Atlanta St. Louis... Here we come!

OK... so JTC is off for the holiday weekend. No gigs plus we both have Monday off, too. So we thought we'd take a trip to Hot-lanta. Since we moved to Nashvegas almost 5 years ago, we've only traveled through Atlanta on the way to / from other places. So, we thought it would be cool to take a little adventure to see the zoo, catch Randall Bramlett / King Johnson at the jazz festival and take in the city.

Well, yesterday we scrapped that idea when a friend of ours who is actually in Atlanta right now advised against it. He let us know that there is definitely a gas shortage and that the hotels were filling up with displaced Mississippi residents. It probably wouldn't be the best weekend to explore Atlanta and there was a strong possibility that we'd pay $6 / gallon for gas... if we could find some.

SO... we've shifted gears and have decided to go to St. Louis instead.

We're taking off after I get off work today.
**fingers crossed**
I'm hoping I'll get to leave work early today. If so, we may get into St. Louis in time to catch some good music and/or a movie or something.

Got a great rate at the downtown Marriott on Hotwire.com. We're going to the zoo for the entire day tomorrow. Believe it or not, the St. Louis Zoo is free and one of the best zoos in the country. They've got a cool new "Fragile Forest" exhibit that we're excited to see. (PLUS, John is a zoo guru... he can tell you anything and everything about most any animal and most any zoo. It is very fun to go zooing with him.)

If we're not too worn out from the zoo, we'll probably try to find somewhere cool to eat and maybe catch some good music tomorrow night.

Not sure what is on the agenda for Sunday yet... maybe we'll sleep in and do NOTHING at all until it is time to drive back to Nashville. (That sounds like the most fun to me right now.)

If any of you have any other ideas / recommendations about things we can do and/or visit while we're there, let me know.

Appearing TONIGHT...

at the FRENCH QUARTER CAFE:

9 p.m. LaLa Deaton, BB Logan and Jon Nite in the round
AND, JTC, Steve C & JC will be there backing us up... making our songs sound sooooo yummy.

Call your friends!
Let's make it a party.

See you tonight.

Bloglines is broken.

Eventhough I'm extremely annoyed that I can't get to my RSS feeds, I do think Bloglines little message is kinda clever.

Hi,
I'm the Bloglines Plumber. We've had a database crash, and we hope to be right back. Bloglines will be all better when I'm done with it.
Thanks,
The Bloglines Plumber

All cuteness aside, Feed Demon is looking better all the time.

Must bite bullet and switch.

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath

A friend sent me a link to these photos from USA Today.
Wow.

Just for men...

OK... I think this is supposed to be an ad for men's hair color that showed up on the main page of my Yahoo inbox.

What the *$%#???

Talk about pushing the envelope. Unless this guy is coloring his hair south of the border (if you know what I mean), I don't think this ad is appropriate. Wait... even if he IS doing that... it is still ridiculous. What I really expect to see in the lower third of the ad is a 1-900 number.

Yahoo will be hearing from me.

Where' d the time go?

Wow.
It is already Monday.
Can't believe the weekend went so fast.

Tom and Gerti left bright and early this morning... around 6:30 a.m. So, at this point they are probably about 3.5 hours from home.

We had a blast hanging out with John's parents and the whole gang that came down to Nashville for Corie's wedding. It was a whirlwind! John's aunt Carol and her friend Kim were here from Kansas City. His step-cousin Scott and his wife Molly came down from Minneapolis. We all had a RIOT from hanging at the wedding, to the reception, going to John's gig at 3rd, to doing a little window shopping in Franklin and Green Hills.

Good times.
Good times.

Now... I need another day to recover!

RIP Little Blue Bell

ChezBez's offer to save my little pint of Blue Bell came too late. (Thanks for tryin', brother.) It did not survive the inadequacy of my teeny weeny fridge's freezer compartment.

**waaaaaaaahhhh.**

On the brighter side, the refrigerator repair man came this morning and fixed our Whirlpool Gold in less than an hour. The motor that circulates the cool air between the freezer and the fridge had completely disintegrated. He said he'd never seen anything like it before.

AND, that $40 service warranty probably saved us around $150 bucks. We didn't have to pay a dime for the parts or the house call.

**Whew.**

Besides all this, I am happy to report excellent customer service from both Best Buy and the repairman dispatched to handle the problem.

I'd say that makes for a very good day.