Hiya, I just got home from my church's yearly-ish men's ski trip, and I'm pretty tired and sore. In addition to wakeboarding and wakeskating (a wake skate is a wakeboard without foot bindings, basically a skateboard without wheels) we also rode ATVs on the dunes in Pismo Beach, and that beat me up pretty bad. I fell off a few times, ate a bunch of sand, and bounced around for two hours, and I need to get into bed and sleep... so I can go to work tomorrow morning. Yippie!
Anywho... I'm glad to be back. It doesn't look like much interesting happened while I was away except that New Orleans is going to be wiped off the face of the earth. That's too bad -- I've wanted to visit.
I wish I had more to say. I want to write something, but I don't know what. That means I should probably shut up for now and just go to bed.
As long as everyone is evacuated, I think New Orleans ceasing to exist is a pretty good outcome. Could there be a more disgusting, crime-ridden, corrupt place in America. It;s like some tin-pot third world capital. Yeech. The dirtiest the dirty South has to offer.
Oh yeah... as if the city itself (as opposed to the people) are the cause of that.
If you really wanted to wipe the problems of New Orleans away, you'd get rid of all of the people... not the city itself.
Finlay: Is it really that bad? I'd always heard that it was like "Vegas on the cheap", with better food and culture.
No, JP.. it's not that bad.