Barely a week into the season and the first tropical depression has popped up in the Gulf. From the forecast it doesn’t sound like it’s expected to amount to much, but could become the first tropical storm of the season already. Could mean some rain for us early next week. My grass could use the rain.
Some things to do
Get a new battery connector/cable for the car before what’s left of the current one corrodes away to nothingness- Get the serpentine belt and timing belt replaced before this happens
Redo this blog so it uses the new-style MT32 templates and style sheets. Maybe it’ll fix some of the broken things in this blog- Finish off that research project
- Get the garage painted
- Put some eavestroughing (gutters to you Americans) up around the house
- Document and write up procedures for all the stuff I do at work
The rest of the list is much much longer, but just listing these made me tired.
Deep South or Old South?
Someone stumbled on my blog and emailed me this
One note: there is some debate as to whether South Carolina is “the deep south”, “the old south”, or both. More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South
As a native Georgian and former Charlestonian, I have always understood that the Deep South referred to the post-cotton-gin regions of the south — where there are vast, seemingly endless plantations fields (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianna, and Arkansas).
A good book on the subtle differences between “deep” and “new” and how they’ve affected modern life in the South’s major cities is “New Men, New Cities, New South”.
I thought it was interesting. As someone ‘from off’ (as they say around here), ‘Deep South’ was the only term I had encountered, and from what I had gathered, referred to mostly the southeastern US (why not the rest of the southern US, I could never figure out). I always thought it was just a geographical term, but Wikipedia‘s Deep South and Old South entries would imply a historical and cultural distinction between the two terms.
Maybe some of you local readers can help educate a foreigner 🙂
A busy season in the foreacst
NHC‘s 2006 hurricane forecast came out a couple of hours ago, and they’re calling for a busy Atlantic season. NHC is forecasting 13-16 named storms this year with 8-10 hurricanes, 4-6 of them major
One thing we need to add to our hurricane kit is stuff for the dogs. Need to do some research to see what needs to go in their kit. The ASPCA website has some good tips on emergency pet preparedness
Just call me Bacon
I have a new scent, Eau de BBQ.
Our catering services were called upon this weekend for my brother-in-law’s birthday party. 12 pounds of ground chuck and 4 pounds of ground turkey were turned into burgers and then grilled along with about 4 pounds of hot dogs and sausages, and around 10 pounds of ribs. 3 hours of grilling later (he needs a bigger grill if he’s going to keep having parties like this) I was smoked like bacon. I’m sure I wasn’t quite as tasty though. Two days and 4 hair washings later, my hair still smells like hickory smoke.
I think people found the food tasty though. For a while the burgers were going off the table as fast as I could get them off the grill.
The dogs had a good time out there too
Post #1000! And all before this blog turns 3 too.