Gene Goes For a Three-peat

We stayed home for most of today, not going out until we went to church this evening. Today was the annual cookout, held on church grounds every year in early summer. The rain that came with a cold front in the middle of the week was done, so the weather was 80 degrees [...]

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My Last June Ramblings

Now that I’m done reporting on our trip to Georgia, I can go back to random thoughts about life in Kentucky, as June comes to an end.
The bunk beds we ordered for the kids finally arrived on Tuesday. However, Leive thought she ordered four mattresses for them, and it turns out she really ordered [...]

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Has Queen Hatshepsut Been Found?

I’ve talked about this topic in more than one forum since I first got on the Internet, but this time the identification finally looks conclusive. To bring everyone up to date, KV60 is one of the smaller, undecorated tombs in Egypt’s famous Valley of the Kings. In 1903 it was discovered by Howard [...]

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Chinatown, Atlanta?

(Composed 06/26/2007)
Monday was the day of our return. In view of how long it took us to get to Portal, I told everyone that I would like to leave around 8 AM. At least we had to be out by the time Lindy went to work. Here is a picture of the [...]

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Savannah Sunday

Savannah Sunday
(Composed 06/24/2007)
With both Lindy and Adam off from work, we took it easy today. The only time we went out was make a shopping trip in Savannah, and because Savannah is 60+ miles from Portal, we were gone for 5-6 hours. The ladies looked for wedding accessories in a Michael’s Crafts store [...]

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Georgia On My Mind

(Composed 06/24/2007)
As long as we’re in Portal, communications will be difficult. From Lindy’s house, Leive and I can’t use our cell phone (evidently there isn’t a cell phone tower in range for our networks, because Rezia can use hers), they don’t have a regular phone line, and the local wireless Internet connection is erratic. [...]

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Over the Mountains and Through the States

(Composed 06/23/2007)
Well, we made it. We left our Lexington home at 9:35 AM, and arrived at Lindy’s place almost 15 hours later, at 12:30 the next night. The reason for the long trip was traffic delays. We were right on schedule for the first leg of the journey, but then I-75 southbound [...]

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Midsummer Night’s Eve of Departure

Today was the Summer Solstice, the official first day of summer on the calendar, and tomorrow morning Leive, Rezia and I take off for Georgia.  Hence the above title.  I probably won’t write anything here for the next few days, unless I get the opportunity.  Just in case that happens, I’ll be bringing my portable [...]

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A Palestinian Civil War; Pass the Popcorn

You’ve probably heard by now that the Palestinian Authority government has collapsed, Hamas drove the PLO out of Gaza last week, and PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas has set up an emergency government in Ramallah. Also embarrassing, Hamas looted Yasir Arafat’s house, and made off with the Nobel Peace Prize he won in 1994. [...]

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Oh WAMU, We Thought You Were Everywhere!

When I moved to Kentucky, I thought I would find Washington Mutual banks there, and that I could just walk into one to make mortgage payments on my house in Florida. After all, they’re a national chain, and they’re all over the place in Orlando; right now I can think of at least four [...]

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