Good morning.
Yesterday, I initially typed, but later corrected, the daily temperature forecast as forty-six (rather than eighty-six). An example of wishful thinking: I like colder weather. Today, a bit colder, but still warm: a forecast of seventy with sunny skies.
There’s a date change for a Community Development Authority meeting originally scheduled for today, to interview for a CDA director. The interview is now Thursday at 1 PM.
What a poor process this is: no list of candidates with biographies, as a suitable interview process for someone who should be the chief development official in the city. Worse, the CDA has a consultant who helped (in some capacity) with this, and this is the process they produce: all draped with silence. The Innovation Center’s director search was like this, long and hidden, mediocre and substandard throughout.
The CDA used Redevelopment Resources as a consultant – but if that firm’s work cost a penny, it was a copper coin too much. No one of any talent would be connected with a process that was a little bit here, a little bit there, all of it in the dark. The first thing the consultant needed to do – and failed to do – was show and bring into effect a proper search process.
Something more pleasant, to cleanse the palate — on this day in 1929, the first Academy Awards:
The Wisconsin Historical Society reports this day in 1913 as the day that
Big Band Leader Woody Herman [Was] Born
On this date Woody Herman was born in Milwaukee. A child prodigy, Herman sang and tap-danced in local clubs before touring as a singer on the vaudeville circuit. He played in various dance bands throughout the 20s and 30s and by 1944 was leading a band eventually known as the First Herd. In 1946, the band played an acclaimed concert at Carnegie Hall but disbanded at the end of the year. The following year, Herman returned to performing with the Second Herd that included a powerful saxophone section comprised of Herbie Steward, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Serge Chaloff. He died in 1987. [Source: WoodyHerman.com].
Google’s daily puzzle is for readers: “You’re playing the character who speaks first in Shakespeare’s longest play. What’s your opening line?”