Monthly Archives: October 2009

Vacation Ruminations/ StumbleUpon Stumps The Weary/ The Ghosts Of Savannah/ Dedicated To My Girl

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It’s very early Sunday and I sit here trying to figure out if I have subscribed to my friends on StumbleUpon.

Do I think I have? Yes.
Am I sure I have? No.
Do I understand why their new system is an improvement? No
Do I care? Yes! I don’t want to lose any friends!

We are back in Atlanta tonight and plan to return to Virginia in a few days. The weather has turned colder and it has stopped raining. Taking a vacation during the monsoon season has its drawbacks but we managed to explore Savannah without slipping below the water line.

We were taking a tour of an old home in the historic district of Savannah when I saw someone out of the corner of my eye. But when I looked no one was there. Apparently it was a ghost who looked like a woman in a green dress.

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Down In Savannah/ The Blogger Leaves His Car And Looks For Ghosts

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We made it to Savannah. But why should I make it sound like an ordeal? It was not a bad ride and the road from Atlanta is pretty much straight and true. I drove for a few hours and then started feeling sleepy so B took over the wheel. She’s an excellent driver and I can always count on her in these circumstances.

Or any other for that matter. We checked into the Little River Inn and have dinner scheduled at Vic’s On The River at 6:15. So come on by if you are in the neighborhood. I’ll buy you a drink or two. Because the spirits are definitely flowing freely around this waterfront enclave made up of restaurants, shops and inns of various kinds.

I hope to take plenty of photos in the next few days as we have tours scheduled of this wonderful city. Hopefully some of them will be meaningful. How do you take a “meaningful photo” while on vacation?
Well, that’s the challenge. You don’t stand in front of the majestic city hall and take a picture of its gold dome. And you don’t wander down to the river (which is on display as I sit here and type while looking out the window) and snap away at the birds, the boats or the many tourists who line its banks.

I meaningful photo is something that will surprise you in a moment when you enter the correct time and place and have remembered to charge your battery and slip in you memory card.

Savannah is a city full of ghosts B tells me. She has mentioned it several times and I am nearly afraid to go to sleep after all the festivities have run their course. Or not. Dreams are not the problem. It is the world of the living and drenching rain that compresses my skull. A ghost would be welcome. And a soft evening full of luminous clouds, a rolling river and a beautiful sunset would be an invitation to God’s doorstep.

We shall see if such a moment arrives.

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Ruminating About Not Much On A Sunday Afternoon/ The President’s Cup/ Light The Night In Atlanta

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Not much happening this afternoon. The President’s Cup is on the tube and I’m just wondering what everybody is so worked up about? The American team has perhaps some reason to be so tied up in emotional knots about it. They are representing their country. But what are the guys on the other side representing? Not America? They are from countries all over the world some of whom probably would like to beat each other in let’s say soccer much more than they care about beating a bunch of Americans in golf.

When they are jumping up and down and high-fiving each other what’s it about? We are the world? We beat the Americans? Who cares. Maybe it should be America vs Japan or American vs France. That would be worth a laugh at least.

The world is going to lose in any case. The Americans are playing well and having a good time. But this is not the United Nations and the whole thing makes no sense.

My NextGen Gallery plugin started working again. God bless the guy who updated it. It hasn’t been working for months and there is no way this blogger was going to fix it. It’s the same deal with all these plugins. WordPress is updated and the plugins don’t work. The plugins are updated and then they work again unless the guy who made the plugin decides he would rather go play golf or he has a new girlfriend.

It just goes on like this and it drives me crazy. Is this any way to run a blog? I doubt it. But who cares?

Blogging is not the new thing that it was a year or two ago. It’s a fad and it’s just about run its course. There are still lots of bloggers around of course. But the general population is more interested in playing golf on their cell phones and texting their friends about their favorite fantasy football player.

So here we are in Atlanta and it was supposed to rain all weekend but the sun refuses to go away. B went to Centennial Park yesterday evening for a two mile walk with thousands of other walkers to support finding a cure for cancer. I stayed home and watched Virginia Tech beat Boston College so bad they will never forget it.

B told me everybody got balloons that lit up while they were walking. Maybe there were little light bulbs in them. Durn it. Must have been a real photo opportunity in the fading light. This is what happens when you stay home because you don’t want to walk several miles with masses of humanity.

You lose. But at least NextGen Gallery works and a lightbox is illuminating many of the photos here at Virginia Breeze once again. The medication is working too. The blogger is feeling more like himself and the pilot light in his brain is lit once again. He should be able to take on the world in a few more days. Hopefully the world will not decide to organize and play games in ways that defeat his purpose.

The Atlanta Aquarium