On Wednesday morning at 7:00 am, I have to participate in a conference call; it's the only time that will allow me to have all the required participants on the line, since several are located in various places in Europe and in Pakistan, as well as the in the USA. Aaargghh!
Such is life. I'm over the annoyance of it.
Wednesday afternoon, my wife and I will leave the office early, zip by the house to grab our bags and load up on bottled water, and hit the road. We plan to get as far as Muskogee, Oklahoma on Wednesday, then head toward St. Louis on Thursday morning. Of course, business won't let loose of me yet...so just before noon, I will stop to call in to another conference call. We expect to be in a relatively large Missouri town by then, so should have no trouble finding a place. Two hours later, we should be on our way to St. Louis, arriving there before nightfall.
We plan to see the sites of St. Louis on Friday and Saturday and then head south. Our tentative plan is to get to Little Rock in time for the Sunday opening of the Clinton Library, which is open from 1 to 5 pm on Sundays. At some stage, we'll try to get to Hot Spring Village to see some friends, then play in by ear. I suspect we'll be back in Dallas by mid-day Monday, latest.
It's a rapid-fire road trip, but one that I feel I sorely need. I'd like to shed the business snippets, but they're unavoidable. Dammit.
Today, it has been one year since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. It's been slightly less time since the Federal, State, and local governments so visibly failed the residents of the Gulf Coast. It's still beyon comprehension to me, the level of devastation along the coast. The tsunamis last December 26 were even more devastating. The natural powers of the earth are so much more powerful than we can ever hope to be. Some would say Katrina and the tsunamis were but two of the many expressions of anger displayed by an angry god. I would say, "It's just as likely that long-dead cotton-tail rabbits with false teeth and seersucker suits were responsible...more likely, in fact."
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