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19
Apr 15

Catching up

The weekend post with … the extras. You haven’t already seen these on the site so you can see them here now. So we’ll get right to it.

I like that someone took the time to print up a slip of paper and slide it into this little name holder. You seldom see that sort of dedication, but our friend Sally Ann is dedicated … to her recipes, it seems.

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I’m also interested in the nicks on the Remington Rand sticker. Remington Rand split off of Remington Arms and made things like office equipment and electric shavers. They’d add companies that made adding machines and binders. During the war they made pistols and in the 1950s they got into the electronic computing business. Sperry Corp., a mainframe company, bought Remington Rand in 1955 and then merged in 1986 with business equipment maker Burroughs to form Unisys, which now measures their financials in billions and employs more than 22,000. Odds are you have a Unisys products in your home.

Bet you didn’t see that coming when this started with a recipe box.

Took this in the stairwell beneath my office. It was a dreary day, looked like this, felt like this and opaque windows captured it all:

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Dewayne, our friend the balloon maker, made an Akbar action figure:

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Allie is posing for you. Every now and then she likes to be famous on the Internet.

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18
Apr 15

Day at the park

Enjoyed a doubleheader of baseball today. The first game was at noon, and A-Day was going on across the street. It was a busy afternoon, with people still filtering in at the end of the first game and staying through the second.

Like these guys:

The home team got beat in the first game, prompting the rally caps in the late innings. If you didn’t wear a cap you go with the rally sunglasses.

Auburn blanked Ole Miss in the second game 14-0 to take the series. We watched online as the Auburn gymnasts earned a sixth place finish at the national championships and the softball team won just down the street. Also, there was the win-either-way nature of A-day game. It was a fine day to be a sports fan.

Pizza for dinner, kitty cuddles after that. Think I’ll go read myself to sleep now.

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12
Apr 15

Catching up

We traveled. Uber to the airport. Delta from Tampa to Atlanta. A shuttle from the airport to the car. And then the car down the freeway home. All of that so I could take off my suit and then mow the lawn just ahead of the rain. And now this, catching up, with extra photos from the trip.

This is the first of the electronic waiter pagers I’ve seen. It was in the hotel lobby, a place with big palm trees, no apparent ceiling and a pretty decent music selection. I wanted to press one of the buttons to test the response time, but then I would have to order something …

And that would have been silly considering how much of our dining was done during the trip at the Colombia Cafe. It is located in one of the city’s museums, sort of a welcome center location. And above us there was great neon, like this guy:

I wanted to bring the baseball player sign home. The airline said no. Maybe I should have taken the train:

And now some of the great ceramic work adorning the outside of the Colombia, in Ybor City. Fine detail, terrific food. I’d go back again — oh wait! We did!

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11
Apr 15

Our last day at SSCA

More panel sessions today. Some paper grading. A business meeting this evening for the mass communication division, where I served as chief note taker in charge of slowing down proceedings with interjections like “What was that again?” and the occasional “How do you spell that person’s name?”

For lunch we went to Colombia Cafe, big surprise. It is close — not much else seems to be — and it is delicious. We’ve been there for lunch for three days straight and, of course, went to their main restaurant last night for dinner. I could eat there a lot more before it became a chore.

Just in between our hotel and the cafe is the Amelia Center, where we saw the hockey game Thursday night. We were on the river walk and it was framed so nicely between the trees:

Sandwiches at the cafe. I did not have one, but I hear they are terrific. They do a great job with the bread, so I’ve no doubt. The secret, I was told several years ago, is in the bread:

Our friends Jenni and Gavin came to join us again for lunch. We shot this on the balcony of the cafe. There are better pictures, but I’m using this wide and high one to remind us it was an amazingly beautiful day:

The view from our hotel that we don’t have in our room. But the parking deck we can see on the other side of the building is attractive as those things go.

We had dinner with a few more of our friends and said our goodbyes. Our flight leaves tomorrow morning and we might not see them all again before then. You’re always sad to see it go, but that’s only because you bothered to come in the first place.

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5
Apr 15

Catching up

The 169th edition of ‘Catching Up,’ the weekly post of extra photos that haven’t already landed here.

Rain and sun in Birmingham last week:

And a few more sky shots:

This is sunset over Samford. It was a good show:

Allie takes over the biggest bookshelf in the house. She’s casual about it, so you know she’s up there all the time:

There was a time when two ladders left unattended on a college campus was a recipe for hijinks:

I love it when media members park their trucks just wherever they want:

I got a great shot of this guy, and he got a miserable shot of me holding my phone in front of my face. Fair trade:

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