Another long weekend... sigh

The problem with long weekends is that you've still got to go back to work after them.

Had a pretty good Fourth of July weekend. We went down to Granbury to watch the fireworks display. Every year the same thing happens. Terri wants to go out and watch a fireworks display, but she doesn't know where to go. I never know where to go either because I'd be just as happy sitting at home on the couch. But she wants to make a big deal out of it so she scrambles around at the last minute to try to figure out where we should go. So we end up driving down to Granbury. They put on a pretty good display and it doesn't last more than about 30 minutes. The only problem was that we didn't take any insect repellant and spent a good deal of time swatting mosquitoes.

Granbury has another dubious clam to fame for me. Back on Dec 31, 1999 CNN was doing it's coverage of the new millenium (yeah, yeah, I know). Anyway, they had reporters doing stories in Paris, London, New York, Chicago... Granbury... That's right, Granbury. What we figured was that someone at CNN possibly the reporter that did the report from Granbury was from there and convinced the CNN folks to let her cover the new year from Granbury instead of Dallas. "It'll give some perspective on the small town," she probably said. Anyway midnight rolls around and they do the rounds, New York, London and Paris are all still partying as Chicago and Granbury ring in their New Year. Then about ten minutes later they're checking in at each of the locations an everyone in Granbury has gone home. They had a pathetic shot of the reporter standing in front of the court house square and while all of the other reporters are talking about how the party is still going strong, she's like, "um... everybody's gone home." It was hysterical. I think they also ended up coming back to her several times but everyone was still gone! Heh.