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Bugzy is an original design and creation by illustrator Tara Calahan King. Fabricated by: Ron Schlemmer.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Am I a "bookworm"?

Greetings everyone.  Good day and good tidings to all.  Hope you and your loved ones are well.

I've been wondering, some kids call me a "bookworm."  I suppose I am.  I've never really thought about it too much.  I am Bugzy, I am me.  As Popeye said, "I yam what I yam and that's all I yam."  True sentiments despite the atrocious grammar.

In my brief life, I have always tried not to define myself in terms of what others think, or what other's expectations are of me.  I have heard people say that a person can drive themselves crazy trying to always live up to other people's ideas and not their own.  After all, other people don't have to be you.  If you can't live in your own brain, no one can.  I'm a good person, I always try to do the right thing, to be honest and a good person, I'm kind to children, animals and seniors. I guess it all comes down to "character."

I have read that some people define character as "what a person does when no one else is looking."  That is a good thought.  What I like even better is:


                                    Character is how you treat people that you                                              don't have to be nice too.


Do you call yourself a "good person"  but are routinely rude to waiters and waitress, baristas at coffee shops, workers at air ports, hotel maids and such?  If you are, then you're not a good person.  I would never do that.

Back to the bookworm business.  I suppose I am one.  I've never asked my mother.  Like I said, it has never been that important.  But the word is defined by Webster's Dictionary as:   a person who likes to read books and who spends a lot of time reading and studying.

That is certainly me!!  There is nothing more that I enjoy that reading.  So I guess I am a "bookworm" and I am proud of it.  I hope all of you are too.  Bookworms of the world unite!!

PEACE
LOVE
BOOKS
BUGZY



Tuesday, March 11, 2014

A Most Splendid Retirement

Greetings one and all.  Bugzy here again.  This week is a very happy week for all of us here at the Lawrenceburg Public Library District as well as a sad week.  The Director, Sally Stegner, is retiring this week after almost 30 years with LPLD.



She's been a fantastic leader, a great boss who has been fair and kind and equal to everyone.  Sally has been a mentor, a friend and an all around good person.  She has made many friends in the community.  She oversaw the fabulous renovation to the North Dearborn Branch two years ago which made me possible!  So you could call her my Grandmother.  Maybe my fairy godmother.

There is a line from Star Trek The Next Generation Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Season #4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wounded_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation).  This sums it up for me:

"The loyalty that you would so easily dismiss does not come easily to my people.  Captain Maxwell earned the respect of those serving under him."

Good night Captain Sally.  You certainly earned the loyalty and respect of those who worked for you.

PEACE
LOVE
BOOKS
BUGZY




Thursday, March 6, 2014

Something to make you laugh

Greetings Everyone!  Bugzy here again.  With all of the recent snow, cold, winter weather again, I thought I would post some things to make you laugh.  Of course, we  me loving the Muppets, here are a few things.


Some great hits from Statler and Waldorf:








Here is a gem that I doubt most people have ever seen:  Milton Berle takes on Statler & Waldorf.  Laugh out loud funny:






Uncle Milty and some of the Muppet gang

This one is not quite as funny as Milton Berle, but is has been viewed over 35 MILLION TIMES on Youtube:



PEACE
LOVE
BOOKS!
BUGZY