Sunday, December 24, 2006
Here's to the Diehards....
As I was going to post before the bad news came up, while I have tomorrow off, and hopefully you do, too, I'd like to commend the folks who have to go in to work tomorrow. Even if you don't actually observe Christmas, it's pretty depressing having to work on a day when you know most of the rest of the country is relaxing.
There are the police officers, fire and rescue folks, medical people (even though the doctor's offices are closed, many are on call, and someone has to man the emergency rooms), airline workers, and of course all the military people both at home and overseas doing their duty. But let's also not forget the people we don't normally think about: people working at gas stations so the rest of us can visit family and friends, people in radio and television, the people running the presses at your local newspaper, tech support people, and repair people who get called upon if your telephone or power goes out. Oh, yeah, and all the webmasters who are on call in case their websites go down! I'm sure there are plenty more, and I'm sorry if I missed you, but to all of you people...THANKS!
There are the police officers, fire and rescue folks, medical people (even though the doctor's offices are closed, many are on call, and someone has to man the emergency rooms), airline workers, and of course all the military people both at home and overseas doing their duty. But let's also not forget the people we don't normally think about: people working at gas stations so the rest of us can visit family and friends, people in radio and television, the people running the presses at your local newspaper, tech support people, and repair people who get called upon if your telephone or power goes out. Oh, yeah, and all the webmasters who are on call in case their websites go down! I'm sure there are plenty more, and I'm sorry if I missed you, but to all of you people...THANKS!
