WIXY's Gone Bananas

Belated thank you's go to RichinMedina , CollegeDJ86 , and David5258 , for all their kind comments since I launched this blog in August. In short, everybody who stopped by, left a comment here or elsewhere have helped me make this blog what it is. Family notes : My in-laws made it to Florida safely on Friday. Thanks for all your prayers. WIXYjr left to go back to college yesterday. Hopefully I will be able to take a week's vacation within the next month. What would I have planned? Anything that doesn't involve driving 46 miles to work. Television Note : As I write this the television has GSN on. The show playing is The 100 thousand dollar Pyramid. Bonus prize in the lucky sevens was a VCR. My how times have changed. Do I have any New Years resolutions? Nope. I just want to be a better person and maybe a lighter person at this time next year. I do have to go to the doctor's sometime in the forseeable future and he probably will tell me I can eat anything I want. Then ...

There were a few people I neglected to thank this week in my first annual thank you list. One of them is going to be the newest link on my list. Michael Dane, of Sunday Oldies Jukebox fame(9:00PM to Midnight, the request show) has a new blog out called "This Wild World" . That makes two blogs from personalities of SOJ. Johnny Morgan has the other. Mike's first post concerns the reassembling of the AT&T monopoly. I am honored that Mike e-mailed me concerning the debut of his blog and put this blog on his list of links.

If you are known on this blog as WIXYjr , today is your 21st birthday. Happy birthday Adam . It's also LeBron James' 22nd birthday . In the unlikely event LBJ is reading this, happy birthday and may you give us a belated birthday present of an NBA championship .

Newsnomore, you could be right. Earlier this month I commented about the no smoking law being in effect. I said to "leave it to the individual business owner". Last night I took my wife out for supper, as she was very stressed by events of the day. We went to a restaurant in Wadsworth(former Red Barn location). We walked in and were asked, "smoking or non smoking". We then noticed the distinct smell of smoke around the counter seats, which was also next to the cash register. My wife asked our server why they weren't obeying the anti smoking laws, and she replied that the owners would not comply until they absolutely had to. Well, the food was good, but having to go through the smoking section to get to our seats and having to pay in an area that had a strong smell of cigar smoke caused my wife to need a breathing treatment when we got home. Now I don't care about the civil disobedience, BUT one of the problems with this country is that there are some who fe...

Some may wonder how I got to posting on various radio forums. We will go back in history to July of 2001. The great frequency swap had taken place. That's where WHK-AM went from 1420 to 1220, WKNR went from 1220 to 850, WRMR went from 850 to 1420, WHK-FM went from 98.1 to 95.5(became the Fish), WCLV went from 95.5 to 104.9, WAKS went from 104.9 to 96.5, and WKDD went from 96.5 to 98.1(whew). By the way I did that by memory. Aro-10und that time I discovered the Listening Party forum on Cleveland Live. It was being used in leiu of bathroom stall walls by the radio employees and looked at non professionals, including former broadcast school students, like we were intruders. At the time, no one had to register a forum name, so there was alot of nonsense, like "Doncha just love Gary Dee?" or "ffffffffffffffffffun", and alot of insider rumor mongering. Like I said before, my type wasn't appreciated on the board, so after awhile, I did more reading than posting. Th...

We are now at years end, and everywhere you look there are lists to end the year. This morning's Akron Beacon Journal had the "Bobbys" awarded by columnist Bob Dyer, who, in my opinion, had the last good column on happenings of radio in the area. I also sold him two televisions when I worked at Fretter. I could give out "Golden Bananas", but I feel that's waaaay too hokey. So I'm just going to shoot from the heart and give out my thank you list. List is in no particular order, as all the people on the list are important. First, I will start at the message boards that I participated in; Cleveland.com Listening Party and television boards, Radio-info.com, and radioinsight.com. OMW/Old Akronite -Thanks for on board support, off board info, and the mention on your Mighty Blog of Fun(tm). Also thank you for watching my back on the religion board at radio-info. BoredOp0930 -Danny, you were the first buddy I made on the boards, and we spent hours chatting th...

Special note: My in-laws will be leaving for Florida early tomorrow(Wednesday), and not today as I originally reported. I was looking for something special for something special for number 100. Had I not deleted a couple of posts, posted some in draft that I later dumped, and included the five in my other blog, then this one would be about 110. After about 100 posts I'm closer to be heading in some direction with my blog. I enjoy talking about my home town, and my family. And above all, I like to write about good news, something which more often than not, does not make the front page. I'm proud of the accomplishments of all my children. All three are in their twenties, and realize life isn't going to be easy. All three are attending college. My oldest daughter and her husband both made the dean's list last semester. We're now talking about parents of two, one of which is special needs(she's deaf). I enjoy reading comments on this blog, lets me know people care. ...