Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Yesterday, after a year or so of toying with the idea, Gary finally ordered a receiver for the inside. Not that Gary needs one ... Presently Gary is only driving a pair of these Bose Jewel speakers which come with their own amplification system. Gary just thinks it would be nice to get everything filtered and upscaled through the receiver ... The problem is now Gary wants some more speakers.
Wow, UC Merced has joined the list of our country's best universities, according to U.S. News and World Report. UC Merced is the "newest, smallest and least prestigious campus" in the UC system, according to the LA Times. All of the UC's nine undergraduate campuses made the best university report with UC Berkely at #1 and UCLA @ #2. The chancellor of UC Merced is Dorothy Leland and it was another Leland who started Stanford, the #1 private university in the nation. Gary and Mary Lou were at a Berkeley's beginning of the new year, student orientation listening to the student body president delivery a fiery speech to the freshmen. From his gut the asb president welcomed the new students to the "... Finest university in the world ...". Gary gave that some thought and arguably Berkely is such a place. One of those crossroads of the world where people from all cultures and countries gravitate to. When we walked through the campus, Mary Lou was taken back by the poor condition of Berkely. Gary explained that the lack of shiney and pristine wasn't due to lack of care, but because of overuse ... It was constantly in repair because it was getting wornout.
For Gary, places like UC Berkely takes the edge out of taxes ... worn out because of success, worn out for the future.
Gary spots off his soap box ... Takes a sip of his Mayan blend ... The old gray mare she's ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be ...".
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