A Whole New Meaning to the Snooze II

HA! Finally got you back, David! Here he is, SNOOOOOOZIN' during Grammar! It must be thrillingly interesting. (See Feb. 17, 2007)

Piobaireachd

The Piobaireachd competition at the Sumter Games. His F and C were misbehaving in a serious way, so he didn't place as high as he wanted.

Happy St. Pat's!

David marched in the Atlanta St. Patrick's Day parade today. We even saw him briefly on the news! (Click on picture to enlarge; David is second from the left in the front row.) He also played at a party at a fancy house this evening.

And, to get you in the spirit, here is a little bit of green around our house:

College Life

Looks like it is time for me to write another post!

One of my duties as an Art Senator in Student Government, is holding a forum to have my constituents fill out surveys. I held mine last week, and collected 50 surveys. My quota was 25, and I was only required to stay for an hour, but I had three hours free, so I decided to see how many I could collect. Next I get to present my findings to the exec. board!

This week is spring break, and last Wednesday, my art history professor told us we would have a test Monday after spring break, unless the lecture took so long that it had to be continued on Monday. So...we stalled as best as we could. We asked trillions of questions, and even wrote so slowly that we had to ask her to go back to the previous slide so we could finish writing. We did get the test moved, and had one of the most interesting and engaging class yet!

Now I am going to go rollerblade on the patio in the back while reading. I am still a bookworm!

Cars Are Evil

I have been car-less for most of this week. On Tuesday, while David was driving, the engine seized without warning. It was a new, and valuable, experience for him to wrestle a car out of traffic and bring it to a stop without power steering or brakes functioning. Over the next few days we got more and more bad news. It was the air conditioner compressor. Dead. In it's death, it yanked a major belt out of commission. (And we haven't used the AC for months!) Next we found out that the condenser, the ducts, and the rear AC something all had lots of metal shards in them. Somehow, there had been metal grinding on metal for a long time, and we hadn't heard any unusual sound or noticed any symptom. Final repair bill: $4,000!

Today was to be our challenging day with just one car. The Professor had to get to work, Greta had to get to work soon after, and David had a gig across town. My plan was to make a loop: first The Professor, then Greta, then home to collect David, then the funeral (gig). On our way to the interstate we heard the traffic report and something about an accident involving a bus. After a bit, it dawned on us that this was something major. About that time we rounded a curve and came to a halt in gridlocked traffic in all directions. We still had some miles before we reached the interstate, so we immediately changed plans. We turned around, and headed to Greta's work first. Amazingly, traffic was gridlocked in the opposite direction of normal commute traffic too, but we bypassed a lot of it by detouring through neighborhoods. By this time, we were getting a more complete picture: "our" interstate, I-75, was closed down in both directions because a tour bus had accidentally exited the freeway on the HOV lane's exit, then gone over the side of the overpass, dropping 30 feet to the interstate below. It was just a few miles beyond The Professor's office, so our trip there looked to be long. Next we went home to collect David and hoped that we could find some relatively clear back roads to The Professor's office. If not, The Professor would be accompanying us to the funeral! We DID make it to his office, and on to the funeral just in time. I finally climbed out of the car at 1:00.