The Mind of Shy

Late yesterday I arrived at my parents house here in the 'Fire Hydrant Capitol of the World' . Being the boring little town that it is, I immediately made the trip to the local Movie Gallery to procure my entertainment. Oddly, here the movies are over three dollars a piece. I recently rented movies in Lanett Alabama and found that they were 1.99 a piece and there were not due back for a full seven days. It would seem that each store sets it's own prices. I made a comment to the clerk about not having enough mom and pop places in town to discourage the monopoly and he just shrugged and took my money in a manner that suggested that he also had smelled the stench of this little town a time or two.

So I slept in late this morning and ate breakfast at around noon. The history channel was doing a piece about a relative of mine (and interestingly enough a relative of a lot of people) so I got sucked into watching that. The Jesse James story lead into a piece on the first Thanksgiving and next thing I knew it was 3 in the afternoon. So I headed down to the local golf outlet and hit some balls at the driving range. Tomorrow is going to consist of taking my mother to have blood work done and then a quick trip over to Arab to talk with a man (or woman) about some internet banking options.

I posted my website address the other day only to notice that hitting that link from inside my website causes some frame problems. This link should correct that.....we will see....

It was a glorious day for the Auburn tigers yesterday. Carnell Williams ran a 80-yard touchdown run in the very first play of the Auburn/Alabama game. The vote is still out from officials, but it may be the first time in Auburn history that the tigers have scored on the first play from scrimmage since 1957. The team was pumped, the fans were pumped, and the tigers were playing to win, breaking a 4 game losing streak against the tide at home. Makes you have to ask, where was this energy the week before when we played Georgia?

I found someone else with a blog about Columbus GA. I had been reading this one guys for a while now and thought it looked pretty easy, and besides I didn't have anything to fill the Amygdala link on my website yet. Free is good!

It would seem that Southern Natural Gas Co., a subsidiary of El Paso Corp. (NYSE: EPG) has approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct and operate a pipeline system in Southeast Georgia and Florida that just happens to run through my back yard. Richard, the Right of Way Agent, came to visit my house today to tell me that they are starting construction in the next couple of weeks. I told him that I have a big problem with this project because they paid my builder roughly $2500 dollars for lease and damage instead of me....the one whose property will be leased and damaged.

This is a $240 million dollar Cypress Pipeline system and is a 166-mile pipeline capable of transporting 310 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from El Paso's liquefied natural gas. Houston-based El Paso Corp., is the largest and most broadly based natural gas company in the world. So how concerned do you imagine they are that my builder screwed me for the $2500? I don't think too much..... So how much are they willing to give me to be sure that I stop crying about it....more on the hush money later.

In other news today looks like Michael Jackson is finally going to have to stop touching little boys. Maybe his lawyers can plea the Peter Pan defense and get him sentenced to juvenile prison

Very first day, not too much to say.

I spent the day attempting to remember how to code assembler to implement a security exit for a database tool that I have installed. I was staring at my Rubik's Cube and all of a sudden I just couldn't take it anymore that it was messed up. I found a site where you can map out your cube and it will walk you through solving the damn thing. Whew.....