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Goodbye to Comcast Hello to Dish. -
Mike Fak (5,733)   
Mike Fak  
When I moved to Lincoln 27 years ago, I noticed almost every house had a huge antenna built alongside it. In the center of the state, we were still about 40 miles from all the big cities so to get reception in our town, a mega tower worked best.
By the time I came to town in 1982, there was... ( added 234 days 14 hours ago.) |
What Idiot Invented the Automated Phone System? -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I live in a small town. Basically it is seven miles long by three miles wide. Maybe it's a little more or less but the point is it isn't very far from one place to another in Lincoln. Traffic is never heavy except for the Rush Minute' we have at 3:30 pm when a couple factories let out.
I like... ( added 237 days 13 hours ago.) |
Nibbling Fish Stopped From Chomping Dead Skin On Feet -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
Now that's a column title that will have Google Search' humming with activity. I say again I can't make up, no matter how many beers, some of the stuff that hits the news.
For fun I do a little radio show locally on the Atlanta Illinois WLCN station. I team up with my old television buddy and... ( added 248 days 14 hours ago.) |
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My zaniest IRS and state tax problems -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
It's just about that time of the year for all of us to gather up all those important papers and stubs we should have kept together in the first place. Being a do-it-yourself kind of guy, I like to do my own taxes. It means a long day of headaches and head scratching. But going through the tax... ( added 279 days 14 hours ago.) |
2008-2009 the Winter of My Discontent and Crabbiness -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
While I'm in a crabby mood, I thought I would spend some time grousing about winter and all the crap it brings our way. Cold, snow, ice, you name it central Illinois has had more than its fair share this year. I can't wait for temperatures to get to something reasonable like say 27 degrees or... ( added 283 days 15 hours ago.) |
More of the Things I Hate About Television -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
It never fails when I go to a family member's house. I go to turn on their television and nothing happens. Usually there are three or four remotes lying around and being a manic person, I proceed to press every single button trying to just turn the set on. After submitting that I have failed... ( added 286 days 14 hours ago.) |
The Most Aggravating Things About Running An Internet Publication -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
The internet paper I manage is modest of course unless you look at it from a local perspective. Having over 10,000 unique visitors every day in a community of less than 40,000 shows we hold our own and then some locally. There are many little things that can grind on a person trying to get the... ( added 300 days 12 hours ago.) |
Some Quips, Quotes and Really Bad Jokes -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I imagine starting off 2009; I should do another one of my goofy quotes segments. I have been keeping the stranger ones I have come up with for the last few years and someday, in the far, far future, I imagine I will pop them into a little book. Actually, a few of these quips, quotes and really... ( added 306 days 14 hours ago.) |
The Ugly Christmas Tree Story and Other Yuletide Remembrances -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
My dad used to tell me a story of "The Ugly Christmas Tree" when I was a youngster. I was maybe five or six the first time he pulled it on me and he did it for a few years until he figured I was old enough to know he was buffaloing me.
The story sort of went that there was a really poor... ( added 332 days 16 hours ago.) |
The UFO that came to Thanksgiving. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
In the early winter of 1969, I was in advanced infantry training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The AIT, as it was called, was the second eight-week-training session a soldier got back then after the basic training was over. I imagine it was to make sure we young soldiers actually knew enough to be... ( added 353 days 15 hours ago.) |
How Not To Clean a Turkey For Thanksgiving -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I loved my mother dearly. She was a great woman who raised five aborigines and actually saw the four youngest make something of their lives. Yeh, I'm the one not on that list of success stories.
For all mom's good traits, there was one that she just didn't seem to ever succeed with and that... ( added 356 days 15 hours ago.) |
Thanks To An Unknown IRS Employee. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
A while back I wrote how I received a letter from the IRS saying I owed them a few dollars more. I didn't worry about it since they owed me and my family our economic stimulus check. I was certain they would cross check socials and deduct the money they wanted and send me the balance. Well, as I... ( added 1 year 2 days ago.) |
A Halloween Story. The Terror of Alta Vista Street. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
Since it is Halloween I thought I would tell you about a terror I faced as a youngster when I was growing up.
Around Wrigley Field there was a very strange, one block street called Alta Vista. It actually was only strange and scary to a kid. As it was then and still is considered today, it is... ( added 1 year 12 days ago.) |
Time For the Internet To Go On a Diet? -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I am waiting for a new computer to be built for me. My home version, I purchased a few years ago, was plenty to handle the Internet and the tasks I required at the time but my new job has really slowed it down. In order to work at home, several very large programs have been added and it is just... ( added 1 year 26 days ago.) |
A Bird In the Mouth Is Worth Two Outside. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I am by no means changing my column into a cat anthology. It's just that this event occurred last Monday when I was writing my column about my spoiled cats and it deserves its own place in Fak family cat tales or is it tails.
I stopped writing the piece to go outside to the van. I wasn't... ( added 1 year 30 days ago.) |
The Gentrification of Stray Cats. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
We currently have two cats in our family. Smirky is eleven years old and Jackson is almost four. The family doesn't have anything against dogs but with our families being up north we take frequent weekend trips away from the house and that wouldn't be fair to either a dog's bladder or our rugs.... ( added 1 year 33 days ago.) |
Surviving An Electronically Induced Heart Attack -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
Last week the two owners of the paper I work for went on a much deserved vacation. That meant that I would have to post all the AP stories as well as run around town and try and keep the paper looking like everything was fine while they were gone. I got up extra early (4:30 a.m.) and although... ( added 1 year 37 days ago.) |
Computer and Internet Tweaks I would love to See. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I realize I make a livelihood out of the computer age and the internet but that doesn't mean I will just roll over and accept some of the silliness that happens to me and all of you web browsers and users.
Now I'm not professing we go back to chipping stories onto the sides of cave walls but... ( added 1 year 40 days ago.) |
It “Sewer” Could Have Been Worse. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I wrote a while back about the floods I have had in my old basement. Actually our area has had three heavy rains and all three times my basement ended up with three to six inches of water in it. Now in a hundred-year-old house, a basement isn't exactly a place where family gather to watch TV... ( added 1 year 44 days ago.) |
Funny E-Mails and Office Humor. -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I have written before how the daily board (E-mail file) at the paper is filled everyday with all kinds of inquiries. Sometimes there is a great local press release. Sometimes there is junk information or people trying to have me hire them to write about something no one ever heard of before let... ( added 1 year 47 days ago.) |
If I Don’t Exist, Why Must I Pay Taxes? -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
I usually file my tax return at the last minute. It has nothing to do with procrastination. It's just that I almost always owe a little bit and I'm not giving it up until I have to. This late filing of course meant that I would probably be at the back of the bus when the economic incentive checks... ( added 1 year 51 days ago.) |
Would Wacky Funerals Make Money? -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
We had a special exhibit this week in Lincoln. A local funeral home put on an incredible display of Abe Lincoln artifacts including a transformation of the funeral home into an 1860s parlor. Collectors from all over allowed their memorabilia to be at the funeral home including the Lincoln... ( added 1 year 54 days ago.) |
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Is What Politicians Say the Same As What They Really Think? -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
The first time I recall anything about a presidential election was in 1956. Eisenhower was running against Adlai Stevenson and I remember former president Harry Truman saying on the radio that Ike could go to hell. I remembered that because it was shocking that anyone would use such a vulgar... ( added 1 year 58 days ago.) |
Wit, Wisdom, and Newspaper Business Sarcasm -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
In the trade, all columnists have their own great stories to tell. From how they started to how they finished there are always some great laughs and deep insights into what made someone a success or not. As an expert in the "or not" side of the business, I have kept tabs on some of the more... ( added 1 year 67 days ago.) |
Inventions We Take For Granted -
Mike Fak (5,733)
Mike Fak
Sometimes when I go to a party or a get together, it is one of those events where a lot of people don't know each other. Sometimes those events can become a little quiet or boring. At such times I like to ask a two-part question that usually brings a fun and sometimes rowdy discussion. The... ( added 1 year 79 days ago.) |
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