Power Outage

For those of you who live here in the Memphis area, you are all too aware of the storm system that moved through Friday night. Pretty scary deal as it was so unusually dark at 5:00ish and way windy. So, like about 130,000 of my closest friends, I was without power for part of the weekend. My thoughts?


Luckily it was not too hot.


I appreciate a cold drink, especially when I can't open my refrigerator to get one.


It is hard for me to sit and home and NOT do laundry. (I was going crazy!)


I am on the computer much more than I realized. I was having email withdrawal.


My kids can survive without TV....However, bless my neighbor who had a generator to power his TV so we could watch game 7 of the Stanley Cup!! Yeah Pittsburgh!!


How can I check the MLGW website for outage updates when I have no power?


Then, if used all my cell battery to check online from my phone, how would I recharge the phone?


It's good to still have a land line with a CORDED phone. (I could not get cell service immediately after the storm. Could you?)


It's good to have flashlights, lanterns, batteries and candles actually know where to find them. :)


I am one of the lucky ones. My power came back on Saturday afternoon. Sure, we lost some frozen/refrigerated food...in fact we have been grilling out all weekend to cook up the thawing meat. :)


So, I continue to check the MLGW website for my family members who still do not have power, but want to stick it out at their own homes. (I offered!) That MLGW outage map can take a while to pull up, but eventually you can see that they are making progress. They are even twittering for those of you so inclined to play along.


And my final thought on the power outage is just this.....why, when you know that there is no power, no electricity at all and you even have a flashlight in your hand.....why do you still flip on that light switch when you walk into another room? :)

golf joke

Since this is the weekend for the St. Jude Classic here in Memphis and we all have golf on our mind, it only seemed appropriate to pass along a golf joke I got from my friend Ed....here goes........................

A recent study found the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study found golfers drink on average 22 gallons of alcohol a year.

That means, on average, golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon. :)

Train! Live at the Garden!

Live at the Garden 2009 is in full swing. Last night (6/5) I headed over to the Memphis Botanic Garden to see Train and opening act Sister Hazel.

The night was fantastic. The temperature was perfect. The grounds at the gardens were ripe and ready for the festive atmosphere of the evening. While I must admit I was there to see Train, Sister Hazel certainly did not disappoint. The band, who has done their share of shows here Memphis, still seems to genuinely love this town. They are fun to watch, fine musicians and entertained in between songs as well. As they wrapped up their set, the audience waited for Train. Then, it seemed suddenly without introduction (but I might simply have not been paying attention!) the melodic tones of Pat Monahan echoed through the park. What a fine stage show we were about to see….among the hits, Meet Virginia, Calling All Angels and When I Look to the Sky. We enjoyed a rockin’ cover of Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On……Pat was very Robert Plant-esque. It was a really good concert. Even those fringe Train fans I think left with a new appreciation of the band. Drops of Jupiter came near the end of the show. I wish they had played Cab…I like that song. And while I do know it was a band outing of Train, I would have loved to have heard Her Eyes which was one of the songs Pat did on his solo venture. My favorite song of the night was the second one…Get to You. What a song! Listen to the hook on Itunes and you may find you like it too.

So to sum up….Train was great! Live at the Garden is a social outing in Memphis not to be missed. Shows still to come as I write this as we embark on the summer of 2009…the Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, Heart and the Moody Blues. With a line up like this, you’ve got a good reason to get out of the house this summer and have some fun. : )