Tonight we went to Naked Boys Singing, a musical revue with nude males singing on stage. This is the show that was shut down by the Atlanta Police because they claimed it was adult entertainment. According to the mistaken police, the venue, The Armory, doesn't have a license for showing such nasty things like the man human body. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin jumped in and said that the police misunderstood a city ordinance. The show opened back up and is still running. A very successful show. Atlanta needs to loosen up a bit. If people want to pay to see that then let them! Its not like the conservative suburbanites were being bussed in and forced to view it, eyes sewn open. The guys didn't even get erections. No sex acts or simulated sex was performed on stage. None of them could even pass as a porn star.

All in all, it was a fun show. We had a ball...except for the audience member who kept trying to harmonize along at the end of all the numbers. "TRYING" is the key word. He was singing a quarter step flat each time. He got louder as the show continued. Fortunately, this wasn't "high art". After all, it was in a cabaret theatre, which made for a nice intimate atmosphere.

Go see the show but be ready to have fun.

Tonight Jeffrey and I participated in Project Open Hand's, Dining Out For Life benefit. We went to one of our favorite funkly, eclectic restaraunt, Agnes & Muriels. Yum!

I just ordered the palmOne Tungsten E Monday. Waiting for it has been like waiting for Christmas. I haven't bought myself a new gadget in a long time. I have obsessed over the delivery, tracking the package on the FedEx website. (Yes, I'm a dork.) I even calculated the amount of time it would take it to leave Memphis, TN (the origination point) to Atlanta. And what do ya know, it made it the time I calculated.

But then I got a blow yesterday when I got home from work to find a sticker on my door from FedEx. Supposedly they wouldn't leave it since no one was there. GEEZ! Who has time to stay home and wait for the FedEx man to arrive. So last night I signed the sticker and posted a note on my door instructing the delivery person to LEAVE the package at the door.

Of course this still didn't satisfy my anticipation. So I drove home during lunch (only about 15min.) to see if my new Tungsten E was there.....of course not. I even waited. Sorted through yesterday's mail. Read 3 credit card offers and a "You've-Won- A-Car-Come-Pick-It-Up" offer. No knock at the door. No package. It feels like the day after Christmas and I STILL don't have what I asked for.

Now I'll have to wait until after work.

During my lunch break I took a stroll through Centennial Park. What perfect weather day! The sun is out, slight breeze, 65 degrees. Ah, I love this season. I can escape the florescent-lit office space. I can escape my boss's chatter. I can get a breath of fresh air.

Here I am, "Johnny-come-lately", stepping out into the blogosphere, years after it was *cool* to have one. Now, its a bit passe. It seems that every angle on every subject is already expressed somewhere out there. Afterall who needs another witty commentary from some stranger halfway across the country or world for that matter.

Actually, this is only half true. I've started my own mini blog many times. And quit many times too. I just forget that I have it, forget the password, the url or whatever. I run out of time. I don't think I have anything good to say. Or I just get so bogged down in the details of the design that I lose interest out of frustration. But this time is different (that's what I said the last 3 times). This time I'm setting myself up for success. I'm keeping the design simple. I would say minimalistic but then that would impose a design style that I can't promise to keep. Thus I might once again become bogged down in the design and never get around to writing, which is the whole point. So I'll just say "simple" and leave it at that.

It will grow to become whatever it becomes. About my writing style: I would like to aim toward fun,witty, entertaining with my own insight on world happenings, food, politics, what have you. But this is not a polished version of writing. Whatever I write is what I post, warts, wrinkles and all. Bad grammar, bad spelling, and even sentence fragments. You'll understand my point.

So here we go....I'm building onto what I had stored away on Blogger. So you can read what I was writing about during the 2004 elections. Although it doesn't come across in my postings I was very active with the politics during that time.

By the way, I will eventually be moving this from Blogger. Stay with me while I get this started.