LITTLE GEMS
The ‘revived’ Polaroid cameras of today.
This brilliant invention of so many years ago by Dr. Land is now fulfilling an unexpected need. It’s just too hard to get quality prints from digital today. Printers don’t measure up (not home quality ones that is) and taking digital to the stores that will make prints is too bothersome and expensive. So, the Polaroid camera was revived to meet the need to have prints for whatever use one might want to make of them. They are cheap to buy, both the full size “Now” camera, and the smaller “Go” model that makes tiny but cute prints in about a minute. Cameras are cheap but the film’s expensive (like printers are dirt cheap today, but ink is outrageous) at about a buck a shot. The problem’s quality. The old Polaroid system yielded a very high-quality print but not these of today, so be ready for that. No mess with the old setting gel or any of that though.
The Town of Linn isn’t being sued anymore.
Kathy Leith, a member of the board of supervisors supposedly filed suit against the town because the city would not provide years and years of employee W-2 forms at her request. Well, as it turns out Kathy never requested to be the plaintiff in that lawsuit. Her name was placed as plaintiff by an unknown party never verified by the attorney firm drawing up and then submitting the lawsuit. The embarrassed law firm pulled the lawsuit and Kathy Leith was grilled hard and deeply about this screw up. She had no defense and would not call out the name of the person who put her name on that lawsuit. She likely knows alright but she’s not saying.
Meanwhile, the only contested seat in the next election for supervisor is that of Livingston. That great guy is about as far from making a screwup like Kathy (and the secret friend behind her) then the Man in the Moon. When apprised of this circumstance Livingston declared that he could never foresee a situation in which he’d sue the very town that elected him to serve in office. The Geneva Shore Report believes him…and agrees.
U.S. Cellular does a good thing.
If you have the service, then you might notice a change in the billing unless you always pay your bill right on time. The company now has a 32-day grace period to pay the bill without service being cut off. The old undependable grace period, never called that by the company, was between 9 and 15 days. The charge used to be $25.00 per line for being late at all. Now, the company gives a 10-day grace period before hitting the customer for a late fee, and the late fee is no longer by line. It’s $8.95 for the entire total of the billed amount. The Geneva Shore Report uses U.S. Cellular exclusively, so the other companies are unknown territory. It’s always nice to report good news.
