The view from the top floor

So, on this trip, I get an upgrade to the "Club Level" of the hotel. The room is about a third larger and I have a love seat instead of a chair. But, we've been on daylight saving time for more than two weeks and the alarm clock is still on standard time. Being on the top floor, I spend more time in the elevator. One of the boxes has a very clunky ride, like the cog railroad going to the top of Mount Washington. There is a free breakfast buffet, so I eat better and the company doesn't have to pay for my meal expense.

Last night we went to dinner with several members of the team. The sales people on our project picked up the tab in celebration of the signing of a new contract. It was a nice night so we walked to and fro. On the way, we passed a new Wal-Mart being built on the ground floor of an office building (?!). (We're were just a couple blocks from one of the most high-priced malls in the area, with Brooks Brothers, Louis Vuitton, Nordstrom, and Tiffany.) Returning, the long-time employees brought us past a shoe store, above which was the original home of this division of the company. We genuflected appropriately and got home a bit after 11.

I heard In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on the radio when I was driving here. Few people clean and sober will care much for this song, but it lives on in legend. The car radio isn't really the best source for this kind of sound. Speakers facing out of the windows of a college dorm room, volume turned up to 11, on a spring afternoon, young people face down in the mud - that's where this song belongs.

Love the Diversity of God's Creation. ... A Beautiful Rainbow - And the Lord Said His Creation was GOOD!
Sounds nice, doesn't it? Think again.

It's a reef dweller, so the Humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua'a, Hawai‘i's soon-to-be official state fish, isn't likely to wind up in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

I knew a guy who was an Elvis impersonator. He headed off to Las Vegas and, by all accounts, is doing well. This news, then, is likely to be unsettling, that the person who owns the rights to the Elvis images is trying to get unauthorized Elvii out of the building.

If you're out and around on May 25th, you might want to wear a hat, probably made of tin foil.