Hi, all... I'm still around, and thanks to everyone who kept coming by since my last entry back in January... didn't mean to be gone so long, but frankly when nothing was happening (except go to work, come home, sleep, go to work, come home, sleep, yada yada yada) I was starting to feel like I was scripting the Jerry Seinfeld show...

Not to say anything major has happened in the interim. Well, a few things for us, but nothing to shake up reality...

Bride completed another school year, is moving from 6th grade to 5th grade next year after a dozen years in 6th. She's been setting up a new classroom in the same school building and even though this school year is over she's already excited about the 09-10 school year's potential...

I'm still working long days... have been on the first of three vacation weeks this summer this week, but only to be resting at home while Bride was finishing her school year. Did a little cleaning and puttering about the house, fixing dinners... puppy and kitty spent all the days sleeping at opposite ends of the house...

After a year and a half of no traveling (due significantly to work demands, plus a few ancillary causes) we will start getting back on the road for some of our traditional touring... Plus, there will be a couple new pages coming up from some heretofore unpublished travels! (Bad me, be away for 5 months and leave you with a tease to visit our website www.gannons.com...)

As our lives return to their 2007-levels of normality, I should be able to start sharing some new stories for your visiting pleasure. Again, thanks to all of you who kept coming by to see what was happening here in The South...

If you are a liberal who still believes in the hope and change promised by the 44th President of the United States, please stop reading here...

So, in the world of Obamania... in five months this one man has spent more money than all preceding presidents in 233 years of American history. Generations of future Americans will be forced to pay for the trillions of dollars now owed by The Messiah's so-called "stimulus" spending.

His administration is filled with people who have cheated on their taxes to the sum of more dollars than I will ever make in my lifetime; had I done what they did, I'd be spending the rest of my life in jail, and they are working in Washington, DC, being paid by tax dollars to do whatever it is they're doing to socialize the American economy. Glad we don't have children who would have to see their income taxed at confiscatory levels to pay off this insane debt...