More Pics

When I get lazy I post pictures cause I don't have to write anything. I just have to pretend they have "some reason" to be there.

Furry Friends

I took this picture at work the other day...

We'll Be on TV Today

You'll probably see us on tv on the news tonight. It's raining today and will flood. We're expecting about 10 inches today. It doesn't drain fast enough so some homes and a lot of cars will go under water. It'll look like chaos on tv.

Folks will be interviewed who say "I was just driving and saw some cars go in the water and then all of a sudden I stalled out and had to get help from that guy over there to get out. It was scary." Reporters will wade up to people's homes who will say "We've had high water before but never nothing like this. I mean we are still fixin' up after last month's rains but it was never this high. I got water two foot high all thru the house."

You heard it here first. The poor folks who live in low lying areas will get flooded again. They don't have insurance cause nobody will insure those areas. They live there cause the houses are cheaper...cause they flood. And poor folks get knocked back to zero every time they try to get ahead. It's sad.

Cool PIc

Irritating the French, Part Ocho

Eight years in a row now Americans have won the Tour de France. This year they really wanted somebody else to win, but Floyd Landis did the incredible and pulled off the victory. Nice job.

Tiger won the Open yesterday but I didn't watch. Just had other things to do. Somehow I figured he would win. I suppose you don't see him collapse very often.

Wonder how th Big Orange is shaping up? I heard that Florida, Auburn, and LSU are being touted as the SEC's best this year.

Went to a Dog Show on Saturday cause my kids have puppy fever real bad. Please don't encourage them or mention it. It sends them into hour long whines. Saw lots of weirdo dogs, some big enough to ride, some that inspired the phrase "dog ugly", and some that had so much hair they couldn't possibly see where they were walking. All in all, it wasn't nearly as painfully boring as I expected.

Amazing Floyd

Floyd Landis did the impossible yesterday. He made up 8 minutes in the Tour de France. That's the equivalent of lapping the field in the 1600 meters at the Olympics. All anyone can figure is that when he made his move (very early in the race) that no one thought he could do this so they let him go to burn out. But he never burned out. He just kept accelerating and riders kept dropping off.

Does anybody else in the country follow the Tour? In Texas, you are used to watching it because of Lance....

Shivers

You know those little PlayStation Portable game consoles? You know, walk around and play handheld games...

I just figured out they have wireless capability. I mean, you can get them to work through your existing wireless network, just like a computer. You can browse the internet on one of those little suckers. You can go to Starbucks and read the NY Times on your Playstation Portable.

And the graphics are great. Extremely clear resolution on pictures etc. You can watch internet video, very clearly on one of these.

The Nintendo handheld games don't have browser capability yet, but you can connect wirelessly on them too, and play Mario GoCart with anybody else anywhere in the world. Amazing. I got shivers.

Oh, these kids. They're gonna take over the world.

I'm Breathless

Dick Button turns 77 today. Can you say double sow-cow, triple toe loop, double axle? Whoever came up with those names? I mean really? Did Dick and Peggy Fleming sit around and try to think up weird names for skating jumps? What skinny little skater wanted to be called a sow-cow?

How about some new names...."Tara is setting up her next combination..there it is!....a double bloated pig into a triple heel spinner followed by a half circle looper to a double double hooty. Wonderful...."

Whut?

Them NASA people have some weird stuff around....

Feetball "Sheeps"

Torbush Returns

Carl Torbush, former Texas A&M defensive coordinator, was re-hired by Carson-Newman yesterday. Torbush was a CN grad before he landed his first big job....as a Carter Green Hornet. Then he went to CN, Carolina, Bama, and finally became an Aggie. Now he's come full circle. I expect he'll work wonders as assistant coach of the Eagles.

Politics

Way back in 1804, when duels were still fairly common, the Vice President of the U.S. Aaron Burr shot the Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton on this day. Hamilton was mortally wounded. Can you imagine two top cabinet members squaring off today? Ever hear somebody say that civility in politics is at an all time low? I think not. You probably won't see cabinet members pacing off these days...

First photo

Here's a shot that shows how close we actually got. I have a zoom lens of course, but we were pretty close.

I'm trying to figure a way to post the other shots so you can look if you want, without it appearing as if I'm showing boring vacation pictures...

In other news...how about that North Korea? Can't feed people, but we can shoot long range missiles, sort of. That Kim Son Il, or whatever his name is, is a real work of art. He's the first dictator I've seen who can rule millions of subjects in a truck mechanic jumpsuit.

Home again, home again

Great to be back home and not eating at Arby's. I'll have some pictures to post in a day or two. This is my first post from a "dashboard widget" on my wife's Mac-Mini. It's amazing to me that you can type in a little box, hit publish, and it goes to the blog seamlessly. Amazing.

Fire works

Yesterday we saw launch of the space shuttle, then went to the beach. Last night we saw fireworks on the beach. It was kind of an all american 4th. It would only have been better if we'd had hot dogs on the beach. We did have pulled pork fron sonny's bar-b-q so that was the next best thing.

Launch

Saw launch today from a fifth floor balcony at the vehicle assembly bldg at the cape. Was nervous til t minus 31 seconds then I knew we were going. It was beautiful.

Try, try again

No launch on saturday. Today we went on the bus but by the time we got to our spot we just turned around and came home. Way too many clouds today. Looks like we'll try on July 4th for the third time. That sounds like a winner. I keep thinking that the odds are getting better and better each attempt. Keeping my fingers crossed.