Recent Entries

• In Hindsight (so to speak) – edited w/pics

  February 23, 2012

  So ends Mardi Gras for 2012 - or so ended it this past Tuesday to be more specific. It was a grand season in preparation (always a party), the Ball, and the parade. As last year, we had terrible weather for our parade which was last Saturday. In fact this year we were advised the…

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• Where I’ve Been

  January 26, 2012

  I was twice blessed in 2010 with the births of my first two grandchildren. A boy (Colton) and a girl (Liberty) born two months apart, although originally their due dates were only 17 days apart. The little girl decided to come early…far too early and nearly died along with her mother for the effo...

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• Freaky Friday

  September 17, 2009

  Fridays at work can be sooooo boring you know? So I borrowed a camera and took a few shots outside my office window about an hour ago. I think they turned out pretty well, don't you? Now it's just back to watching those clock hands stand still. *sigh*

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• First Class…To A Point

  May 28, 2009

  Pics finally came in!! And here are the results of my plan revealed two entries ago (3/27/09 - "The Day Finally Arrives") so you might want to read that entry first before continuing here if you've not read it or don't remember it. ************* THE APPROACH TO THEIR AWAITING LIMOUSINE (they thin...

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• Boys Being Boys And All…

  May 14, 2009

  I'm still awaiting the official photo(s)-of-record documenting the results of my previous entry's plot, but in the interim, I received what follows in an email yesterday and it cracked me up so thought I would share it here. It definitely reinforces the age-old question of "how do boys ever make ...

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• The Day Finally Arrives

  March 26, 2009

  Pet peeves are interesting. We all have them I'm sure. But I think generally we often misunderstand what they really are. What they are NOT are common irritants mislabeled as pet peeves - like the person in the passing lane driving much too slowly because he is obviously concentrating on his phon...

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• Parade Pageantry Posting

  March 18, 2009

  As mentioned in my last entry, my krewe really went all out in supporting my position as Grand Marshal and the four krewe chiefs (I abstained) decided our float’s theme would primarily reflect my position and secondarily respond to the “Buy Youx Bailout” parade theme. Coincidentally, it was time ...

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• Batman at the Ball

  March 11, 2009

  The Grand Marshal bit was even more than I expected. I was quite surprised at just how much of a celebrity it seemed to make me in this town. In the couple of months preceding the ball and the parade, there were numerous news articles and pictures in no less than four prominent city publications&...

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• Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!!

  February 17, 2009

  "Back in 1981 Spanish Town residents of Baton Rouge started their own Mardi Gras parade. The first parade rolled—or walked—along Spanish Town Road. Long-time residents say that the first parade was very small. In fact, they say that fewer than ten people lined the streets. Children were the march...

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