Well, here we are, boys and girls. Survived another weekend, back for another week of fun and frolic. Went to the pub Friday night, played darts, listened to Irish music, got drunk - not necessarily in that order. Cleaned house on Saturday, then saw Van Helsing, which I liked, Saturday night(Go see White Chicks. It's the absolute best comedy of the summer - I could not stop laughing). Sunday I went to church and choir practice, then spent some time in front of the ol' DVD player catching up on movies I somehow missed, like Good Will Hunting, followed by Dungeons and Dragons to clear my brain. I'm behind on my pleasure reading and my studying, but maybe I can get back on track tonight. Oh well. Break's over....
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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