southeast Kansas – Page 8

Winner

I went to watch Altoona-Midway’s homecoming game tonight. Girls got smoked 62-11. Boys got on the right end of a running clock and won 63-33. Whenever the margin in a basketball game gets to 30 points after the third quarter, the clock does not stop except for timeouts and technical fouls. I won the 50/50Continue reading “Winner”

Super Bore, Part two

I mentioned the big football game that will be played in six days without mentioning the name of the game. Some businesses beat around the bush trying to tie in to the game and sell more stuff even though they are not No Fun League partners, thus not allowed to mention the name of theContinue reading “Super Bore, Part two”

Super Bore

In just 10 days, the final NFL game of the season will be played.* I haven’t watched since the Bendover Bills did their best colliwobbles imitation and managed to lose four of these games in a row. Even if I were so inclined, there is so little media coverage that most people don’t even knowContinue reading “Super Bore”

Inconvenience Store

A few months ago, the Jump Start convenience store chain sold three area store to Pumpin Pete’s. Pete’s does not sell newspapers so getting a breakfast sammich, drink and a paper isn’t happening. The Pete’s in Indy is hard to get in and out of, so I have been getting gas at another convenience store. Continue reading “Inconvenience Store”

High School Bowling

Bowling is a high school sport in Kansas. Most of the schools that have bowling teams are large urban schools. This year Chanute started a bowling team. I just can’t wrap my head around a rural school having a bowling team. Finding a bowling alley is hard and has gotten harder in the last tenContinue reading “High School Bowling”

Sears: The Coffeyville Urinal of Retail.

It is little wonder Sears is slowly going out of business. They can’t figure out what you want if you sat up and begged them. The snowblower story I posted yesterday turns out to be worse than I thought. I went to the Sears Hometown Store in Indy today. I got a new push mowerContinue reading “Sears: The Coffeyville Urinal of Retail.”

( Sears) Hometown Blues

I thought I could snag a lawnmower at the local Sears Hometown store’s going out of business sale. The sign said open at 8:30. I got there a little after that and the store was closed. I though I saw a couple of lawnmowers in the window, but I couldn’t tell because they were behindContinue reading “( Sears) Hometown Blues”

Tournament Week

It is high school basketball tournament week in Kansas and Oklahoma this week. For the first time Altoona-Midway is hosting a basketball tournament. The Milburn Apt tournament is named after the most famous person from the area, an Air Force pilot who became the first person to fly Mach 3. He did so for lessContinue reading “Tournament Week”

Hard to get help, small business edition.

I had to get gas earlier this week. When I went in to pay, I noticed a help wanted sign on the door. I remembered seeing the same sign up just before Thanksgiving because it was just after I went to get gas after work one day and the store was closed. It turned outContinue reading “Hard to get help, small business edition.”

An inch of rain..

… does not a change in drought status make. For the sixth week in a row we are in an extreme drought status mode, the second worst on a scale developed by the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska. The maps can be accessed at droughtmonitor.unl.edu on Thursdays after noon US CentralContinue reading “An inch of rain..”