Source: Rhino Times Greensboro


January 31, 2013

When the Muse came to work on Wednesday, she brought me a bouquet of five daffodils she picked in our yard. I double checked the calendar and it’s still January and yet we have daffodils blooming. Since we have a shady yard I’m figuring other folks have had daffodils for weeks.

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I can’t believe that the News & Record put the infamous Rhino Times vault on the front page of the paper. But there it was on Wednesday, big as life. For 11 or 12 years, our office was upstairs and that was our bank vault. We had some memorable parties in that vault and a few that no one seems to remember all that well. We can’t wait to see what the new owners do with it. But I would like to add that when it was our vault it was shiny and looked like it had just come out of the box. I don’t know where all that rust came from.

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Here is a question that some clever person should be able to answer: What percentage of Segways have been sold to the government? Guilford County has them so their security guards don’t have to walk between buildings. The Greensboro Police Department has them as do the Greensboro parking enforcement officers, and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department wants them. But if they are so useful, how come Lincoln Financial doesn’t have a fleet so employees don’t have to walk down to the printing facility or from building to building in the downtown. In Greensboro, other than a few privately owned Segways used in parades and such, almost all the ones around here seem to be owned by some unit of local government, which in this economy may be the only folks with $7,000 to spend on transportation with a top speed of 12 mph.