The video of pictures from today's walk....

My wife decided to go to Birmingham to spend time with some old collegiate (Montevallo) buddies today...

I decided to take advantage of the beautiful day and the properties of the Huntsville Land Trust...

This picture is a path of the hike I took (click the image for the full size version of the path snapshot from Google Earth):



That made for a nice 6+ mile walk. A movie of some of the pictures is coming right up next....

Preview of the latest South Park....

Happy St. Patrick's Day folks!!!

Beyond that, check out my daddy-o's latest issue of Improvijazzation Nation (up to #89 and counting).

Pi Day » The official web site for Pi Day, March 14th

Pi Day » The official web site for Pi Day, March 14th

From Friday the 13th (of March) to Pi Day!

A link to my Facebook profile page for my "musical alter-ego"....

http://www.facebook.com/pages/vejadu/63054880361

Views from Monte Sano....

I mashed up five minutes of video....

Part of this video is taken from the previous video with about 3:50 of different stuff. Additionally, I muted the original audio (the camera shaking on the roof of my car was kind of annoying) and added a track from Tiësto:

Woo-hoo....

New video. I might make a little montage of the other few minutes I captured today. Nothing spectacular, but heck, I was having fun...

By the way...

The Papa Murphy's in Athens, AL tastes just like old times:

YUMMY

Facebook has a pretty cool feature (several, actually).....

However, the one I am talking about is a "profile badge". You can leave your mark in various and sundry places online. Like so....



Create your own (you obviously have to be on Facebook) here.

Without further ado (and slightly later in the day than necessary).....

Happy Birthday, Mom!

One of those things in life that you just can't beat is happening by the old Krispy Kreme shop when they've just made a fresh batch. I had almost forgotten how excellent their fresh doughnuts were. See, I made a midnight run to Krispy Kreme last night, but they didn't have anything ultra-fresh (but the blueberry cake doughnut and bottle of milk were still great). After dropping a card off to my mother tonight, I figured I'd give it another shot. The reward was fresh and doughy and glazed goodness this time. Yummmmmmmmm.....

Been a while....

I know, I haven't even been griping about politicians or anything of that sort. Just getting a little bored with that, I suppose......

I hope Obama can get a better balance between the powers of the government versus the rights of the people. Maybe he'll get some things right.

And so, to the mundane little point of this post...

Having come to north Alabama from northern Illinois, we left a few good restaurants behind. Mind you, I don't miss them enough to go back, but I did/do fondly recall places like Granite City Food & Brewery® and Biaggi's. I was driving around the fairly sedate town of Athens last night and saw a little promo/pop-up canopy in front of one of the numerous strip shopping centers in Athens. I was very surprised to see a restaurant name that I didn't figure I would see again. Athens, AL has a Papa Murphy's Pizza. "Take and bake" isn't that new of a concept. Hell, grocery store delis have done take and bake pizza for years. However, these pizzas from Papa Murphy's are really good. I did find it slightly ironic that this new store is in the same strip mall as Papa John's...


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See ya '08. Hello 2009!

Happy New Year

I know y'all know what's coming next.........

Wishing y'all a VERY MERRY Christmas.............


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For the celebration du jour....

Happy 16th Anniversary,

Suzanne!

I must say today with no delay.................

Suzanne - Happy Birthday!

I just found a tremendous set of vids/music via YouTube.....

Props to Gamer2k4......

He put up a compilation of all the songs from Praise The Fallen by VNV Nation (probably my favorite band). I selected the ones that would be most fitting when running on ye olde treadmill to drop into a little playlist. And here it is:

To all of you out there in the aether......

I hope you have a:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ummmm, yeah?!?!?

I just finished scanning a story from the news that folks who self-identified themselves as "elected officials" averaged a 44% on a quiz of civic knowledge. The report on this sad state of affairs was released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I haven't yet taken the quiz due to time constraints, but I will. It's very scary when some of the folks we elect to represent us and administer our towns/counties/states/what have you fail a quiz like this....

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-George Santayana