Last week in Foster City, the rain has been constant. All the grounds are wet. Baseball practice has been cancelled frequently. On Saturday even the game was cancelled. Not sure if the grounds will be closed today for practice. Looks like the rain might clear on Thursday. That will give us a chance to have the game on Saturday this week.
Report cards came home on Friday. Kids are doing well in FC. We are blessed to have very good teachers. But I heard my son tell me last week that 30 teachers were let go the week before from the San Mateo - FC school district. That was indeed a very sad happening. All teachers wore red on a day last week to express their feelings. These budget cuts are hitting California very badly.
Talking about budget cuts, we usually only watch PBS. In fact 90% of the time our TV is tuned to PBS. The rest of the time it plays DVDs. It was saddening to hear last week or two weeks ago that the govt is cutting their funding to PBS and NPR which is approximately $350 million and $100 million respectively annually. I hope they are able to raise more funds from viewers.
Speaking of TV, last night for no reason I decided to channel surf. Some times I check out what's on channel 27 - FCTV. Instead of programming, there was this notice: Due to budget cuts Foster City TV cannot show programming all the time (or some thing to that effect). Or it cannot show all programs that it used to show or show or something. I wonder if there is a difference in cost between broadcasting a still image of that message versus broadcasting a show. I can understand that there is production cost for new programs, and a little bit of cost for the operator to configure the schedule etc. I wonder.
A new Spring is here. Spring is always a good time. It is the harbinger of summer. Good times.
Report cards came home on Friday. Kids are doing well in FC. We are blessed to have very good teachers. But I heard my son tell me last week that 30 teachers were let go the week before from the San Mateo - FC school district. That was indeed a very sad happening. All teachers wore red on a day last week to express their feelings. These budget cuts are hitting California very badly.
Talking about budget cuts, we usually only watch PBS. In fact 90% of the time our TV is tuned to PBS. The rest of the time it plays DVDs. It was saddening to hear last week or two weeks ago that the govt is cutting their funding to PBS and NPR which is approximately $350 million and $100 million respectively annually. I hope they are able to raise more funds from viewers.
Speaking of TV, last night for no reason I decided to channel surf. Some times I check out what's on channel 27 - FCTV. Instead of programming, there was this notice: Due to budget cuts Foster City TV cannot show programming all the time (or some thing to that effect). Or it cannot show all programs that it used to show or show or something. I wonder if there is a difference in cost between broadcasting a still image of that message versus broadcasting a show. I can understand that there is production cost for new programs, and a little bit of cost for the operator to configure the schedule etc. I wonder.
A new Spring is here. Spring is always a good time. It is the harbinger of summer. Good times.
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