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More of the Things I Hate About Television -
Mike Fak (5,620)    
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 300 days 10 hours ago.) |
The Most Aggravating Things About Running An Internet Publication -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 314 days 8 hours ago.) |
Some Quips, Quotes and Really Bad Jokes -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 320 days 10 hours ago.) |
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The Ugly Christmas Tree Story and Other Yuletide Remembrances -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 346 days 12 hours ago.) |
The UFO that came to Thanksgiving. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 1 year 2 days ago.) |
How Not To Clean a Turkey For Thanksgiving -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 1 year 5 days ago.) |
Thanks To An Unknown IRS Employee. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 16 days ago.) |
A Halloween Story. The Terror of Alta Vista Street. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 26 days ago.) |
Time For the Internet To Go On a Diet? -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 40 days ago.) |
A Bird In the Mouth Is Worth Two Outside. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 44 days ago.) |
The Gentrification of Stray Cats. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 47 days ago.) |
Surviving An Electronically Induced Heart Attack -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 51 days ago.) |
Computer and Internet Tweaks I would love to See. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 54 days ago.) |
It “Sewer” Could Have Been Worse. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 58 days ago.) |
Funny E-Mails and Office Humor. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 61 days ago.) |
If I Don’t Exist, Why Must I Pay Taxes? -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 65 days ago.) |
Would Wacky Funerals Make Money? -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 68 days ago.) |
Is What Politicians Say the Same As What They Really Think? -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 72 days ago.) |
Wit, Wisdom, and Newspaper Business Sarcasm -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 81 days ago.) |
Inventions We Take For Granted -
Mike Fak (5,620)
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 93 days ago.) |
Hot Air Balloons and Why I Don't Ride in One -
Mike Fak (5,620)
Mike Fak
Next weekend our town will be hosting our annual art fair and hot air balloon fest. It is probably the most intense weekend of the year what with surrounding towns and big city folks coming to see about 40 hot air balloons go up into the sky twice a day. Of course sometimes they don't due to... ( added 1 year 100 days ago.) |
Being Sixty Years Old Has Advantages -
Mike Fak (5,620)
Mike Fak
I had a lot of fun on my sixtieth birthday. I was busy running around town and many folks already knew I was reaching what I guess is a benchmark date in one's life. I had the radio show that morning where we made fun of my being so old. The publisher also snuck in a "Fak's turned 60 today" into... ( added 1 year 103 days ago.) |
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The Rooster That Wouldn’t Come to Dinner -
Sandra E. Graham (9,984)   
Sandra E. Graham 
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, I guess I could have been classified as your typical "city kid". I was in my teens before I was ever introduced to a world called "the country" and became aware of wild animals that made strange noises in the night and vicious insects that bored into your skin... ( added 1 year 104 days ago.) |
Chronicles of a County Fair Reporter. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
Mike Fak
Well the 72 nd Logan County Fair is in the books and I can rest up a little bit.
I decided in my new capacity with the Lincoln Daily News that I would give the fair my total attention after I was sure any important news blips or blurts were included in the day's edition.
I imagine our... ( added 1 year 110 days ago.) |
The Dangers of Being a Chili Cook-Off Judge. -
Mike Fak (5,620)
Mike Fak
Since it is county fair week in my home town I thought I would share a rather embarrassing tale that happened at this county fair about seven years ago.
Now at the time I was doing a local television show and so the station had a tent at the fair. It doesn't do much for business except allow... ( added 1 year 114 days ago.) |
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