{"id":573886615,"date":"2014-07-20T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886615"},"modified":"2014-07-23T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:18:04","slug":"catching-up-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/07\/20\/catching-up-141\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post that fills space with things that haven&#8217;t taken up space anywhere else. And since we haven&#8217;t had this post in a few weeks, there is a lot of space to take up. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with a video from yesterday. The crew at WRBL, the Columbus CBS affiliate, had a truck and camera at the race and streamed the finish line. It rained, and so that changed the gear they used. They put their all-weather camera on their satellite truck in the air and shot the thing. So the video is a bit fuzzy. But there we are, finishing our races:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"720\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nDqcDo6XJps?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nDqcDo6XJps?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So the video was compressed and the scenery was damp, but I suppose we have alibis for Saturday morning, should the need arise.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped at the Cracker Barrel in Cullman on the way from here to there recently, which means picking up one of these, which are always delicious:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Had dinner here with family last weekend in Florence. I&#8217;d say it is nice neon, but it is new and indoors, which disqualifies the entire thing from the nice neon contest:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july33.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>See the typo? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I love Whataburger, this one was from Oak Mountain:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sally Ann brought me a mug back from her trip to Serbia. Isn&#8217;t that cute? The city is actually King&#8217;s Landing, if you watch Game of Thrones. And it has a neat little spoon, too. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july36.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chinese from M.K.&#8217;s tonight:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And our fortunes:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july14\/july38.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I just realized all of these pictures were about food. Must be a clue. I&#8217;m going to go have a snack now. And some tea in my new Dubrovnik mug. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post that fills space with things that haven&#8217;t taken up space anywhere else. And since we haven&#8217;t had this post in a few weeks, there is a lot of space to take up. We&#8217;ll start with a video from yesterday. 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