A Possible Letter to NPR Re: car stereo theft

What do you think? Should I submit this?

If so someone needs to tell me if it airs since clearly I won't be able to hear it.

That said, I lost a stereo but gained a job so overall it was a good week.

I previously wrote about this car stereo as part of this writing perspective exercise.

Speaking of which...

I want to start a new writing exercise for April. I want to return to doing, in addition to the weekly Bones exercise, a monthly exercise where you write from a particular perspective. In the past we have written from the perspective of cars, computers, phones, pumpkins and maybe one or two I'm forgetting.

Does someone have a suggestion for one for April? If so i'll write it up on April 2 (since if I do it April 1 people may assume i'm kidding. There's one thing I don't kid about and it's kidding. No, wait...)

Ok i submitted it before heading to work. Thanks, everyone.

Steve and Ian, are you up for some new writing exercises. We can do perspective ones, random words (the last was here) and/or photo ones.

I have first day of new job jitters. Meanwhile, my laptop computer is saying "don't leave me here, master scott, alone with that tv - it's been trying to put its moves on me!" it's even using pick up lines: http://tinyurl.com/c54okt. Something to ponder. Wish me luck.

Switching gears...

If somone wants a good topic for an article how about something like this and published to the how to group

How to choose how to record your favorite tv shows?

Take my personal example. I move to a new town, borrow a tv and vcr/dvd player, get cable but the dvd and tv won't talk (probably because it's older)

So.. a) options include buy new vcr/dvd so i can resume videotaping shows

b) get a dvr

c) get tivo

d) whatever other options exist.

A few random thoughts:

I have cousins who say I ruined google for them because if they type in Butki it will invariably be 20 links by or about me.

I'm planning on catching up on brothers and sisters since apparently its the one show mom and sis watch and discuss regularly and it'd be kind of cool for a brother and sister to watch, well, brothers and sisters.

Hmm, should I watch the dvds for the Friday Night Lights series to better assimilate in this Texas culture?

Want to hear my proud uncle moment of the day?

I met the girls (and their mom, who they have finally understood is my sister - took a while to get that concept through) at Panda Express. Usually they beat me to a location so when they saw what looked my truck they were skeptical and asked, "how can we be sure it's his?" So the 7 year old niece says, "Let's just see if the truck is missing the stereo and if it is then we'll know it's Uncle Scott's!"

My apartment was burglarized last nite. Computer and camera are now gone. See new article for details

I have been thinking today about this incident which was a double whammy, the bad news being the loss of a car radio (never did get a new one) and the good news being it happened right before a job interview and I held it together enough that I got that temp job.. and now a year later I'm

about to start that season job again.