A Nashville Tradition Revisited...

A Nashville Tradition Revisited...
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Hello gang....sorry that it has been so long. Between keeping a job and finding a job and hair-raising rides with a new driver, its been tough to get time to update everybody on what is going on.

So...let's see...
the job hunt is going pretty well, I'm getting a lot of interest from companies. I should have good news on that front pretty soon (hopefully).

I had a strange experience last Friday evening. We went to the FCS basketball game. This year the team is young, very young. Mostly freshmen and sophmores. It was almost surreal to me to see these boys on a varsity basketball court. I've been watching most of the play since they were 8 or 9 years old. It just didn't seem right for them to be out there.

I've been driving the truck pretty regularly....I love it. Something about driving a 5 speed pickup truck reminds me that I'm not all geek ;-)

Here's some pretty cool news. Chris (who at times is quite a ham) is doing live online play-by-play of the FCS basketball games. He loves sports, but didn't really latch on to playing basketball. But somehow, he got involved in doing the play-by-play. It's pretty cool. The web site is http://atwsportscast.com. I'll let you know when they are broadcasting. I'm just waiting for him to do his Waterboy impression during a broadcast...

We've been having some mobile phone troubles as a family, last weekend, we added a new phone to the mix which meant everybody switched around. I knew that was going to happen and was looking forward to it because I knew that I would get a phone with a better camera. Many times I've seen funny or interesting thing that I wanted to photograph and share. The camera on my previous phone was terrible, but now I have one that is pretty good. Blogger + Flickr + a good camera phone is cool for a blogger. (see comments)

Last night, I had to go to Nashville to install a new version of software at one of my client's office. I talked to Kathy before I left and she said that I needed to take the loop around Nashville because they had a sign on the old American General Building. It took me a while to get to where I could take a picture, but I thought I would share it.

For those of you who "ain't from around here", this building was originally the home office for American General Insurance. When they were based there, they always had a sign on the building. As a kid, it was always exciting to drive around the loop at night to see what it said. Several years ago, American General built another building and moved to Brentwood. The office building was bought by the State of Tennessee. They don't put messages on the building much any more...but it seems like they do around Christmas.

If you don't stop by this way again before Christmas....Merry Christmas to you and your families.

Connecting and Reconnecting

I am fascinated with the whole social networking scene. Blogs, myspace, facebook...it's really quite interesting. I've met several people via this blog that I would have never met any other way. I've also begun reconnecting with names from the past. I thought that I would try a 'release the helium balloon with your address' kind of experiment and post some information to see if any new connections result. I love reconnecting with people who I knew in the past.

Anyway, here are some details, either my network or random Google searches may reconnect me with some people.

I attended B.C. Goodpasture Christian School from 1970 to 1982. I was in the marching band from its inception in 1979 until graduation. We won 4 Class A State Championships.

Churches I've attended:
Lischey Avenue,Parkwood,Northside,Jackson Park,Woodmont Hills,College Street,Highland Heights,Maple Hill,College Hills.

Places I've worked:
Compton's Food Town, K&S Associates, Network Data Corporation, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, The Medstat Group/Inforum, Metro Information Services, Investment Scorecard, American General Insurance, Dialogic Communications, Metro Nashville Davidson County, Digital Dog

Here are some random names of people that I would like to hear from, I only know maiden names for the ladies:

Keith Morgan,Randy Jones,Byron Oakley,Tina Parks,Sheila Freeman,Lisa Freeman, Vincent Horton,Larry Parsley,David Foley,John Megar,Lehman Garrett,Sam Williams,Janice Horn,Shelly Johnson,Brandy Boone,Cindy Vineyard,Vickie Vineyard,Randall Martin,Ginger McCoy,Seresa Terry, Carla Childress,Kelly McAffee,Lee Anne Filson,Terry Biggs,Rhonda Biggs,Mark Wright,Catherine Rainey, Dana Dye,Kim Graham there are many more, I'll add more as I think of them.

If you have any connection with me even, if even you are a random blog surfer, I'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment or I'm on facebook and My Space. If you are on both, I prefer facebook. Of course, my email address is also listed here.

Proud of my decade....

What decade do you identify with? I've told people that the decade that you identify with is the one in which you graduated high school. Looking back, I don't think that's true. I graduated high school in the early 80's, but really, I consider myself a child of the 70's. There is nothing that takes me back to that time in my life like music. The radio station that I usually listen to is 95.5 'The Wolf' in Nashville. They are considered to be a country station, but they know their market, they usually mix in a few hits from the 70's. Lately, they've been playing Chevy Van which makes me feel 13 again.

Anyway, I was cruising around on the internet and stumbled onto this list of best selling albums. I was amazed at how many of the albums were released in 'my decade'. Nine of the top 20 were from the 70's. If you let me include 1968 through 1980, then my decade gets credit for 14 of the top 25.

Ok, we have to take credit for leisure suits, stacks, disco, and Watergate, but we made some pretty good music.