Out and About
Studer 55 Community Athletics is bringing NFL Flag Football to Pensacola for a fall and winter league. Ages kindergarten through eighth grade can play at UWF-Pen Air Field Friday nights. Sign up by July 31 at Studer55.com. Powered by USA Football, the sport’s national governing body, NFL FLAG is the country’s leading flag football program with unmatched standards of safety, education and support. It’s known that football imparts great lessons and provides children with skills that serve them well throughout their lives. The fall season games will take place at the UWF-Pen Air Field and the winter league games will be held at Blue Wahoos Stadium.
The Santa Rosa County Elections Office has a very informative ad this week on details for registering to vote or making changes to your voter’s registration. You can also visit www.votesantarosa.com for additional information.
Hurricane season started June 1. Are you prepared? This week is our first of six-monthly Hurricane Update pages with great information…if we do say so ourselves.
I had an interesting conversation with someone this week. They were in the “un-lock” business – not to be confused with the “locksmith” business – about 10 years ago. This person decided they would like to start their business again. I asked him how he was going to market himself. He told me that whatever he had to do to get on the top of the list of 411. 411? Does that even exist? When I got done laughing – I told him that no one calls 411 and I wasn’t sure it still existed. I imagined if it did there is one guy in a basement Googling or Binging phone numbers for people – like him – that still call 411. I asked him when the last time was that he called 411. He said it had been years. I told him to get off the phone and call 411. He did – it still exists and is carrier specific. I called from my Verizon Phone and it was Verizon information. However, I don’t think that is a good marketing plan. I told him I thought they probably charged $1 for a 411 call and he wanted to know why they would charge. I said it was a surcharge for not using your smartphone. It was one of the funniest conversations I have had in a long, long time. And, it brought me back to when we called a phone number to get the weather. How did we exist without cell phones – especially as parents.
My mom read about my wine drinking in my column. She said she raised her four children to be teetotalers. When she read my column – she decided that three out of four isn’t bad. I would have to agree. I am still considered a teetotaler around my friends because – I don’t drink much. I decided that zero alcohol wasn’t going to be my claim to fame. And, if you must totally abstain to be in control – are you really in control? Unless – you are an alcoholic. Then – it is being in control to not drink alcoholic beverages.
Quote of the Week: He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)