Well, I got the same or a similar e-mail from J. Andrews that Todd Epp mentioned in a recent post of his which is much more creative than what you will read here.  Anyway, as you can tell from date of last post here, I have not posted as much as a I should or even as I intended.  So here is kind of a catchall post with a promise of more to come.

Sometime during the month of August, wife and I realized we had been married 40 years. Our children showed up and we ate a good meal.  Tripp County about the same time celebrated being Tripp County, SD  for about 100 years.  My wife's family has been around here since about 1915.  City of Winner had a carnival and a new memorial was dedicated to those who served in the US military from Tripp County.  There is a photo of the memorial at Dakota Today.  I still haven't figured out how to get an image into these posts here at KELOLAND.

Despite this not having a lot of political content, I have been very disgusted by our South Dakota delegation and in their statements regarding healthcare and health insurance.  I hope to get something more substantial than that put together soon.

Another little sign of the times is the disappearance of some printed magazines.  Earlier this year PC Magazine ceased publication as a dead tree version and became only a digital shadow of itself.  It is still readable as a Zinio file, but sure nothing like the old magazine that had pages which could be folded and scribbled on.

Earlier this year, my wife subscribed to a magazine she had seen and liked.  She got two months worth of issues and was informed the publication was ending and FAMILY CIRCLE would be substituted for remaining issues.  Family Circle is not one of her favorite magazines..never has been, never will be.

And just this month, a magazine I had not subscribed to, INC, showed up with a notice stuck to the cover that it replaced COMPUTER SHOPPER which was discontinued as a printed magazine.  There is a website and an e-mail newsletter that are the remains of the Computer Shopper magazine.  In the developing days of the PC computer, there were issues as large and as thick as theas the "big catalogs" of Sears, Montgomery Wards of years gone by and even now of the size of the Spring and Fall JC Penny catalogs. Times change and the media change as well. I hope that we will soon be able to get digital readers such as the Kindle and the Sony and Fox-it electronic "books" that are larger and less expensive. I would think some kind of a publishers cooperative would find such a venture possible without each having to have their own proprietary tool and format and thus make a product all of us could afford and still afford to subscribe to the magazines in their electronic forms. ** Stay tuned, More in this vein in the next post. Check Dakota Today for comments and to view images-- Doug Wiken