Alaska Day

Alaska Day is October 18th. This is a paid holiday for all State of Alaska employees. All state offices will be closed on Monday the 19th in observation of this day.

Thanks!

A special thank you goes out to Representive Mark Neuman and aide Beth Schneider for listening and helping whenever you could.

You've got my vote again, MARK......

Way To Go Gov. Parnell

Investing in our children's' future!
By the year 2011, each child graduating from Alaskan High Schools will be able to attend college or a trade school. Based on the student's gpa, 100% for As, 75% for Bs and 50% for Cs will be covered by the State of Alaska.
Let's hope he gets the funding. What a wonderful opportunity for our youth.

Doing the right thing!

When you know that something is true that is being told to you and you can also see it in black and white, why don't you do the right thing.

It's called correcting the problem, righting a wrong and having common sense.

Otherwise, it's just plain old bureaucracy.

Oh on the Dentist!

I had an emergency visit to the dentist today. What a great experience I had even though it was a dental office. I would like to thank the entire staff of Aesthetic Family Dentistry in Wasilla, for the warm welcome and excellent care I was given.

Dividend Checks

It's offical, the Alaska Permanent Dividend Check for 2009 will be $1305.00. The first checks will be arriving in bank accounts on the 8th of October.
Now is the time to go shopping, it's better than Christmas. Every store and dealership in Alaska will be running some type of blowout sale to get your check.

Ever think about just saving it?

Anchorage Again!!

The city of Anchorage has overpaid it's employees as much as $2 million dollars over the past 10 years. The city knew about the error in 2008 but nothing was done. Who's minding the shop or should I say taxpayer money! No wonder the city is in financial crisis.....go figure!!!!!

Chad's The Man

Alaskan funny is named Chad Carpenter. He writes a comic strip called Tundra.
Chad's a little on the Far Side and will make you laugh out loud.
For a taste of Alaskan Humor go to his website:
www.tundracomics.com

Anchorage P Cards

$11,000,000.00 was charged by Anchorage City Employees last year as work related expenses. No wonder the library hours had to be shortened to pay for all those meals, flowers, bottles of water, tea and coffee that were charged. Some legit and a lot not......go figure

Does it Pay?

The Permanent Fund Dividend Checks will be coming out soon and the estimated amount is over $1300.00 this year.

We are paying $3.26 per gallon for gasoline. In the lower 48, the price per gallon is $2.27.

Well, there goes your dividend check.....go figure!

Homeland Security Shopper

The Alaskan Homeland Security guy is telling us to stock up on a 3 day supply of groceries, water, etc. at the least, in case of emergency. Better yet, if it's a 7 day supply.



He goes in a local grocery store picking up all the items on his list to show us what we need to buy. He's not looking at the prices just the name brand labels that he recognizes. Total cost: $181.00



My cost: $80.00..........You can tell who's the shopper in his family............go figure!

Alaskan Sense or Humor

Today, I went to WalMart in Wasilla. The womens restroom was closed and was being cleaned by a man. The man then went to the mens restroom and began cleaning. He didn't have to close the mens room though. Why doesn't a woman clean the womens restroom? Wouldn't common sense tell a reasonable person that.....

This isn't the first time this has happened. I've even brought this issue to the attention of Customer Service. It seems my message isn't getting across. My facebook girlfriend said that the manager must be a man....go figure...