Thoughts
Jazz Funerals
0I came across a couple videos of jazz funerals when I was looking for a video for my previous post. Now, that is going out in style!
Another Great Year for the Saints
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AINTS
My family and I have been cheering for the Saints for many years now. I don’t really remember the ‘Aints” era, but I do know that it is saying a lot when Saint’s fans are disappointed by a close loss in the second round of the playoffs versus disappointed with an entire season. I hate that they did not win today, but it really was a great game, and should a team really win when they have 5 turnovers? I think that my heart rate has finally returned to normal; I really thought thought that they had pulled it off with that touchdown by Jimmy Graham in the last two minutes, but Alex Smith and the 49er offensive was just too strong. I hope that during the off-season they can pick up a number of players to improve the defense. Here’s to next year, and at least that loss was from the 49ers and not the Falcons.
Just for the record, B.B. and I share the same hometown. He still makes it back to Indianola, MS once a year for a summer concert.
New Year’s Eve
111 month ago
JJ and I quietly rang in the new year. We decided to stay at home, cook a nice dinner, and not fight the crowds. We did hit the grocery store near our house and were happy to see that much of their seafood was marked way down, so we cooked up a feast! The meal was great, but if I had been thinking, I would have actually skipped the seafood. We have to go to New Orleans at the end of the week for JJ’s visa renewal, and we will use my Marriott points to get a room for the night. I am pretty positive that we will be eating at our usual oyster bar and fill ourselves with raw and grilled oysters for dinner. Still, seafood twice in one week is great way to start off the year.
2012 Reading List
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A few weeks ago, I made a list of about 30 novels that I had either never read or just breezed through during my high school/undergraduate years. While I wish that I had time to read each one this year, my goal is to read ten. Here are the books that I plan on reading this year. There is no real reason behind my desire to read these exact novels. A few of them were added because someone brought them up in conversation, and I had nothing to add since I hadn’t read the book that they were discussing. Others on the list were chosen simply because I found them on a list of “great novels.” I guess I should start reading…
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut Read 1/15/2012
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
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