{"id":573880461,"date":"2010-09-13T00:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880461"},"modified":"2010-09-13T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:14:17","slug":"catching-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/catching-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have two weeks of pictures to work through here. The world simply needs to see these without further delay.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept80.jpg\" alt=\"Bike shop\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is certainly an brightly painted building for being 170 miles or so inland. It is a bike shop. Very nice people.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept81.jpg\" alt=\"Vending machine\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is in the comm building at the University of Alabama. Because there are comm scholars there I&#8217;m convinced that everything is a potential experiment. If there is a scrap of paper on the ground I don&#8217;t pick it up. Someone is watching. Unless they don&#8217;t want me to pick it up. So I kick it. Or stomp on it. Or pick it up and move it over six inches. Anything that might keep me from being a part of the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>If you meet enough field study types you can become paranoid. It hasn&#8217;t gotten to me. Unless they want to think it has gotten to me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I&#8217;m waiting on the elevator and I see these two selections and think <em>This must be another experiment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Same brand, same filling. One is a cookie and one is a cracker. Different shapes. But 30 cents different?<\/p>\n<p>(Not everything is an experiment. Though this might be one.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept82.jpg\" alt=\"Aubie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Aubie is helping this cute little girl with her shoe. This is at the Florida State-Auburn soccer game. Aubie got it into the action later, as you&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept83.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Yankee at the Auburn soccer game.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept84.jpg\" alt=\"fence\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A fence. I was being artistic. You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept85.jpg\" alt=\"Aubie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Aubie takes a header.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept86.jpg\" alt=\"Samford Hall\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Samford Hall on game day on the Auburn campus.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept87.jpg\" alt=\"Auburn pope\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We hadn&#8217;t met this character before. I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s new? He says Aubie is just a mascot, and not idolatry.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept88.jpg\" alt=\"Eagle head\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. It was very, very warm. But she was in the shade. Suddenly that eagle head wear doesn&#8217;t seem so silly, does it? OK, it does. But she was a very nice, enthusiastic lady. Next time I&#8217;m going to ask her how she came about this idea.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept89.jpg\" alt=\"Sam's\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The normal membership at a Sam&#8217;s Club only gets you in after 10 a.m. Unless you have the premium membership you have to wait outside with the rest of us. It only costs you $60 more a year to avoid the masses.<\/p>\n<p>I just waited the 20 extra minutes.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept90.jpg\" alt=\"Samford library\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My view from inside the Davis Library at Samford University.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept91.jpg\" alt=\"fountain\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The fountain on Ben Brown Plaza at Samford University. This particular day was an organization day. All the groups set up tables to recruit curious students. This was just after they began tearing down the displays.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept10\/sept92.jpg\" alt=\"KingsofLeon\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This joke still works. I only took the picture because I heard a girl get fooled by it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have two weeks of pictures to work through here. The world simply needs to see these without further delay. This is certainly an brightly painted building for being 170 miles or so inland. It is a bike shop. Very nice people. This is in the comm building at the University of Alabama. 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