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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:47:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Great Time At A Piano Bar....I Think

Orlando, FL--During a trip to Florida to see the Daytona 500 my friends and I (guy road trip) stopped in a local piano bar. Enjoyed it quite a bit but this was the fifth bar we had been to that day. Thought I would pass on few tips to help you enjoy your experience should you find yourself stumbling into a piano bar:

1. Never hurt to start with the old standard. Not that it's really going to do any good. No that's not Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt making eyes at you from across the room.

2. If you are not a Billy Joel fan don't go in. You will hear Piano Man and a lot more.

3. Don't, I repeat, don't request Guns N Roses "November Rain" or anything by Lady GaGa.

4. Alcohol affects your musical judgment too.

5. Pace yourself. One song and one dollar per napkin. Sending up 5 napkins with four songs on each and a lot of dollar bills isn't going to get your songs played any faster. (See #4 above, delete "musical")

6. The song you really want to hear will be played while you are in the bathroom.

7. Ignore rule #4 in one respect. The people you are sitting with really can't sing. I have proof but they won't let me post it.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:42:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Architecture and Speed--It will All Make Sense

Orlando FL--The main drag in front of our hotel. Eight years as an elected official changes you. You see the world in a different light. To most of you this is a rather mundane photo of a mundane street scene in Orlando. Now let's take a look at it through my eyes. Note the sign. How in the heck do you come up with a $262.00 fine for running a stop sign. I Google searched this and came up empty. Also note that the amount on the sign can be switched out. That does not bode well for local residents. Elected officials have a real problem reducing numbers.

Now let's look at the hotel across the street. I bare the scars from what is fondly referred to in our city as the third Battle of Fredericksburg--The construction of a downtown hotel. While you may be wondering what the pineapple is made of I've broken out in a sweat and am having flashbacks about EFIS, scale and massing, and downtown character. And I forgot the prozac in my room!

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:39:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Need More Gas Pumps

Louisa, VA--No I have not lost my fascination with abandoned gas pumps. What makes this pair all the more fascinating is that they are located on a rural dead-end road with no signs of a building structure nearby. The pumps are set at a price of 31 cents a gallon which takes us back to around 1957. For those economist among us based on the rate of inflation the comparable price would be around $2.41. Some fun facts about 1957:

Average cost of a house was $18,000.00. A car $2,100.00

Some music chart toppers were, Pat Boone, Jonny Mathis, Tab Hunter...

The Surgeon General links cigarette smoking to lung cancer

FORTRAN (computer language) is introduced

Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series

Yours truly wasn't born yet.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:35:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

English Gardens vs. Continental Gardens, Democracy vs. Totalitarianism

Orange, VA--Ah the idyllic spring day on the back roads of Virginia. Isn't nature wonderful! Note the beautiful carpet of little purple weedy things. The English have it right, why mess with mother nature. Just sit back and let it happen. Not like those high brow continentals with their formal well manicured gardens. Faux nature that's what it is! And such gardens perpetuated serfdom, servitude, and the bondage of the masses. How undemocratic. And this oppressive practice continues to this day. Only the names have changed. Today servants are called husbands and serfs are called teenagers. And my last serf, I mean teenager, is leaving in three months! Dandelions and little purple weedy things are mother nature's way of adding a little color to our lives. Why must we fight mother nature? Its undemocratic and unnatural. Sometime I wish we were still the colonies. Rule Britannia.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:31:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A Guy Moment.......

Ladies if I may have a moment alone with the guys.............Picture this--Laid back with your feet up on your barber's chair with remote in hand and the big plasma screen in front of you. A brief turn in the chair and there is a small refrigerator within easy reach filled with (insert preferred beer here. If your thinking either wine or soda please leave the room.). You place the cold one on a small metal dentist table attached to one arm of the chair. On a similar table on the other arm sits your munchies of choice........

OK the chair doesn't fit with the room decor and the red leather clashes with all the other colors in the room but we can dream can't we? And maybe, just maybe, some brave soul will grab for his dream. And though he may not succeed, and suffer the consequences of his actions, he could inspire others and someday this dream will be a reality.

This barber's chair could have been the one. It could have been some guys chance at immortality. A moment of silence please to mourn this lost opportunity (shed tear here).

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2011-05-22 13:23:00

Author: Matt Kelly From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2011
Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Don't See This Everyday
Madison County off Rt. 522--This area had some serious brush fires recently. This is actually a house not too far behind me. It was saved when a fire department tanker truck got stuck at the back of the house. The owner and his son continued to operate it till it ran out of water. No damage to the house.

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