Jeremy Herndon

A couple of my friends that I haven’t seen in a few months came over yesterday afternoon, bringing food and the DVD of the most recent “Hulk” movie.  We pigged out on pizza, sub sandwiches and soda and watched the flick while eating popcorn.  Not the healthiest meal, I know, but we don’t do that very often and we had a lot of fun joking around while we ate.

It was a rainy day, so none of us felt guilty about the leaves that needed to be raked, we just hunkered down inside and had ourselves a day off - a very well deserved day off at that!

I wanted to take a minute to honor all of the men and women who are serving, or have served in our military.  I cannot even imagine for a moment how difficult it must be for you to have been separated from your loved ones and put into battle.  You have my appreciation and respect forever.  And for those of you who are currently serving in a battle area, my prayers are that you return home safely and soon.  You are not forgotten.

I sure hope you voted yesterday, because if not, it’s too late now!  I voted, I had to stand in line for an hour behind an elderly woman who had put on about a gallon of cologne - boy did she stink to high heaven!  I don’t know what it is with old people and their sense of smell going bad, but I sure wish they’d lay off the cologne!  Some of these scents are really overpowering and give me a headache, and that is what happened with me yesterday; by the time I got to vote I had a migraine headache and I ended up having to go home and take the day off of work.  I’m feeling better today thank goodness.

I’ve seen pictures of the Smart car on the Internet, and on television, but not “for real” until today.  I was waiting to pull out of a parking lot and a large tractor trailer passed me by, followed by a Smart car.  What a huge difference in size that was!  It was a cute little thing, a bright red, but it brought back memories of many years ago when I saw the results of a little car being in an accident with a tractor trailer and it made me shudder.  I don’t know how safe I would feel in such a little car!

My younger brother is coming to spend the weekend with me this weekend.  In a short while I have to leave to go pick him up at the Metro rail station.  He took the bus from New Jersey; it only costs him about $15 to take a bus, and he brings his laptop and works on his laptop or reads on the bus ride down.  It will be good to see him again; we haven’t seen each other in a few months.  I asked him if there was anything special he wanted to do while he was here - any sightseeing, etc, and he said no, he just wanted to relax and hang out.  So that will be the plan of action, we’ll just hang out, play some games, watch some flicks and stay up late and sleep late as much as possible.  I’m looking forward to the visit!