Cynthia and I went out for our traditional Christmas Eve Chinese dinner tonight. This year it was at The Ambassador which is next to the Ragin Cajun over on Richmond.
The Ragin Cajun’s holiday decorations were cause to pause as we made our way to dinner.
Christmas here in the south has it’s own style…
Friday night had all the earmarks of being a good night on the 3700 block of Main. The Suspects were playing their second “reunion” show with The Aqua Velva opening up. And if that wasn’t enough, The Light Rock Express were groovin over at Charlie’s Big Top. Things were just getting “fired” up when the doorman of the Continental Club exclaimed “Holy Sh*t! A flaming car!”
I turned just in time to see a truck driving down Alabama towing a backhoe on a trailer and the trailer was ON FIRE….I thought at first this was some kind of art car event or something.
A handful of us ran around the corner to see what was up and we saw the truck pull up next to a gas station.
Could you imagine being at the pump, just minding your own business filling your tank and a truck load of flaming death just pulls up?
Apparently there was an industrial strength cardboard barrel full of trash on the back of the truck that had managed to ignite. The guys jumped out of the truck and pulled it down to the street where it commenced to roll around.
One of the guys from the truck hopped out and had the wherewithal to climb into the backhoe, fire it up and attempt to tamp out the flames. This resulted in the flaming horror rolling down the street several feet.
Fortunately, it rolled AWAY from the gas pumps.
The group of men in the truck and the guy in the backhoe all did their part in extinguishing the flames and even got some help from a handful of bewildered homeless guys and had it mostly put out by the time the fire department arrived.
Just another reason why I try to have my camera with me at all times. You just never know what your going to see at any given time. The last two shots here are my favorites and the ones I wanted to show off, but I felt the context was important.
I was going through some old pictures I took with my first digital camera and came across this one I took back in 2004 of some baby ducks hanging out in my pool….
It still makes me smile. Hopefully it makes you smile too!
Have a safe and happy holiday!
Bill Shirley may have found a site that reveals the creator of the version of “O Holy Night” I mentioned earlier.
If this is true it confirms the theory posited by Jim Henkel several years ago that it had to have been done by someone who actually understands music and music theory.
Co-worker: Can I ask you a question?
Me: Not if it’s about computers, I’m on my break.
Co-worker: It’s not a computer question
Me: OK, shoot
Co-worker: I’m having a problem with my e-mail
Me: That’s a computer question
Co-worker: No, it’s a software question
Me: #$%!*
Still going through the pics from the trip. We’ve printed out the ones from Madrid we want to use in the scrapbook. Cynthia’s bought some supplies and she’ll likely start this weekend.
Looking at the shots from Figueres I am reminded how desolate and very depressing that small town was. We had taken the four hour train ride so we could visit the Dali Museum. Trust me, you had better REALLY want to see the Dali museum because that is ALL there is to see there.
While waiting for the train to take us back to Barcelona I set the camera to black and white mode and took a few pictures to help us remember the mood of that leg of our journey.
A video clip of online shopping as envisioned from the 1960’s, called “Shopping in 1999 A.D. The video shows online bill paying and PC desktops with flat screen monitors, including a multi-screen display.
I especially like the part that describes how the wife’s transactions will be sent to the husband’s console for payment and banking review….
…yea, right! Cynthia’s Amazon shopping goes mostly undetected by me until the box arrives in the mail!
