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Autumn loves to watch my videos of steam locomotives, and now she’ll walk up to the TV and point and say “wooo wooooooooooo” … so naturally we took her to the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah while we were here. I even bought her a book about Engineer Small and his locomotive. 
These are my favorite trees. My parents have two in their yard now.
When I was growing up we used to call this “The White House” because it was, well, white, and Jimmy Carter lived there. Obviously not the former president …
My mom told me tonight while we were eating that the fire department is going to be burning it down in a training exercise soon, so I figured I’d better take some photos of it while I had the chance. I always liked it … I’m a fan of this era of farm houses.
There have been way too many cool old farmhouses around where I grew up that have been left to decay and are either falling down or have been torn down in the last few years.
I uploaded some of my better photos from the Raymondville, TX trip last year.
Then I decided to check my account and see how many more photos I could upload this month, thinking I might upload some of Autumn, or maybe some from Baton Rouge.
Yes, yes. I see.
No, I’m not dead. Yes, I know it’s been over a month since I posted anything worthwhile. Hopefully that will change.
I am currently in the midst of making some major decisions about the direction of my business, so that has been occupying my time. I’m also now in charge of audio and computer stuff at church, which took an immense bite out of my time because I had to figure out on my own how all the sound stuff at church worked together because nobody else knew everything about the system. Finally, I’ve been trying to spent more time with my wife and daughter despite all of the above and all my other commitments. Fun times …
This month I did manage to find my way onto television. The Hamilton County Libertarian Party staged its annual tax protest here in town, and I got interviewed since I’m now the party chair. I didn’t do so hot on camera, but I got a small sound bite (and a quote on their web site) nontheless. It’s not what I would have preferred they quoted … but oh well.
On to basic complaining …
Yesterday on the radio I heard a GWB sound bite. It went something like “We’re not in a recession … [pregnant pause] … it’s just a slowdown.”
Um, George … I think “recession” and “slowdown” essentially mean the same thing. What you said is about as logical as saying “I don’t drive a car … I drive an automobile.” Or “We’re no sailing the ocean … we’re sailing the sea.”
Next gripe … there are advertisements on WGOW for the “First Annual Southside Blues Festival.” People, people … don’t call the first ANYTHING the “first annual (fill in blank).” You’ll just look stupid if the whole endeavor goes toes up and you don’t have a second one … and of course having the event for multiple subsequent years is a qualification for something to be “annual.” MAYBE after the first year you can call the next one the “Second Annual _______” but I’d wait until the third year.
It reminds me of when one of my former churches held their “first annual missions conference and dinner” … there was no “second annual missions conference and dinner.” Or, in another vein, it reminds me of when I was on the way to the Outer Banks in 1998 and saw a sign for a restaurant that was “famous since 1996.”
That being said, I hope the blues festival is a great success and we do have it regularly. I hope to be there … it sounds like it’s going to be good.
It’s been a really, really long Monday. So long that it’s lasted until about 3 a.m. on Tuesday. I even almost went to bed, and realized I still had something to do yet. Whew.
When you have this kind of day, you need some humor. Whenever I find I need some humor, I go a YouTube and find a NewsRadio clip.
I think that’s my second favorite clip, after the “Super Karate Monkey Death Car” clip …
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