Newscoma

As an adult, I sometimes do stupid things that the average person knows better, I know better and most likely even Mabel the licking hound who eats some suspicious things of her own making knows better than to do.

Me don’t learn good.

Yesterday Hooterville had some wicked rain followed by some very scary winds. Power went out around the area, I saw bricks flying about (yes, I said bricks) and at one time, the rain was so blinding and hitting so hard that I almost felt like I was going to melt in an acid rain pool and I felt like I was in some B-grade horror movie.

And being that I’m a rocket scientist, I was out in it and got impossibly wet. My feet and loafers were drenched. This morning, I woke up with a cold.

The moral of this story is that we had some scary weather and on top of it, I’m getting sick. How many times when you were a kid did your momma tell you “Don’t get your feet wet, you’ll get a cold.”

Yeah, you’d think I’d know.

Now, I’m a person who is a tittybaby when I don’t feel well. I’d love to sway you on this blog about what a tough camper I am and how when I’m not at work I’m busy slaying dragons with little more than a can opener and that I always save the princess who in Hooterville would most likely work at Wal-Mart.

But, naaa, I’m a big baby.

One other thing that I’ve known about myself most of my life that if you give me one drug, it’s going to react the complete opposite than it’s supposed to. I took a Pepcid (which I’ve never taken in my life) yesterday after eating a loaded piece of pizza that I had no idea was evil when I sat at my desk cramming into my piehole. You would have thought I’d been mainlining caffiene. I was so hyper that I seriously got about three times the amount of work done than I usually do and was talking like Britney Spears after her fourth cup of Starbucks coffee of the day. ‘Course then I crashed.

Yeah, I’m going to be like Jeff Conway on Celebrity Rehab.

“Whatca in here for, ‘Coma?” Mary Carey would ask.

“Pepcid,” and then of course I would go into the DTs and throw up on the floor which seems to be a theme at Celebrity Rehab and I would want to work within the team dynamics and expectations.

When I mentioned to one of the groovy chicks at work about the Pepcid making me hyper, she gazed at me with a deadpanned look and said “I think you had ADHD as a child. I’ve heard that medicine does the opposite effect when kids have ADHD.”

I took this as fact as at that moment I was hallucinating about a giant penguin coming through the front door. I never really thought about having ADHD as a kid. I just thought I was a Supergenius.

My bad.

Hell, I’m just rambling this morning with a side of sneezing.

I’m all that and a bag of chips.

TOM BROKAW: I think he may have gone a bit too far in South Carolina. But you know, politics ain’t bean bag, he knew what he was doing.

In an interview with Barbara Walters for Sirius Radio last night.

Okay, I chuckled and I’m a Mac girl.

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Michael Cera as Alexander Hamilton in another version of Drunk History. Incidentally, this isn’t safe for work due to the language but despite that fact. it should be seen. And for you history buffs out there, well, it’s just really amusing.
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I’m up and at ‘em this morning in where I slept longer than a vampire last night although I guess it could be said that vampires sleep all day.

Let’s just say that sometimes my groovy and rocking lifestyle is not conducive for regular sleep. You know how that goes. (snark)

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From a new blog (or new to me at least) out of Kingsport which is talking about Tennessee’s Open Meetings Act:

You have a right to know what the government is doing at the Federal, State, County, or City level. You have a right to attend meetings and can have access to most records.

Tennessee’s Sunshine law states that any meeting is open to the public except as provided by the Tennessee Constitution, when two or more members of a governing body get together to deliberate toward a decision or a group making recommendations to a governing body. The Open Meetings Act does not prescribe when governing bodies must conduct meetings. Instead, it defines when meetings must be open to the public.

The public can attend the City of Kingsport, TN Work Sessions that are held each 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 4:30 p.m., City Hall, Small Board Room, 2nd Floor. Regular Business Meetings are held each 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m., Large Court Room, 2nd Floor, City Hall. The public is invited to attend meetings of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Also, on Charter cable channel 16, you can watch the Business Meeting live.

Well done with the addition of how the average citizen can be involved in their local government.

Sometimes taking personal action of being a part of things is the best thing to do. Because, my friends, it causes a reaction.

Here we go from Tennviews:

I used to date a mandolin player so I’m partial (Shut up.)The video isn’t so great (think Cloverfield) but this is fun.

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Yeah, I might have to see Nickel Creek if they are this much of a hoot. (Damn, they broke up.)

Heh.

Bridgett says:

When you read something that pisses you off,  whether here or elsewhere, take ten seconds and think whether you can help soften a heart or change a mind.  If not, then let it go.  Life is just too damn short to bark at everything.

Yup.

I don’t have kids. Sometimes the nieces say things that overwhelm me. Their love for High School Musical. Their insistence that Zac Efron is not a metrosexual. The fact that eating vegetables is somehow an act of the devil and must not be done.

Their obsession of walking around with cell phones in the house which drives me nuts just letting them twiddle around in their fingers (yet, I realize I miss calls because nine times out of ten I don’t know where the damn thing is. It is orange though, John.)

But they teach me things. Like how to program said cell phone, how that Superbad is not really an appropriate film for them when I recommend it because it’s a comedy with Michael Cera in it.  (Note to self: Durarghhhh.)

I’ve also learned that Fresca, the fruity refreshing drink, does make things better (except with SQ who hates it.) I’ve also learned that to always expect the unexpected. That headaches indeed can come from stress. That there is no way to please anyone and everyone when it comes to politics.

I’ve also learned that Monty Python will heal anything, but I knew that already. And that, quite possible, Rambo is no longer relevant as if it ever was.

So, not too exciting, I realize.

Spending the day with family thought is quite wonderful.

What Jack said (it must be link-to-Jack Lail day for me) and I agree this is utterly outrageous.

I guess you’d better throw away those photos of the White House and the Washington Monument and maybe Mount Rushmore just to be safe.

Here’s an experience of a Knoxville photographer taking photos at the John J. Duncan building downtown::

Go see what he found.