When I get older from smoking a cig,
Just a few years from now.
Will you still be sending me a pack
Death greetings bottle of pills.
If I’d been out till quarter to nine
Would you lock the door,
Will you still crush me, will you still kill me,
When I’m ninety-four.
The Laurels sound friendly…except of course for this woman trying to kill mom.
I remember sitting around back in the drought of ‘01. Restrictions took place. Plans for the future were discussed. I remember the drought of ‘03. Same thing. Discussion. Now it is the drought of ‘07. Restrictions. Discussion. Absolutely nothing has happened in all these years. At one point they said dredging the local reservoir would help out and wouldn’t be that difficult. Doesn’t seem to have happened.
Now people say we have a plan. Something might get done by 2011. But a few more public meetings are needed. Rates will have to go up. Plans will then have to be adjusted. Screw this discussion. Quadruple the water rates and do something with the money. Provide water. If TJ waited this long to do things we’d have no clue about a tiny little thing called the Declaration of Independence.
This is a very family-oriented area. Well…I guess some people do like this area for that reason. No wonder these stories pop up at least once a month. Isn’t there anything more interesting going on in town? Oh wait…let me go read about Michael Vick and how popular dogfighting is here in the good old commonwealth.
Ahh…remember the good old days when you would go out and play with a BB gun? As we learned back in April that is no longer a good thing. Luckily, the local authorities decided to let the four get their records cleared for a mere $405 each. What a discount.
I’ll kind of miss the “BB Gun 4″ nickname. Had a good ring to it.
Looks as if Ms. Clinton will be rolling in to town this fall. Years ago I saw her when she was on “tour” with her husband back in 1992. I was at a U in the north and to get a good view I climbed up in a big oak tree and kicked back to hear the speech that Bill was giving. A secret service agent came by and told me to get down. I said I just wanted a good view and he moved on. I bet that wouldn’t go the same way today.
Since the village voted about 88% democratic in the last election I don’t think she’ll pick up any spare votes, but the fundraising might go pretty well. Lots of rich and famous here in town. Sitting in an oak tree for free was a good deal…paying big bucks (100 to 2400)…not.
Of course, that is cheap compared to $15k to see Dave (Dump Bowel Movement band) at a small event. Will the Crapshaw go to the Hillary event? He is rich and screws most everyone. Does that make him left or right? Does he even care about voting? Probably not. Money is it baby…money is it.
As the unbearably hot summer rolled on, the number of my posts dwindled down to nothing. How can anyone survive in the south? Summer is brutal. It is hot. It sucks all creativity out of humans. Our drought has been going on so long that we can no longer use water. No car washing. No water at restaurants (unless you beg). No watering dying plants in your yard. No fountains. No swimming pools. I really wonder why nothing has been done since our last drought four? years ago. The locals say plans are being made for a decade from now. Is that helpful? What about the next five years? One can only hope a hurricane drifts up here…of course if the wind blows the power goes.
Fall has trickled in. Over the weekend we had our first day under 90 in many moons. The other exciting thing is that the UVA students have returned. Many parents were with their kids this morning at the local malls buying them a wealth of “necessary” things. What mom and dad didn’t know is that their kids were out partying last night. Parties were going on all over town. Pills were flying. Alcohol was pouring. Things were getting torched. In Belmont there was a rather large party. Eventually four police cars appeared. Thirty minutes later things had quieted down and local residents got to sleep before 3am.
I feel sorry for the local police at this time of the year. UVA consists of about 18,000 students and 19,000 employees. During the summer that number is miniscule. In one day a wealth of criminalistic behavior appears. Due to lack of funding there is absolutely no way they can deal with it all. Since C-Ville consists of about 22,000 people (the city loves to include students in the population totals so they can get additional funds) the influx is crushing. All I know is I want some sleep tonite. I hope the parties have ended. Either C-Ville should give up and just tell UVA to provide all security, or UVA should realize that C-Ville is just the outlying dorm, and send some security out here. As for cameras to prevent crime in the historic downtown area…the tribal elders have decided to “think about it” for awhile before anything happens. Perhaps they will just live off interest on the 2.3 million sitting around to improve the mall rather than actually trying to improve it. What about updating the sign that says Subway? How much would that cost?
I signed up for the Richmond Marathon which is in November. The DC marathon sold out before I could enter. Will I get to run by some “The South Will Rise Again” statues while running the marathon there? I’m still wondering if I can survive a full marathon. Not hopeful at this point.
Before my b-day this year I bought an iPod nano with the Nike+Sensor (but not Nike shoes, just a little holder to put it on my New Balance). This toy is so much fun. I love being able to track the distance/time of every run I do. I’m using the online Nike site so I can see every run, weekly totals, monthly totals, etc. I also took a peek at the XML files that get stored on my iPod. Far more info available in those files, but haven’t really had the energy to look any closer. I did 11 miles this weekend. Next weekend I’m going for a 12.5 mile run. Slowly building up my distance.
Preseason football has cranked up. The Fins are 2-0 and both games had a duplicate finish. The Fins future QB drove for the winning touchdown at the end and was successful on a two point conversion to give them a one point victory. As always…I’m a bit delusional and think the Fins can make it to the Super Bowl.
I have a feeling the UVA fans are also delusional and think they will have a good team. They aren’t in the top 25, but did get a few votes (how many were by people named Groh?). I have a feeling Groh is enjoying his $1mil/year more than coaching at this point of his career. The best thing UVA has going for them is that their schedule is trivial. If they can’t win seven games AND a bowl game…
Blogging is rolling along again. It may take me awhile to get going once again…but I’m still around. I put up a new poll…asking about your favorite local news source (online of course…is there another way?). I know what my answer is already. Should anything else be included? Let me know and I’ll put it up there as a choice.
Everyone has to keep eating…even when blogging…right? So I have at least one restaurant rumor. Who goes to Kiki’s? I heard through the grapevine that they might be getting just a bit short on the cash side of things.
I still haven’t gotten around to digging through my Aritni 2007 photos. The worst part about this village is that if you don’t work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day you can’t afford to eat…so free time is severely limited. One of these days. Perhaps I should listen to more music…very relaxing….right? At least for these unlucky seven.
Was the C-Ville serial rapist finally arrested?
Every day is the same. Hot. Sunny. Same. All the plants are dropping dead from lack of water (15 inches have fallen…31 is normal). Cigarette smoke hangs in the stagnant air.
Will it rain again this year (nothing in the 10 day forecast)? We need a hurricane. Perhaps two. Of course if the wind blows the power will go. Nothing changes. What is the point? Oh…wait…things do change. For instance, our slogan. That changed last year. A great place to live for all of our citizens.
Well…it’s not.
Perhaps it is time for another slogan.
Not much blogging lately. No time. Too hot. We broke 100 degrees for the seconds straight day. A tornado just zipped by a few miles away. Will tomorrow stay under 100? Ugh.
Anyway…while away…I heard rumors that some of the beatings that were taking place here in town were getting video taped and put up on YouTube. The police then arrested two people that may have been the masterminds of the beatings (what about the other reported eight?).
WCAV received an email that discussed recent attacks by “groups” of people. Many didn’t want to say we had gangs around here, but the message seems to clarify that particularly issue. I wonder if anyone will write it off as spam (I actually saw some spam sitting on the sidewalk yesterday with ants going after it, the aluminum can was sitting right next to it…very odd).
Even gangs seem to be in the digital world.
Any decoders out there? This may not be the exact message that WCAV received.
