I slept until 10 am, which is not to say I slept all that long.  But, the approach of another hurricane is making it hard to stay upbeat and focused.  I was hoping to get out of here this weekend - but, no.  That's not happening.  Power is close to the house, but not close enough and even if it were there, we can't get out of Dallas because traffic ( Read more... )

For two reasons.  First, I have an aweful headache.  I get headaches a lot, but not like this.  I got up and fixed breakfast, got the highspeed Internet working again, and then went back to bed and slept until 3 PM.  Mary made me get up and eat and then went out and did a little shopping.  So, what's up?  Well, Regan called yesterday and friends of ( Read more... )

Yo  - I've been cooking every day and its, like, OK.  There is a real sense of normalcy to cooking.  We have been eating good food, salad, meat, startch, vegatables and, of course, dessert every day.  Lots of fresh fruit too.  It gives me something to do and Mary and Nanny are cleaning up afterward, which is the best part ( Read more... )

I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana.

We have arrived on your doorstep on short notice and we apologize for that, but we never were much for waiting around for invitations. We're not much on formalities like that.

And we might be staying around your town for a while, enrolling in your schools and looking for jobs, so we ( Read more... )

They are back, but this time for a different cause.  Idgy is acting like a two year old child undergoing potty training.  She just won't go when we take her out. So for the past two nights, she has woken me up at 4 am barking to go out to do her business.  Its irritating.  I suppose as irritants go, there could be worse ( Read more... )

Now that we are established in our new apartment things are looking a little better.  I made dinner for the first time in a while and established a decent working office.  Here are a few pictures of the local scene.

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Checking in with the St. Tammany Parish government this morning, I found the following information on the state of electrical power in our area.  We are served by the Washington St. Tammany Power Cooperative.  The COOP has 124 employees serving over 41,188 accounts, with 136 miles of transmission lines, over 5,400 miles of distribution lines, 2 ( Read more... )

Emotionally labile -  Constantly undergoing or likely to undergo change, as a chemical compound; unstable.That defines my state of mind today, if you have been reading my blogs.  In addition to getting some good work done, I updated the "My Summer Vacation" video, added some more special effects and laid down a sound track.  I'm pretty happy with ( Read more... )

So, did you hear that two New Orleans Police officers committed suicide during the after storm crisis?  That sort of thing just doesn't happen all that often.  It happens when these people find themselves in the midst of overwhelming chaos and disaster for which they are supposed to be in control and find they have none.  One of those who took his ( Read more... )

Today is a better day than yesterday.  I'm feeling a little more optimistic.  First of all, my back is not hurting as much as it was.  It started hurting while Mary and I were on the road.  I spent five days in five different cities in five different hotels and drove a couple of hours each day, doing research on three of those days.  Anyway, I got ( Read more... )