Category: pictures

Nashville

Southeast view from the top of the Renaissance hotel.

Seen here is the Cumberland river and the Shelby street bridge.
The largest building on the left side is the AT&T regional office, affectionately called The Bat Building.

Greatest state in the land of the free - although there's no mountaintops here - they're all in the eastern section of the state.

The weather is cold and several inches of snow is expected tonight.

Five miles to the southwest my great great grandfather R.R. Banker fought, as a member of The Union army joining General Sherman’s march to the sea, in The Battle at Brentwood.

I am here, in a small capacity, to enhance 9-1-1 architecture in ways that the people in those days couldn’t fathom. Those soldiers then helped maintain the union which now mandates it’s use (9-1-1) for the public good.

Update: in the time it took me to write this it really started to dump snow. Woo hoo!

Seahawks Day at school

LaGrande came home asking if I had any Seahawks gear she could wear for Seahawks Day at school.

Do I..? Huramph… Do I wha?… I wi… She…hea…
[[looks directly into camera with a quizzical look]]

Brownie-points for anyone that can correctly identify the best* Seahawk player to wear this number.

Easley

GO SEAHAWKS!

*Hint: this jersey is from my Seahawk-fandom-heyday, and is probably older than most of the staff at LaGrande’s school.

My new office shoes

Good for Office Hobbits

No I didn’t break them…but I am breaking them in around the office. I might wear them all the time if they are comfy enough.
I know I can wear them for up to two hours around the house.

I couldn’t wait to wear them.
Oddly, I’ve already gotten a number of questions at the office, I’m sure you will have many of the same questions so, being the nice little office hobbit that I am, I’ll answer them in advance.

Q: Does the stuff feel weird between your toes?
A: No

Q: Are they going to let you wear those around the office?
A: I’ve worn bowling shoes before and fancy aqua-socks are just like a close cousin…to bowling shoes, I mean.

Q: How hard are they to get on?
A: Not hard, once you get the hang of inch-worming your toes into your shoes.

Q: Won’t they smell?
A: Not s’posed to – they have anti bacterial stuff made into the material. But…if…anyone is qualified to test the quality of anti-bacterial chemical warfare, it’s me.

Q: Are you going to start running in them (they are ostensibly running shoes)?
A: Only to get away from bad guys.

Q: What about your crooked toe?
A: What about it?
(okay okay nobody at the office…until now…knows I have a crooked toe so I made that question up since I am sure knowing family and friends want to know just how much these shoes can take…they can take a LOT of crooked.)

Q: Do they come with painted toe-nails? (actual question by the way)
A: Actually…no, I am not aware of a model that simulates that. There are a ton of other styles, pink ones etc. Besides, no self-respecting office hobbit would be caught dead with painted toe-nail-shoe-things on their feet.
How garish.

New Year 2011

Happy new year!

After a long day, several movies, skipped meals, a long late nap, and a Skype chat with The New Havens ringing in the new year EST style we headed off to bed before the advancing timeline.

But…

The WeeOne persisted and when the fireworks started blasting she sprang to the window like a holiday story.
For the next fifteen minutes we got the four year olds guide to the cut, color, clarity, and carat of each bang.
In the end she gave the spectacular only one thumbs up,

I wanted to see more.

oooooohhhhhh