Biscuits and Gravy

The first thing I want to say is that "biscuits" is a really hard word to spell.  A lot of words are hard for me to spell.  That's the problem with Spell-check.  If you can't get within a couple of letters of spelling it right, then it's no help.

I remember in 8th grade, my friend (you know who you are - KC) sat behind me during a spelling test.  I would spell a word and then lean over.  If it was misspelled, he would kick me.  One time, I leaned over about 4 or 5 times for the same word.  I would lean over, get kicked and try another random combination of letters and get kicked again.  This went on until he started laughing out loud. 

Anyway, the day started with biscuits and gravy here at the Hampton Inn in Massillon, Oh.  Hampton Inn makes great biscuits and gravy.  Hampton Inn does a lot of things right.  That's why I stay there 50+ nights a year.  Once, I had biscuits and gravy at an I-Hop.  It was terrible.  I mentioned that to my waitress and her reply was, "I know.  Isn't it awful?"

Next, I went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Pretty cool.  It's only about 10 miles from my hotel.  However, Ohio has apparently elected to invest 100% of their Recovery Act dollars fixing the roads between here and there so the trip was about an hour.  I had to take a lot of detours which pisses my GPS off.  It has this "fed up" tone when saying "recalculating."

The Hall of Fame had some interesting things.  A lot of really old stuff.  They had the original shoes worn by Bronco Nagurski.  I think they were made of bark.  By the way, isn't that the coolest name ever for a football player?

Interestingly, Debe (ex wife) and my son, Matt were only about 60 miles to the north where they went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yesterday.

Sometimes the world is weird.

For the last few hours, I have been in my hotel room working.

I like to watch TV while working.  I don't really watch it but I leave it on to keep me company.  I like to have something halfway interesting on.  I had Cool Hand Luke on for a while but it was "too" interesting.  I wasn't getting anything done.  Then I put on the finals of the World Cup.  I had to turn it off.  For some reason, it irritates me when the announcers get all excited about stubbed toes and yellow cards.  I don't get it.  Watching this was about as exciting as an endless loop of the TV show Crying for Dollars (aka Glenn Beck show).

I eventually settled on a Mythbuster episode where Adam is sitting in a tub trying to fart into a test tube.

One last note on Ohio television programming.  If you are either a Buckeye fan or a Jesus fan, this is the place to be.  There are 99 channels.  At one point, fifteen of them were religious programs while another 10 were local programing (which mean local religious programs) and another five were playing reruns of old football and baseball games.

They have one show called, "Gospel for Shut-ins."  I am not kidding.

Time to go back to work.

up up and away...

j