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My life is pretty carefully contained in the streets of the north side of Galesburg: Broad Street, Losey Avenue, Fremont Avenue, Dayton Avenue, Henderson Street, Seminary Street. If I spend the rest of my life on these particular streets I won't be angry. Everyone obeys traffic rules. The ice hasn't been too bad.

I figured I would get involved in local issues faster than I have, and the truth is, I'm still a little bit of an outsider. I fainted at the local Casey's the other day, and nobody even really knew who I was. They offered me a ride to the hospital in an ambulance, but I decided to pass it up. After all, it was only Carl Sandburg, Broad and Mary, and then I was home with the pizzas. Still they didn't figure out who I was.

We like the school so far, not that our kids are passing. Some of the time they aren't even attending. But having them attend sometimes is way better than in New Mexico, where kids told my son if he came back to the school, they'd "put some lead in him." We got tired of that wild-west kind of situation, and I assume all those kids were armed though I doubt they actually would have done it. Didn't matter; we couldn't get him out of bed. I don't know if kids here are armed too, but things have been much better here.

There are issues of the day: sales tax, community center, schools. I don't know enough to say anything intelligent. Give me some time. I'll try to get you some pictures; I actually like the town from all its different angles. I like a downtown where you go a block or two off the main street, and you're still downtown. I like having a college square just what, a block or two off the downtown. There's some action around, sometimes. The north side is somewhat work-a-day and plain sometimes. But I assume everyone will cheer up when the winter lifts. Until then!