should be called “Wake Up” week. I am as guilty as the next person hitting up fast food places and places I have been a million times for dinner. What we don’t often do is seek out the small local places that could be diamonds in the rough that we don’t even know about.
Here’s a link to just some of the stories we have done on restaurant week:
I think this a great time to wake up and see what great, unique and ummm… great food options Toledo has to offer. So instead of being bummed when local places close, keep them open and your mind.
I do certainly feel for the people who really look to make some serious money in a snowy winter. The guys who bank on snow plowing this time of year are probably not happy with what I am about to say, but I am loving this winter. Mild temperatures, 3 inches of snow maybe at one time and very little use of my shovel make me a happy man.
No blistering cold live shots standing on a highway. No wind piercing through your jacket as you shovel 3 feet of snow. And no throbbing back when you get back inside.
Now as I write this I bet Mother Nature is lining up a storm. But for the time being I am going to enjoy it and look forward to sunscreen weather which does not feel like that far away.
I think it is safe to say there is no better way to experience Christmas than as a parent. Watching our daughter’s excitement is amazing. Although talking about Christmas in November to a 3 year old is dicey because they are pretty sure the next day is always Christmas. So each day we go through this.
She sees, hears and remembers everything when it comes to Christmas so there is very little we need to explain to her. It must be an amazing time for her.
Clearly I do not remember what it was like to be 3 and preparing for Christmas, but I do remember one year I heard Reindeer hoofs on our roof. I did not go back to sleep AT ALL that night. I wonder if they left a dent in the roof.
You might be “Issue 2ed out” when it comes to this election but if you live in Toledo there’s another huge race. All district city council members are up for reelection (not in District 1 because Wilma Brown has termed out). This is a big race because they determine your water rates, streets to be paved and many other things that affect your life.
If you are not familiar with your candidate, we have you covered.
Check out
http://www.foxtoledo.com/subindex/news/talk_back
We have an interview from just about all the candidates. Shaun Enright from district 3 did not respond to our numerous invitations for an interview.
Make sure you are informed before Election Day.
I will never pretend I can predict the news. Sure we can guess what kind of stories will be important or big at certain times of the year. At times of anniversaries or holidays some of the same stories will creep back onto your TV. There are some that joke if we re-racked last year’s story would anyone notice? That was contemplated once on a Black Friday piece. Could we just dub in the words of the new hot products this year and use the same exact video of people in front of Best Buy. We leaned to the side of new video, but it would be a great social experiment to see if anyone notices.
That was a very long way of saying, what a weird week of news. An evil dictator killed, wild animals running loose in Ohio. Probably no connection between the two, but it’s times like this when my job is so interesting. I have said many times the best part of my job is that it’s a new job every single day.
I have never really considered myself much of a preservationist. I don’t know my history as well as I should and I don’t save as many nostalgic items as I should.
Yet this week I was kinda sad when I learned my alma mater Syracuse would be leaving the Big East, which it founded, to play more games in the ACC against Duke, NC, Florida State and Boston College (again).
It makes me think about how we all treat tradition these days. I am sure there is some cliché about not truly appreciating the past until it’s gone. Do we look for the quick fix, the quick buck, the quick jolt instead of truly looking at what our decisions will mean long term? Yeah we probably do.
But does that short term fix disrespect the past? Do we need to respect the past more with our decisions for today? Does the past care?
There’s probably a balance somewhere, which is why you are reading this on a futuristic invention called a computer.
I didn’t think I would get as caught up in the major child milestones as I would but I am hooked. Yesterday our daughter had her first dental exam. They originally told her they wanted to count her teeth and all of the sudden it turned into an exam and she LOVED every minute of it. It was amazing how they slowly convinced her and after that they talked her into a cleaning and all of the sudden I had a child with clean teeth.
It’s an amazing process to watch a child grow and watch what they get comfortable with. Six months ago when I went in for my check up she was scared to death of anything dentist. Now she loved it with her sunglasses (so the exam light didn’t get in her eyes).
Insert a “kids grow up too fast” line here
So I did it. I decided to take the leap. I joined Twitter. That’s right I am catching up to 2008 and finally got on board. It’s a lot of info and I try to post as much useless stuff as possible. So on that encouraging note… follow me. @Shaun_Hegarty #thisiscalledahashtag
February 3rd, 2012 at 12:21 am by Shaun Hegarty under Uncategorized
