Today was rather surprising. I expected the bus home to run on a holiday schedule due to today being Martin Luther King Day. But I had an inkling at work that I better show up at the bus stop expecting a normal Monday-Saturday schedule.
I embarassed myself by excusing myself off work a little earlier (and more haphazardly) than I would have wished - and sure enough, the bus was running on a normal, non-holiday schedule. To make things more surprising, city hall was open for business as usual when I walked home, and the DPW trucks were going about their business, as if it was a regular Monday.
Is it because the day is not certified as an actual "Hallmark Holiday" that city business was operating and the busses were running normally? For three days, King's efforts and legacy have been documented front-page news. Rosa Parks initiated the modern civil rights movement as far as I'm concerned, but King advanced it to the max, and looked brilliant doing it. If the papers theme it to be a monumental holiday, then why isn't it treated as such? Out of respect for everything King did, and for how well his efforts are respected & received, why can't cities honor him by declaring it a federal holiday?
Although I am Caucasian, this bothers me to a big extent. He made gigantic strides and gave black people a voice to demand equality for all. Someone like that, a real mover & shaker, ought to get a little more respect from the business world.
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YouTube is coming across with some more brilliant clips of old PBA bowling from the early 80s. I watched four more of them today, and I must say there are reasons why networks and stations shouldn't erase all their videotapes (or re-use them) without saving the information elsewhere.
I'm not a relic (like a certain roommate is), but I do appreciate seeing these things from my youth, a reminder of happier times with less stress.
Someday, I wish I could meet these YouTube posters (the above-mentioned poster is the most valuable), and thank them for having the forthsight to save these clips, knowing they would become valuable brain-pleasers in the long run.
