Any of you monkeys want a banana?

It's been over two months since the last entry. Lot's of reasons for it, none very good. Since the last entry, we've made a trip to Kentucky, sold the old property, moved the site to a new hosting service, learned that I have two more grandchildren coming, bought a new camera, completed a computer upgrade, and wrote and sold a major best-seller (just kidding on that one).

Timing is everything. It was never so apparent to me as the day Rose and I were at the laundomat shortly after we were married. We were busy carrying several baskets of dirty clothes to the washing machines and had just passed one another in the middle of the room. Fortunately, neither of us paused for a PDOA (public display of affection). Suddenly the wall exploded, throwing broken concrete blocks all around the room, with most of the debris landing right where we had passed not 5 seconds before. What happened was that a lady driving by had lost control, jumped the curb, and buried the front end of her car in the wall we so narrowly escaped getting buried by. She had some kind of problem, a heart attack, a stroke, or whatever. I never found out for sure. She was unconcious when we went outside, and an ambulance had to be called to get her to the hospital. Timing.....if we had stopped or even slowed down as we passed they would have been digging us out from beneath that wall. I think about that day whenever I drive by that building.

I finally managed to replace my aging Sony Mavica FD-91 with a new Minolta Dimage A2. I'm still getting used to the settings and how to interpret the display, but it's a pleasure to use so far. I'm starting to experiment with some of the neater features like exposure bracketing. While we were in Kentucky for Thanksgiving I went out on a clear night to play with it and managed to get some pretty decent shots of the night sky and the moon. I've put a couple of them in the photo album, along with a picture of a rare Gibson Les Paul that my sister's new husband happens to own. Man, what a sweet guitar. Bill seems to be a good guy, and I look forward to hanging out with them the next time I make it to Hawesville.

I'm still picking up the pieces from the move to a new hosting service, but Blue Domino pissed me off one too many times. Here's hoping I can get the RSS page working properly again soon, because that was my favorite spot on the site. Something about the cache file......