It's 6:00 p.m., it's raining so hard outside that it's pitch black, so I've opted to hang here at the office for a bit. Might as well catch up on the blogging...
Per my prior post, Daughter did receive and accept an offer to join the company she interviewed with in Louisville - yeah for her! She'll graduate in a couple weeks, come home for a short spell, take a quick vacation with a friend to NYC for a couple days, and then head to Louisville to start her new life on June 8th. She's done a great job of keeping her act together in college, she's gone straight thru in four years (evidently that's more the exception these days), had a great time in the sorority, worked part-time jobs to help pay expenses, has had some great adventures along the way, has a steady boyfriend and is finishing with a 3.0+ GPA. In some regards, she did a lot better than her old man - ha! Look out world, here she comes!
Son's team did make the playoffs and we drove over to Clinton, MS to watch them play this weekend (afterall, it was his birthday). It was only a seven hour drive and I gotta say that I was much impressed with what we saw of Mississippi. Granted, you have to drive through the armpit of south eastern Texas (no two ways about it, Vidor is just plain ugly) and Louisiana (there're pockets of regional potential here, but overall...just keep driving) to get there, but it was pretty cool. I'm guessing they've had plenty of rain this spring because everything was gorgeous shades of green. The roads were smooth and bordered by patches of purple, yellow and orange wildflowers in amongst all the greenery...quite pretty. And clean, too! Virtually no roadside debris to speak of! The best part, at least as we experienced it, was that all of the people we encountered were just the nicest folks! I'm wondering if that could be due to the influence of the Mississippi College students? Weather was wonderful, upper 70's and minimal humidity. Did I mention the accents? I loved hearing the deep southern drawl of the natives! They're "only" about 500 miles from here but their accent is totally different from that of Texas. In Texas, it's a Texas drawl. In Mississippi, they talk like they're from the real south!
Son played fine but the team was eliminated after losing the first two games of the series. While that's not great, at least it frees them up next weekend for things like, oh, I dunno, studying for finals?
Per my prior post, Daughter did receive and accept an offer to join the company she interviewed with in Louisville - yeah for her! She'll graduate in a couple weeks, come home for a short spell, take a quick vacation with a friend to NYC for a couple days, and then head to Louisville to start her new life on June 8th. She's done a great job of keeping her act together in college, she's gone straight thru in four years (evidently that's more the exception these days), had a great time in the sorority, worked part-time jobs to help pay expenses, has had some great adventures along the way, has a steady boyfriend and is finishing with a 3.0+ GPA. In some regards, she did a lot better than her old man - ha! Look out world, here she comes!
Son's team did make the playoffs and we drove over to Clinton, MS to watch them play this weekend (afterall, it was his birthday). It was only a seven hour drive and I gotta say that I was much impressed with what we saw of Mississippi. Granted, you have to drive through the armpit of south eastern Texas (no two ways about it, Vidor is just plain ugly) and Louisiana (there're pockets of regional potential here, but overall...just keep driving) to get there, but it was pretty cool. I'm guessing they've had plenty of rain this spring because everything was gorgeous shades of green. The roads were smooth and bordered by patches of purple, yellow and orange wildflowers in amongst all the greenery...quite pretty. And clean, too! Virtually no roadside debris to speak of! The best part, at least as we experienced it, was that all of the people we encountered were just the nicest folks! I'm wondering if that could be due to the influence of the Mississippi College students? Weather was wonderful, upper 70's and minimal humidity. Did I mention the accents? I loved hearing the deep southern drawl of the natives! They're "only" about 500 miles from here but their accent is totally different from that of Texas. In Texas, it's a Texas drawl. In Mississippi, they talk like they're from the real south!
Son played fine but the team was eliminated after losing the first two games of the series. While that's not great, at least it frees them up next weekend for things like, oh, I dunno, studying for finals?
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