Just Another Blog
Friday, May 03, 2002
 
Greetings from Louisville

Well, I made the 1,100+ mile commute with no problems and no tickets, so that's good. The weather here has turned gorgeous just in the past couple of hours. It was surprisingly cold and rainy last night. Now suddenly it is low seventies with low humidity. I haven't lived here for about 14 years now, and this is not exactly how I remember it. Mostly I recall terribly hot temperatures with unbearable humidity accompanied by a profound stillness that stifled any air flow at all. I am pleasantly surprised today.

Kentucky is definitely in Derby mode. Both the Goodyear blimp and Snoopy 1 have been overhead. There are lines at all of the liquor stores. And everyone is talking about their picks. I keep trying to talk about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and people look at me like I'm from Mars. I am told that the high schools here now have hockey teams, and I find that extremely encouraging. I suspect that any of my efforts to watch the Avs on tv tomorrow afternoon will be met with fisticuffs, but some day hockey will make it to Kentucky too. Heck, they've only had shoes for like 40 or 50 years...