Air travel

I don't get to fly a lot, but when I do I enjoy it. This morning the
band bus dropped me off at the Knoxville airport because I have a show
today in South Carolina with another artist. This airport is small,
bit pretty darn fancy. For examlple, the hallway leading up to
security and gates has a stream that runs down the center. Complete
with big fake rocks and mini rapids.
I don't think of flying as a negative experience. I do not love the
fuel situation, but hopefully we as a people will take this issue more
serously and really start to develop alternative fuels more actively
then we are now. Anyway, the security lines don't really bother me,
nor do the rules. Its not really that big of a deal to just check
things you can't bring on the plane. Right?
Flying still feels kind of magical to me. Is that the best word, I
don't know? I mean you are flying in a giant metal tube with wings.
That's pretty neat. I assure you I don't say oooo and ahhhh when I see
or get on a plane, but I respect the intelligence that has gone into
powered flight. Fun.

PS-
I would like to dedicate this blog to Carter and Jeff who have said
that I do not blog frequently enough. I agree with that statement.

-chris

Don't be that guy....

A brief rant.

Don't be that guy....

The guy who doesn't wait with the rest of us to get off or on the interstate, but who drives right up to the off/on ramp and "nudges" his way in line.

The guy who circles around the Target parking lot for five minutes to find a "close" parking spot, when you would have saved about three minutes if you just took that "not so close" parking spot. Bad weather excluded.

love,

-Snooch

It is about to rain

I am sitting here eating my lunch and looking out the window. It is
close to raining. I really like the look of everything right before a
good rainstorm. Its almost like everything has to work extra hard to
stand out because of the gloomy light being cast everywhere.

-chris

Eye candy

Red rover red rover, send the green guy right over.









Little did Santa know it, but his life was about to change forever.










-Chris

I have an addiction...

.....to USB flash drives. As you can see I have many thumb drives. I don't know why. To be fair I don't discard any when I "upgrade" to larger sized drives. What do I do with the ones that I don't really need anymore. Everytime I am at Target or Best Buy or whatever I always think "boy, that's a great deal on a 2GB flash drive. I need to get that".

I do keep them organized a little bit as you can see by the Hog 3 label.


This is how I carry all of my drives around. Soon I might need to get another one.










-Chris

I am also in a meeting about blogging

Carter and I are in a meeting about blogging. It is fun.

-Chris

Fun times

This last Sunday my wife, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, and I went to the Nashville Zoo with some good friends of mine. We met Carter and his family along with Darren and his family.

After meeting up at the front of the park we all set out to look at some animals. Carter and Katie brought a wagon for their kids, but let Elijah use it too. That was very nice of them.




It was great seeing Elijah have fun with the older children. They really played nicely with our little guy. It was especially great considering Elijah is so much smaller and slower. We did fall behind a few times, but Elijah had a great time just wondering around the paths looking at grass and speakers and stuff. I still don't think he is at the age where he notices the big animals, but he had a great time.


We stopped for lunch at one of the best stocked park cafeterias I have seen. They had a lot of different choices for us vegetarians. After lunch the older kids wanted to spend the rest of the day playing at the playground that was on site. Brandy and I had no problem with that since we were there for Elijah anyway. He (we) had a great time in the play area. There is this large padded room that toddlers can just run around in. Elijah got to play with a lot of new little friends. Elijah and I went down this very tall slide that was at the top of the main play structure in the play area. A small four year old asked me not to "run him over....because I am only 4 and you will hurt me". Cute kid.

It was a great day all around. Thanks again to all the older kids. They helped make it the great day that it was.

-Chris