today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today… Want your own personal license plate; something like this: B1TEME?  “PennDOT maintains a list of combinations of letters and numbers that now number 10,000 or so that are barred from appearing on license plates.” – Article at PennLive

• Sunday slated to soar to sixty!

• A LEGAL NOTICE in today’s daily newspaper announces that the Columbia Borough School District’s independent auditor’s report for the year ended June 30, 2013, has been filed and is available for public inspection at the District’s business office.

• Got several phone calls yesterday. In fact, they’ve been regular this month. Thing is, unrecognized caller numbers or names just go to voice mail. A pleasant sounding female recorded voice from a well-known telephone company (with a name that begins with “V” and ends with “erizon”) called. Problem with this phone company is that when we had their service way back in 2005, their service was so bad and prices were so high, we dropped them in favor of another carrier. We’ve been with that VOIP carrier ever since and their prices have remained constant and the service is, well, pretty impressive. And so, another “buggy whip” company continues to spend lots of dollars and efforts to recapture Customers they could have kept with a pretty simple business model: Listen to the Customer. Dumb.

• A newspaper article says the Columbia Kettle Works, “Owners Rod Smith and Bill Collister expect to open their brewpub by March.”

• Back to the money tree – Fox 43