In an effort to tell the world about New Orleans I bought a CVS disposable video camera and set about asking friends over a period of a week why they love New Orleans and also just observing conversations. I posted the video to YouTube – you can see it here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Compilation
When I drove to Atlanta for my nephew’s wedding (that’s him up on the chair) I went to IKEA to get bookshelves for my office. Do you know what? I barely had anything to put on it – my office is rapidly becoming a paperless, bookless, shelfless office because most of my life resides around the computer and the internet and my company’s portal that I seem to have to go into way more than…
Or rather Craig’s List. My colleague saw my plea for someone who knows Word Press and asked a friend of hers for help. Turns out she had a different version and I needed to upgrade. So I put a free ad on Craig’s List and within days had several responses. But one person stood out to me and she ended up being just what I needed at a very reasonable fee. She’s bright, easy going,…
I was talking to T about the possibility of having to evacuate and he said he stayed during Katrina. He said no one is alive because of it but he was helpful and resourceful during that time. Yet he doesn’t know now if he would stay because of P – if the authorities came a knocking with guns and made you leave but you couldn’t take your dog – like they told some people –…
I was telling my friend Ernie a while back that not having Steve around has been a challenge in the IT department. He was so versed in anything computer-ese that I took for granted that whatever went wrong – system crash, constructing a website, email disappears – that he could figure it out and fix it. And he did. Then suddenly, I was responsible for my own IT – I subscribe to the theory that…
This is Arlene – but everyone thinks she is the Blue Dog of folksy art fame here in New Orleans. She’s a Cardigan Welsh Corgi and her ears should stand straight up and her eyes should both be brown – and if she were best in breed she might actually look more like the Blue Dog – instead she is, simply, the Best Dog Ever.
Took the J-man to the movie and was glad to be away from the family issues, away from the demands of work, away from having to smile and chat with everyone and anyone, and so I sat laughing at the penguins and the Hang 6, and the cool music. I think I enjoyed the movie more than Jake. Then we came out and a monsoon was sweeping across the planet outside, blowing the palm trees…
Got home from the hospital after midnight – fed the Bean this morning when she was supposed to fast to go in for her teeth cleaning – and so the morning was going a little sideways. I ran into C who wanted to see the garden but instead of being gracious I was rushing her – then as I came back out the front door to finally walk the Bean, the Bayou Stone Fox was…