[quote]CI Challenge: Can you guess what it is?[/quote]

It's a girl. wearing a pink-ish outfit., smiling, while standing next to an adult in a blue outfit. Possibly from an old 60's or 70's TV show, or a family band from the same era. also her hair is in a ponytail.

I win.

That is Penny from Lost in Space....

Angela Cartwright, "Penny" from the "Lost in Space" TV series

ok for #1: Your daughter doesn't like you, because she's already turned to the friends of Bidwell park, and have become their newest recruit. I know, cuz I have a spy camera in their secret meeting house, and she was there taking the oath of secrecy a few weeks ago. (not funny, sorry.)

#2: new footbridge? another bridge for PV kids to smoke pot under.

#3: What do they need an inflatable dam for? I seem to be a little behind on the strange happenings around town.

#4: I would take the money and dissapear to a remote island somewhere in the pacific.

#5: I believe that we don't need another wal-mart. I had one of those signs up from chicocares.org on my front lawn for a little while, before some passing kid decided it would be fun to grab it and run off with it. I saw him through my living room window. I was like, "hey... some kid just took our sign." and Marissa said "what? what sign." I said, "oh, the anti-walmart sign." Marissa responded with, "Oh." And we continued to watch our movie.

#6: uhmmm.. yeah ask him.

#7: I tried that before... but nobody would talk to me. Maybe I shouldn't have been asking for spare change as a social experiment.

CI Challenge: Hey... looks like Penny from Lost-in-Space.

I don't understand your thoughts on the Manzanita Ave foot bridge.

As one who advocated for "a footbridge", a roughly $100,000 footbridge, not the $300,000++ longer & higher footbridge that they constructed years later than they were supposed to… So late that we the rate payers ALSO get the bill for the $100,000+++ that Cal-Water spent placing their 12” water main through a directional bore under Chico Creek because Cal-Water could not figure out when the city might proceed with that 2-year project, which has in now on year 6….This is part of the basis for the Cal-Water rate increase request.

I believe that we the tax payers also paid extra for a footbridge to accommodate the water main, when that capacity no longer needed…

Or are you talking about the massive, multi million dollar bridge widenings at Chico Creek and Lindo Channel that go far, far beyond what is needed at those locations?

The major goals of the footbridge were to give Cal-Water a needed creek crossing (their 12” main was too deep to be concealed within the deck of the automobile bridge, and could not hang below without impacting the water carrying capacity), and to remove a significant amount of pedestrian/bike/horse traffic from the automobile bridge for the many months that it will be under construction, and to permanently shunt that traffic at a point away from the automobile bridge…

$100 Million Man.

And in reply to this from yesterday;
Here's what voting against the IAFF MOU would get a conservative.

1. You'd be on the losing side of a 5-2 or 6-1 vote, and could then be culled from the herd
2. You'd be branded as an opponent of public safety
3. You'd have ~70 fire fighters walking precincts against your campaign

What's wrong with doing the right thing for Chico. I'm sorry, but the needs of 100,000 outweigh the needs of 70. I have voted for each of the current sitting council members at one time or another, but now it appears that I have to add 3 more people to my do not re-elect list.

Sincerely, #5

CI Challenge: Angela Cartwright

Isn't that Angela Cartwright from the old TV show "Lost in Space"?

Mark S.,

I think I read a tell-it-to-the-E-R that questioned building a footbridge that's so close to an existing footbridge (the road).

My story would point out that the new footbridge is supposed to shunt the foot-traffic portion of the automobile bridge when it's expanded. And point out that it's not simply an additional bridge located in close proximity to the old bridge.

Lon

Sean,

There's nothing wrong with doing the right thing for Chico. And that really applies to the entire council. I just wanted to point out some of the politics that might be involved in not supporting the IAFF MOU.

I haven't spoken to either of the conservative councilors regarding that decision. And they might have a different calculus than the one that I mentioned. I should point out that liberal councilors up for re-election would have to consider similar issues in opposing that spending.

It does make you wonder how the reduction in spending will occur.

Lon

Mark B. and all the rest...

Yes that is Penny from Lost in Space. Does anyone get the connection... I went to a Finance Committee meeting... penny lost in space... budget discussions about a lack of revenue ...

Yeah, I'm pretty proud of this one.

And there were comments from 7 readers when I got to the office. That's a 16.66% growth in blog readership. Thanks.

Lon

Trevor,

Thanks for taking the assignment seriously. I'm sorry that Wal-Mart hired kids to steal your yard sign. But that's one of the ways they keep their prices low.

Lon

is that sarcasm? Sorry, I am just a little behind on the city stuff.

Trevor,

The part about taking the assignment seriously was genuine. I mean thanks for speaking to it, I never expected anyone to take it seriously. The part about Wal-Mart hiring kids to steal your sign was whimsy.

whimsy:
1. capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy.
2. an odd or fanciful notion.
3. anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or capricious fancy: a whimsy from an otherwise thoughtful
writer.

Lon

ahh I see, sorry, it's hard to read intonement in blog posts.
My brain is off in space today. Dreaming of owning a '64 cuda.

Lon,

I didn't get the "penny" connection with the finance meeting at all.

What I did visualize was you as Dr. Smith attending the finance meeting then screaming out "oooohhhhauuugghhhh" and running from the meeting, hands flailing in the air, as Dr. Smith is known to do when confronted by something scary.

Anthony,

I would say I'm more like the B9 robot flailing my arms around and repeating "Danger Will Robinson, Danger Will Robinson".

BTW I found a site where you can buy a full sized replica of the robot for around $25K. Now where's my checkbook...

http://www.lostinspacerobot.com/index.html

Lon

Wow neat, I think we should all chip in and buy one, then use it to deliver comments in person at city meetings. Given the screaming and occasional vitriol that gets tossed from the peanut gallery there, this would be a good way to deliver such opinions without risking your own persona.

"That does not compute" would of course be the standard comment for when the council spends money wantonly, like on chess tables.

OR, you could just have me dress up in a robot suit, and go in there and do my robot voice.

Speaking of outer space, is this one of the friends coffee tables?

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/alien-coffee-table/

dude that table is awesome.

Hey Trev, ever dream about a '65 Dart GT with a built 273, slotted mags and new tires?

Lon

I think we should talk about how the weather is changing, the leaves are falling, beautiful blue oaks are dropping their acorns and the wind is playing havoc with the direction of my disc when thrown.

How bout,how outside areas have welcomed disc golf into their communities. And how we have been compromising left and right to get a course of our own, yet to no avail.

Or maybe, how people from all over the nation would love to keep the disc golf course in upper Bidwell park.
But you ask. Why does it matter that these people from around the nation want to keep the disc golf course? They do not live here in Chico and it is a city park.

Which comes to my next topic. Why does the city continue to spend time and money on these people who threaten legal actions when they themselves do not live in this city?

How bout how the FOBP say they want people in the park, but they don't. They are basicly saying here is your city park that we the taxpayers spent millions on,now STAY OUT!!!

Here's one, why don't we expand on the list of recreational activities suitiable for the park as stated in a recent letter to the editor.

Here's a few :Yoga, meditation to the path to enlightenment, fasting which could go with meditation,vandalizing the poles of destruction yet calling myself a vandal in legal threats for an instance in which I myself (a Disc Golfer) had reported to the police, and of course best of all, watching the sunset while sitting on a bench provided by Disc Golfers. The last one I do enjoy.

That might be too many Disc Golf topics and you might get labeled a Disc Golfer, oops too late.

Throw for show, Putt for dough. Steve