Possumblog

Good morning!

At least for some of you. For the folks down in New Orleans (whom I really doubt will be reading this right now), I do hope you'll manage to make it through the storm without any lives lost. Even without that, it looks like it's going to be a mess for a while. (And CNN just reported that the roof of the Superdome is leaking, so it might be a mess inside, too.) For those of you who made it up this way seeking shelter, I hope your stay is as pleasant as circumstances allow, and I hope you find us hospitable. Just remember, drivers here don't know what a turn signal is.

Well, the weekend was action packed--I got to spend the hours as I had planned, although I had not planned (or had forgotten) that the Mungummy County liberry system won't allow access to Mu.nu in any form or fashion, so the two posts I managed to send this weekend are over on Revolvoblog, should any of you want to read them. Nothing major, just the usual blather.

Upon our return, one bit of very good news--Boy had his audition for the school band Saturday. Grandpa took him in our absence, and he (Boy, not Gramps) managed to score very well on oboe, bassoon, flute, clarinet, and...

PERCUSSION!

He got to choose which one he wanted, and, of course, chose beating on things. He was so very proud and excited--he's wanted to do this for over a year now, and I don't think he would have been prepared to have had to settle for anything you have to blow through. So, to the music store before we even got back to the house to pick up his bell kit of a xylophone, stand, drumsticks and mallets, and a practice pad.

It's only money, it's only money...

::sniff::

He better be good.

Other stuff? Well, sometime Friday night after I went to bed in the hotel, I caught a head cold. So, the rest of the weekend has been spend coughing and sneezing.

My sister came in Saturday with her cats and her frozen food to escape Katrina--she lives in Mobile, which is probably getting blasted about as bad as New Orleans, and after Ivan she pretty much has decided that no matter what else might happen, she's not going to let a freezer full of food ruin again, so, she packs it all up and brings it to my mom's house for storage. I sometimes think my mother might want to put the cats in the deep freeze, too. She's never said that out loud, though. And it was my mom's birthday! A week ago. I am a very bad son. I forgot all about it. Anyway, we all went out to eat yesterday, so it wasn't so terrible.

IN THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER, I was randomly scanning the wedding section as I always do, and you know how in our liberated modern times the groom is now showing up with increased frequency in the announcement picture? Well, Sunday was a new one for me. IN amongst all the brides pictured by themselves, and brides pictured with their grooms, was a bride posing with a horse! Sorry, but that just sends the wrong message. Or not. I just don't know anymore.

Car news? Well, my stupid dashboard didn't get delivered Saturday as I was expecting, so that was perturbing, especially when the tracking note says it's on a truck here in town somewhere awaiting delivery. But I did get a new set of horns to replace the old ones. I just can't stand those insipid, buzzy, foreign eep-eep horns--I want something that sounds like a horn. And something louder, too. So, that got done and now it sounds like a proper car. Or, at least the horn does.

Anything else? Well, I have a boatload of typing to do today, so I'm not going to be very productive herein. Bear with me please.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at August 29, 2005 08:19 AM