I don’t mean to brag, but the wife and I agreed last weekend to put the humidifier away for the summer. It’s kind of like the ceremonial, older Caucasian couple announcement that spring has sprung at our home. Don’t hate on our rituals.
I had the occasion to join some family at Cooper’s Hawk new Northland location last weekend and it was as good as advertised. We had brunch at 11 am and the food was awesome, but mostly I was soothed by the line of wine drinkers pouring in that place on a random Saturday morning. I had no idea that this was an accepted practice for drinking behaviors of the moderately rich and fancy, but now I know.
Gonna get me some lulu pants and start drinking earlier now that I know this. Cheers to me.
The Missouri state legislature and Platte County Senator Tony Luetkemeyer flexed their muscle against big cities last month by returning the St. Louis Police Department to a state-controlled board, similar to the arrangement in Kansas City. St. Louis area Senator Travis Fitzwater lead the charge on this issue, but he threw some serious love to Luetkemeyer after the bill was signed by the governor. In a Missouri Times article, he was quoted as saying “behind the scenes, I don’t know if anyone carried more weight without getting enough credit than Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer.”
That is nearly a love letter in political speak. Anyway, it’s a significant political warning shot from Team Tony to Kansas City politicians who want to change the Kansas City police operation back to a locally controlled board and lay blame for crime at the feet of the state government. The warning shot didn’t have a name attached, but it doesn’t take a genius to understand that this legislation had some Mayor Q comeuppance attached to the rollout.
Kansas City fired its city manager who was going to improve local services, but instead just lied about how much local services they were doing. Unique approach but doesn’t work well when the people around you have some guts to speak the truth. The dude did look good in a safety vest and hard hat though. That’s gotta be worth something, right?
Somewhere along the way, I crossed into the “brunch” phase of my life. Not sure if it was an age or lifestyle change that made this happen. Maybe it is income or age threshold, I’m not sure of the IRS regulations on such matters, they won’t answer their phones.
We used to be just plain old lunch people and then without notice we became brunch people and I’m not sure how that happened. All I know is that family gatherings became brunch events and brunch seems more expensive than lunch.
My parents went through their entire life as lunch people, but they had Ryan’s and Golden Corral buffets and cheap prices and I’m not sure where I took a wrong turn.
I’d like to go back to being a lunch person, but I’m not sure how to accomplish that.
(Guy Speckman can be reached standing in the Golden Corral buffet line)
