Happy New Year! Please forgive the incessant coughing - I just wasted a week of vacation being sick. Guess it's better than actually having the sick time charged to me, because I'm sure the doctor wouldn't have approved a week off. But even with a Z-pack and some Prednisone, I'm just barely past the fever-stage, and I have zero energy. But I'm here, back at work, bright smiling face :) On a happier note, I'm enjoying my Christmas present - I got my iPod! My U2 iPod! WooHoo!! Did you know it has games on it? How cool is that?
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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