VETS INFO WITH JOSH BENIGA
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS – JOBS I COULD NOT DO
JOBS I COULD NOT DO
This is going to be a strange blog because of the subject matter. Jobs I could not do. This blog could get disgusting, so if you have a queasy stomach you better stop reading. Lately I observed some of my friends that are getting paid to do a certain job, that to me is gross or something I wouldn’t handle very well. All these unpleasant jobs that I am about to write about, my friends have them. So I tell them often, that I could never do what they do, because I think its gross and unpleasant. Here we go.
A few blogs ago I mentioned that I get pedicures on a regular basis. Mainly because it really helps my feet stay healthy and makes them feel so much better. It’s not because I want them to look good, I don’t even wear flip flops to show my feet off. I always tell my pedicurist that I could never do her job and touch someone else’s feet. She always tells me it’s better than looking into someone’s mouth! She’s got a point there.
I could never be a dentist or a hygienist! Looking up peoples noses and seeing god knows what! Peoples bad breath, crooked teeth, or no teeth…just gross, enough said about that. Maybe that’s why I never complain about my dentist bill like some people do.
I was in a local café lately and got to observe a teenage friend cleaning plates and washing the dishes! Now that was disgusting and didn’t look fun at all. And he had a pile of them to do, I actually felt sorry for him.
I met with a proctologist lately. Can you imagine doing that all day long? I can’t imagine, it’s almost funny. What possesses someone to think, “you know when I grow up I want to be a proctologist?” There’s nothing more to say about this. But thankfully there are people like that around.
I was parked in a motel parking lot this past weekend. When I came to get into my car in the morning, the car next me had vomit all over both doors and windows on my side and on the ground between our cars so that I could not even get into my own car. It was gross. That lead to a discussion with my wife on vomit. She said as a preschool assistant teacher she has cleaned up more vomit from kids than she can count over her 26 years in that job. School janitors would be in that same category. Gross, you couldn’t pay me enough to clean up vomit, because if I did I would be cleaning up my own vomit too.
And I have a very good friend that cleans porta potties/outhouses and lots and lots of them. It’s her part time job, and I admire her for diving right in and getting the job done. She’s good at it. I would have to do that job with an oxygen mask on and contaminated full suit.
These are my friends that have these jobs and I really do admire them for what they do. Some or most of them love what they do and I will never understand that. I thank God every day for my pleasant job at the radio station, even though I have to look at Maynard all day.
MILAN MUSIC AND MOVIES EVENT INTERVIEW WITH ASHLEY
Ashley Hanson of PlaceBase Productions talks about Music and Movies in Milan Sunday July 30th.
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS – HOT WEATHER & BASEBALL
HOT WEATHER & BASEBALL
When the baseball game started at precisely 4:45pm on Tuesday July 25th, the
temperature was 88 degrees with a dew point of 73! That makes it oppressive or
tropical as the weather people call it. Remember I’m in a small press box with a
number of other people, and it was not pleasant at the start of the game. Didn’t
have a try stitch of clothes on me. You could hear the thunder off in the distance
south of Madison. I was getting reports from text messages and Facebook posts
the Canby area was getting dumped on so the baseball game in Madison was in
question.
The game started in the oppressive heat, and at the end of the night it
was very cool and pleasant after the front went through and the Madison VFW/Jr.
Legion team had punched their way to the first ever Jr. Legion state tournament.
Let’s talk baseball for a minute and forget about the dramatic change in
temperature and dew points during the District 7 South championship game
between the Minneota Vultures and the Madison VFW/Jr. Legion team. Minneota
came into Madison needing to win both games to make it to the state tournament
in Bird Island. Madison was in the driver’s seat in the winner’s bracket, but the
Vultures took the first game winning 3 to 0 to force a second and deciding game.
Madison jumped out to a 7 to 0 lead, scoring all 7 runs in the second inning, but
Minneota didn’t go away quietly, chipping away at that 7 to 0 lead. The Vultures
cut the lead to 7-6 with the tying run on 3rd base in the bottom of the 7th inning,
but Madison’s pitcher Layton Wittnebel got the Minneota batter to pop out to
end the nerve wracking game. So Madison VFW/Jr. Legion baseball team is in the
state tournament and that was very exciting for the coaches, players and fans.
I think that is one of my favorite things about covering high school sports and
amateur sports in our area. When teams win the District or Section finals to make
a trip to a state tournament. I’ve been very blessed to cover a number of state
tournaments during my broadcast career. But the excitement and joy that comes
from knowing you are going to state is what I always cherish and love seeing the
faces of the kids and parents when that goal is reached. Also the way the
community gathers around the team when they are heading to state is so much
fun.
So I’m looking forward to another state trip, this time in baseball with the
Madison VFW/Jr. Legion baseball team!!! And praying that August 4th its a pleasant 80 degrees and the dew points a comfortable 50!
RURAL SOLUTIONS SHOW
Theresa Witte and Jen Nyflot join Paul Raymo in the studio to talk about “the box” or ‘the tower’ WHATS IN IT?