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What’s worse? Getting dissed by a real, live person or a online dating service?

Just finished reading The Da Vinci Code, probably the first full length book I’ve read this year. I broke down after hearing everyone talk about it and it being a best seller for some odd number of weeks.

I was at first excited by the opening, but it got tiring after following the numerous twists and turns of a very elaborate treasure hunt that in the end disappointed me. I’m not sure exactly what the prize was at the end of the rainbow, but maybe that’s something one needs to figure out for themselves.

What I did find extremely interesting was the history of all the biblical references and the reasons given why some things were the way they were in view of church lore and the world around us. I guess winners write the history books, but the history of the losers (aka the pagan religions) is interesting in that Christianity stole quite a bit of it’s icons and symbols from the pagan religions.

I always wondered if the Dead Sea Scrolls coroborated the Bible and it seems they do for certain parts of it, but not all.

I guess nothing is 100% truth in this world, but it’s interesting to see the chinks in the armor of the most revered things from time to time.

I also can’t wait to see the movie coming out next year(???) with Tom Hanks as Langdon. It should prove interesting.

Just searching through stats and found a phrase that someone had put into Google and ended up on my site. The odd thing was that it was the phrase feel free to contact me.

Not so odd, but to have the number one search result for that phrase seemed humorous. Obviously I’m easy to contact, but alas I don’t even have a cellphone glued to my ear.

I even have a screenshot to preserve this momentous feat!

Hard to believe it’s already a week since we (Linda, Lynnea and myself) were in Nashville, TN. What was the special occasion? Nothing really. Lynnea had planned to go to Nashville to view Vanderbilt for it’s grad program, but after getting offered something better from Duke, we decided this would just be a vacation with no other obligations.

It was neat to see/hear all the country bands along Nashville’s Broadway St. Every bar had what seemed a new act every night, save the weekend, but all country. And this was for a good two city blocks which made it fun to stroll. Also the recording studios didn’t seem to stick out much in Nashville. Most were in converted houses, and every so often you see the big ones, like Curb Records and Blue Note Music. Somewhat odd.

We did the touristy things and seen the Parthenon (Nashville’s exact replica), The Hermitage, Jack Daniels’ Distillery, Broadway and the Recording Studio Row, The Grand Ole Opry and Opry Mills.

So we seen quite a bit of the city and it’s attractions,a few pix are below.

Mr. Jack Daniels Office and only original distillery building.

The Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park

The Hermitage. Home of President Andrew Jackson

All in all, Nashville was a good place to visit for a bit, but there wasn’t much there to make you want to move there, unless you are a country musician.

For joy!

I have once again found a watch that I had purchased shortly after I began college in 1998. This might not be a big thing, but this particular watch has been lost a few times on my part since then and I have always found it again. I’ve had to replace the band. This all for a cheap $10 timepiece from Walmart.

But what is more odd/interesting is that the watch still has the same battery it had when I bought it. I think that’s a record of some sort. Close to 7 years on the same battery? Yeah, pretty remarkable. No, it isn’t a solar watch either. It’s only acts up a bit once in a while when it gets wet, which is dumb, because it sports a “water resistance” to 30 meters, but I highly doubt that would work real well now.