That Hobbit Lady

Up until only a few months ago, liquor could not be purchased on Sundays in Tuscaloosa. The matter was recently put to the local voters, and all that has now changed. However, there are only certain hours on Sundays when you can buy beer and wine in the local grocery stores.

Here is a shot I took a few weeks ago, in a local Publix. I took this shot, because I found the message a bit confusing. Of course I understand what the sign is SUPPOSED to be saying, but if you look at it closely, read it precisely as it is written, you might come to the conclusion that you have a small nine and a half hour window EACH WEEK for stocking up on your booze!

Might I suggest, after the big words “BY LAW,” something along the lines of: On Sundays, beer & wine sold only between…” I don’t think that would be quite as confusing.

Okay, maybe I’m being a bit of a Grammar Nazi. Can’t help it. This sign is just poorly worded. Of course, this is by no means the most poorly worded sign I have ever seen. It’s just the most recent.

It’s 6:30 in the morning, and I just heard a huge plane going overhead. People are beginning to arrive for the weekend. We’ll be hearing planes coming in all day today and early tomorrow. This is the beginning of Homecoming Weekend at the University with the #2 football team in the country. Alabama is steeped in football tradition, and fans and alumni would arrive for Homecoming weekend, even if we weren’t currently second in the nation. It’s just a big deal, and a lot of fun. And there’s nothing wrong with fun.

In other news for this weekend, tonight we are planning to post/publish our 8th episode of The Drawing Room, our Dark Shadows podcast. It’s amazing to me how much we have improved the quality of this broadcast in only eight episodes! It’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks, and even though Russ and I may be….well, if not “old,” at least “older,” we are having a lot of fun learning all kinds of things about the world of podcasting. And once again I say…there’s nothing wrong with fun.

Finally, this weekend I am also planning to do a good cleanup and rearranging of furniture in the front room. This room is the “catch-all,” and stuff just seems to pile up in there. It’s gotten to the point where I sort of feel it will be difficult to deal with all the stuff, unless I completely rearrange all the furniture. It will give me a good excuse to take everything out the room, sort through it, and put it back in again. Plus, I’m hoping to create an area where we can have another desk in the house. With all our computers and all our projects, another desk would be a good idea!

Well! Looks like a big weekend coming up! Lord willing and the creek don’t rise…lots of fun, and getting stuff done. (I’ll post before and after pics of the room renovation…if it turns out good!)

I’m very excited today. I’m expecting a late birthday gift in the mail. Joey says he has mailed me some music I’ve been hoping to get, and it might come in today. It’s a new band I’ve discovered, Placebo, and I’ve been listening to them on You Tube, but looking forward to having a disc I can take along with me in the car.

I remember that I found Placebo when Mary texted me, “Hey! I was looking at this band on You Tube, and I somehow ran into this other band, Placebo, and they sound like something you would like, check them out!” So that’s how I found Placebo. And I think that somehow (though I can’t for the life of me remember how!) Placebo led me to Fall Out Boy.

So the music goes on and on….

And now Mary has told me about another band she found on You Tube, which she says reminds her of Abney Park, which is another band she turned me on to a while back, and they are now one of my favorite bands. I have all their music in my Windows Media Player at work, and some days I just open that file and listen all day, over and over.

But today is not Abney Park, today is not Fall Out Boy, today is not even Al Stewart! Today is Placebo. I hope. Looking forward to looking in the mailbox this afternoon when I get in from work.

I love days when there is something to look forward to.