Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Things That Make You Wanna Go Hmmm

I am a huge fan of music…almost ALL music to be honest… Rock, rap, dance, new age, pop, oldies, funk, reggae, jam, trance, techno, slow, fast, alternative, blues, classical, electronic, metal, hip-hop, bluegrass, country, R&B, soul, disco, folk and the 70’s and 80’s… the list goes on and on. My iPod has exactly 4,345 songs that span the range of almost every genre of music…. Basically, I love music. LOVE IT. Since I have satellite radio in my work truck I do not find myself listening to the “regular” radio too often during my travels (unless I am stuck in a traffic jam and need to know what is up!). However, I do keep the radio in my office on all day in the background and I do listen to the radio in my shower those few minutes I am getting ready for work or whatever. The two stations that I tend to listen to are Dave FM- 92.9 and Project 9-6-1- 96.1 Now both of these stations used to be called Z93 and 96 Rock respectively back in the day (for those who have been any where near or within listening range of Atlanta radio). I listen to them because they play old rock, new rock, some metal, some alternative… and of course, this genre of music tends to be more acceptable to the general public in my world instead of hip-hop or rap… (which I tend to indulge in when alone) There is nothing wrong with a little Eminem, Timbaland, 50 Cent or Ludacris to stay alert in this hellacious Atlanta traffic in my opinion!
Anyhoo, (getting this train BACK on the tracks here…) I was listening to The “Giant Show” on Project 9-6-1 (that is the name of their morning show) yesterday morning while dolling myself up for work (hee hee) and heard them talking about this robbery that occurred last week sometime at the building that occupies the “Empty Stocking Fund” organization. Yes, according to their report somebody broke into the warehouse area of the City of Atlanta Police headquarters building in Atlanta and stole roughly $50,000 worth of toys and gifts from their stock. These were Christmas gifts for needy families and their children that were going to be distributed next week in time for Santa to give these poor folks a Christmas. My question is who would steal $50K in TOYS? And how did they do it under the noses of the Atlanta PD? One article on Google News said that the robbers (I believe 2 total) climbed into a window using a police barricade and used backpacks from the stock pile of goodies to haul out the loot. Oh, and the APD does not have security cameras in this part of the building oddly enough… kinda strange considering they have had a history of break-ins in this same building this same time of year for the past several years…. Things that make you wanna go hhhhmmmmmmm…
In the meantime, I heard the guys from the “Giant Show” claiming they beat their goal of raising $50K to give back to the Empty Stocking Fund and were up to over $80K as of 6:00 am this morning… Now that is awesome!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kelly...

Nice blog.

Just wanted to update you that we actually raised 97,000 dollars. We also got a match from a dude that owns a tech toy company that is going to match that in product. So after 50 hours we'll be aending almost 200,000 dollars worth of money and product to the Empty Stocking Fund.

It is a weird story about the robbery...the director told me that they stole it over Thanksgiving so no one was at the building. He estimated that it would ahve to take the people 6-7 hours to get it all out of there. strange. Where was the gaurd doing rounds?

I like your blog...thanks for talking about the charity and the broadcast.

peace