Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991. As a point of reference, this is the year I graduated High School!
For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been felons.
The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.
Salsa has always outsold ketchup.
Earvin “Magic” Johnson has always been HIV-positive.
Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible.
They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives.
I’ve been doing some cleanup on the back end of this site the past couple days. Since this site has been up for several years, I’ve built up a bit of clutter. For example, it’s been a while since I since I switched from Movable Type and I still had yet to remove the related files. So, I’m finally getting around to sorting this place out. Expect a lot of broken for the immediate future, but I will get those fixed over time.
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great day with family and/or friends. Enjoy yourselves and be grateful for the good things. When you finish at the dinner table, go check out today’s comic before you set down to watch football!
Man, I need to freshen this site up. I’ve really got to update WordPress and do some housecleaning on the back end of this site, it’s a mess! I’ve still been active, I’ve just been posting more to Twitter, Facebook and Think Weasel! than I have here.
Tropical Storm Ida is moving through Georgia and dumping more rain on us. This is the last named storm of the season and another example of how our 100 years drought is dead and gone. Being out on the roads sucked, but it was nice to come home to homemade chicken soup and some nerd tv. Hopefully the rain will finally move out so the sump pump can stop running, we’d like to get some sleep.
It’s hard to believe it’s November already. September went pretty fast and so did October. There has been a lot of good stuff going on, but there has also been a lot of stress. I don’t know where to start and that’s what has kept me from writing for some time.
