musings a go go

Alberto has came and went--no real damage here, just some power outages here and there. The water retention pond behind our apartment that has been dry forever is now full and I heard bugs and bullfrogs last night--a peaceful sound that you don't really pay attention to unless it has been gone for awhile. Yesterday the wind almost knocked me down once and it blew something in my eye, but the gusts weren't that bad and it is over now. That is the update on that. Here is a funny joke that I think people from where I was born and raised will understand. I know I do--when I went to New Orleans once during college for Mardi Gras, I was following a friend that drove a teal Paseo with a Darwin fish with legs, a rainbow Mickey Mouse, and a bumper sticker that said, "To hell with the Baptists, I'm going to Disney World". Needless to say, in Delhi, I believe it was, a big truck with a gun rack tailgated him and kept bumping his bumper for about 15 minutes before he drove off. We got his point. Here it is:

Survivor Southern Style

Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, several southern TV stations
are joining together and are planning to do their own, entitled Survivor:
Southern Style.

The contestants will start in Alabama; travel over to Georgia and on to
South Carolina. From there they will head up to North Carolina and over
to Tennessee. They will then proceed down to Mississippi and Louisiana,
finally ending up back over in Alabama.

Each will be driving a pink Volvo with New Jersey license plates and large
bumper stickers that read: I'm Gay, I'm a Vegetarian, NASCAR Sucks, Go
Yankees!, Smoking is for Idiots, Hillary in 2008, Deer Hunting is Murder!,
and I'm Here to Confiscate Your Guns!

The first one that makes it back to Montgomery alive wins.